Now do your duty throughly, I advise you : Bion. Tut! fear not me. Tra. But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista? Bion. I told him, that your father was at Venice, And that you look'd for him this day in Padua. Tra. Thou 'rt a tall fellow: hold thee that to drink. Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, Sir.. Enter BAPTISTA and LUCENtio. Signior Baptista, you are happily met. Ped. Soft, son! Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua To have him match'd; and, if you please to like With one consent to have her so bestow'd; Bap. Sir, pardon me in what I have to say: The match is made, and all is done: Your son shall have my daughter with consent. Tra. I thank you, Sir. Where, then, do you know best, Bap. Not in my house, Lucentio; for, Tra. Then at my lodging, an it like you: you The worst is this, that, at so slender warning. know, Bap. It likes me well: - Cambio, hie you home, And bid Bianca make her ready straight; And, if you will, tell what hath happened Lucentio's father is arriv'd in Padua, And how she 's like to be Lucentio's wife. Luc. I pray the gods she may with all my heart! Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way? Welcome: one mess is like to be your cheer. Come, Sir; we will better it in Pisa. Bap. I follow you. [Exeunt TRANIO, Pedant, and BAPTISTA. Luc. What say'st thou, Biondello? Bion. You saw my master wink and laugh upon you? Luc. Biondello, what of that? Bion. 'Faith nothing; but he 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 decei ving father of a deceitful son. Luc. And what of him? Bion. His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper. Bion. The old priest at St. Luke's church is at your command at all hours. Bion. I cannot tell; expect they are busied about a counterfeit assurance: take you assurance of her, cum privilegio ad imprimendum solùm. 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, Luc. Hear'st thou, Biondello? Bion. 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 St. 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: She will be pleas'd, then wherefore should I doubt? Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her: [Exit. It shall go hard, if Cambio go without her. SCENE V. A public Road. Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, and HORTENSIO. Pet. Come on, o' God's name: once more toward our father's. Good lord! how bright and goodly shines the moon. Kath. The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now. Pet. I say, it is the moon that shines so bright. Kath. I know, it is the sun that shines so bright. Pet. 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.— Hor. Say as he says, or we shall never go. Kath. Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, Kath. I know, it is the moon. Pet. Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun. Kath. Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun; And the moon changes, even as your mind. And so it shall be so for Katharine. Hor. Petruchio, go thy ways: the field is won. Pet. Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run, And not unluckily against the bias. But soft! company is coming here. Enter VINCENTIO, in a travelling dress. [TO VINCENTIO.] Good-morrow, gentle mistress: where away?Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too, Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman? Hor. 'A will make the man mad, to make a woman of him. Kath. Young budding virgin, fair, and fresh, and sweet, Whither away, or where is thy abode? Happy the parents of so fair a child; Happier the man, whom favourable stars Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow! Pet. Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad: This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd, And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is. Kath. Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes, That have been so bedazzled with the sun, Pet. Do, good old grandsire; and, withal, make known Which way thou travellest: if along with us, We shall be joyful of thy company. Vin. Fair Sir, and you my merry mistress, A son of mine, which long I have not seen. Vin. Lucentio, gentle Sir. Pet. Happily met; the happier for thy son. Vin. But is this true? or is it else your pleasure, Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest Upon the company you overtake? Pet. Come, go along, and see the truth hereof; Hor. I do assure thee, father, so it is. For our first merriment hath made thee jealous. Hor. Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart. Have to my widow; and if she be froward, Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward. [Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, and VINCENTIO. [Exit, |