| A | B |
|---|
| Messenger | "he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age; doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion" |
| Benedick | "that a woman conceived me, I thank her: that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks" |
| Claudio | "now I am returned and that war thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms come thronging soft and delicate desires" |
| Antonio | "God knows I loved my niece, and she is dead, slandered to death by villains" |
| Leonato | "Buut mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, and mine that I was proud on" |
| Conrade | "Away! you are an ass, you are an ass" |
| Don John | "I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace" |
| Borachio | "therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats" |
| Beatrice | "Kill Claudio" |
| Don Pedro | "I have wooed in thy name and fair Hero is won" |
| Ursula | "the pleasantest angling is to see the fish cut with her golden oars . . and greedily devour the treacherous bait" |
| Hero | "And when I lived I was your other wife: and when you loved, you were my other husband" |
| Dogberry | "our watch have indeed comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would have them this morning examined before your worship" |
| Margaret | "Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus, and lay it to your heart; it is the only thing for a qualm" |
| Verges | "our watch, tonight, excepting your worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant knaves as any in Messina" |
| Friar | "if it sort not well, you may conceal her, as best befits her wounded reputation, in some reclusive and religious life" |
