"Hor. Heaven-a-mercy, Grumio! then he fhall have H no odds.

"Pet. Well, fir, in brief, the gown is not for me.
"Gru. You are i' th' right, fir; 'tis for my mistress.
"Pet. Go, take it up unto thy master's use.

"Gru. Villain, not for thy life: Take up my mif "trefs' gown for thy mafter's ufe!

"Pet. Why, fir, what's your conceit in that?

"Gru. O, fir, the conceit is deeper than you think "for: Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use! "O, fie, fie, fie!

Pet. Hortenfio, fay, thou'lt fee the taylor pay'd. [Afede. Go, take it hence; be gone, and fay no more.

Hor. Taylor, I'll pay thee for thy gown to-morrow. Take no unkindness of his hafty words:

Away, I say ; commend me to thy master.

[Exit Taylor.

Pet. Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's, Even in these honeft mean habiliments;

Our purfes fhall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the fun breaks through the darkest clouds,.
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

"What, is the jay more precious than the lark,.
"Because his feathers are more beautiful ?
"Or is the adder better than the eel,
"Because his painted skin contents the eye r
"O, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse
"For this poor furniture, and mean array.
"If thou account'ft it fhame, lay it on me :
"And therefore, frolick; we will hence forthwith,
"To feast and sport us at thy father's house.-
Go, call my men, and let us straight to him;
And bring our horfes unto Long-lane end,
There will we mount, and thither walk afout.-
Let's fee; I think, 'tis now fome seven o'clock,
And well we may come there by dinner-time.

*The whole of this fcene is unusually pleasant; there is a mafterly mixture of character, and the dialogue is apt, spirited, and concife.

Cat. I dare affure you, fir, 'tis almost two;
And 'twill be fupper-time, ere you come there.
Pet. It fhall be feven, ere I go to horse:
Look, what I fpeak, or do, or think to do,
You are still croffing it.-Sirs, let's alone:
I will not go to-day; or, ere I do,
It fhall be what o'clock I fay it is .

Hor. Why, fo! this gallant will command the fun.

[Exeunts. SCENE III. Padua. Before Baptifta's House.. Enter Tranio; and the Pedant, booted, and dreft like Vincentio.

Tra. Sir, this is the houfe; pleafe it you, that I call Ped. Ay, fir; what elfe? and, but I be deceiv'd, Signior Baptifta may remember me,

Near twenty years ago, in Genoa :—

Tra. Where you were lodgers at the Pegasus. "Tis well; and hold your own, in any cafe,,

With fuch aufterity as 'longeth to a father.

Enter Biondello.

Ped. I warrant you: But, fir, here comes your boy ;; "Twere good, that he were school'd.

Tra. Fear you not him.

Sirrah Biondello,

Now do your duty throughly, I advise you ::
Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.

Bio. Tut! fear not me.

Tra. But haft thou done thy errand to Baptifta? Bio. 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 Baptifta :- -fet your countenance, fir.Enter Baptifta, and Lucentio.

Signior Baptifta, you are happily met :

Sir,

[to the Pedant.

The variations of Petruchio are naturally conceived and not too much multiplied; his expreffions are very poignant, and happily adapted,

This is the gentleman I told you of;
I pray you, ftand good father to me now,
Give me Bianca for my patrimony.

Ped. Soft, fon!

Sir, by your leave; having come to Padua
To gather in fome debts, my fon 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 the to him,-to ftay 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, fir,-upon fome agreement,
Me fhall you find most ready and moft willing
With one confent to have her so bestow'd:
For curious I cannot be with you,

Signior Baptifta, of whom I hear so well.

Bap. Sir, pardon me in what I have to fay :-
Your plainnefs, and your fhortnefs, pleafe me well.
Right true it is, your fon Lucentio here
Doth love my daughter, and fhe loveth him,
Or both diffemble deeply their affections:
And, therefore, if you fay no more than this,-
That like a father you will deal with him,
And pafs my daughter a fufficient dower,
The inatch is made, and all is done with me,
Your fon fhall have my daughter with confent.

Tra. I thank you, fir: Where then do you know best,

We be affy'd; and fuch affurance ta'en,

As fhall with either part's agreement stand?

Bap. Not in my house, Lucentio; for, you know, Pitchers have ears, and I have many fervants: Befides, old Gremio is hark'ning ftill;

And, happily, we might be interrupted.

Tra. Then at my lodging, an it like you, fir:
There doth my father lye; and there, this night,
We'll pass the business privately and well :
Send for your daughter by your fervant here,
My boy fhall fetch the fcrivener prefently.
The worst is this,-that, at fo flender warning.

You're

You're like to have a thin and slender pittance.

Bap. It likes me well:-So, Cambio, hie you home, And bid Bianca make her ready straight:

And, if you will, tell what hath happened ;-
Lucentio's father is arriv'd in Padua,

And how he's like to be Lucentio's wife.

Luc. I pray the gods fhe may, with all my heart. Tra. Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone. Signior Baptifta, fhall I lead the way?

Come, fir; one mefs is like to be your cheer;

We'll better it in Pisa.

Bap. I follow you.

Bio. Cambio,

[Exeunt Tra. Ped. and Bap. [calling Lucentio back.

Luc. What fay'ft thou, Biondello ?

Bio. You faw my master wink and laugh upon you? Luc. Biondello, what of that?

Bio. 'Faith, nothing; but h'as left me here behind, to expound the meaning or moral of his figns and tokens. Luc. I pray thee, moralize them.

Bio. Then thus. Baptifta is fafe, talking with the deceiving father of a deceitful fon.

Luc. And what of him ?

Bio. His daughter is to be brought by you to the fupper.

Luc. And then ?—

Bio. The old prieft at faint Luke's church is at your command at all hours.

Luc. And what of all this?

Bio. I cannot tell; except, while they are bufy'd about a counterfeit affurance, take you affurance of her, cum privilegio ad imprimendum folum: to the church take the priest, clerk, and fome fufficient honest witnesses :— If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say, But, bid Bianca farewel for ever and a day. [Going. Luc. Hear't thou, Biondello?

Bio. I cannot tarry: I knew a wench marry'd in an afternoon, as she went to the garden for parfly to ftuff a rabbit; and fo may you, fir; and fo adieu, fir. My master hath appointed me to go to faint Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against you come with your appendix.

[Exit.

Luc. I may, and will, if she be fo contented:
She will be pleas'd, then wherefore fhould I doubt ?
Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her;
It shall go hard, if Cambio go without her *.

[Exit.

ACT V.

SCENE I. A public Road.

Enter Petruchio, Catherine, and Hortenfio.

PETRUCHIO.

NOME on, in Heav'n's name; once more toward

COME our father's.

Good Lord, how bright and goodly fhines the moon!
Cat. The moon! the fun; it is not moon-light now.
Pet. I fay, it is the moon that fhines fo bright.
Cat. I know, it is the fun that shines fo bright..
Pet. Now, by my mother's fon, and that's myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,

Or ere I journey to your father's house :-
Go on, and fetch our horfes back again.-
Evermore croft, and croft; nothing but croft!
Hor. Say as he says, or we fhall never go.
Cat. Forward, I pray, fince we have come fo far,
And be it moon, or fun, or what you please:
And if you pleafe to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it fhall be fo for me.

Pet. I fay, it is the moon.

Cat. I know, it is the moon.

Pet. Nay, then, you lie; it is the blessed fun.

Cat. Then, Heav'n be bleft, it is the blessed sun :But fun it is not, when you fay it is not;

And the moon changes even as your mind.

What you will have it nam'd, even that it is;
And fo it shall be, fir, for Catherine.

The latter part of this fcene is flat and uneffential; the Act has in it fome paffages of peculiar spirit, and several fituations are very rifible; but fome other parts are a mere continuation of the plot.