Nor a musician, as I seem to be; him. Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow- [Exit HORTENSIO.-LUCENTIO and Tra. Mistress Bianca, bless you with such Tra. Ay, and he'll tame her. He says so, Tranio. Tra. Faith, he is gone unto the tamingschool. [such a place? Bian. The taming-school! what, is there Tra. Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master; As if he were the right Vincentio. Ped. God save you, sir! Tra. And you, sir! you are welcome. Travel you far on, or are you at the furthest? Ped. Sir, at the furthest for a week or two: But then up further; and as far as Rome; And so to Tripoly, if God lend me life. Tra. What countryman, I pray? Of Mantua. Trd. Of Mantua, sir?-marry, God forbid! And come to Padua, careless of your life? Ped. My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard. Ped. Tra. 'Tis death for any one in Mantua To come to Padua; Know you not the cause? Your ships are staid at Venice; and the duke (For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him,) Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly: 'Tis marvel; but that you're but newly come, You might have heard it else proclaim'd about. Ped. Alas, sir, it is worse for me than so; For I have bills for money by exchange From Florence, and must here deliver them. Tra. Well, sir, to do you courtesy, This will I do, and this will I advise you ;First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa? Ped. Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been;" Pisa, renowned for grave citizens. [tio? Tra. Among them, know you one VincenPed. I know him not, but I have heard of A merchant of incomparable wealth. [him; Tra. He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say, In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. Bion. As much as an apple doth an oyster, and all one. [Åside. Tra. To save your life in this extremity, This favour will I do you for his sake; And think it not the worst of all your fortunes, That you are like to sir Vincentio. His name and credit shall you undertake, And in my house you shall be friendly lodged;Look, that you take upon you as you should; You understand me, sir;-so shall you stay Till you have done your business in the city: If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it. [good. Ped. O, sir, I do; and will repute you ever That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,The patron of my life and liberty. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Enter BIONDELLO, running. Bion. O'master, master, I have watch'd so That I'm dog-weary; but at last I spied [long An ancient angelt coming down the hill, Will serve the turn. What is he, Biondello? Bion. Master, a mercatante, or a pedant, I know not what; but formal in apparel, In gait and countenance surely like a father. Luc. And what of him, Tranio? Tra. Tra. If he be credulous, and trust my tale, I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio; And give assurance to Baptista Minola, Tra. Then go with me, to make the matter This, by the way, I let you understand!My father is here look'd for every day, To pass assurance of a dower in marriage Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here: In all these circumstances I'll instruct you: Go with me, sir, to clothe you as becomes you. [Exeunt. SCENE III. A Room in Petruchio's House. Enter KATHARINA and GRUMIO. Gru. No, no; forsooth; I dare not, for my life. [appears: Kath. The more my wrong, the more his spite What, did he marry me to famish me? A merchant, or a schoolmaster. Beggars, that come unto my father's door, Upon entreaty, have a present alms; If not, elsewhere they meet with charity: But I,-who never knew how to entreat,Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep: With oaths kept waking, and with brawling fed: [wants, And that which spites me more than all these He does it under name of perfect love; As who should say,-if I should sleep, or eat, 'Twere deadly sickness, or else present death. 1 pr'ythee go, and get me some repast; I care not what, so it be wholesome food. Gru. What say you to a neat's foot? Kath. 'Tis passing good; I pr'ythee let me have it. Gru. I fear, it is too choleric a meat :How say you to a fat tripe, finely broil'd? Kath. I like it well; good Grumio, fetch it me. tard rest. Gru. I cannot tell; I fear, 'tis choleric. What say you to a piece of beef, and mustard? Kath. A dish that I do love to feed upon. Gru. Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little. Kath. Why, then the beef, and let the mus [the mustard, Gru. Nay, then I will not; you shall have Or else you get no beef of Grumio. [wilt. Kath. Then both, or one, or any thing thou Gru.Why,then the mustard without the beef. Kath. Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave, [Beats him. That feed'st me with the very name of meat: Sorrow on thee, and all the pack of you, That triumph thus upon my misery! Go, get thee gone, I say. Eater PETRUCHIO with a dish of meat; and HORTENSIO. Pet. How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, upon me. Here, love; thou see'st how diligent I am, To dress thy meat myself, and bring it thee: [Sets the dish on a table. I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks. [not; What, not a word? Nay, then, thou lovest it And all my pains is sorted to no proof:Here, take away this dish. Kath. Pray you, let it stand. Pet. The poorest service is repaid with thanks; And so shall mine, before you touch the meat. Kath. I thank you, sir. [blame! Hor. Signior Petruchio, fie! you are to Come, mistress Kate, I'll bear you company. Pet. Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest [Aside. Much good do it unto thy gentle heart! With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings, Dispirited; a gallicism. term for raised crust. Finery. With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments; Lay forth the gown.-What news with you, And gentlewomen wear such caps as these. to speak; And speak I will; I am no child, no babe: A O mercy, God! what masking stuff is here! What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon: What! up and down, carved like an apple-tart? Here's snip,and nip,and cut,and slish, and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop:-[this? Why, what, o' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou Hor. I see, she's like to have neither cap nor gown. [Aside. Tai. You bid me make it orderly and well, According to the fashion, and the time. Pet. Marry, and did; but if you be remem I did not bid you mar it to the time. [ber'd, Go, hop me over every kennel home, For you shall hop without my custom, sir I'll none of it; hence, make your best of it. Kath, I never saw a better-fashion'd gown, More quaint, more pleasing, nor more com mendable: Belike, you mean to make a puppet of me, Pet. Why, true; he means to make a pup pet of thee. Tai. She says, your worship means to make a puppet of her. [thon thread, Pet. O monstrous arrogance! Thon liest, Thou thimble Rustling.* 6. A coffin was the culinary These censers resembled our brasiers in shape. Curious Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, | Go take it hence; begone, and say no more. nail, Thon flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou:Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread! Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant; Gru. Face not me: thou hast braved many men; brave not me; I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto thee,-I bid thy master cut out the gown; but I did not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest. Tai. Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify. Pet, Read it.. Gru. The note lies in his throat, if he say I said so. Tai. Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown: Gru. Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread: I said, a gown. Pet. Proceed. Tai. With a small compassed capet; Tai. With a trunk sleeve ;—— Gru. Error i'the bill, sir; error i'the bill. I commanded the sleeves should be cut out, and sewed up again; and that I'll prove upon thee, though thy little finger be armed in a thimble. Tai. This is true, that I say; an I had thee in place where, thou shouldst know it. Gru. I am for thee straight: take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yards, and spare not me. Hor. God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds. Pet. Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me. Gru. You are i'the right, sir; 'tis for my mistress, Pet. Go, take it up to thy master's use. Gru. Villain, not for thy life: Take up my mistress' gown for thy master's use ! Pet. Why, sir, what's your conceit in that? Gru. O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for: Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use! O, fie, fie, fie! Pet. Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid : Be-measure. [Aside. Hor. Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown to morrow. Take no unkindness of his hasty words: Away, I say; commend me to thy master. [Exit Tailor. Pet. Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments; So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Kath. Idare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two; Hor. Why, so! this gallant will command the sun. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Padua. Before Baptista's House. Enter TRANIO, and the Pedant dressed like VINCENTIO. Tra. Sir, this is the house; Please it you, that I call ? Ped. Ay, what else? and, but I be deceived, Signior Baptista may remember me, Near twenty years ago, in Genoa, where We were lodgers at the Pegasus. Tra. Tis well; And hold your own, in any case, with such Austerity as 'longeth to a father. Enter BIONDELLO. Ped. I warrant you: But, sir, here comes Twere good, he were school'd. [your boy; Tra. Fear you not him. Sirrah, Biondello, Now do your duty throughly, I advise you; Imagine were the right Vincentio. Bion. Tut! fear not me. Tra. But hast thou done thine errand to Baptista? [Venice; Bion. I told him, that your father was at And that you look'd for him this day in Padu 1. Tra. Thou'rt a talk¶ fellow; hold thee that to drink.. (sir.Here comes Baptista:-set your countenance, 1.A round cape. +. Turned up many garments with facings. Sir, by your leave; having come to Padua We be affied; and such assurance talen, Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants: Tra. Then at my lodging, an it like you, sir: 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 présently. The worst is this, that, at so slender warning, You're like to have a thin and slender pittance. Bap. It likes me well:-Cambio, hie you home, And bid Bianca make her ready straight; Bion. The old priest at Saint Luke's church is at your command at all hours. Luc. And what of all this? Bion. I cannot tell; except they are busied about a counterfeit assurance: Take you assur ance of her, cum privilegio ad imprimendun solùm to the church; take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses :If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say, I But, bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day. [Going. Luc. Hear'st thou, Biondello?!! Bion. I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir; and so adieu, sir. My master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against you come with your appendix. [Exit. Luc. I may, and will, if she be so con:batentedgri fotol, tad [doubt! She will be pleased, then wherefore should I Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her; It shall go hard, if Cambio go without her. [Exit. SCENE V. A public Road. Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, and HOR. TENSIO Pet. Come on, o' God's name; once more toward our father's. [moon! Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the Kath. The moon the sun; it is not moonlight now I urg Pet. I say, it is the moon that shines so bright. Kath. I know, it is the sun that shines so bright. 5 ዓ [myself, ...Pet. Now, by my mother's son, and that's 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 cross'd, and cross'd; nothing but cross'd! Hor Say as he says, or we shall never go. Kath. Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, «'. Ja (haha And be it moon, or sun, or what you please: sun. Betrothed.* Accidentally. Kath! Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed But sun it is not, when you say it is not; [sun: And the moon changes, even as your mind. What you will have it named, even that it is; And so it shall be so, for Katharine. Hor. Petruchio, go thy ways; the field is won. Pet. Well, forward, forward: thus the bowl should run, And not unluckily against the bias.- Kath. Young budding virgin, fair, and fresh, and sweet, Whither away; or where is thy abode ? Pet. Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad: This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd; And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is. Kath. Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes, That have been so bedazzled with the sun, That every thing I look on seemeth green: Now I perceive, thou art a reverend father; Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking. Pet. Do, good old grandsire ; and, withal, make known Which way thou travellest: if along with us, We shall be joyful of thy company. Vin. Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,→→ That with your strange encounter much amazed me ; (Pisa; My name is call'd-Vincentio;.my dwelling- Vin. Hor. I do assure thee, father, so it is. Pet.Come, go along, and see the truth hereof; For our first merriment hath made thee jealous. [Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, and VINCENTIO. Hor. Well, Petruchio, this hath put me in heart. Have to my widow; and if she be froward, Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward. [Exit. ACT V. 1 SCENE I. Padua. Before Lucentio's House. Enter Pedant above, at a window. beat down the gate! Ped. What's he, that knocks as he would Vin. Is signior Lucentio within, sir? Ped. He's within, sir, but not to be spoken withal. Vin. What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two, to make merry withal? Ped. Keep your hundred pounds to your self; he shall need none, so long as I live. Pet. Nay, I told you, your son was beloved in Padua. Do you hear, sir?-to leave frivolous circumstances,-I pray you, tell sig. nior Lucentio, that his father is come from Pisa, and is here at the door to speak with him. Ped. Thou liest; his father is come from Pisa, and here looking out at the window. Vin. Art thou his father? Ped. Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her. Pet, Why, how now, gentleman! [To VINCEN.] why, this is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Ped. Lay hands on the villain; I believe 2 D |