Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Kate Beckinsale: Hero

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• Beatrice : Is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no?

  Messenger : I know none of that name, lady.

  Hero : My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.

  Messenger : Oh, he's returned and as pleasant as ever he was.

  Beatrice : I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? For indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.

  Messenger : He hath done good service and a good soldier too, lady.

  Beatrice : And a good soldier to a lady. But what is he to a lord?

  Messenger : A lord to a lord. A man to a man, stuffed with all honorable virtues.

  Beatrice : It is so, indeed. He is no less than a stuffed man.

  Leonato : You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet, but there's a skirmish of wit between them.

  Beatrice : Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.

  Messenger : He is most in the company of the right and noble Claudio.

  Beatrice : O lord! He will hang upon him like a disease. He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! If he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere he be cured.

  Messenger : I will keep friends with you, lady.

  Beatrice : [Chuckles]  Do, good friend.

  Leonato : You will never run mad, niece.

  Beatrice : No, not till a hot January.

• Benedick : Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?

  Beatrice : [Pushed out of crowd by Antonio. Removes veil, clears throat]  I answer to that name.

  [Appraoches Benedick] 

  Beatrice : What is your will?

  Benedick : Do not you love me?

  Beatrice : Why, no. No more than reason.

  Benedick : Well, then your Uncle, the prince and Claudio have been deceived. They swore you did.

  Beatrice : Do not you love me?

  Benedick : Why, no. No more than reason.

  Beatrice : Why, then my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula are much deceived for they swear you did.

  Benedick : They swore you were almost sick for me.

  Beatrice : They swore you well nigh dead for me.

  Benedick : 'Tis no such matter. Then... you... do not love me?

  Beatrice : No, truly, but in friendly recompense.

  [Shakes Benedick's hand] 

  Leonato : Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.

  Claudio : I'll be sworn upon he loves her, for here's a paper written in his hand a halting sonnet of his own pure brain, fashioned to Beatrice.

  Hero : And here's another...

  Beatrice : No!

  [Slaps Hero's hand] 

  Hero : ...writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket containing her affection unto Benedick.

  Benedick : A miracle! Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee. But, by this light, I take thee for pity.

  Beatrice : I would not deny you. But, by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption.

  Benedick : Peace! I will stop your mouth.

  [Kisses Beatrice] 

• Hero : Nature never framed a woman's heart of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice - disdain and scorne ride sparkling in her eyes.

• Hero : [discussing Don John]  He is of a very melancholy disposition.

• Leonato : Are you yet determined to marry with my brother's daughter?

  [Claudio nods] 

  Leonato : Call her forth, brother. Here's the friar ready.

  [Four veiled ladies are presented] 

  Claudio : Which is the lady I must seize upon?

  Antonio : [Brings forth one lady]  This same is she and I do give you her.

  Claudio : Sweet, let me see your face.

  Leonato : No, that you shall not till you take her hand before this friar and swear to marry her.

  Claudio : [Kneels]  Give me your hand, before this holy friar. I am your husband if you like of me.

  Hero : [Removes veil] 

  Don Pedro : Hero that is dead.

  Leonato : She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.

  Hero : And when I lived, I was your other wife. And when you loved you were my other husband. One Hero died defiled, but I do live and surely as I live, I am a maid.