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Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
[Enter TRANIO, and the Pedant dressed like VINCENTIO]
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Sirs, this / is the | house, please it you | that
I call.
PEDANT
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Aye what | else, and | but I | be de|ceived,
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Signior | Baptis|ta may | remem|ber me
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Near twen|ty years | ago | in Gen|oa.
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Where we | were lod|gers, at | the Peg|asus.
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'Tis well,| and hold | your own | in an|y case
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With such | auster|ity | as belong|eth to a
fath||er.
PEDANT
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I war|rant you: | But sir | here comes | your
boy,
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'Twere good | he were schooled. \\
[Enter BIONDELLO]
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Fear you not | him: Sir/rah Bion|dello,
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Now* do | your du|ty through|ly I ad|vise you:
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Imag|ine 'twere | the right | Vincen|tio.
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Tut, fear not | me. \\
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But hast | thou done | thy er|rand to
Bap|tista.
BIONDELLO
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I told | him that | your fath|er was | at Ven||ice,
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And | that you looked | for him this | day in |
Padua.
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Thou art a / tall fel|low, hold | thee that | to
drink,
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Here comes | Baptis|ta: set | your count|enance
sir.
[Enter BAPTISTA and LUCENTIO: PEDANT booted and bare-headed.]
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Signior | Baptis|ta you | are hap|pily met:
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Sir, this / is the | gentleman | I told | you
of,
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I pray | you stand | good fath|er to | me now,
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Give me Bi|anca | for my | patri|mony.
PEDANT
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Soft son: Sir | by your leave,| having come | to
Pa||dua
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To gath|er in | some debts,| my son | Lucen||tio
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Made | me acquaint|ed with | a weigh|ty cause
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Of love | between | your daught|er and | himself:
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And for | the good | report | I hear | of you,
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And for the | love he | beareth | to your |
daughter,
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And she | to him:| to stay | him not | too* long,
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I am | content | in a / good fath|er's care
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To have | him matched,| and if | you please | to
like
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No^worse | than I,| upon | some a|greement
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Me shall you | find rea/dy and | willing
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With one | consent | to have | her so | bestowed:
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For cur|ious | I can|not be | with you
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Signior Bap|tista,| of whom | I hear | so well.
BAPTISTA
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Sir, pard/on me | in what | I have | to say,
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Your plain|ness and | your short|ness please | me
well:
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Right true it is | your son | Lucen|tio here
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Doth love | my daught|er, and | she lov|eth him,
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Or both | dissemble | deeply | their affec|tions:
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And there|fore, if | you say | no more | than
this,
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That like | a fath|er you | will deal | with him,
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And pass | my daught/er a | suffi|cient dower,
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The match | is made,| and all | is done,|
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Your son | shall have | my daught|er with |
consent.
TRANIO
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I thank | you sir,| where then | do you | know
best
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We be | affied | and such | assur|ance tane,
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As shall | with eith|er part's | agree|ment
stand.
BAPTISTA
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Not in | my house | Lucen|tio, for | you know
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Pitchers have | ears, and | I have | many |
servants,
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Besides | old Grem|io | is heark|ening still,
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And hap|pily | we might | be in|terrupt||ed.
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Then | at my | lodging,| and it / like you,
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There* doth | my fath|er lie:| and there | this night
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We'll pass | the bus|iness priv|ately | and well:
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Send for | your daught|er by | your serv|ant
here,
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My boy | shall fetch | the scrive|ner pres|ently,
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The worst | is this | that at so | slender |
warning,
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You are like | to have | a thin and slend|er
pit||tance.
BAPTISTA
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It likes | me well:
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Cambi|o hie | you home,| and bid | Bian|ca make | her read|y straight;
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And if | you will | tell what hath | happened,
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Lucen|tio's fath|er is arrived | in Pad|ua,
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And how | she's like | to be | Lucen|tio's wife.
BIONDELLO
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I pray | the gods | she may | with all | my
heart.
TRANIO
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Dally | not with | the gods,| but get | thee
gone.
[Exit BIONDELLO]
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Signior | Baptis|ta, shall | I lead | the way,
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Welcome,| one^mess | is like | to be | your
cheer,
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Come sir,| we will | better | it in | Pisa.
BAPTISTA
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I fol|low you. \\
[Exeunt TRANIO, Pedant, and BAPTISTA. Enter BIONDELLO]
BIONDELLO
Cambio.
LUCENTIO
What sayst thou Biondello.
BIONDELLO
You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?
LUCENTIO
Biondello, what of that?
BIONDELLO
Faith nothing: but has left me here behind to expound the meaning or moral
of his signs and tokens.
LUCENTIO
I pray thee moralize them.
BIONDELLO
Then thus: Baptista is safe talking with the deceiving father of a
deceitful son.
LUCENTIO
And what of him?
BIONDELLO
His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.
LUCENTIO
And then.
BIONDELLO
The old priest of Saint Luke's church is at your command at all hours.
LUCENTIO
And what of all this.
BIONDELLO
I cannot tell, expect they are busied about a counterfeit assurance: take
you assurance of her, cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum, to the church
take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses: If this be not
that you look for, I have no more to say,
But bid Bianca farewell for ever
and a day.
LUCENTIO
Hearst thou Biondello?
BIONDELLO
I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the
garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit, and so may you sir: and so adieu
sir, my master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke's to bid the priest be
ready to come against you come with your appendix.
[Exit]
LUCENTIO
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I may | and will,| if she be | so con|tented:
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She will | be pleased,| then where|fore should |
I doubt:
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Hap^what | hap^may,| I'll round|ly go | about |
her:
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It shall | go hard | if Cam|bio go | without | her.
(hex with prev)
[Exit]