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TheBard said:
ACT I
SCENE I. Padua. A public place.
Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO
LUCENTIO
Tranio, since for the great desire I had
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy;
And kwa my father's upendo and leave am arm'd
With his good will and thy good company,
My trusty servant, well approved in all,
Here let us breathe and haply institute
A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Pisa renown'd for grave citizens
Gave me my being and my father first,
A merchant of great traffic through the world,
Vincetino come of Bentivolii.
Vincetino's son brought up in Florence
It shall become to serve all hopes conceived,
To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds:
And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,
Virtue and that part of philosophy
Will I apply that treats of happiness
kwa virtue specially to be achieved.
Tell me thy mind; for I have Pisa left
And am to Padua come, as he that leaves
A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.
TRANIO
Mi perdonato, gentle master mine,
I am in all affected as yourself;
Glad that wewe thus continue your resolve
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue and this moral discipline,
Let's be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;
au so devote to Aristotle's cheques
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:
Balk logic with acquaintance that wewe have
And practise rhetoric in your common talk;
muziki and poesy use to quicken you;
The mathematics and the metaphysics,
Fall to them as wewe find your stomach serves you;
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:
In brief, sir, study what wewe most affect.
LUCENTIO
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 Marafiki as time in Padua shall beget.
But stay a while: what company is this?
TRANIO
Master, some onyesha to welcome us to town.
Enter BAPTISTA, KATHARINA, BIANCA, GREMIO, and HORTENSIO. LUCENTIO and TRANIO stand by
BAPTISTA
Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
For how I firmly am resolved wewe know;
That is, not bestow my youngest daughter
Before I have a husband for the elder:
If either of wewe both upendo Katharina,
Because I know wewe well and upendo wewe well,
Leave shall wewe have to court her at your pleasure.
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