355Because I know you well, and loue you well,

356Leaue shall you haue to court her at your pleasure.

357Gre. To cart her rather. She's to rough for mee,

358There, there Hortensio, will you any Wife?

359Kate. I pray you sir, is it your will

360To make a stale of me amongst these mates?

361Hor. Mates maid, how meane you that?

362No mates for you,

363Vnlesse you were of gentler milder mould.

364Kate. I'faith sir, you shall neuer neede to feare,

365I-wis it is not halfe way to her heart:

366But if it were, doubt not, her care should be,

367To combe your noddle with a three-legg'd stoole,

368And paint your face, and vse you like a foole.

369Hor. From all such diuels, good Lord deliuer vs.

370Gre. And me too, good Lord.

371Tra.Husht master, heres some good pastime toward;

372That wench is starke mad, or wonderfull froward.

373Lucen. But in the others silence do I see,

374Maids milde behauiour and sobrietie.

375Peace Tranio.

376Tra. Well said M^r, mum, and gaze your fill.

377Bap. Gentlemen, that I may soone make good

378What I haue said, Bianca get you in,

379And let it not displease thee good Bianca,

380For I will loue thee nere the lesse my girle.

381Kate. A pretty peate, it is best put finger in the eye,

382and she knew why.

383Bian. Sister content you, in my discontent.

384Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe:

385My bookes and instruments shall be my companie,

386On them to looke, and practise by my selfe.

387Luc. Harke Tranio, thou maist heare Minerua speak.

388Hor. Signior Baptista, will you be so strange,

389Sorrie am I that our good will effects

390Bianca's greefe.

391Gre. Why will you mew her vp

392(Signior Baptista) for this fiend of hell,

393And make her beare the pennance of her tongue.

394Bap. Gentlemen content ye: I am resolud:

395Go in Bianca.

396And for I know she taketh most delight

397In Musicke, Instruments, and Poetry,

398Schoolemasters will I keepe within my house,

399Fit to instruct her youth. If you Hortensio,

400Or signior Gremio you know any such,

401Preferre them hither: for to cunning men,

402I will be very kinde and liberall,

403To mine owne children, in good bringing vp,

404And so farewell: Katherina you may stay,

405For I haue more to commune with Bianca. Exit.

406Kate. Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not?

407What shall I be appointed houres, as though

408(Belike) I knew not what to take,

409And what to leaue? Ha. Exit

410Gre. You may go to the diuels dam: your guifts are

411so good heere's none will holde you: Their loue is not

412so great Hortensio, but we may blow our nails together,

413and fast it fairely out. Our cakes dough on both sides.

414Farewell: yet for the loue I beare my sweet Bianca, if

415I can by any meanes light on a fit man to teach her that

416wherein she delights, I will wish him to her father.

417Hor. So will I signiour Gremio: but a word I pray:

418Though the nature of our quarrell yet neuer brook'd

419parle, know now vpon aduice, it toucheth vs both: that

420we may yet againe haue accesse to our faire Mistris, and

421be happie riuals in Bianca's loue, to labour and effect

422one thing specially.

423Gre. What's that I pray?

424Hor. Marrie sir to get a husband for her Sister.

425Gre. A husband: a diuell.

426Hor. I say a husband.

427Gre. I say, a diuell: Think'st thou Hortensio, though

428her father be verie rich, any man is so verie a foole to be

429married to hell ?

430Hor. Tush Gremio: though it passe your patience &

431mine to endure her lowd alarums, why man there bee

432good fellowes in the world, and a man could light on

433them, would take her with all faults, and mony enough.

434Gre. I cannot tell: but I had as lief take her dowrie

435with this condition; To be whipt at the hie crosse euerie

436morning.

437Hor. Faith (as you say) there's small choise in rotten

438apples: but come, since this bar in law makes vs friends,

439it shall be so farre forth friendly maintain'd, till by hel-

440ping Baptistas eldest daughter to a husband, wee set his

441yongest free for a husband, and then haue too t afresh:

442Sweet Bianca, happy man be his dole: hee that runnes

443fastest, gets the Ring: How say you signior Gremio?

444Grem I am agreed, and would I had giuen him the

445best horse in Padua to begin his woing that would tho-

446roughly woe her, wed her, and bed her, and ridde the

447house of her. Come on.

449Tra. I pray sir tel me, is it possible

450That loue should of a sodaine take such hold.

451Luc. Oh Tranio, till I found it to be true,

452I neuer thought it possible or likely.

453But see, while idely I stood looking on,

454I found the effect of Loue in idlenesse,

455And now in plainnesse do confesse to thee

456That art to me as secret and as deere

457As Anna to the Queene of Carthage was:

458Tranio I burne, I pine, I perish Tranio,

459If I atchieue not this yong modest gyrle:

460Counsaile me Tranio, for I know thou canst:

461Assist me Tranio, for I know thou wilt.

462Tra. Master, it is no time to chide you now,

463Affection is not rated from the heart:

464If loue haue touch'd you, naught remaines but so,

465Redime te captam quam queas minimo.

466Luc Gramercies Lad: Go forward, this contents,

467The rest wil comfort, for thy counsels sound.

468Tra. Master, you look'd so longly on the maide,

469Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all.

470Luc. Oh yes, I saw sweet beautie in her face,

471Such as the daughter of Agenor had,

472That made great Ioue to humble him to her hand,

473When with his knees he kist the Cretan strond.

474Tra.Saw you no more? Mark'd you not how hir sister

475Began to scold, and raise vp such a storme,

476That mortal eares might hardly indure the din.

477Luc. Tranio, I saw her corrall lips to moue,

478And with her breath she did perfume the ayre,

479Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.

480Tra. Nay, then 'tis time to stirre him frō his trance:

481I pray awake sir: if you loue the Maide,

482Bend thoughts and wits to atcheeue her. Thus it stands:

483Her elder sister is so curst and shrew'd,

484That til the Father rid his hands of her,

485Master, your Loue must liue a maide at home,

486And therefore has he closely meu'd her vp,