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Don Pedro. You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.
Beatrice. So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. - William Shakespeare Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Don Pedro and Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc. 1, l. 283-6. Beatrice has outsmarted Benedick, but she jokingly takes “put him down” literally.

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