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Lucentio, Lines 223-232
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Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 223-232

Lucentio performs lines 223-232 of Act 1, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 1.1 Performance: Lucentio, Lines 223-232

Lucentio

Sirrah, come hither. 'Tis no time to jest,    
And therefore frame your manners to the time.    
Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,
Puts my apparel and my countenance on,
And I for my escape have put on his.
For in a quarrel since I came ashore    
I kill'd a man and fear I was descried.    
Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,    
While I make way from hence to save my life.
You understand me?