Benedick : I am beginning to think that you are serious.
Claudio : Hero is the sweetest lady I have ever seen.
Benedick : Surely not. Her cousin is far more beautiful – I can see that without wearing glasses. It’s a pity that Lady Beatrice is so full of scorn and has such a sharp tongue. You don’t want to marry Hero, do you?
Benedick : I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such matter. There’s her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her so much in beauty as the first of may doth the last of December. But I hope you have no intent to turn husband have you?
Claudio : With all my heart, I do.
Benedick : I can’t believe it. Isn’t every man afraid of having an unfaithful wife? Will I never see a bachelor of sixty? Are you happy to be caught and never to be free again? But here comes Don pedro. He’s looking for you, I think.
Don Pedro : Why did you not follow us? What secret have you two been discussing?
Benedick : If it’s a secret, you must order me to tell you.
Don Pedro : Then I do. Tell me.
Benedick : You hear that, Count Claudio? I have to speak. Well, my friend Claudio is in love. Now you must ask with Leonato’s short daughter, Hero. And that’s the truth, I’m soory to say
Claudio : I am not sorry and it’s true. I love Hero and I always will.
Don Pedro : That’s fine. The girl is worthy of your love.
Claudio : Do you really believe that, my lord?