Much Ado About Nothing | Essential Passages by Character: Beatrice

Essential Passage 1: Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 50-59

LEONATO:
You must not, my lord, mistake my niece. There is 
a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her.
They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between
them.

BEATRICE:
Alas! He gets nothing by that. In our last conflict
four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the 
whole man governed with one; so that if he have wit...








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