25 January 2013

textbook love

"MESSENGER: I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. BEATRICE: No. An he were, I would burn my study." Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, I.i.74-5.

"I am trusted with a muzzle, and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage." Don John in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, I.iii.30-1.

"Being that I flow in grief, // The smallest twine may lead me." Leonato in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, IV.i.190-1.

"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest." Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, IV.i.186-7.

All references to The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works second edition, 2005.

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