Dogberry Monologue from Much Ado About Nothing

From Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

male · comedic · 1:01 min

Why then, depart in peace, and let the child wake her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes, will never answer a calf when he bleats. (VERGES: ’Tis very true.) This is the end of the charge. You constable, are to present the Prince’s own person: if you meet the Prince in the night, you may stay him. (VERGES: Nay, by’r lady, that I think, a’ cannot.) Five shillings to one on’t, with any man that knows the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without the Prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought to offend no man, and it is an offence to stay a man against his will.

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