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TRANIO: |
Master, for my hand, |
Both our inventions meet and jump in one. |
LUCENTIO: |
Tell me thine first. |
TRANIO: |
You will be schoolmaster |
And undertake the teaching of the maid: |
That's your device. |
LUCENTIO: |
It is: may it be done? |
TRANIO: |
Not possible; for who shall bear your part, |
And be in Padua here Vincentio's son, |
Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends, |
Visit his countrymen and banquet them? |
LUCENTIO: |
Basta; content thee, for I have it full. |
We have not yet been seen in any house, |
Nor can we lie distinguish'd by our faces |
For man or master; then it follows thus; |
Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead, |
Keep house and port and servants as I should: |
I will some other be, some Florentine, |
Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa. |
'Tis hatch'd and shall be so: Tranio, at once |
Uncase thee; take my colour'd hat and cloak: |
When Biondello comes, he waits on thee; |
But I will charm him first to keep his tongue. |
TRANIO: |
So had you need. |
In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is, |
And I am tied to be obedient; |
For so your father charged me at our parting, |
'Be serviceable to my son,' quoth he, |
Although I think 'twas in another sense; |
I am content to be Lucentio, |
Because so well I love Lucentio. |
LUCENTIO: |
Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves: |
And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid |
Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye. |
Here comes the rogue. |
Sirrah, where have you been? |
BIONDELLO: |
Where have I been! Nay, how now! where are you? |
Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your clothes? Or |
you stolen his? or both? pray, what's the news? |
LUCENTIO: |
Sirrah, come hither: 'tis no time to jest, |
And therefore frame your manners to the time. |
Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life, |
Puts my apparel and my countenance on, |
And I for my escape have put on his; |
For in a quarrel since I came ashore |
I kill'd a man and fear I was descried: |
Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes, |
While I make way from hence to save my life: |
You understand me? |
BIONDELLO: |
I, sir! ne'er a whit. |
LUCENTIO: |
And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth: |
Tranio is changed into Lucentio. |
BIONDELLO: |
The better for him: would I were so too! |
TRANIO: |
So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after, |
That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter. |
But, sirrah, not for my sake, but your master's, I advise |
You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies: |
When I am alone, why, then I am Tranio; |
But in all places else your master Lucentio. |
LUCENTIO: |
Tranio, let's go: one thing more rests, that |
thyself execute, to make one among these wooers: if |
thou ask me why, sufficeth, my reasons are both good |
and weighty. |
First Servant: |
My lord, you nod; you do not mind the play. |
SLY: |
Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely: |
comes there any more of it? |
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