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To whom they go to. What will you read to her?

Luc.

What e’er I read to her, I’ll plead for you

As for my patron, stand you so assur’d,

As firmly as yourself were still in place,

Yea, and perhaps with more successful words

Than you—unless you were a scholar, sir.

Gre.

O this learning, what a thing it is!

Gru.

O this woodcock, what an ass it is!

Pet.

Peace, sirrah!

Hor.

Grumio, mum!

Coming forward.

God save you, Signior Gremio.

Gre.

And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.

Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.

I promis’d to inquire carefully

About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca,

And by good fortune I have lighted well

On this young man; for learning and behavior

Fit for her turn, well read in poetry

And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.

Hor.

’Tis well; and I have met a gentleman

Hath promis’d me to help [me] to another,

A fine musician to instruct our mistress;

So shall I no whit be behind in duty

To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.

Gre.

Beloved of me, and that my deeds shall prove.