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Much Ado About Nothing Animal imagery Shakespeare often uses animal imagery in exchanges between Beatrice and Benedick and in references to them by other characters, perhaps to suggest the wildness of the love/hate relationship between the two. Partner Get together with a partner and look for examples of animal imagery. Find at least 3 examples The following exchange between Beatrice and Benedick in Act I, Scene I, demonstrates this point:?  BEATRICE.....I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.? BENEDICK.....God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some gentleman or other? shall scape a predestinate scratched face.? BEATRICE.....Scratching could not make it worse, an twere such a face as yours were.? BENEDICK.....Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.? BEATRICE.....A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.? BENEDICK.....I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. (Lines 132-138)?? Benedick declares that if he ever succumbs to the pangs of love, he will be like a trapped animal:? .If I do [submit to love],? hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me;?? and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder. (Act I, Scene I, Lines 259-260)?  When Don Pedro tells him that even a savage bull, must in time yield to the yoke of love, Benedick says:? The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible? ..Benedick bear it [the yoke], pluck off the bulls 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.? (Act I, Scene I, Lines 264-269)?  When Leonato and Antonio tell Beatrice that her tongue is too cursed to ever get a husband, Beatrice answers,? Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen Gods? .sending that way; for it is said, God sends a curst? .cow short horns; but to a cow too curst he sends none. (Act II, Scene I,