No Fear Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew
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Induction, Scene 2, Page 3
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FIRST SERVANT
Say thou wilt course. Thy greyhounds are as swift
As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.
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FIRST SERVANT
If you care to hunt rabbits, your greyhounds are as swift as
healthy stags and faster than young deer.
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SECOND SERVANT
Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight
Adonis painted by a running brook
And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,
Even as the waving sedges play with wind.
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SECOND SERVANT
Do you like pictures? We’ll be right back with one of Adonis stretched out beside a rushing brook, with Venus spying on
him, hidden in rushes that seem to move and undulate with her
lustful sighs, like grass waving in the wind.
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LORD
We’ll show thee Io as she was a maid
And how she was beguileèd and surprised,
As lively painted as the deed was done.
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LORD
There’s one that shows Io as a maid, before she was
turned into a cow, in which Jupiter tricks and takes her.
It’s so realistic, it seems to be happening right before
your eyes.
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THIRD SERVANT
Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
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THIRD SERVANT
There’s one of Daphne running through the woods, her legs so scratched by thorns
that Apollo himself would weep at the sight. You’ll swear
the blood and tears are real.
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LORD
Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord.
Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
Than any woman in this waning age.
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LORD
You are nothing less than a lord. You have a noble wife who is
much more beautiful than any other woman in this declining
age.
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FIRST SERVANT
And till the tears that she hath shed for thee
Like envious floods o'errun her lovely face,
She was the fairest creature in the world—
And yet she is inferior to none.
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Before she began shedding tears all over her lovely face, she was
the fairest creature in the world—and even now she has
no equal.
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