Briefly explain the meaning of the following lines from Much…
Briefly explain the meaning of the following lines from Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Scene 4. HERO: And when I lived I was your other wife; [Unmasks.]And when you loved you were my other husband. CLAUDIO: Another Hero! HERO: Nothing certainer.One Hero died defiled; but I do live,(65)And surely as I live, I am a maid. DON PEDRO: The former Hero! Hero that is dead! LEONATO: She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived. BENEDICK: I’ll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannotflout me out of my humour. Dost thou think I care for asatire or an epigram? No. If a man will be beaten with (105)brains, ‘a shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief,since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to anypurpose that the world can say against it; and thereforenever flout at me for what I have said against it; for manis a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion. For thy part, (110)Claudio, I did think to have beaten thee; but in that thouart like to be my kinsman, live unbruised, and love mycousin.
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