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.
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:
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.
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,
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.
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