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So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,

And marry sweet Bianca with consent.

Luc.

Were it not that my fellow schoolmaster

Doth watch Bianca’s steps so narrowly,

’Twere good methinks to steal our marriage,

Which once perform’d, let all the world say no,

I’ll keep mine own, despite of all the world.

Tra.

That by degrees we mean to look into,

And watch our vantage in this business.

We’ll overreach the greybeard, Gremio,

The narrow-prying father, Minola,

The quaint musician, amorous Litio,

All for my master’s sake, Lucentio.

Enter Gremio.

Signior Gremio, came you from the church?

Gre.

As willingly as e’er I came from school.

Tra.

And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?

Gre.

A bridegroom, say you? ’tis a groom indeed,

A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.

Tra.

Curster than she? why, ’tis impossible.

Gre.

Why, he’s a devil, a devil, a very fiend.

Tra.

Why, she’s a devil, a devil, the devil’s dam.

Gre.

Tut, she’s a lamb, a dove, a fool to him!

I’ll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest