A land itself at large, a potent Dukedom.
First, in this foreft, let us do thefe ends

That here were well begun, and well begot :
And, after, every of this happy number,

That have endur'd fhrewd days and nights with us,
Shall fhare the good of our return'd fortune,
According to the measure of their states.
Mean time, forget this new fall'n dignity,
And fall into our ruftick revelry:

Play, mufick; and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to th' meafures fall.

Jag. Sir, by your patience: if I heard you rightly,
The Duke hath put on a religious life,

And thrown into neglect the pompous court.
Jaq. de B. He hath.

[To the Duke:

faq. To him will !: out of thefe convertites There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.. You to your former honour I bequeath, Your patience and your virtue well deferve it. You to a love, that your true faith doth merit ; [To Orla You to your land, and love, and great allies; You to a long and well deferved bed; And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage

[To Oli, [To Silv.

[To the ClorumIs but for two months victual'd: fo to your pleasures: I am for other than for dancing measures.. Duke Sen. Stay, Jaques, ftay.

Jaq. To fee no paftime, I: what you would have, Iftay to know at your abandon'd cave.

[Exit Duke Sen Proceed, proceed; we will begin these rites; As, we do traft they'll end, in true delights.

Rof. It is not the fashion to fee the Lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandfome, than to fee the Lord the prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bus, 'tis true, that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do ufe good bufhes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a cafe am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor can infinuate with you in the behalf of a good play? I am not furnish'd like a beggar; therefore to beg will

not become me. My way is to conjure you, and Pl begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases you and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, (as I perceive by your fimpring, none of you hate them) that between you and the women, the play may pleafe. If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defy'd not: and I am fure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or: fweet breaths, will for my kind offer, when I make eurt'fy, bid me farewel. [Exeunt omnes,

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Characters in the Induction.

Lord, before whom the Play is fuppos'd to be play'd.
Christopher Sly, a drunken Tinker.

Hoftefs.

Page, Players, Huntsmen, and other Servants attending, gn the Lord,

Dramatis Perfonæ.

Baptifta, Father to Catharina and Bianca, very rich.
Vincentio, an old gentleman of Pifa.

Lucentio, Son to Vinçentio, in love with Bianca.

Petruchio, a Gentleman of Verona, a fuitor to Catharina
Gremio,
Hortenfio, Pretenders to Bianca,

Tranio.

Biondello.

Servants to Lucentio.

Grumio, Servant to Petruchio.

Pedant, an old fellow fet up to perfonate Vincentio.

Catharina, the Shrew.

Bianca, ber Sifter..

Widow.

Taylor, Haberdashers; with Servants attending on
Baptifta, and Petruchio.

SCENE, fometimes in Padua ; and fometimes in Petruchio's Houfe in the Country.

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