_Hor._ Sir, let me be so bold as ask you, Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter? _Tra._ No, sir; but hear I do that he hath two, The one as famous for a scolding tongue 250 As is the other for beauteous modesty. _Pet._ Sir, sir, the first's for me; let her go by. _Gre._ Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules; And let it be more than Alcides' twelve. _Pet._ Sir, understand you this of me in sooth: 255 The youngest daughter whom you hearken for Her father keeps from all access of suitors; And will not promise her to any man Until the elder sister first be wed: The younger then is free and not before. 260 _Tra._ If it be so, sir, that you are the man Must stead us all and me amongst the rest; And if you break the ice and do this feat, Achieve the elder, set the younger free For our access, whose hap shall be to have her 265 Will not so graceless be to be ingrate. _Hor._ Sir, you say well and well you do conceive; And since you do profess to be a suitor, You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman, To whom we all rest generally beholding. 270 _Tra._ Sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof, Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, And quaff carouses to our mistress' health, And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 275 _Gru. Bion._ O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone. _Hor._ The motion's good indeed and be it so, Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto. [_Exeunt._ LINENOTES: [SCENE II.] Capell. ACT II. SCENE [1] Rowe. SCENE V. Pope. Before ... house.] Pope. [2] _but of all_] _best of all_ Anon. conj. [4] _his_] _the_ F3 F4. [6-24] _Knock, sir!... may I say_] Placed in the margin as spurious by Pope. [6] _knock?_] _knock, sir?_ Capell. [7] _has_] F4. _ha's_ F1 Q F2 F3. _That has_ Capell. _rebused_] _rebsu'd_ Q. _abused_ Tyrwhitt conj. [16] _ring_] _wring_ Malone. [17] ... wrings ...] ... rings ... Ff Q. [18] _masters_] Theobald. _mistris_ Ff Q. [19] _sirrah villain!_] _sirrah! villain!_ Theobald. [24] _Con tutto ... trovato_] Theobald. _Contutti le core bene trobatto_ Ff Q (_trovatto_ F2 F3 F4). [25] _ben_] F2 F3 F4. _bene_ F1 Q. _molto_] Theobald. _multo_ Ff Q. _honorato_] _honorata_ F1 Q. [26] _signor_] Theobald. _signior_ Ff Q. [27-45] _Rise, Grumio ... Grumio_] Put in the margin as spurious by Pope. [27] _Grumio, rise_] F1 Q F2. _Grumio_ F3 F4. [28] _sir_] om. Rowe. _he 'leges_] Capell. _he leges_ Ff Q. _be leges_ Rann (Tyrwhitt conj.). _he alledges_ Long conj. MS. [32] _pip_] Rowe (ed. 2). _peepe_ F1 Q F2. _peep_ F3 F4. _out_] _mo_ Collier MS. [33, 34] _Whom ... worst_] Printed as prose in Ff Q, as verse first by Rowe (ed. 2).