Another Room in Leonato's House.
 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 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.

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.

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 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, to undo 
	Hero, and kill Leonato. Look you for any other issue?

Don John	Only to despite them I will endeavour anything.

Borachio	Go then, find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and the Count 
	Claudio alone. Tell them that you know 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 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 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.

Don John	Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in 
	practice. 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.

Don John	I will presently go learn their day of marriage.
													[Exeunt.
