Balke logic with acquaintance that you have,
And practise rhetoric in your common talk:
Music and poesy use to quicken you;
The mathematics, and the metaphysics,
Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you;
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.-
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

Luc. Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,
We could at once put us in readiness;
And take a lodging fit to entertain
Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.
But stay

Tra.

awhile; What company is this? Master, some show, to welcome us to town.

Enter BAPTISTA, KATHARINA, BIANCA, GREMIO, and Hor
TENSIO. LUCENTIO and TRANIO stand aside.

Bap

For how

That is

Before I

If either

Gentlemen, importune me no further,

I firmly am resolved you know;

not to bestow my youngest daughter,
have a husband for the elder.

of you both love Katharina,
Because I know you well, and love you well,
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
Gre. To cart her rather; she's too rough for me.-
There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?

Kath.

To make
Hor.

I pray you, sir, [To BAP.] is it your will a stale of me amongst these mates? Mates, maid! how mean you that? no mates for

you,

Unless you were of gentler, milder mould.

Kath.

But if it

I'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear;
I wis, it is not half way to her heart:
were, doubt not her care should be
To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool,
And paint your face, and use you like a foc

Hor.

Gre.

Tra

From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!
And me too, good Lord!

Hush, master! here is some good pastime toward;

That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.

Luc.

But in the other's silence I do see

Maid's mild behavior and sobriety.

Peace,

Tra.

Tranio.

Well said, master; mum! and gaze your fill
What I have sai,-Bianca, get you in:
Gentlemen. nat I may soon make good

Bap.

And let it not displease thee, good Bianca;
For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl.
Kath. A pretty peat! 'tis best

Put finger in the eye, -an she knew why.
Bian. Sister, content you in my discontent.—
Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe.

My books, and instruments, shall be my company;
On them to look, and practise by myself.

Luc. Hark, Tranio! thou mayst hear Minerva speak.

[Aside.

Hor. Seignior Baptista, will you be so strange? Sorry am I that our good will effects

Bianca's grief.

Gre.

Why, will you mew her up,
Seignior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,

And make her bear the penance of her tongue?
Bap. Gentlemen, content ye; I am resolved.-
Go in, Bianca.

[Exit BIANCA.

And for I know she taketh most delight
In music, instruments, and poetry,
Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,
Fit to instruct her youth.-If you, Hortensio,
Or, seignior Gremio, you, know any such,
Prefer them hither; for to cunning men
I will be very kind, and liberal

To mine own children in good bringing up;
And so farewell. Katharina, you may stay;
For I have more to commune with Bianca.

Exit.

Kath. Why, and I trust, I may go too, may I not? What, shall I be appointed hours; as though, belike, I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha! [Exit. Gre. You may go to the devil's dam: your gifts are so good, here is none will hold you. Their love is not so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails together, and fast it fairly out; our cake's dough on both sides. Farewellyet, for the love I bear my sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she de lights, I will wish him to her father.

Hor. So will I, seignior Gremio: but a word, I pray. Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both, that we may yet again have access to our fair mistress, and be happy rivals in Bianca's love, to labor and effect one thing 'specially.

Gre. What's that, I pray?

Hor. Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.

Gre.

Hor. Gre.

A husband! A devil.

I say, a husband.

I say, a devil. Think'st thou, Hortensio, though her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell?

Hor. Tush, Gremio, though it pass your patience and mine, to endure her loud alarums, why, man, there be good fellows in the world, an a man could light on them, would take her with all faults, and money enough.

Gre.

I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, condition, to be whipped at the high-cross every

morning. Hor apples.

free for Bianca!

gets the

Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten But come; since this bar in law makes us friends, it shall be so far forth friendly maintained,-till by helping Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband, we set his youngest a husband, and then have to't afresh. - Sweet Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest, ring. How say you, seignior Gremio? I am agreed; and 'would I had given him the best Padua to begin his wooing, that would thoroughly Woo her, wed her, and bed her, and rid the house of her. [Exeunt GREMIO and HORTENSIO. [Advancing.] I pray, sir, tell me,-Is it possible That love should of a sudden take such hold? Luc. O Tranio, till I found it to be true,

Gre.

horse in

Come on.

Tra.

I never

thought it possible, or likely;

But see! While idly I stood looking on,

I found

the effect of love in idleness:

And now in plainness do confess to thee,—
Thou art to me as secret, and as dear,
As Anna to the queen of Carthage was,-
Tranio,
I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,
If I achieve not this young modest girl.
me, Tranio, for I know thou canst;
Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.
Master, it is no time to chide you now;
Affection is not rated from the heart:

Counsel

Tra.

If love have touched you, nought remains but so,—
Redime te captum quam queas minimo.

Luc.

Gramercies, lad; go forward: this contents;
The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound.
Master, you looked so longly on the maid,

Tra.

Perhaps you marked not what's the pith of all.

Luc.

Such as the daughter of Agenor had,

O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,

VOL. II.-2

B*

That made great Jove to humble him to her hand,
When with his knees he kissed the Cretan strand.

Tra. Saw you no more? Marked you not how her sister Began to scold, and raise up such a storm,

That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?
Luc. Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,
And with her breath she did perfume the air;
Sacred, and sweet, was all I saw in her.

Tra. Nay, then, 'tis time to stir him from his trance.
I pray, awake, sir; if you love the maid,

Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:
Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd,
That, till the father rids his hands of her,
Master, your love must live a maid at home:
And therefore has he closely mewed her up,
Because she shall not be annoyed with suitors.
Luc. Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he!
But art thou not advised, he took some care
To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?
Tra. Ay, marry, am I, sir; and now 'tis plotted.
Luc. I have it, Tranio.

Tra.

Master, for my hand,

Both our inventions meet and jump in one.

Luc. Tell me thine first.
Tra.

You will be schoolmaster,

And undertake the teaching of the maid.
That's your device.

Luc.

It is. May it be done?

Tra. Not possible. For who shall bear your part,
And be in Padua here Vincentio's son ?

Keep house, and ply his book; welcome his friends;
Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?

Luc. Basta; content thee, for I have it full.
We have not yet been seen in any house;
Nor can we be distinguished by our faces,
For man, or master: then it follows thus:
Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,
Keep house, and port, and servants, as I should.
I will some other be; some Florentine,
Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.
'Tis hatched, and shall be so. Tranio, at once
Uncase thee; take my colored hat and cloak:
When Biondello comes, he waits on thee:
But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.
Tra. So had you need.

[They exchange habits. In brief then, sir, sith it your pleasure is,

And I am tied to be obedient,

(For so your father charged me at our parting;
Be serviceable to my son, quoth he;

Although, I think, 'twas in another sense ;)
I am content to be Lucentio,

Because so well I love Lucentio.

Luc. Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves;
And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid,
Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye.

Enter BIONdello.

Here comes the rogue.

you

Sirrah, where have been? Bion. Where have I been? Nay, how now? where are

you? Master, has my fellow Tranio Or you stolen his? or both?

stolen your clothes? Pray what's the news?

Luc. Sirrah, come hither; 'tis no time to jest,
And therefore frame your manners to the time.
Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,
Puts my apparel and my countenance on,
And I for my escape have put on his;
For in a quarrel, since I came ashore,
I killed a man, and fear I was descried:
Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
While I make way from hence to save my life.
You understand me?

Bion.

I, sir, ne'er a whit.
Luc. And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth;
Tranio is changed into Lucentio.

Bion. The better for him. 'Would I were so too! Tra. So would I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter. But, sirrah,-not for my sake, but your master's-I advise You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies. When I am alone, why then I am Tranio;

But in all places else, your master Lucentio.
Luc. Tranio, let's go.-

One thing more rests, that thyself execute;-
To make one among these wooers. If thou ask me why,-
Sufficeth, my reasons are both good and weighty.

[Exeunt.

1 Serv. My lord, you nod; you do not mind the play. Sly. Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely Comes there any more of it?

Page. My lord, 'tis but begun.