But, I pray you, who is his companion? Is there no young squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil ? MESSENGER He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio. BEATRICE No an he were, I would burn my study. MESSENGER I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. MESSENGER Is't possible? BEATRICE Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat it ever changes with the next block. Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonable creature. There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them. LEONATO You must not, sir, mistake my niece. BEATRICE It is so, indeed he is no less than a stuffed man: but for the stuffing,-well, we are all mortal. BEATRICE And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord? MESSENGER A lord to a lord, a man to a man stuffed with all honourable virtues.
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