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The Taming of the Shrew: Act V, Scene 1

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The Taming of the Shrew
Act V, Scene 1

Scene 1

Padua. Before Lucentio’s house.

  1. Enter Biondello, Lucentio, and Bianca; Gremio is out before.

Biondello

1
  1. Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready.

Lucentio

2 - 3
  1. I fly, Biondello; but they may chance to need thee at home,
  2. therefore leave us.

Biondello

4 - 5
  1. Nay, faith, I’ll see the church a’ your back, and then come
  2. back to my master’s as soon as I can.
  1. Exeunt Lucentio, Bianca, and Biondello.

Gremio

6
  1. I marvel Cambio comes not all this while.
  1. Enter Petruchio, Kate, Vincentio, Grumio, with Attendants.

Petruchio

7 - 9
  1. Sir, here’s the door, this is Lucentio’s house.
  2. My father’s bears more toward the market-place;
  3. Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.

Vincentio

10 - 12
  1. You shall not choose but drink before you go.
  2. I think I shall command your welcome here;
  3. And by all likelihood some cheer is toward.
  1. Knock.

Gremio

13
  1. They’re busy within, you were best knock louder.
  1. Pedant looks out of the window.

Pedant

14
  1. What’s he that knocks as he would beat down the gate?

Vincentio

15
  1. Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?

Pedant

16
  1. He’s within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.

Vincentio

17 - 18
  1. What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two, to make
  2. merry withal?

Pedant

19 - 20
  1. Keep your hundred pounds to yourself, he shall need none so
  2. long as I live.

Petruchio

21 - 24
  1. Nay, I told you your son was well belov’d in Padua. Do you
  2. hear, sir?—to leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell
  3. Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa, and is
  4. here at the door to speak with him.

Pedant

25 - 26
  1. Thou liest, his father is come from Padua and here looking
  2. out at the window.

Vincentio

27
  1. Art thou his father?

Pedant

28
  1. Ay, sir, so his mother says, if I may believe her.

Petruchio

29 - 30
  1. To Vincentio.
  2. Why, how now, gentleman? Why, this is flat knavery, to take
  3. upon you another man’s name.

Pedant

31 - 32
  1. Lay hands on the villain. I believe ’a means to cozen
  2. somebody in this city under my countenance.
  1. Enter Biondello.

Biondello

33 - 35
  1. I have seen them in the church together, God send ’em good
  2. shipping! But who is here? Mine old master Vincentio! Now we
  3. are undone and brought to nothing.

Vincentio

36
  1. Seeing Biondello.
  2. Come hither, crack-hemp.

Biondello

37
  1. I hope I may choose, sir.

Vincentio

38
  1. Come hither, you rogue. What, have you forgot me?

Biondello

39 - 40
  1. Forgot you? No, sir. I could not forget you, for I never saw
  2. you before in all my life.

Vincentio

41 - 42
  1. What, you notorious villain, didst thou never see thy
  2. master’s father, Vincentio?

Biondello

43 - 44
  1. What, my old worshipful old master? Yes, marry, sir—see
  2. where he looks out of the window.

Vincentio

45
  1. Is’t so indeed?
  1. He beats Biondello.

Biondello

46
  1. Help, help, help! Here’s a madman will murder me.
  1. Exit.

Pedant

47
  1. Help, son! Help, Signior Baptista!
  1. Exit above.

Petruchio

48 - 49
  1. Prithee, Kate, let’s stand aside and see the end of this
  2. controversy.
  1. They retire.
  1. Enter Pedant below with Servants, Baptista, Tranio as
  2. Lucentio.
Alexandr Pavlovich Lensky as Petruchio

Alexandr Pavlovich Lensky as Petruchio

Ivan Kramskoi, 1883

Tranio

50
  1. Sir, what are you that offer to beat my servant?

Vincentio

51 - 55
  1. What am I, sir? Nay, what are you, sir? O immortal gods! O
  2. fine villain! A silken doublet, a velvet hose, a scarlet
  3. cloak, and a copatain hat! O, I am undone, I am undone!
  4. While I play the good husband at home, my son and my servant
  5. spend all at the university.

Tranio

56
  1. How now, what’s the matter?

Baptista

57
  1. What, is the man lunatic?

Tranio

58 - 61
  1. Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your habit; but
  2. your words show you a madman. Why, sir, what ’cerns it you
  3. if I wear pearl and gold? I thank my good father, I am able
  4. to maintain it.

Vincentio

62
  1. Thy father! O villain, he is a sailmaker in Bergamo.

Baptista

63 - 64
  1. You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray what do you think
  2. is his name?

Vincentio

65 - 66
  1. His name! As if I knew not his name! I have brought him up
  2. ever since he was three years old, and his name is Tranio.

Pedant

67 - 68
  1. Away, away, mad ass, his name is Lucentio, and he is mine
  2. only son, and heir to the lands of me, Signior Vincentio.

Vincentio

69 - 71
  1. Lucentio! O, he hath murd’red his master! Lay hold on him, I
  2. charge you, in the Duke’s name. O, my son, my son! Tell me,
  3. thou villain, where is my son Lucentio?

Tranio

72 - 74
  1. Call forth an officer.
  2. Exit Servant, who returns with an Officer.
  3. Carry this mad knave to the jail. Father Baptista, I charge
  4. you see that he be forthcoming.

Vincentio

75
  1. Carry me to the jail?

Gremio

76
  1. Stay, officer, he shall not go to prison.

Baptista

77
  1. Talk not, Signior Gremio; I say he shall go to prison.

Gremio

78 - 79
  1. Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be cony-catch’d in
  2. this business. I dare swear this is the right Vincentio.

Pedant

80
  1. Swear if thou dar’st.

Gremio

81
  1. Nay, I dare not swear it.

Tranio

82
  1. Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio.

Gremio

83
  1. Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.

Baptista

84
  1. Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!
  1. Enter Biondello, Lucentio, and Bianca.

Vincentio

85
  1. Thus strangers may be hal’d and abus’d. O monstrous villain!

Biondello

86 - 87
  1. O, we are spoil’d and—yonder he is. Deny him, forswear him,
  2. or else we are all undone.
  1. Exeunt Biondello, Tranio, and Pedant as fast as may be.

Lucentio

88
  1. Pardon, sweet father.
  1. Kneel.

Lord

89
  1.                       Lives my sweet son?

Bianca

90
  1. Pardon, dear father.

Baptista

91 - 92
  1.                      How hast thou offended?
  2. Where is Lucentio?

Lucentio

93 - 96
  1.                    Here’s Lucentio,
  2. Right son to the right Vincentio,
  3. That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,
  4. While counterfeit supposes blear’d thine eyne.

Gremio

97
  1. Here’s packing, with a witness, to deceive us all!

Vincentio

98 - 99
  1. Where is that damned villain Tranio,
  2. That fac’d and braved me in this matter so?
John Moore as Vincentio

John Moore as Vincentio

From Augustin Daly's production of Taming of the Shrew, Daly's Theatre, New York

Napoleon Sarony, 1887

Baptista

100
  1. Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?

Bianca

101
  1. Cambio is chang’d into Lucentio.

Lucentio

102 - 108
  1. Love wrought these miracles. Bianca’s love
  2. Made me exchange my state with Tranio,
  3. While he did bear my countenance in the town,
  4. And happily I have arrived at the last
  5. Unto the wished haven of my bliss.
  6. What Tranio did, myself enforc’d him to;
  7. Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.

Vincentio

109 - 110
  1. I’ll slit the villain’s nose, that would have sent me to the
  2. jail.

Baptista

111 - 112
  1. But do you hear, sir? Have you married my daughter without
  2. asking my good will?

Vincentio

113 - 114
  1. Fear not, Baptista, we will content you, go to; but I will
  2. in to be reveng’d for this villainy.
  1. Exit.

Baptista

115
  1. And I, to sound the depth of this knavery.
  1. Exit.

Lucentio

116
  1. Look not pale, Bianca, thy father will not frown.
  1. Exeunt Lucentio and Bianca.

Gremio

117 - 118
  1. My cake is dough, but I’ll in among the rest,
  2. Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
  1. Exit.

Katherina

119
  1. Husband, let’s follow, to see the end of this ado.

Petruchio

120
  1. First kiss me, Kate, and we will.

Katherina

121
  1. What, in the midst of the street?

Petruchio

122
  1. What, art thou asham’d of me?

Katherina

123
  1. No, sir, God forbid, but asham’d to kiss.

Petruchio

124
  1. Why then let’s home again. Come, sirrah, let’s away.

Katherina

125
  1. Nay, I will give thee a kiss; now pray thee, love, stay.

Petruchio

126 - 127
  1. Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate:
  2. Better once than never, for never too late.
  1. Exeunt.
James Lewis as Grumio

James Lewis as Grumio

From Augustin Daly's production in Daly's Theatre, New York.

Napoleon Sarony, New 1887

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