Friar Francis prepares to officiate a second wedding. The women enter masked; Claudio pledges himself to Leonato's 'niece' before she is unveiled as Hero herself, alive and restored to him. Benedick asks Beatrice plainly if she loves him; she hedges; love poems they each wrote are produced as evidence; they stop arguing and kiss. Word arrives that Don John has been captured. The play ends with dancing.
Friar Francis prepares to officiate a second wedding. The women enter masked; Claudio pledges himself to Leonato's 'niece' before she is unveiled as Hero herself, alive and restored to him. Benedick asks Beatrice plainly if she loves him; she hedges; love poems they each wrote are produced as evidence; they stop arguing and kiss. Word arrives that Don John has been captured. The play ends with dancing.