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And practice rhetoric in your common talk,

Music and poesy use to quicken you,

The mathematics, and the metaphysics,

Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you:

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en.

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

Luc.

Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.

If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,

We could at once put us in readiness,

And take a lodging fit to entertain

Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.

But stay a while, what company is this?

Tra.

Master, some show to welcome us to town.

Enter Baptista with his two daughters, Katherina and Bianca, Gremio, a pantaloon, Hortensio, [suitor] to Bianca. Lucentio, Tranio stand by.

Bap.

Gentlemen, importune me no farther,

For how I firmly am resolv’d you know:

That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter

Before I have a husband for the elder.

If either of you both love Katherina,

Because I know you well, and love you well,

Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

Gre.

To cart her rather; she’s too rough for me.