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Tranio, Lines 25-40
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Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 25-40

Tranio performs lines 25-40 of Act 1, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 1.1 Performance: Tranio, Lines 25-40

Tranio

Me pardonato, gentle master mine,    
I am in all affected as yourself,    
Glad that you thus continue your resolve
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue and this moral discipline,
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray,    
Or so devote to Aristotle's cheques,    
As Ovid be an outcast, quite abjured.    
Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,    
And practice rhetoric in your common talk;    
Music and poesy use to quicken you;    
The mathematics and the metaphysics,
Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.    
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.    
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.