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LUCENT IO

And what of him?

BIONDELLO

His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper. [85]

LUCENT IO

And then?

BIONDELLO

The old priest at Saint Luke’s church is at your command at all hours.

LUCENT IO

And what of all this?

BIONDELLO

I cannot tell, except they are busied about a [90] counterfeit assurance.
Take you assurance of her, cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum. To th’
church! Take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses. If this
be not that you look for, I have no more to say, but bid Bianca farewell for
ever and a day. [95]

LUCENT IO

Hear’st thou, Biondello -

BIONDELLO

I cannot tarry. I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the
garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit. And so may you, sir; and so adieu, sir.
My master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke’s, to bid [100] the priest
be ready to come against you come with your appendix.

Exit.

LUCENT IO

I may and will, if she be so contented.
She will be pleas’d, then wherefore should I doubt?
Hap what hap may, I’ll roundly go about her: [105]
It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.

Exit.

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