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After Beatrice has teased him at the masked ball, Benedick says:

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!

an oak but with one green leaf on it would have

answered her; my very visor began to assume life and

scold with her.

He is really saying the same thing three times. He is saying that she said such rude things about him that even an inanimate object would have got mad and started to argue with her: a block of wood would not have been able to endure; an oak tree so near death that it has only one leaf would have spoken; the very mask or visor Benedick was wearing would have come to life. Of course Benedick couldn't argue with her because he wanted to keep his identity secret; Beatrice of course knew that, which is why she was saying such rude things in the first place.

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