Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2, Scene 3, Claudio: Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she will die if he love her not, and she will die ere she make her love known, and she will die if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness.
Anybody got a copy on hand, want to give me a line number?
159-163 in Collins edition, edited by Peter Alexander.
On the other hand, in the New Penguin Shakespeare,edited by R.A. Foakes they come out as lines 173-177. This edition is based on the 1600 Quarto which possibly explains this.
But, then again, The Oxford Shakespeare, edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor,has them as lines 167 - 171.
Looks to me like a case of 'yer pays yer money and yer takes yer pick' , as Shakespeareian scholars are wont to say.
Message edited by its author, Mar 6, 2009, 7:07pm.
The following morning...
In the First Folio they are lines 180-184 - or thereabouts, I may have mis-counted.
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