[Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO]
DON PEDRO See, see; here comes the man we went to seek.
[Enter BENEDICK]
CLAUDIO Now, signior, what news?
BENEDICK Good day, my lord.
DON PEDRO Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part
almost a fray.
CLAUDIO We had like to have had our two noses snapped off
with two old men without teeth.
DON PEDRO Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had
we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.
BENEDICK In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came
to seek you both.
CLAUDIO We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are
high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten
away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
BENEDICK It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?
DON PEDRO Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?
CLAUDIO Never any did so, though very many have been beside
their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the
minstrels; draw, to pleasure us.
DON PEDRO As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou
sick, or angry?
CLAUDIO What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,
thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
BENEDICK Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you
charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.
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