Taming of the Shrew

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


I pray the gods she may with all my heart!

 

[Guru]

TRANIO


Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.

Exit BIONDELLO

Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?
Welcome! one mess is like to be your cheer:
Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa.

 

[Guru]

BAPTISTA


I follow you.

Exeunt TRANIO, Pedant, and BAPTISTA


Re-enter BIONDELLO

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


Cambio!

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


What sayest thou, Biondello?

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


Biondello, what of that?

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind, to
expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


I pray thee, moralize them.

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


Then thus. Baptista is safe, talking with the
deceiving father of a deceitful son.

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


And what of him?

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


And then?

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


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

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


And what of all this?

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


I cannot tell; expect they are busied about a
counterfeit assurance: take you assurance of her,
'cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum:' to the
church; take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient
honest witnesses: If this be not that you look for,
I have no more to say, But bid Bianca farewell for
ever and a day.

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


Hearest thou, Biondello?

 

[Guru]

BIONDELLO


I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an
afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to
stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir: and so, adieu,
sir. My master hath appointed me to go to Saint
Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against
you come with your appendix.

Exit

 

[Guru]

LUCENTIO


I may, and will, if she be so contented:
She will be pleased; then wherefore should I doubt?
Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her:
It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.

Exit

 

[Guru]

SCENE V. A public road.



Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO, and Servants

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


Come on, i' God's name; once more toward our father's.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!

 

[Guru]

KATHARINA


The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now.

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


I say it is the moon that shines so bright.

 

[Guru]

KATHARINA


I know it is the sun that shines so bright.

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Or ere I journey to your father's house.
Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!