Enter Beggar (Christopher Sly) and Hostess.

SLY  FTLN 0001I’ll feeze you, in faith.
HOSTESS  FTLN 0002A pair of stocks, you rogue!
SLY  FTLN 0003You’re a baggage! The Slys are no rogues. Look
FTLN 0004 in the chronicles. We came in with Richard Conqueror.
FTLN 00055 Therefore, paucas pallabris, let the world
FTLN 0006 slide. Sessa!
HOSTESS  FTLN 0007You will not pay for the glasses you have
FTLN 0008 burst?
SLY  FTLN 0009No, not a denier. Go, by Saint Jeronimy! Go to
FTLN 001010 thy cold bed and warm thee. He lies down.
HOSTESS  FTLN 0011I know my remedy. I must go fetch the
FTLN 0012 headborough. She exits.
SLY  FTLN 0013Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I’ll answer him
FTLN 0014 by law. I’ll not budge an inch, boy. Let him come,
FTLN 001515 and kindly. Falls asleep.

Wind horns within. Enter a Lord from hunting, with
his train.

LORD 
FTLN 0016 Huntsman, I charge thee tender well my hounds.
FTLN 0017 Breathe Merriman (the poor cur is embossed)
FTLN 0018 And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.
FTLN 0019 Saw’st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
FTLN 002020 At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault?
FTLN 0021 I would not lose the dog for twenty pound!

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FIRST HUNTSMAN 
FTLN 0022 Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord.
FTLN 0023 He cried upon it at the merest loss,
FTLN 0024 And twice today picked out the dullest scent.
FTLN 002525 Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
LORD 
FTLN 0026 Thou art a fool. If Echo were as fleet,
FTLN 0027 I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
FTLN 0028 But sup them well, and look unto them all.
FTLN 0029 Tomorrow I intend to hunt again.
FIRST HUNTSMAN  FTLN 003030I will, my lord.
First Huntsman exits.
LORD , noticing Sly 
FTLN 0031 What’s here? One dead, or drunk? See doth he
FTLN 0032 breathe.
SECOND HUNTSMAN 
FTLN 0033 He breathes, my lord. Were he not warmed with ale,
FTLN 0034 This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
LORD 
FTLN 003535 O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies!
FTLN 0036 Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!
FTLN 0037 Sirs, I will practice on this drunken man.
FTLN 0038 What think you, if he were conveyed to bed,
FTLN 0039 Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his
FTLN 004040 fingers,
FTLN 0041 A most delicious banquet by his bed,
FTLN 0042 And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
FTLN 0043 Would not the beggar then forget himself?
THIRD HUNTSMAN 
FTLN 0044 Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.
SECOND HUNTSMAN 
FTLN 004545 It would seem strange unto him when he waked.
LORD 
FTLN 0046 Even as a flatt’ring dream or worthless fancy.
FTLN 0047 Then take him up, and manage well the jest.

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FTLN 0048 Carry him gently to my fairest chamber,
FTLN 0049 And hang it round with all my wanton pictures;
FTLN 005050 Balm his foul head in warm distillèd waters,
FTLN 0051 And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet;
FTLN 0052 Procure me music ready when he wakes
FTLN 0053 To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound.
FTLN 0054 And if he chance to speak, be ready straight
FTLN 005555 And, with a low, submissive reverence,
FTLN 0056 Say “What is it your Honor will command?”
FTLN 0057 Let one attend him with a silver basin
FTLN 0058 Full of rosewater and bestrewed with flowers,
FTLN 0059 Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,
FTLN 006060 And say “Will ’t please your Lordship cool your
FTLN 0061 hands?”
FTLN 0062 Someone be ready with a costly suit,
FTLN 0063 And ask him what apparel he will wear.
FTLN 0064 Another tell him of his hounds and horse,
FTLN 006565 And that his lady mourns at his disease.
FTLN 0066 Persuade him that he hath been lunatic,
FTLN 0067 And when he says he is, say that he dreams,
FTLN 0068 For he is nothing but a mighty lord.
FTLN 0069 This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs.
FTLN 007070 It will be pastime passing excellent
FTLN 0071 If it be husbanded with modesty.
THIRD HUNTSMAN 
FTLN 0072 My lord, I warrant you we will play our part
FTLN 0073 As he shall think by our true diligence
FTLN 0074 He is no less than what we say he is.
LORD 
FTLN 007575 Take him up gently, and to bed with him,
FTLN 0076 And each one to his office when he wakes.
Sly is carried out.
Sound trumpets within.
FTLN 0077 Sirrah, go see what trumpet ’tis that sounds.
Servingman exits.

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FTLN 0078 Belike some noble gentleman that means
FTLN 0079 (Traveling some journey) to repose him here.

Enter Servingman.

FTLN 008080 How now? Who is it?
SERVINGMAN  FTLN 0081 An ’t please your Honor, players
FTLN 0082 That offer service to your Lordship.
LORD 
FTLN 0083 Bid them come near.

Enter Players.

FTLN 0084 Now, fellows, you are welcome.
PLAYERS  FTLN 008585We thank your Honor.
LORD 
FTLN 0086 Do you intend to stay with me tonight?
FIRST PLAYER 
FTLN 0087 So please your Lordship to accept our duty.
LORD 
FTLN 0088 With all my heart. This fellow I remember
FTLN 0089 Since once he played a farmer’s eldest son.—
FTLN 009090 ’Twas where you wooed the gentlewoman so well.
FTLN 0091 I have forgot your name, but sure that part
FTLN 0092 Was aptly fitted and naturally performed.
SECOND PLAYER 
FTLN 0093 I think ’twas Soto that your Honor means.
LORD 
FTLN 0094 ’Tis very true. Thou didst it excellent.
FTLN 009595 Well, you are come to me in happy time,
FTLN 0096 The rather for I have some sport in hand
FTLN 0097 Wherein your cunning can assist me much.
FTLN 0098 There is a lord will hear you play tonight;
FTLN 0099 But I am doubtful of your modesties,
FTLN 0100100 Lest, over-eying of his odd behavior
FTLN 0101 (For yet his Honor never heard a play),
FTLN 0102 You break into some merry passion,
FTLN 0103 And so offend him. For I tell you, sirs,
FTLN 0104 If you should smile, he grows impatient.

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FIRST PLAYER 
FTLN 0105105 Fear not, my lord, we can contain ourselves
FTLN 0106 Were he the veriest antic in the world.
LORD , to a Servingman 
FTLN 0107 Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery
FTLN 0108 And give them friendly welcome every one.
FTLN 0109 Let them want nothing that my house affords.
One exits with the Players.
FTLN 0110110 Sirrah, go you to Bartholomew, my page,
FTLN 0111 And see him dressed in all suits like a lady.
FTLN 0112 That done, conduct him to the drunkard’s chamber,
FTLN 0113 And call him “Madam,” do him obeisance.
FTLN 0114 Tell him from me, as he will win my love,
FTLN 0115115 He bear himself with honorable action,
FTLN 0116 Such as he hath observed in noble ladies
FTLN 0117 Unto their lords, by them accomplishèd.
FTLN 0118 Such duty to the drunkard let him do
FTLN 0119 With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,
FTLN 0120120 And say “What is ’t your Honor will command,
FTLN 0121 Wherein your lady and your humble wife
FTLN 0122 May show her duty and make known her love?”
FTLN 0123 And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
FTLN 0124 And with declining head into his bosom,
FTLN 0125125 Bid him shed tears, as being overjoyed
FTLN 0126 To see her noble lord restored to health,
FTLN 0127 Who, for this seven years, hath esteemed him
FTLN 0128 No better than a poor and loathsome beggar.
FTLN 0129 And if the boy have not a woman’s gift
FTLN 0130130 To rain a shower of commanded tears,
FTLN 0131 An onion will do well for such a shift,
FTLN 0132 Which (in a napkin being close conveyed)
FTLN 0133 Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.
FTLN 0134 See this dispatched with all the haste thou canst.
FTLN 0135135 Anon I’ll give thee more instructions.
A Servingman exits.
FTLN 0136 I know the boy will well usurp the grace,

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FTLN 0137 Voice, gait, and action of a gentlewoman.
FTLN 0138 I long to hear him call the drunkard “husband”!
FTLN 0139 And how my men will stay themselves from
FTLN 0140140 laughter
FTLN 0141 When they do homage to this simple peasant,
FTLN 0142 I’ll in to counsel them. Haply my presence
FTLN 0143 May well abate the over-merry spleen
FTLN 0144 Which otherwise would grow into extremes.
They exit.

Enter aloft Christopher Sly, the drunkard, with
Attendants, some with apparel, basin and ewer, and
other appurtenances, and Lord dressed as an Attendant.

SLY  FTLN 0145For God’s sake, a pot of small ale.
FIRST SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0146 Will ’t please your Lord drink a cup of sack?
SECOND SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0147 Will ’t please your Honor taste of these conserves?
THIRD SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0148 What raiment will your Honor wear today?
SLY  FTLN 01495I am Christophero Sly! Call not me “Honor” nor
FTLN 0150 “Lordship.” I ne’er drank sack in my life. An if you
FTLN 0151 give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef.
FTLN 0152 Ne’er ask me what raiment I’ll wear, for I have no
FTLN 0153 more doublets than backs, no more stockings than
FTLN 015410 legs, nor no more shoes than feet, nay sometime
FTLN 0155 more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look
FTLN 0156 through the over-leather.
LORD , as Attendant 
FTLN 0157 Heaven cease this idle humor in your Honor!
FTLN 0158 O, that a mighty man of such descent,
FTLN 015915 Of such possessions, and so high esteem
FTLN 0160 Should be infusèd with so foul a spirit!

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SLY  FTLN 0161What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher
FTLN 0162 Sly, old Sly’s son of Burton Heath, by birth a
FTLN 0163 peddler, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation
FTLN 016420 a bearherd, and now by present profession a
FTLN 0165 tinker? Ask Marian Hacket, the fat alewife of Wincot,
FTLN 0166 if she know me not! If she say I am not fourteen
FTLN 0167 pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the
FTLN 0168 lying’st knave in Christendom. What, I am not
FTLN 016925 bestraught! Here’s—
THIRD SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0170 O, this it is that makes your lady mourn.
SECOND SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0171 O, this is it that makes your servants droop.
LORD , as Attendant 
FTLN 0172 Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
FTLN 0173 As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
FTLN 017430 O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth,
FTLN 0175 Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment,
FTLN 0176 And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
FTLN 0177 Look how thy servants do attend on thee,
FTLN 0178 Each in his office ready at thy beck.
FTLN 017935 Wilt thou have music? Hark, Apollo plays, Music.
FTLN 0180 And twenty cagèd nightingales do sing.
FTLN 0181 Or wilt thou sleep? We’ll have thee to a couch
FTLN 0182 Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
FTLN 0183 On purpose trimmed up for Semiramis.
FTLN 018440 Say thou wilt walk, we will bestrew the ground.
FTLN 0185 Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapped,
FTLN 0186 Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
FTLN 0187 Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
FTLN 0188 Above the morning lark. Or wilt thou hunt?
FTLN 018945 Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
FTLN 0190 And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.
FIRST SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0191 Say thou wilt course. Thy greyhounds are as swift
FTLN 0192 As breathèd stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.

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SECOND SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0193 Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight
FTLN 019450 Adonis painted by a running brook,
FTLN 0195 And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
FTLN 0196 Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,
FTLN 0197 Even as the waving sedges play with wind.
LORD , as Attendant 
FTLN 0198 We’ll show thee Io as she was a maid
FTLN 019955 And how she was beguilèd and surprised,
FTLN 0200 As lively painted as the deed was done.
THIRD SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0201 Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
FTLN 0202 Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
FTLN 0203 And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
FTLN 020460 So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
LORD , as Attendant 
FTLN 0205 Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord;
FTLN 0206 Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
FTLN 0207 Than any woman in this waning age.
FIRST SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0208 And till the tears that she hath shed for thee
FTLN 020965 Like envious floods o’errun her lovely face,
FTLN 0210 She was the fairest creature in the world—
FTLN 0211 And yet she is inferior to none.
SLY 
FTLN 0212 Am I a lord, and have I such a lady?
FTLN 0213 Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now?
FTLN 021470 I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak,
FTLN 0215 I smell sweet savors, and I feel soft things.
FTLN 0216 Upon my life, I am a lord indeed
FTLN 0217 And not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly.
FTLN 0218 Well, bring our lady hither to our sight,
FTLN 021975 And once again a pot o’ the smallest ale.
SECOND SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0220 Will ’t please your Mightiness to wash your hands?
FTLN 0221 O, how we joy to see your wit restored!

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FTLN 0222 O, that once more you knew but what you are!
FTLN 0223 These fifteen years you have been in a dream,
FTLN 022480 Or, when you waked, so waked as if you slept.
SLY 
FTLN 0225 These fifteen years! By my fay, a goodly nap.
FTLN 0226 But did I never speak of all that time?
FIRST SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0227 Oh, yes, my lord, but very idle words.
FTLN 0228 For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,
FTLN 022985 Yet would you say you were beaten out of door,
FTLN 0230 And rail upon the hostess of the house,
FTLN 0231 And say you would present her at the leet
FTLN 0232 Because she brought stone jugs and no sealed
FTLN 0233 quarts.
FTLN 023490 Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.
SLY  FTLN 0235Ay, the woman’s maid of the house.
THIRD SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0236 Why, sir, you know no house, nor no such maid,
FTLN 0237 Nor no such men as you have reckoned up,
FTLN 0238 As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greete,
FTLN 023995 And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell,
FTLN 0240 And twenty more such names and men as these,
FTLN 0241 Which never were, nor no man ever saw.
SLY  FTLN 0242Now, Lord be thanked for my good amends!
ALL  FTLN 0243Amen.
SLY  FTLN 0244100I thank thee. Thou shalt not lose by it.

Enter Page as Lady, with Attendants.

PAGE , as Lady  FTLN 0245How fares my noble lord?
SLY  FTLN 0246Marry, I fare well, for here is cheer enough.
FTLN 0247 Where is my wife?
PAGE , as Lady 
FTLN 0248 Here, noble lord. What is thy will with her?
SLY 
FTLN 0249105 Are you my wife, and will not call me “husband”?
FTLN 0250 My men should call me “lord.” I am your goodman.

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PAGE , as Lady 
FTLN 0251 My husband and my lord, my lord and husband,
FTLN 0252 I am your wife in all obedience.
SLY 
FTLN 0253 I know it well.—What must I call her?
LORD , as Attendant  FTLN 0254110 “Madam.”
SLY  FTLN 0255“Alice Madam,” or “Joan Madam”?
LORD 
FTLN 0256 “Madam,” and nothing else. So lords call ladies.
SLY 
FTLN 0257 Madam wife, they say that I have dreamed
FTLN 0258 And slept above some fifteen year or more.
PAGE , as Lady 
FTLN 0259115 Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
FTLN 0260 Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
SLY 
FTLN 0261 ’Tis much.—Servants, leave me and her alone.—
FTLN 0262 Madam, undress you, and come now to bed.
PAGE , as Lady 
FTLN 0263 Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you
FTLN 0264120 To pardon me yet for a night or two;
FTLN 0265 Or if not so, until the sun be set.
FTLN 0266 For your physicians have expressly charged,
FTLN 0267 In peril to incur your former malady,
FTLN 0268 That I should yet absent me from your bed.
FTLN 0269125 I hope this reason stands for my excuse.
SLY  FTLN 0270Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long; but
FTLN 0271 I would be loath to fall into my dreams again. I will
FTLN 0272 therefore tarry in despite of the flesh and the
FTLN 0273 blood.

Enter a Messenger.

MESSENGER 
FTLN 0274130 Your Honor’s players, hearing your amendment,
FTLN 0275 Are come to play a pleasant comedy,
FTLN 0276 For so your doctors hold it very meet,

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FTLN 0277 Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your
FTLN 0278 blood,
FTLN 0279135 And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
FTLN 0280 Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
FTLN 0281 And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
FTLN 0282 Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
SLY  FTLN 0283Marry, I will. Let them play it. Messenger exits.
FTLN 0284140 Is not a comonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling
FTLN 0285 trick?
PAGE , as Lady 
FTLN 0286 No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.
SLY  FTLN 0287What, household stuff?
PAGE , as Lady  FTLN 0288It is a kind of history.
SLY  FTLN 0289145Well, we’ll see ’t. Come, madam wife, sit by my
FTLN 0290 side, and let the world slip. We shall ne’er be
FTLN 0291 younger.
They sit.

Flourish. Enter Lucentio, and his man Tranio.

LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0292 Tranio, since for the great desire I had
FTLN 0293 To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
FTLN 0294 I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,
FTLN 0295 The pleasant garden of great Italy,
FTLN 02965 And by my father’s love and leave am armed
FTLN 0297 With his goodwill and thy good company.
FTLN 0298 My trusty servant well approved in all,
FTLN 0299 Here let us breathe and haply institute
FTLN 0300 A course of learning and ingenious studies.
FTLN 030110 Pisa, renownèd for grave citizens,
FTLN 0302 Gave me my being, and my father first,
FTLN 0303 A merchant of great traffic through the world,
FTLN 0304 Vincentio, come of the Bentivolii.
FTLN 0305 Vincentio’s son, brought up in Florence,
FTLN 030615 It shall become to serve all hopes conceived
FTLN 0307 To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds.
FTLN 0308 And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study
FTLN 0309 Virtue, and that part of philosophy
FTLN 0310 Will I apply that treats of happiness
FTLN 031120 By virtue specially to be achieved.
FTLN 0312 Tell me thy mind, for I have Pisa left
FTLN 0313 And am to Padua come, as he that leaves

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FTLN 0314 A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
FTLN 0315 And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.
TRANIO 
FTLN 031625 Mi perdonato, gentle master mine.
FTLN 0317 I am in all affected as yourself,
FTLN 0318 Glad that you thus continue your resolve
FTLN 0319 To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
FTLN 0320 Only, good master, while we do admire
FTLN 032130 This virtue and this moral discipline,
FTLN 0322 Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray,
FTLN 0323 Or so devote to Aristotle’s checks
FTLN 0324 As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured.
FTLN 0325 Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,
FTLN 032635 And practice rhetoric in your common talk;
FTLN 0327 Music and poesy use to quicken you;
FTLN 0328 The mathematics and the metaphysics—
FTLN 0329 Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
FTLN 0330 No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en.
FTLN 033140 In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0332 Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
FTLN 0333 If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,
FTLN 0334 We could at once put us in readiness
FTLN 0335 And take a lodging fit to entertain
FTLN 033645 Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.

Enter Baptista with his two daughters, Katherine and
Bianca; Gremio, a pantaloon, and Hortensio, suitors
to Bianca.

FTLN 0337 But stay awhile! What company is this?
TRANIO 
FTLN 0338 Master, some show to welcome us to town.
Lucentio and Tranio stand by.
BAPTISTA , to Gremio and Hortensio 
FTLN 0339 Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
FTLN 0340 For how I firmly am resolved you know:

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FTLN 034150 That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter
FTLN 0342 Before I have a husband for the elder.
FTLN 0343 If either of you both love Katherine,
FTLN 0344 Because I know you well and love you well,
FTLN 0345 Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
GREMIO 
FTLN 034655 To cart her, rather. She’s too rough for me.—
FTLN 0347 There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?
KATHERINE , to Baptista 
FTLN 0348 I pray you, sir, is it your will
FTLN 0349 To make a stale of me amongst these mates?
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0350 “Mates,” maid? How mean you that? No mates for
FTLN 035160 you,
FTLN 0352 Unless you were of gentler, milder mold.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0353 I’ faith, sir, you shall never need to fear.
FTLN 0354 Iwis it is not halfway to her heart.
FTLN 0355 But if it were, doubt not her care should be
FTLN 035665 To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool
FTLN 0357 And paint your face and use you like a fool.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0358 From all such devils, good Lord, deliver us!
GREMIO  FTLN 0359And me too, good Lord.
TRANIO , aside to Lucentio 
FTLN 0360 Husht, master, here’s some good pastime toward;
FTLN 036170 That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.
LUCENTIO , aside to Tranio 
FTLN 0362 But in the other’s silence do I see
FTLN 0363 Maid’s mild behavior and sobriety.
FTLN 0364 Peace, Tranio.
TRANIO , aside to Lucentio 
FTLN 0365 Well said, master. Mum, and gaze your fill.
BAPTISTA , to Gremio and Hortensio 
FTLN 036675 Gentlemen, that I may soon make good
FTLN 0367 What I have said—Bianca, get you in,

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FTLN 0368 And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,
FTLN 0369 For I will love thee ne’er the less, my girl.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0370 A pretty peat! It is best
FTLN 037180 Put finger in the eye, an she knew why.
BIANCA 
FTLN 0372 Sister, content you in my discontent.—
FTLN 0373 Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe.
FTLN 0374 My books and instruments shall be my company,
FTLN 0375 On them to look and practice by myself.
LUCENTIO , aside to Tranio 
FTLN 037685 Hark, Tranio, thou mayst hear Minerva speak!
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0377 Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?
FTLN 0378 Sorry am I that our goodwill effects
FTLN 0379 Bianca’s grief.
GREMIO  FTLN 0380 Why will you mew her up,
FTLN 038190 Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,
FTLN 0382 And make her bear the penance of her tongue?
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0383 Gentlemen, content you. I am resolved.—
FTLN 0384 Go in, Bianca. Bianca exits.
FTLN 0385 And for I know she taketh most delight
FTLN 038695 In music, instruments, and poetry,
FTLN 0387 Schoolmasters will I keep within my house
FTLN 0388 Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,
FTLN 0389 Or, Signior Gremio, you know any such,
FTLN 0390 Prefer them hither. For to cunning men
FTLN 0391100 I will be very kind, and liberal
FTLN 0392 To mine own children in good bringing up.
FTLN 0393 And so, farewell.—Katherine, you may stay,
FTLN 0394 For I have more to commune with Bianca. He exits.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0395 Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not?
FTLN 0396105 What, shall I be appointed hours as though, belike,
FTLN 0397 I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha!
She exits.

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GREMIO  FTLN 0398You may go to the devil’s dam! Your gifts are
FTLN 0399 so good here’s none will hold you.—Their love is
FTLN 0400 not so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails
FTLN 0401110 together and fast it fairly out. Our cake’s dough on
FTLN 0402 both sides. Farewell. Yet for the love I bear my
FTLN 0403 sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit
FTLN 0404 man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will
FTLN 0405 wish him to her father.
HORTENSIO  FTLN 0406115So will I, Signior Gremio. But a word, I
FTLN 0407 pray. Though the nature of our quarrel yet never
FTLN 0408 brooked parle, know now upon advice, it toucheth
FTLN 0409 us both (that we may yet again have access to our
FTLN 0410 fair mistress and be happy rivals in Bianca’s love) to
FTLN 0411120 labor and effect one thing specially.
GREMIO  FTLN 0412What’s that, I pray?
HORTENSIO  FTLN 0413Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.
GREMIO  FTLN 0414A husband? A devil!
HORTENSIO  FTLN 0415I say “a husband.”
GREMIO  FTLN 0416125I say “a devil.” Think’st thou, Hortensio,
FTLN 0417 though her father be very rich, any man is so very a
FTLN 0418 fool to be married to hell?
HORTENSIO  FTLN 0419Tush, Gremio. Though it pass your patience
FTLN 0420 and mine to endure her loud alarums, why,
FTLN 0421130 man, there be good fellows in the world, an a man
FTLN 0422 could light on them, would take her with all faults,
FTLN 0423 and money enough.
GREMIO  FTLN 0424I cannot tell. But I had as lief take her dowry
FTLN 0425 with this condition: to be whipped at the high cross
FTLN 0426135 every morning.
HORTENSIO  FTLN 0427Faith, as you say, there’s small choice in
FTLN 0428 rotten apples. But come, since this bar in law
FTLN 0429 makes us friends, it shall be so far forth friendly
FTLN 0430 maintained till by helping Baptista’s eldest daughter
FTLN 0431140 to a husband we set his youngest free for a
FTLN 0432 husband, and then have to ’t afresh. Sweet Bianca!
FTLN 0433 Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the
FTLN 0434 ring. How say you, Signior Gremio?

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GREMIO  FTLN 0435I am agreed, and would I had given him the
FTLN 0436145 best horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would
FTLN 0437 thoroughly woo her, wed her, and bed her, and rid
FTLN 0438 the house of her. Come on.
Gremio and Hortensio exit.
Tranio and Lucentio remain onstage.
TRANIO 
FTLN 0439 I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible
FTLN 0440 That love should of a sudden take such hold?
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0441150 O Tranio, till I found it to be true,
FTLN 0442 1 never thought it possible or likely.
FTLN 0443 But see, while idly I stood looking on,
FTLN 0444 I found the effect of love-in-idleness,
FTLN 0445 And now in plainness do confess to thee
FTLN 0446155 That art to me as secret and as dear
FTLN 0447 As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was:
FTLN 0448 Tranio, I burn, I pine! I perish, Tranio,
FTLN 0449 If I achieve not this young modest girl.
FTLN 0450 Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst.
FTLN 0451160 Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.
TRANIO 
FTLN 0452 Master, it is no time to chide you now.
FTLN 0453 Affection is not rated from the heart.
FTLN 0454 If love have touched you, naught remains but so:
FTLN 0455 Redime te captum quam queas minimo.
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0456165 Gramercies, lad. Go forward. This contents;
FTLN 0457 The rest will comfort, for thy counsel’s sound.
TRANIO 
FTLN 0458 Master, you looked so longly on the maid,
FTLN 0459 Perhaps you marked not what’s the pith of all.
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0460 O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
FTLN 0461170 Such as the daughter of Agenor had,
FTLN 0462 That made great Jove to humble him to her hand
FTLN 0463 When with his knees he kissed the Cretan strand.

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TRANIO 
FTLN 0464 Saw you no more? Marked you not how her sister
FTLN 0465 Began to scold and raise up such a storm
FTLN 0466175 That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0467 Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,
FTLN 0468 And with her breath she did perfume the air.
FTLN 0469 Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.
TRANIO , aside 
FTLN 0470 Nay, then ’tis time to stir him from his trance.—
FTLN 0471180 I pray, awake, sir! If you love the maid,
FTLN 0472 Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it
FTLN 0473 stands:
FTLN 0474 Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd
FTLN 0475 That till the father rid his hands of her,
FTLN 0476185 Master, your love must live a maid at home,
FTLN 0477 And therefore has he closely mewed her up,
FTLN 0478 Because she will not be annoyed with suitors.
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0479 Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father’s he!
FTLN 0480 But art thou not advised he took some care
FTLN 0481190 To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?
TRANIO 
FTLN 0482 Ay, marry, am I, sir—and now ’tis plotted!
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0483 I have it, Tranio!
TRANIO  FTLN 0484 Master, for my hand,
FTLN 0485 Both our inventions meet and jump in one.
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0486195 Tell me thine first.
TRANIO  FTLN 0487 You will be schoolmaster
FTLN 0488 And undertake the teaching of the maid:
FTLN 0489 That’s your device.
LUCENTIO  FTLN 0490 It is. May it be done?
TRANIO 
FTLN 0491200 Not possible. For who shall bear your part

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FTLN 0492 And be in Padua here Vincentio’s son,
FTLN 0493 Keep house, and ply his book, welcome his friends,
FTLN 0494 Visit his countrymen and banquet them?
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0495 Basta, content thee, for I have it full.
FTLN 0496205 We have not yet been seen in any house,
FTLN 0497 Nor can we be distinguished by our faces
FTLN 0498 For man or master. Then it follows thus:
FTLN 0499 Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,
FTLN 0500 Keep house, and port, and servants, as I should.
FTLN 0501210 I will some other be, some Florentine,
FTLN 0502 Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.
FTLN 0503 ’Tis hatched, and shall be so. Tranio, at once
FTLN 0504 Uncase thee. Take my colored hat and cloak.
They exchange clothes.
FTLN 0505 When Biondello comes, he waits on thee,
FTLN 0506215 But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.
TRANIO  FTLN 0507So had you need.
FTLN 0508 In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,
FTLN 0509 And I am tied to be obedient
FTLN 0510 (For so your father charged me at our parting:
FTLN 0511220 “Be serviceable to my son,” quoth he,
FTLN 0512 Although I think ’twas in another sense),
FTLN 0513 I am content to be Lucentio,
FTLN 0514 Because so well I love Lucentio.
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0515 Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves,
FTLN 0516225 And let me be a slave, t’ achieve that maid
FTLN 0517 Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye.

Enter Biondello.

FTLN 0518 Here comes the rogue.—Sirrah, where have you
FTLN 0519 been?
BIONDELLO 
FTLN 0520 Where have I been? Nay, how now, where are you?

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FTLN 0521230 Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your clothes?
FTLN 0522 Or you stolen his? Or both? Pray, what’s the news?
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0523 Sirrah, come hither. ’Tis no time to jest,
FTLN 0524 And therefore frame your manners to the time.
FTLN 0525 Your fellow, Tranio here, to save my life,
FTLN 0526235 Puts my apparel and my count’nance on,
FTLN 0527 And I for my escape have put on his;
FTLN 0528 For in a quarrel since I came ashore
FTLN 0529 I killed a man and fear I was descried.
FTLN 0530 Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
FTLN 0531240 While I make way from hence to save my life.
FTLN 0532 You understand me?
BIONDELLO  FTLN 0533 Ay, sir.  Aside. Ne’er a whit.
LUCENTIO 
FTLN 0534 And not a jot of “Tranio” in your mouth.
FTLN 0535 Tranio is changed into Lucentio.
BIONDELLO 
FTLN 0536245 The better for him. Would I were so too.
TRANIO 
FTLN 0537 So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,
FTLN 0538 That Lucentio indeed had Baptista’s youngest
FTLN 0539 daughter.
FTLN 0540 But, sirrah, not for my sake, but your master’s, I
FTLN 0541250 advise
FTLN 0542 You use your manners discreetly in all kind of
FTLN 0543 companies.
FTLN 0544 When I am alone, why then I am Tranio;
FTLN 0545 But in all places else, your master Lucentio.
LUCENTIO  FTLN 0546255Tranio, let’s go. One thing more rests, that
FTLN 0547 thyself execute, to make one among these wooers. If
FTLN 0548 thou ask me why, sufficeth my reasons are both
FTLN 0549 good and weighty. They exit.
The Presenters above speak.
FIRST SERVINGMAN 
FTLN 0550 My lord, you nod. You do not mind the play.

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SLY  FTLN 0551260Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely.
FTLN 0552 Comes there any more of it?
PAGE , as Lady  FTLN 0553My lord, ’tis but begun.
SLY  FTLN 0554’Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady.
FTLN 0555 Would ’twere done.
They sit and mark.

Enter Petruchio and his man Grumio.

PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0556 Verona, for a while I take my leave
FTLN 0557 To see my friends in Padua, but of all
FTLN 0558 My best belovèd and approvèd friend,
FTLN 0559 Hortensio. And I trow this is his house.
FTLN 05605 Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say.
GRUMIO  FTLN 0561Knock, sir? Whom should I knock? Is there
FTLN 0562 any man has rebused your Worship?
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 0563Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.
GRUMIO  FTLN 0564Knock you here, sir? Why, sir, what am I, sir,
FTLN 056510 that I should knock you here, sir?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0566 Villain, I say, knock me at this gate
FTLN 0567 And rap me well, or I’ll knock your knave’s pate.
GRUMIO 
FTLN 0568 My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock
FTLN 0569 you first,
FTLN 057015 And then I know after who comes by the worst.
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 0571Will it not be?
FTLN 0572 Faith, sirrah, an you’ll not knock, I’ll ring it.
FTLN 0573 I’ll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.
He wrings him by the ears. Grumio falls.
GRUMIO  FTLN 0574Help, mistress, help! My master is mad.
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 057520Now knock when I bid you, sirrah
FTLN 0576 villain.

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Enter Hortensio.

HORTENSIO  FTLN 0577How now, what’s the matter? My old
FTLN 0578 friend Grumio and my good friend Petruchio? How
FTLN 0579 do you all at Verona?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 058025 Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?
FTLN 0581 Con tutto il cuore ben trovato, may I say.
HORTENSIO  FTLN 0582Alia nostra casa ben venuto, molto
FTLN 0583 honorato signor mio Petruchio.—Rise, Grumio,
FTLN 0584 rise. We will compound this quarrel. Grumio rises.
GRUMIO  FTLN 058530Nay, ’tis no matter, sir, what he ’leges in
FTLN 0586 Latin. If this be not a lawful cause for me to leave
FTLN 0587 his service—look you, sir: he bid me knock him
FTLN 0588 and rap him soundly, sir. Well, was it fit for a
FTLN 0589 servant to use his master so, being perhaps, for
FTLN 059035 aught I see, two-and-thirty, a pip out?
FTLN 0591 Whom, would to God, I had well knocked at first,
FTLN 0592 Then had not Grumio come by the worst.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0593 A senseless villain, good Hortensio.
FTLN 0594 I bade the rascal knock upon your gate
FTLN 059540 And could not get him for my heart to do it.
GRUMIO  FTLN 0596Knock at the gate? O, heavens, spake you not
FTLN 0597 these words plain: “Sirrah, knock me here, rap me
FTLN 0598 here, knock me well, and knock me soundly”? And
FTLN 0599 come you now with “knocking at the gate”?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 060045 Sirrah, begone, or talk not, I advise you.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0601 Petruchio, patience. I am Grumio’s pledge.
FTLN 0602 Why, this’ a heavy chance ’twixt him and you,
FTLN 0603 Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.
FTLN 0604 And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale
FTLN 060550 Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0606 Such wind as scatters young men through the world

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FTLN 0607 To seek their fortunes farther than at home,
FTLN 0608 Where small experience grows. But in a few,
FTLN 0609 Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:
FTLN 061055 Antonio, my father, is deceased,
FTLN 0611 And I have thrust myself into this maze,
FTLN 0612 Happily to wive and thrive, as best I may.
FTLN 0613 Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home,
FTLN 0614 And so am come abroad to see the world.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 061560 Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee
FTLN 0616 And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favored wife?
FTLN 0617 Thou ’dst thank me but a little for my counsel—
FTLN 0618 And yet I’ll promise thee she shall be rich,
FTLN 0619 And very rich. But thou’rt too much my friend,
FTLN 062065 And I’ll not wish thee to her.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0621 Signior Hortensio, ’twixt such friends as we
FTLN 0622 Few words suffice. And therefore, if thou know
FTLN 0623 One rich enough to be Petruchio’s wife
FTLN 0624 (As wealth is burden of my wooing dance),
FTLN 062570 Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,
FTLN 0626 As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd
FTLN 0627 As Socrates’ Xanthippe, or a worse,
FTLN 0628 She moves me not, or not removes at least
FTLN 0629 Affection’s edge in me, were she as rough
FTLN 063075 As are the swelling Adriatic seas.
FTLN 0631 I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
FTLN 0632 If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
GRUMIO , to Hortensio  FTLN 0633Nay, look you, sir, he tells you
FTLN 0634 flatly what his mind is. Why, give him gold enough
FTLN 063580 and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby, or an
FTLN 0636 old trot with ne’er a tooth in her head, though she
FTLN 0637 have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses. Why,
FTLN 0638 nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0639 Petruchio, since we are stepped thus far in,

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FTLN 064085 I will continue that I broached in jest.
FTLN 0641 I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife
FTLN 0642 With wealth enough, and young and beauteous,
FTLN 0643 Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman.
FTLN 0644 Her only fault, and that is faults enough,
FTLN 064590 Is that she is intolerable curst,
FTLN 0646 And shrewd, and froward, so beyond all measure
FTLN 0647 That, were my state far worser than it is,
FTLN 0648 I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0649 Hortensio, peace. Thou know’st not gold’s effect.
FTLN 065095 Tell me her father’s name, and ’tis enough;
FTLN 0651 For I will board her, though she chide as loud
FTLN 0652 As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0653 Her father is Baptista Minola,
FTLN 0654 An affable and courteous gentleman.
FTLN 0655100 Her name is Katherina Minola,
FTLN 0656 Renowned in Padua for her scolding tongue.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0657 I know her father, though I know not her,
FTLN 0658 And he knew my deceasèd father well.
FTLN 0659 I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her,
FTLN 0660105 And therefore let me be thus bold with you
FTLN 0661 To give you over at this first encounter—
FTLN 0662 Unless you will accompany me thither.
GRUMIO , to Hortensio   FTLN 0663I pray you, sir, let him go while
FTLN 0664 the humor lasts. O’ my word, an she knew him as
FTLN 0665110 well as I do, she would think scolding would do little
FTLN 0666 good upon him. She may perhaps call him half a
FTLN 0667 score knaves or so. Why, that’s nothing; an he begin
FTLN 0668 once, he’ll rail in his rope tricks. I’ll tell you what,
FTLN 0669 sir, an she stand him but a little, he will throw a
FTLN 0670115 figure in her face and so disfigure her with it that
FTLN 0671 she shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat.
FTLN 0672 You know him not, sir.

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HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0673 Tarry, Petruchio. I must go with thee,
FTLN 0674 For in Baptista’s keep my treasure is.
FTLN 0675120 He hath the jewel of my life in hold,
FTLN 0676 His youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca,
FTLN 0677 And her withholds from me and other more,
FTLN 0678 Suitors to her and rivals in my love,
FTLN 0679 Supposing it a thing impossible,
FTLN 0680125 For those defects I have before rehearsed,
FTLN 0681 That ever Katherina will be wooed.
FTLN 0682 Therefore this order hath Baptista ta’en,
FTLN 0683 That none shall have access unto Bianca
FTLN 0684 Till Katherine the curst have got a husband.
GRUMIO  FTLN 0685130“Katherine the curst,”
FTLN 0686 A title for a maid, of all titles the worst.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0687 Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace
FTLN 0688 And offer me disguised in sober robes
FTLN 0689 To old Baptista as a schoolmaster
FTLN 0690135 Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca,
FTLN 0691 That so I may, by this device at least,
FTLN 0692 Have leave and leisure to make love to her
FTLN 0693 And unsuspected court her by herself.
GRUMIO  FTLN 0694Here’s no knavery! See, to beguile the old
FTLN 0695140 folks, how the young folks lay their heads together!

Enter Gremio and Lucentio, disguised as Cambio, a
schoolmaster.

FTLN 0696 Master, master, look about you. Who goes there, ha?
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0697 Peace, Grumio, it is the rival of my love.
FTLN 0698 Petruchio, stand by awhile.
Petruchio, Hortensio, and Grumio stand aside.
GRUMIO , aside 
FTLN 0699 A proper stripling, and an amorous.

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GREMIO , to Lucentio 
FTLN 0700145 O, very well, I have perused the note.
FTLN 0701 Hark you, sir, I’ll have them very fairly bound,
FTLN 0702 All books of love. See that at any hand,
FTLN 0703 And see you read no other lectures to her.
FTLN 0704 You understand me. Over and beside
FTLN 0705150 Signior Baptista’s liberality,
FTLN 0706 I’ll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too.
FTLN 0707 And let me have them very well perfumed,
FTLN 0708 For she is sweeter than perfume itself
FTLN 0709 To whom they go to. What will you read to her?
LUCENTIO , as Cambio 
FTLN 0710155 Whate’er I read to her, I’ll plead for you
FTLN 0711 As for my patron, stand you so assured,
FTLN 0712 As firmly as yourself were still in place,
FTLN 0713 Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
FTLN 0714 Than you—unless you were a scholar, sir.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0715160 O this learning, what a thing it is!
GRUMIO , aside 
FTLN 0716 O this woodcock, what an ass it is!
PETRUCHIO , aside  FTLN 0717Peace, sirrah.
HORTENSIO , aside 
FTLN 0718 Grumio, mum. Coming forward.
FTLN 0719 God save you, Signior Gremio.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0720165 And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.
FTLN 0721 Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.
FTLN 0722 1 promised to enquire carefully
FTLN 0723 About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca,
FTLN 0724 And by good fortune I have lighted well
FTLN 0725170 On this young man, for learning and behavior
FTLN 0726 Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
FTLN 0727 And other books—good ones, I warrant you.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0728 ’Tis well. And I have met a gentleman

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FTLN 0729 Hath promised me to help me to another,
FTLN 0730175 A fine musician to instruct our mistress.
FTLN 0731 So shall I no whit be behind in duty
FTLN 0732 To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0733 Beloved of me, and that my deeds shall prove.
GRUMIO , aside  FTLN 0734And that his bags shall prove.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0735180 Gremio, ’tis now no time to vent our love.
FTLN 0736 Listen to me, and if you speak me fair
FTLN 0737 I’ll tell you news indifferent good for either.
Presenting Petruchio.
FTLN 0738 Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
FTLN 0739 Upon agreement from us to his liking,
FTLN 0740185 Will undertake to woo curst Katherine,
FTLN 0741 Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.
GREMIO  FTLN 0742So said, so done, is well.
FTLN 0743 Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0744 I know she is an irksome, brawling scold.
FTLN 0745190 If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0746 No? Sayst me so, friend? What countryman?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0747 Born in Verona, old Antonio’s son.
FTLN 0748 My father dead, my fortune lives for me,
FTLN 0749 And I do hope good days and long to see.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0750195 Oh, sir, such a life with such a wife were strange.
FTLN 0751 But if you have a stomach, to ’t, i’ God’s name!
FTLN 0752 You shall have me assisting you in all.
FTLN 0753 But will you woo this wildcat?
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 0754 Will I live?
GRUMIO 
FTLN 0755200 Will he woo her? Ay, or I’ll hang her.

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PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0756 Why came I hither but to that intent?
FTLN 0757 Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
FTLN 0758 Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
FTLN 0759 Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds,
FTLN 0760205 Rage like an angry boar chafèd with sweat?
FTLN 0761 Have I not heard great ordnance in the field
FTLN 0762 And heaven’s artillery thunder in the skies?
FTLN 0763 Have I not in a pitchèd battle heard
FTLN 0764 Loud ’larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets clang?
FTLN 0765210 And do you tell me of a woman’s tongue,
FTLN 0766 That gives not half so great a blow to hear
FTLN 0767 As will a chestnut in a farmer’s fire?
FTLN 0768 Tush, tush, fear boys with bugs!
GRUMIO  FTLN 0769 For he fears none.
GREMIO  FTLN 0770215Hortensio, hark.
FTLN 0771 This gentleman is happily arrived,
FTLN 0772 My mind presumes, for his own good and yours.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0773 I promised we would be contributors
FTLN 0774 And bear his charge of wooing whatsoe’er.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0775220 And so we will, provided that he win her.
GRUMIO 
FTLN 0776 I would I were as sure of a good dinner.

Enter Tranio, disguised as Lucentio, and Biondello.

TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0777 Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold,
FTLN 0778 Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
FTLN 0779 To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?
BIONDELLO  FTLN 0780225He that has the two fair daughters—is ’t
FTLN 0781 he you mean?
TRANIO , as Lucentio  FTLN 0782Even he, Biondello.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0783 Hark you, sir, you mean not her to—

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TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0784 Perhaps him and her, sir. What have you to do?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0785230 Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0786 I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let’s away.
LUCENTIO , aside 
FTLN 0787 Well begun, Tranio.
HORTENSIO  FTLN 0788 Sir, a word ere you go.
FTLN 0789 Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0790235 An if I be, sir, is it any offense?
GREMIO 
FTLN 0791 No, if without more words you will get you hence.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0792 Why sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
FTLN 0793 For me, as for you?
GREMIO  FTLN 0794 But so is not she.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0795240 For what reason, I beseech you?
GREMIO 
FTLN 0796 For this reason, if you’ll know:
FTLN 0797 That she’s the choice love of Signior Gremio.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0798 That she’s the chosen of Signior Hortensio.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0799 Softly, my masters. If you be gentlemen,
FTLN 0800245 Do me this right: hear me with patience.
FTLN 0801 Baptista is a noble gentleman
FTLN 0802 To whom my father is not all unknown,
FTLN 0803 And were his daughter fairer than she is,
FTLN 0804 She may more suitors have, and me for one.
FTLN 0805250 Fair Leda’s daughter had a thousand wooers.
FTLN 0806 Then well one more may fair Bianca have.
FTLN 0807 And so she shall. Lucentio shall make one,
FTLN 0808 Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.

---

GREMIO 
FTLN 0809 What, this gentleman will out-talk us all!
LUCENTIO , as Cambio 
FTLN 0810255 Sir, give him head; I know he’ll prove a jade.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0811 Hortensio, to what end are all these words?
HORTENSIO , to Tranio 
FTLN 0812 Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,
FTLN 0813 Did you yet ever see Baptista’s daughter?
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0814 No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two,
FTLN 0815260 The one as famous for a scolding tongue
FTLN 0816 As is the other for beauteous modesty.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0817 Sir, sir, the first’s for me; let her go by.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0818 Yea, leave that labor to great Hercules,
FTLN 0819 And let it be more than Alcides’ twelve.
PETRUCHIO , to Tranio 
FTLN 0820265 Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth:
FTLN 0821 The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for,
FTLN 0822 Her father keeps from all access of suitors
FTLN 0823 And will not promise her to any man
FTLN 0824 Until the elder sister first be wed.
FTLN 0825270 The younger then is free, and not before.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0826 If it be so, sir, that you are the man
FTLN 0827 Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest,
FTLN 0828 And if you break the ice and do this feat,
FTLN 0829 Achieve the elder, set the younger free
FTLN 0830275 For our access, whose hap shall be to have her
FTLN 0831 Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0832 Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive.
FTLN 0833 And since you do profess to be a suitor,
FTLN 0834 You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
FTLN 0835280 To whom we all rest generally beholding.

---

TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0836 Sir, I shall not be slack; in sign whereof,
FTLN 0837 Please you we may contrive this afternoon
FTLN 0838 And quaff carouses to our mistress’ health,
FTLN 0839 And do as adversaries do in law,
FTLN 0840285 Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
GRUMIO and BIONDELLO 
FTLN 0841 O excellent motion! Fellows, let’s be gone.
HORTENSIO 
FTLN 0842 The motion’s good indeed, and be it so.—
FTLN 0843 Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.
They exit.

Enter Katherine and Bianca with her hands tied.

BIANCA 
FTLN 0844 Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
FTLN 0845 To make a bondmaid and a slave of me.
FTLN 0846 That I disdain. But for these other goods—
FTLN 0847 Unbind my hands, I’ll pull them off myself,
FTLN 08485 Yea, all my raiment to my petticoat,
FTLN 0849 Or what you will command me will I do,
FTLN 0850 So well I know my duty to my elders.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0851 Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tell
FTLN 0852 Whom thou lov’st best. See thou dissemble not.
BIANCA 
FTLN 085310 Believe me, sister, of all the men alive
FTLN 0854 I never yet beheld that special face
FTLN 0855 Which I could fancy more than any other.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0856 Minion, thou liest. Is ’t not Hortensio?
BIANCA 
FTLN 0857 If you affect him, sister, here I swear
FTLN 085815 I’ll plead for you myself, but you shall have him.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0859 O, then belike you fancy riches more.
FTLN 0860 You will have Gremio to keep you fair.

---

BIANCA 
FTLN 0861 Is it for him you do envy me so?
FTLN 0862 Nay, then, you jest, and now I well perceive
FTLN 086320 You have but jested with me all this while.
FTLN 0864 I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
Katherine strikes her.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0865 If that be jest, then all the rest was so.

Enter Baptista.

BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0866 Why, how now, dame, whence grows this
FTLN 0867 insolence?—
FTLN 086825 Bianca, stand aside.—Poor girl, she weeps!
He unties her hands.
FTLN 0869  To Bianca. Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.
FTLN 0870  To Katherine. For shame, thou hilding of a devilish
FTLN 0871 spirit!
FTLN 0872 Why dost thou wrong her that did ne’er wrong
FTLN 087330 thee?
FTLN 0874 When did she cross thee with a bitter word?
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0875 Her silence flouts me, and I’ll be revenged!
She flies after Bianca.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0876 What, in my sight?—Bianca, get thee in.
Bianca exits.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 0877 What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
FTLN 087835 She is your treasure, she must have a husband,
FTLN 0879 I must dance barefoot on her wedding day
FTLN 0880 And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
FTLN 0881 Talk not to me. I will go sit and weep
FTLN 0882 Till I can find occasion of revenge. She exits.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 088340 Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?
FTLN 0884 But who comes here?

---

Enter Gremio; Lucentio disguised as Cambio
in the habit of a mean man; Petruchio with
Hortensio disguised as Litio; and Tranio disguised
as Lucentio, with his boy, Biondello bearing a lute
and books.

GREMIO  FTLN 0885Good morrow, neighbor Baptista.
BAPTISTA  FTLN 0886Good morrow, neighbor Gremio.—God
FTLN 0887 save you, gentlemen.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 088845 And you, good sir. Pray, have you not a daughter
FTLN 0889 Called Katherina, fair and virtuous?
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0890 I have a daughter, sir, called Katherina.
GREMIO , to Petruchio 
FTLN 0891 You are too blunt. Go to it orderly.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0892 You wrong me, Signior Gremio. Give me leave.—
FTLN 089350 I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,
FTLN 0894 That hearing of her beauty and her wit,
FTLN 0895 Her affability and bashful modesty,
FTLN 0896 Her wondrous qualities and mild behavior,
FTLN 0897 Am bold to show myself a forward guest
FTLN 089855 Within your house, to make mine eye the witness
FTLN 0899 Of that report which I so oft have heard,
FTLN 0900 And, for an entrance to my entertainment,
FTLN 0901 I do present you with a man of mine,
Presenting Hortensio, disguised as Litio
FTLN 0902 Cunning in music and the mathematics,
FTLN 090360 To instruct her fully in those sciences,
FTLN 0904 Whereof I know she is not ignorant.
FTLN 0905 Accept of him, or else you do me wrong.
FTLN 0906 His name is Litio, born in Mantua.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0907 You’re welcome, sir, and he for your good sake.

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FTLN 090865 But for my daughter Katherine, this I know,
FTLN 0909 She is not for your turn, the more my grief.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0910 I see you do not mean to part with her,
FTLN 0911 Or else you like not of my company.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0912 Mistake me not. I speak but as I find.
FTLN 091370 Whence are you, sir? What may I call your name?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0914 Petruchio is my name, Antonio’s son,
FTLN 0915 A man well known throughout all Italy.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0916 I know him well. You are welcome for his sake.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0917 Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray
FTLN 091875 Let us that are poor petitioners speak too!
FTLN 0919 Bacare, you are marvelous forward.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0920 O, pardon me, Signior Gremio, I would fain be
FTLN 0921 doing.
GREMIO 
FTLN 0922 I doubt it not, sir. But you will curse your wooing.
FTLN 092380  To Baptista. Neighbor, this is a gift very grateful,
FTLN 0924 I am sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself,
FTLN 0925 that have been more kindly beholding to you than
FTLN 0926 any, freely give unto you this young scholar  presenting
 Lucentio, disguised as Cambio  FTLN 0927that hath
FTLN 092885 been long studying at Rheims, as cunning in Greek,
FTLN 0929 Latin, and other languages as the other in music and
FTLN 0930 mathematics. His name is Cambio. Pray accept his
FTLN 0931 service.
BAPTISTA  FTLN 0932A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio. Welcome,
FTLN 093390 good Cambio.  To Tranio as Lucentio. But,
FTLN 0934 gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger. May I
FTLN 0935 be so bold to know the cause of your coming?

---

TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0936 Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,
FTLN 0937 That being a stranger in this city here
FTLN 093895 Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,
FTLN 0939 Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.
FTLN 0940 Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me,
FTLN 0941 In the preferment of the eldest sister.
FTLN 0942 This liberty is all that I request,
FTLN 0943100 That, upon knowledge of my parentage,
FTLN 0944 I may have welcome ’mongst the rest that woo
FTLN 0945 And free access and favor as the rest.
FTLN 0946 And toward the education of your daughters
FTLN 0947 I here bestow a simple instrument
FTLN 0948105 And this small packet of Greek and Latin books.
Biondello comes forward with the gifts.
FTLN 0949 If you accept them, then their worth is great.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0950 Lucentio is your name. Of whence, I pray?
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 0951 Of Pisa, sir, son to Vincentio.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0952 A mighty man of Pisa. By report
FTLN 0953110 I know him well. You are very welcome, sir.
FTLN 0954  To Hortensio as Litio. Take you the lute,
FTLN 0955  To Lucentio as Cambio. and you the set of books.
FTLN 0956 You shall go see your pupils presently.
FTLN 0957 Holla, within!

Enter a Servant.

FTLN 0958115 Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
FTLN 0959 To my daughters, and tell them both
FTLN 0960 These are their tutors. Bid them use them well.
Servant exits with Hortensio and Lucentio.
FTLN 0961 We will go walk a little in the orchard,
FTLN 0962 And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,
FTLN 0963120 And so I pray you all to think yourselves.

---

PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0964 Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,
FTLN 0965 And every day I cannot come to woo.
FTLN 0966 You knew my father well, and in him me,
FTLN 0967 Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,
FTLN 0968125 Which I have bettered rather than decreased.
FTLN 0969 Then tell me, if I get your daughter’s love,
FTLN 0970 What dowry shall I have with her to wife?
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0971 After my death, the one half of my lands,
FTLN 0972 And, in possession, twenty thousand crowns.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0973130 And, for that dowry, I’ll assure her of
FTLN 0974 Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
FTLN 0975 In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
FTLN 0976 Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,
FTLN 0977 That covenants may be kept on either hand.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0978135 Ay, when the special thing is well obtained,
FTLN 0979 That is, her love, for that is all in all.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0980 Why, that is nothing. For I tell you, father,
FTLN 0981 I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;
FTLN 0982 And where two raging fires meet together,
FTLN 0983140 They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
FTLN 0984 Though little fire grows great with little wind,
FTLN 0985 Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
FTLN 0986 So I to her and so she yields to me,
FTLN 0987 For I am rough and woo not like a babe.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0988145 Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed.
FTLN 0989 But be thou armed for some unhappy words.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 0990 Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,
FTLN 0991 That shakes not, though they blow perpetually.

---

Enter Hortensio as Litio with his head broke.

BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0992 How now, my friend, why dost thou look so pale?
HORTENSIO , as Litio 
FTLN 0993150 For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0994 What, will my daughter prove a good musician?
HORTENSIO , as Litio 
FTLN 0995 I think she’ll sooner prove a soldier!
FTLN 0996 Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 0997 Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?
HORTENSIO , as Litio 
FTLN 0998155 Why, no, for she hath broke the lute to me.
FTLN 0999 I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
FTLN 1000 And bowed her hand to teach her fingering,
FTLN 1001 When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
FTLN 1002 “‘Frets’ call you these?” quoth she. “I’ll fume with
FTLN 1003160 them!”
FTLN 1004 And with that word she struck me on the head,
FTLN 1005 And through the instrument my pate made way,
FTLN 1006 And there I stood amazèd for a while,
FTLN 1007 As on a pillory, looking through the lute,
FTLN 1008165 While she did call me “rascal fiddler,”
FTLN 1009 And “twangling Jack,” with twenty such vile terms,
FTLN 1010 As had she studied to misuse me so.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1011 Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench.
FTLN 1012 I love her ten times more than e’er I did.
FTLN 1013170 O, how I long to have some chat with her!
BAPTISTA , to Hortensio as Litio 
FTLN 1014 Well, go with me, and be not so discomfited.
FTLN 1015 Proceed in practice with my younger daughter.
FTLN 1016 She’s apt to learn, and thankful for good turns.—
FTLN 1017 Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,
FTLN 1018175 Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?

---

PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1019 I pray you do. I’ll attend her here—
All but Petruchio exit.
FTLN 1020 And woo her with some spirit when she comes!
FTLN 1021 Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plain
FTLN 1022 She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
FTLN 1023180 Say that she frown, I’ll say she looks as clear
FTLN 1024 As morning roses newly washed with dew.
FTLN 1025 Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
FTLN 1026 Then I’ll commend her volubility
FTLN 1027 And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
FTLN 1028185 If she do bid me pack, I’ll give her thanks
FTLN 1029 As though she bid me stay by her a week.
FTLN 1030 If she deny to wed, I’ll crave the day
FTLN 1031 When I shall ask the banns, and when be marrièd.
FTLN 1032 But here she comes—and now, Petruchio, speak.

Enter Katherine.

FTLN 1033190 Good morrow, Kate, for that’s your name, I hear.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1034 Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing.
FTLN 1035 They call me Katherine that do talk of me.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1036 You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate,
FTLN 1037 And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst.
FTLN 1038195 But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
FTLN 1039 Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate
FTLN 1040 (For dainties are all Kates)—and therefore, Kate,
FTLN 1041 Take this of me, Kate of my consolation:
FTLN 1042 Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,
FTLN 1043200 Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded
FTLN 1044 (Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs),
FTLN 1045 Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1046 “Moved,” in good time! Let him that moved you
FTLN 1047 hither

---

FTLN 1048205 Remove you hence. I knew you at the first
FTLN 1049 You were a movable.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1050 Why, what’s a movable?
KATHERINE  FTLN 1051 A joint stool.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1052 Thou hast hit it. Come, sit on me.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1053210 Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1054 Women are made to bear, and so are you.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1055 No such jade as you, if me you mean.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1056 Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee,
FTLN 1057 For knowing thee to be but young and light—
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1058215 Too light for such a swain as you to catch,
FTLN 1059 And yet as heavy as my weight should be.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1060 “Should be”—should buzz!
KATHERINE  FTLN 1061 Well ta’en, and like a
FTLN 1062 buzzard.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1063220 O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1064 Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1065 Come, come, you wasp! I’ faith, you are too angry.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1066 If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1067 My remedy is then to pluck it out.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1068225 Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.

---

PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1069 Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?
FTLN 1070 In his tail.
KATHERINE  FTLN 1071In his tongue.
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 1072Whose tongue?
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1073230 Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell.
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 1074What, with my tongue in your tail?
FTLN 1075 Nay, come again, good Kate. I am a gentleman—
KATHERINE  FTLN 1076That I’ll try. She strikes him.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1077 I swear I’ll cuff you if you strike again.
KATHERINE  FTLN 1078235So may you lose your arms.
FTLN 1079 If you strike me, you are no gentleman,
FTLN 1080 And if no gentleman, why then no arms.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1081 A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books.
KATHERINE  FTLN 1082What is your crest? A coxcomb?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1083240 A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1084 No cock of mine. You crow too like a craven.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1085 Nay, come, Kate, come. You must not look so sour.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1086 It is my fashion when I see a crab.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1087 Why, here’s no crab, and therefore look not sour.
KATHERINE  FTLN 1088245There is, there is.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1089 Then show it me.
KATHERINE  FTLN 1090 Had I a glass, I would.
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 1091What, you mean my face?
KATHERINE  FTLN 1092Well aimed of such a young one.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1093250 Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.

---

KATHERINE 
FTLN 1094 Yet you are withered.
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 1095 ’Tis with cares.
KATHERINE  FTLN 1096 I care not.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1097 Nay, hear you, Kate—in sooth, you ’scape not so.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1098255 I chafe you if I tarry. Let me go.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1099 No, not a whit. I find you passing gentle.
FTLN 1100 ’Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen,
FTLN 1101 And now I find report a very liar.
FTLN 1102 For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing
FTLN 1103260 courteous,
FTLN 1104 But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers.
FTLN 1105 Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,
FTLN 1106 Nor bite the lip as angry wenches will,
FTLN 1107 Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk.
FTLN 1108265 But thou with mildness entertain’st thy wooers,
FTLN 1109 With gentle conference, soft, and affable.
FTLN 1110 Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?
FTLN 1111 O sland’rous world! Kate like the hazel twig
FTLN 1112 Is straight, and slender, and as brown in hue
FTLN 1113270 As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels.
FTLN 1114 O, let me see thee walk! Thou dost not halt.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1115 Go, fool, and whom thou keep’st command.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1116 Did ever Dian so become a grove
FTLN 1117 As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?
FTLN 1118275 O, be thou Dian and let her be Kate,
FTLN 1119 And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1120 Where did you study all this goodly speech?
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1121 It is extempore, from my mother wit.

---

KATHERINE 
FTLN 1122 A witty mother, witless else her son.
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 1123280Am I not wise?
KATHERINE  FTLN 1124Yes, keep you warm.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1125 Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed.
FTLN 1126 And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
FTLN 1127 Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
FTLN 1128285 That you shall be my wife, your dowry ’greed on,
FTLN 1129 And, will you, nill you, I will marry you.
FTLN 1130 Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn,
FTLN 1131 For by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
FTLN 1132 Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,
FTLN 1133290 Thou must be married to no man but me.
FTLN 1134 For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,
FTLN 1135 And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
FTLN 1136 Conformable as other household Kates.

Enter Baptista, Gremio, and Tranio as Lucentio.

FTLN 1137 Here comes your father. Never make denial.
FTLN 1138295 I must and will have Katherine to my wife.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1139 Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my
FTLN 1140 daughter?
PETRUCHIO  FTLN 1141How but well, sir? How but well?
FTLN 1142 It were impossible I should speed amiss.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1143300 Why, how now, daughter Katherine? In your
FTLN 1144 dumps?
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1145 Call you me daughter? Now I promise you
FTLN 1146 You have showed a tender fatherly regard,
FTLN 1147 To wish me wed to one half lunatic,
FTLN 1148305 A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack,
FTLN 1149 That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.

---

PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1150 Father, ’tis thus: yourself and all the world
FTLN 1151 That talked of her have talked amiss of her.
FTLN 1152 If she be curst, it is for policy,
FTLN 1153310 For she’s not froward, but modest as the dove;
FTLN 1154 She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
FTLN 1155 For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
FTLN 1156 And Roman Lucrece for her chastity.
FTLN 1157 And to conclude, we have ’greed so well together
FTLN 1158315 That upon Sunday is the wedding day.
KATHERINE 
FTLN 1159 I’ll see thee hanged on Sunday first.
GREMIO  FTLN 1160Hark, Petruchio, she says she’ll see thee
FTLN 1161 hanged first.
TRANIO , as Lucentio  FTLN 1162Is this your speeding? Nay,
FTLN 1163320 then, goodnight our part.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1164 Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself.
FTLN 1165 If she and I be pleased, what’s that to you?
FTLN 1166 ’Tis bargained ’twixt us twain, being alone,
FTLN 1167 That she shall still be curst in company.
FTLN 1168325 I tell you, ’tis incredible to believe
FTLN 1169 How much she loves me. O, the kindest Kate!
FTLN 1170 She hung about my neck, and kiss on kiss
FTLN 1171 She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
FTLN 1172 That in a twink she won me to her love.
FTLN 1173330 O, you are novices! ’Tis a world to see
FTLN 1174 How tame, when men and women are alone,
FTLN 1175 A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.—
FTLN 1176 Give me thy hand, Kate. I will unto Venice
FTLN 1177 To buy apparel ’gainst the wedding day.—
FTLN 1178335 Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests.
FTLN 1179 I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1180 I know not what to say, but give me your hands.
FTLN 1181 God send you joy, Petruchio. ’Tis a match.

---

GREMIO and TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1182 Amen, say we. We will be witnesses.
PETRUCHIO 
FTLN 1183340 Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu.
FTLN 1184 I will to Venice. Sunday comes apace.
FTLN 1185 We will have rings, and things, and fine array,
FTLN 1186 And kiss me, Kate. We will be married o’ Sunday.
Petruchio and Katherine exit
through different doors.
GREMIO 
FTLN 1187 Was ever match clapped up so suddenly?
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1188345 Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant’s part
FTLN 1189 And venture madly on a desperate mart.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1190 ’Twas a commodity lay fretting by you.
FTLN 1191 ’Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1192 The gain I seek, is quiet in the match.
GREMIO 
FTLN 1193350 No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.
FTLN 1194 But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter.
FTLN 1195 Now is the day we long have lookèd for.
FTLN 1196 I am your neighbor and was suitor first.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1197 And I am one that love Bianca more
FTLN 1198355 Than words can witness or your thoughts can guess.
GREMIO 
FTLN 1199 Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1200 Graybeard, thy love doth freeze.
GREMIO  FTLN 1201 But thine doth fry!
FTLN 1202 Skipper, stand back. ’Tis age that nourisheth.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1203360 But youth in ladies’ eyes that flourisheth.

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BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1204 Content you, gentlemen. I will compound this strife.
FTLN 1205 ’Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both
FTLN 1206 That can assure my daughter greatest dower
FTLN 1207 Shall have my Bianca’s love.
FTLN 1208365 Say, Signior Gremio, what can you assure her?
GREMIO 
FTLN 1209 First, as you know, my house within the city
FTLN 1210 Is richly furnishèd with plate and gold,
FTLN 1211 Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
FTLN 1212 My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;
FTLN 1213370 In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns,
FTLN 1214 In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
FTLN 1215 Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
FTLN 1216 Fine linen, Turkey cushions bossed with pearl,
FTLN 1217 Valance of Venice gold in needlework,
FTLN 1218375 Pewter and brass, and all things that belongs
FTLN 1219 To house or housekeeping. Then, at my farm
FTLN 1220 I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,
FTLN 1221 Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls,
FTLN 1222 And all things answerable to this portion.
FTLN 1223380 Myself am struck in years, I must confess,
FTLN 1224 And if I die tomorrow this is hers,
FTLN 1225 If whilst I live she will be only mine.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1226 That “only” came well in.  To Baptista. Sir, list to
FTLN 1227 me:
FTLN 1228385 I am my father’s heir and only son.
FTLN 1229 If I may have your daughter to my wife,
FTLN 1230 I’ll leave her houses three or four as good,
FTLN 1231 Within rich Pisa walls, as any one
FTLN 1232 Old Signior Gremio has in Padua,
FTLN 1233390 Besides two thousand ducats by the year
FTLN 1234 Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.—
FTLN 1235 What, have I pinched you, Signior Gremio?

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GREMIO 
FTLN 1236 Two thousand ducats by the year of land?
FTLN 1237  Aside. My land amounts not to so much in all.—
FTLN 1238395 That she shall have, besides an argosy
FTLN 1239 That now is lying in Marcellus’ road.
FTLN 1240  To Tranio. What, have I choked you with an argosy?
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1241 Gremio, ’tis known my father hath no less
FTLN 1242 Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses
FTLN 1243400 And twelve tight galleys. These I will assure her,
FTLN 1244 And twice as much whate’er thou off’rest next.
GREMIO 
FTLN 1245 Nay, I have offered all. I have no more,
FTLN 1246 And she can have no more than all I have.
FTLN 1247  To Baptista. If you like me, she shall have me and
FTLN 1248405 mine.
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1249 Why, then, the maid is mine from all the world,
FTLN 1250 By your firm promise. Gremio is outvied.
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1251 I must confess your offer is the best,
FTLN 1252 And, let your father make her the assurance,
FTLN 1253410 She is your own; else, you must pardon me.
FTLN 1254 If you should die before him, where’s her dower?
TRANIO , as Lucentio 
FTLN 1255 That’s but a cavil. He is old, I young.
GREMIO 
FTLN 1256 And may not young men die as well as old?
BAPTISTA 
FTLN 1257 Well, gentlemen, I am thus resolved:
FTLN 1258415 On Sunday next, you know
FTLN 1259 My daughter Katherine is to be married.
FTLN 1260  To Tranio as Lucentio. Now, on the Sunday
FTLN 1261 following, shall Bianca
FTLN 1262 Be bride to you, if you make this assurance.
FTLN 1263420 If not, to Signior Gremio.
FTLN 1264 And so I take my leave, and thank you both.

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GREMIO 
FTLN 1265 Adieu, good neighbor. Baptista exits.
FTLN 1266 Now I fear thee not.
FTLN 1267 Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool
FTLN 1268425 To give thee all and in his waning age
FTLN 1269 Set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy!
FTLN 1270 An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.
Gremio exits.
TRANIO 
FTLN 1271 A vengeance on your crafty withered hide!—
FTLN 1272 Yet I have faced it with a card of ten.
FTLN 1273430 ’Tis in my head to do my master good.
FTLN 1274 I see no reason but supposed Lucentio
FTLN 1275 Must get a father, called “supposed Vincentio”—
FTLN 1276 And that’s a wonder. Fathers commonly
FTLN 1277 Do get their children. But in this case of wooing,
FTLN 1278435 A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.
He exits.