[Exeunt.]



Scene II.--A Room in Leonato's House.

[Enter Leonato and Antonio.]

Leon.
How now, brother? Where is my cousin, your son? Hath he
provided this music?

Ant.
He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell you
news that you yet dream not of.

Leon.
Are they good?

Ant.
As the event stamps them; but they have a good cover, they
show well outward. The prince and count Claudio, walking in a
thick-pleached alley in mine orchard, were thus overheard by
a man of mine: The prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my
niece, your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a
dance; and, if he found her accordant, he meant to take the
present time by the top, and instantly break with you of it.

Leon.