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Achieve the elder, set the younger free

For our access—whose hap shall be to have her

Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.

Hor.

Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive,

And since you do profess to be a suitor,

You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,

To whom we all rest generally beholding.

Tra.

Sir, I shall not be slack; in sign whereof,

Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,

And quaff carouses to our mistress’ health,

And do as adversaries do in law,

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Gru., Bion.

O excellent motion! Fellows, let’s be gone.

Hor.

The motion’s good indeed, and be it so,

Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.

Exeunt.

¶

Enter Katherina and Bianca.

Bian.

Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,

To make a bondmaid and a slave of me—

That I disdain; but for these other [gawds],

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.