Beat. Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.
040 Bene. O, stay but till then!
Beat. ‘Then’ is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, [042] ere I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.
Bene. Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee.
045 Beat. Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.
[048] Bene. Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee plainly, 050 Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
[054] Beat. For them all together; which maintained so politic 055 a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. But for which of my good parts [057] did you first suffer love for me?
Bene. Suffer love,—a good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
060 Beat. In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart! If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.
Bene. Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.