Page 1336 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

DON PEDRO

By my troth, I speak my thought.

CLAUDIO
And in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.

BENEDICK
And by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine. [210]

CLAUDIO
That I love her, I feel.

DON PEDRO
That she is worthy, I know.

BENEDICK
That I neither feel how she should be loved, nor know how she should be

worthy, is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of me; I will die in it at the
stake. [215]

DON PEDRO
Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty.

CLAUDIO
And never could maintain his part but in the force of his will.

BENEDICK
That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that [220] she brought me up, I
likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a recheat winded

in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall
pardon me. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do
myself the right to trust [225] none; and the fine is, for the which I may go

the finer, I will live a bachelor.

DON PEDRO

I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.