BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]