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Help, son! Help, Signor Baptista!
[Exit from the window.]
PET RUCHIO
Prithee, Kate, let’s stand aside and see the end of this controversy. [55]
Enter Pedant with Servants, Baptista, Tranio.
T RANIO
Sir, what are you that offer to beat my servant?
VINCENT IO
What am I, sir? Nay, what are you, sir? O immortal gods! O fine villain! A
silken doublet, a velvet hose, a scarlet cloak, and a copatain hat! O, I am
undone, I am undone! While I play the good husband at [60] home, my
son and my servant spend all at the university.
T RANIO
How now, what’s the matter?
BAPT IST A
What, is the man lunatic?
T RANIO
Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your [65] habit, but your
words show you a madman. Why, sir, what ’cerns it you if I wear pearl and
gold? I thank my good father, I am able to maintain it.
VINCENT IO
Thy father? O villain! He is a sail-maker in Bergamo. [70]
BAPT IST A
You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray, what do you think is his name?
VINCENT IO
His name? As if I knew not his name! I have brought him up ever since he
was three years old, and his name is Tranio. [75]
PEDANT
Away, away, mad ass! His name is Lucentio, and he is mine only son, and
