Taming of the Shrew

[Guru]

TRANIO


Mistress, we have.

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


Then we are rid of Licio.

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,
That shall be wood and wedded in a day.

 

[Guru]

BIANCA


God give him joy!

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


Ay, and he'll tame her.

 

[Guru]

BIANCA


He says so, Tranio.

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


Faith, he is gone unto the taming-school.

 

[Guru]

BIANCA


The taming-school! what, is there such a place?

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master;
That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.

Enter BIONDELLO

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


O master, master, I have watch'd so long
That I am dog-weary: but at last I spied
An ancient angel coming down the hill,
Will serve the turn.

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


What is he, Biondello?

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


Master, a mercatante, or a pedant,
I know not what; but format in apparel,
In gait and countenance surely like a father.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Note: The end of Act IV Scene 1 and beginning of Scene 2 are missing.

After:

KATHARINA

I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet:
The meat was well, if you were so contented.

( missing about 16 posts )

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


And what of him, Tranio?

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


If he be credulous and trust my tale,
I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio,
And give assurance to Baptista Minola,
As if he were the right Vincentio
Take in your love, and then let me alone.

Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA


Enter a Pedant

 

[Guru]

Pedant


God save you, sir!

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


And you, sir! you are welcome.
Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?

 

[Guru]

Pedant


Sir, at the farthest for a week or two:
But then up farther, and as for as Rome;
And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


What countryman, I pray?

 

[Guru]

Pedant


Of Mantua.

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


Of Mantua, sir? marry, God forbid!
And come to Padua, careless of your life?

 

[Guru]

Pedant


My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard.

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


'Tis death for any one in Mantua
To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
Your ships are stay'd at Venice, and the duke,
For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him,
Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly:
'Tis, marvel, but that you are but newly come,
You might have heard it else proclaim'd about.

 

[Guru]

Pedant


Alas! sir, it is worse for me than so;
For I have bills for money by exchange
From Florence and must here deliver them.

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


Well, sir, to do you courtesy,
This will I do, and this I will advise you:
First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?