Much Ado About Nothing 1

Choose a challenging passage from Act I, and follow the thought. Explain your process of following the thought and then write the passage in your own words using contemporary English. 

I will be "decoding" the following:

LEONATO    A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. I find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honor on a young Florentine called Claudio.

MESSENGER   Much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath  indeed better bettered exception than you must expect of me to tell you how.

Okay, so first we need to locate the words we might not know the meaning to. The words we have are, borne, and hath. Borne means carried or transported by, and hath means have.

Translation:

LEONTAO    A victory is double when the victor takes home a trophy. I find that Don Pedro has brought honor to Florentine named Claudio.

MESSENGER   He deserves a lot for his part, he's remembered by Don Pedro. He has to carry himself with pride, by being the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He has is better than you would think let me tell you what he has done. 

I basically re-worded the two passages by learning the meanings of two unknown words, and applying them in the appropriate places and re-wording the statements as I go along.