SCENE II. A room in LEONATO's house. Much Ado About Nothing  Shakespeare homepage  |  Much Ado About Nothing  | Act 1, Scene 2 

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 Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting  LEONATO  How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son? 

 hath he provided this music? 

 ANTONIO  He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell 

 you strange news that you yet dreamt not of. 

 LEONATO  Are they good? 

 ANTONIO  As the event stamps them: but they have a good 

 cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count 

 Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine 

 orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine: 

 the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my 

 niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it 

 this night in a dance: and if he found her 

 accordant, he meant to take the present time by the 

 top and instantly break with you of it. 

 LEONATO  Hath the fellow any wit that told you this? 

 ANTONIO  A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and 

 question him yourself. 

 LEONATO  No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear 

 itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal, 

 that she may be the better prepared for an answer, 

 if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it. 



 Enter Attendants  Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you 

 mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your 

 skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time. 



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