William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

ACT 5. 2. Scene II. LEONATO'S Garden. (continued)

BENEDICK.
Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in rheum: therefore
is it most expedient for the wise,--if Don Worm, his conscience,
find no impediment to the contrary,--to be the trumpet of his own
virtues, as I am to myself. So much for praising myself, who, I
myself will bear witness, is praiseworthy. And now tell me, how doth
your cousin?

BEATRICE.
Very ill.

BENEDICK.
And how do you?

BEATRICE.
Very ill too.

BENEDICK.
Serve God, love me, and mend. There will I leave you too, for here
comes one in haste.

[Enter URSULA.]

URSULA.
Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old coil at home: it is
proved, my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio
mightily abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and
gone. Will you come presently?

BEATRICE.
Will you go hear this news, signior?

BENEDICK.
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes;
and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle's.

[Exeunt.]