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Signior Baptista may remember me, |
Near twenty years ago, in Genoa, |
Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus. |
TRANIO: |
'Tis well; and hold your own, in any case, |
With such austerity as 'longeth to a father. |
Pedant: |
I warrant you. |
But, sir, here comes your boy; |
'Twere good he were school'd. |
TRANIO: |
Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello, |
Now do your duty throughly, I advise you: |
Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio. |
BIONDELLO: |
Tut, fear not me. |
TRANIO: |
But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista? |
BIONDELLO: |
I told him that your father was at Venice, |
And that you look'd for him this day in Padua. |
TRANIO: |
Thou'rt a tall fellow: hold thee that to drink. |
Here comes Baptista: set your countenance, sir. |
Signior Baptista, you are happily met. |
Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of: |
I pray you stand good father to me now, |
Give me Bianca for my patrimony. |
Pedant: |
Soft son! |
Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua |
To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio |
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause |
Of love between your daughter and himself: |
And, for the good report I hear of you |
And for the love he beareth to your daughter |
And she to him, to stay him not too long, |
I am content, in a good father's care, |
To have him match'd; and if you please to like |
No worse than I, upon some agreement |
Me shall you find ready and willing |
With one consent to have her so bestow'd; |
For curious I cannot be with you, |
Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well. |
BAPTISTA: |
Sir, pardon me in what I have to say: |
Your plainness and your shortness please me well. |
Right true it is, your son Lucentio here |
Doth love my daughter and she loveth him, |
Or both dissemble deeply their affections: |
And therefore, if you say no more than this, |
That like a father you will deal with him |
And pass my daughter a sufficient dower, |
The match is made, and all is done: |
Your son shall have my daughter with consent. |
TRANIO: |
I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best |
We be affied and such assurance ta'en |
As shall with either part's agreement stand? |
BAPTISTA: |
Not in my house, Lucentio; for, you know, |
Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants: |
Besides, old Gremio is hearkening still; |
And happily we might be interrupted. |
TRANIO: |
Then at my lodging, an it like you: |
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 presently. |
The worst is this, that, at so slender warning, |
You are like to have a thin and slender pittance. |
BAPTISTA: |
It likes me well. Biondello, hie you home, |
And bid Bianca make her ready straight; |
And, if you will, tell what hath happened, |
Lucentio's father is arrived in Padua, |
And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife. |
BIONDELLO: |
I pray the gods she may with all my heart! |
TRANIO: |
Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone. |
Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way? |
Welcome! one mess is like to be your cheer: |
Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa. |
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