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            <title>The Globe Shakespeare</title>
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              <pubPlace>New York</pubPlace>
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        <head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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          <castGroup><head rend="braced">Persons in the Induction.</head>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="lord.">A Lord</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="sly.">CHRISTOPHER SLY</role><roleDesc>a tinker</roleDesc></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="host.">Hostess</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="page."> Page</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="players.">Players</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="first-hun.">Huntsmen</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-hun."></role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="third-hun."></role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="mess.">Messenger</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="serv.">Servant</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="first-serv.">First Servant</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-serv.">Second Servant</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="third-serv.">Third Servant</role></castItem>
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          <castItem type="role"><role id="bap.">BAPTISTA</role><roleDesc>a rich gentleman of Padua</roleDesc></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="vin.">VINCENTIO</role><roleDesc>an old gentleman of Pisa</roleDesc></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="luc.">LUCENTIO</role><roleDesc>son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca</roleDesc></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="pet.">PETRUCHIO</role><roleDesc>a gentleman of Verona, a suitor to Katharina</roleDesc></castItem>
          <castGroup><head rend="braced"> suitors to Bianca.</head>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="gre.">GREMIO</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="hor.">HORTENSIO</role></castItem>
          </castGroup>
          <castGroup><head rend="braced"> servants to Lucentio.</head>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="tra.">TRANIO</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="bion.">BIONDELLO</role></castItem>
          </castGroup>
          <castGroup><head rend="braced"> servants to Petruchio.</head>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="gru.">GRUMIO</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="curt.">CURTIS</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="nath.">Nathaniel</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="phil.">Philip</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="jos.">Joseph</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="nich.">Nicholas</role></castItem>
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          <castItem type="role"><role id="ped.">A Pedant</role></castItem>
          <castGroup><head rend="braced"> daughters to Baptista.</head>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="kath.">KATHARINA</role><roleDesc>the shrew</roleDesc></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="bian.">BIANCA</role></castItem>
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          <castItem type="role"><role id="wid.">Widow</role></castItem>
          <castGroup><head rend="braced"> minor characters</head>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="all.">All</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="tai.">Tailor</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><role id="hab.">Haberdasher</role></castItem>
            <castItem type="role"><roleDesc> and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio</roleDesc></castItem>
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          <castItem type="role"><role id="a-player."></role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="peter."></role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="all-serv."></role></castItem><castItem type="role"></castItem>
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        <stage type="setting">Padua, and Petruchio's country house.</stage>
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      <div1 type="act" n="ind">
        <head>INDUCTION.</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Before an alehouse on a heath.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="3"/> <stage type="entrance">Enter HOSTESS and SLY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="4"/><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>I'll pheeze you, in faith.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="5"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>A pair of stocks, you rogue!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="6"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="7"/>rogues; look in the chronicles; we came <lb ed="F1" n="8"/>in
<lb ed="G"/>with Richard Conqueror. Therefore paucas
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="9"/>pallabris; let the world slide: sessa!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="10"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>You will not pay for the glasses you
<lb ed="G"/>have burst?

<lb ed="G" n="9"/><lb ed="F1" n="11"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>No, not a denier. Go by, Jeronimy:
<lb ed="G"/>go to thy <lb ed="F1" n="12"/>cold bed, and warm thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="13"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>I know my remedy; I must go fetch
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb ed="F1" n="14"/>third-borough.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="15"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>Third, fourth, or fifth borough, I'll
<lb ed="G"/>answer <lb ed="F1" n="16"/>him by law: I'll not budge an inch,
<lb ed="G"/>boy: let him come, <lb ed="F1" n="17"/>and kindly.
<stage>Falls asleep.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="18"/><stage>Horns winded.</stage><stage type="entrance"> Enter a LORD from hunting, with his train.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="19"/></p></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="20"/></l><l>Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="21"/></l><l>And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="22"/></l><l>Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="23"/></l><l>At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="24"/></l><l>I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="25"/></l></sp><sp who="first-hun."><speaker>First Hun.</speaker><l>Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="26"/></l><l>He cried upon it at the merest loss
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="27"/></l><l>And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="28"/></l><l>Trust me, I take him for the better dog.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="29"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="30"/></l><l>I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="31"/></l><l>But sup them well and look unto them all:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="32"/></l><l>To-morrow I intend to hunt again.

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="33"/></l></sp><sp who="first-hun."><speaker>First Hun.</speaker><p>I will, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="34"/></p></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>What's here? one dead, or drunk? See, doth <lb ed="F1" n="35"/>he breathe?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="36"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-hun."><speaker>Sec. Hun.</speaker><l>He breathes, my lord. Were he not warm'd <lb ed="F1" n="37"/>with ale,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="38"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="39"/></l><l>Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="40"/></l><l>Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="41"/></l><l>What think you, if he were convey'd to bed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="42"/></l><l>Wrapp'd in sweet clothes, rings out upon his fingers,
<lb ed="G" n="39"/><lb ed="F1" n="43"/></l><l>A most delicious banquet by his bed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="44"/></l><l>And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="45"/></l><l>Would not the beggar then forget himself?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="46"/></l></sp><sp who="first-hun."><speaker>First Hun.</speaker><l>Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="47"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-hun."><speaker>Sec. Hun.</speaker><l>It would seem strange unto him when he waked.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="48"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="49"/></l><l>Then take him up and manage well the jest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="50"/></l><l>Carry him gently to my fairest chamber
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="51"/></l><l>And hang it round with all my wanton pictures:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="52"/></l><l>Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="53"/></l><l>And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet:
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="54"/></l><l>Procure me music ready when he wakes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="55"/></l><l>To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="56"/></l><l>And if he chance to speak, be ready straight
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="57"/></l><l>And with a low submissive reverence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="58"/></l><l>Say 'What is it your honour will command?'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="59"/></l><l>Let one attend him with a silver basin
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="60"/></l><l>Full of rose-water and bestrew'd with flowers;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="61"/></l><l>Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="62"/></l><l>And say 'Will't please you lordship cool your hands?'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="63"/></l><l>Some one be ready with a costly suit
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="64"/></l><l>And ask him what apparel he will wear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="65"/></l><l>Another tell him of his hounds and horse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="66"/></l><l>And that his lady mourns at his disease:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="67"/></l><l>Persuade him that he hath been lunatic;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="68"/></l><l>And when he says he is, say that he dreams,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="69"/></l><l>For he is nothing but a mighty lord.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="70"/></l><l>This do and do it kindly, gentle sirs:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="71"/></l><l>It will be pastime passing excellent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="72"/></l><l>If it be husbanded with modesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="73"/></l></sp><sp who="first-hun."><speaker>First Hun.</speaker><l>My lord, I warrant you we will play our part,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="74"/></l><l>As he shall think by our true diligence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="75"/></l><l>He is no less than what we say he is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="76"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Take him up gently and to bed with him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="77"/></l><l>And each one to his office when he wakes.

<stage>Some bear out Sly. <lb ed="F1" n="78"/>A trumpet sounds.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="79"/></l><l>Sirrah, go see what trumpet 'tis that sounds:
<stage type="exit">Exit Servingman.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="80"/></l><l>Belike, some noble gentleman that means,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="81"/></l><l>Travelling some journey, to repose him here.
<lb ed="F1" n="82"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter Servingman.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="83"/></l><l part="I">How now! who is it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="84"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l part="F">An't please your honour, players
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="85"/></l><l>That offer service to your lordship.
<lb ed="F1" n="86"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="87"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l part="I">Bid them come near.
<stage type="entrance">Enter Players.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="88"/></l><l part="F">Now, fellows, you are welcome.

<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="89"/></l></sp><sp who="players."><speaker>Players.</speaker><p>We thank your honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="90"/></p></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Do you intend to stay with me tonight?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="91"/></l></sp><sp who="a-player."><speaker>A Player.</speaker><l>So please your lordship to accept our <lb ed="F1" n="92"/>duty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="93"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>With all my heart. This fellow I remember,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="94"/></l><l>Since once he play'd a farmer's eldest son:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="95"/></l><l>'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="96"/></l><l>I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="97"/></l><l>Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="98"/></l></sp><sp who="a-player."><speaker>A Player.</speaker><l>I think 'twas Soto that your honour means.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="99"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>'Tis very true: thou didst it excellent.
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="100"/></l><l>Well, you are come to me in happy time;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="101"/></l><l>The rather for I have some sport in hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="102"/></l><l>Wherein your cunning can assist me much.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="103"/></l><l>There is a lord will hear you play to-night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="104"/></l><l>But I am doubtful of your modesties;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="105"/></l><l>Lest over-eyeing of his odd behaviour,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="106"/></l><l>For yet his honour never heard a play--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="107"/></l><l>You break into some merry passion
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="108"/></l><l>And so offend him; for I tell you, sirs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="109"/></l><l>If you should smile he grows impatient.

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="110"/></l></sp><sp who="a-player."><speaker>A Player.</speaker><l>Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="111"/></l><l>Were he the veriest antic in the world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="112"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="113"/></l><l>And give them friendly welcome every one:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="114"/></l><l>Let them want nothing that my house affords.
<lb ed="F1" n="115"/><stage type="exit">Exit one with the Players.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="116"/></l><l>Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew my page,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="117"/></l><l>And see him dress'd in all suits like a lady:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="118"/></l><l>That done, conduct him to the drunkard's chamber;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="119"/></l><l>And call him 'madam,' do him obeisance.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="120"/></l><l>Tell him from me, as he will win my love,
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="121"/></l><l>He bear himself with honorable action,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="122"/></l><l>Such as he hath observed in noble ladies
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="123"/></l><l>Unto their lords, by them accomplished:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="124"/></l><l>Such duty to the drunkard let him do
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="125"/></l><l>With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="126"/></l><l>And say 'What is't your honour will command,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="127"/></l><l>Wherein your lady and your humble wife
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="128"/></l><l>May show her duty and make known her love?'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="129"/></l><l>And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="130"/></l><l>And with declining head into his bosom,
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="131"/></l><l>Bid him shed tears, as being overjoy'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="132"/></l><l>To see her noble lord restored to health,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="133"/></l><l>Who for this seven years hath esteemed him
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="134"/></l><l>No better than a poor and loathsome beggar:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="135"/></l><l>And if the boy have not a woman's gift
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="136"/></l><l>To rain a shower of commanded tears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="137"/></l><l>An onion will do well for such a shift,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="138"/></l><l>Which in a napkin being close convey'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="139"/></l><l>Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="140"/></l><l>See this dispatch'd with all the haste thou canst:
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="141"/></l><l>Anon I'll give thee more instructions.
<lb ed="F1" n="142"/><stage type="exit">Exit a Servingman.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="143"/></l><l>I know the boy will well usurp the grace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="144"/></l><l>Voice, gait and action of a gentlewoman:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="145"/></l><l>I long to hear him call the drunkard husband,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="146"/></l><l>And how my men will stay themselves from laughter
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="147"/></l><l>When they do homage to this simple peasant.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="148"/></l><l>I'll in to counsel them; haply my presence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="149"/></l><l>May well abate the over-merry spleen
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="150"/></l><l>Which otherwise would grow into extremes.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">A bedchamber in the LORD's house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="151"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter aloft SLY, with Attendants; some with apparel, others with <lb ed="F1" n="152"/>basin and ewer and  other appurtenances; and Lord.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="153"/><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>For God's sake, a pot of small ale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="154"/></l></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="155"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-serv."><speaker>Sec. Serv.</speaker><l>Will't please your honour taste of these <lb ed="F1" n="156"/>conserves?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="157"/></l></sp><sp who="third-serv."><speaker>Third Serv.</speaker><l>What raiment will your honour wear to-day?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="158"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>I am Christophero Sly; call not me
<lb ed="G"/>'honor' nor <lb ed="F1" n="159"/>'lordship:' I ne'er drank sack in
<lb ed="G"/>my life; and if you give <lb ed="F1" n="160"/>me any conserves,
<lb ed="G"/>give me conserves of beef: ne'er ask <lb ed="F1" n="161"/>me what
<lb ed="G"/>raiment I'll wear; for I have no more doublets
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="162"/>than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="163"/>no more shoes than feet; nay, sometime more
<lb ed="G"/>feet than <lb ed="F1" n="164"/>shoes, or such shoes as my toes look
<lb ed="G"/>through the <lb ed="F1" n="165"/>over-leather.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="166"/></p></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="167"/></l><l>O, that a mighty man of such descent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="168"/></l><l>Of such possessions and so high esteem,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="169"/></l><l>Should be infused with so foul a spirit!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="170"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>What, would you make me mad? Am
<lb ed="G"/>not I Christopher <lb ed="F1" n="171"/>Sly, old Sly's son of Burton-
<lb ed="G"/>heath, by birth a <lb ed="F1" n="172"/>pedlar, by education a card-
<lb ed="G"/>maker, by transmutation a <lb ed="F1" n="173"/>bear-herd, and now,
<lb ed="G"/>by present profession a tinker? <lb ed="F1" n="174"/>Ask Marian
<lb ed="G"/>Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she <lb ed="F1" n="175"/>know
<lb ed="G"/>me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence on
<lb ed="G"/>the score for <lb ed="F1" n="176"/>sheer ale, score me up for the
<lb ed="G"/>lyingest knave in Christendom. <lb ed="F1" n="177"/>What! I am
<lb ed="G"/>not bestraught: here's--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="178"/></p></sp><sp who="third-serv."><speaker>Third Serv.</speaker><l>O, this it is that makes your lady mourn!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="179"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-serv."><speaker>Sec. Serv.</speaker><l>O, this is it that makes your servants droop!

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="180"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="181"/></l><l>As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="182"/></l><l>O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="183"/></l><l>Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="184"/></l><l>And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="185"/></l><l>Look how thy servants do attend on thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="186"/></l><l>Each in his office ready at thy beck.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="187"/></l><l>Wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo plays,
<stage>Music.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="188"/></l><l>And twenty caged nightingales do sing:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="189"/></l><l>Or wilt thou sleep?   we'll have thee to a couch
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="190"/></l><l>Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="191"/></l><l>On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="192"/></l><l>Say thou wilt walk; we will bestrew the ground:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="193"/></l><l>Or wilt thou ride? thy horses shall be trapp'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="194"/></l><l>Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="195"/></l><l>Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="196"/></l><l>Above the morning lark: or wilt thou hunt?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="197"/></l><l>Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="198"/></l><l>And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="199"/></l></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="200"/></l><l>As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="201"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-serv."><speaker>Sec. Serv.</speaker><l>Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="202"/></l><l>Adonis painted by the running brook,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="203"/></l><l>And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="204"/></l><l>Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="205"/></l><l>Even as the waving sedges play with wind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="206"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>We'll show thee Io as she was a maid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="207"/></l><l>And how she was beguiled and surprised,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="208"/></l><l>As lively painted as the deed was done.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="209"/></l></sp><sp who="third-serv."><speaker>Third Serv.</speaker><l>Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="210"/></l><l>Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="211"/></l><l>And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="212"/></l><l>So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="213"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>Thou art a lord and nothing but a lord:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="214"/></l><l>Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="215"/></l><l>Than any woman in this waning age.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="216"/></l></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>And till the tears that she hath shed for thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="217"/></l><l>Like envious floods o'er-run her lovely face,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="218"/></l><l>She was the fairest creature in the world;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="219"/></l><l>And yet she is inferior to none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="220"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>Am I a lord? and have I such a lady?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="221"/></l><l>Or do I dream? or have I dream'd till now?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="222"/></l><l>I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="223"/></l><l>I smell sweet savours and I feel soft things:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="224"/></l><l>Upon my life, I am a lord indeed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="225"/></l><l>And not a tinker nor Christophero Sly.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="226"/></l><l>Well, bring our lady hither to our sight;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="227"/></l><l>And once again, a pot o' the smallest ale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="228"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-serv."><speaker>Sec. Serv.</speaker><l>Will't please your mightiness to wash your <lb ed="F1" n="229"/>hands?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="230"/></l><l>O, how we joy to see your wit restored!
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="231"/></l><l>O, that once more you knew but what you are!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="232"/></l><l>These fifteen years you have been in a dream;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="233"/></l><l>Or when you waked, so waked as if you slept.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="234"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>These fifteen years! by my fay, a goodly nap.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="235"/></l><l>But did I never speak of all that time?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="236"/></l></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>O, yes, my lord, but very idle words:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="237"/></l><l>For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="238"/></l><l>Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="239"/></l><l>And rail upon the hostess of the house;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="240"/></l><l>And say you would present her at the leet,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="241"/></l><l>Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="242"/></l><l>Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="243"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>Ay, the woman's maid of the house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="244"/></p></sp><sp who="third-serv."><speaker>Third Serv.</speaker><l>Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="245"/></l><l>Nor no such men as you have reckon'd up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="246"/></l><l>As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="247"/></l><l>And Peer Turph and Henry Pimpernell
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="248"/></l><l>And twenty more such names and men as these
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="249"/></l><l>Which never were nor no man ever saw.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="250"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>Now Lord be thanked for my good amends!

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="251"/></l></sp><sp who="all."><speaker>All.</speaker><p>Amen.
<lb ed="F1" n="252"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="253"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>I thank thee: thou shalt not lose by it.
<stage type="entrance">Enter the Page as a lady, with attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="254"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>How fares my noble lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="255"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>Marry, I fare well; for here is cheer enough.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="256"/></l><l>Where is my wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="257"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Here, noble lord: what is thy will with her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="258"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>Are you my wife and will not call me husband?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="259"/></l><l>My men should call me 'lord:' I am your good-man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="260"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>My husband and my lord, my lord and husband;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="261"/></l><l>I am your wife in all obedience.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="262"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>I know it well. What must I call her?

<lb ed="G" n="111"/><lb ed="F1" n="263"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><p>Madam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="264"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>Al'ce madam, or Joan madam?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="265"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l>'Madam,' and nothing else: so lords call ladies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="266"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>Madam wife, they say that I have dream'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="267"/></l><l>And slept above some fifteen year or more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="268"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="269"/></l><l>Being all this time abandon'd from your bed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="270"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><l>'Tis much. Servants, leave me and her alone.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="271"/></l><l>Madam, undress you and come now to bed.

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="272"/></l></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>Thrice-noble lord, let me entreat of you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="273"/></l><l>To pardon me yet for a night or two,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="274"/></l><l>Or, if not so, until the sun be set:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="275"/></l><l>For your physicians have expressly charged,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="276"/></l><l>In peril to incur your former malady,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="277"/></l><l>That I should yet absent me from your bed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="278"/></l><l>I hope this reason stands for my excuse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="279"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>Ay, it stands so that I may hardly
<lb ed="G"/>tarry so long. <lb ed="F1" n="280"/>But I would be loath to fall into
<lb ed="G"/>my dreams again: I <lb ed="F1" n="281"/>will therefore tarry in despite
<lb ed="G" n="130"/> of the flesh and the blood.
<lb ed="F1" n="282"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="283"/></p></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>Your honour's players, hearing your amendment,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="284"/></l><l>Are come to play a pleasant comedy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="285"/></l><l>For so your doctors hold it very meet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="286"/></l><l>Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="287"/></l><l>And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="288"/></l><l>Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="289"/></l><l>And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="290"/></l><l>Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="291"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>Marry, I will, let them play it. Is not a
<lb ed="G"/>comonty <lb ed="F1" n="292"/>a Christmas gambold or a tumbling--
<lb ed="G" n="141"/>trick?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="293"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><l>No, my good lord; it is more pleasing stuff.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="294"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>What, household stuff?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="295"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>It is a kind of history.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="296"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>Well, we'll see't.   <lb ed="F1" n="297"/>Come, madam wife,
<lb ed="G"/>sit by my side <lb ed="F1" n="298"/>and let the world slip: we shall
<lb ed="G"/>ne'er be younger.
<lb ed="F1" n="299"/><stage>Flourish.</stage>
</p></sp>
</div2>
      </div1>
<div1 type="act" n="1">
<head>ACT I</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. A public place.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="300"/><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Tranio, since for the great desire I had
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="301"/></l><l>To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="302"/></l><l>I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="303"/></l><l>The pleasant garden of great Italy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="304"/></l><l>And by my father's love and leave am arm'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="305"/></l><l>With his good will and thy good company,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="306"/></l><l>My trusty servant, well approved in all,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="307"/></l><l>Here let us breathe and haply institute
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="308"/></l><l>A course of learning and ingenious studies.
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="309"/></l><l>Pisa renown'd for grave citizens
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="310"/></l><l>Gave me my being and my father first,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="311"/></l><l>A merchant of great traffic through the world.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="312"/></l><l>Vincentio, come of the Bentivolii.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="313"/></l><l>Vincentio's son brought up in Florence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="314"/></l><l>It shall become to serve all hopes conceived,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="315"/></l><l>To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="316"/></l><l>And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="317"/></l><l>Virtue and that part of philosophy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="318"/></l><l>Will I apply that treats of happiness
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="319"/></l><l>By virtue specially to be achieved.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="320"/></l><l>Tell me thy mind; for I have Pisa left
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="321"/></l><l>And am to Padua come, as he that leaves
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="322"/></l><l>A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="323"/></l><l>And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="324"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Mi perdonato, gentle master mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="325"/></l><l>I am in all affected as yourself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="326"/></l><l>Glad that you thus continue your resolve
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="327"/></l><l>To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="328"/></l><l>Only, good master, while we do admire
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="329"/></l><l>This virtue and this moral discipline,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="330"/></l><l>Let's be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="331"/></l><l>Or so devote to Aristotle's checks
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="332"/></l><l>As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="333"/></l><l>Balk logic with acquaintance that you have
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="334"/></l><l>And practise rhetoric in your common talk;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="335"/></l><l>Music and poesy use to quicken you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="336"/></l><l>The mathematics and the metaphysics,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="337"/></l><l>Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="338"/></l><l>No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="339"/></l><l>In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="340"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="341"/></l><l>If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="342"/></l><l>We could at once put us in readiness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="343"/></l><l>And take a lodging fit to entertain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="344"/></l><l>Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="345"/></l><l>But stay a while: what company is this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="346"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Master, some show to welcome us to town.
<lb ed="F1" n="347"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter BAPTISTA, KATHARINA, BIANCA, <lb ed="F1" n="348"/>GREMIO, and HORTENSIO. <lb ed="F1" n="349"/>LUCENTIO and TRANIO stand by.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="350"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="351"/></l><l>For how I firmly am resolved you know:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="352"/></l><l>That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter
<lb ed="G" n="51"/><lb ed="F1" n="353"/></l><l>Before I have a husband for the elder:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="354"/></l><l>If either of you both love Katharina,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="355"/><lb ed="F1" n="356"/></l><l>Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="357"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><stage>Aside</stage><l>To cart her rather: she's too rough for me.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="358"/></l><l>There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="359"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I pray you, sir, is it your will
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="360"/></l><l>To make a stale of me amongst these mates?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="361"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Mates, maid! how mean you that? <lb ed="F1" n="362"/>no mates for you,
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="363"/></l><l>Unless you were of gentler, milder mould.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="364"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I' faith, sir, you shall never need to fear:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="365"/></l><l>I wis it is not half way to her heart;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="366"/></l><l>But if it were, doubt not her care should be
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="367"/></l><l>To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="368"/></l><l>And paint your face and use you like a fool.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="369"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="370"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>And me too, good Lord!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="371"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Hush, master! here's some good pastime toward:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="372"/></l><l>That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="373"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>But in the other's silence do I see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="374"/></l><l>Maid's mild behaviour and sobriety.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="375"/></l><l>Peace, Tranio!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="376"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Well said, master; mum! and gaze your fill.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="377"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Gentlemen, that I may soon make good
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="378"/></l><l>What I have said, Bianca, get you in
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="379"/></l><l>And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="380"/></l><l>For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="381"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>A pretty peat! it is best
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Put finger in the eye, <lb ed="F1" n="382"/>an she knew why.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="383"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Sister, content you in my discontent.
<lb ed="G" n="81"/><lb ed="F1" n="384"/></l><l>Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="385"/></l><l>My books and instruments shall be my company,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="386"/></l><l>On them to look and practise by myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="387"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Hark, Tranio! thou may'st hear Minerva speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="388"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="389"/></l><l>Sorry am I that our good will effects
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="390"/></l><l part="I">Bianca's grief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="391"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l part="F">Why will you mew her up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="392"/></l><l>Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="393"/></l><l>And make her bear the penance of her tongue?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="394"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Gentlemen, content ye; I am resolved:
<lb ed="G" n="91"/><lb ed="F1" n="395"/></l><l>Go in, Bianca:
<stage type="exit">Exit Bianca.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="396"/></l><l>And for I know she taketh most delight
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="397"/></l><l>In music, instruments and poetry,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="398"/></l><l>Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="399"/></l><l>Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="400"/></l><l>Or Signior Gremio, you, know any such,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="401"/></l><l>Prefer them hither; for to cunning men
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="402"/></l><l>I will be very kind, and liberal
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="403"/></l><l>To mine own children in good bringing up:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="404"/></l><l>And so farewell. Katharina, you may stay;
<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="405"/></l><l>For I have more to commune with Bianca.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="406"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Why, and I trust I may go too, may
<lb ed="G"/>I not?   <lb ed="F1" n="407"/>What, shall I be appointed hours; as
<lb ed="G"/>though, <lb ed="F1" n="408"/>belike, I knew not what to take, <lb ed="F1" n="409"/>and
<lb ed="G"/>what to leave, ha?
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="410"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>You may go to the devil's dam: your
<lb ed="G"/>gifts are <lb ed="F1" n="411"/>so good, here's none will hold you.
<lb ed="G"/>Their love is not <lb ed="F1" n="412"/>so great, Hortensio, but we
<lb ed="G"/>may blow our nails together, <lb ed="F1" n="413"/>and fast it fairly
<lb ed="G"/>out: our cake's dough on both sides. <lb ed="F1" n="414"/>Farewell:
<lb ed="G"/>yet, for the love I bear my sweet Bianca,
<lb ed="G"/>if <lb ed="F1" n="415"/>I can by any means light on a fit man to
<lb ed="G"/>teach her that <lb ed="F1" n="416"/>wherein she delights, I will wish
<lb ed="G"/>him to her father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="417"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><p>So will I, Signior Gremio; but a
<lb ed="G"/>word, I pray. <lb ed="F1" n="418"/>Though the nature of our quarrel
<lb ed="G"/> yet never brooked <lb ed="F1" n="419"/>parle, know now, upon
<lb ed="G"/>advice, it toucheth us both, that <lb ed="F1" n="420"/>we may yet
<lb ed="G"/>again have access to our fair mistress and <lb ed="F1" n="421"/>be
<lb ed="G"/>happy rivals in Bianca's love, to labour and
<lb n="121"/>effect <lb ed="F1" n="422"/>one thing specially.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="423"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>What's that, I pray?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="424"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="425"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>A husband! a devil.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="426"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><p>I say, a husband.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="427"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>I say, a devil. Thinkest thou, Hortensio,
<lb ed="G"/> though <lb ed="F1" n="428"/>her father be very rich, any man
<lb ed="G"/>is so very a fool to be <lb ed="F1" n="429"/>married to hell?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="430"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><p>Tush, Gremio, though it pass your
<lb ed="G"/>patience and <lb ed="F1" n="431"/>mine to endure her loud alarums,
<lb ed="G"/>why, man, there be <lb ed="F1" n="432"/>good fellows in the world,
<lb ed="G"/>an a man could light on <lb ed="F1" n="433"/>them, would take her
<lb ed="G"/> with all her faults, and money enough.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="434"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>I cannot tell; but I had as lief take
<lb ed="G"/>her dowry <lb ed="F1" n="435"/>with this condition, to be whipped
<lb ed="G"/>at the high cross every <lb ed="F1" n="436"/>morning.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="437"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><p>Faith, as you say, there's small choice
<lb ed="G"/>in rotten <lb ed="F1" n="438"/>apples. But come; since this bar in
<lb ed="G"/>law makes us friends, <lb ed="F1" n="439"/>it shall be so far forth
<lb ed="G"/>friendly maintained till by helping <lb ed="F1" n="440"/>Baptista's
<lb ed="G"/>eldest daughter to a husband we set his <lb ed="F1" n="441"/>youngest
<lb ed="G"/>free for a husband, and then have to 't
<lb ed="G"/>afresh. <lb ed="F1" n="442"/>Sweet Bianca! Happy man be his dole!
<lb ed="G"/>He that runs <lb ed="F1" n="443"/>fastest gets the ring. How say you,
<lb ed="G"/>Signior Gremio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="444"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>I am agreed; and would have given
<lb ed="G"/>him the <lb ed="F1" n="445"/>best horse in Padua to begin his wooing
<lb ed="G"/> that would thoroughly <lb ed="F1" n="446"/>woo her, wed her
<lb ed="G"/>and bed her and rid the <lb ed="F1" n="447"/>house of her. Come
<lb ed="G" n="150"/>on.
<lb ed="F1" n="448"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt Gremio and Hortensio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="449"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="450"/></l><l>That love should of a sudden take such hold?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="451"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>O Tranio, till I found it to be true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="452"/></l><l>I never thought it possible or likely;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="453"/></l><l>But see, while idly I stood looking on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="454"/></l><l>I found the effect of love in idleness:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="455"/></l><l>And now in plainness do confess to thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="456"/></l><l>That art to me as secret and as dear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="457"/></l><l>As Anna to the queen of Carthage was,
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="458"/></l><l>Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="459"/></l><l>If I achieve not this young modest girl.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="460"/></l><l>Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="461"/></l><l>Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="462"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Master, it is no time to chide you now;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="463"/></l><l>Affection is not rated from the heart:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="464"/></l><l>If love have touch'd you, nought remains but so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="465"/></l><l>'Redime te captum quam queas minimo.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="466"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Gramercies, lad, go forward; this contents:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="467"/></l><l>The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound.

<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="468"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Master you look'd so longly on the maid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="469"/></l><l>Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="470"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="471"/></l><l>Such as the daughter of Agenor had,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="472"/></l><l>That made great Jove to humble him to her hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="473"/></l><l>When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="474"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Saw you no more? mark'd you not how her sister
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="475"/></l><l>Began to scold and raise up such a storm
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="476"/></l><l>That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="477"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Tranio, I saw her coral lips move
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="478"/></l><l>And with her breath she did perfume the air:
<lb ed="G" n="181"/><lb ed="F1" n="479"/></l><l>Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="480"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Nay, then, 'tis time to stir him from his trance.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="481"/></l><l>I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="482"/></l><l>Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="483"/></l><l>Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="484"/></l><l>That till the father rid his hands of her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="485"/></l><l>Master, your love must live a maid at home;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="486"/></l><l>And therefore has he closely mew'd her up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="487"/></l><l>Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors.


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="488"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="489"/></l><l>But art thou not advised, he took some care
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="490"/></l><l>To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="491"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Ay, marry, am I, sir; and now 'tis plotted.


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="492"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="I">I have it, Tranio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="493"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="F">Master, for my hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="494"/></l><l>Both our inventions meet and jump in one.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="495"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="I">Tell me thine first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="496"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="F"> You will be schoolmaster
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="497"/></l><l>And undertake the teaching of the maid:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="498"/></l><l part="I">That's your device.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="499"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="F">It is: may it be done?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="500"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Not possible; for who shall bear your part,
<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="501"/></l><l>And be in Padua here Vincentio's son,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="502"/></l><l>Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="503"/></l><l>Visit his countrymen and banquet them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="504"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Basta; content thee, for I have it full.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="505"/></l><l>We have not yet been seen in any house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="506"/></l><l>Nor can we be distinguish'd by our faces
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="507"/></l><l>For man or master; then it follows thus;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="508"/></l><l>Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="509"/></l><l>Keep house and port and servants,as I should:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="510"/></l><l>I will some other be, some Florentine,
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="511"/></l><l>Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="512"/></l><l>'Tis hatched and shall be so: Tranio, at once
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="513"/></l><l>Uncase thee; take my colour'd hat and cloak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="514"/></l><l>When Biondello comes, he waits on thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="515"/></l><l>But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="516"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>So had you need.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="517"/></l><l>In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="518"/></l><l>And I am tied to be obedient;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Because so well I love Lucentio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="519"/></l><l>For so your father charged me at our parting,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="520"/></l><l>'Be serviceable to my son,' quoth he,
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="521"/></l><l>Although I think 'twas in another sense;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="522"/></l><l>I am content to be Lucentio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="523"/></l><l>Because so well I love Lucentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="524"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="525"/></l><l>And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="526"/></l><l>Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="527"/><lb ed="F1" n="528"/></l><l part="I">Here comes the rogue.
<stage type="entrance">               Enter BIONDELLO.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Sirrah, where have you been?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="529"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Where have I been! Nay, how now!
<lb ed="G"/>where <lb ed="F1" n="530"/>are you   Master, has my fellow Tranio
<lb ed="G"/>stolen your <lb ed="F1" n="531"/>clothes?   Or stolen you his? or
<lb ed="G" n="230"/>both? pray, what's the <lb ed="F1" n="532"/>news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="533"/></p></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Sirrah, come hither: 'tis no time to jest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="534"/></l><l>And therefore frame your manners to the time.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="535"/></l><l>Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="536"/></l><l>Puts my apparel and my countenance on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="537"/></l><l>And I for my escape have put on his;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="538"/></l><l>For in a quarrel since I came ashore
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="539"/></l><l>I kill'd a man and fear I was descried:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="540"/></l><l>Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="541"/></l><l>While I make way from hence to save my life:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="542"/></l><l part="I">You understand me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="543"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l part="F" n="240">I, sir! ne'er a whit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="544"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="545"/></l><l>Tranio is changed into Lucentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="546"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>The better for him: would I were so too!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="547"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="548"/></l><l>That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="549"/></l><l>But, sirrah, not for my sake, but your master's,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l> I advise
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="550"/></l><l>You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="551"/></l><l>When I am alone, why, then I am Tranio;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But in <lb ed="F1" n="552"/>all places else your master Lucentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="553"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><p>Tranio, let's go: <lb ed="F1" n="554"/>one thing more rests,
<lb ed="G"/>that thyself execute, <lb ed="F1" n="555"/>to make one among these
<lb ed="G"/>wooers: if thou ask me why, <lb ed="F1" n="556"/>sufficeth, my reasons
<lb ed="G"/> are both good and weighty.
<lb ed="F1" n="557"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
<stage>The presenters above speak.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="558"/></p></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>My lord, you nod; you do not mind the <lb ed="F1" n="559"/>play.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="560"/></l></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter,
<lb ed="G"/> surely: <lb ed="F1" n="561"/>comes there any more of it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="562"/></p></sp><sp who="page."><speaker>Page.</speaker><p>My lord, 'tis but begun.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="563"/></p></sp><sp who="sly."><speaker>Sly.</speaker><p>'Tis a very excellent piece of work,
<lb ed="G" n="259"/>madam <lb ed="F1" n="564"/>lady: would 'twere done!
<stage>They sit and mark.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. Before HORTENSIO'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="565"/><stage type="entrance">   Enter PETRUCHIO and his man GRUMIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="566"/><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Verona, for a while I take my leave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="567"/></l><l>To see my friends in Padua, but of all
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="568"/></l><l>My best beloved and approved friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="569"/></l><l>Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="570"/></l><l>Here, sirrah Grumio; knock, I say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="571"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Knock, sir! whom should I knock?
<lb ed="G"/>is there <lb ed="F1" n="572"/>any man has rebused your worship?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="573"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><p>Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="574"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Knock you here, sir! why, sir, what
<lb ed="G"/> am I, sir, <lb ed="F1" n="575"/>that I should knock you here, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="576"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Villain, I say, knock me at this gate
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="577"/></l><l>And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="578"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>My master is grown quarrelsome.   <lb ed="F1" n="579"/>I should knock you first,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="580"/></l><l>And then I know after who comes by the worst.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="581"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Will it not be?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="582"/></l><l>Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="583"/></l><l>I'll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.
<lb ed="F1" n="584"/><stage>He wrings him by the ears.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="585"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Help, masters, help! my master is mad.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="586"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!
<lb ed="F1" n="587"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter HORTENSIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="588"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><p>How now! what's the matter?   My
<lb ed="G"/>old friend <lb ed="F1" n="589"/>Grumio! and my good friend
<lb ed="G"/>Petruchio!
<lb ed="G"/> How do you all <lb ed="F1" n="590"/>at Verona?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="591"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="592"/></l><l>'Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato,' may I say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="593"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>'Alla nostra casa ben venuto, molto
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>honorato signor <lb ed="F1" n="594"/>mio Petruchio.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="595"/></l><l>Rise, Grumio, rise: we will compound this quarrel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="596"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges
<lb ed="G"/>in Latin. <lb ed="F1" n="597"/>If this be not a lawful cause for me
<lb ed="G"/>to leave his service, <lb ed="F1" n="598"/>look you, sir, he bid me
<lb ed="G"/>knock him and rap him soundly, <lb ed="F1" n="599"/>sir: well, was
<lb ed="G"/>it fit for a servant to use his master so, <lb ed="F1" n="600"/>being
<lb ed="G"/>perhaps, for aught I see, two and thirty, a pip <lb ed="F1" n="601"/>out?
<lb ed="G"/></p><l>Whom would to God I had well knock'd at first,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="602"/></l><l>Then had not Grumio come by the worst.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="603"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>A senseless villain. Good Hortensio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="604"/></l><l>I bade the rascal knock upon your gate
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="605"/></l><l>And could not get him for my heart to do it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="606"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Knock at the gate!   O heavens
<lb ed="G"/>Spake you not <lb ed="F1" n="607"/>these words plain, 'Sirrah,
<lb ed="G"/> knock me here, rap me <lb ed="F1" n="608"/>here, knock me well,
<lb ed="G"/> and knock me soundly'? And <lb ed="F1" n="609"/>come you now
<lb ed="G"/> with, 'knocking at the gate'?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="610"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="611"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Petruchio, patience; I am Grumio's pledge:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="612"/></l><l>Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="613"/></l><l>Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="614"/></l><l>And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="615"/></l><l>Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?

<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="616"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Such wind as scatters young men through the world
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="617"/></l><l>To seek their fortunes further than at home
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="618"/></l><l>Where small experience grows. But in a few,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="619"/></l><l>Signior Hortensio, thus stands it with me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="620"/></l><l>Antonio, my father, is deceased;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="621"/></l><l>And I have thrust myself into this maze,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="622"/></l><l>Haply to wive and thrive as best I may:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="623"/></l><l>Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="624"/></l><l>And so am come abroad to see the world.

<lb ed="G" n="59"/><lb ed="F1" n="625"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="626"/></l><l>And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour'd wife?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="627"/></l><l>Thou'ldst thank me but a little for my counsel:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="628"/></l><l>And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="629"/></l><l>And very rich: but thou't too much my friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="630"/></l><l>And I'll not wish thee to her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="631"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="632"/></l><l>Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="633"/></l><l>One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="634"/></l><l>As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="635"/></l><l>Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="636"/></l><l>As old as Sibyl and as curst and shrewd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="637"/></l><l>As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="638"/></l><l>She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="639"/></l><l>Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="640"/></l><l>As are the swelling Adriatic seas:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="641"/></l><l>I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="642"/></l><l>If wealthily, then happily in Padua.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="643"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly
<lb ed="G"/>what his <lb ed="F1" n="644"/>mind is: why, give him gold enough
<lb ed="G"/>and marry him <lb ed="F1" n="645"/>to a puppet or an aglet-baby;
<lb ed="G"/>or an old trot with ne'er a <lb ed="F1" n="646"/>tooth in her head.
<lb ed="G"/>though she have as many diseases as <lb ed="F1" n="647"/>two and
<lb ed="G"/>fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss, so
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="648"/>money comes withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="649"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="650"/></l><l>I will continue that I broach'd in jest.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="651"/></l><l>I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="652"/></l><l>With wealth enough and young and beauteous,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="653"/></l><l>Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="654"/></l><l>Her only fault, and that is faults enough,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="655"/></l><l>Is that she is intolerable curst
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="656"/></l><l>And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure
<lb ed="G" n="91"/><lb ed="F1" n="657"/></l><l>That, were my state far worser than it is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="658"/></l><l>I would not wed her for a mine of gold.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="659"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Hortensio, peace!   thou know'st not gold's effect:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="660"/></l><l>Tell me her father's name and 'tis enough;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="661"/></l><l>For I will board her, though she chide as loud
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="662"/></l><l>As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="663"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Her father is Baptista Minola,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="664"/></l><l>An affable and courteous gentleman:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="665"/></l><l>Her name is Katharina Minola,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="666"/></l><l>Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue.

<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="667"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I know her father, though I know not her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="668"/></l><l>And he knew my deceased father well.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="669"/></l><l>I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="670"/></l><l>And therefore let me be thus bold with you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="671"/></l><l>To give you over at this first encounter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="672"/></l><l>Unless you will accompany me thither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="673"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>I pray you, sir, let him go while the
<lb ed="G"/>humour lasts. <lb ed="F1" n="674"/>O' my word, an she knew him as
<lb ed="G"/>well as I do, she would <lb ed="F1" n="675"/>think scolding would
<lb ed="G"/>do little good upon him: she <lb ed="F1" n="676"/>may perhaps call
<lb ed="G"/>him half a score of knaves or so: why, <lb ed="F1" n="677"/>that's
<lb ed="G"/>nothing; an he begin once, he'll rail in his
<lb ed="G"/>rope-tricks. <lb ed="F1" n="678"/>I'll tell you what, sir, an she stand
<lb ed="G"/>him but a little, <lb ed="F1" n="679"/>he will throw a figure in her
<lb ed="G"/>face and so disfigure her <lb ed="F1" n="680"/>with it that she shall
<lb ed="G"/>have no more eyes to see withal <lb ed="F1" n="681"/>than a cat.
<lb ed="G"/>You know him not, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="682"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Tarry, Petruchio, I must go with thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="683"/></l><l>For in Baptista's keep my treasure is:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="684"/></l><l>He hath the jewel of my life in hold,
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="685"/></l><l>His youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="686"/></l><l>And her withholds from me and other more,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="687"/></l><l>Suitors to her and rivals in my love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="688"/></l><l>Supposing it a thing impossible,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="689"/></l><l>For those defects I have before rehearsed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="690"/></l><l>That ever Katharina will be woo'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="691"/></l><l>Therefore this order hath Baptista ta'en,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="692"/></l><l>That none shall have access unto Bianca
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="693"/></l><l>Till Katharine the curst have got a husband.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="694"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Katharine the curst!
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="695"/></l><l>A title for a maid of all titles the worst.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="696"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="697"/></l><l>And offer me disguised in sober robes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="698"/></l><l>To old Baptista as a schoolmaster
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="699"/></l><l>Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="700"/></l><l>That so I may, by this device, at least
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="701"/></l><l>Have leave and leisure to make love to her
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="702"/></l><l>And unsuspected court her by herself.
<lb ed="F1" n="703"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="704"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Here's no knavery! See, to beguile
<lb ed="G"/> the old <lb ed="F1" n="705"/>folks, how the young folks lay their
<lb ed="G" n="140"/>heads together!
<stage type="entrance">Enter GREMIO, and LUCENTIO disguised.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="706"/>Master, master, look about you: who goes there, ha?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="707"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><p>Peace, Grumio! it is the rival of my love.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="708"/>Petruchio, stand by a while.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="709"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>A proper stripling and an amorous!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="710"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>O, very well; I have perused the note.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="711"/></l><l>Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="712"/></l><l>All books of love, see that at any hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="713"/></l><l>And see you read no other lectures to her:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="714"/></l><l>You understand me: over and beside
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="715"/></l><l>Signior Baptista's liberality,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="716"/></l><l>I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="717"/></l><l>And let me have them very well perfumed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="718"/></l><l>For she is sweeter than perfume itself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="719"/></l><l>To whom they go to. What will you read to her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="720"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="721"/></l><l>As for my patron, stand you so assured,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="722"/></l><l>As firmly as yourself were still in place:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="723"/></l><l>Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="724"/></l><l>Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="725"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>O this learning, what a thing it is

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="726"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>O this woodcock, what an ass it is!

<lb ed="G" n="162"/><lb ed="F1" n="727"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Peace, sirrah!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="728"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Grumio, mum!   God save you, Signior Gremio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="729"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="730"/></l><l>Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="731"/></l><l>I promised to inquire carefully
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="732"/></l><l>About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="733"/></l><l>And by good fortune I have lighted well
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="734"/></l><l>On this young man, for learning and behaviour
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="735"/></l><l>Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="736"/></l><l>And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="737"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>'Tis well; and I have met a gentleman
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="738"/></l><l>Hath promised me to help me to another,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="739"/></l><l>A fine musician to instruct our mistress;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="740"/></l><l>So shall I no whit be behind in duty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="741"/></l><l>To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="742"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Beloved of me; and that my deeds shall prove.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="743"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>And that his bags shall prove.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="744"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love:
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="745"/></l><l>Listen to me, and if you speak me fair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="746"/></l><l>I'll tell you news indifferent good for either.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="747"/></l><l>Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="748"/></l><l>Upon agreement from us to his liking,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="749"/></l><l>Will undertake to woo curst Katharine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="750"/></l><l>Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="751"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>So said, so done, is well.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="752"/></l><l>Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="753"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I know she is an irksome brawling scold:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="754"/></l><l>If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.

<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="755"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>No, say'st me so, friend? What countryman?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="756"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Born in Verona, old Antonio's son:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="757"/></l><l>My father dead, my fortune lives for me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="758"/></l><l>And I do hope good days and long to see.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="759"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>O sir, such a life, with such a wife, were strange!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="760"/></l><l>But if you have a stomach, to't i' God's name:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="761"/></l><l>You shall have me assisting you in all.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="762"/></l><l part="I">But will you woo this wild-cat?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="763"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="F">Will I live?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="764"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Will he woo her? ay, or I'll hang her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="765"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why came I hither but to that intent?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="766"/></l><l>Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
<lb ed="G" n="201"/><lb ed="F1" n="767"/></l><l>Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="768"/></l><l>Have I not heard the sea puff'd up with winds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="769"/></l><l>Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="770"/></l><l>Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="771"/></l><l>And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="772"/></l><l>Have I not in a pitched battle heard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="773"/></l><l>Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="774"/></l><l>And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="775"/></l><l>That gives not half so great a blow to hear
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="776"/></l><l>As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="777"/></l><l part="I">Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="778"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l part="F">For he fears none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="779"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Hortensio, hark:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="780"/></l><l>This gentleman is happily arrived,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="781"/></l><l>My mind presumes, for his own good and ours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="782"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>I promised we would be contributors
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="783"/></l><l>And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe'er.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="784"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>And so we will, provided that he win her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="785"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>I would I were as sure of a good dinner.
<lb ed="F1" n="786"/><stage type="entrance">Enter TRANIO brave, and BIONDELLO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="787"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="788"/></l><l>Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
<lb ed="G" n="221"/><lb ed="F1" n="789"/></l><l>To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="790"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>He that has the two fair daughters:
<lb ed="G"/>is' t he you <lb ed="F1" n="791"/>mean?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="792"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Even he, Biondello.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="793"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Hark you, sir: you mean not her to--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="794"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Perhaps, him and her, sir: what have you to do?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="795"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="796"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let's away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="797"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="I">Well begun, Tranio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="798"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, a word ere you go;
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="799"/></l><l>Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="800"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>And if I be, sir, is it any offence?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="801"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>No; if without more words you will get you <lb ed="F1" n="802"/>hence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="803"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="804"/></l><l part="I">For me as for you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="805"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l part="F">But so is not she.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="806"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>For what reason, I beseech you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="807"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>For this reason, if you'll know,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="808"/></l><l>That she's the choice love of Signior Gremio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="809"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="810"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Softly, my masters! if you be gentlemen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="811"/></l><l>Do me this right; hear me with patience.
<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="812"/></l><l>Baptista is a noble gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="813"/></l><l>To whom my father is not all unknown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="814"/></l><l>And were his daughter fairer than she is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="815"/></l><l>She may more suitors have and me for one.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="816"/></l><l>Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="817"/></l><l>Then well one more may fair Bianca have:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="818"/></l><l>And so she shall; Lucentio shall make one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="819"/></l><l>Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="820"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>What this gentleman will out-talk us all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="821"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Sir, give him   head: I know he'll prove a jade.

<lb ed="G" n="250"/><lb ed="F1" n="822"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Hortensio, to what end are all these words?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="823"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="824"/></l><l>Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="825"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>No, sir; but hear I do that he hath two,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="826"/></l><l>The one as famous for a scolding tongue
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="827"/></l><l>As is the other for beauteous modesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="828"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Sir, sir, the first's for me; let her go by.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="829"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="830"/></l><l>And let it be more than Alcides' twelve.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="831"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Sir, understand you this of me in sooth:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="832"/></l><l>The youngest daughter whom you hearken for
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="833"/></l><l>Her father keeps from all access of suitors,
<lb ed="G" n="262"/><lb ed="F1" n="834"/></l><l>And will not promise her to any man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="835"/></l><l>Until the elder sister first be wed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="836"/></l><l>The younger then is free and not before.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="837"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>If it be so, sir, that you are the man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="838"/></l><l>Must stead us all and me amongst the rest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="839"/></l><l>And if you break the ice and do this feat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="840"/></l><l>Achieve the elder, set the younger free
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="841"/></l><l>For our access, whose hap shall be to have her
<lb ed="G" n="270"/><lb ed="F1" n="842"/></l><l>Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="843"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Sir, you say well and well do you conceive;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="844"/></l><l>And since you do profess to be a suitor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="845"/></l><l>You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="846"/></l><l>To whom we all rest generally beholding.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="847"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="848"/></l><l>Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="849"/></l><l>And quaff carouses to our mistress' health,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="850"/></l><l>And do as adversaries do in law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="851"/></l><l>Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

<lb ed="G" n="280"/><lb ed="F1" n="852"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>(with Bion.) O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="853"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>The motion's good indeed and be it so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="854"/></l><l>Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 type="act" n="2">
<head>ACT II</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. A room in BAPTISTA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="855"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KATHARINA and BIANCA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="856"/><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="857"/></l><l>To make a bondmaid and a slave of me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="858"/></l><l>That I disdain: but for these other gawds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="859"/></l><l>Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="860"/></l><l>Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="861"/></l><l>Or what you will command me will I do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="862"/></l><l>So well I know my duty to my elders.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="863"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="864"/></l><l>Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not.

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="865"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Believe, me, sister, of all the men alive
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="866"/></l><l>I never yet beheld that special face
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="867"/></l><l>Which I could fancy more than any other.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="868"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Minion, thou liest.   Is't not Hortensio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="869"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>If you affect him, sister, here I swear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="870"/></l><l>I'll plead for you myself, but you shall have him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="871"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>O then, belike, you fancy riches more:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="872"/></l><l>You will have Gremio to keep you fair.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="873"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Is it for him you do envy me so?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="874"/></l><l>Nay then you jest, and now I well perceive
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="875"/></l><l>You have but jested with me all this while:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="876"/></l><l>I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="877"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>If that be jest, then all the rest was so.
<stage>Strikes her.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="878"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BAPTISTA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="879"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Why, how now, dame! whence grows this <lb ed="F1" n="880"/>insolence?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="881"/></l><l>Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="882"/></l><l>Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="883"/></l><l>For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="884"/></l><l>Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="885"/></l><l>When did she cross thee with a bitter word?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="886"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged.
<lb ed="F1" n="887"/><stage>Flies after Bianca. </stage>

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="888"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in.
<stage type="exit">Exit Bianca. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="889"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="890"/></l><l>She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="891"/></l><l>I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="892"/></l><l>And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="893"/></l><l>Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="894"/></l><l>Till I can find occasion of revenge.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="895"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="896"/></l><l> But who comes here?
<lb ed="F1" n="897"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter GREMIO, LUCENTIO in the habit of a
mean man; <lb ed="F1" n="898"/>PETRUCHIO, with HORTENSIO
as a musician; and TRANIO, with BIONDELLO <lb ed="F1" n="899"/>bearing a lute and books.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="900"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="901"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>Good morrow, neighbour Gremio.</p>
<p n="41">God save <lb ed="F1" n="902"/>you, gentlemen!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="903"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="904"/></l><l>Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="905"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>I have a daughter, sir, called Katharina.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="906"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>You are too blunt: go to it orderly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="907"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>You wrong me, Signior Gremio: give me leave.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="908"/></l><l>I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="909"/></l><l>That, hearing of her beauty and her wit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="910"/></l><l>Her affability and bashful modesty,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="911"/></l><l>Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="912"/></l><l>Am bold to show myself a forward guest
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="913"/></l><l>Within your house, to make mine eye the witness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="914"/></l><l>Of that report which I so oft have heard.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="915"/></l><l>And, for an entrance to my entertainment,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="916"/></l><l>I do present you with a man of mine,

<stage>Presenting Hortensio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="917"/></l><l>Cunning in music and the mathematics,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="918"/></l><l>To instruct her fully in those sciences,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="919"/></l><l>Whereof I know she is not ignorant:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="920"/></l><l>Accept of him, or else you do me wrong:
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="921"/></l><l>His name is Licio, born in Mantua.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="922"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>You're welcome, sir; and he, for your good sake.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="923"/></l><l>But for my daughter, Katharine, this I know,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="924"/></l><l>She is not for your turn, the more my grief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="925"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I see you do not mean to part with her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="926"/></l><l>Or else you like not of my company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="927"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Mistake me not; I speak but as I find.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="928"/></l><l>Whence are you, sir? what may I call your name?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="929"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Petruchio is my name; Antonio's son,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="930"/></l><l>A man well known throughout all Italy.

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="931"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>I know him well: you are welcome for his sake.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="932"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Let us, that are <lb ed="F1" n="933"/>poor petitioners, speak too:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Baccare! you are marvellous <lb ed="F1" n="934"/>forward.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="935"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>O, pardon me, Signior Gremio; I would fain be <lb ed="F1" n="936"/>doing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="937"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>I doubt it not, sir; but you will curse <lb ed="F1" n="938"/>your wooing.
<lb ed="G"/>Neighbour, this is a gift <lb ed="F1" n="939"/>very grateful, I am
<lb ed="G"/>sure of it. To express <lb ed="F1" n="940"/>the like kindness, myself,
<lb ed="G"/>that have been <lb ed="F1" n="941"/>more kindly beholding to you
<lb ed="G"/>than any, <lb ed="F1" n="942"/>freely give unto you this young
<lb ed="G"/>scholar <stage>presenting Lucentio</stage>that hath <lb ed="F1" n="943"/>been
<lb ed="G"/>long studying at Rheims; as cunning <lb ed="F1" n="944"/>in Greek,
<lb ed="G"/>Latin, and other languages, <lb ed="F1" n="945"/>as the other in
<lb ed="G"/>music and mathematics: <lb ed="F1" n="946"/>his name is Cambio;
<lb ed="G"/>pray, accept his service.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="947"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="948"/>Welcome, good Cambio. <stage>To Tranio</stage>But,
<lb ed="G"/>gentle sir, <lb ed="F1" n="949"/>methinks you walk like a stranger:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="950"/>may I be so bold to know the cause of your
<lb ed="G"/>coming?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="951"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="952"/></l><l>That being a stranger in this city here.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="953"/></l><l>Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="954"/></l><l>Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="955"/></l><l>Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="956"/></l><l>In the preferment of the eldest sister.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="957"/></l><l>This liberty is all that I request,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="958"/></l><l>That, upon knowledge of my parentage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="959"/></l><l>I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="960"/></l><l>And free access and favour as the rest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="961"/></l><l>And, toward the education of your daughters,
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="962"/></l><l>I here bestow a simple instrument,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="963"/></l><l>And this small packet of Greek and Latin books:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="964"/></l><l>If you accept them, then their worth is great.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="965"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Lucentio is your name; of whence, I pray?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="966"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Of Pisa, sir; son to Vincentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="967"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>A mighty man of Pisa; by report
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="968"/></l><l>I know him well: you are very welcome, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="969"/></l><l>Take you the lute, and you the set of books;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="970"/></l><l>You shall go see your pupils presently.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="971"/></l><l part="I">Holla, within!
<lb ed="F1" n="972"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter a Servant.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="973"/></l><l part="F">Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="974"/></l><l>To my daughters; and tell them both,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="975"/></l><l>These are their tutors: bid them use them well.
<stage type="exit">Exit Servant, with Lucentio and Hortensio,Biondello following</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="976"/></l><l>We will go walk a little in the orchard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="977"/></l><l>And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="978"/></l><l>And so I pray you all to think yourselves.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="979"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="980"/></l><l>And every day I cannot come to woo.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="981"/></l><l>You knew my father well, and in him me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="982"/></l><l>Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="983"/></l><l>Which I have better'd rather than decreased:
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="984"/></l><l>Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="985"/></l><l>What dowry shall I have with her to wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="986"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>After my death the one half of my lands,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="987"/></l><l>And in possession twenty thousand crowns.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="988"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>And, for that dowry, I'll assure her of
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="989"/></l><l>Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="990"/></l><l>In all my lands and leases whatsoever:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="991"/></l><l>Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="992"/></l><l>That covenants may be kept on either hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="993"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd,
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="994"/></l><l>That is, her love; for that is all in all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="995"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, that is nothing; for I tell you, father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="996"/></l><l>I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="997"/></l><l>And where two raging fires meet together
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="998"/></l><l>They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="999"/></l><l>Though little fire grows great with little wind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1000"/></l><l>Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1001"/></l><l>So I to her and so she yields to me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1002"/></l><l>For I am rough and woo not like a babe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1003"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1004"/></l><l>But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words.

<lb ed="G" n="141"/><lb ed="F1" n="1005"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Ay, to the proof; as mountains are for winds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1006"/></l><l>That shake not, though they blow perpetually.
<lb ed="F1" n="1007"/><stage type="entrance">  Re-enter HORTENSIO, with his head broke.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1008"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>How now, my friend! why dost thou look so <lb ed="F1" n="1009"/>pale?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1010"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1011"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>What, will my daughter prove a good <lb ed="F1" n="1012"/>musician?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1013"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>I think she'll sooner prove a soldier:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1014"/></l><l>Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1015"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1016"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me.
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="1017"/></l><l>I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1018"/></l><l>And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1019"/></l><l>When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1020"/></l><l>'Frets, call you these?' quoth she; 'I'll fume with them:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1021"/></l><l>And, with that word, she struck me on the head,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1022"/></l><l>And through the instrument my pate made way;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1023"/></l><l>And there I stood amazed for a while,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1024"/></l><l>As on a pillory, looking through the lute;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1025"/></l><l>While she did call me rascal fiddler
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1026"/></l><l>And twangling Jack; with twenty such vile terms,
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="1027"/></l><l>As had she studied to misuse me so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1028"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1029"/></l><l>I love her ten times more than e'er I did:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1030"/></l><l>O, how I long to have some chat with her

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1031"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Well, go with me and be not so discomfited:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1032"/></l><l>Proceed in practice with my younger daughter;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1033"/></l><l>She's apt to learn and thankful for good turns.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1034"/></l><l>Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1035"/></l><l>Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?
<lb ed="F1" n="1036"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1037"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I pray you do. <stage type="exit">Exeunt all but Petruchio.</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="169"/></l><l>I will attend her here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1038"/></l><l>And woo her with some spirit when she comes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1039"/></l><l>Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1040"/></l><l>She sings as sweetly as a nightingale:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1041"/></l><l>Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1042"/></l><l>As morning roses newly wash'd with dew:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1043"/></l><l>Say she be mute and will not speak a word;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1044"/></l><l>Then I'll commend her volubility,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1045"/></l><l>And say she uttereth piercing eloquence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1046"/></l><l>If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1047"/></l><l>As though she bid me stay by her a week:
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="1048"/></l><l>If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1049"/></l><l>When I shall ask the banns and when be married.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1050"/></l><l>But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak.
<lb ed="F1" n="1051"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter KATHARINA.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1052"/></l><l>Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1053"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Well have you heard, but something hard of <lb ed="F1" n="1054"/>hearing:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1055"/></l><l>They call my Katharine that do talk of me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1056"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1057"/></l><l>And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1058"/></l><l>But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1059"/></l><l>Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1060"/></l><l>For daintiest are all Kates, and therefore, Kate.
<lb ed="G" n="191"/><lb ed="F1" n="1061"/></l><l>Take this of me, Kate of my consolation;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1062"/></l><l>Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1063"/></l><l>Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1064"/></l><l>Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1065"/></l><l>Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1066"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Moved! in good time: let him that moved you <lb ed="F1" n="1067"/>hither
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1068"/></l><l>Remove you hence: I knew you at the first
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1069"/></l><l part="I">You were a moveable.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1070"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="F">Why, what's a moveable?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1071"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>A join'd-stool.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1072"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1073"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1074"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Women are made to bear, and so are you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1075"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>No such jade as you, if me you mean.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1076"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Alas! good Kate, I will not burden thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1077"/></l><l>For, knowing thee to be but young and light--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1078"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Too light for such a swain as you to catch;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1079"/></l><l>And yet as heavy as my weight should be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1080"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="I">Should be! should--buzz!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1081"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="F">Well ta'en, and like a buzzard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1082"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>O slow-wing'd turtle! shall a buzzard take thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1083"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.

<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="1084"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too <lb ed="F1" n="1085"/>angry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1086"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1087"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>My remedy is then, to pluck it out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1088"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1089"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Who knows not where a wasp does
wear <lb ed="F1" n="1090"/>his sting? In his tail.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1091"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>In his tongue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1092"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Whose tongue?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1093"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1094"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1095"/></l><l>Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="1096"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>That I'll try.
<stage>She strikes him. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1097"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1098"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>So may you lose your arms:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1099"/></l><l>If you strike me, you are no gentleman;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1100"/></l><l>And if no gentleman, why then no arms.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1101"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1102"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>What is your crest? a coxcomb?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1103"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1104"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1105"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so <lb ed="F1" n="1106"/>sour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1107"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>It is my fashion, when I see a crab.

<lb ed="G" n="231"/><lb ed="F1" n="1108"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, here's no crab; and therefore look not <lb ed="F1" n="1109"/>sour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1110"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>There is, there is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1111"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Then show it me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1112"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Had I a glass, I would.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1113"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>What, you mean my face?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1114"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Well aim'd of such a young one.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1115"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1116"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Yet you are wither'd.

<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="1117"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>'Tis with cares.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1118"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I care not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1119"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Nay, hear you, Kate: in sooth you scape not so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1120"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I chafe you, if I tarry: let me go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1121"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>No, not a whit: I find you passing gentle.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1122"/></l><l>'Twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1123"/></l><l>And now I find report a very liar;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1124"/></l><l>For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1125"/></l><l>But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1126"/></l><l>Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,
<lb ed="G" n="250"/><lb ed="F1" n="1127"/></l><l>Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1128"/></l><l>Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1129"/></l><l>But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1130"/></l><l>With gentle conference, soft and affable.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1131"/></l><l>Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1132"/></l><l>O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1133"/></l><l>Is straight and slender and as brown in hue
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1134"/></l><l>As hazel nuts and sweeter than the kernels.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1135"/></l><l>O, let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1136"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command.

<lb ed="G" n="260"/><lb ed="F1" n="1137"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Did ever Dian so become a grove
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1138"/></l><l>As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1139"/></l><l>O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1140"/></l><l>And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1141"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Where did you study all this goodly speech?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1142"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>It is extempore, from my mother-wit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1143"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>A witty mother! witless else her son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1144"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Am I not wise?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1145"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Yes; keep you warm.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1146"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharine, in thy bed:
<lb ed="G" n="270"/><lb ed="F1" n="1147"/></l><l>And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1148"/></l><l>Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1149"/></l><l>That you shall be my wife; your dowry 'greed on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1150"/></l><l>And, will you, nill you, I will marry you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1151"/></l><l>Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1152"/></l><l>For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1153"/></l><l>Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1154"/></l><l>Thou must be married to no man but me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1155"/><lb ed="F1" n="1156"/></l><l>For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1157"/></l><l>And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
<lb ed="G" n="280"/><lb ed="F1" n="1158"/></l><l>Conformable as other household Kates.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1159"/></l><l>Here comes your father: never make denial;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1160"/></l><l>I must and will have Katharine to my wife.
<stage type="entrance">  Re-enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and TRANIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1161"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1162"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>How but well, sir? how but well?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1163"/></l><l>It were impossible I should speed amiss.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1164"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Why, how now, daughter Katharine! in your dumps?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1165"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Call you me daughter? now, I promise you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1166"/></l><l>You have show'd a tender fatherly regard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1167"/></l><l>To wish me wed to one half lunatic;
<lb ed="G" n="290"/><lb ed="F1" n="1168"/></l><l>A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1169"/></l><l>That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1170"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1171"/></l><l>That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1172"/></l><l>If she be curst, it is for policy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1173"/></l><l>For she's not froward, but modest as the dove;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1174"/></l><l>She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1175"/></l><l>For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1176"/></l><l>And Roman Lucrece for her chastity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1177"/></l><l>And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together,
<lb ed="G" n="300"/><lb ed="F1" n="1178"/></l><l>That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1179"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1180"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Hark, Petruchio; she says she'll see thee hang'd first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1181"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Is this your speeding? nay, then, good night our part!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1182"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Be patient, gentlemen; I choose her for myself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1183"/></l><l>If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1184"/></l><l>'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1185"/></l><l>That she shall still be curst in company.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1186"/></l><l>I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1187"/></l><l>How much she loves me: O, the kindest Kate!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1188"/></l><l>She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss
<lb ed="G" n="311"/><lb ed="F1" n="1189"/></l><l>She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1190"/></l><l>That in a twink she won me to her love.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1191"/></l><l>O, you are novices! 'tis a world to see,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1192"/></l><l>How tame, when men and women are alone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1193"/></l><l>A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1194"/></l><l>Give me thy hand, Kate: I will unto Venice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1195"/></l><l>To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1196"/></l><l>Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1197"/></l><l>I will be sure my Katharine shall be fine.

<lb ed="G" n="320"/><lb ed="F1" n="1198"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>I know not what to say: but give me your hands;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1199"/></l><l>God send you joy, Petruchio! 'tis a match.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1200"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>(with Tra.) Amen, say we: we will be witnesses.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1201"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1202"/></l><l>I will to Venice; Sunday comes apace:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1203"/></l><l>We will have rings and things and fine array;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1204"/></l><l>And kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.
<lb ed="F1" n="1205"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt Petruchio and Katharina severally.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1206"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1207"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1208"/></l><l>And venture madly on a desperate mart.

<lb ed="G" n="330"/><lb ed="F1" n="1209"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1210"/></l><l>'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1211"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>The gain I seek is, quiet in the match.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1212"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1213"/></l><l>But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1214"/></l><l>Now is the day we long have looked for:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1215"/></l><l>I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1216"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>And I am one that love Bianca more
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1217"/></l><l>Than words can witness, or your thoughts can guess.

<lb ed="G" n="339"/><lb ed="F1" n="1218"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1219"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="I">Greybeard, thy love doth freeze.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1220"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l part="F">But thine doth fry.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1221"/></l><l>Skipper, stand back: 'tis age that nourisheth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1222"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1223"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Content you, gentlemen: I will compound this strife:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1224"/></l><l>'Tis deeds must win the prize; and he of both
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1225"/></l><l>That can assure my daughter greatest dower
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1226"/></l><l>Shall have my Bianca's love.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1227"/></l><l>Say, Signior Gremio, what can you assure her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1228"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>First, as you know, my house within the city
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1229"/></l><l>Is richly furnished with plate and gold;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1230"/></l><l>Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1231"/></l><l>My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1232"/></l><l>In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1233"/></l><l>In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1234"/></l><l>Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1235"/></l><l>Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1236"/></l><l>Valance of Venice gold in needlework,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1237"/></l><l>Pewter and brass and all things that belong
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1238"/></l><l>To house or housekeeping: then, at my farm
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1239"/></l><l>I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,
<lb ed="G" n="360"/><lb ed="F1" n="1240"/></l><l>Sixscore fat oxen standing in my stalls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1241"/></l><l>And all things answerable to this portion.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1242"/></l><l>Myself am struck in years, I must confess;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1243"/></l><l>And if I die to-morrow, this is hers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1244"/></l><l>If whilst I live she will be only mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1245"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>That 'only' came well in. Sir, list to me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1246"/></l><l>I am my father's heir and only son:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1247"/></l><l>If I may have your daughter to my wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1248"/></l><l>I'll leave her houses three or four as good.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1249"/></l><l>Within rich Pisa walls, as any one
<lb ed="G" n="370"/><lb ed="F1" n="1250"/></l><l>Old Signior Gremio has in Padua;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1251"/></l><l>Besides two thousand ducats by the year
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1252"/></l><l>Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1253"/></l><l>What, have I pinch'd you, Signior Gremio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1254"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Two thousand ducats by the year of land!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1255"/></l><l>My land amounts not to so much in all:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1256"/></l><l>That she shall have; besides an argosy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1257"/></l><l>That now is lying in Marseilles road.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1258"/></l><l>What, have I choked you with an argosy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1259"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less
<lb ed="G" n="380"/><lb ed="F1" n="1260"/></l><l>Than three great argosies; besides two galliases,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1261"/></l><l>And twelve tight galleys: these will I assure her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1262"/></l><l>And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1263"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Nay, I have offer'd all, I have no more;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1264"/></l><l>And she can have no more than all I have:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1265"/></l><l>If you like me, she shall have me and mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1266"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Why, then the maid is mine from all the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1267"/></l><l>By your firm promise: Gremio is out-vied.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1268"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>I must confess your offer is the best;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1269"/></l><l>And, let your father make her the assurance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1270"/></l><l>She is your own; else, you must pardon me,
<lb ed="G" n="391"/><lb ed="F1" n="1271"/></l><l>If you should die before him, where's her dower?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1272"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>That's but a cavil: he is old, I young.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1273"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>And may not young men die, as well as old?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1274"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Well, gentlemen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1275"/></l><l>I am thus resolved: on Sunday next you know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1276"/></l><l>My daughter Katharine is to be married:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1277"/></l><l>Now, on the Sunday following, shall Bianca
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1278"/></l><l>Be bride to you, if you make this assurance;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1279"/></l><l>If not, to Signior Gremio:
<lb ed="G" n="399"/><lb ed="F1" n="1280"/></l><l>And so, I take my leave, and thank you both.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1281"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l part="I">Adieu, good neighbour.
<stage type="exit">Exit Baptista.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Now I fear thee not:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1282"/></l><l>Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1283"/></l><l>To give thee all, and in his waning age
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1284"/></l><l>Set foot under thy table: tut, a toy!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1285"/></l><l>An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.

<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1286"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1287"/></l><l>Yet I have faced it with a card of ten.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1288"/></l><l>'Tis in my head to do my master good:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1289"/></l><l>I see no reason but supposed Lucentio
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1290"/></l><l>Must get a father, call'd 'supposed Vincentio;'
<lb ed="G" n="411"/><lb ed="F1" n="1291"/></l><l>And that's a wonder: fathers commonly
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1292"/></l><l>Do get their children; but in this case of wooing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1293"/></l><l>A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 type="act" n="3">
  <head>ACT III</head>
  <lb ed="F1" n="1294"/>
  <div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. BAPTISTA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1295"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LUCENTIO, HORTENSIO, and BIANCA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1296"/><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1297"/></l><l>Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1298"/></l><l>Her sister Katharine welcomed you withal?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1299"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>But, wrangling pedant, this is
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1300"/></l><l>The patroness of heavenly harmony:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1301"/></l><l>Then give me leave to have prerogative;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1302"/></l><l>And when in music we have spent an hour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1303"/></l><l>Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1304"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Preposterous ass, that never read so far
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1305"/></l><l>To know the cause why music was ordain'd!
<lb ed="G" n="11"/><lb ed="F1" n="1306"/></l><l>Was it not to refresh the mind of man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1307"/></l><l>After his studies or his unusual pain?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1308"/></l><l>Then give me leave to read philosophy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1309"/></l><l>And while I pause, serve in your harmony.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1310"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1311"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1312"/></l><l>To strive for that which resteth in my choice:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1313"/></l><l>I am no breeching scholar in the schools;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1314"/></l><l>I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1315"/></l><l>But learn my lessons as I please myself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1316"/></l><l>And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1317"/></l><l>Take you your instrument, play you the whiles;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1318"/></l><l>His lecture will be done ere you have tuned.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1319"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1320"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>That will be never: tune your instrument.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1321"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Where left we last?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1322"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Here, madam: 'Hic ibat Simois; hic est Sigeia <lb ed="F1" n="1323"/>tellus;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis.'

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1324"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Construe them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1325"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><p>'Hic ibat,' as I told you before,' Simois,'
<lb ed="G"/> I am Lucentio, <lb ed="F1" n="1326"/>'hic est,' son unto Vincentio
<lb ed="G"/> of Pisa, 'Sigeia tellus,' <lb ed="F1" n="1327"/>disguised thus
<lb ed="G"/>to get your love; 'Hic steterat,' and that
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1328"/>Lucentio that comes a-wooing, 'Priami,' is my
<lb ed="G"/>man Tranio, <lb ed="F1" n="1329"/>'regia,' bearing my port, 'celsa
<lb ed="G"/>senis,' that we might beguile <lb ed="F1" n="1330"/>the old pantaloon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1331"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Madam, my instrument's in tune.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1332"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Let's hear. O fie! the treble jars.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1333"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1334"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><p>Now let me see if I can construe it:
<lb ed="G"/>'Hic ibat Simois,' <lb ed="F1" n="1335"/>I know you not, 'hic est
<lb ed="G"/>Sigeia tellus,' I trust you not; <lb ed="F1" n="1336"/>'Hic steterat
<lb ed="G"/>Priami,' take heed he hear us not, 'regia,'
<lb ed="G"/> presume <lb ed="F1" n="1337"/>not, 'celsa senis,' despair not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1338"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="I">Madam, 'tis now in tune.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1339"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="F">All but the base.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1340"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>The base is right; 'tis the base knave that jars.
<stage>Aside</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1341"/></l><l>How fiery and forward our pedant is!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1342"/></l><l>Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love:
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1343"/></l><l>Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1344"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1345"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Mistrust it not; for, sure, AEacides
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1346"/></l><l>Was Ajax, call'd so from his grandfather.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1347"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>I must believe my master; else, I promise you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1348"/></l><l>I should be arguing still upon that doubt:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1349"/></l><l>But let it rest. Now, Licio, to you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1350"/></l><l>Good masters, take it not unkindly, pray,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1351"/></l><l>That I have been thus pleasant with you both.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1352"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>You may go walk, and give me leave a while:
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1353"/></l><l>My lessons make no music in three parts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1354"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Are you so formal, sir? well, I must wait,
<stage>Aside</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1355"/></l><l>And watch withal; for, but I be deceived,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1356"/></l><l>Our fine musician groweth amorous.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1357"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Madam, before you touch the instrument,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1358"/></l><l>To learn the order of my fingering,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1359"/></l><l>I must begin with rudiments of art;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1360"/></l><l>To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1361"/></l><l>More pleasant, pithy and effectual,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1362"/></l><l>Than hath been taught by any of my trade:
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1363"/></l><l>And there it is in writing, fairly drawn.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1364"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Why, I am past my gamut long ago.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1365"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1366"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><stage>Reads</stage><l>"'Gamut' I am, the ground of all accord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1367"/></l><l>'A re,' to plead Hortensio's passion;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1368"/></l><l>'B mi,' Bianca, take him for thy lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1369"/></l><l>'C fa ut,' that loves with all affection:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1370"/></l><l>'D sol re,' one clef, two notes have I:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1371"/></l><l>'E la mi,' show pity, or I die."
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1372"/></l><l>Call you this gamut? tut, I like it not:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1373"/></l><l>Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice,
<lb ed="G" n="81"/><lb ed="F1" n="1374"/></l><l>To change true rules for old inventions.
<lb ed="F1" n="1375"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter a Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1376"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l>Mistress, your father prays you leave your books
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1377"/></l><l>And help to dress your sister's chamber up:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1378"/></l><l>You know to-morrow is the wedding-day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1379"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Farewell, sweet masters both; I must be gone.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt Bianca and Servant. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1380"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay.
<stage type="exit">Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1381"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>But I have cause to pry into this pedant:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1382"/></l><l>Methinks he looks as though he were in love:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1383"/></l><l>Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="1384"/></l><l>To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1385"/></l><l>Seize thee that list: if once I find thee ranging,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1386"/></l><l>Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1387"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, TRANIO, KATHARINA, BIANCA, LUCENTIO, and others, <lb ed="F1" n="1388"/>attendants.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1389"/><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><stage>To Tranio</stage><l>Signior Lucentio, this is the 'pointed day
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1390"/></l><l>That Katharine and Petruchio should be married,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1391"/></l><l>And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1392"/></l><l>What will be said? what mockery will it be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1393"/></l><l>To want the bridegroom when the priest attends
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1394"/></l><l>To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1395"/></l><l>What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1396"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>No shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forced
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1397"/></l><l>To give my hand opposed against my heart
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1398"/></l><l>Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1399"/></l><l>Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1400"/></l><l>I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1401"/></l><l>Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviour:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1402"/></l><l>And, to be noted for a merry man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1403"/></l><l>He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1404"/></l><l>Make feasts, invite friends, and proclaim the banns;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1405"/></l><l>Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1406"/></l><l>Now must the world point at poor Katharine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1407"/></l><l>And say, 'Lo, there is mad Petruchio's wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1408"/></l><l>If it would please him come and marry her!'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1409"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Patience, good Katharine, and Baptista too.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1410"/></l><l>Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1411"/></l><l>Whatever fortune stays him from his word:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1412"/></l><l>Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1413"/></l><l>Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1414"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Would Katharine had never seen him though!
<lb ed="F1" n="1415"/><stage type="exit">Exit weeping, followed by Bianca and others.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1416"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Go, girl; I cannot blame thee now to weep;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1417"/></l><l>For such an injury would vex a very saint,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1418"/></l><l>Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour.
<lb ed="F1" n="1419"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter BIONDELLO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1420"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Master, master! news, old news, and
<lb ed="G" n="31"/>such news as you <lb ed="F1" n="1421"/>never heard of!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1422"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>Is it new and old too? how may that
<lb ed="G"/>be?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1423"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Why, is it not news, to hear of Petruchio's
<lb ed="G"/> coming?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1424"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Is he come?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1425"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Why, no, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1426"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>What then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1427"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>He is coming.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1428"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>When will he be here?

<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="1429"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>When he stands where I am and sees you there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1430"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>But say, what to thine old news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1431"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Why, Petruchio is coming in a new
<lb ed="G"/>hat and <lb ed="F1" n="1432"/>an old jerkin, a pair of old breeches
<lb ed="G"/>thrice turned, a <lb ed="F1" n="1433"/>pair of boots that have been
<lb ed="G"/>candle-cases, one buckled, <lb ed="F1" n="1434"/>another laced, an
<lb ed="G"/>old rusty sword ta'en out of the <lb ed="F1" n="1435"/>town-armory,
<lb ed="G"/>with a broken hilt, and chapeless; with <lb ed="F1" n="1436"/>two
<lb ed="G"/>broken points: his horse hipped with an old
<lb ed="G"/>mothy <lb ed="F1" n="1437"/>saddle and stirrups of no kindred; besides,
<lb ed="G"/> possessed <lb ed="F1" n="1438"/>with the glanders and like to
<lb ed="G"/>mose in the chine; troubled <lb ed="F1" n="1439"/>with the lampass,
<lb ed="G"/>infected with the fashions, full <lb ed="F1" n="1440"/>of windgalls,
<lb ed="G"/>sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows, <lb ed="F1" n="1441"/>past
<lb ed="G"/>cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the <lb ed="F1" n="1442"/>staggers,
<lb ed="G"/>begnawn with the bots, swayed in the
<lb ed="G"/>back <lb ed="F1" n="1443"/>and shoulder-shotten; near-legged before
<lb ed="G"/>and with a <lb ed="F1" n="1444"/>half-checked bit and a head-stall
<lb ed="G"/>of sheep's leather which, <lb ed="F1" n="1445"/>being restrained to
<lb ed="G"/>keep him from stumbling, hath been <lb ed="F1" n="1446"/>often
<lb ed="G"/>burst and now repaired with knots; one girth
<lb ed="G"/>six <lb ed="F1" n="1447"/>times pieced and a woman's crupper of
<lb ed="G"/>velure, which <lb ed="F1" n="1448"/>hath two letters for her name
<lb ed="G"/>fairly set down in studs, <lb ed="F1" n="1449"/>and here and there
<lb ed="G"/>pieced with packthread.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1450"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>Who comes with him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1451"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>O, sir, his lackey, for all the world
<lb ed="G"/>caparisoned <lb ed="F1" n="1452"/>like the horse; with a linen stock
<lb ed="G"/>on one leg and <lb ed="F1" n="1453"/>a kersey boot-hose on the
<lb ed="G"/>other, gartered with a red and <lb ed="F1" n="1454"/>blue list; an old
<lb ed="G"/>hat and 'the humour of forty fancies' pricked
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1455"/>in't for a feather: a monster, a very monster
<lb ed="G"/>in apparel, <lb ed="F1" n="1456"/>and not like a Christian footboy or
<lb ed="G"/>a gentleman's lackey.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1457"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1458"/></l><l>Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-apparell'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1459"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1460"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Why, sir, he comes not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1461"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Didst thou not say he comes?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1462"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Who? that Petruchio came?

<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1463"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Ay, that Petruchio came.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1464"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>No, sir; I say his horse comes, with him on his back.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1465"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Why, that's all one.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1466"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Nay, by Saint Jamy,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="Y">I hold you a penny,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="Y">A horse and <lb ed="F1" n="1467"/>a man
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="Y">Is more than one,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="Y">And yet not many.
<lb ed="F1" n="1468"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="89"/><lb ed="F1" n="1469"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Come, where be these gallants? who's at home?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1470"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l part="I">You are welcome, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1471"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="F">And yet I come not well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1472"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l part="I">And yet you halt not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1473"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="F">Not so well apparell'd
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>As I wish you were.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1474"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Were it better, I should rush in thus.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1475"/></l><l>But where is Kate? where is my lovely bride?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1476"/></l><l>How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1477"/></l><l>And wherefore gaze this goodly company,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1478"/></l><l>As if they saw some wondrous monument,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1479"/></l><l>Some comet or unusual prodigy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1480"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1481"/></l><l>First we were sad, fearing you would not come:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1482"/></l><l>Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1483"/></l><l>Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1484"/></l><l>An eye-sore to our solemn festival!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1485"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>And tells  us, what occasion of import
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1486"/></l><l>Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1487"/></l><l>And sent you hither so unlike yourself?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1488"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1489"/></l><l>Sufficeth, I am come to keep my word,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1490"/></l><l>Though in some part enforced to digress;
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="1491"/></l><l>Which, at more leisure, I will so excuse
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1492"/></l><l>As you shall well be satisfied withal.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1493"/></l><l>But where is Kate? I stay too long from her:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1494"/></l><l>The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1495"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>See not your bride in these unreverent robes:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1496"/></l><l>Go to my chamber; put on clothes of mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1497"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Not I, believe me: thus I'll visit her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1498"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>But thus, I trust, you will not marry her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1499"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Good sooth, even thus; therefore ha' done with words:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1500"/></l><l>To me she's married, not unto my clothes:
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="1501"/></l><l>Could I repair what she will wear in me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1502"/></l><l>As I can change these poor accoutrements,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1503"/></l><l>'Twere well for Kate and better for myself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1504"/></l><l>But what a fool am I to chat with you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1505"/></l><l>When I should bid good morrow to my bride,.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1506"/></l><l>And seal the title with a lovely kiss!

<stage type="exit">Exeunt Petruchio and Grumio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1507"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>He hath some meaning in his mad attire:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1508"/></l><l>We will persuade him, be it possible,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1509"/></l><l>To put on better ere he go to church.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1510"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>I'll after him, and see the event of this.

<stage type="exit">Exeunt Baptista, Gremio, and attendants,</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1511"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>But to her love concerneth us to add
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1512"/></l><l>Her father's liking: which to bring to pass
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1513"/></l><l>As I before imparted to your worship,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1514"/></l><l>I am to get a man,--whate'er he be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1515"/></l><l>It skills not much, we'll fit him to our turn,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1516"/></l><l>And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1517"/></l><l>And make assurance here in Padua
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1518"/></l><l>Of greater sums than I have promised.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1519"/></l><l>So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1520"/></l><l>And marry sweet Bianca with consent.

<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="1521"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Were it not that my fellow-schoolmaster
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1522"/></l><l>Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1523"/></l><l>'Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1524"/></l><l>Which once perform'd, let all the world say no,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1525"/></l><l>I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1526"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>That by degrees we mean to look into,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1527"/></l><l>And watch our vantage in this business:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1528"/></l><l>We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1529"/></l><l>The narrow-prying father, Minola,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1530"/></l><l>The quaint musician, amorous Licio;
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="1531"/></l><l>All for my master's sake, Lucentio.
<lb ed="F1" n="1532"/><stage type="entrance">               Re-enter GREMIO.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1533"/></l><l>Signior Gremio, came you from the church?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1534"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>As willingly as e'er I came from school.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1535"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1536"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>A bridegroom say you? 'tis a groom indeed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1537"/></l><l>A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1538"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Curster than she? why, 'tis impossible.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1539"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Why he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1540"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1541"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1542"/></l><l>I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1543"/></l><l>Should ask, if Katharine should be his wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1544"/></l><l>'Ay, by gogs-wouns,' quoth he; and swore so loud,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1545"/></l><l>That, all-amazed, the priest let fall the book;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1546"/></l><l>And, as he stoop'd again to take it up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1547"/></l><l>The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1548"/></l><l>That down fell priest and book and book and priest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1549"/></l><l>'Now take them up,' quoth he, 'if any list.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1550"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>What said the wench when he rose again?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1551"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd and <lb ed="F1" n="1552"/>swore,
<lb ed="G" n="170"/></l><l>As if the vicar meant to cozen him.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But after many <lb ed="F1" n="1553"/>ceremonies done,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>He calls for wine: 'A health!' quoth <lb ed="F1" n="1554"/>he, as if
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>He had been aboard, carousing to his mates
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>After <lb ed="F1" n="1555"/>a storm; quaff'd off the muscadel
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And threw the sops <lb ed="F1" n="1556"/>all in the sexton's face;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Having no other reason
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But that <lb ed="F1" n="1557"/>his beard grew thin and hungerly
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And seem'd to ask <lb ed="F1" n="1558"/>him sops as he was drinking.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>This done, he took the <lb ed="F1" n="1559"/>bride about the neck
<lb ed="G" n="180"/></l><l>And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous <lb ed="F1" n="1560"/>smack
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That at the parting all the church <lb ed="F1" n="1561"/>did echo:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And I seeing this came thence for very shame;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And <lb ed="F1" n="1562"/>after me, I know, the rout is coming.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Such a mad marriage <lb ed="F1" n="1563"/>never was before:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels <lb ed="F1" n="1564"/>play.
<stage>Music.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1565"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, BIANCA,
BAPTISTA, HORTENSIO, GRUMIO, and Train.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1566"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1567"/></l><l>I know you think to dine with me to-day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1568"/></l><l>And have prepared great store of wedding cheer;
<lb ed="G" n="189"/><lb ed="F1" n="1569"/></l><l>But so it is, my haste doth call me hence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1570"/></l><l>And therefore here I mean to take my leave.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1571"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Is't possible you will away to-night?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1572"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I must away to-day, before night come:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1573"/></l><l>Make it no wonder; if you knew my business,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1574"/></l><l>You would entreat me rather go than stay.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1575"/></l><l>And, honest company, I thank you all,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1576"/></l><l>That have beheld me give away myself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1577"/></l><l>To this most patient, sweet and virtuous wife:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1578"/></l><l>Dine with my father, drink a health to me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1579"/></l><l>For I must hence; and farewell to you all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1580"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1581"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="I">It may not be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1582"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l part="F" n="201">Let me entreat you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1583"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="I">It cannot be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1584"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="F">Let me entreat you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1585"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="I">I am content.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1586"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="F">Are you content to stay?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1587"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I am content you shall entreat me stay;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1588"/></l><l>But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1589"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="I">Now, if you love me, stay.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1590"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="F">Grumio, my horse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1591"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Ay, sir, they be ready: the oats have
<lb ed="G"/>eaten the <lb ed="F1" n="1592"/>horses.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1593"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Nay, then,
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="1594"/></l><l>Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1595"/></l><l>No, nor to-morrow, not till I please myself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1596"/></l><l>The door is open, sir; there lies your way;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1597"/></l><l>You may be jogging whiles your boots are green;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1598"/></l><l>For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1599"/></l><l>'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1600"/></l><l>That take it on you at the first so roundly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1601"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>O Kate, content thee; prithee, be not angry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1602"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I will be angry: what hast thou to do?
<lb ed="G" n="219"/><lb ed="F1" n="1603"/></l><l>Father, be quiet: he shall stay my leisure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1604"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1605"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1606"/></l><l>I see a woman may be made a fool,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1607"/></l><l>If she had not a spirit to resist.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1608"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1609"/></l><l>Obey the bride, you that attend on her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1610"/></l><l>Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1611"/></l><l>Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1612"/></l><l>Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1613"/></l><l>But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="1614"/></l><l>Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1615"/></l><l>I will be master of what is mine own:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1616"/></l><l>She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1617"/></l><l>My household stuff, my field, my barn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1618"/></l><l>My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1619"/></l><l>And here she stands, touch her whoever dare;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1620"/></l><l>I'll bring mine action on the proudest he
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1621"/></l><l>That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1622"/></l><l>Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1623"/></l><l>Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man,
<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="1624"/></l><l>Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1625"/></l><l>I'll buckler thee against a million.

<stage type="exit">Exeunt Petruchio, Katharina, and Grumio.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1626"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1627"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1628"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Of all mad matches never was the like.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1629"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1630"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>That, being mad herself, she's madly mated.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1631"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1632"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1633"/></l><l>For to supply the places at the table,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1634"/></l><l>You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
<lb ed="G" n="251"/><lb ed="F1" n="1635"/></l><l>Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1636"/></l><l>And let Bianca take her sister's room.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1637"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1638"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>She shall, Lucentio. Come, gentlemen, let's go.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>

      <div1 type="act" n="4">
<head>ACT IV</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">PETRUCHIO'S country house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1639"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter GRUMIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1640"/><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad
<lb ed="G"/>masters, and <lb ed="F1" n="1641"/>all foul ways! Was ever man so
<lb ed="G"/>beaten? was ever man <lb ed="F1" n="1642"/>so raved? was ever
<lb ed="G"/>man so weary? I am sent before to <lb ed="F1" n="1643"/>make a
<lb ed="G"/>fire, and they are coming after to warm them.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1644"/>Now, were not I a little pot and soon hot, my
<lb ed="G"/>very lips <lb ed="F1" n="1645"/>might freeze to my teeth, my tongue
<lb ed="G"/>to the roof of my <lb ed="F1" n="1646"/>mouth, my heart in my belly,
<lb ed="G"/>ere I should come by a fire <lb ed="F1" n="1647"/>to thaw me: but
<lb ed="G"/>I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1648"/>for, considering the weather, a taller man than
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="1649"/>will take cold. Holla, ho! Curtis.
<lb ed="F1" n="1650"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter CURTIS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1651"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><l>Who is that calls so coldly?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1652"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>A piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou
<lb ed="G"/>mayst <lb ed="F1" n="1653"/>slide from my shoulder to my heel with
<lb ed="G"/>no <lb ed="F1" n="1654"/>greater a run but my head and my neck. A
<lb ed="G"/>fire, good <lb ed="F1" n="1655"/>Curtis.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1656"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Is my master and his wife coming,
<lb ed="G"/> Grumio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1657"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>O, ay, Curtis, ay: and therefore fire,
<lb ed="G" n="21"/>fire; cast on no <lb ed="F1" n="1658"/>water.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1659"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1660"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>She was, good Curtis, before this
<lb ed="G"/>frost: but, thou <lb ed="F1" n="1661"/>knowest, winter tames man,
<lb ed="G"/>woman and beast; for it <lb ed="F1" n="1662"/>hath tamed my old
<lb ed="G"/>master and my new mistress and myself, <lb ed="F1" n="1663"/>fellow
<lb ed="G"/>Curtis.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1664"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1665"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Am I but three inches? why, thy
<lb ed="G"/>horn is a foot; <lb ed="F1" n="1666"/>and so long am I at the least.
<lb ed="G"/>But wilt thou make a fire, <lb ed="F1" n="1667"/>or shall I complain
<lb ed="G"/>on thee to our mistress, whose hand, <lb ed="F1" n="1668"/>she being
<lb ed="G"/>now at hand, thou shalt soon feel, to thy <lb ed="F1" n="1669"/>cold
<lb ed="G"/>comfort, for being slow in thy hot office?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1670"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>I prithee, good Grumio, tell me, how
<lb ed="G"/>goes the <lb ed="F1" n="1671"/>world?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1672"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>A cold world, Curtis, in every office
<lb ed="G"/>but thine; and <lb ed="F1" n="1673"/>therefore fire: do thy duty,
<lb ed="G"/>and have thy duty; for my <lb ed="F1" n="1674"/>master and mistress
<lb ed="G"/>are almost frozen to death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1675"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>There's fire ready; and therefore,
<lb ed="G"/>good Grumio, <lb ed="F1" n="1676"/>the news.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1677"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Why, 'Jack, boy! ho! boy!' and as
<lb ed="G"/>much news as <lb ed="F1" n="1678"/>will thaw.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1679"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Come, you are so full of cony-catching!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1680"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Why, therefore fire; for I have
<lb ed="G"/>caught extreme <lb ed="F1" n="1681"/>cold.   Where's the cook? is
<lb ed="G"/>supper ready, the house <lb ed="F1" n="1682"/>trimmed, rushes
<lb ed="G"/>strewed, cobwebs swept; the serving-men <lb ed="F1" n="1683"/>in
<lb ed="G"/>their new fustian, their white stockings, and
<lb ed="G"/>every officer <lb ed="F1" n="1684"/>his wedding-garment on?   Be the
<lb ed="G"/>jacks fair within, <lb ed="F1" n="1685"/>the jills fair without, the carpets
<lb ed="G"/> laid, and every <lb ed="F1" n="1686"/>thing in order?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1687"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>All ready; and therefore, I pray thee, news.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1688"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>First, know, my horse is tired; my
<lb ed="G"/>master and mistress <lb ed="F1" n="1689"/>fallen out.</p></sp>
<sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker>
<p>How?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1690"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Out of their saddles into the dirt;
<lb ed="G" n="60"/></l><l>and thereby <lb ed="F1" n="1691"/>hangs a tale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1692"/></l></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Let's ha't, good Grumio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1693"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Lend thine ear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1694"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1695"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>There.
<stage>Strikes him.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1696"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><l>This is to feel a tale, not to hear a  tale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1697"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>And therefore 'tis called a sensible
<lb ed="G"/>tale: and this <lb ed="F1" n="1698"/>cuff was but to knock at your
<lb ed="G"/>ear, and beseech listening.   <lb ed="F1" n="1699"/>Now I begin: Imprimis,
<lb ed="G"/> we came down a foul <lb ed="F1" n="1700"/>hill, my master
<lb ed="G"/>riding behind my mistress,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1701"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Both of one horse?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1702"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>What's that to thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1703"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Why, a horse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1704"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not
<lb ed="G"/>crossed me, <lb ed="F1" n="1705"/>thou shouldst have heard how her
<lb ed="G"/>horse fell and she under <lb ed="F1" n="1706"/>her horse; thou
<lb ed="G"/>shouldst have heard in how miry a <lb ed="F1" n="1707"/>place, how
<lb ed="G"/>she was bemoiled, how he left her with the
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1708"/>horse upon her, how he beat me because her
<lb ed="G"/>horse stumbled, <lb ed="F1" n="1709"/>how she waded through the
<lb ed="G"/>dirt to pluck him off <lb ed="F1" n="1710"/>me, how he swore, how
<lb ed="G"/>she prayed, that never prayed before, <lb ed="F1" n="1711"/>how I
<lb ed="G"/>cried, how the horses ran away, how her <lb ed="F1" n="1712"/>bridle
<lb ed="G"/>was burst, how I lost my crupper, with many
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1713"/>things of worthy memory, which now shall die
<lb ed="G"/>in oblivion <lb ed="F1" n="1714"/>and thou return unexperienced to
<lb ed="G"/>thy grave.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1715"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><l>By this reckoning he is more shrew than she.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1716"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Ay; and that thou and the proudest
<lb ed="G"/> of you all shall <lb ed="F1" n="1717"/>find when he comes home. But
<lb ed="G"/>what talk I of this? <lb ed="F1" n="1718"/>Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph,
<lb ed="G"/> Nicholas, Philip, Walter, Sugarsop <lb ed="F1" n="1719"/>and
<lb ed="G"/>the rest: let their heads be sleekly combed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1720"/>their blue coats brushed and their garters of
<lb ed="G"/>an indifferent <lb ed="F1" n="1721"/>knit: let them curtsy with their
<lb ed="G"/>left legs and not <lb ed="F1" n="1722"/>presume to touch a hair of
<lb ed="G"/>my master's horse-tail till <lb ed="F1" n="1723"/>they kiss their hands.
<lb ed="G"/>Are they all ready?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1724"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>They are.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1725"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Call them forth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1726"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Do you hear, ho? you must meet my
<lb ed="G" n="101"/>master <lb ed="F1" n="1727"/>to countenance my mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1728"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Why, she hath a face of her own.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1729"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>Who knows not that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1730"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Thou, it seems, that calls for company
<lb ed="G"/>to countenance <lb ed="F1" n="1731"/>her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1732"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><p>I call them forth to credit her.
<lb ed="F1" n="1733"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1734"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.
<stage type="entrance">Enter four or five Serving-men.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1735"/></p></sp><sp who="nath."><speaker>Nath.</speaker><l>Welcome home, Grumio!

<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="1736"/></l></sp><sp who="phil."><speaker>Phil.</speaker><l>How now, Grumio!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1737"/></l></sp><sp who="jos."><speaker>Jos.</speaker><p>What, Grumio!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1738"/></p></sp><sp who="nich."><speaker>Nich.</speaker><p>Fellow Grumio!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1739"/></p></sp><sp who="nath."><speaker>Nath.</speaker><p>How now, old lad?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1740"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Welcome, you;--how now, you;--
<lb ed="G"/>what, you;--fellow, <lb ed="F1" n="1741"/>you;--and thus much for
<lb ed="G"/>greeting. Now, my spruce <lb ed="F1" n="1742"/>companions, is all
<lb ed="G"/>ready, and all things neat?

<lb ed="G" n="119"/><lb ed="F1" n="1743"/></p></sp><sp who="nath."><speaker>Nath.</speaker><l>All things is ready. How near is our master?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1744"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>E'en at hand, alighted by this; and
<lb ed="G"/>therefore be <lb ed="F1" n="1745"/>not--Cock's passion, silence!   I
<lb ed="G"/>hear my master.
<lb ed="F1" n="1746"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1747"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Where be these knaves? What, no man at door
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1748"/></l><l>To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1749"/></l><l>Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1750"/></l></sp><sp who="all-serv."><speaker>All Serv.</speaker><p>Here, here, sir; here, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1751"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1752"/></l><l>You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1753"/></l><l>What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="1754"/></l><l>Where is the foolish knave I sent before?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1755"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Here, sir; as foolish as I was before.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1756"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>You peasant swain! you whoreson malt-horse drudge!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1757"/></l><l>Did I not bid thee meet me in the park,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1758"/></l><l>And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1759"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1760"/></l><l>And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1761"/></l><l>There was no link to colour Peter's hat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1762"/></l><l>And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1763"/></l><l>There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory;
<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="1764"/></l><l>The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1765"/></l><l>Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1766"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Go, rascals, go, and fetch my supper in.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt Servants.</stage>
<stage>Singing</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1767"/></l><l>Where is the life that late I led--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1768"/></l><l>Where are those--Sit down, Kate, <lb ed="F1" n="1769"/>and welcome.--
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Soud, soud, soud, soud!
<lb ed="F1" n="1770"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter Servants with supper.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1771"/></l><l>Why, when, I say? Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1772"/></l><l>Off with my boots, you rogues! you villains, when?
<stage>Sings</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1773"/></l><l part="I">It was the friar of orders grey,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1774"/></l><l part="F">As he forth walked on his way:--
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="1775"/></l><l>Out, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1776"/></l><l>Take that, and mend the plucking off the other.
<stage>Strikes him. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1777"/></l><l>Be merry, Kate. Some water, here; what, ho!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1778"/><lb ed="F1" n="1779"/></l><l>Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1780"/></l><l>And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1781"/></l><l>One, Kate, that you must kiss, and be acquainted with.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1782"/></l><l>Where are my slippers?   Shall I have some water?
<stage type="entrance">            Enter one with water.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1783"/></l><l>Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1784"/></l><l>You whoreson villain! will you let it fall?
<stage>Strikes him.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1785"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Patience, I pray you; 'twas a fault unwilling.

<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="1786"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>A whoreson beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1787"/></l><l>Come, Kate, sit down; I know you have a stomach.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1788"/></l><l>Will you give thanks, sweet Kate; or else shall I?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1789"/></l><l part="I">What's this? mutton?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1790"/></l></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l part="Y">Ay.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1791"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="F">Who brought it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1792"/></l></sp><sp who="peter."><speaker>Peter.</speaker><l part="Y">                             I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1793"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1794"/></l><l>What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1795"/></l><l>How durst you, villains, bring it from   the dresser,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1796"/></l><l>And serve it thus to me that love it not?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1797"/></l><l>There, take it to you, trenchers, cups, and all:
<stage>Throws the meat, &amp;c. about the stage.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1798"/></l><l>You heedless joltheads and unmanner'd slaves!
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="1799"/></l><l>What, do you grumble?   I'll be with you straight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1800"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1801"/></l><l>The meat was well, if you were so contented.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1802"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1803"/></l><l>And I expressly am forbid to touch it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1804"/></l><l>For it engenders choler, planteth anger;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1805"/></l><l>And better 'twere that both of us did fast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1806"/></l><l>Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1807"/></l><l>Than fed it with such over-roasted flesh.
<lb ed="G" n="179"/><lb ed="F1" n="1808"/></l><l>Be patient; tomorrow 't shall be mended,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1809"/></l><l>And, for this night, we'll fast for company.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1810"/></l><l>Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1811"/><stage type="entrance">          Re-enter Servants severally.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1812"/></l></sp><sp who="nath."><speaker>Nath.</speaker><l>Peter, didst ever see the like?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1813"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>He kills her in her own humour,
<stage type="entrance">                Re-enter CURTIS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1814"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Where is he?
<lb ed="F1" n="1815"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1816"/></p></sp><sp who="curt."><speaker>Curt.</speaker><l>In her chamber, making a sermon of continency <lb ed="F1" n="1817"/>to her;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, <lb ed="F1" n="1818"/>poor soul,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Knows not which way to stand, to look, <lb ed="F1" n="1819"/>to speak,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And sits as one new-risen from a dream.
<lb ed="G" n="200"/></l><l>Away, <lb ed="F1" n="1820"/>away! for he is coming hither.
<stage>Exeunt.</stage>

<lb ed="F1" n="1821"/><stage type="entrance">             Re-enter PETRUCHIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1822"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Thus have I politicly begun my reign,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1823"/></l><l>And 'tis my hope to end successfully.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1824"/></l><l>My falcon now is sharp and passing empty;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1825"/></l><l>And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1826"/></l><l>For then she never looks upon her lure.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1827"/></l><l>Another way I have to man my haggard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1828"/></l><l>To make her come and know her keeper's call,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1829"/></l><l>That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1830"/></l><l>That bate and beat and will not be obedient.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1831"/></l><l>She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1832"/></l><l>Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1833"/></l><l>As with the meat, some undeserved fault
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1834"/></l><l>I'll find about the making of the bed;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1835"/></l><l>And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1836"/></l><l>This way the coverlet, another way the sheets:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1837"/></l><l>Ay, and amid this hurly I intend
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1838"/></l><l>That all is done in reverend care of her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1839"/></l><l>And in conclusion she shall watch all night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1840"/></l><l>And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="1841"/></l><l>And with the clamour keep her still awake.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1842"/></l><l>This is a way to kill a wife with kindness;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1843"/></l><l>And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1844"/></l><l>He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1845"/></l><l>Now let him speak: 'tis charity to show.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1846"/><stage type="entrance">Enter TRANIO and HORTENSIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1847"/><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Is't possible, friend Licio, that Mistress Bianca
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1848"/></l><l>Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1849"/></l><l>I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1850"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1851"/></l><l>Stand by and mark the manner of his teaching.
<lb ed="F1" n="1852"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BIANCA and LUCENTIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1853"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Now, mistress, profit you in what you read?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1854"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>What, master, read you? first resolve me that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1855"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>I read that I profess, the Art to Love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1856"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>And may you prove, sir, master of your art!

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1857"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my <lb ed="F1" n="1858"/>heart!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1859"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Quick, proceeders, marry!   Now, tell me, I pray,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1860"/></l><l>You that durst swear that your mistress Bianca
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1861"/></l><l>Loved none in the world so well as Lucentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1862"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>O despiteful love! unconstant womankind
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1863"/></l><l>I tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1864"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Mistake no more: I am not Licio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1865"/></l><l>Nor a musician, as I seem to be;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1866"/></l><l>But one that scorn to live in this disguise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1867"/></l><l>For such a one as leaves a gentleman,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1868"/></l><l>And makes a god of such a cullion:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1869"/></l><l>Know, sir, that I am call'd Hortensio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1870"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Signior Hortensio, I have often heard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1871"/></l><l>Of your entire affection to Bianca;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1872"/></l><l>And since my eyes are witness of her lightness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1873"/></l><l>I will with you, if you be so contented,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1874"/></l><l>Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1875"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>See, how they kiss and court Signior Lucentio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1876"/></l><l>Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1877"/></l><l>Never to woo her more, but do forswear her,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1878"/></l><l>As one unworthy all the former favours
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1879"/></l><l>That I have fondly flatter'd her withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1880"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>And here I take the like unfeigned oath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1881"/></l><l>Never to marry with her though she would entreat:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1882"/></l><l>Fie on her! see, how beastly she doth court him!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1883"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1884"/></l><l>For me, that I may surely keep mine oath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1885"/></l><l>I will be married to a wealthy widow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1886"/></l><l>Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1887"/></l><l>As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1888"/></l><l>And so farewell, Signior Lucentio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1889"/></l><l>Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1890"/></l><l>Shall win my love: and so I take my leave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1891"/></l><l>In resolution as I swore before.
<stage>Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1892"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1893"/></l><l>As 'longeth to a lover's blessed case
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1894"/></l><l>Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1895"/></l><l>And have forsworn you with Hortensio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1896"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Tranio, you jest: but have you both forsworn <lb ed="F1" n="1897"/>me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1898"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="I">Mistress, we have.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1899"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="F">Then we are rid of Licio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1900"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,
<lb ed="G" n="51"/><lb ed="F1" n="1901"/></l><l>That shall be woo'd and wedded in a day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1902"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>God give him joy!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1903"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="I">Ay, and he'll tame her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1904"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l part="F">He says so, Tranio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1905"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Faith, he is gone unto the tamingschool.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1906"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>The taming-school! what, is there such a place?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1907"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1908"/></l><l>That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1909"/></l><l>To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.
<lb ed="F1" n="1910"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter BIONDELLO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1911"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>O master, master, I have watch'd so long
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1912"/></l><l>That I am dog-weary: but at last I spied
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1913"/></l><l>An ancient angel coming down the hill,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1914"/></l><l part="I">Will serve the turn.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1915"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="F">               What is he, Biondello?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1916"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Master, a mercatante, or a pedant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1917"/></l><l>I know not what; but formal in apparel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1918"/></l><l>In gait and countenance surely like a father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1919"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>And what of him, Tranio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1920"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>If he be credulous and trust my tale,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1921"/></l><l>I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1922"/></l><l>And give assurance to Baptista Minola,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1923"/></l><l>As if he were the right Vincentio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1924"/></l><l>Take in your love, and then let me alone.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt Lucentio and Bianca.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1925"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter a Pedant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1926"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>God save you, sir!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1927"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>         And you, sir! you are welcome.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1928"/></l><l>Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1929"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>Sir, at the farthest for a week or two:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1930"/></l><l>But then up farther, and as far as Rome;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1931"/></l><l>And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1932"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l part="I">What countryman, I pray?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1933"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l part="F">Of Mantua.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1934"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Of Mantua, sir? marry, God forbid!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1935"/></l><l>And come to Padua, careless of your life?

<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1936"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1937"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>'Tis death for any one in Mantua
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1938"/></l><l>To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1939"/></l><l>Your ships are stay'd at Venice, and the duke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1940"/></l><l>For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1941"/></l><l>Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1942"/></l><l>'Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1943"/></l><l>You might have heard it else proclaim'd about.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1944"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>Alas! sir, it is worse for me than so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1945"/></l><l>For I have bills for money by exchange
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="1946"/></l><l>From Florence and must here deliver them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1947"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Well, sir, to do you courtesy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1948"/></l><l>This will I do, and this I will advise you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1949"/></l><l>First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1950"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1951"/></l><l>Pisa renowned for grave citizens.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1952"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Among them know you one Vincentio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1953"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>I know him not, but I have heard of him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1954"/></l><l>A merchant of incomparable wealth.

<lb ed="G" n="99"/><lb ed="F1" n="1955"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1956"/></l><l>In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1957"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><stage>Aside</stage><l>As much as an apple doth an oyster, and all one.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1958"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>To save your life in this extremity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1959"/></l><l>This favour will I do you for his sake;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1960"/></l><l>And think it not the worst of all your fortunes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1961"/></l><l>That you are like to Sir Vincentio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1962"/></l><l>His name and credit shall you undertake,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1963"/></l><l>And in my house you shall be friendly lodged:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1964"/></l><l>Look that you take upon you as you should;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1965"/></l><l>You understand me, sir: so shall you stay
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1966"/></l><l>Till you have done your business in the city:
<lb ed="G" n="111"/><lb ed="F1" n="1967"/></l><l>If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1968"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>O sir, I do: and will repute you ever
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1969"/></l><l>The patron of my life and liberty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1970"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Then go with me to make the matter good.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1971"/></l><l>This, by the way, I let you understand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1972"/></l><l>My father is here look'd for every day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1973"/></l><l>To pass assurance of a dower in marriage
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1974"/></l><l>'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1975"/></l><l>In all these circumstances I'll instruct you:
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="1976"/></l><l>Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.

<stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
  <head>SCENE III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1977"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in PETRUCHIO'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1978"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KATHARINA and GRUMIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1979"/><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>No, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1980"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>The more my wrong, the more his spite appears:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1981"/></l><l>What, did he marry me to famish me?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1982"/></l><l>Beggars, that come unto my father's door
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1983"/></l><l>Upon entreaty have a present alms;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1984"/></l><l>If not, elsewhere they meet with charity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1985"/></l><l>But I, who never knew how to entreat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1986"/></l><l>Nor never needed that I should entreat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1987"/></l><l>Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1988"/></l><l>With oaths kept waking and with brawling fed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1989"/></l><l>And that which spites me more than all these wants,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1990"/></l><l>He does it under name of perfect love;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1991"/></l><l>As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1992"/></l><l>'Twere deadly sickness or else present death.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1993"/></l><l>I prithee go and get me some repast;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1994"/></l><l>I care not what, so it be wholesome food.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1995"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>What say you to a neat's foot?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1996"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>'Tis passing good: I prithee let me have it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1997"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>I fear it is too choleric a meat.
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1998"/></l><l>How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1999"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I like it well: good Grumio, fetch it me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2000"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>I cannot tell; I fear 'tis choleric.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2001"/></l><l>What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2002"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>A dish that I do love to feed upon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2003"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2004"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Why then, the beef, and let the mustard rest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2005"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Nay then, I will not: you shall have the mustard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2006"/></l><l>Or else you get no beef of Grumio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2007"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Then both, or one, or any thing thou wilt.

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2008"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Why then, the mustard without the beef.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2009"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,
<lb ed="F1" n="2010"/><stage>Beats him.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2011"/></l><l>That feed'st me with the very name of meat:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2012"/></l><l>Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2013"/></l><l>That triumph thus upon my misery
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2014"/></l><l>Go, get thee gone, I say.
<lb ed="F1" n="2015"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PETRUCHIO and HORTENSIO with meat.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2016"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2017"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="I">Mistress, what cheer?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2018"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="F">Faith, as cold as can be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2019"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Pluck up thy spirits; look cheerfully upon me.
<lb ed="G" n="39"/><lb ed="F1" n="2020"/></l><l>Here, love; thou see'st how diligent I am
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2021"/></l><l>To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2022"/></l><l>I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2023"/></l><l>What, not a word? Nay, then thou lovest it not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2024"/></l><l>And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2025"/></l><l part="I">Here, take away this dish.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2026"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="F">I pray you, let it stand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2027"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>The poorest service is repaid with thanks;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2028"/></l><l>And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2029"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I thank you, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2030"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Signior Petruchio, fie! you are to blame.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2031"/></l><l>Come, Mistress Kate, I'll bear you company.
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2032"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><stage>Aside</stage><l>Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2033"/></l><l>Much good do it unto thy gentle heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2034"/></l><l>Kate, eat apace: and now, my honey love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2035"/></l><l>We will return unto thy father's house
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2036"/></l><l>And revel it as bravely as the best,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2037"/></l><l>With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2038"/></l><l>With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2039"/></l><l>With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2040"/></l><l>With amber bracelets, beads and all this knavery;
<lb ed="G" n="59"/><lb ed="F1" n="2041"/></l><l>What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2042"/></l><l>To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.
<lb ed="F1" n="2043"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter Tailor.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2044"/></l><l>Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2045"/><lb ed="F1" n="2046"/></l><l part="I">Lay forth the gown.
<stage type="entrance">              Enter Haberdasher.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">What news with you, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2047"/></l></sp><sp who="hab."><speaker>Hab.</speaker><l>Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2048"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, this was moulded on a porringer;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2049"/></l><l>A velvet dish: fie, fie! 'tis lewd and filthy:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2050"/></l><l>Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2051"/></l><l>A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2052"/></l><l>Away with it! come, let me have a bigger.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2053"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I'll have no bigger: this doth fit the time,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2054"/></l><l>And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2055"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2056"/></l><l part="I">And not till then.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2057"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><stage>Aside</stage><l part="F">That will not be in haste.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2058"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2059"/></l><l>And speak I will; I am no child, no babe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2060"/></l><l>Your betters have endured me say my mind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2061"/></l><l>And if you cannot, best you stop your ears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2062"/></l><l>My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2063"/></l><l>Or else my heart concealing it will break,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2064"/></l><l>And rather than it shall, I will be free
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2065"/></l><l>Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2066"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, thou say'st true; it is a paltry cap,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2067"/></l><l>A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2068"/></l><l>I love thee well, in that thou likest it not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2069"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Love me or love me not, I like the cap;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2070"/></l><l>And it I will have, or I will have none.

<stage type="exit">Exit Haberdasher.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2071"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Thy gown? why, ay: come, tailor, let us see 't.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2072"/></l><l>O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2073"/></l><l>What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demicannon:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2074"/></l><l>What, up and down, carved like an appletart?
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2075"/></l><l>Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2076"/></l><l>Like to a censer in a barber's shop:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2077"/></l><l>Why, what i' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2078"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><stage>Aside</stage><l>I see she's like to have neither cap nor gown.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2079"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><l>You bid me make it orderly and well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2080"/></l><l>According to the fashion and the time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2081"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Marry, and did; but if you be remember'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2082"/></l><l>I did not bid you mar it to the time.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2083"/></l><l>Go, hop me over every kennel home,
<lb ed="G" n="99"/><lb ed="F1" n="2084"/></l><l>For you shall hop without my custom, sir:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2085"/></l><l>I'll none of it: hence! make your best of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2086"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I never saw a better-fashion'd gown,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2087"/></l><l>More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2088"/></l><l>Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2089"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2090"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><l>She says your worship means to make a <lb ed="F1" n="2091"/>puppet of her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2092"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>O monstrous arrogance! <lb ed="F1" n="2093"/>Thou liest,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>thou thread, thou thimble,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2094"/></l><l>Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2095"/></l><l>Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2096"/></l><l>Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2097"/></l><l>Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2098"/></l><l>Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2099"/></l><l>As thou shall think on prating whilst thou livest!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2100"/></l><l>I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2101"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><l>Your worship is deceived; the gown is made
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2102"/></l><l>Just as my master had direction:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2103"/></l><l>Grumio gave order how it should be done.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2104"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>I gave him no order; I gave him the stuff.

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="2105"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><l>But how did you desire it should be made?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2106"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Marry, sir, with needle and thread.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2107"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><l>But didst you not request to have it cut?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2108"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Thou hast faced many things.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2109"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><l>I have.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2110"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Face not me: thou hast braved many
<lb ed="G"/>men; <lb ed="F1" n="2111"/>brave not me; I will neither be faced
<lb ed="G"/>nor braved. I say <lb ed="F1" n="2112"/>unto thee, I bid thy master
<lb ed="G"/>cut out the gown; but I did <lb ed="F1" n="2113"/>not bid him cut it
<lb ed="G"/>to pieces: ergo, thou liest.

<lb ed="G" n="131"/><lb ed="F1" n="2114"/></p></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><l>Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2115"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Read it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2116"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>The note lies in's throat, if he say I said so.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2117"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><stage>Reads</stage><l>'Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown:'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2118"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Master, if ever I said loose-bodied
<lb ed="G"/>gown, sew <lb ed="F1" n="2119"/>me in the skirts of it, and beat me
<lb ed="G"/>to death with a bottom <lb ed="F1" n="2120"/>of brown thread: I
<lb ed="G"/>said a gown.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2121"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Proceed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2122"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><stage>Reads</stage><l>'With a small compassed cape:'

<lb ed="G" n="141"/><lb ed="F1" n="2123"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>I confess the cape.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2124"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><stage>Reads</stage><l>'With a trunk sleeve:'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2125"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>I confess two sleeves.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2126"/></l></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><stage>Reads</stage><l>'The sleeves curiously cut.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2127"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Ay, there's the villany.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2128"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>Error i' the bill, sir; error i' the bill.
<lb ed="G"/>I commanded <lb ed="F1" n="2129"/>the sleeves should be cut out and
<lb ed="G"/>sewed up again; and <lb ed="F1" n="2130"/>that I'll prove upon thee,
<lb ed="G"/>though thy little finger be armed <lb ed="F1" n="2131"/>in a thimble.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2132"/></p></sp><sp who="tai."><speaker>Tai.</speaker><p>This is true that I say: an I had thee
<lb ed="G" n="151"/>in place <lb ed="F1" n="2133"/>where, thou shouldst know it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2134"/></p></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><p>I am for thee straight: take thou the
<lb ed="G"/>bill, give <lb ed="F1" n="2135"/>me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2136"/></p></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no <lb ed="F1" n="2137"/>odds.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2138"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2139"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>You are i' the right, sir; 'tis for my mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2140"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Go, take it up unto thy master's use.

<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="2141"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>Villain, not for thy life: take up my
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>mistress' <lb ed="F1" n="2142"/>gown for thy master's use!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2143"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2144"/></l></sp><sp who="gru."><speaker>Gru.</speaker><l>O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2145"/></l><l>Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2146"/></l><l>O, fie, fie, fie!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2147"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><stage>Aside</stage><l>Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2148"/></l><l>Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2149"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2150"/></l><l>Take no unkindness of his hasty words:
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="2151"/></l><l>Away! I say; commend me to thy master.
<stage type="exit">Exit Tailor.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2152"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2153"/></l><l>Even in these honest mean habiliments:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2154"/></l><l>Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2155"/></l><l>For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2156"/></l><l>And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2157"/></l><l>So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2158"/></l><l>What is the jay more precious than the lark,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2159"/></l><l>Because his feathers are more beautiful?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2160"/></l><l>Or is the adder better than the eel,
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="2161"/></l><l>Because his painted skin contents the eye?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2162"/></l><l>O, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2163"/></l><l>For this poor furniture and mean array,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2164"/></l><l>If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2165"/></l><l>And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2166"/></l><l>To feast and sport us at thy father's house.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2167"/></l><l>Go, call my men, and let us straight to him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2168"/></l><l>And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2169"/></l><l>There will we mount, and thither walk on foot.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2170"/></l><l>Let's see; I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2171"/></l><l>And well we may come there by dinner-time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2172"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2173"/></l><l>And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2174"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>It shall be seven ere I go to horse:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2175"/></l><l>Look, what I speak, or do, or think to do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2176"/></l><l>You are still crossing it. Sirs, let't alone:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2177"/></l><l>I will not go to-day; and ere I do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2178"/></l><l>It shall be what o'clock I say it is.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2179"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><stage>Aside</stage><l>Why, so this gallant will command the sun.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt. </stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2180"/><stage type="entrance">Enter TRANIO, and the Pedant dressed like VINCENTIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2181"/><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Sir, this is the house: please it you that I call?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2182"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>Ay, what else? and but I be deceived
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2183"/></l><l>Signior Baptista may remember me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2184"/></l><l>Near twenty years ago, in Genoa,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2185"/></l><l>Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2186"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>'Tis well; and hold your own, in any case,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2187"/></l><l>With such austerity as 'longeth to a father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2188"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2189"/><l part="I">I warrant you.
<stage type="entrance">               Enter BIONDELLO.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">But, sir, here comes your boy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2190"/></l><l>'Twere good he were school'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2191"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2192"/></l><l>Now do your duty thoroughly, I advise you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2193"/></l><l>Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2194"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Tut, fear not me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2195"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2196"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>I told him that your father was at Venice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2197"/></l><l>And that you look'd for him this day in Padua.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2198"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Thou'rt a tall fellow: hold thee that to drink.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2199"/></l><l>Here comes Baptista: set your countenance, sir.
<lb ed="F1" n="2200"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter BAPTISTA and LUCENTIO.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2201"/>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2202"/></l><l>Signior Baptista, you are happily met.
<stage>To the Pedant</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2203"/></l><l>Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2204"/></l><l>I pray you, stand good father to me now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2205"/></l><l>Give me Bianca for my patrimony.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2206"/></l></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><l>Soft, son!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2207"/></l><l>To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2208"/></l><l>Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2209"/></l><l>Of love between your daughter and himself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2210"/></l><l>And, for the good report I hear of you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2211"/></l><l>And for the love he beareth to your daughter
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2212"/></l><l>And she to him, to stay him not too long,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2213"/></l><l>I am content, in a good father's care,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2214"/></l><l>To have him match'd; and if you please to like
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2215"/></l><l>No worse than I, upon some agreement
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2216"/></l><l>Me shall you find ready and willing
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2217"/></l><l>With one consent to have her so bestow'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2218"/></l><l>For curious I cannot be with you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2219"/></l><l>Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2220"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Sir, pardon me in what I have to say:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2221"/></l><l>Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2222"/></l><l>Right true it is, your son Lucentio here
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2223"/></l><l>Doth love my daughter and she loveth him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2224"/></l><l>Or both dissemble deeply their affections:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2225"/></l><l>And therefore, if you say no more than this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2226"/></l><l>That like a father you will deal with him
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2227"/></l><l>And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2228"/></l><l>The match is made, and all is done:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2229"/></l><l>Your son shall have my daughter with consent.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2230"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2231"/></l><l>We be affied and such assurance ta'en
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2232"/></l><l>And shall with either part's agreement stand?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2233"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Not in my house, Lucentio; for, you know,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2234"/></l><l>Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2235"/></l><l>Besides, old Gremio is hearkening still;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2236"/></l><l>And happily we might be interrupted.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2237"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Then at my lodging, an it like you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2238"/></l><l>There doth my father lie; and there, this night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2239"/></l><l>We'll pass the business privately and well.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2240"/></l><l>Send for your daughter by your servant here;
<lb ed="G" n="59"/><lb ed="F1" n="2241"/></l><l>My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2242"/></l><l>The worst is this, that, at so slender warning,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2243"/></l><l>You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2244"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>It likes me well. <lb ed="F1" n="2245"/>Biondello, hie you home,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And bid Bianca make her ready <lb ed="F1" n="2246"/>straight:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2247"/></l><l>And, if you will, tell what hath happened,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2248"/></l><l>Lucentio's father is arrived in Padua,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2249"/></l><l>And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2250"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>I pray the gods she may with all my heart!
<lb ed="F1" n="2251"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2252"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.
<lb ed="F1" n="2253"/>
<stage type="exit">[Exit Bion. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2254"/></l><l>Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2255"/></l><l>Welcome! one mess is like to be your cheer:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2256"/></l><l>Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2257"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>I follow you.
<lb ed="F1" n="2258"/>
<stage type="exit">Exeunt Tranio, Pedant, and Baptista.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">             Re-enter BIONDELLO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2259"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Cambio!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2260"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>What sayest thou, Biondello?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2261"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>You saw my master wink and laugh upon <lb ed="F1" n="2262"/>you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2263"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Biondello, what of that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2264"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Faith, nothing; but he has left me
<lb ed="G"/>here behind, <lb ed="F1" n="2265"/>to expound the meaning or moral
<lb ed="G"/>of his signs and <lb ed="F1" n="2266"/>tokens.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2267"/></p></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>I pray thee, moralize them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2268"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Then thus. Baptista is safe, talking
<lb ed="G"/>with the <lb ed="F1" n="2269"/>deceiving father of a deceitful son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2270"/></p></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>And what of him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2271"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>His daughter is to be brought by you
<lb ed="G"/>to the <lb ed="F1" n="2272"/>supper.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2273"/></p></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>And then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2274"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>The old priest of Saint Luke's
<lb ed="G"/>church is at your <lb ed="F1" n="2275"/>command at all hours.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2276"/></p></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>And what of all this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2277"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>I cannot tell; expect they are busied
<lb ed="G"/>about a <lb ed="F1" n="2278"/>counterfeit assurance: take you assurance
<lb ed="G"/> of her, 'cum <lb ed="F1" n="2279"/>privilegio ad imprimendum
<lb ed="G"/> solum:' to the church; take the <lb ed="F1" n="2280"/>priest,
<lb ed="G"/>clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2281"/></p><l>If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2282"/></l><l>But bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2283"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Hearest thou, Biondello?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2284"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>I cannot tarry: I knew a wench
<lb ed="G"/>married in an <lb ed="F1" n="2285"/>afternoon as she went to the garden
<lb ed="G"/> for parsley to <lb ed="F1" n="2286"/>stuff a rabbit; and so may
<lb ed="G"/>you, sir: and so, adieu, sir. My <lb ed="F1" n="2287"/>master hath
<lb ed="G"/>appointed me to go to Saint Luke's, to bid <lb ed="F1" n="2288"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>priest be ready to come against you come with
<lb ed="G"/>your <lb ed="F1" n="2289"/>appendix.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2290"/></p></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>I may, and will, if she be so contented:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2291"/></l><l>She will be pleased; then wherefore should I doubt?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2292"/></l><l>Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2293"/></l><l>It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
<head>SCENE V</head>
<stage type="setting">A public road.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2294"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO, and Servants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2295"/><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Come on, i' God's name; once more toward our <lb ed="F1" n="2296"/>father's.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2297"/></l><l>Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2298"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight <lb ed="F1" n="2299"/>now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2300"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I say it is the moon that shines so bright.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2301"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>I know it is the sun that shines so bright.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2302"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2303"/></l><l>It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2304"/></l><l>Or ere I journey to your father's house.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2305"/></l><l>Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2306"/></l><l>Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2307"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Say as he says, or we shall never go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2308"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2309"/></l><l>And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2310"/></l><l>And if you please to call it a rush-candle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2311"/></l><l>Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2312"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="I">I say it is the moon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2313"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="F">I know it is the moon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2314"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2315"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2316"/></l><l>But sun it is not, when you say it is not;
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2317"/></l><l>And the moon changes even as your mind.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2318"/></l><l>What you will have it named, even that it is;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2319"/></l><l>And so it shall be so for Katharine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2320"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Petruchio, go thy ways; the field is won.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2321"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2322"/></l><l>And not unluckily against the bias.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2323"/></l><l>But, soft! company is coming here.
<lb ed="F1" n="2324"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter VINCENTIO.</stage>
<stage>To Vincentio</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2325"/></l><l>Good morrow, gentle mistress: where away?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2326"/></l><l>Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
<lb ed="G" n="29"/><lb ed="F1" n="2327"/></l><l>Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2328"/></l><l>Such war of white and red within her cheeks!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2329"/></l><l>What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2330"/></l><l>As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2331"/></l><l>Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2332"/></l><l>Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2333"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>A' will make the man mad, to make a woman <lb ed="F1" n="2334"/>of him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2335"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2336"/></l><l>Whither away, or where is thy abode?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2337"/></l><l>Happy the parents of so fair a child;
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2338"/></l><l>Happier the man, whom favourable stars
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2339"/></l><l>Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2340"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2341"/></l><l>This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2342"/></l><l>And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2343"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2344"/></l><l>That have been so bedazzled with the sun
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2345"/></l><l>That everything I look on seemeth green:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2346"/></l><l>Now I perceive thou art a reverend father;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2347"/></l><l>Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.

<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2348"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Do, good old grandsire; and withal make known
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2349"/></l><l>Which way thou travellest: if along with us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2350"/></l><l>We shall be joyful of thy company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2351"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l>Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2352"/></l><l>That with your strange encounter much amazed me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2353"/></l><l>My name is call'd Vincentio; my dwelling Pisa;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2354"/></l><l>And bound I am to Padua; there to visit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2355"/></l><l>A son of mine, which long I have not seen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2356"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="I">What is his name?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2357"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l part="F">Lucentio, gentle sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2358"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Happily met; the happier for thy son.
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2359"/></l><l>And now by law, as well as reverend age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2360"/></l><l>I may entitle thee my loving father:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2361"/></l><l>The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2362"/></l><l>Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2363"/></l><l>Nor be not grieved: she is of good esteem,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2364"/></l><l>Her dowry wealthy, and of worthy birth;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2365"/></l><l>Beside, so qualified as may beseem
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2366"/></l><l>The spouse of any noble gentleman.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2367"/></l><l>Let me embrace with old Vincentio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2368"/></l><l>And wander we to see thy honest son,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2369"/></l><l>Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2370"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l>But is this true? or is it else your pleasure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2371"/></l><l>Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2372"/></l><l>Upon the company you overtake?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2373"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>I do assure thee, father, so it is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2374"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Come, go along, and see the truth hereof;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2375"/></l><l>For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt all but Hortensio. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2376"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2377"/></l><l>Have to my widow! and if she be froward,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2378"/></l><l>Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward.
<stage type="exit">Exit. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
      </div1>
<div1 type="act" n="5">
<head>ACT V</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Padua. Before LUCENTIO's house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2379"/><stage type="mixed">GREMIO discovered. Enter behind BIONDELLO, LUCENTIO, and BIANCA.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2380"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2381"/><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Softly and swiftly, sir; for the priest is ready.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2382"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><p>I fly, Biondello: but they may chance
<lb ed="G"/> to need <lb ed="F1" n="2383"/>thee at home; therefore leave us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2384"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Nay, faith, I'll see the church o'your
<lb ed="G"/>back; <lb ed="F1" n="2385"/>and then come back to my master's as
<lb ed="G"/>soon as I can.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt Lucentio, Bianca, and Biondello.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2386"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>I marvel Cambio comes not all this while.
<lb ed="F1" n="2387"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, VINCENTIO,
GRUMIO, <lb ed="F1" n="2388"/>with Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2389"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Sir, here 's the door, this is Lucentio's house:
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2390"/></l><l>My father's bears more toward the marketplace;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2391"/></l><l>Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2392"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l>You shall not choose but drink before you go:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2393"/></l><l>I think I shall command your welcome here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2394"/></l><l>And, by all likelihood, some cheer is toward.
<stage>Knocks.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2395"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>They're busy within; you were best knock <lb ed="F1" n="2396"/>louder.
<lb ed="F1" n="2397"/><stage>Pedant looks out of the window.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2398"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>What's he that knocks as he would
<lb ed="G"/>beat down <lb ed="F1" n="2399"/>the gate?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2400"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2401"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>He's within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2402"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>What if a man bring him a hundred
<lb ed="G"/>pound or <lb ed="F1" n="2403"/>two, to make merry withal?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2404"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>Keep your hundred pounds to yourself:
<lb ed="G"/> he <lb ed="F1" n="2405"/>shall need none, so long as I live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2406"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><p>Nay, I told you your son was well beloved
<lb ed="G"/> in <lb ed="F1" n="2407"/>Padua. Do you hear, sir? To leave
<lb ed="G"/>frivolous circumstances, <lb ed="F1" n="2408"/>I pray you, tell Signior
<lb ed="G"/> Lucentio that his father is <lb ed="F1" n="2409"/>come from
<lb ed="G"/>Pisa and is here at the door to speak with
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2410"/>him.

<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="2411"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>Thou liest: his father is come from
<lb ed="G"/>Padua and <lb ed="F1" n="2412"/>here looking out at the window.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2413"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Art thou his father?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2414"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may
<lb ed="G"/>believe her.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2415"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><stage>To Vincentio</stage><p>Why, how now, gentleman!
<lb ed="G"/>why, this is flat knavery, <lb ed="F1" n="2416"/>to take upon
<lb ed="G"/>you another man's name.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2417"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>Lay hands on the villain: I believe a'
<lb ed="G"/>means <lb ed="F1" n="2418"/>to cozen somebody in this city under
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>my countenance.
<lb ed="F1" n="2419"/><stage type="entrance">             Re-enter BIONDELLO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2420"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>I have seen them in the church together:
<lb ed="G"/> God <lb ed="F1" n="2421"/>send 'em good shipping! But who
<lb ed="G"/>is here? mine old master <lb ed="F1" n="2422"/>Vincentio! now we
<lb ed="G"/>are undone and brought to <lb ed="F1" n="2423"/>nothing.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2424"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><stage>Seeing Biondello</stage><p>Come hither,
<lb ed="G"/>crack-hemp.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2425"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>I hope I may choose, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2426"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Come hither, you rogue. What, have
<lb ed="G" n="50"/>you forgot <lb ed="F1" n="2427"/>me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2428"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Forgot you! no, sir: I could not forget
<lb ed="G"/> you, for <lb ed="F1" n="2429"/>I never saw you before in all my
<lb ed="G"/>life.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2430"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>What, you notorious villain, didst
<lb ed="G"/>thou never <lb ed="F1" n="2431"/>see thy master's father, Vincentio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2432"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>What, my old worshipful master?
<lb ed="G"/> yes, <lb ed="F1" n="2433"/>marry, sir: see where he looks out of
<lb ed="G"/>the window.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2434"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Is't so, indeed?
<stage>Beats Biondello.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="61"/><lb ed="F1" n="2435"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>Help, help, help! here's a madman
<lb ed="G"/>will murder <lb ed="F1" n="2436"/>me.
<stage type="exit">Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2437"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>Help, son! help, Signior Baptista!
<stage type="exit">Exit from above.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2438"/></p></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><p>Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see
<lb ed="G"/>the end of <lb ed="F1" n="2439"/>this controversy.
<stage>They retire.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2440"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter Pedant below; TRANIO, BAPTISTA, and
Servants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2441"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>Sir, what are you that offer to beat my <lb ed="F1" n="2442"/>servant?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2443"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>What am I, sir! nay, what are you,
<lb ed="G"/>sir? O immortal <lb ed="F1" n="2444"/>gods! O fine villain! A silken
<lb ed="G"/>doublet! a velvet <lb ed="F1" n="2445"/>hose! a scarlet cloak! and a
<lb ed="G"/>copatain hat! O, I am <lb ed="F1" n="2446"/>undone! I am undone!
<lb ed="G"/>while I play the good husband <lb ed="F1" n="2447"/>at home, my
<lb ed="G"/>son and my servant spend all at the <lb ed="F1" n="2448"/>university.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2449"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>How now! what's the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2450"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>What, is the man lunatic?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2451"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><p>Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman
<lb ed="G"/> by <lb ed="F1" n="2452"/>your habit, but your words show you
<lb ed="G"/>a madman. Why, <lb ed="F1" n="2453"/>sir, what 'cerns it you if I
<lb ed="G"/>wear pearl and gold? I thank <lb ed="F1" n="2454"/>my good father,
<lb ed="G" n="79"/>I am able to maintain it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2455"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Thy father! O villain! he is a sailmaker
<lb ed="G"/> in <lb ed="F1" n="2456"/>Bergamo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2457"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir.
<lb ed="G"/>Pray, what do <lb ed="F1" n="2458"/>you think is his name?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2459"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>His name! as if I knew not his name:
<lb ed="G"/>I have <lb ed="F1" n="2460"/>brought him up ever since he was three
<lb ed="G"/>years old, and <lb ed="F1" n="2461"/>his name is Tranio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2462"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>Away, away, mad ass! his name is
<lb ed="G"/>Lucentio; and <lb ed="F1" n="2463"/>he is mine only son, and heir to
<lb ed="G" n="89"/>the lands of me, Signior <lb ed="F1" n="2464"/>Vincentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2465"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Lucentio!   O, he hath murdered his
<lb ed="G"/>master! Lay <lb ed="F1" n="2466"/>hold on him, I charge you, in
<lb ed="G"/>the duke's name. O, my <lb ed="F1" n="2467"/>son, my son! Tell me
<lb ed="G"/>thou villain, where is my son <lb ed="F1" n="2468"/>Lucentio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2469"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><p>Call forth an officer.
<stage type="entrance">          Enter one with an Officer.</stage></p>
<p>Carry this mad knave to <lb ed="F1" n="2470"/>the gaol. Father Baptista,
<lb ed="G"/> I charge you see that he be <lb ed="F1" n="2471"/>forthcoming.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2472"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Carry me to the gaol!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2473"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>Stay, officer: he shall not go to prison.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2474"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>Talk not, Signior Gremio: I say he
<lb ed="G" n="100"/>shall go to <lb ed="F1" n="2475"/>prison.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2476"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you
<lb ed="G"/>be cony-catched <lb ed="F1" n="2477"/>in this business: I dare swear
<lb ed="G"/>this is the right <lb ed="F1" n="2478"/>Vincentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2479"/></p></sp><sp who="ped."><speaker>Ped.</speaker><p>Swear, if thou darest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2480"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>Nay, I dare not swear it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2481"/></p></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><p>Then thou wert best say that I am not
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2482"/>Lucentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2483"/></p></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><p>Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2484"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>Away with the dotard! to the gaol
<lb ed="G" n="110"/>with him!
<lb ed="F1" n="2485"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2486"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Thus strangers may be haled and
<lb ed="G"/>abused: O monstrous <lb ed="F1" n="2487"/>villain!
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter BIONDELLO, with LUCENTIO and BIANCA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2488"/></p></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><p>O! we are spoiled and--yonder he
<lb ed="G"/>is: deny him, <lb ed="F1" n="2489"/>forswear him, or else we are all
<lb ed="G"/>undone.
<lb ed="F1" n="2490"/>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2491"/></p></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><stage>Kneeling</stage><l part="I">Pardon, sweet father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2492"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l part="F">Lives my sweet son?
<stage type="mixed">Exeunt Biondello, Tranio, and Pedant, as fast as may be.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2493"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l part="I">Pardon, dear father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2494"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l part="F">How hast thou offended?
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Where is Lucentio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2495"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="F">Here's Lucentio,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Right son to the right <lb ed="F1" n="2496"/>Vincentio;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2497"/></l><l>That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2498"/></l><l>While counterfeit supposes blear'd thine eyne.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2499"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Here's packing, with a witness, to deceive us all!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2500"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l>Where is that damned villain Tranio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2501"/></l><l>That faced and braved me in this matter so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2502"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2503"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Cambio is changed into Lucentio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2504"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Love wrought these miracles. Bianca's love
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2505"/></l><l>Made me exchange my state with Tranio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2506"/></l><l>While he did bear my countenance in the town;
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="2507"/></l><l>And happily I have arrived at the last
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2508"/></l><l>Unto the wished haven of my bliss.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2509"/></l><l>What Tranio did, myself enforced him to;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2510"/></l><l>Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2511"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>I'll slit the villain's nose, that would
<lb ed="G"/>have sent <lb ed="F1" n="2512"/>me to the gaol.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2513"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><p>But do you hear, sir? have you married
<lb ed="G"/> my <lb ed="F1" n="2514"/>daughter without asking my good
<lb ed="G"/>will?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2515"/></p></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><p>Fear not, Baptista; we will content
<lb ed="G"/>you, go to: <lb ed="F1" n="2516"/>but I will in, to be revenged for
<lb ed="G"/>this villany.
<stage type="exit">Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G" n="141"/><lb ed="F1" n="2517"/></p></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>And I, to sound the depth of this knavery.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2518"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Look not pale, Bianca; thy father will not frown.
<lb ed="F1" n="2519"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt Lucentio and Bianca.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2520"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>My cake is dough; but I'll be among the rest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2521"/></l><l>Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2522"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Husband, let's follow, to see the end of this ado.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2523"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>First kiss me, Kate, and we will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2524"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>What, in the midst of the street?

<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="2525"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>What, art thou ashamed of me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2526"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>No, sir, God forbid; but ashamed to kiss.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2527"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, then, let's home again. Come, sirrah, let's <lb ed="F1" n="2528"/>away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2529"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Nay, I will give thee a kiss: now pray thee, <lb ed="F1" n="2530"/>love, stay.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2531"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2532"/></l><l>Better once than never, for never too late.
<stage>Exeunt,</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
  <head>SCENE II</head><lb ed="F1" n="2533"/>
<stage type="setting">Padua. LUCENTIO'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2534"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BAPTISTA, VINCENTIO, GREMIO, the Pedant, LUCENTIO, <lb ed="F1" n="2535"/>BIANCA, PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO, and   Widow, TRANIO, BIONDELLO, and GRUMIO: <lb ed="F1" n="2536"/>the Serving-men with Tranio bringing <lb ed="F1" n="2537"/>in a banquet.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2538"/><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>At last, though long, our jarring notes agree:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2539"/></l><l>And time it is, when raging war is done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2540"/></l><l>To smile at scapes and perils overblown.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2541"/></l><l>My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2542"/></l><l>While I with self-same kindness welcome thine.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2543"/></l><l>Brother Petruchio, sister Katharina,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2544"/></l><l>And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2545"/></l><l>Feast with the best, and welcome to my house:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2546"/></l><l>My banquet is to close our stomachs up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2547"/></l><l>After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down;
<lb ed="G" n="11"/><lb ed="F1" n="2548"/></l><l>For now we sit to chat as well as eat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2549"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2550"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2551"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Padua affords nothing but what is kind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2552"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>For both our sakes, I would that word were true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2553"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2554"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l>Then never trust me, if I be afeard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2555"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>You are very sensible, and yet you miss my <lb ed="F1" n="2556"/>sense:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2557"/></l><l>I mean, Hortensio is afeard of you.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2558"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l>He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2559"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="I">Roundly replied.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2560"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="F">Mistress, how mean you that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2561"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l>Thus I conceive by him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2562"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Conceives by me!   How likes Hortensio that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2563"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>My widow says, thus she conceives her tale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2564"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good <lb ed="F1" n="2565"/>widow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2566"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>'He that is giddy thinks the world turns round:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2567"/></l><l>I pray you, tell me what you meant by that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2568"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l>Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2569"/></l><l>Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe:
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2570"/></l><l>And now you know my meaning.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2571"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l part="I">A very mean meaning.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2572"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l part="F">Right, I mean you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2573"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>And I am mean indeed, respecting you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2574"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>To her, Kate!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2575"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>To her, widow!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2576"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2577"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>That's my office.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2578"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Spoke like an officer: ha' to thee, lad!
<lb ed="F1" n="2579"/><stage>Drinks to Hortensio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2580"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>How like Gremio these quick-witted folks?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2581"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l>Believe me. sir, they butt together well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2582"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Head, and butt! an hasty-witted body
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="2583"/></l><l>Would say your head and butt were head and horn.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2584"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l>Ay, mistress bride, hath that awaken'd you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2585"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Ay, but not frighted me; therefore I'll sleep <lb ed="F1" n="2586"/>again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2587"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Nay, that you shall not: since you have begun,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2588"/></l><l>Have at you for a bitter jest or two!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2589"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2590"/></l><l>And then pursue me as you draw your bow.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2591"/></l><l>You are welcome all.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt Bianca, Katharina, and Widow.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2592"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2593"/></l><l>This bird you aim'd at, though you hit her not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2594"/></l><l>Therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2595"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>O, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2596"/></l><l>Which runs himself and catches for his master.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2597"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>A good swift simile, but something currish.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2598"/></l></sp><sp who="tra."><speaker>Tra.</speaker><l>'Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2599"/></l><l>'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2600"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>O ho, Petruchio! Tranio hits you now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2601"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2602"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Confess, confess, hath he not hit you here?

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2603"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>A' has a little gall'd me, I confess;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2604"/></l><l>And, as the jest did glance away from me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2605"/></l><l>'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2606"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2607"/></l><l>I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2608"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Well, I say no: and therefore for assurance
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2609"/></l><l>Let's each one send unto his wife;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2610"/></l><l>And he whose wife is most obedient
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2611"/></l><l>To come at first when he doth send for her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2612"/></l><l>Shall win the wager which we will propose.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2613"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="I">Content. What is the wager?

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2614"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="F">Twenty crowns.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2615"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Twenty crowns!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2616"/></l><l>I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2617"/></l><l>But twenty times so much upon my wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2618"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="I">A hundred then.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2619"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="M">Content.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2620"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="F">A match! 'tis done.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2621"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="I">Who shall begin?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2622"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l part="F">That will I.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2623"/></l><l>Go. Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2624"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>I go.
<stage type="exit">Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2625"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Son, I'll be your half. Bianca comes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2626"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>I'll have no halves; I'll bear it all myself.
<lb ed="F1" n="2627"/><stage type="entrance">             Re-enter BIONDELLO.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2628"/></l><l>How now! what news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2629"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>Sir, my mistress sends you word
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2630"/></l><l>That she is busy and she cannot come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2631"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>How! she is busy and she cannot come!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Is that <lb ed="F1" n="2632"/>an answer?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2633"/></l></sp><sp who="gre."><speaker>Gre.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, and a kind one too:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2634"/></l><l>Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2635"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I hope, better.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2636"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">To <lb ed="F1" n="2637"/>come to me forthwith.
<stage type="exit">Exit Bion.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2638"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="F">O, ho! entreat her!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Nay, then she must needs <lb ed="F1" n="2639"/>come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2640"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="F">I am afraid, sir,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Do what you can, <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2641"/><lb ed="F1" n="2642"/>yours will not be entreated.
<stage type="entrance">              Re-enter BIONDELLO.</stage>
<lb ed="G" n="90"/></l><l>Now, where's my wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2643"/></l></sp><sp who="bion."><speaker>Bion.</speaker><l>She says you have some goodly jest in hand:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2644"/></l><l>She will not come; she bids you come to her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2645"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Worse and worse; she will not come! O vile,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2646"/></l><l>Intolerable, not to be endured!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2647"/></l><l>Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2648"/></l><l>Say, I command her come to me.
<stage type="exit">Exit Grumio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2649"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="I">I know her answer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2650"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l part="M">What?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2651"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l part="F">She will not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2652"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.
<lb ed="F1" n="2653"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2654"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Now, by my holidame, here comes Katharina!
<stage type="entrance">             Re-enter KATHARINA.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="2655"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>What is your will, sir, that you send for me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2656"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Where is your sister, and Hortensio's wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2657"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>They sit conferring by the parlour fire.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2658"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Go, fetch them hither: if they deny to come,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2659"/></l><l>Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2660"/></l><l>Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.
<stage type="exit">Exit Katharina.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2661"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2662"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>And so it is: I wonder what it bodes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2663"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Marry, peace it bodes, and love and quiet life:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2664"/></l><l>And awful rule and right supremacy;
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="2665"/></l><l>And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2666"/></l></sp><sp who="bap."><speaker>Bap.</speaker><l>Now, fair befal thee, good Petruchio!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2667"/></l><l>The wager thou hast won; and I will add
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2668"/></l><l>Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2669"/></l><l>Another dowry to another daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2670"/></l><l>For she is changed, as she had never been.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2671"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Nay, I will win my wager better yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2672"/></l><l>And show more sign of her obedience,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2673"/></l><l>Her new-built virtue and obedience.
<lb ed="F1" n="2674"/>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2675"/></l><l>See where she comes and brings your froward wives
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="2676"/></l><l>As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.
<stage type="entrance">   Re-enter KATHARINA, with BIANCA and Widow</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2677"/></l><l>Katharina, that cap of yours becomes you not:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2678"/></l><l>Off with that bauble, throw it under-foot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2679"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l>Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2680"/></l><l>Till I be brought to such a silly pass!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2681"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Fie! what a foolish duty call you this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2682"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>I would your duty were as foolish too:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2683"/></l><l>The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2684"/></l><l>Hath cost me an hundred crowns since supper-time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2685"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>The more fool you, for laying on my duty.

<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="2686"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Katharine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong <lb ed="F1" n="2687"/>women
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>What duty they do owe their lords and <lb ed="F1" n="2688"/>husbands.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2689"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l>Come, come, you're mocking: we will have no <lb ed="F1" n="2690"/>telling.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2691"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Come on, I say; and first begin with her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2692"/></l></sp><sp who="wid."><speaker>Wid.</speaker><l>She shall not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2693"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>I say she shall: and first begin with her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2694"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><l>Fie, fie!   unknit that threatening unkind brow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2695"/></l><l>And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2696"/></l><l>To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2697"/></l><l>It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="2698"/></l><l>Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2699"/></l><l>And in no sense is meet or amiable.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2700"/></l><l>A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2701"/></l><l>Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2702"/></l><l>And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2703"/></l><l>Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2704"/></l><l>Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2705"/></l><l>Thy head, they sovereign; one that cares for thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2706"/></l><l>And for thy maintenance commits his body
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2707"/></l><l>To painful labour both by sea and land,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2708"/></l><l>To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
<lb ed="G" n="151"/><lb ed="F1" n="2709"/></l><l>Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2710"/></l><l>And craves no other tribute at thy hands
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2711"/></l><l>But love, fair looks and true obedience;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2712"/></l><l>Too little payment for so great a debt.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2713"/></l><l>Such duty as the subject owes the prince
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2714"/></l><l>Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2715"/></l><l>And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2716"/></l><l>And not obedient to his honest will,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2717"/></l><l>What is she but a foul contending rebel
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="2718"/></l><l>And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2719"/></l><l>I am ashamed that women are so simple
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2720"/></l><l>To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2721"/></l><l>Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2722"/></l><l>When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2723"/></l><l>Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2724"/></l><l>Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2725"/></l><l>But that our soft conditions and our hearts
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2726"/></l><l>Should well agree with our external parts?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2727"/></l><l>Come, come, you froward and unable worms
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="2728"/></l><l>My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2729"/></l><l>My heart as great, my reason haply more,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2730"/></l><l>To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2731"/></l><l>But now I see our lances are but straws,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2732"/></l><l>Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2733"/></l><l>That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2734"/></l><l>Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2735"/></l><l>And place your hands below your husband's foot:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2736"/></l><l>In token of which duty, if he please,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2737"/></l><l>My hand is ready; may it do him ease.

<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="2738"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Why, there's a wench!   Come on, and kiss me, <lb ed="F1" n="2739"/>Kate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2740"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt ha't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2741"/></l></sp><sp who="vin."><speaker>Vin.</speaker><l>'Tis a good hearing when children are toward.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2742"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>But a harsh hearing when women are froward.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2743"/></l></sp><sp who="pet."><speaker>Pet.</speaker><l>Come, Kate, we'll to bed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2744"/></l><l>We three are married, but you two are sped.
<stage>To Luc.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2745"/></l><l>'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2746"/></l><l>And, being a winner, God give you good night!
<lb ed="F1" n="2747"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt Petruchio and Katharina. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2748"/></l></sp><sp who="hor."><speaker>Hor.</speaker><l>Now, go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst <lb ed="F1" n="2749"/>shrew.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2750"/></l></sp><sp who="luc."><speaker>Luc.</speaker><l>'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.
<stage type="exit">Exeunt. </stage>

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