No Fear Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 4
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Enter TRANIO as
LUCENTIO
MERCHANT booted and
dressed like VINCENTIO
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TRANIO enters, disguised as
LUCENTIO with the MERCHANT dressed
like VINCENTIO
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) Sir, this is the house.
Please it you that I call?
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) Sir, this is the house.
Would you like me to ring?
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MERCHANT
Ay, what else? and but I be deceived,
Signior Baptista may remember me,
Near twenty years ago, in Genoa,
Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.
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MERCHANT
Yes, certainly. Unless I am mistaken, Signior Baptista may
remember me from the Pegasus in Genoa, where we both stayed twenty
years ago.
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) 'Tis well; and
hold your own, in any case,
With such austerity as 'longeth to a father.
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) Fine, fine. Just play your
part and act as serious as a father should.
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MERCHANT
I warrant you.
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MERCHANT
Of course I will.
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Enter BIONDELLO
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BIONDELLO
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But, sir, here comes your boy.
'Twere good he were schooled.
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But, sir, here comes your servant. Better fill him in.
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) Fear you not
him.—Sirrah Biondello,
Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.
Imagine ’twere the right Vincentio.
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) Don’t worry about
him.—You there, Biondello, now act your part
convincingly. Behave as though this were the real Vincentio.
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BIONDELLO
Tut, fear not me.
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BIONDELLO
Don’t worry about me.
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) But hast thou done thy
errand to Baptista?
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TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) And did you take the
message to Baptista?
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BIONDELLO
I told him that your father was at Venice,
And that you looked for him this day in Padua.
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BIONDELLO
I told him that your father was in Venice, and that you expected
him to arrive in Padua today.
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