Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed--
love will bring happiness
16 Matching Annotations
- Dec 2017
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The heavens continue their loves!
The rulers have kept in touch
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- Nov 2017
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I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man is Claudio.
Benedick begins to think about when Claudio was more "masculine" and asks himself if he will ever be changed like that and if he will ever see the world through a lover's eye.
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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
Claudio receives news about marrying Hero and says he is speechless because of complete joy.
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What secret hath held you here, that you followed not to Leonato's?
Don Pedro wants to know what secret Benedick is keeping from them?
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With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.
Benedick is suggesting that he will never be in love and if he ever is he can be brought to his senses with a good round of beers.
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You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.
Beatrice is saying that Signior Benedick had given him rotten food and helped him eat it and it was easy for him because he has a strong stomach.
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Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
The Messenger is saying that Claudio deserves to be honored and Don Pedro done that. Claudio looks like a man but fights like a lion and has done more than anyone would expect at his age.
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The sin upon my head, dread sovereign! For in the book of Numbers is it writ, When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord, Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag; Look back into your mighty ancestors:
Canterbury is asking to take blame, as it is written in the Numbers. He says unfurl your banners of war.
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Then go we in, to know his embassy; Which I could with a ready guess declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.
Canterbury wants to go in and hear what the Frenchman has to say, though Canterbury already knows.
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- Oct 2017
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It must be so; for miracles are ceased; And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected.
Canterbury is saying that the miracles passed and they have to find reasons and explanations on why these things happen.
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This would drink deep.
What Ely is saying in this statement is that if the bill is passed it would cause quite a drain for them.
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And our induction full of prosperous hope.
Here Mortimer is saying that the beginning of their project bodes well.
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I say the earth did shake when I was born.
Glendower is saying that he does not agree that the earth shook because he was afraid.
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Here is a dear, a true industrious friend, Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.
King Henry's description on Walter Blunt is crediting him on his conquest.
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It seems then that the tidings of this broil Brake off our business for the Holy Land.
King Henry has received the news about the capture of noble Mortimer. Now this is in the way of their plans to invade the Holy Land.
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