Another Room in Leonato's House.
 Enter DON JOHN the Bastard and CONRAD, his companion.

Conrad	What the goodyear, my lord! Why are you thus out of measure 
	sad?

Don John	There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the 
	sadness is without limit.

Conrad	You should hear reason.

Don John	And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?

Conrad	If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.

Don John	I wonder that thou, being - as thou sayst thou art - born 
	under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine to a 
	mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad 
	when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I 
	have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am 
	drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, 
	and claw no man in his humour.

Conrad	Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you may 
	do it without controlment. You have of late stood out against 
	your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace, 
	where it is impossible you should take true root but by the 
	fair weather that you make yourself. It is needful that you 
	frame the season for your own harvest.

Don John	I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, 
	and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to 
	fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I 
	cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be 
	denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a 
	muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed 
	not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth I would bite. If I 
	had my liberty I would do my liking. In the meantime let me be 
	that I am, and seek not to alter me.

Conrad	Can you make no use of your discontent?

Don John	I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who comes here?

                             Enter BORACHIO.

	What news, Borachio?

Borachio	I came yonder from a great supper. The prince your brother is 
	royally entertained by Leonato, and I can give you 
	intelligence of an intended marriage.

Don John	Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he 
	for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?

Borachio	Marry, it is your brother's right hand.

Don John	Who, the most exquisite Claudio?

Borachio	Even he.

Don John	A proper squire! And who, and who? - Which way looks he?

Borachio	Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.

Don John	A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?

Borachio	Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty 
	room comes me the prince and Claudio, hand in hand, in sad 
	conference. I whipped me behind the arras, and there heard it 
	agreed upon that the prince should woo Hero for himself, and, 
	having obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.

Don John	Come, come, let us thither. This may prove food to my 
	displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my 
	overthrow. If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every 
	way. You are both sure, and will assist me?

Conrad	To the death, my lord.

Don John	Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the greater that I 
	am subdued. Would the cook were o' my mind! Shall we go prove 
	what's to be done?

Borachio	We'll wait upon your lordship.
													[Exeunt.
