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BENEDICK:

Come, come, we are friends. Let's have a dance ere
we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts and(120)
our wives' heels.

LEONATO:

We'll have dancing afterward.

BENEDICK:

First, of my word! Therefore play, music. Prince,
thou art sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife! There is no
staff more reverent than one tipped with horn.(125)

Enter Messenger.

MESSENGER:

My lord, your brother Don John is taken in flight,
And brought with armed men back to Messina.

BENEDICK:

Think not on him till tomorrow. I'll devise thee
brave punishments for him. Strike up, pipers!

Dance. [Exeunt.]

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4. Act I
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   2. Scene II
   3. Scene III
5. Act II
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   2. Scene II
   3. Scene III
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   2. Scene II
   3. Scene III
   4. Scene IV
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   2. Scene II
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   3. Scene III
   4. Scene IV
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