A Lord. DRAMATIS PERSONE. Christopher Sly, a Drunken Tinker. Hostess, Page, Players, Huntsmen, and other Servants attending on the Lord. Baptista, a rich Gentleman of Padua. Vincentio, an old Gentleman of Pisa. } Lucentio, Son to Vincentio, in Love with Bianca. Persons in the Petruchio, a Gentleman of Verona, a Suitor to Katharina. Hortensio, Suitors to Bianca. Tranio, Servants to Lucentio. Biondello, Grumio, Servants to Petruchio. Curtis, Pedant, an old Fellow set up to personate Vincentio. Katharina, the Shrew, Bianca, her Sister, Widow. Daughters to Baptista. Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio. SCENE, sometimes in Padua; and sometimes in Petruchio's House in the Country. To the Original Play of The Taming of the Shrew, entered on the Stationers' Books in 1594, and printed in quarto in 1607. A Lord, &c. Sly. A Tapster. DRAMATIS PERSONA. Page, Players, Huntsmen, &c. Alphonsus, a Merchant of Athens. Jerobel, Duke of Cestus. Aurelius, his Son, Ferando, Polidor, } } Characters in the Induction. Suitors to the Daughters of Alphonsus. Valeria, Servant to Aurelius. Sander, Servant to Ferando. Phylotus, a Merchant who personates the Duke. Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants to Ferando and Alphonsus. SCENE, Athens; and sometimes Ferando's Country House. SCENE I. Before an Alehouse on a Heath. Enter HOSTESS and SLY. Sly. I'LL pheese you, in faith. Host. A pair of stocks, you rogue! Sly. Y'are a baggage; the Slies are no rogues: Look in the chronicles, we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore, paucus pallabris; let the world slide: Sessa! Host. You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? Sly. No, not a denier: Go by, says Jeronimy; Go to thy cold bed, and warm thee. Host. I know my remedy, I must go fetch the thirdborough. [Exit. Sly. Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him by law: I'll not budge an inch, boy; let him come, and kindly. [Lies down on the Ground and falls asleep. Wind Horns. Enter a Lord from Hunting, with Huntsmen and Servants. Lord. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my 1 Hun. Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord ; Lord. Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet, 1 Hun. I will, my lord. [he breathe? Lord. What's here? one dead, or drunk? See, doth 2 Hun. He breathes, my lord: Were he not warm'd This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly. [with ale, Lord. O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies! Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image! 1 Hun. Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose. 2 Hun. It would seem strange unto him when he wak'd. Lord. Even as a flattering dream, or worthless fancy. Then take him up, and manage well the jest:Carry him gently to my fairest chamber, And hang it round with all my wanton pictures: Balm his foul head with warm distilled waters, And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet: Procure me music ready when he wakes, To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound; And if he chance to speak, be ready straight, And, with a low submissive reverence, Say, What is it your honour will command? Let one attend him with a silver bason, Full of rose-water, and bestrew'd with flowers; Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper, And say, Will't please your lordship cool your hands? Some one be ready with a costly suit, And ask him what apparel he will wear; Another tell him of his hounds and horse, And that his lady mourns at his disease: Pursuade him that he hath been lunatic; And, when he says he is -, say, that he dreams, For he is nothing but a mighty lord. This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs; It will be pastime passing excellent, If it be husbanded with modesty. |