2181Tra. Sirs, this is the house, please it you that I call.

2182Ped. I what else, and but I be deceiued,

2183Signior Baptista may remember me

2184Neere twentie yeares a goe in Genoa.

2185Tra. Where we were lodgers, at the Pegasus,

2186Tis well, and hold your owne in any case

2187With such austeritie as longeth to a father.

2189Ped. I warrant you: but sir here comes your boy,

2190'Twere good he were school'd.

2191Tra. Feare you not him: sirra Biondello,

2192Now doe your dutie throughlie I aduise you:

2193Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.

2194Bion. Tut, feare not me.

2195Tra. But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista.

2196Bion. I told him that your father was at Venice,

2197And that you look't for him this day in Padua.

2198Tra. Th'art a tall fellow, hold thee that to drinke,

2199Here comes Baptista: set your countenance sir.

2202Tra. Signior Baptista you are happilie met:

2203Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of,

2204I pray you stand good father to me now,

2205Giue me Bianca for my patrimony.

2206Ped. Soft son: sir by your leaue, hauing com to Padua

2207To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio

2208Made me acquainted with a waighty cause

2209Of loue betweene your daughter and himselfe:

2210And for the good report I heare of you,

2211And for the loue he beareth to your daughter,

2212And she to him: to stay him not too long,

2213I am content in a good fathers care

2214To haue him matcht, and if you please to like

2215No worse then I, vpon some agreement

2216Me shall you finde readie and willing

2217With one consent to haue her so bestowed:

2218For curious I cannot be with you

2219Signior Baptista, of whom I heare so well.

2220Bap. Sir, pardon me in what I haue to say,

2221Your plainnesse and your shortnesse please me well:

2222Right true it is your sonne Lucentio here

2223Doth loue my daughter, and she loueth him,

2224Or both dissemble deepely their affections:

2225And therefore if you say no more then this,

2226That like a Father you will deale with him,

2227And passe my daughter a sufficient dower,

2228The match is made, and all is done,

2229Your sonne shall haue my daughter with consent.

2230Tra. I thanke you sir, where then doe you know best

2231We be affied and such assurance tane,

2232As shall with either parts agreement stand.

2233Bap. Not in my house Lucentio, for you know

2234Pitchers haue eares, and I haue manie seruants,

2235Besides old Gremio is harkning still,

2236And happilie we might be interrupted.

2237Tra. Then at my lodging, and it like you,

2238There doth my father lie: and there this night

2239Weele passe the businesse priuately and well:

2240Send for your daughter by your seruant here,

2241My Boy shall fetch the Scriuener presentlie,

2242The worst is this that at so slender warning,

2243You are like to haue a thin and slender pittance.

2244Bap. It likes me well:

2245Cambio hie you home, and bid Bianca make her readie

2246 straight:

2247And if you will tell what hath hapned,

2248Lucentios Father is arriued in Padua,

2249And how she's like to be Lucentios wife.

2250Biond. I praie the gods she may withall my heart.

2252Tran. Dallie not with the gods, but get thee gone.

2254Signior Baptista, shall I leade the way,

2255Welcome, one messe is like to be your cheere,

2256Come sir, we will better it in Pisa.

2257Bap. I follow you. Exeunt.

2259Bion. Cambio.

2260Luc. What saist thou Biondello.

2261Biond. You saw my Master winke and laugh vpon

2262you?

2263Luc. Biondello, what of that?

2264Biond. Faith nothing: but has left mee here behinde

2265to expound the meaning or morrall of his signes and to-

2266kens.

2267Luc. I pray thee moralize them.

2268Biond. Then thus: Baptista is safe talking with the

2269deceiuing Father of a deceitfull sonne.

2270Luc. And what of him?

2271Biond. His daughter is to be brought by you to the

2272supper.

2273Luc. And then.

2274Bio. The old Priest at Saint Lukes Church is at your

2275command at all houres.

2276Luc. And what of all this.

2277Bion. I cannot tell, expect they are busied about a

2278counterfeit assurance: take you assurance of her, Cum

2279preuilegio ad Impremendum solem, to th' Church take the

2280Priest, Clarke, and some sufficient honest witnesses:

2281If this be not that you looke fot, I haue no more to say,

2282But bid Bianca farewell for euer and a day.

2283Luc. Hear'st thou Biondello.

2284Biond. I cannot tarry: I knew a wench maried in an

2285afternoone as shee went to the Garden for Parseley to

2286stuffe a Rabit, and so may you sir: and so adew sir, my

2287Master hath appointed me to goe to Saint Lukes to bid

2288the Priest be readie to come against you come with your

2289appendix. Exit.

2290Luc. I may and will, if she be so contented:

2291She will be pleas'd, then wherefore should I doubt:

2292Hap what hap may, Ile roundly goe about her:

2293It shall goe hard if Cambio goe without her. Exit.