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[Exeunt.]

¶

Enter Tranio [as Lucentio], and the Pedant dress’d like Vincentio, [booted and bare-headed].

Tra.

[Sir], this is the house, please it you that I call?

Ped.

Ay, what else? And but I be deceived,

Signior Baptista may remember me

Near twenty years ago in Genoa,

Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.

Tra.

’Tis well, and hold your own in any case

With such austerity as ’longeth to a father.

Enter Biondello.

Ped.

I warrant you. But, sir, here comes your boy;

’Twere good he were school’d.

Tra.

Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,

Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.

Imagine ’twere the right Vincentio.

Bion.

Tut, fear not me.

Tra.

But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?

Bion.

I told him that your father was at Venice,

And that you look’d for him this day in Padua.

Tra.

Th’ art a tall fellow; hold thee that to drink.

Here comes Baptista; set your countenance, sir.

Enter Baptista and Lucentio [as Cambio].

Signior Baptista, you are happily met.