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Ursula: Madam!
Benedick: Here comes one in haste.
Ursula: You must come to your uncle. Yonder's old coil at home. It is proved my lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily abused and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and gone. Will you come, presently?
Beatrice: Will you go hear this news, signior?
Benedick: I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap and be buried in thy eyes, and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle's.
Beatrice: [laughs]
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Leonato: Are you yet determined to marry with my brother's daughter?
[Claudio nods]
Leonato: Call her forth, brother. Here's the friar ready.
[Four veiled ladies are presented]
Claudio: Which is the lady I must seize upon?
Antonio: [Brings forth one lady] This same is she and I do give you her.
Claudio: Sweet, let me see your face.
Leonato: No, that you shall not till you take her hand before this friar and swear to marry her.
Claudio: [Kneels] Give me your hand, before this holy friar. I am your husband if you like of me.
Hero: [Removes veil]
Don Pedro: Hero that is dead.
Leonato: She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
Hero: And when I lived, I was your other wife. And when you loved you were my other husband. One Hero died defiled, but I do live and surely as I live, I am a maid.
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