Go, hop me over every kennel home, For you shall hop without my custom, sir: Kath. I never saw a better fashion'd gown, More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable: Belike, you mean to make a puppet of me. 441 Pet. Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee. Tai. She says, your worship means to make a pup. pet of her. Pet. Oh monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble, Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, 450 Tai. Your worship is deceiv'd; the gown is made Just as my master had direction: Grumio gave order how it should be done. Gru. I gave him no order, I gave him the stuff, Tai. I have. Gru. Face not me: thou hast brav'd many men; brave not me; I will neither be fac'd, nor bray'd. I say say unto thee-I bid thy master cut out the gown; but I did not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest. Tai. Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify. Pet. Read it. 470 Gru. The note lies in his throat, if he say I said so. Tai. Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown : Gru. Master, if ever I said loose-body'd gown, sow me up in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread: I said, a gown. Pet. Proceed, Tai. With a small compass'd cape; Gru. I confess the cape. Tai. With a trunk sleeve ; Gru. I confess two sleeves. 480 Gru. Error i'the bill, sir; error i'the bill. I commanded the sleeves should be cut out, and sow'd up again; and that I'll prove upon thee, though thy little finger be armed in a thimble. Tai. This is true that I say; an I had thee in place where, thou should'st know it. Gru. I am for thee straight: take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me. 490 Hor. God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds. Pet. Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me. Gru. You are i'the right, sir; 'tis for my mistress. Pet. Go, take it up unto thy master's use. Gru. Villain, not for thy life: Take up my mistress' gown for thy master's use! Pet. Why, sir, what's your conceit in that? Gru. Oh, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for: Take up my mistress' gown unto his master's use! 500 [Aside. Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more. row. Take no unkindness of his hasty words: Away, I say; commend me to thy master. [Exit Tailor. Pet. Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your fa ther's, Even in these honest mean habiliments; Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye? Oh, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me : 511 And And therefore, frolick; we will hence forthwith, Kath. I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two; It shall be what o'clock I say it is. 520 530 Hor. Why, so! this gallant will command the sun. [Exit PET. KATH. and HOR. SCENE IV. Before BAPTISTA's House. Enter TRANIO, and the Pedant, dressed like VINCENTIO. Tra. Sir, this is the house; Please it you, that I call? Ped. Ay, what else? and, but I be deceiv'd, Signior Baptista may remember me, Near twenty years ago, in Genoa, Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus. Tra. 'Tis well; and hold your own, in any case, With such austerity as 'longeth to a father. Iij 549 Enter Enter BIONDELLO. Ped. I warrant you: But, sir, here comes your boy; 'Twere good, he were school'd. Tra. Fear you not him. Sirrah, Biondello, Now do your duty thoroughly, I advise you; Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio. Bion. Tut! fear not me. Tra. But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista? Bion. I told him, that your father was in Venice; And that you look'd for him this day in Padua. Tra. Thou'rt a tall fellow; hold thee that to drink. 550 Here comes Baptista :-set your countenance, sir. Enter BAPTISTA, and LUCENTIO. Signior Baptista, you are happily met: Ped. Soft, son! Sir, by your leave; having come to Padua 560 Το |