Playing Shakespeare

O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall

1. Claudio

   

   Sweet Hero! Now thy image doth appear In the rare semblance that I loved it first. 5.1.241-2

2. Claudio

   

   Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies: Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, Gives her fame which never dies. So the life that died with shame Lives in death with glorious fame. Hang thou there upon the tomb, Praising her when I am dumb. Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn. 5.3.3-8

3. Leonato

   

   Death is the fairest cover for her shame That may be wished for. 4.1.116-4

4. Friar Francis

   

   I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes; And in her eye there hath appeared a fire To burn the errors that these princes hold Against her maiden truth. 4.1.158-164

5. Beatrice

   

   O, on my soul, my cousin is belied! 4.1.146

6. Claudio

   

   O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been, If half thy outward graces had been placed About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart! But fare thee well, most foul, most fair. Farewell Thou pure impiety and impious purity. For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love, And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, And never shall it more be gracious. 4.1.100-108

7. Claudio

   

   What man was he talked with you yesternight Out at your window betwixt twelve and one? Now, if you are a maid, answer to this. 4.1.83-85

8. Claudio

   

   Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange. 2.1.281-284

9. Beatrice

   

   it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.' 2.1.46-49

10. Leonato

    

    Daughter, remember what I told you. If the prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer. 2.1.58-60