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Much Ado textual analysis--Benedick's metaphor of a savage bull

I'm looking at Much Ado I. i.251-256:
Benedick:
The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible
Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's 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."

I understand that Benedick is refuting Don Pedro's proverb that every savage bull (Benedick) will be yoked (hitched in marriage).
My main question is what the section from "pluck off the bull's horns" to "married man" is refering to. Help please!

Posted by Karen Becker on April 24, 1997 at 19:00:44


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