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To cast thy wand’ring eyes on every stale,

Seize thee that list. If once I find thee ranging,

Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.

Exit.

¶

Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio [as Lucentio], Katherine, Bianca, [Lucentio as Cambio,] and others, attendants.

Bap. [To Tranio.]

Signior Lucentio, this is the ’pointed day,

That Katherine and Petruchio should be married,

And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.

What will be said? What mockery will it be,

To want the bridegroom when the priest attends

To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage?

What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?

Kath.

No shame but mine. I must forsooth be forc’d

To give my hand oppos’d against my heart

Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen,

Who woo’d in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,

Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior;

And to be noted for a merry man,

He’ll woo a thousand, ’point the day of marriage,

Make friends, invite, and proclaim the banes,

Yet never means to wed where he hath woo’d.