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And let me have them very well perfum’d, [150]
For she is sweeter than perfume itself
To whom they go to. What will you read to her?

LUCENT IO

Whate’er I read to her, I’ll plead for you
As for my patron, stand you so assur’d,
As firmly as yourself were still in place, [155]
Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.

GREMIO

O this learning, what a thing it is!

GRUMIO

O this woodcock, what an ass it is!

PET RUCHIO

Peace, sirrah. [160]

HORT ENSIO

Grumio, mum! God save you, Signor Gremio.

GREMIO

And you are well met, Signor Hortensio.
Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.
I promis’d to enquire carefully
About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca, [165]
And by good fortune I have lighted well
On this young man, for learning and behaviour
Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.

HORT ENSIO

’Tis well. And I have met a gentleman [170]
Hath promis’d me to help me to another,
A fine musician to instruct our mistress.
So shall I no whit be behind in duty
To fair Bianca, so belov’d of me.