Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Tra. Enter Baptista and Lucentio: Pedant booted
Tra. and bare headed.
Tra. Tra.
Tra. Signior Baptista you are happilie met:
Tra. Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of,
Tra. I pray you stand good father to me now,
Tra. Giue me Bianca for my patrimony.
Ped. Ped.
Ped. Soft son: sir by your leaue, hauing com to Padua
Ped. To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Ped. Made me acquainted with a waighty cause
Ped. Of loue betweene your daughter and himselfe:
Ped. And for the good report I heare of you,
Ped. And for the loue he beareth to your daughter,
Ped. And she to him: to stay him not too long,
Ped. I am content in a good fathers care
Ped. To haue him matcht, and if you please to like
Ped. No worse then I, vpon some agreement
Ped. Me shall you finde readie and willing
Ped. With one consent to haue her so bestowed: