2303It shall be moone, or starre, or what I list,

2304Or ere I iourney to your Fathers house:

2305Goe on, and fetch our horses backe againe,

2306Euermore crost and crost, nothing but crost.

2307Hort. Say as he saies, or we shall neuer goe.

2308Kate. Forward I pray, since we haue come so farre,

2309And be it moone, or sunne, or what you please:

2310And if you please to call it a rush Candle,

2311Henceforth I vowe it shall be so for me.

2312Petr. I say it is the Moone.

2313Kate. I know it is the Moone.

2314Petr. Nay then you lye: it is the blessed Sunne.

2315Kate. Then God be blest, it in the blessed sun,

2316But sunne it is not, when you say it is not,

2317And the Moone changes euen as your minde:

2318What you will haue it nam'd, euen that it is,

2319And so it shall be so for Katherine.

2320Hort. Petruchio, goe thy waies, the field is won.

2321Petr. Well, forward, forward, thus the bowle should (run,

2322And not vnluckily against the Bias:

2323But soft, Company is comming here.

2325Good morrow gentle Mistris, where away:

2326Tell me sweete Kate, and tell me truely too,

2327Hast thou beheld a fresher Gentlewoman:

2328Such warre of white and red within her cheekes:

2329What stars do spangle heauen with such beautie,

2330As those two eyes become that heauenly face?

2331Faire louely Maide, once more good day to thee:

2332Sweete Kate embrace her for her beauties sake.

2333Hort. A will make the man mad to make the woman

2334 of him.

2335Kate. Yong budding Virgin, faire, and fresh,& sweet,

2336Whether away, or whether is thy aboade?

2337Happy the Parents of so faire a childe;

2338Happier the man whom fauourable stars

2339A lots thee for his louely bedfellow.

2340Petr. Why how now Kate, I hope thou art not mad,

2341This is a man old, wrinckled, faded, withered,

2342And not a Maiden, as thou saist he is.

2343Kate. Pardon old father my mistaking eies,

2344That haue bin so bedazled with the sunne,

2345That euery thing I looke on seemeth greene:

2346Now I p erceiue thou art a reuerent Father:

2347Pardon I pray thee for my mad mistaking.

2348Petr. Do good old grandsire, & withall make known

2349Which way thou trauellest, if along with vs,

2350We shall be ioyfull of thy companie.

2351Vin. Faire Sir, and you my merry Mistris,

2352That with your strange encounter much amasde me:

2353My name is call'd Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,

2354And bound I am to Padua, there to visite

2355A sonne of mine, which long I haue not seene.

2356Petr. What is his name?

2357Vinc. Lucentio gentle sir.

2358Petr. Happily met, the happier for thy sonne:

2359And now by Law, as well as reuerent age,

2360I may intitle thee my louing Father,

2361The sister to my wife, this Gentlewoman,

2362Thy Sonne by this hath married: wonder not,

2363Nor be not grieued, she is of good esteeme,

2364Her dowrie wealthie, and of worthie birth;

2365Beside, so qualified, as may beseeme

2366The Spouse of any noble Gentleman:

2367Let me imbrace with old Vincentio,

2368And wander we to see thy honest sonne,

2369Who will of thy arriuall be full ioyous.

2370Vinc. But is this true, or is it else your pleasure,

2371Like pleasant trauailors to breake a Iest

2372Vpon the companie you ouertake?

2373Hort. I doe assure thee father so it is.

2374Petr. Come goe along and see the truth hereof,

2375For our first merriment hath made thee iealous. Exeunt.

2376Hor. Well Petruchio, this has put me in heart;

2377Haue to my Widdow, and if she froward,

2378Then hast thou taught Hortentio to be vntoward. Exit.

2381Biond. Softly and swiftly sir, for the Priest is ready.

2382Luc. I flie Biondello; but they may chance to neede

2383thee at home, therefore leaue vs. Exit.

2384Biond. Nay faith, Ile see the Church a your backe,

2385and then come backe to my mistris as soone as I can.

2386Gre. I maruaile Cambio comes not all this while.

2389Petr. Sir heres the doore, this is Lucentios house,

2390My Fathers beares more toward the Market-place,

2391Thither must I, and here I leaue you sir.

2392Vin. You shall not choose but drinke before you go,

2393I thinke I shall command your welcome here;

2394And by all likelihood some cheere is toward. Knock.

2395Grem. They're busie within, you were best knocke

2396lowder.

2398Ped What's he that knockes as he would beat downe

2399the gate?

2400Vin. Is Signior Lucentio within sir?

2401Ped. He's within sir, but not to be spoken withall.

2402Vinc. What if a man bring him a hundred pound or

2403two to make merrie withall.

2404Ped. Keepe your hundred pounds to your selfe, hee

2405shall neede none so long as I liue.

2406Petr. Nay, I told you your sonne was well beloued in

2407Padua: doe you heare sir, to leaue friuolous circumstan-

2408ces, I pray you tell signior Lucentio that his Father is

2409come from Pisa, and is here at the doore to speake with

2410him.

2411Ped. Thou liest his Father is come from Padua, and

2412here looking out at the window.

2413Vin. Art thou his father?

2414Ped. I sir, so his mother saies, if I may beleeue her.

2415Petr. Why how now gentleman: why this is flat kna-

2416uerie to take vpon you another mans name.

2417Peda. Lay hands on the villaine, I beleeue a meanes

2418to cosen some bodie in this Citie vnder my countenance.

2420Bio. I haue seene them in the Church together, God

2421send'em good shipping: but who is here? mine old Ma-

2422ster Uincentio: now wee are vndone and brought to no-

2423thing.

2424Uin. Come hither crackhempe.

2425Bion. I hope I may choose Sir.

2426Vin. Come hither you rogue, what haue you forgot

2427mee?

2428Biond. Forgot you, no sir: I could not forget you, for

2429I neuer saw you before in all my life.

2430Uinc. What, you notorious villaine, didst thou neuer

2431see thy Mistris father, Vincentio?