Act 3, Scene 1 - Video Performance: Lucentio, Hortensio, and Bianca, Lines 26-44b

Lucentio, Hortensio, and Bianca, Lines 26-44b

Performance Videos

Act 3,

Scene 1

Lines 26-44

Lucentio, Hortensio, and Bianca perform lines 26-44b of Act 3, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 3.1 Performance: Lucentio, Hortensio, and Bianca, Lines 26-44b

Where left we last?

Here, madam:

[Reading from a work by the ancient Roman poet Ovid]

'Hic ibat Simois; hic est Sigeia tellus;

Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis.'

Construe them.

'Hic ibat,' as I told you before; 'Simois,' I am Lucentio;

'hic est,' son unto Vincentio of Pisa;

'Sigeia tellus,' disguised thus to get your love;

'Hic steterat,' and that Lucentio that comes a-wooing;

'Priami,' is my man, Tranio; 'regia,' bearing my port;

'celsa senis,' that we might beguile the old pantaloon.

Madam, my instrument's in tune.

Let's hear. [He plays] O fie! The treble jars.

Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.

[To Lucentio] Now let me see if I can construe it:

'Hic Ibat Simois,' I know you not; 'hic est Sigeia tellus,'

I trust you not; 'Hic steterat Priami,' take heed he hear us not;

'regia,' presume not; 'celsa senis,' despair not.