THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Act 4 Scene 5

(Enter Lucentio and Biondello)
l1l	Biondello	 Cambio.
l2l	Lucentio	What sayst thou, Biondello?
l3l	Biondello	You saw my master wink and laugh upon
l4l		you?
l5l	Lucentio	Biondello, what of that?
l6l	Biondello	Faith, nothing, but he’s left me here behind to
l7l		expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.
l8l	Lucentio	I pray thee, moralize them.
l9l	Biondello	Then thus: Baptista is safe, talking with the
l10l		deceiving father of a deceitful son.
l11l	Lucentio	And what of him?
l12l	Biondello	His daughter is to be brought by you to the
l13l		supper.
l14l	Lucentio	And then?
l15l	Biondello	The old priest at Saint Luke’s church is at your
l16l		command at all hours.
l17l	Lucentio	And what of all this?
l18l	Biondello	I cannot tell, except they are busied about a
l19l		counterfeit assurance. Take you assurance of her cum
l20l		privilegio ad imprimendum solum—to th’ church take the
l21l		priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses.
l22l		If this be not that you look for, I have no more to say,
l23l		But bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day.
l24l	Lucentio	 Hear’st thou, Biondello?
l25l	Biondello	I cannot tarry, I knew a wench married in an
l26l		afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff
l27l		a rabbit, and so may you, sir, and so adieu, sir. My
l28l		master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke’s to bid
l29l		the priest be ready t’ attend against you come with your
l30l		appendix.
		(Exit)
l31l	Lucentio	 I may and will, if she be so contented.
l32l		She will be pleased, then wherefore should I doubt?
l33l		Hap what hap may, I’ll roundly go about her.
l34l		It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.
		(Exit)