Beatrice and Benedick always had a very unfriendly relationship that a couple in love …show more content…
Beatrice especially always has uncivil words to throw Benedick's way, and at times it seems Benedick can't even keep up with her wicked words. “I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good continued, but keep your way, i’ God's name, I have done” (I.I.139-141). The insults that Beatrice is throwing Benedicks way are so vicious that he has to walk away when he runs out of witty comments to throw back. Those kinds of vicious insults are not the type that someone who is in love with a person would say to their face. The only reason that the vicious insults stop, is because of a fraudulent scheme that is made to get Beatrice and Benedick to fall in