ACT 4
Scene 2

...let me alone.
Enter a Merchant.
God save you, sir.

...at the farthest?
Sir, at the farthest for a week or two,
But then up farther, and as far as Rome,
And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.

...countryman, I pray?
Of Mantua.

...of your life?
My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard.

...else proclaimed about.
Alas, sir, it is worse for me than so,
For I have bills for money by exchange
From Florence, and must here deliver them.

...been at Pisa?
Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,
Pisa renownèd for grave citizens.

...you one Vincentio?
I know him not, but I have heard of him:
A merchant of incomparable wealth.

...accept of it.
O sir, I do, and will repute you ever
The patron of my life and liberty.

...as becomes you.
They exit.

Scene 4

...command the sun!
Enter Tranio as Lucentio, and the Merchant, booted, and dressed like Vincentio.

...that I call?
Ay, what else? And but I be deceived,
Signior Baptista may remember me,
Near twenty years ago, in Genoa,
Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.

...to a father.
I warrant you.

Enter Biondello.
But, sir, here comes your boy.
’Twere good he were schooled.

...your countenance, sir.
Merchant stands bareheaded.

...for my patrimony.
as Vincentio
Soft, son.—
Sir, by your leave, having come to Padua
To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
Of love between your daughter and himself.
And, for the good report I hear of you,
And for the love he beareth to your daughter
And she to him, to stay him not too long,
I am content, in a good father’s care,
To have him matched. And if you please to like
No worse than I, upon some agreement
Me shall you find ready and willing
With one consent to have her so bestowed,
For curious I cannot be with you,
Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.

...I follow you.
All but Biondello exit.

ACT 5
Scene 1

...best knock louder.
Merchant looks out of the window.
as Vincentio
What’s he that knocks as
he would beat down the gate?

...Lucentio within, sir?
as Vincentio
He’s within, sir, but not to
be spoken withal.

...make merry withal?
as Vincentio
Keep your hundred
pounds to yourself. He shall need none so long as I
live.

...speak with him.
as Vincentio
Thou liest. His father is
come from Padua and here looking out at the
window.

...thou his father?
as Vincentio
Ay, sir, so his mother says,
if I may believe her.

...another man’s name.
as Vincentio
Lay hands on the villain. I
believe he means to cosen somebody in this city
under my countenance.

...will murder me.
as Vincentio
Help, son! Help, Signior
Baptista!
He exits from window.

...controversy.They move aside.
Enter Merchant with Servants, and Baptista and Tranio disguised as Lucentio.

...name is Tranio.
as Vincentio
Away, away, mad ass! His
name is Lucentio and he is mine only son, and heir
to the lands of me, Signior Vincentio.

...the right Vincentio.
as Vincentio
Swear, if thou dar’st.

...are all undone.
Biondello, Tranio, and Merchant exit as fast as may be.

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.

...be tamed so.
They exit.