Tai. You bid me make it orderly and well, According to the fashion, and the time. Pet. Marry, and did; but if you be remember'd I did not bid you mar it to the time. Go, hop me over every kennel home, Kath. I never saw a better-fashion'd gown, More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable: Belike, you mean to make a puppet of me. Pet. Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee. Tai. She says, your worship means to make a puppet of her. Pet. O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, Thou thimble, Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, Tai. Your worship is deceiv'd; the gown is made Just as my master had direction: Grumio gave order how it should be done. Gru. I gave him no order, I gave him the stuff. Tai, But how did you desire it should be made? Gru. Marry, sir, with needle and thread. Tai. But did you not request to have it cut? Tai. I have. Gru. Face not me: thou hast braved many men; brave not me; I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto thee,-I bid thy master cut out the gown; but I did not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest. Tai. Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify. Pet. Read it. Gru. The note lies in his throat, if he TAI. Imprimis, a loose bodied gown: say I said so. Gru. Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread: I said, a gown. Pet. Proceed. TAI. With a small compass'd cape; Gru. I confess the cape. TAI. With a trunk sleeve; Gru. I confess two sleeves. TAI. The sleeves curiously cut. Pet. Ay, there's the villainy. Gru. Error i'the bill, sir; error i'the bill. I commanded the sleeves should be cut out, and sewed up again; and that I'll prove upon thee, though thy little finger be armed in a thimble. Tai. This is true, that I say: an I had thee in place where, thou should'st know it, Gru. I am for thee straight: take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me. Hor. God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds. Pet. Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me. Gru. You are i'the right, sir; 'tis for my mistress. Pet. Go, take it up unto thy master's use. Gru. Villain, not for thy life: Take up my mistress' gown for thy master's use! Pet. Why, sir, what's your conceit in that? Gru. O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for: Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use! Pet. Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid. Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more. [Aside. Hor. Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown to-morrow. Take no unkindness of his hasty words; Away, I say; commend me to thy master. [Exit Tailor. Pet. Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments; Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye? If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me: It shall be what o'clock I say it is. Hor. Why, so! this gallant will command the 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 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 thoroughly, 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. Thou'rt a tall fellow; hold thee that to drink, Here comes Baptista:-set your countenance, sir. Enter BAPTISTA and LUCENTIO. Signior Baptista, you are happily met :— Sir, [To the Pedant,] This is the gentleman I told you of; Luc. I pray you, stand good father to me now, Give me Bianca for my patrimony. Ped. Soft, son! |