Much Ado Act 2 Scene 1 lyrics

SCENE I. A hall in LEONATO'S house.

Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others

LEONATO
Was not Count John here at supper?

ANTONIO
I saw him not.

BEATRICE
How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see
him but I am heart-burned an hour after.

HERO
He is of a very melancholy disposition.

BEATRICE
He were an excellent man that were made just in the
midway between him and Benedi*k: the one is too
like an image and says nothing, and the other too
like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.

LEONATO
Then half Signior Benedi*k's tongue in Count John's
mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior
Benedi*k's face,--