Note to Much Ado About Nothing, 1.2 25: "Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you / mercy"


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Much Ado About Nothing,
Act 1, Scene 2, line 25.
Cousins: —There are various persons (most of them servants) scurrying about to make preparations for Leonato's feast. It's unlikely that all of them are "cousins" (kinsmen) of Leonato, but they are all part of his extended family.  cry you mercy: beg your pardon.