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To the Pedant.

Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of.

I pray you stand good father to me now,

Give me Bianca for my patrimony.

Ped.

Soft, son!

Sir, by your leave, having come to Padua

To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio

Made me acquainted with a weighty cause

Of love between your daughter and himself;

And for the good report I hear of you,

And for the love he beareth to your daughter,

And she to him, to stay him not too long,

I am content, in a good father’s care,

To have him match’d; and if you please to like

No worse than I, upon some agreement

Me shall you find ready and willing

With one consent to have her so bestowed;

For curious I cannot be with you,

Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.

Bap.

Sir, pardon me in what I have to say—

Your plainness and your shortness please me well.

Right true it is, your son Lucentio here

Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,

Or both dissemble deeply their affections;

And therefore if you say no more than this,

That like a father you will deal with him,