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Hor.

Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace,

And offer me disguis’d in sober robes

To old Baptista as a schoolmaster

Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca,

That so I may by this device at least

Have leave and leisure to make love to her,

And unsuspected court her by herself.

Enter Gremio, and Lucentio disguised [as a schoolmaster].

Gru. Here’s no knavery! See, to beguile the old folks, how the young folks lay their heads together! Master, master, look about you! Who goes there? ha!

Hor. Peace, Grumio, it is the rival of my love. Petruchio, stand by a while.

Gru. A proper stripling, and an amorous!

[They stand aside.]

Gre.

O, very well, I have perus’d the note.

Hark you, sir, I’ll have them very fairly bound—

All books of love, see that at any hand—

And see you read no other lectures to her.

You understand me. Over and beside

Signior Baptista’s liberality,

I’ll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,

And let me have them very well perfum’d;

For she is sweeter than perfume itself