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Tranio

I pray, awake, sir. If you love the maid,
Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:    
Her eldest sister is so curst and shrewd    
That till the father rid his hands of her,
Master, your love must live a maid at home;    
And therefore has he closely mewed her up,   
Because she will not be annoyed with suitors.    

Lucentio

Basta; content thee, for I have it full.    
We have not yet been seen in any house,
Nor can we lie distinguished 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 hatched and shall be so. Tranio, at once    
Uncase thee; take my coloured hat and cloak.    
When Biondello comes, he waits on thee,    
But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.

Tranio

I am content to be Lucentio,
Because so well I love Lucentio.
[They exchange clothes]

Lucentio

Tranio, be so because Lucentio loves,
And let me be a slave t’achieve that maid,    
Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye.    

Hortensio

apples. But come, since this bar in law makes us friends,
it shall be so far forth friendly maintained till by helping     
Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband we set his youngest
free for a husband, and then have to't afresh. Sweet     
Bianca! Happy man be his dole. He that runs fastest gets     
the ring. How say you, Signor Gremio?    

Hortensio

Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten    
apples. But come, since this bar in law makes us friends,
it shall be so far forth friendly maintained till by helping     
Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband we set his youngest
free for a husband, and then have to't afresh. Sweet     

Baptista

If either of you both love Katherina —   
Because I know you well and love you well —
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.    

Gremio

[Aside] To “cart” her rather; she's too rough for me.    

Katherina

[To Baptista] I pray you, sir, is it your will
To make a stale of me amongst these mates?

Hortensio

‘Mates,’ maid, how mean you that? No mates for you,
Unless you were of gentler, milder mold.

Baptista

Gentlemen, that I may soon make good
What I have said — Bianca, get you in,    
And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,
For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl.

Katherina

A pretty peat! It is best    
Put finger in the eye — and she knew why.    

Bianca

Sister, content you in my discontent.
Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe;
My books and instruments shall be my company,    
On them to look and practice by myself.

Lucentio

[Quietly to Tranio] Hark, Tranio! Thou mayst hear Minerva speak.    

Katherina

Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not? What,    
shall I be appointed hours, as though belike I knew not     
what to take and what to leave? Ha!    
[Exit Katherina]

Gremio

[As if he’s addressing Katherina who has just left]
You may go to the devil's dam. Your gifts are so    
good, here's none will hold you. [To Hortensio] Their love is not so      

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