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Gre. I doubt it not, Sir, but will curfe your wooing. Neighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am fure of it. To exprefs the like kindness myself, that have been more kindly beholden to you than any, free leave give to this young fcholar, that hath been long ftudying at Rheims, [Prefenting Luc.] as cunning in Greek, Latin, and other languages, as the other in mufic and mathematics; his name is Cambio; pray, accept his fervice.

Bap. A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio ; wel come, good Cambio. But, gentle Sir, methinks you walk like a firanger; [To Tranio.] may 1 be fo bold to know the caufe of your coming?

Tra. Pardon me, Sir, the boldnels is mine own,
That, being a ftranger in this city here,
Do make myself a fuitor to your daughter,
Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous :

Nor is your firm refolve unknown to me,
In the préferment of the elder sister. :
This liberty is all that I request,

That, upon knowledge of my parentage,

I may have welcome 'mongst the reft that wool,
And free accefs and favour as the rest.

And toward the education of your daughters,
I here beftow a fimple intrument,

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fuch a bomber of instances, to fufpect the editors ever dwelt on the meaning of any passage. But why hould Petruchio curle his woping neg bours? They were none of them nor, though he fhould curfe his own match afterwards did he commence his courtship on their accounts. In fhort, Gremio is defigned to answer to Petruchio in dog. grel rhyme, to this purpose, Yes; I know you would fain be doing; but you'll cope, a devil, that : and then im

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mediately turns his difcourfe to Baptista, whom he calls Neighbour, (as he had done before at the beginning of this fcene,) and makes his prefent to him.

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And this fmall packet of Greek and Latin books.
If you accept them, then their worth is great.
[They greet privately
Bap. Lucentio is your name? of whence I pray?
Tra. Of Pisa, Sir, fon to Vincention: 1 st
Bap. A mighty man of Pifa; by report 14:
I know him well; you are very welcome, Sir.
Take you the lute, and you the fet of books,

[To Hortenfio and Lucentio..

You fhall go fee your pupils presently.

Holla, within!.

Sirrah, lead these gentlemen

To my two daughters; and then tell them both,
These are their tutors, bid them use them well.
[Exit Serv. with Hortenfio and Lucentio.
We will go walk a little in the orchard,

And then to dinner. You are paffing welcome,
And fo, I pray you all, to think yourselves.

Pet. Signior Baptifta, my business afketh hafte,
And every day. I cannot come to woo.
You knew my father well, and in him me,
Left folely heir to all his lands and goods,
Which I have bettered, rather than decreased;
Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,
What dowry fhall I have with her to wife s 4.
Bap. After my death, the one half of my lands
And, in poffeffion, twenty thousand crowns.
Pet. And for that dowry, I'll affure her at
Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
In all my lands and leafes whatsoever;
Let fpecialties be therefore drawn between us,
That covenants may be kept on either hand.

Bap. Ay, when the special thing is well obtained, That is, her love; for that is all in all.

Pet. Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as the proud-minded.~ And where two raging fires meet together, They do confume the thing that feeds their fury: Tho' little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme guits will blow out fire and all: So I to her, and fo the yields to me; For I am rough, and woo not like a babe.

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Bap. Well may'ft thou woo, and happy be thy '! fpeed!...

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But, be thou armed for some unhappy words.
Pet. Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,
That shake not, tho' they blow perpetually.

Enter HORTENSIO with his Head broke.

Bap. How now, my friend; why dost thou look fo pale?

Hor. For fear, I promise you, if I look pale. Bap. What, will my daughter prove a good

musician?

Hor. I think he'll fooner prove a foldier; Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.

Bap. Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?

Hor. Why, no; for fhe hath broke the lute to me. I did but tell her the mistook her frets,

And bowed her hand to teach her fingering,
When, with a moft impatient devilish fpirit,
Frets call you them? quoth the: I'll fume with them:
And with that word the ftruck me on the head,
And through the inftrument my pate made way,
And there I food amazed for a while,

As on a pillory, looking through the lute:
While fhe did call me rafcal, fiddler,

And twangling Jack, with twenty fuch vile terms,
As the had ftudied to mifufe me fo.

Pet. Now, by the world it isia lufty wench
I love her ten times more than e'er I did;
Oh, how I long to have fome chat with her!

Bap. Well, go with me, and be not fo discomfited: Proceed in practice with my younger daughter,! She's apt to learn, and thankful for good turns. Signior Petruchio, will you go with us? I& Or fhall. I fend my daughter Kate to you?

Pet. I pray you, do. dowillattend her here:

[Exit Bap. with Grem. Horten. and Tranio. And woo her with fome fpirit when fhe comes. I Say that the rail; why, then I'll tell her plain, She fings as fweetly as a nightingale: Say that the frowns; I'll fay the looks as clear As morning rofes newly washed with dew: Say the be mute, and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, And fay the uttereth piercing eloquence:" If the do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks, As tho' fhe bid me stay by her a week: If the deny to wed, I'll crave the day

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When I fhall ask the banns, and when be married? But here the comés, and now Petruchio speak. Enter CATHARINA,

Good-morrow, Kate, for that's your name, I hear. Cath. Well have you heard, but fomething hard of hearing.

They call me Catharine, that do talk of me.

Pet. You lie, in faith, for you are called plain
Kate;

And bonny Kate, and fometimes Kate the curft:
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Katehall, my fuper-dainty Kate,

(For dainties are all Cates) and therefore Kate;
Take this of me, Kate of my confolation!··

Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,
Thy virtues fpoke of, and thy beauty founded,
Yet not fo deeply as to thee belongs,

Myfelf am moved to woo thee for my wife.

Cath. Moved! in good time; let him that moved you hither,

Remove you hence; I knew you at the first

You were a moveable.

Pet. Why, what's a moveable ?

Catb. A joined ftool.

Pet. Thou haft hit it; come, fit on me.

Cath. Alles are made to bear, and fo are you. Pet. Women are made to bear, and fo are you. Cath. No fuch jade, Sir, as you; if me you mean. Pet. Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee; For knowing thee to be but young and lightCath. Too light for fuch a fwain as you to catch; And yet as heavy as my weight fhould be. -fhould buz.

Pet. Should bee

Cath. Well ta'en, and like a buzzard.

Pet. Oh, flow-winged turtle, fhall a buzzard take thee?

Cath. Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.
Pet. Come, come, you wafp, i'faith you are too
angry.

Cath. If I be wafpifh, 'beft beware my, fting.
Pet. My remedy is then to pluck it out.

Cath. Ay, if the fool could find it, where it lyes.
Pet. Who knows not where a wafp doth wear
his fting?

In his tail.

Cath. In his tongue.

Pet. Whofe tongue?

Cath. Yours, if you talk of tails; and fo farewel.
Pet. What, with my tongue in your tail? nay

come again,

Good Kate, I am a gentleman.

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