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[Withdraws.]

Enter Prince [Don Pedro], Leonato, Claudio. Music [within].

D. Pedro.

Come, shall we hear this music?

Claud.

Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,

As hush’d on purpose to grace harmony!

D. Pedro.

See you where Benedick hath hid himself?

Claud.

O, very well, my lord. The music ended,

We’ll fit the [hid]-fox with a pennyworth.

Enter Balthasar with Music.

D. Pedro.

Come, Balthasar, we’ll hear that song again.

Balth.

O good my lord, tax not so bad a voice

To slander music any more than once.

D. Pedro.

It is the witness still of excellency

To put a strange face on his own perfection.

I pray thee sing, and let me woo no more.

Balth.

Because you talk of wooing, I will sing,

Since many a wooer doth commence his suit

To her he thinks not worthy, yet he woos,

Yet will he swear he loves.

D. Pedro.

Nay, pray thee come,

Or if thou wilt hold longer argument,

Do it in notes.

Balth.

Note this before my notes:

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.