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To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue and this moral discipline, [30]
Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray,
Or so devote to Aristotle’s checks
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur’d.
Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,
And practise rhetoric in your common talk, [35]
Music and poesy use to quicken you,
The mathematics and the metaphysics
Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en.
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. [40]

LUCENT IO

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 friends as time in Padua shall beget. [45]
But stay awhile, what company is this?

T RANIO

Master, some show to welcome us to town.
Lucentio [and] Tranio stand by.

Enter Baptista with his two daughters Katherina and Bianca, Gremio, a
pantaloon, Hortensio, suitor to Bianca.

BAPT IST A

Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
For how I firmly am resolv’d you know;
That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter [50]
Before I have a husband for the elder.
If either of you both love Katherina,
Because I know you well and love you well,
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

GREMIO

To cart her rather. She’s too rough for me. [55]
There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?