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Pedant: |
Of Mantua. |
TRANIO: |
Of Mantua, sir? marry, God forbid! |
And come to Padua, careless of your life? |
Pedant: |
My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard. |
TRANIO: |
'Tis death for any one in Mantua |
To come to Padua. Know you not the cause? |
Your ships are stay'd 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 are but newly come, |
You might have heard it else proclaim'd about. |
Pedant: |
Alas! sir, it is worse for me than so; |
For I have bills for money by exchange |
From Florence and must here deliver them. |
TRANIO: |
Well, sir, to do you courtesy, |
This will I do, and this I will advise you: |
First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa? |
Pedant: |
Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been, |
Pisa renowned for grave citizens. |
TRANIO: |
Among them know you one Vincentio? |
Pedant: |
I know him not, but I have heard of him; |
A merchant of incomparable wealth. |
TRANIO: |
He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say, |
In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. |
BIONDELLO: |
TRANIO: |
To save your life in this extremity, |
This favour will I do you for his sake; |
And think it not the worst of an 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. |
Pedant: |
O sir, I do; and will repute you ever |
The patron of my life and liberty. |
TRANIO: |
Then go with me to make the matter good. |
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 to clothe you as becomes you. |
GRUMIO: |
No, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life. |
KATHARINA: |
The more my wrong, the more his spite appears: |
What, did he marry me to famish me? |
Beggars, that come unto my father's door, |
Upon entreaty have a present aims; |
If not, elsewhere they meet with charity: |
But I, who never knew how to entreat, |
Nor never needed that I should entreat, |
Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep, |
With oath kept waking and with brawling fed: |
And that which spites me more than all these wants, |
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. |
I prithee go and get me some repast; |
I care not what, so it be wholesome food. |
GRUMIO: |
What say you to a neat's foot? |
KATHARINA: |
'Tis passing good: I prithee let me have it. |
GRUMIO: |
I fear it is too choleric a meat. |
How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd? |
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