ACT II SCENE II	The same.
	Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO
DON JOHN	It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the
	daughter of Leonato.
BORACHIO	Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.
DON JOHN	Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be	5
	medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
	and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
	evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?
BORACHIO	Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no
	dishonesty shall appear in me.	10
DON JOHN	Show me briefly how.
BORACHIO	I think I told your lordship a year since, how much
	I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
	gentlewoman to Hero.
DON JOHN	I remember.	15
BORACHIO	I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
	appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
DON JOHN	What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?
BORACHIO	The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to
	the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that	20
	he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
	Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold
	up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
DON JOHN	What proof shall I make of that?
BORACHIO	Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,	25
	to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any
	other issue?
DON JOHN	Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.
BORACHIO	Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and
	the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know	30
	that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the
	prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's
	honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's
	reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the
	semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered	35
	thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:
	offer them instances; which shall bear no less
	likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,
	hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me
	Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night	40
	before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I
	will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be
	absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth
	of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called
	assurance and all the preparation overthrown.	45
DON JOHN	Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put
	it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and
	thy fee is a thousand ducats.
BORACHIO	Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning
	shall not shame me.	50
DON JOHN	I will presently go learn their day of marriage.
	Exeunt