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Must get a father, call’d suppos’d Vincentio;

And that’s a wonder. Fathers commonly

Do get their children; but in this case of wooing,

A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.

Exit.

¶

Enter Lucentio [as Cambio], Hortensio [as Litio], and Bianca.

Luc.

Fiddler, forbear, you grow too forward, sir.

Have you so soon forgot the entertainment

Her sister Katherine welcom’d you withal?

Hor.

But, wrangling pedant, this is

The patroness of heavenly harmony.

Then give me leave to have prerogative,

And when in music we have spent an hour,

Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.

Luc.

Preposterous ass, that never read so far

To know the cause why music was ordain’d!

Was it not to refresh the mind of man

After his studies or his usual pain?

Then give me leave to read philosophy,

And while I pause, serve in your harmony.

Hor.

Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.

Bian.

Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong

To strive for that which resteth in my choice.