Read the following excerpt from much ado about nothing: benedick sweet beatrice, wouldst thou come when i called thee? beatrice yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. benedick o, stay but till then! beatrice 'then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere i go, let me go with that i came; which is, with knowing what hath passed between you and claudio. benedick only foul words; and thereupon i will kiss thee. beatrice foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore i will depart unkissed. benedick thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible is thy wit. this is an example of a. couplets emphasizing their impending coupling. b. prose for comedic eff