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VOLUME the SICOND.

CONTAINING,

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

E DIN BU R G H :

Printed by ALEXANDER DONALD Son.

MDCCLXIX.

Much ado about Nothing *.

DRAMATIS PERSON Æ.

Dogberry;

Don PEDRO, Prince of Arra-Borachin, confident to Don Johti gon.

Conrade, friend to Borachio. Leonato, . Don John, baffard-brother 10 * Der Verecesity

, Ztwo feolifs officers. , Don , Pedro.

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

Margaret, 2 two gentlewomen Benedick, a young Lord of Padua, Ursula, s attending on Hero.

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

tendants.
S CE N E, Melina in Sicily.

A C Τ Ι.
ACT I.

SCENE I.

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

Arragoni comes this night to Messina.

Meff. 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 fort, and none of name.

Leon. A vi&tory 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.

Mell. Much deserved on his part, and equally rea membered by Don Pedro: he hath-borne himself be.

The story from Ariosto, Orl. Fur. los. Mr Pope, V oi. II.

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