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Padua. Before Baptista's house.
[Enter TRANIO and HORTENSIO]
TRANIO
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Is it pos|sible friend | Licio,| that mist|ress
Bian||ca
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Doth fan|cy an|y oth|er but | Lucen||tio,
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I tell | you sir,| she bears | me fair | in hand.
HORTENSIO
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Sir, to | satis|fy you | in what | I have said,
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Stand^by,| and mark | the man|ner of his
teach|ing.
[Enter BIANCA and LUCENTIO]
LUCENTIO
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Now* mist|ress, prof|it you | in what | you read?
BIANCA
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What mast|er read | you first,| resolve | me
that?
LUCENTIO
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I read,| that I | profess | the Art | to Love.
BIANCA
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And may | you prove | sir mast|er of | your art.
LUCENTIO
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While you | sweet^dear | prove^mist|ress of | my heart.
HORTENSIO
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Quick pro|ceeders | marry,| now tell | me I pray,
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You that | durst swear / at your | mistress |
Bianca
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Loved^none | in the world | so well | as
Lucen|tio.
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Oh despite|ful love,| unconst|ant wom|ankind,
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I tell | thee Lic|io this | is wond|erful.
HORTENSIO
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Mistake | no more,| I am / not Lic|io,
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Nor a | musi|cian as | I seem | to be,
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But one | that scorn | to live | in this |
disguise,
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For such | a one | as leaves | a gent|leman,
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And makes | a god | of such | a cul|lion;
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Know sir,| that I | am called | Hortens|io.
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Signior | Hortens|io, I | have of|ten heard
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Of your | entire | affec|tion to | Bianca,
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And since | mine eyes | are wit|ness of her |
lightness,
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I will | with you,| if you be | so con|tented,
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Forswear | Bianca,| and her | love for|ever.
HORTENSIO
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See how | they kiss | and court:| Signior |
Lucen||tio,
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Here | is my hand,| and here | I firm|ly vow
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Never to | woo her | more, but | do for|swear her
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As one | unworth|y all | the form|er fav||ors
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That I | have fond|ly flat|tered her | withal.
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And here | I take | the unfeigned oath,
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Never || to mar|ry with | her, though
| she would | entreat,
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Fie on her,| see how | beastly | she doth | court
him.
HORTENSIO
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Would^all | the world | but he | had quite | forsworn.
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For me,| that I | may sure|ly keep | mine^oath.
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I will be | married | to a wealth|y wid|ow,
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Ere || three days pass,| which hath | as long
loved me,
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As I | have loved | this proud | disdain|ful
hag||gard,
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And so | farewell,| Signior Lu|centio.
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Kindness | in wom|en, not | their beaut|eous looks
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Shall win | my love,| and so | I take | my leave,
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In re|solu|tion, as | I swore | before.
[Exit]
TRANIO
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Mistress | Bian|ca, bless | you with / such grace,
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As belong|eth to | a lov|er's bles|sed case:
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Nay, I | have tane | you nap|ping, gent|le love,
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And have | forsworn | you with | Hortens|io.
BIANCA
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Tranio you | jest, but | have you | both
for|sworn me?
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Mistress | we have.
LUCENTIO
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Then we are | rid of | Licio.
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In faith | he'll have | a lus|ty wid|ow now,
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That shall | be wooed,| and wed|ded in | a day.
BIANCA
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God give | him joy.
TRANIO
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Aye, and he'll | tame her. (di with prev)
BIANCA
He says so Tranio.
TRANIO
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Faith he | is gone | unto | the tam|ing-school.
BIANCA
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The tam|ing-school?| What is | there such | a place?
TRANIO
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Aye mist/ress, and Pe|truchio | is the | master,
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That teach|eth tricks | eleven | and twen|ty long,
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To tame | a shrew,| and charm | her chat|tering
tongue.
[Enter BIONDELLO]
BIONDELLO
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O mast|er, mast|er I | have watched | so long,
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That I | am dog-|weary,| but at last | I spied
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An an|cient ang|el com|ing down | the hill,
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Will serve | the turn.
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What is he | Bion|dello?
BIONDELLO
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Master,| a mer|cantant,| or a | pedant,
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I know | not what,| but for|mat in ap|parel,
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In gait | and count|enance sure|ly like | a
fath|er.
LUCENTIO
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And what of | him Tran|io?
TRANIO
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If he | be cred|ulous,| and trust | my tale,
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I'll make | him glad | to seem | Vincen|tio,
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And give | assur|ance to Baptis|ta Min|ola,
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As if | he were | the right | Vincen|tio.
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Take^in | your love,| and then | let^me | alone.
[Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA. Enter a Pedant]
PEDANT
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God save | you sir.
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And you | sir, you | are wel||come.
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Tra|vel you far | on, or are | you at the |
farthest?
PEDANT
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Sir at | the farth|est for | a week | or two,
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But then | up farth|er, and | as far | as Rome,
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And so | to Trip|oli,| if God | lend^me life.
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TRANIO
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What count|ryman | I pray?
PEDANT
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Of Man|tua.
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Of Man|tua sir,| marry | God for|bid,
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And || come to | Padua | careless | of your |
life.
PEDANT
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My life | sir? How | I pray?| For that | goes^hard.
TRANIO
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'Tis death | for an|y one | in Man|tua
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To come | to Pad|ua, know | you not | the cause?
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Your ships | are stayed | at Ven|ice, and | the
duke
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For priv|ate quar|rel twixt | your duke | and
him,
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Hath pub|lished and | proclaimed | it op|enly:
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'Tis marv|el, but | that you | are but new|ly come,
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You might | have heard | it else | proclaimed |
about.
PEDANT
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Alas | sir, it | is worse | for me | than so,
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For I | have bills | for mon|ey by | exchange
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From Flor|ence, and | must here | deliv|er them.
TRANIO
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Well sir,| to do | you court|esy,
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This will || I do,| and this | I will | advise
| you,
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First || tell me,| have you | ever | been at |
Pisa?
PEDANT
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Aye sir, | in Pi|sa have | I of|ten been,
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Pisa | renown|ed for / grave cit|izens.
TRANIO
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Among | them know | you one | Vincen|tio?
PEDANT
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I know | him not,| but I | have heard | of him:
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A merch|ant of | incom|parab|le wealth.
TRANIO
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He is | my fath|er sir,| and sooth | to say,
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In count|enance some|what doth | resem|ble you.
BIONDELLO
As much as an apple doth an oyster, and all one.
TRANIO
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To save | your life | in this | extre|mity,
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This fav|or will | I do | you for | his sake,
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And think it | not the | worst of | all your |
fortunes,
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That you | are like | to Sir | Vincen|tio.
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His name | and cred|it shall | you und|ertake,
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And in | my house | you shall | be friend|ly
lodged,
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Look that | you take | upon | you as | you
should,
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You und|erstand | me sir:| so shall | you stay
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Till you have | done your | business | in the |
city:
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If this | be court|esy sir,| accept | of it.
PEDANT
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O sir | I do,| and will | repute | you ever
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The pat|ron of | my life | and lib|erty.
TRANIO
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Then go | with me,| to make | the mat|ter good,
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This by | the way | I let | you und|erstand,
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My fath|er is / here looked | for eve|ry day,
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To pass | assur|ance of | a dower | in mar||riage
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Twixt^me,| and one | Baptis|ta's daught|er here:
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In all these^|circum|stances | I'll
in|struct you,
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Go with | me to | clothe you | as be|comes you.
[Exeunt]