PERSONS REPRESENTED
Persons in the Induction
A LORD
CHRISTOPHER SLY, a tinker
HOSTESS
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PLAYERS
HUNTSMEN
SERVANTS
BAPTISTA MINOLA, a rich eman of Padua
VINCENTIO, an old gentleman of Pisa
LUCENTIO, son to Vincentio; in love with Bianca
PETRUCHIO, a gentleman of Verona; suitor to Katherina
GREMIO, Suitors to Bianca
HORTENSIO, Suitors to Bianca
TRANIO, Servants to Lucentio
BIONDELLO, Servants to Lucentio
GRUMIO, Servants to Petruchio
CURTIS, Servants to Petruchio
PEDANT, set up to personate Vincentio
KATHERINA, daughters to Baptista and the shrew
BIANCA, Daughters to Baptista
WIDOW, Daughters to Baptista
Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio
SCENE: Sometimes in Padua, and sometimes in PETRUCHIO’S house in the country.
INDUCTION
SCENE I
Before an alehouse on a heath.
[Enter HOSTESS and SLY.]
SLY.
I’ll pheeze you, in faith.
HOSTESS.
A pair of stocks, you rogue!
SLY.
Y’are a baggage; the Slys are no rogues; look in the chronicles: we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore, paucas pallabris; let the world slide. Sessa!
HOSTESS.
You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
SLY.
No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy, go to thy cold bed and warm thee.
HOSTESS.
I know my remedy; I must go fetch the third-borough.
[Exit.]
SLY.
Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I’ll answer him by law.
I’ll not budge an inch, boy: let him come, and kindly.
[Lies down on the ground, and falls asleep.]
[Horns winded. Enter a LORD from hunting, with Huntsmen and
Servants.]
LORD.
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds;
Brach Merriman, the poor cur, is emboss’d,
And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth’d brach.
Saw’st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?
I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
FIRST HUNTSMAN.
Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord;
He cried upon it at the merest loss,
And twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent;
Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
LORD.
Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,
I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
But sup them well, and look unto them all;
Tomorrow I intend to hunt again.
FIRST HUNTSMAN.
I will, my lord.