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Dogb. A good old man, Sir; he will be talking: as they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. Well God help us! it is a world to see! 9 said, i'faith, neighbour Verges: well, God 's a good man: an two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. 10 An honest soul, i'faith, Sir: by my troth he is, as ever broke bread; but, God is to be worshipped: all men are not alike; alas, good neighbour!

Leon. Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.

Dogb. Gifts, that God gives.

Leon. I must leave you.

Dogb. One word, Sir. Our watch, Sir, have, indeed, comprehended two aspicious 11 persons, and we would have them this morning examined before your worship.

Leon. Take their examination yourself, and bring it me: I am now in great haste, as may appear unto you.

Dogb. It shall be suffigance. 13

Leon.

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Drink some wine ere you go. Fare you well.

Enter a Messenger.

Mess. My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to her husband.
Leon. I'll wait upon them: I am ready.

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[Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger. Dogb. Go, good partner, go; get you to Francis Seacoal; 14 bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we are now to examination these men. Verg. And we must do it wisely. Dogb. We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here 's drive some of them to a non com: 17 only get the learned writer our excommunication, 18 and meet me at the gaol.

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it is a world to see, eine häufig wiederkehrende Phrase, die Holt White richtiger mit it is worth seeing, als Steevens mit it is wonderful to see erklärt. So steht in Barret's Alvearie it is a world to hear für das lateinische Audire est operae pretium. Auch das folgende God's a good man ist sprichwörtlich von einer genügsamen, zufriedenen Lebensanschauung.

10) Unter demjenigen der beiden Reiter auf demselben Pferde, der hinten sitzt, versteht Dogberry seinen Amtsgenossen; er selbst sitzt vorn auf dem Pferde.

11) comprehended für apprehended, und aspicious für suspicious.

12) So die Fol.; die Q. hat as it may appear unto you.

13) suffigance für sufficient.

14) In A. 3, Sc. 3 wurde George Seacoal unter den bestallten Constablern erwähnt.
15) So mit charakteristischem Sprachfehler die Q.; die Fol. hat to examine those men.
16) Manche Hgg. fügen zur Erklärung die Bühnenweisung ein: touching his forehead.
17) non com, herkömmlich abgekürzt aus dem lateinischen non
compos mentis von
Sinnen, sagt Dogberry für non plus: to drive to a non-plus Jemanden in die
Enge treiben.

18) Er meint examination.

ACT IV.

SCENE I.

The Inside of a Church.

Enter Don PEDRO, JOHN, LEONATO, Friar, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, &c.

Leon. Come, friar Francis, be brief: only to the plain form of marriage, and you shall recount their particular duties afterwards.

Friar. You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady?

Claud. No.

Leon. To be married to her; friar, you come to marry her. 1

Friar. Lady, you come hither to be married to this count?

Hero. I do.

Friar. If either of you know any inward impediment, why you should not be conjoined, 2 I charge you on your souls to utter it.

Claud. Know you any, Hero?

Hero. None, my lord.

Friar. Know you any, count?

Leon. I dare make his answer; none.

Claud. O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! 3

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Bene. How now! Interjections? Why then, some be of laughing, as, ha ha! he! *

Claud. Stand thee by, friar. 5

Father, by your leave:

Will you with free and unconstrained soul

Give me this maid, your daughter?

Leon. As freely, son, as God did give her me.

Claud. And what have I to give you back, whose worth

May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?

D. Pedro. Nothing, unless you render her again.

Claud. Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.

There, Leonato, take her back again:

Give not this rotten orange to your friend;

She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.

1) Leonato kann sich Claudio's No nur so erklären, dass Claudio das Wort to marry verheirathen, der Mönch aber es heirathen, fasst.

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2) Diese Worte sind aus dem zu Sh.'s Zeit gebräuchlichen Englischen Trauungsformular. 3) not knowing what they do fehlt in der Fol.

4) Ein Citat aus der kleinen Englischen Schulgrammatik, wie vor Sh. Lyly es in seinem Endymion scherzhaft gebraucht hatte: An interjection, whereof some are of mour ning, as cho! vah!

5) Tritt bei Seite, Mönch.

Behold, how like a maid she blushes here:
0, what authority and show of truth.
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!

Comes not that blood, 6 as modest evidence,
To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,
All you that see her, that she were a maid,
By these exterior shows? But she is none:
She knows the heat of a luxurious 7 bed;

Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.

Leon. What do you mean, my lord?
Claud.

Not to be married, 8

Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.
Leon. Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,

Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth,
And made defeat of her virginity,

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Claud. I know what you would say: if I have known her, You'll say, she did embrace me as a husband,

And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:

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Hero. And seem'd I ever otherwise to you?

Claud. Out on thee, seeming! 12 I will write against it:

You seem to me as Dian in her orb,

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;

But you are more intemperate in your blood

Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals

That rage in savage sensuality.

Hero. Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide? 13

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6) that blood ist hinweisend das Blut, das jetzt in Hero's Wange steigt und ein Schamerröthen bedeuten soll.

luxurious wollüstig, geil.

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der Erprobung, die Ihr selbst mit Hero angestellt habt u. s. w.

10) to know = erkennen, in geschlechtlichem Sinn.

11) Vgl. A. 2, Sc. 3, Anm. 27.

12) So Q. und Fol. seeming ist die in Hero personificirte Heuchelei, welche Claudio anredet, wie in Winter's Tale (A. 4, Sc. 3) die Perdita als enchantment, and in K. John (A. 3, Sc. 4) die Constanze als fair affliction angeredet wird. Die meisten Hgg. ändern mit Pope: Out on thy seeming, und Knight Out on the seeming! 13) wide = weit vom Ziel, in der Irre, verkehrt. So in Troilus and Cressida (A. 3, Sc. 1) No, no; no such matter, you are wide. Die folgende Rede theilen

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Claud. Sweet prince, why speak not you?
D. Pedro.

I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about

To link my dear friend to a common stale.

What should I speak?

Leon. Are these things spoken, 14 or do I but dream?
John. Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.
Bene. This looks not like a nuptial. 15

Hero.

Claud. Leonato, stand I here?

True! 16 O God!

Is this the prince? Is this the prince's brother?

Is this face Hero's? Are our eyes our own?

Leon. All this is so; but what of this, my lord?
Claud. Let me but move one question to your daughter,
And, by that fatherly and kindly power

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That you have in her, bid her answer truly.

Leon. I charge thee do so, 18 as thou art my child.

Hero. O God, defend me! how am I beset!

What kind of catechizing call you this?

Claud. To make you answer truly to your name.

Hero. Is it not Hero? 19 Who can blot that name

With any just reproach?

Claud.

Marry, that can Hero:

Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.

What man was he talk'd with you yesternight
Out at your window, betwixt twelve and one?

Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.

Hero. I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord.
D. Pedro. Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,

I am sorry you must hear: Upon mine honour,

Myself, my brother, and this grieved count,
Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night,
Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window;
Who hath, indeed, most like a liberal 20 villain,

die Hgg. mit Q. und Fol. dem Leonato zu; Dyce, nach Tieck's Vorschlag, giebt sie passender dem Claudio.

14) Wird das wirklich gesprochen, was ich da zu hören glaube, oder ist es nur ein Traum? 15) nuptial gebraucht Sh. gewöhnlich im Singular.

16) Hero's Ausruf bezieht sich auf John's Worte: these things are true.

17) kindly natürlich, auf die Bande der Blutsverwandtschaft begründet.

18) Die Fol. lässt so aus.

19) scil. Is not my name Hero? So antwortet sie auf Claudio's Worte, dass dieses Verhör sie dazu bringen sollte, ihrem wahren Namen gemäss zu antworten.

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Confess'd the vile encounters they have had

A thousand times in secret.

John. Fie, fie: they are not to be nam'd, my lord,

Not to be spoke of;

There is not chastity enough in language,

Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,

I am sorry for thy much misgovernment. 21

Claud. O Hero! what a Hero hadst thou been.

If half thy outward graces had been placed
About thy thoughts, and counsels of thy heart!
But, fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,
Thou pure impiety, and impious purity! 22
For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,
And on my eye-lids shall conjecture 23 hang,
To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
And never shall it more be gracious. 24

Leon. Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?
Beat. Why, how now,
John. Come, let us go.

Smother her spirits up.

[HERO SWOONS.

cousin! wherefore sink you down?
These things, come thus to light,
[Exeunt Don PEDRO, JOHN, and CLAUDIO.

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Leon. Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing

Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny

The story that is printed in her blood?

Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes;

For did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,

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als ob das Wort aus einem Adjectiv und Substantiv zusammengesetzt sei, wie ill government oder bad government.

22 Aeusserlich rein und innerlich ruchlos. Vgl. oben Anm. 12.

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23) Auf Claudio's Auge soll fernerhin der Argwohn thronen, dass er bei jeder Schönheit, die er zu Gesicht bekommt, böse Gedanken hegt, ihr Böses zutraut. conjecture argwöhnische Vermuthung, gebraucht Sh. auch so in Winter's Tale (A. 2, Sc. 1) their familiarity | Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture.

2) Die Schönheit soll dem Claudio fortan niemals wieder als lieblich oder als mit guten Gaben ausgestattet erscheinen.

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