Act 3, Scene 1 - Video Performance: Hortensio and Bianca, Lines 62-79

Hortensio and Bianca, Lines 62-79

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Act 3,

Scene 1

Lines 62-79

Hortensio and Bianca perform lines 62-79 of Act 3, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 3.1 Performance: Hortensio and Bianca, Lines 62-79

Madam, before you touch the instrument,

To learn the order of my fingering,

I must begin with rudiments of art,

To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,

More pleasant, pithy, and effectual

Than hath been taught by any of my trade,

And there it is in writing fairly drawn.

Why, I am past my gamut long ago.

Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.

[Reads the scale which he has written out for her]

Gamut — I am the ground of all accord,

A re — to plead Hortensio's passion.

B mi — Bianca, take him for thy lord,

C fa ut — that loves with all affection.

D sol re — One clef, two notes have I.

E la mi — Show pity, or I die.'

Call you this ‘gamut’? Tut, I like it not.

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice

To change true rules for odd inventions.