Quotes – only the first has to belearned verbatim (word for word)

                Scene1 –

Leonatoexplains  Beatrice & Benedick’srelationship to the messenger:

                “There is a kind of merry warbetwixt Signor Benedick and her. They never meet but there’s a skirmish of                                                 witbetween them.”

Compares beingfriends w/ Benedick to catching a disease that makes you run mad.  Then Leonato because he doesn’t know what theaudience does (dramatic irony) tells Beatrice that she’ll never run mad –she’ll never catch the Benedick.

What doesBenedick call Beatrice when they meet? “Lady Disdain” (disdain – intense dislike, scorn)

Beatrice toBenedick – “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he lovesme.”

Benedick’s maincriticism of Hero?  She’s short

Benedick’sinterested in Beatrice (don’t have to memorized) “There’s her cousin[Beatrice], an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her [Hero] as muchin beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.”

Don Predro:“Thou was ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty” [love]  - to Benedick

Don Pedro: “ Ishall see thee, ere I die, look pail with love.”   Benedick: “With anger, with sickness, orwith hunger, my lord, not with love”

Benedick – if hemarries hang a sign on him “’Here you may see Benedick the married man’”

Benedick isworried he’ll be cuckolded [horns onhis head as in the middle ages]– wife cheats on him.

Don Johndescribes himself – “I am a plain-dealingvillain.”    Implied gamblingmetaphor – cards face up

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