Benedick Monologue from Much Ado About Nothing

From Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

male · philosophical · 1:04 min

An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in the time of good neighbours. If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps. (BEATRICE: And how long is that think you?) 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.) And how do you?

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