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That she shall have; besides an argosy |
That now is lying in Marseilles' road. |
What, have I choked you with an argosy? |
TRANIO: |
Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less |
Than three great argosies; besides two galliases, |
And twelve tight galleys: these I will assure her, |
And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next. |
GREMIO: |
Nay, I have offer'd all, I have no more; |
And she can have no more than all I have: |
If you like me, she shall have me and mine. |
TRANIO: |
Why, then the maid is mine from all the world, |
By your firm promise: Gremio is out-vied. |
BAPTISTA: |
I must confess your offer is the best; |
And, let your father make her the assurance, |
She is your own; else, you must pardon me, |
if you should die before him, where's her dower? |
TRANIO: |
That's but a cavil: he is old, I young. |
GREMIO: |
And may not young men die, as well as old? |
BAPTISTA: |
Well, gentlemen, |
I am thus resolved: on Sunday next you know |
My daughter Katharina is to be married: |
Now, on the Sunday following, shall Bianca |
Be bride to you, if you this assurance; |
If not, Signior Gremio: |
And so, I take my leave, and thank you both. |
GREMIO: |
Adieu, good neighbour. |
Now I fear thee not: |
Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool |
To give thee all, and in his waning age |
Set foot under thy table: tut, a toy! |
An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy. |
TRANIO: |
A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide! |
Yet I have faced it with a card of ten. |
'Tis in my head to do my master good: |
I see no reason but supposed Lucentio |
Must get a father, call'd 'supposed Vincentio;' |
And that's a wonder: fathers commonly |
Do get their children; but in this case of wooing, |
A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning. |
LUCENTIO: |
Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir: |
Have you so soon forgot the entertainment |
Her sister Katharina welcomed you withal? |
HORTENSIO: |
But, wrangling pedant, this is |
The patroness of heavenly harmony: |
Then give me leave to have prerogative; |
And when in music we have spent an hour, |
Your lecture shall have leisure for as much. |
LUCENTIO: |
Preposterous ass, that never read so far |
To know the cause why music was ordain'd! |
Was it not to refresh the mind of man |
After his studies or his usual pain? |
Then give me leave to read philosophy, |
And while I pause, serve in your harmony. |
HORTENSIO: |
Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine. |
BIANCA: |
Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong, |
To strive for that which resteth in my choice: |
I am no breeching scholar in the schools; |
I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times, |
But learn my lessons as I please myself. |
And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down: |
Take you your instrument, play you the whiles; |
His lecture will be done ere you have tuned. |
HORTENSIO: |
You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune? |
LUCENTIO: |
That will be never: tune your instrument. |
BIANCA: |
Where left we last? |
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