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GREMIO . Why will you mew her up , Signior Baptista , for this fiend of hell , And make her bear the penance of her tongue ?
BAPTISTA . Gentlemen , content ye ; I am resolv ' d . Go in , Bianca . [ Exit BIANCA .]
And for I know she taketh most delight In music , instruments , and poetry , Schoolmasters will I keep within my house Fit to instruct her youth . If you , Hortensio , Or , Signior Gremio , you , know any such , Prefer them hither ; for to cunning men I will be very kind , and liberal To mine own children in good bringing up ; And so , farewell . Katherina , you may stay ; For I have more to commune with Bianca .
[ Exit .]
KATHERINA . Why , and I trust I may go too , may I not ? What ! shall I be appointed hours , as though , belike , I knew not what to take and what to leave ? Ha !
[ Exit .]
GREMIO . You may go to the devil ' s dam : your gifts are so good here ' s none will hold you . Their love is not so great , Hortensio , but we may blow our nails together , and fast it fairly out ; our cake ' s dough on both sides . Farewell : yet , for the love I bear my sweet Bianca , if I can by any means light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she delights , I will wish him to her father .
HORTENSIO . So will I , Signior Gremio : but a word , I pray . Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked parle , know now , upon advice , it toucheth us both , --that we may yet again have access to our fair mistress , and be happy rivals in Bianca ' s love , --to labour and effect one thing specially .
GREMIO . What ' s that , I pray ?