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A pretty peat! It is best put finger in the eye, and she knew why.

BIANCA

Sister, content you in my discontent. [80]
Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe.
My books and instruments shall be my company,
On them to look, and practise by myself.

LUCENT IO

Hark, Tranio, thou may’st hear Minerva speak.

HORT ENSIO

Signor Baptista, will you be so strange? [85]
Sorry am I that our good will effects
Bianca’s grief.

GREMIO

Why, will you mew her up,
Signor Baptista, for this fiend of hell,
And make her bear the penance of her tongue?

BAPT IST A [Exit Bianca.]
Exit.
Gentlemen, content ye. I am resolv’d. [90]
Go in, Bianca.

And for I know she taketh most delight
In music, instruments, and poetry,
Schoolmasters will I keep within my house
Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio, [95]
Or Signor Gremio, you, know any such,
Prefer them hither; for to cunning men
I will be very kind, and liberal
To mine own children in good bringing-up.
And so farewell. Katherina, you may stay, [100]
For I have more to commune with Bianca.

KAT HERINA

Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not? What, shall I be appointed hours,
as though, belike, I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha?