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Dreamweaver
[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 my 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.
[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.
[Several persons cross the stage.]
Leonato
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.
[Exeunt.]