ACT 1
Scene 1
...Padua shall beget.
Enter Baptista with his two daughters, Katherine and Bianca; Gremio, a pantaloon, and Hortensio, suitors to Bianca.
...she knew why.
Sister, content you in my discontent.—
Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe.
My books and instruments shall be my company,
On them to look and practice by myself.
...Go in, Bianca.
Bianca exits.
ACT 2
Scene 1
...your ben venuto.
Enter Katherine and Bianca with her hands tied.
Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
To make a bondmaid and a slave of me.
That I disdain. But for these other goods—
Unbind my hands, I’ll pull them off myself,
Yea, all my raiment to my petticoat,
Or what you will command me will I do,
So well I know my duty to my elders.
...thou dissemble not.
Believe me, sister, of all the men alive
I never yet beheld that special face
Which I could fancy more than any other.
...’t not Hortensio?
If you affect him, sister, here I swear
I’ll plead for you myself, but you shall have him.
...keep you fair.
Is it for him you do envy me so?
Nay, then, you jest, and now I well perceive
You have but jested with me all this while.
I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
Katherine strikes her.
...girl, she weeps!
He unties her hands.
...I’ll be revenged!
She flies after Bianca.
...get thee in.
Bianca exits.
ACT 3
Scene 1
...of my cunning.
Enter Lucentio as Cambio, Hortensio as Litio, and Bianca.
...braves of thine.
Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong
To strive for that which resteth in my choice.
I am no breeching scholar in the schools.
I’ll not be tied to hours, nor ’pointed times,
But learn my lessons as I please myself.
And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down.
To Hortensio.
Take you your instrument, play you the whiles;
His lecture will be done ere you have tuned.
...tune his lute.
Where left we last?
...regia celsa senis.
Conster them.
...instrument’s in tune.
Let’s hear.
He plays.
Oh fie, the treble jars!
...his lute again.
Now let me see if I can conster it. Hic ibat
Simois, I know you not; hic est Sigeia tellus, I trust
you not; Hic steterat Priami, take heed he hear us
not; regia, presume not; celsa senis, despair not.
...you better yet.
to Lucentio
In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.
...from his grandfather.
I must believe my master; else, I promise you,
I should be arguing still upon that doubt.
But let it rest.—Now, Litio, to you.
Good master, take it not unkindly, pray,
That I have been thus pleasant with you both.
...writing fairly drawn.
Why, I am past my gamut long ago.
...gamut of Hortensio.
Giving her a paper.
reads
“Gamut I am, the ground of all accord:
A re, to plead Hortensio’s passion;
B mi, Bianca, take him for thy lord,
C fa ut, that loves with all affection;
D sol re, one clef, two notes have I;
E la mi, show pity or I die.”
Call you this “gamut”? Tut, I like it not.
Old fashions please me best. I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.
...the wedding day.
Farewell, sweet masters both. I must be gone.
...cause to stay.
Bianca, the Servant, and Lucentio exit.
Scene 2
...thee by changing.
Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio as Lucentio, Katherine, Bianca, Lucentio as Cambio, and others, Attendants.
...event of this.
All except Tranio and Lucentio exit.
...the minstrels play.
Enter Petruchio, Katherine, Bianca, Hortensio, Baptista, Grumio, and Attendants.
...of your sister?
That being mad herself, she’s madly mated.
...gentlemen, let’s go.
They exit.
ACT 4
Scene 2
...They stand aside.
Enter Bianca and Lucentio as Cambio.
...what you read?
What, master, read you? First resolve me that.
...Art to Love.
And may you prove, sir, master of your art.
...of my heart.
They move aside and kiss and talk.
...I swore before.
Bianca and Lucentio come forward.
...you with Hortensio.
Tranio, you jest. But have you both forsworn me?
...in a day.
God give him joy.
...he’ll tame her.
He says so, Tranio?
...the taming school.
The taming school? What, is there such a place?
...let me alone.
Lucentio and Bianca exit.
ACT 5
Scene 1
...to be untoward.
Enter Biondello, Lucentio as himself, and Bianca. Gremio is out before and stands to the side.
...Therefore leave us.
Lucentio exits with Bianca.
...O monstrous villain!
Enter Biondello, Lucentio and Bianca.
...Pardon, sweet father.
Lucentio and Bianca kneel.
...my sweet son?
Pardon, dear father.
...this my Cambio?
Cambio is changed into Lucentio.
...will not frown.
They exit.
Scene 2
...never too late.
Enter Baptista, Vincentio, Gremio, the Merchant, Lucentio, and Bianca; Hortensio and the Widow, Petruchio and Katherine; Tranio, Biondello, and Grumio, with Servingmen bringing in a banquet.
...well as eat.
They sit.
...butt together well.
Head and butt! An hasty-witted body
Would say your head and butt were head and horn.
...that awakened you?
Ay, but not frighted me. Therefore I’ll sleep again.
...jest or two.
Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush,
And then pursue me as you draw your bow.—
You are welcome all.
Bianca, Katherine, and the Widow exit.
...virtue and obedience.
Enter Katherine, Bianca, and Widow.
...a silly pass.
Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?
...crowns since suppertime.
The more fool you for laying on my duty.
...be tamed so.
They exit.