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The Taming of the Shrew (Folio, 1623)
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218The Taming of the Shrew.
1271If you should die before him, where's her dower?
1272Tra. That's but a cauill: he is olde, I young.
1273Gre. And may not yong men die as well as old?
1275On sonday next, you know
1276My daughter Katherine is to be married:
1278Be Bride to you, if you make this assurance:
1279If not, to Signior Gremio:
1281Gre. Adieu good neighbour: now I feare thee not:
1282Sirra, yong gamester, your father were a foole
1283To giue thee all, and in his wayning age
1284Set foot vnder thy table: tut, a toy,
1286Tra. A vengeance on your crafty withered hide,
1287Yet I haue fac'd it with a card of ten:
1288'Tis in my head to doe my master good:
1291And that's a wonder: fathers commonly
1292Doe get their children: but in this case of woing,
1294Actus Tertia.
1295Enter Lucentio, Hortentio, and Bianca.
1296Luc. Fidler forbeare, you grow too forward Sir,
1299Hort. But wrangling pedant, this is
1300The patronesse of heauenly harmony:
1301Then giue me leaue to haue prerogatiue,
1306Was it not to refresh the minde of man
1308Then giue me leaue to read Philosophy,
1311Bianc. Why gentlemen, you doe me double wrong,
1314Ile not be tied to howres, nor pointed times,
1317Take you your instrument, play you the whiles,
1318His Lecture will be done ere you haue tun'd.
1328Lucentio that comes a wooing, priami, is my man Tra-
1330guile the old Pantalowne.
1333Luc. Spit in the hole man, and tune againe.
1338Hort. Madam, tis now in tune.
1342Now for my life the knaue doth court my loue,
1343Pedascule, Ile watch you better yet:
1346Was Aiax cald so from his grandfather.
1349But let it rest, now Litio to you:
1350Good master take it not vnkindly pray
1351That I haue beene thus pleasant with you both.
1352Hort. You may go walk, and giue me leaue a while,
1355And watch withall, for but I be deceiu'd,
1358To learne the order of my fingering,
1359I must begin with rudiments of Art,
1360To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort,
1362Then hath beene taught by any of my trade,
1363And there it is in writing fairely drawne.
1365Hor. Yet read the gamouth of Hortentio.
1366Bian. Gamouth I am, the ground of all accord:
1368Beeme, Bianca take him for thy Lord
1371Ela mi, show pitty or I die,
1372Call you this gamouth? tut I like it not,
1374To charge true rules for old inuentions.
1375Enter a Messenger.
1378You know to morrow is the wedding day.
1382Methinkes he lookes as though he were in loue:
1383Yet if thy thoughts Bianca be so humble
1387Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio, Katherine, Bianca, and o-
1388 thers, attendants.
1389Bap. Signior Lucentio, this is the pointed day
1390That Katherine and Petruchio should be married,
1391And yet we heare not of our sonne in Law:
1392What will be said, what mockery will it be?
1393To want the Bride-groome when the Priest attends
1394To speake the ceremoniall rites of marriage?
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