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That dare as well answer a man indeed

As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.

Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!

Leon.

Brother Anthony—

Ant.

Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,

And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple—

Scambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys,

That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,

Go anticly, and show outward hideousness,

And speak [off] half a dozen dang’rous words,

How they might hurt their enemies—if they durst—

And this is all.

Leon.

But, brother Anthony—

Ant.

Come, ’tis no matter;

Do not you meddle, let me deal in this.

D. Pedro.

Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.

My heart is sorry for your daughter’s death;

But on my honor she was charg’d with nothing

But what was true, and very full of proof.

Leon.

My lord, my lord—

D. Pedro.

I will not hear you.

Leon.

No? Come, brother, away! I will be heard.

Ant.

And shall, or some of us will smart for it.

Exeunt ambo [Leonato and Antonio].

Enter Benedick.

D. Pedro. See, see, here comes the man we went to seek.