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Padua. A public place.
[Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO]
LUCENTIO
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Tranio,| since for | the great | desire | I had
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To see fair Pad|ua, nurs|ery | of arts,
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I am | arrived | for fruit|ful Lom|bardy,
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The pleas|ant gard|en of / great It|aly,
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And by | my fath|er's love | and leave | am armed
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With his | good will,| and thy | good comp|any
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My trust|y serv|ant well | approved | in all,
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Here let us | breathe, and | haply | insti|tute
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A || course of | learning,| and in|genious |
studies.
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Pisa | renown|ed for / grave cit|izens
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Gave me | my be|ing, and | my fath|er first
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A merch|ant of / great traf|fic through | the
world:
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Vincen|tio's | come of | Benti|voli,
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Vincen|tio's son, brought | up in | Florence,
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It shall | become | to serve | all hopes |
conceived
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To deck | his for|tune with | his vir|tuous
deeds:
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And there|fore Tran|io, for the | time I | study,
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Virtue | and that | part of | philos|ophy
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Will I | apply | that treats | of hap|piness,
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By vir|tue spe|cially | to be | achieved.
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Tell me | thy mind,| for I | have Pi|sa left,
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And am | to Pad|ua come,| as he | that leaves
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A shal|low plash,| to plunge | him in | the deep,
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And with | sati|ety seeks | to quench | his
thirst.
TRANIO
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Mi perd|onat|o, gent|le mast|er mine:
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I am | in all | affec|ted as | yourself,
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Glad that | you thus | contin|ue your | resolve,
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To suck | the sweets | of sweet | philos|ophy.
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Only |(good mast|er) while | we do | admire
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This vir|tue, and | this mor|al dis|cipline,
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Let's be | no sto|ics, nor | no stocks | I
pray,
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Or so | devote | to Ar|isto|tle's cheques
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As Ov|id; be | an out|cast quite abjured:
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Balk log/ic with | acquaint|ance that | you have,
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And prac|tice rhet|oric | in your com|mon
talk,
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Music | and po|esy use,| to quick|en you,
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The mathematics, and the metaphysics ????
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Fall to them as you find your stomach
serves you: ????
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No prof|it grows,| where^is / no pleas|ure tane:
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In brief | sir, stu|dy what | you most | affect.
LUCENTIO
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Gramer|cies Tran|io, well | dost thou | advise,
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If Bi|ondel|lo thou | wert come | ashore,
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We could | at once | put us | in read|iness,
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And take | a lod|ging fit | to ent|ertain
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Such friends |(as time)| in Pad|ua shall | beget.
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But stay | a while,| what comp|any | is this?
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Master | some show | to wel|come us | to town.
[Enter BAPTISTA, KATHERINA, BIANCA, GREMIO, and HORTENSIO. LUCENTIO and
TRANIO stand by]
BAPTISTA
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Gentle|men, im|portune | me no | farther,
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For how | I firm|ly am | resolved | you know:
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That is,| not be|stow my | youngest | daughter,
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Before | I have | a hus|band for the | elder:
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If eith|er of you | both^love | Kathe|rina,
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Because | I know | you well,| and love | you well,
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Leave shall you | have to | court her | at your |
pleasure.
GREMIO
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To cart | her rath|er: she's | too rough |
for me,
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There, there Hor|tensio,| will you | any || wife?
KATHERINE
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I pray | you sir,| is it | your will
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To make | a stale | of me | amongst | these
mates?
HORTENSIO
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Mates maid, how | mean you that? ??
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No mates for
you,
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Unless | you were | of gent|ler mild|er mold.
KATHERINE
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In faith | sir, you | shall nev|er need | to
fear,
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I wis | it is | not half | way to | her heart:
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But if it | were, doubt not,| her care | should
be,
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To comb | your nod|dle with | a three-legged stool,
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And paint | your face,| and use | you like | a fool.
HORTENSIO
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From all | such dev|ils, good | Lord de|liver us.
GREMIO
And me too, good Lord.
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Hush mast/er, here's | some good | pastime |
toward:
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That wench | is stark | mad, or | wonderful |
froward.
LUCENTIO
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But in | the oth|er's sil|ence do | I see,
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Maid's mild behav|ior and | sobri|ety.
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Peace Tran/io. \\
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Well said | master,| mum, and | gaze
your fill.
BAPTISTA
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Gentle|men, that | I may | soon make good
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What I | have said,| Bian|ca get | you in.
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And let it | not dis|please thee | good Bi|anca,
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For I | will love | thee nere | the less | my
girl.
KATHERINE
A pretty peat, it is best put finger in the eye, and she knew why.
BIANCA
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Sister | content | you, in | my dis|content.
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Sir, to | your pleas|ure hum|bly I | subscribe:
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My books | and ins|truments | shall be | my
comp||any,
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On | them to look,| and prac|tice by | myself.
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Hark Tran/io,| thou mayst | hear Miner|va speak.
HORTENSIO
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Signior | Baptis|ta, will | you be | so strange?
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Sorry | am I | that our / good will | effects
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Bian|ca's grief.
GREMIO
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Why will | you mew | her up
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(Signior | Baptis|ta) for | this fiend | of hell,
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And make | her bear | the pen|ance of | her
tongue.
BAPTISTA
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Gentle|men con|tent ye:| I am | resolved:
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Go in | Bian|ca. \\
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And for | I know | she tak|eth most | delight
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In mus|ic, ins|truments,| and po|etry,
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Schoolmast/ers will | I keep | within | my house,
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Fit to in|struct her | youth. If | you
Hor|tensio,
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Or Sign|ior Grem|io you | know an|y such,
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Prefer | them hith|er: for | to cun|ning men,
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I will | be ve|ry kind | and lib|eral,
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To mine^/own child|ren, in / good bring|ing up,
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And so | farewell:| Kather|ine you | may stay,
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For I | have more / to com|mune with Bi|anca.
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KATHERINE
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Why, and | I trust | I may | go too,| may I not?
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What shall | I be | appoint|ed hours,| as though
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(Belike)| I knew | not what | to take,
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And what || to leave?| Ha. \\
[Exit]
GREMIO
You may go to the devil's dam: your gifts are so good here's none will hold
you: Their love is not so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails
together, and fast it fairly out. Our cakes dough on both sides. Farewell:
yet for the love I bear my sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a
fit man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will wish him to her
father.
HORTENSIO
So will I Signior Gremio: but a word I pray: Though the nature of our
quarrel yet never brooked parle, know now upon advice, it toucheth us both:
that we may yet again have access to our fair mistress, and be happy rivals
in Bianca's love, to labur and effect one thing specially.
GREMIO
What's that I pray?
HORTENSIO
Marry sir, to get a husband for her sister.
GREMIO
A husband: A devil.
HORTENSIO
I say a husband.
GREMIO
I say, a devil: Thinkst thou Hortensio, though her father be very rich,
any man is so very a fool to be married to hell?
HORTENSIO
Tush Gremio: though it pass your patience and mine to endure her loud
alarums, why man there be good fellows in the world, and a man could light
on them, would take her with all faults, and money enough.
GREMIO
I cannot tell: but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition; to be
whipped at the high cross every morning.
HORTENSIO
Faith (as you say) there's small choice in rotten apples: But come, since
this bar in law makes us friends, it shall be so far forth friendly
maintained, all by helping Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband, we set his
youngest free for a husband, and then have to it a fresh: Sweet Bianca, happy man be his dole: He that runs fastest, gets the ring: How say you
Signior Gremio?
GREMIO
I am agreed, and would I had given him the best horse in Padua to begin his
wooing that would thoroughly woo her, wed her, and bed her, and rid the house
of her. Come on.
[Exeunt GREMIO and HORTENSIO]
TRANIO
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I pray | sir tell | me, is | it pos|sible
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That love | should of | a sud|den take | such^hold.
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O Tran|io, till | I found | it to | be true,
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I nev|er thought it | possi|ble or | likely.
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But see,| while id|ly I | stood^look|ing on,
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I found | the effect | of love | in id|leness,
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And now | in plain|ness do | confess | to
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That art | to me | as sec|ret and | as dear
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As An|na to | the queen | of Carth|age was:
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Tranio | I burn,| I pine,| I perish | Tranio,
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If I | achieve | not this | young modest girl:
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Counsel | me Tran|io, for | I know | thou
canst:
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Assist | me Tran|io, for | I know | thou wilt.
TRANIO
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Master,| it is | no time | to chide | you now,
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Affec|tion is / not rat|ed from | the heart:
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If love | have touched | you, nought | remains |
but so,
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Redim|e te capt|um quam | queas | minimo.
LUCENTIO
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Gramer|cies lad:| go for|ward, this | contents,
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The rest | will com|fort, for | thy couns|el's
sound.
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Master,| you looked | so long|ly on | the maid,
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Perhaps | you marked | not what's | the pith | of
all.
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O yes,| I saw | sweet* beaut|y in | her face,
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Such as | the daught|er of | Agen|or had,
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That made | great Jove to hum|ble him | to her
hand,
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When with | his knees | he kissed | the Cret|an
strand.
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Saw you | no more?| Marked you | not how | her
sis||ter
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Began | to scold,| and raise | up such | a storm,
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That mort|al ears | might hard|ly endure | the
din.
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Tranio,| I saw | her cor|al lips | to move,
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And with | her breath | she did | perfume | the
air,
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Sacred | and sweet | was all | I saw | in her.
TRANIO
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Nay, then | 'tis time | to stir | him from |
his trance:
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I pray | awake | sir: if | you love | the maid,
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Bend thoughts and wits | to achieve | her. Thus |
it stands:
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Her eld|est sis|ter is / so cursed | and shrewd,
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That till | the fath|er rid | his hands | of her,
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Master,| your love | must live | a maid | at
home,
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And there|fore has | he close|ly mewed | her up,
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Because | she will | not be an|noyed with |
suitors.
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Ah Tran|io, what | a cru|el fath|er's he:
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But art | thou not | advised,| he took | some
care
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To get | her cun|ning school|masters | to
instruct || her.
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Aye* mar|ry am | I sir,| and now | 'tis plot||ted.
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I have | it Tran|io.
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Master, for | my hand,
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Both our | invent|ions meet | and jump | in one.
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Tell me thine first.
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You will | be school|master,
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And und|ertake | the teach|ing of | the maid:
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That's your | device.
LUCENTIO
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It is:| may it | be done?
TRANIO
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Not pos/sible:| for who | shall bear | your part,
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And be | in Pad|ua here | Vincen|tio's son,
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Keep house,| and ply | his book,| welcome | his
friends,
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Visit | his count|rymen,| and ban|quet them?
LUCENTIO
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Basta,| content | thee: for | I have | it full.
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We have / not yet | been seen | in an|y house,
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Nor can we | lie dis|tinguished | by our | faces,
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For man | or mast|er: then | it fol|lows thus;
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Thou shalt | be mast|er, Tran|io in | my stead:
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Keep house,| and port,| and serv|ants, as / I
should,
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I will | some oth|er be,| some Flor|entine,
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Some^Ne|apol|itan, or mea|ner man | of Pi||sa.
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'Tis | hatched, and shall | be so: Tran|io at once
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Uncase | thee: take | my col|ored hat | and
cloak,
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When Bi|ondel|lo comes,| he waits | on thee,
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But I | will charm | him first | to keep | his tongue.
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In brief | sir, sith it | your pleas|ure is,
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And I | am tied | to be | obed|ient,
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For so | your fath|er charged | me at our | parting:
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Be serv|icea|ble to | my son |(quoth he)
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Although | I think | 'twas in | anoth|er sense,
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I am | content | to be | Lucen|tio,
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Because | so well | I love | Lucen|tio.
LUCENTIO
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Tranio | be so,| because | Lucen|tio loves,
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And let | me be | a slave,| to achieve | that maid,
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Whose^sud|den sight | hath thralled | my woun|ded
eye.
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Here comes | the rogue.|
Sirrah,| where have | you been?
[Enter BIONDELLO]
BIONDELLO
Where have I been? Nay how now, where are you? Master, has my fellow Tranio
stolen your clothes, or you stolen his, or both? Pray what's the news?
LUCENTIO
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Sirrah | come hith|er, 'tis | no time | to jest,
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And there|fore frame | your man|ners to | the
time
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Your fel|low Tran|io here | to save | my life,
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Puts my | appar|el, and | my counte|nance on,
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And I | for my | escape | have put | on his:
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For in | a quar|rel since | I came | ashore,
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I killed | a man | and fear | I was | descried:
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Wait you | on him,| I charge | you, as | becomes:
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While I | make^way | from hence | to save | my
life:
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You und|erstand | me?
BIONDELLO
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Aye | sir, nere | a whit.
LUCENTIO
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And not | a jot | of Tran|io in | your mouth,
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Tranio | is changed | into | Lucen|tio.
BIONDELLO
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The better | for him,| would I were | so* too.
TRANIO
So could I faith boy, to have the next wish after, that Lucentio indeed had
Baptista's youngest daughter. but sirrah, not for my sake, but your
master's, I advise you use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies:
when I am alone, why then I am Tranio: but in all places else, your master
Lucentio.
LUCENTIO
Tranio let's go:
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One^thing | more^rests,| that thy/self ex|ecute,
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To make^one
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Suffice|th my reas|ons are both | good
and | weighty.
[Exeunt. The presenters above speak]
FIRST SERVANT
My lord you nod, you do not mind the play.
SLY
Yes by Saint Anne do I, a good matter surely: comes there any more of it?
PAGE
My lord, 'tis but begun.
SLY
'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady: would 'twere done.
[They sit and mark]