> An Excerpt from Much Ado About Rink Chat, and adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
> Adapted by Speedball
> Act 1 Scene 1
>
> [Enter Don Stephen, Sam, Dave, eric, and Liface]
>
> Don Stephen: Good Signor Howard, are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
>
> Howard: Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of Your Grace. For trouble being gone, comfort should remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
>
> Don Stephen: You embrace your charge too willingly. ---I think this is your daughter.
>
> [Presenting himself to Leen]
>
> Howard: Her mother hath many times told me so.
>
> Dave: Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
>
> Howard: Signor Dave, no; for then were you a child.
>
> Don Stephen: You have it full, Dave. We may guess be this what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers herself. Be happy, lady, for you are like an honorable father.
>
> Dave: If Signor Howard be her father, she would not have his head on her shoulders all Messina, as like him as she is.
>
> Mousie: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signor Dave. Nobody marks you.
>
> Dave: What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
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> Mousie: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Dave? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence.
>
> Dave: Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love none.
>
> Mousie: A dear happiness to women! They would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood I am of your humor for that. I had rather my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
>
> Dave: God keep your ladyship still in that mind! So some gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate scratched face.
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> Mousie: Scratching could not make it worse, an'twere such a face as yours were.
>
> Dave: Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
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> Mousie: A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
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> Dave: I would my horse had the speed of your tongue and so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's name; I have done.
>
> Mousie: You always end with a jade's trick. I know you of old.

I haven't laughed that hard in... I dunno.... a while. I did Much Ado About Nothing for my school play last year. Your parody was right on, Speedball, mostly because it was really the real lines... but the characters fit in perfectly. I assume Liface was Don John..... who was eric then? whatever. Well, thanks for a good laugh today =)

uni"Beatrice's understudy last year"peg