Good morrow, Benedick: why what’s the matter,

That you have such a February face,

So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?

Shaks.

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Oh! I thought I should faint, when I saw him, dear mother,

Feel my pulse with one hand, with a watch in the other;

No token of death that is heard in the night

Could ever have put me so much in affright:

Thinks I—’tis all over—my sentence is past,