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We will persuade him, be it possible,
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To put on better ere he go to church.
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BAPTISTA:
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I'll after him, and see the event of this.
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TRANIO:
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But to her love concerneth us to add
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Her father's liking: which to bring to pass,
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As I before unparted to your worship,
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I am to get a man,--whate'er he be,
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It skills not much. we'll fit him to our turn,--
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And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa;
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And make assurance here in Padua
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Of greater sums than I have promised.
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So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,
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And marry sweet Bianca with consent.
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LUCENTIO:
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Were it not that my fellow-school-master
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Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly,
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'Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage;
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Which once perform'd, let all the world say no,
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I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world.
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TRANIO:
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That by degrees we mean to look into,
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And watch our vantage in this business:
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We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,
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The narrow-prying father, Minola,
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The quaint musician, amorous Licio;
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All for my master's sake, Lucentio.
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Signior Gremio, came you from the church?
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GREMIO:
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As willingly as e'er I came from school.
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TRANIO:
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And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?
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GREMIO:
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A bridegroom say you? 'tis a groom indeed,
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A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.
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TRANIO:
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Curster than she? why, 'tis impossible.
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GREMIO:
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Why he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
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TRANIO:
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Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam.
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GREMIO:
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Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him!
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I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest
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Should ask, if Katharina should be his wife,
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'Ay, by gogs-wouns,' quoth he; and swore so loud,
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That, all-amazed, the priest let fall the book;
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And, as he stoop'd again to take it up,
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The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff
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That down fell priest and book and book and priest:
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'Now take them up,' quoth he, 'if any list.'
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TRANIO:
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What said the wench when he rose again?
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GREMIO:
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Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd and swore,
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As if the vicar meant to cozen him.
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But after many ceremonies done,
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He calls for wine: 'A health!' quoth he, as if
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He had been aboard, carousing to his mates
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After a storm; quaff'd off the muscadel
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And threw the sops all in the sexton's face;
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Having no other reason
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But that his beard grew thin and hungerly
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And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking.
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This done, he took the bride about the neck
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And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack
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That at the parting all the church did echo:
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And I seeing this came thence for very shame;
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And after me, I know, the rout is coming.
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Such a mad marriage never was before:
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Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play.
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PETRUCHIO:
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Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains:
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I know you think to dine with me to-day,
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And have prepared great store of wedding cheer;
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But so it is, my haste doth call me hence,
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And therefore here I mean to take my leave.
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BAPTISTA:
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Is't possible you will away to-night?
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PETRUCHIO:
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I must away to-day, before night come:
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Make it no wonder; if you knew my business,
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You would entreat me rather go than stay.
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