MUCH ADO about NOTHING.
The MERCHANT of VENICE,
LOVE's LABOUR’S LOST.
AS YOU LIKE IT.
The TAMING of the SHREW,

Much ado about Nothing *.

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DRAMA TIS PERSON Æ.

Dogberry, Zrwo foolish officers.'

Don PEDRO, Prince of Arra-, Borachio, confident to Don John. gon.

Courade, friend to Borachio. Leonato, Governor of Mefina. Don John, bastard-brother to Don Verges, Pedro.

Hero, daughter to Leonato. Claudio, a young Lord of Florence, Beatrice, niece to Leonato. favourite to Don Pedro.

Margaret, two gentlewomen Benedick, a young Lord of Padua, Ursula, s attending on Hero.

favoured likewise by Don Pedro. A Friar, Melinger, Watch, Balthazar, servant to Don Pedro. Town-Clerk, Sexton, and AtAntonio, brother to Leonato.

tendants. SCE NE, Mefina in Sicily.

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A court before Leonato's house. Enter Leonato, Hero, and Beatrice, with a melenger. Leon. LEARN in this letter, that Don Pedro of

Arragon comes this night to Mellina.

Mell. He is very near by this; he was

not three leagues off when I left him. Leon. How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?

Mel. But few of any sort, and none of name.

Leon. A victory is twice itself, when the atchiever brings home full numbers; I find here, that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honour on a young Florentine, called Claudio.

Mel. Much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro : hath borne himself be

The story from Ariosto, Orl. Fur. dos. Mr Pope,