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TRANIO
Sir, this is the house. Please it you that I call?
PEDANT
Ay, what else. And but I be deceived,
Signor Baptista may remember me
Near twenty years ago in Genoa—
Signor Baptista may remember me
Near twenty years ago in Genoa—
TRANIO
Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.—
Tis well, and hold your own in any case
With such austerity as ‘longeth to a father.
Tis well, and hold your own in any case
With such austerity as ‘longeth to a father.
Enter Biondello
PEDANT
I warrant you. But sir, here comes your boy.
’Twere good he were schooled.
’Twere good he were schooled.
TRANIO
Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,
Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.
Imagine ’twere the right Vincentio.
Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.
Imagine ’twere the right Vincentio.
BIONDELLO Tut, fear not me.
TRANIO
But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?
BIONDELLO
I told him that your father was at Venice
And that you looked for him this day in Padua.
And that you looked for him this day in Padua.
TRANIO (
giving money
)
giving money
)
Thou’rt a tall fellow. Hold thee that to drink.
Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, sir.
Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, sir.
Enter Baptista, and Lucentio as Cambio
TRANIO
Signor Baptista, you are happily met.
(
To the Pedant
) Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of.
I pray you stand good father to me now.
Give me Bianca for my patrimony.
(
To the Pedant
) Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of.
I pray you stand good father to me now.
Give me Bianca for my patrimony.
PEDANT
Soft, son. (
To Baptista
) Sir, by your leave, having
come to Padua
To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
Of love between your daughter and himself,
And for the good report I hear of you,
And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
And she to him, to stay him not too long
I am content in a good father’s care
To have him matched, and if you please to like
No worse than I, upon some agreement
Me shall you find ready and willing
With one consent to have her so bestowed,
For curious I cannot be with you,
Signor Baptista, of whom I hear so well.
To Baptista
) Sir, by your leave, having
come to Padua
To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
Of love between your daughter and himself,
And for the good report I hear of you,
And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
And she to him, to stay him not too long
I am content in a good father’s care
To have him matched, and if you please to like
No worse than I, upon some agreement
Me shall you find ready and willing
With one consent to have her so bestowed,
For curious I cannot be with you,
Signor Baptista, of whom I hear so well.
BAPTISTA
Sir, pardon me in what I have to say.
Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
Right true it is your son Lucentio here
Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,
Or both dissemble deeply their affections.
And therefore if you say no more than this,
That like a father you will deal with him
And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
The match is made, and all is done.
Your son shall have my daughter with consent.
Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
Right true it is your son Lucentio here
Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,
Or both dissemble deeply their affections.
And therefore if you say no more than this,
That like a father you will deal with him
And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
The match is made, and all is done.
Your son shall have my daughter with consent.
TRANIO
I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best
We be affied, and such assurance ta’en
As shall with either part’s agreement stand?
We be affied, and such assurance ta’en
As shall with either part’s agreement stand?
BAPTISTA
Not in my house, Lucentio, for you know
Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants.
Besides, old Gremio is heark’ning still,
And happily we might be interrupted.
Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants.
Besides, old Gremio is heark’ning still,
And happily we might be interrupted.
TRANIO
Then at my lodging, an it like you.
There doth my father lie, and there this night
We’ll pass the business privately and well.
Send for your daughter by your servant here.
My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
The worst is this, that at so slender warning
You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.
There doth my father lie, and there this night
We’ll pass the business privately and well.
Send for your daughter by your servant here.
My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
The worst is this, that at so slender warning
You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.
BAPTISTA
It likes me well. Cambio, hie you home
And bid Bianca make her ready straight,
And if you will, tell what hath happened—
Lucentio’s father is arrived in Padua—
And how she’s like to be Lucentio’s wife.
And bid Bianca make her ready straight,
And if you will, tell what hath happened—
Lucentio’s father is arrived in Padua—
And how she’s like to be Lucentio’s wife.
Exit
LucentioBIONDELLO
I pray the gods she may with all my heart.
TRANIO
Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.
Exit BiondelloSignor Baptista, shall I lead the way?
Welcome. One mess is like to be your cheer.
Come, sir, we will better it in Pisa.
Welcome. One mess is like to be your cheer.
Come, sir, we will better it in Pisa.
BAPTISTA I follow you.
Exeunt
4.5Enter Lucentio and Biondello
BIONDELLO Cambio.
LUCENTIO What sayst thou, Biondello?
BIONDELLO You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?
LUCENTIO Biondello, what of that?
BIONDELLO Faith, nothing, but he’s left me here behind to expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.
LUCENTIO I pray thee, moralize them.
BIONDELLO Then thus: Baptista is safe, talking with the deceiving father of a deceitful son.
LUCENTIO And what of him?
BIONDELLO His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.
LUCENTIO And then?
BIONDELLO The old priest at Saint Luke’s church is at your command at all hours.
LUCENTIO And what of all this?
BIONDELLO I cannot tell, except they are busied about a counterfeit assurance. Take you assurance of her
cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum—
to th’ church take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses. If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say, But bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day.
cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum—
to th’ church take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses. If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say, But bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day.
LUCENTIO Hear’st thou, Biondello?
BIONDELLO I cannot tarry, I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit, and so may you, sir, and so adieu, sir. My master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke’s to bid the priest be ready t’attend against you come with your appendix. Exit
LUCENTIO
I may and will, if she be so contented.
She will be pleased, then wherefore should I doubt?
Hap what hap may, I’ll roundly go about her.
It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.
She will be pleased, then wherefore should I doubt?
Hap what hap may, I’ll roundly go about her.
It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.
Exit
4.6Enter Petruccio, Katherine, Hortensio, and servants
PETRUCCIO
Come on, i’ God’s name. Once more toward our father’s.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
KATHERINE
The moon?—the sun. It is not moonlight now.
PETRUCCIO
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
KATHERINE
I know it is the sun that shines so bright. 5
PETRUCCIO
Now, by my mother’s son—and that’s myself—
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list
Or ere I journey to your father’s house.
Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed.
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list
Or ere I journey to your father’s house.
Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed.
HORTENSIO
(to Katherine)
(to Katherine)
Say as he says or we shall never go.
KATHERINE
Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon or sun or what you please,
And if you please to call it a rush-candle
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
And be it moon or sun or what you please,
And if you please to call it a rush-candle
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
PETRUCCIO
I say it is the moon.
KATHERINE
I know it is the moon.
PETRUCCIO
Nay then you lie, it is the blessed sun.
KATHERINE
Then God be blessed, it is the blessèd sun,
But sun it is not when you say it is not,
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it named, even that it is,
And so it shall be still for Katherine.
But sun it is not when you say it is not,
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it named, even that it is,
And so it shall be still for Katherine.
HORTENSIO
Petruccio, go thy ways. The field is won.
PETRUCCIO
Well, forward, forward. Thus the bowl should run,
And not unluckily against the bias.
But soft, company is coming here.
And not unluckily against the bias.
But soft, company is coming here.
Enter old Vincentio
(
To Vincentio
) Good morrow, gentle mistress, where
away?
Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman,
Such war of white and red within her cheeks?
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty’s sake.
To Vincentio
) Good morrow, gentle mistress, where
away?
Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman,
Such war of white and red within her cheeks?
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty’s sake.
HORTENSIO A will make the man mad to make the woman of him.
KATHERINE
Young budding virgin, fair, and fresh, and sweet,
Whither away, or where is thy abode?
Happy the parents of so fair a child,
Happier the man whom favourable stars
Allots thee for his lovely bedfellow.
Whither away, or where is thy abode?
Happy the parents of so fair a child,
Happier the man whom favourable stars
Allots thee for his lovely bedfellow.
PETRUCCIO
Why, how now, Kate, I hope thou art not mad.
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered,
And not a maiden as thou sayst he is.
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered,
And not a maiden as thou sayst he is.
KATHERINE
Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes
That have been so bedazzled with the sun
That everything I look on seemeth green.
Now I perceive thou art a reverend father.
Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
That have been so bedazzled with the sun
That everything I look on seemeth green.
Now I perceive thou art a reverend father.
Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
PETRUCCIO
Do, good old grandsire, and withal make known
Which way thou travell’st. If along with us,
We shall be joyful of thy company.
Which way thou travell’st. If along with us,
We shall be joyful of thy company.
VINCENTIO
Fair sir, and you, my merry mistress,
That with your strange encounter much amazed me,
My name is called Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,
And bound I am to Padua, there to visit
A son of mine which long I have not seen.
That with your strange encounter much amazed me,
My name is called Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,
And bound I am to Padua, there to visit
A son of mine which long I have not seen.
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