(as
LUCENTIO) If it be so, sir, that you
are the man
Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest,
And if you break the ice and do this feat,
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Achieve the elder, set the younger free
For our access, whose hap shall be to have her
Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.
TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) If that's the
case, then you're the man to help us, me along with the
rest. And if you carry it off and break the ice—win the
older and make the younger accessible to us—whoever
winds up with her will not be such a boor as to be ungrateful,
I'm sure.
HORTENSIO
Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive.
And since you do profess to be a suitor,
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You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
To whom we all rest generally beholding.
HORTENSIO
Sir, that's well said and well thought out. Now, since
you count yourself among Bianca's suitors, you
must—as we already have—pay this gentlemen
to whom we are all so indebted.
TRANIO
(as
LUCENTIO) Sir, I shall not be slack;
in sign whereof,
Please ye we may contrive this afternoon
And quaff carouses to our mistress' health
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And do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
TRANIO
(speaking as
LUCENTIO) I'll ante up,
certainly! And on that note, let's all pass the time this
afternoon drinking rounds to our mistress's health and
following the example of legal adversaries, who fight tooth and nail
in court but eat and drink as friends.
GRUMIO AND BIONDELLO
O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone.
GRUMIO AND BIONDELLO
An excellent motion. Let's go.
HORTENSIO
The motion's good indeed and be it so.—
Petruchio, I shall be your
ben venuto.
HORTENSIO
I second that motion
. So be it. Petruchio, I'm
buying.
