(They almost touch hands. Then CLAUDIO bursts in.)
In the name of the Prince, I arrest you as foul miscreants!
(They exit. Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE, drunk. BORACHIO sobs.)
And we will tell Beatrice the same of him. Much Ado About Nothing -2011- Wyndham-s Theatre...
I know none of that name, lady.
(trembling) I dare not say I do not. But let me see her face.
(BENEDICK exits, shaking his head. DON PEDRO approaches CLAUDIO.) (They almost touch hands
Then say what you will do. Do you love her?
(louder) Look, here comes Beatrice. What a sigh she has! She throws her heart into her handkerchief.
(They drag them off. Spotlight on the tombstone. It reads: “Here Lies Hero – Beloved Daughter.”) Scene 1: The same graveyard, dawn. (LEONATO, ANTONIO, and BENEDICK stand at the tomb.) Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE, drunk
By this, the two shall be made in love. And then we shall have a merry wedding.
A lover? I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
(alone) If this sweet lady think me a cold blooded fool, I shall prove otherwise. Tonight.
(Enter BEATRICE, unseen by the men, but visible to the audience. She stands behind a pillar, listening.)
Much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion.