in : BAP. Gentlemen, that I may foon make good KATH. A pretty peat! 'tis best Put finger in the eye,-an she knew why. Luc. Hark, Tranio! thou may'st hear Minerva speak. HOR. Signior Baptifta, will you be fo ftrange? Sorry am I, that our good will effects Bianca's grief. GRE. Why, will you mew her up, Signior Baptifta, for this fiend of hell, [Afide. And make her bear the penance of her tongue? And for I know, she taketh most delight Fit to inftruct her youth. If you, Hortenfio, To mine own children in good bringing-up; [Exit. KATH. Why, and I truft, I may go too, May I not? What, fhall I be appointed hours; as though, belike, I knew not what to take, and what to leave? Ha! [Exit. VOL. II. вь GRE. You may go to the devil's dam; your gifts are fo good, here is none will hold you. Their love is not fo great, Hortenfio, but we may blow our nails together, and faft it fairly out; our cake's dough on both fides. Farewell:-Yet, for the love I bear my sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit man, to teach her that wherein the delights, I will wish him to her father. HOR. So will I, fignior Gremio: But a word, I pray. Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brook'd parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both,that we may yet again have accefs to our fair mistress, and be happy rivals in Bianca's love,-to labour and effect one thing 'specially. GRE. What's that, I pray? HOR. Marry, fir, to get a husband for her fifter. GRE. A husband! a devil. HOR. I fay, a husband. GRE. I fay, a devil: Think'ft thou, Hortenfio, though her father be very rich, any man is fo 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,-to be whipp'd at the high-crofs every morning. HOR. 'Faith, as you fay, there's small choice in rotten apples. But, come; fince this bar in law makes us friends, it fhall be fo far forth friendly maintain'd,till by helping Baptifta's eldest daughter to a husband, we fet his youngeft free for a husband, and then have to't afresh.-Sweet Bianca !-Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest, gets the ring.-How fay you, fignior Gremio? GRE. I am agreed: and 'would I had given him the best horse in Padua to begin his wooing, that would thoroughly woo her, wed her, and bed her, and rid the houfe of her. Come on. [Exeunt GREMIO and HORTENSIO. I never thought it poffible, or likely; TRA. Master, it is no time to chide you now; If love have touch'd you, nought remains but fo,- Luc. Gramercies, lad; go forward: this contents; Luc. O yes, I faw fweet beauty in her face, Such as the daughter of Agenor had, That made great Jove to humble him to her hand, TRA. Saw you no more? mark'd you not, how her fifter Began to fcold; and raife up fuch a ftorm, TRA. Nay, then, 'tis time to ftir him from his trance. I pray, awake, fir; If you love the maid, Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it ftands:- That, till the father rid his hands of her, get her cunning schoolmafters to instruct her? TRA. Ay, marry, am I, fir; and now 'tis plotted. Luc. I have it, Tranio. TRA. Mafter, for my hand, Both our inventions meet and jump in one. Luc. Tell me thine firft. TRA. You will be schoolmafter, And undertake the teaching of the maid: That's your device. Luc. It is: May it be done? TRA. Not poffible; For who shall bear your part, Keep house, and ply his book; welcome his friends; Nor can we be distinguish'd by our faces, TRA. So had you need. In brief, fir, fith it your pleasure is, And I am tied to be obedient; [They exchange habits. (For so your father charg'd me at our parting; Although, I think, 'twas in another fenfe,) Because fo well I love Lucentio. Luc. Tranio, be fo, because Lucentio loves : Here comes the rogue.-Sirrah, where have you been? you? Master, has my fellow Tranio ftol'n your clothes? B b iij |