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- BENEDICK
- O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!
- an oak but with one green leaf on it would have
- answered her; my very visor began to assume life and
- scold with her.
- She told me, not thinking I had been
- myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was
- duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest
- with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood
- like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at
- me.
- She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:
- if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,
- there were no living near her; she would infect to
- the north star. I would not marry her, though she
- were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before
- he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have
- turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make
- the fire too.
- Come, talk not of her: you shall find
- her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God
- some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while
- she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a
- sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they
- would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror
- and perturbation follows her.
- DON PEDRO
- Look, here she comes.
- BENEDICK
- Will your grace command me any service to the
- world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
- to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;
- I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the
- furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of
- Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great
- Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,
- rather than hold three words' conference with this
- harpy. You have no employment for me?
- DON PEDRO
- None, but to desire your good company.
- BENEDICK
- O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot
- endure my Lady Tongue.
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