Benedick : Count Claudio!
Claudio: Yes, I am here.
B…: Will you come with me.
c…: Why ? Where are you taking me?
b…: Where are you can mourn for you lost love . For you must wear mourning, Count. The prince has taken your Hero.
c…: He is welcome to her.
b…: That is the best way to look at it. But did your really think the prince would act like that?
c…: Leave me alone!
b..: I haven’t done anything wrong ! Don’t blame me.
c..: If you won’t go , I’ll go myself.
Benedick :Poor man, he wants to be alone and I have thing to think about too. Does My lady Beatrice really think I am a fool? I thought she knew me better than that . I cannot believe that everyone thinks for me in the same way. No, it’s just her opinion. I’ll get me my revenge – be sure of that!
Don..: Have you seen Count Clauido,signor?
b…: Yes, Prince, and Ihave been relling him the latest news – that you have courted Hero for youself. I told Claudio that it was all his own fault. He was like a silly school boy who finds a bird’s nest . He shows is to his friend and the friend steals it, of course. Claudio should have kept his good news a secret. He should be beaten for letting you win this prize!
Don…: No, no! I do not want Hero for myself. I was courting her Claudio.
B…: So you are an honest man. Thank God.
Don…: Lady Beatrice is angry with you. She danced with a gentleman who told her how you had insulted her.
B..: Not as badly as she had insulted me! Of course, she thought that she was dancing with a stranger
Don…: What did Beatrice say about you? Do tell me.
B…: She said I was called the prince’s fool, that all my jokes were bad ones and no dne laughed at them – that’s what she said. I had to stand there and listen to her. Every word she spoke was like a dagger. Her words were Killing me. I would not marry her even to live in Heaven. Beatrice makes trouble wherever she goes. If only someone would put a muzzle on her and shut her up! Until then, we’d all be better off in Hell!
Don….: Look,she’s coming now.
B..: Please, my lord, sand me on a journey as far away from here as possible – I cannot be in the same room as Lady Beatrice! Order me to do any difficult job for you – Whether it takes me north, south,east or west ! I’ll go to the other side of the world, where people walk upside down! I’ll go to Asia to cut down a tree. I’ll bring you a hair from the beard of Kubla Khan, great king of the east. I’ll go all the way to Africa! Anything rather than talk to that terrible women whit her awful tongue. Prince, you must have something that I can do!
Don…: Yes – stay here with me. Let me enjoy your company
B..: Oh, God, sir, no. You are serving tongue and that’s a dish that makes me ill!
Don : Oh, dear, I thought he had given you his heart!
B..: If he ever did, then I have lost it. We did agree to be friends for a time and my heart was twice as loving as his. But he did not play fair, so I took my heart back again and gave him back his own.
Don: You have won the war of world, lady. Your worlds have really upset Signor Benedick. He’ll have to give up and lie down now.
b…: But I’m still standing His words aren’t enough to make me lie down next to him, I’m glad to say. You wanted to see Count Claudio- here he is.
Don..: You look sad, Count. What’s the matter?
C..: I am not sad.
Don : sick, then?
B : with jealousy. And only you can and it.
Don : I thing that you are light, lady, but Claudio has no cause to be jealousy of me. Count , I counted Hero in your name and now she is yours. I have told her father and he agrees to the marriage. Now name tour wedding day and may you be happy!
Leo : Count Claudio, my daughter, Hero, who’s my only heir , is yours. The prince has arranged it all and I agree to it.
B : Say something, cousin! Or stop him talking, with a kiss!
Don : you certainly have a happy nature, Lady Beatrice.
B : That is true and it keeps me out of trouble! My cousin is talking now. I am sure she is telling Claudio how much she loves him.
C: You are right, cousin. She is
B : Thank God for marriage then! Soon everyone will have a husband, except me. I’ve got no chance. I sir in the sun too much. A beautiful lady must have a white skin – you all know that.
Don : I’ll get you a husband, Lady Beatrice.
B : Just like your father ‘got’ himself good sond? Have you any brothers? They would make good husbands.
Don: What about me for a husband, lady?
B : No, my lord. Not unless I could have a cheaper husband as well. You are a prince, and too expensive to use