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Pedant:
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Of Mantua.
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TRANIO:
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Of Mantua, sir? marry, God forbid!
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And come to Padua, careless of your life?
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Pedant:
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My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard.
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TRANIO:
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'Tis death for any one in Mantua
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To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
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Your ships are stay'd at Venice, and the duke,
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For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him,
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Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly:
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'Tis, marvel, but that you are but newly come,
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You might have heard it else proclaim'd about.
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Pedant:
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Alas! sir, it is worse for me than so;
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For I have bills for money by exchange
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From Florence and must here deliver them.
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TRANIO:
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Well, sir, to do you courtesy,
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This will I do, and this I will advise you:
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First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?
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Pedant:
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Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,
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Pisa renowned for grave citizens.
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TRANIO:
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Among them know you one Vincentio?
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Pedant:
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I know him not, but I have heard of him;
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A merchant of incomparable wealth.
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TRANIO:
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He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say,
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In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.
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BIONDELLO:
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TRANIO:
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To save your life in this extremity,
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This favour will I do you for his sake;
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And think it not the worst of an your fortunes
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That you are like to Sir Vincentio.
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His name and credit shall you undertake,
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And in my house you shall be friendly lodged:
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Look that you take upon you as you should;
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You understand me, sir: so shall you stay
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Till you have done your business in the city:
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If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.
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Pedant:
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O sir, I do; and will repute you ever
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The patron of my life and liberty.
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TRANIO:
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Then go with me to make the matter good.
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This, by the way, I let you understand;
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my father is here look'd for every day,
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To pass assurance of a dower in marriage
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'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here:
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In all these circumstances I'll instruct you:
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Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.
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GRUMIO:
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No, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life.
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KATHARINA:
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The more my wrong, the more his spite appears:
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What, did he marry me to famish me?
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Beggars, that come unto my father's door,
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Upon entreaty have a present aims;
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If not, elsewhere they meet with charity:
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But I, who never knew how to entreat,
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Nor never needed that I should entreat,
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Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
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With oath kept waking and with brawling fed:
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And that which spites me more than all these wants,
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He does it under name of perfect love;
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As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,
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'Twere deadly sickness or else present death.
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I prithee go and get me some repast;
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I care not what, so it be wholesome food.
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GRUMIO:
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What say you to a neat's foot?
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KATHARINA:
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'Tis passing good: I prithee let me have it.
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GRUMIO:
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I fear it is too choleric a meat.
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How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?
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