Taming of the Shrew

Tranio-as-Lucentio

What countryman, I pray?    

Merchant

                                             Of Mantua.

Tranio-as-Lucentio

Of Mantua, sir? Marry, God forbid!
And come to Padua, careless of your life?

Merchant

My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard.    

Tranio-as-Lucentio

'Tis death for any one in Mantua    
To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke,    
For private quarrel 'twixt your Duke and him,    
Hath published and proclaimed it openly.
'Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come,    
You might have heard it else proclaimed about.    

Lucentio-as-Cambio

Now, mistress, profit you in what you read?    

Bianca

What, master, read you? First resolve me that.    

Lucentio

I read that I profess, The Art to Love.    

Bianca

And may you prove, sir, master of your art.

Lucentio

While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart.    

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