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