The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Bap._ It likes me well. Cambio, his you home,
And bid Bianca make her ready straight;
And, if you will, tell what hath happened,
Lucentio's father is arrived in Padua, 65
And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife.
_Bion._ I pray the gods she may with all my heart!
_Tra._ Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.
[_Exit Bion_
Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?
Welcome! one mess is like to be your cheer: 70
Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa.
_Bap._ I follow you.
[_Exeunt Tranio, Pedant, and Baptista._ _Re-enter_ BIONDELLO.
_Bion._ Cambio.
_Luc._ What sayest thou, Biondello?
_Bion._ You saw my master wink and laugh upon you? 75
_Luc._ Biondello, what of that?
_Bion._ Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind, to
expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.
_Luc._ I pray thee, moralize them.
_Bion._ Then thus. Baptista is safe, talking with the 80
deceiving father of a deceitful son.
_Luc._ And what of him?
_Bion._ His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.
_Luc._ And then?
_Bion._ The old priest at Saint Luke's church is at your 85
command at all hours.
_Luc._ And what of all this?
_Bion._ 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 90
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.
_Luc._ Hearest thou, Biondello?
_Bion._ I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an 95
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._
_Luc._ I may, and will, if she be so contented: 100
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._
LINENOTES:
SCENE IV.] Steevens. ACT V. SCENE II. Pope (ed. 1). ACT V.
SCENE III. Pope (ed. 2). ACT V. SCENE IV. Hanmer. SCENE IX. Warburton.
SCENE III. Capell. ACT V. SCENE I. Johnson conj.
Before B's house.] Capell.
... Pedant dressed....] Pedant, booted, and drest.... Capell.
[1] _Sir_] Theobald. _Sirs_ Ff Q.
[2] _Ay,_] _I_ Ff Q. _Ay_, _ay_, Hanmer. _Ay_, _sir;_ Capell.
[4, 5] _Genoa_, _Where we_] _Genoa_, _where We_ Steevens. _Genoa When
we_ Halliwell.
[5, 6] _Where we_ ... Tra. _'Tis_] Theobald. Tra. _Where we_ ... _Tis_
Ff Q. Tra. _Where you_ ... _Tis_ Capell.
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