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Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIODON JOHN
It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry theBORACHIO
daughter of Leonato.
Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.DON JOHN
Any bar, any cross, any impediment will beBORACHIO
medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?
Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that noDON JOHN
dishonesty shall appear in me.
Show me briefly how.BORACHIO
I think I told your lordship a year since, how muchDON JOHN
I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
gentlewoman to Hero.
I remember.BORACHIO
I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,DON JOHN
appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?BORACHIO
The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you toDON JOHN
the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that
he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold
up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
What proof shall I make of that?BORACHIO
Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,DON JOHN
to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any
other issue?
Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.BORACHIO
Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro andDON JOHN
the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know
that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the
prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's
honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's
reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the
semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered
thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:
offer them instances; which shall bear no less
likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,
hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me
Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night
before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I
will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be
absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth
of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called
assurance and all the preparation overthrown.
Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will putBORACHIO
it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and
thy fee is a thousand ducats.
Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunningDON JOHN
shall not shame me.
I will presently go learn their day of marriage.
Exeunt
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