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Gre. Stay, officer, he shall not go to prison.

Bap. Talk not, Signior Gremio; I say he shall go to prison.

Gre. Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be cony- catch’d in this business. I dare swear this is the right Vincentio.

Ped. Swear if thou dar’st.

Gre. Nay, I dare not swear it.

Tra. Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio.

Gre. Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.

Bap. Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

Enter Biondello, Lucentio, and Bianca.

Vin. Thus strangers may be hal’d and abus’d. O monstrous villain!

Bion. O, we are spoil’d and—yonder he is. Deny him, forswear him, or else we are all undone.

Exeunt Biondello, Tranio, and Pedant as fast as may be.

Luc.

Pardon, sweet father.

Kneel.

Vin.

Lives my sweet son?

Bian.

Pardon, dear father.

Bap.

How hast thou offended?

Where is Lucentio?

Luc.

Here’s Lucentio,

Right son to the right Vincentio,

That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,

While counterfeit supposes blear’d thine eyne.

Gre.

Here’s packing, with a witness, to deceive us all!