In the first four lines I have, with previous editors, given the correct punctuation, and have omitted the superfluous _s_ after Vincentio in the fourth. In the following line the metre shows that something is wrong, and it may be that 'Vincentio's' should be _Lucentio his_, for nothing is more common than this confusion of proper names. (See on King John, ii. 1.) Hanmer I find also made this correction. At the same time it is equally probable that something has been omitted, and that we should read '_only_ son,' or 'son _and heir_,' as in v. 1. It is one of those cases in which choice is difficult. I have given the first in my Edition of the plays; but I now greatly prefer the third. * * * * * "Or so devote to Aristotle's checks." Undoubtedly _Ethics_, the correction of Blackstone and Collier's folio. * * * * * "Balk logic with acquaintance that you have." For 'Balk' the editors read _talk_, but it is right. "Her list in strifeful terms with him to _balk_." F. Q. iii. 2. 12. * * * * * "Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise, If Biondello thou wert come on shore." Here and elsewhere in this play, and nowhere else, the printer seems to have added an _s_ to 'Gramercie.' I follow Collier's folio in reading _now were_ for 'thou wert.' * * * * * "_Good_ gentlemen, importune me no further." So I have printed it, but _Pray_ or _Now_ might be better. * * * * * "_Now_, gentlemen, that I may soon make good What I have said ... Bianca, get you in." * * * * * "Gentlemen, Content ye; I am resolved. Go in, Bianca." * * * * * "Their love is not so great, Hortensio." The 3rd folio properly read _Our_ for 'Their.' * * * * * "Master, you look'd so longly on the maid." As 'longly' occurs nowhere else, it is probably only a printer's error for _longingly_, which I have given. This omission of a syllable is by no means unusual. (See on M. for M. iv. 2; All's Well, i. 3.) * * * * * "Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors." With Singer I read _he_ for 'she.' * * * * * "I will charm him first to keep his tongue." We should perhaps read _charge_ for 'charm'; for it is the tongue that is charmed. We have, however, "And by a pair of women of her own, Whom she had charm'd." A King and no King, v. 4. * * * * * SC. 2. "Verona for a while I take my leave _of_." * * * * * "I'll try how you can sol, _la_, fa, and sing it.-- Help, masters, help!"