BENEDICK: This can be no trick. The conference was
sadly borne; they have the truth of this from Hero; they seem
to pity the lady. It seems her affections have their full bent.
Love me? Why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured.
They say I will bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come
from her. They say too that she will rather die than give any
sign of affection. I did never think to marry. I must not seem
proud. Happy are they that hear their detractions and can put
them to mending. They say the lady is fair-- 'tis a truth, I
can bear them witness; and virtuous-- 'tis so, I cannot reprove
it; and wise, but for loving me-- by my troth, it is no addition
to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be
horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd quirks
and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long
against marriage. But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves
the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall
quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe
a man from the career of his humor? No, the world must be peopled.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should
live till I were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day, she's
a fair lady! I do spy some marks of love in her.
Biographical aspects of the Sonnets - Examines the worth of Shakespeare's
sonnets in piecing together clues as to the nature of his romantic
life.
Doubtful Plays of Shakespeare - Analysis of evidence supporting the
claim of Shakespearean authorship of several questionable Elizabethan
plays.
Greene's Jealousy of Shakespeare - As early as 1592, Shakespeare's dramatic
work had excited the envy and indignation of his contemporaries,
including the accomplished scholar and dramatist, Robert Greene.
Shakespeare Index - An index of articles on to the Elizabethan dramatist.
The Shakespeare-Bacon Theory - Analysis of the theory that the plays
of William Shakespeare were not written by the man whose biography
we are familiar with, but rather under pseudonym by Lord Chancellor
Francis Bacon.
