Much Ado About Nothing (Folio 1, 1623)

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 319 Enter Leonato and an old man, brother to Leonato.
 320Leo. How now brother, where is my cosen your son:
 321hath he prouided this musicke?
 322Old. He is very busie about it, but brother, I can tell
 323you newes that you yet dreamt not of.
 324Lo. Are they good?
 325Old. As the euents stamps them, but they haue a good
 326couer: they shew well outward, the Prince and Count
 327Claudio walking in a thick pleached alley in my orchard,
 328were thus ouer-heard by a man of mine: the Prince dis-
 329couered to Claudio that hee loued my niece your daugh-
 330ter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance,
 331and if hee found her accordant, hee meant to take the
 332present time by the top, and instantly breake with you
 333of it.
 334Leo. Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
 335Old. A good sharpe fellow, I will send for him, and
 336question him your selfe.
 337Leo. No, no; wee will hold it as a dreame, till it ap-
 338peare it selfe: but I will acquaint my daughter withall,
 339that she may be the better prepared for an answer, if per-
 340aduenture this bee true: goe you and tell her of it: coo-
 341sins, you know what you haue to doe, O I crie you mer-
 342cie friend, goe you with mee and I will vse your skill,
 343good cosin haue a care this busie time.     Exeunt. 

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Much Ado About Nothing (Folio 1, 1623)