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... clever banter. "Beatrice: I wonder that you are still talking, Signor Benedick. Nobody marks you. Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?" (1.1.114-117) Beatrice is telling Benedick that nobody cares what he has to say and Benedick is asking Beatrice if she is dead yet. It is just this sort of exchange that keeps them in fits of laughter. In Act 2 Scene 1, Beatrice is talking to Leonato about marriage and gives a ridiculous and unrealistic idea of what she would like to see in a husband. "He were an excellent man that were made just in the midway between him [Don John] and Benedick. The one is too like an image and says nothing, and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore chattering...With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money enough in his purse, such a man would win any ...