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T RANIO
If he be credulous and trust my tale,
I’ll make him glad to seem Vincentio,
And give assurance to Baptista Minola
As if he were the right Vincentio. [70]
Take in your love, and then let me alone.
[Exeunt Lucentio and Bianca.]
Enter a Pedant.
PEDANT
God save you, sir.
T RANIO
And you, sir. You are welcome.
Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?
PEDANT
Sir, at the farthest for a week or two,
But then up farther, and as far as Rome, [75]
And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.
T RANIO
What countryman, I pray?
PEDANT
Of Mantua.
T RANIO
Of Mantua, sir? Marry, God forbid!
And come to Padua, careless of your life?
PEDANT
My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard. [80]
T RANIO
’Tis death for any one in Mantua
To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
Your ships are stay’d at Venice, and the Duke,
For private quarrel ’twixt your Duke and him,
