Much Ado About Nothing

much that joy could
not show itself modest enough without a badge of
bitterness.

LEONATO

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings
home full numbers.

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.
Hang thou there upon the tomb,
Praising her when I am dumb.

will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be
buried in thy eyes;

Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?

beshrew my hand,
If it should give your age such cause of fear:
In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.

is fallen
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean

all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
This is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I mistrusted not.

I must be sad when I have cause and smile
at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait
for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and
tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and
claw no man in his humour.

'In time the savage bull
doth bear the yoke.'