| DON PEDRO | Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again. |
| BALTHASAR | O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once. |
| DON PEDRO | It is the witness still of excellency To put a strange face on his own perfection. I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more. |
| BALTHASAR | Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;
Since many a wooer doth commence his suit To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes, Yet will he swear he loves. |
| DON PEDRO | Now, pray thee, come; Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument, Do it in notes. |
| BALTHASAR | Note this before my notes; There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. |
| DON PEDRO | Why, these are very crotchets that he
speaks; Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing. [Air] |
| BENEDICK | Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished!
Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when all's done. |
| [The Song] | |
| BALTHASAR | Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never: Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny. |
| Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, Of dumps so dull and heavy; The fraud of men was ever so, Since summer first was leafy: Then sigh not so, &c. | |
| DON PEDRO | By my troth, a good song. |