[All put on their masks]
[Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR,
DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked]
DON PEDRO Lady, will you walk about with your friend?
HERO So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,
I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.
DON PEDRO With me in your company?
HERO I may say so, when I please.
DON PEDRO And when please you to say so?
HERO When I like your favour; for God defend the lute
should be like the case!
DON PEDRO My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove.
HERO Why, then, your visor should be thatched.
DON PEDRO Speak low, if you speak love.
[Drawing her aside]
BALTHASAR Well, I would you did like me.
MARGARET So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many
ill-qualities.
BALTHASAR Which is one?
MARGARET I say my prayers aloud.
BALTHASAR I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.
MARGARET God match me with a good dancer!
BALTHASAR Amen.
MARGARET And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is
done! Answer, clerk.
BALTHASAR No more words: the clerk is answered.
URSULA I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
ANTONIO At a word, I am not.
URSULA I know you by the waggling of your head.
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