Much Ado About Nothing Act V Key Lines
Act V scene i
Leonato’s self-pity
Leonato: “Bring me a father that so loved his child,
Whose joy of her is overwhelmed like mine, And bid him speak of patience.” (8-10)
Leonato: “But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.” (29-31)
Leonato’s challenge
Leonato: “Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me.
I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
As under privilege of age to brag
What I have done being young, or what would do
Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,
Thou hast so wronged mine innocent child and me That I am forced to lay my reverence by,
And with gray hairs and bruise of many days
Do challenge thee to trial of a man. I say thou hast belied mine innocent child.
Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
And she lies buried with her ancestors,
Oh, in a tomb where never scandal slept
Save this of hers, framed by thy villainy.” (58-73)
Benedick’s challenge
Don Pedro: “What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit.” (211)
Borachio confesses
Borachio: “What your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light.” (243)
Forgiveness
Claudio: “Impose me to what penance your invention
Can lay upon my sin. Yet sinned I not But in mistaking.” (285-287)
Leonato: “Possess the people in Messina here
How innocent she died. And if your love
Can labor aught in sad invention,
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
And sing it to her bones.” (294-298)
Act V scene ii
Benedick: “No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.” (40-41)
Benedick: “Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.” (72)
Act V scene iii
Claudio: “Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies.
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died with shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.” (3-8)
Claudio: “And Hymen
Leonato’s self-pity
Leonato: “Bring me a father that so loved his child,
Whose joy of her is overwhelmed like mine, And bid him speak of patience.” (8-10)
Leonato: “But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.” (29-31)
Leonato’s challenge
Leonato: “Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me.
I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
As under privilege of age to brag
What I have done being young, or what would do
Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,
Thou hast so wronged mine innocent child and me That I am forced to lay my reverence by,
And with gray hairs and bruise of many days
Do challenge thee to trial of a man. I say thou hast belied mine innocent child.
Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
And she lies buried with her ancestors,
Oh, in a tomb where never scandal slept
Save this of hers, framed by thy villainy.” (58-73)
Benedick’s challenge
Don Pedro: “What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit.” (211)
Borachio confesses
Borachio: “What your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light.” (243)
Forgiveness
Claudio: “Impose me to what penance your invention
Can lay upon my sin. Yet sinned I not But in mistaking.” (285-287)
Leonato: “Possess the people in Messina here
How innocent she died. And if your love
Can labor aught in sad invention,
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
And sing it to her bones.” (294-298)
Act V scene ii
Benedick: “No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.” (40-41)
Benedick: “Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.” (72)
Act V scene iii
Claudio: “Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies.
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died with shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.” (3-8)
Claudio: “And Hymen