Molto rumore per nulla by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare
Language: ita
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Newton Compton editori
Published: 2015-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

SCENE II

Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick, and Leonato

DON PEDRO I do but stay till your marriage be consummate,

and then go I toward Arragon.

CLAUDIO I’ll bring you thither, my lord, if you’ll vouchsafe

me.

DON PEDRO Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new

gloss of your marriage as to show a child his new coat

and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold with Benedick

for his company; for, from the crown of his head to

the sole of his foot, he is all mirth; he hath twice or thrice

cut Cupid’s how-string and the little hangman dare not 10

shoot at him. He hath a heart as sound as a bell and his

tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks, his tongue

speaks.

BENEDICK Gallants, I am not as I have been.

LEONATO So say I; methinks you are sadder.

CLAUDIO I hope he be in love.

DON PEDRO Hang him, truant! There’s no true drop of blood

in him to be truly touched with love; if he be sad, he wants

money.

BENEDICK I have the toothache. 20

DON PEDRO Draw it.

BENEDICK Hang it!

CLAUDIO You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.

DON PEDRO What! Sigh for the toothache?

LEONATO Where is but a humour or a worm.

BENEDICK Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has

it.

CLAUDIO Yet say I, he is in love.

DON PEDRO There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless

it be a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as to be a 30

Dutchman today, a Frenchman tomorrow, or in the shape of

two countries at once, as, a German from the waist down-ward,

all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no

doublet. Unless he have a fancy to this foolery, as it appears

he hath, he is no fool for fancy, as you would have it appear

he is.

CLAUDIO If he be not in love with some woman, there is no

believing old signs. ’A brushes his hat o’mornings; what

should that bode?

DON PEDRO Hath any man seen him at the barber’s? 40

CLAUDIO No, but the barber’s man hath been seen with him

and the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed

tennis-balls.

LEONATO Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of

a beard.

DON PEDRO Nay, ’a rubs himself with civet; can you smell

him out by that?

CLAUDIO That’s as much as to say, the sweet youth’s in

love.

DON PEDRO The greatest note of it is his melancholy. 50

CLAUDIO And when was he wont to wash his face?

DON PEDRO Yea, or to paint himself? For the which, I hear

what they say of him.

CLAUDIO Nay, but his jesting spirit, which is now crept into a

lute-string and now governed by stops.

DON PEDRO Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him; conclude,

conclude he is in love.

CLAUDIO Nay, but I know who loves him.

DON PEDRO That would I know too; I warrant, one that knows

him not. 60

CLAUDIO Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of all,

dies for him.

DON PEDRO She shall be buried with her face upwards.

BENEDICK Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old signor,

walk aside with me; I have studied eight or nine wise

words to speak to you, which these hobby-horses must not

hear.

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