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Padua. Before HORTENSIO'S house.
[Enter PETRUCHIO and his man GRUMIO]
PETRUCHIO
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Vero|na, for | a while | I take | my leave,
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To see | my friends | in Pad|ua; but | of all
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My best | belov|ed and | approv|ed friend
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Hortens|io: and | I trow | this is | his house:
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Here* sir|rah Grum|io,| knock I say.
GRUMIO
Knock sir? Whom should I knock? Is there man has rebused your worship?
PETRUCHIO
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Villain | I say,| knock me here | soundly.
GRUMIO
Knock you here sir? Why sir, what am I sir, that I should knock you here
sir?
PETRUCHIO
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Villain | I say,| knock me | at this | gate,
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And rap | me well,| or I'll knock | your knave's
| pate.
GRUMIO
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My mast|er is / grown quar|relsome:|
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I should | knock you | first, \\
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And then | I know | after | who comes | by the
worst.
PETRUCHIO
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Will it | not be? \\
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Faith sir/rah, and | you'll not | knock, I'll |
ring it,
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I'll try | how you | can sol,| fa, and | sing it.
[He wrings him by the ears]
GRUMIO
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Help | mistress | help, my | master | is mad.
PETRUCHIO
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Now knock | when I / bid you:| sirrah | villain.
[Enter HORTENSIO]
HORTENSIO
How now, what's the matter? My old friend Grumio, and my good friend
Petruchio? How do you all at Verona?
PETRUCHIO
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Signior | Hortens|io, come | you to part | the fray?
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Con tut|to il cuor|e ben trova|to, may | I say.
HORTENSIO
Alla nostra casa ben venuto molto honorato signor mio Petruchio.
Rise
Grumio rise, we will compound this quarrel.
GRUMIO
Nay 'tis no matter sir, what he 'leges in Latin. If this be not a lawful
case for me to leave his service, look you sir: he bid me knock him, and rap
him soundly sir. Well, was it fit for a servant to use his master so, being
perhaps (for aught I see) two and thirty, a pip out? Whom would to God I had
well knocked at first, then had not Grumio come by the worst.
PETRUCHIO
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A sense|less vil|lain: Good | Hortens|io,
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I bade | the ras|cal knock | upon | your gate,
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And could | not get | him for | my heart | to do
it.
GRUMIO
Knock at the gate? O heavens: spake you not these words plain? Sirrah,
knock me here: rap me here: knock me well, and knock me soundly? And come
you now with knocking at the gate?
PETRUCHIO
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Sirrah be | gone, or | talk not / I ad|vise you.
HORTENSIO
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Petruch|io pa|tience, I | am Grum|io's pledge:
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Why this | a hea|vy chance | twixt^him | and you,
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Your an|cient trust|y pleas|ant serv|ant Grum|io:
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And tell | me now |(sweet* friend)| what hap|py
gale
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Blows you to | Padua | here, from | old Ve|rona?
PETRUCHIO
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Such wind | as scat|ters young | men through |
the world,
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To seek | their for|tunes farth|er than | at home,
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Where small | exper|ience grows | but in | a few,
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Signior | Hortens|io, thus | it stands | with me.
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Anton|io | my fath|er is | deceased,
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And I | have thrust | myself | into | this maze,
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Haply | to wive | and thrive,| as best | I may:
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Crowns in | my purse | I have,| and goods | at home,
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And so | am come | abroad | to see | the world:
HORTENSIO
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Petruch|io, shall | I then | come round|ly to thee,
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And wish | thee to a | shrewd ill-fav|ored wife?
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Thou wouldst | thank me | but a little | for my |
counsel:
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And yet | I'll prom|ise thee | she shall | be rich,
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And ve|ry rich:| but thou | art too much | my
friend,
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And I'll | not wish | thee to | her. \\
PETRUCHIO
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Signior | Hortens|io, twixt | such friends | as
we,
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Few^words | suffice:| and there|fore, if | thou
know
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One rich enough | to be | Petruch|io's wife:
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(As wealth | is burd|en of | my woo|ing dance)
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Be she | as foul | as was | Floren|tius' love,
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As old | as Sib|yl, and | as cursed | and shrewd
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As Soc|rates'| Xanthip|pe, or | a worse:
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She moves | me not,| or not | removes | at least
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Affec|tion's edge | in me.| Were she | as rough
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As are | the swel|ling Ad|ria|tic seas.
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I come | to wive | it wealth|ily | in Pad|ua:
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If wealth|ily,| then hap|pily | in Pad|ua.
(hex with prev)
GRUMIO
Nay look you sir, he tells you flatly what his mind is: Why give him gold
enough, and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with nere
a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty
horses. Why nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
HORTENSIO
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Petruch|io, since | we are / stepped thus | far^in,
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I will | contin|ue that | I broached | in jest.
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I can | Petruch|io help | thee to | a wife
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With wealth | enough,| and young | and
beaut|eous,
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Brought up as | best be|comes a | gentle|woman.
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Her on|ly fault,| and that | is faults | enough,
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Is, that | she is | intol|era|ble cursed,
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And shrewd,| and fro|ward, so | beyond | all
mea||sure
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That were | my state | far wors/er than | it is,
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I would | not wed | her for | a mine | of gold.
PETRUCHIO
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Hortens|io peace:| thou knowst | not gold's | effect,
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Tell me | her fath|er's name,| and 'tis | enough:
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For I | will board | her, though | she chide | as
loud
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As thund|er, when | the clouds | in aut|umn
crack.
HORTENSIO
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Her fath|er is | Baptis|ta Min|ola,
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An af|fable | and court|eous gent|leman,
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Her name | is Kath|eri|na Min|ola,
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Renowned | in Pad|ua for | her scold|ing tongue.
PETRUCHIO
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I know | her fath|er, though | I know | not^her,
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And he | knew* my | deceas|ed fath|er well:
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I will | not sleep | Hortens|io till | I see
her,
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And there|fore* let | me be | thus^bold | with
you,
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To give | you ov|er at this | first en|counter,
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Unless | you will | accomp|any me | thither.
GRUMIO
I pray you sir let him go while the humor lasts. On my word, and she knew
him as well as I do, she would think scolding would do little good upon him.
She may perhaps call him half a score knaves, or so: why that's nothing; an
he begin once, he'll rail in his rope-tricks. I'll tell you what sir, an she
stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in her face, and so disfigure
her with it, that she shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat: You
know him not sir.
HORTENSIO
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Tarry | Petruch|io, I | must go | with thee,
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For in | Baptis|ta's keep | my treas|ure is:
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He hath | the jew|el of | my life | in hold,
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His young|est daught|er, beaut|iful | Bianca,
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And her | withholds | from me.| Other | more
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Suitors | to her,| and riv|als in | my love:
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Suppos|ing it | a thing | impos|sible,
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For those | defects | I have | before |
rehearsed,
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That ev|er Kath|erin|a will | be wooed:
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Therefore | this ord|er hath | Baptis|ta tane,
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That none | shall have | access | unto Bi|anca,
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Till Kath|erine | the cursed,| have got | a hus||band.
GRUMIO
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Kath|erine | the cursed,|
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A ti||tle for | a maid,| of all | titles | the
worst.
HORTENSIO
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Now shall | my friend | Petruch|io do | me grace,
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And of|fer me | disguised | in so|ber robes,
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To old | Baptis|ta as | a school|master
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Well seen in mus|ic, to | instruct | Bianca,
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That so | I may | by this | device | at least
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Have leave | and leis|ure to / make love | to her,
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And un|suspec|ted court | her by | herself.
GRUMIO
Here's no knavery. See, to beguile the old folks, how the young folks lay
their heads together. Master, master, look about you: who goes there? ha.
[Enter GREMIO, and LUCENTIO disguised]
HORTENSIO
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Peace Grum/io,| it is | the riv|al of || my love.
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Petruch|io | stand by | a while.
GRUMIO
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A prop|er strip|ling, and | an am|orous.
GREMIO
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O ve|ry well,| I have | perused | the note:
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Hark you sir,| I'll have | them ve|ry fair|ly
bound,
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All books | of love,| see that | at an|y hand,
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And see | you read | no oth|er lec|tures to ||
her:
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You | understand | me. ov|er and | beside
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Signior | Baptis|ta's lib|era|lity,
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I'll mend it | with a lar/gess. Take | your
pap|er too,
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And let | me have | them ve|ry well | perfumed;
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For she | is sweet|er than | perfume | itself
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To whom | they go | to: What | will you read | to
her.
LUCENTIO
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Whatere | I read | to her,| I'll plead | for you,
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As for | my pat|ron, stand | you so | assured,
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As firm|ly as | yourself | were still | in
place,
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Yea and | perhaps | with more | success|ful words
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Than you;| unless | you were | a schol|ar sir.
GREMIO
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Oh this | learning, what | a thing | it is.
GRUMIO
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Oh this | woodcock, what | an ass | it is.
PETRUCHIO
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Peace | sirrah. \\
HORTENSIO
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Grumio | mum: God*| save you | Signior | Gremio.
GREMIO
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And you | are well met,| Signior | Hortens|io.
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Trow you | whither I am | going?| To Baptis|ta
Min|ola,
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I | promised | to in/quire care|fully
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About | a school|master | for the fair | Bianca,
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And by | good for/tune I | have light|ed well
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On this young man:| for learn|ing and |
behav||ior
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Fit | for her turn,| well read | in po|etry
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And other | books, good ones,| I war|rant ye.
HORTENSIO
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'Tis well:| and I | have met | a gent|leman
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Hath prom|ised me | to help | one to an|other,
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A fine | musi|cian to in/struct our | mistress,
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So shall | I no | whit be be|hind in | duty
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To fair | Bian|ca, so | belov|ed of me.
GREMIO
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Belov|ed of me,| and that | my deeds | shall
prove.
GRUMIO
And that his bags shall prove.
HORTENSIO
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Gremio,| 'tis now | no time | to vent | our
love,
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Listen | to me,| and if | you speak | me fair,
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I'll tell | you news | indif|ferent good | for
eith||er.
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Here | is a gent|leman whom | by chance | I met
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Upon | agree|ment from | us to his | liking,
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Will und|ertake | to woo | cursed Kath/erine,
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Yea, and | to mar|ry her,| if her dow|ry please.
GREMIO
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So said,| so done,| is well: \\
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Hortens|io, have | you told | him all | her
faults?
PETRUCHIO
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I know | she is | an irk|some braw|ling scold:
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If that | be all | masters,| I hear | no harm.
GREMIO
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No, sayst me | so, friend? What | countryman?
PETRUCHIO
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Born in | Vero|na, old | Anton|io's son:
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My fath|er dead,| my for|tune lives | for me,
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And I | do hope,| good^days | and long,| to see.
GREMIO
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Oh sir,| such a | life with | such a | wife, were | strange:
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But if | you have | a stom|ach, to | it in /
God's name, (hex with prev)
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You shall | have me | assist|ing you | in all.
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But will | you woo | this wild|cat?
PETRUCHIO
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Will | I live?
GRUMIO
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Will he | woo her?| Aye:| or I'll | hang her.
PETRUCHIO
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Why came | I hith|er, but | to that | intent?
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Think you,| a lit|tle din | can daunt |
mine^ears?
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Have I | not in | my time | heard li|ons roar?
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Have I | not heard | the sea,| puffed^up | with
winds,
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Rage like^|an ang|ry boar,| chafed | with sweat?
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Have I | not^heard | great ord/nance in | the
field?
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And heaven's | artil|lery thund|er in | the
skies?
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Have I not | in a pitch|ed bat|tle heard
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Loud 'larums, neigh|ing steeds,| and trump|ets'
clang?
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And do | you tell | me of | a wom|an's
tongue?
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That gives | not half | so great | a blow | to
hear,
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As will | a chest|nut in | a far|mer's fire.
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Tush,^tush,| fear boys | with bugs.
GRUMIO
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For he | fears^none.
GREMIO
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Hortensio hark: \\
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This gent|leman | is hap|pily | arrived,
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My mind | presumes | for his | own^good,| and
ours.
HORTENSIO
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I prom|ised we | would be | contrib|utors,
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And bear | his char|ging of woo|ing what|soere.
GREMIO
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And so | we will,| provid|ed that | he win | her.
GRUMIO
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I would | I were | as sure | of a / good din|ner.
(hex with prev)
[Enter TRANIO brave, and BIONDELLO]
TRANIO
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Gentlemen | God save / you. If | I may | be bold
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Tell me | I beseech | you, which | is the
read|iest way
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To the house | of Sign|ior Baptist|a Min|ola?
BIONDELLO
He that has the two fair daughters: is it he you mean?
TRANIO
Even he Biondello.
GREMIO
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Hark you | sir, you | mean not | her to--
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TRANIO
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Perhaps | him and | her sir,| what have | you to
do?
PETRUCHIO
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Not her | that chides | sir, at | any | hand I |
pray.
TRANIO
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I love | no chid|ers sir:| Biondel|lo, let's |
away. (hex with prev)
LUCENTIO
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Well be|gun | Trani|o.
HORTENSIO
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Sir, a | word | ere you | go: (tetra with
prev)
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Are you | a suit|or to | the maid | you talk | of,
yea | or no?|
TRANIO
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And if | I be | sir, is | it an|y offense?
GREMIO
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No: if | without | more* words | you will get |
you hence.
TRANIO
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Why* sir,| I pray | are not | the streets | as
free
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For me,| as for you?
GREMIO
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But so | is not | she.
TRANIO
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For what | reason | I be|seech you?
GREMIO
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For this reas|on if | you'll know, (tetra
with prev)
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That she's | the choice | love of | Signior |
Gremio.
HORTENSIO
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That she's | the chos|en of Sign|ior Hor|tensio.
TRANIO
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Softly | my mast|ers: if | you be gent|lemen
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Do me | this right;| hear me | with pa|tience.
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Baptis|ta is | a nob|le gent|leman,
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To whom | my fath|er is / not all | unknown;
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And were | his daught|er fair|er than | she is,
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She may | more suit|ors have,| and me | for one.
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Fair Le|da's daught|er had | a thous|and wooers,
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Then well | one more | may fair | Bian|ca have;
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And so | she shall:| Lucen|tio shall | make one,
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Though Par|is came,| in hope | to speed | alone.
GREMIO
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What, this | gentle|man will | out-talk us all.
LUCENTIO
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Sir give | him head,| I know | he'll prove | a
jade.
PETRUCHIO
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Hortens|io, to | what end | are all | these
words?
HORTENSIO
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Sir, let | me be | so bold | as ask | you,
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Did || you yet | ever | see Bap|tista's | daughter?
TRANIO
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No sir,| but hear | I do | that he | hath two:
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The one,| as fam|ous for | a scolding tongue,
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As is the | other,| for beaut|eous mod|esty.
PETRUCHIO
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Sir, sir, the first's | for me,| let her | go by.
GREMIO
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Yea, leave that | labor to | great Hercules;
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And let | it be | more than | Alcid|es' twelve.
PETRUCHIO
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Sir und|erstand | you this | of me |(in sooth)
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The young|est daught|er whom | you heark|en for,
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Her fath|er keeps | from all^ac|cess of |
suitors,
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And will | not prom/ise her | to an|y man,
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Until | the eld|er sis|ter first | be wed.
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The young|er then | is free,| and not | before.
TRANIO
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If it | be so | sir, that | you are | the man
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Must stead | us all,| and me | amongst | the
rest:
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And if | you break | the ice,| and do | this feat,
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Achieve | the eld|er: set | the young|er free,
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For our access,| whose hap | shall be | to have
her,
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Will not | so grace|less be,| to be | ingrate.
HORTENSIO
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Sir you | say well, and well | you do |
conceive,
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And since | you do | profess | to be | a suitor,
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You must | as we | do, grat|ify | this
gent||leman, ??
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To whom | we all | rest gene/rally be|holding.
TRANIO
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Sir, I | shall not | be slack,| in sign |
whereof,
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Please ye | we may | contrive | this aft|ernoon,
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And quaff | carous|es to | our mist|ress' health,
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And do | as ad|versar|ies do | in law,
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Strive might/ily,| but eat | and drink | as
friends.
GRUMIO and BIONDELLO
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O ex|cellent mo|tion: fel|lows let's | be gone.
HORTENSIO
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The mo|tion's good | indeed,| and be | it | so,
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Petruch|io, I | shall be | your ben | venu|to.
(hex with prev)
[Exeunt]