| ACT I SCENE II | A room in LEONATO's house. | |
| | Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting | |
| LEONATO | How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son? | |
| | hath he provided this music? | |
| ANTONIO | He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell | |
| | you strange news that you yet dreamt not of. | 5 |
| LEONATO | Are they good? | |
| ANTONIO | As the event stamps them: but they have a good | |
| | cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count | |
| | Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine | |
| | orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine: | 10 |
| | the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my | |
| | niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it | |
| | this night in a dance: and if he found her | |
| | accordant, he meant to take the present time by the | |
| | top and instantly break with you of it. | 15 |
| LEONATO | Hath the fellow any wit that told you this? | |
| ANTONIO | A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and | |
| | question him yourself. | |
| LEONATO | No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear | |
| | itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal, | 20 |
| | that she may be the better prepared for an answer, | |
| | if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it. | |
| | Enter Attendants | |
| | Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you | |
| | mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your | |
| | skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time. | 25 |
| | Exeunt | |
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