Gru. Marry, Sir, with needle and thread.
Tay. But did you not request to have it cut ?
Gru. Thou haft fac'd many things.

Tay. I have.

Gru. Face not me: Thou haft brav'd many men, brave not me; I will neither be fac'd, nor brav'd. I fay unto thee, I bid thy mafter cut out the gown, but I did not bid him cut it to pieces. Ergo, thou lyeft.

Tay. Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify. Pet. Read it.

Gru. The note lyes in's throat, if he say I said so. Tay. Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown.

Gru. Mafter, if ever I faid loofe-bodied gown, fow me up in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread: I said a gown.

Pet. Proceed.

Tay. With a small compast cape.
Gru. I confefs the cape.
Tay. With a trunk-fleeve.
Gru. I confefs two fleeves.
Tay. The fleeves curiously cut.
Pet. Ay, there's the villany.

Gru. Error i'th' bill, Sir, error i'th' bill: I commanded, the fleeves should be cut out, and fow'd up again; and that I'll prove upon thee, though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.

Tay. This is true, that I fay; an I had thee in place where, thou fhou'dst know it.

Gru. I am for thee straight: Take thou the bill give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.

Hor. God-amercy, Grumio, then he shall have no odds.
Pet. Well, Sir, in brief the gown is not for me.
Gru. You are i'th' 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's for thy master's ufe!

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Pet. Why, Sir, what's your conceit in that?

Gru. Oh, Sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for; Take up my mistress's gown unto his master's use! Oh, fy, fy, fy.

Pet. Hortenfio, fay, thou wilt fee the taylor paid. [Afide. Go take it hence, be gone, and fay no more.

Hor. Taylor, I'll pay thee for thy gown to-morrow, Take no unkindness of his hafty words;

Away, 1 fay; commend me to thy mafter.

[Exit Tay. Pet. Well, come, my Kate, we will unto your father's,

Even in thefe honest mean habiliments :

Our purfes fhall be proud, our garments poor;
For 'tis the mind, that makes the body rich:
And as the fun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
What, is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel,
Because his painted skin contents the eye?
Oh, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worfe
For this poor furniture, and mean array.
If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me;
And therefore frolick: we will hence forthwith,
To feast and sport us at thy father's house,
Go call my men, and let us ftraight to him,
And bring our horfes unto Long-lane end,
There will we mount, and thither walk on foot.
Let's fee, I think, 'tis now fome feven o'clock,
And well we may come there by dinner time.

Cath. I dare affure you, Sir, 'tis almost two;
And 'twill be fupper-time ere you come there.
Pet. It fhall be feven ere I go to horse.
Look, what I fpeak, or do, or think to do,
You are still croffing it; Sirs, let't alone,
I will not go to-day, and ere I do,

It shall be what o'clock I fay it is.

Hor. Why, fo: This gallant will command the fun.

[Exeunt Pet. Cath. and Hor. [The Prefenters, above, fpeak here.

Lord. Who's within there?

Enter Servants,

[Sly fleeps.

Afleep again! go take him eafily up, and put him in his ora apparel again. But feey you wake him not on any cafe.

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Sery,

Serv. It shall be done, my Lord; come help to bear him [They bear off Sly.

bence.

SCENE, before Baptifta's House.

Enter Tranio, and the Pedant dreft like Vincentio.

TRANIO.

IR, this is the house, please it you, that I call?

Signior Baptifta may remember me

Near twenty years ago in Genoa,

Where we were lodgers, at the Pegafus. (22)
Tra. 'Tis well, and hold your Own in any cafe
With fuch aufterity as longeth to a father.

Enter Biondello.

Ped. I warrant you: but, Sir, here comes your boy; "Twere good he were school'd.

Tra. Fear you not him; firrah, Biondelle, Now do your duty thoroughly, I advise you : Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.

Bion. Tut, fear not me.

Tra. But haft thou done thy errand to Baptifta F Bion. I told him that your father was in Venice, And that you look'd for him this day in Padua.

Tra. Th'art a tall fellow, hold thee that to drink; Here comes Baptifta; fet your countenance, Sir. Enter Baptifta and Lucentio.

Tra. Signior Baptifta, you are happily met: Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of;

(22) Tra. Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.] This line has in all the editions hitherto been given to Tranio. But Tranio could with no propriety fpeak this, either in his affum'd or real character. Lucentio was too young to know any thing of lodging with his father, twenty years before at Genoa: And Tranio must be as much too young, or very unfit to reprefent and perfonate Lucentio. I have ventur'd to place the line to the Pedant, to whom it must certainly belong, and is a fequel of what he was before saying.

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I pray you ftand, good father, to me now,
Give me Bianca for my patrimony.

Ped. Soft, fon. Sir, by your leave, having come to Padua
To gather in fome debts, my fon Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a weighty caufe
Of love between your daughter and himself:
And for the good report I hear of you,
And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
And he to him; to flay him not too long,
I am content in a good father's care

To have him match'd; and if you please to like
No worse than I, Sir, upon fome agreement,
Me shall you find most ready and most willing

With one confent to have her fo bestowed:
For curious I cannot be with you,

Signior Baptifta, of whom I hear fo well.

Bap. Sir, pardon me in what I have to say:
Your plainnefs and your shortnefs please me well.
Right true it is, your fon Lucentio here
Doth love my daughter, and the loveth him,
Or both diffemble deeply their affections;
And therefore if you fay no more than this,
That like a father you will deal with him,
And pafs my daughter a fufficient dowry,
The match is made, and all is done,

Your fon shall have my daughter with confent.

Tra. I thank you, Sir. Where then do you know beft, Be we affied; and fuch affurance ta'en,

As fhall with either part's agreement stand;

Bap. Not in my houfe, Lucentio; for, you know,
Pitchers have ears, and I have many fervants;
Befides, old Gremio is hearkening ftill;
And, haply, then we might be interrupted.
Tra. Then at my lodging, an it like you, Sir,
There doth my father lie; and there this night
We'll pass the business privately and well:
Send for your daughter by your fervant here,
My boy fhall fetch the fcrivener presently.
The worst is this, that at fo flender warning
You're like to have a thin and slender pittance.

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Bap.

Bap. It likes me well. Go, Cambio, hie you home, And bid Bianca make her ready strait:

And if you will, tell what hath happen'd here:
Lucentia's father is arriv'd in Padua,

And how fhe's like to be Lucentio's wife.

Luc. I pray the gods fhe may, with all my heart! [Ex. Tra. Dally not, with the gods, but get thee gone. Signior Baptifta, fhall I lead the way?

Welcome! one mefs is like to be your cheer.

Come, Sir, we will better it in Pisa.

Bap. I'll follow you.

Enter Lucentio and Biondello.

Bion. Cambio.

Luc. What fay'ft thou, Biondello?

[Exeunt.

Bion. You faw my master wink and laugh upon you. Luc. Biondello, what of that?

Bion. 'Faith, nothing; but h'as left me here behind to expound the meaning or moral of his figns and tokens. Luc. I pray thee moralize them.

Bion. Then thus. Baptifta is fafe, talking with the deceiving father of a deceitful fon.

Luc. And what of him?

Bion. His daughter is to be brought by you to the fupper.

Luc. And then?

Bion. The old priest of St. Luke's church is at your command at all hours.

Luc. And what of all this?

Bion. I cannot tell, except they are bufied about a counterfeit afsurance; take your affurance of her, Cum privilegio ad imprimendum folùm; to th' church take the priest, clark, and fome fufficient honest witnesses: If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say, But bid Bianca farewel for ever and a day.

Luc. Hear'ft thou, Biondello?

Bion. I cannot tarry; I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parfly to fluff a rabbet; and fo may you, Sir, and so adieu, Sir; my master hath appointed me to go to St. Luke's, to bid the