Choose a challenging passage from Act I, and follow the thought. Explain your process of following the thought and then write the passage in your own words using contemporary English.
In Act 1, Scene 1 of Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick says:
The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible
Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set
them in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, and
in such great letters as they write "Here is good horse to
hire," let them signify under my sign "Here you may
see Benedick the married man."
After following the thought, I have come to realize that Benedick is saying that if he were ever to marry, he would want to be stabbed with a bull's horn and then with his blood, the words would be painted. I did this by looking at what Benedick was thinking, which was that he doesn't want to get married. I looked at the argument Benedick was having with Claudio about wherher or not everyone gets married.
Here is how I translated it into modern day English:
A crazy person may get married, but I am sensible,
So if I am ever to get married I would want to be stabbed
In the head, and with my blood, I want the words painted
"Hire me," where I will be under a sign that says, "Here lies
Benedick, the married man."
