Reading Much Adoe about Nothing — William Shakespeare

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Leonato.

Tush, tush, man, neuer fleere and iest at me,

I speake not like a dotard, nor a foole,

As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge,

What I haue done being yong, or what would doe,

Were I not old, know Claudio to thy head,

Thou hast so wrong'd my innocent childe and me,

That I am forc'd to lay my reuerence by,

And with grey haires and bruise of many daies,

Doe challenge thee to triall of a man,

I say thou hast belied mine innocent childe.

Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,

And she lies buried with her ancestors:

O in a tombe where neuer scandall slept,

Saue this of hers, fram'd by thy villanie.

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