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Baptista Minola
Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
For how I firmly am resolv'd you know;
That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter
Before I have a husband for the elder.
If either of you both love Katherina,
Because I know you well and love you well,
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure. |
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Gremio
To cart her, rather. She's too rough for me.
There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife? |
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Hortensio
From all such devils, good Lord deliver us! |
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Definition
Gremio
And me too, good Lord! |
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Hortensio
Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?
Sorry am I that our good will effects
Bianca's grief. |
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Gremio
Why will you mew her up,
Signior Baptista, for this fiend of Hell
And make her bear the penance of her tongue? |
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Katherina
Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not?
What! shall I be appointed hours, as though, belike,
I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha! Exit |
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Gremio
You may go to the devil's dam; your gifts are so good here's none will hold you. Their love is not so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails together, and fast it fairly out; our cake's dough on both sides. Farewell; yet, for the love I bear my sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will wish him to her father. |
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Hortensio
So Will I, Signior Gremio; but a word, I pray. Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brook'd parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both- that we may yet again have access to our fair mistress, and be happy rivals in Bianca's love- to
labour and effect one thing specially. |
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Gremio
What's that, I pray? |
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