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SCENE IV. Padua. Before BAPTISTA ' S house. [ Enter TRANIO, and the PEDANT dressed like VINCENTIO.] TRANIO. Sir, this is the house; please it you that I call?
PEDANT. 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.
TRANIO. ' Tis well; and hold your own, in any case, With such austerity as ' longeth to a father.
PEDANT. I warrant you. But, sir, here comes your boy; ' Twere good he were school ' d.
[ Enter BIONDELLO.]
TRANIO. Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello, Now do your duty throughly, I advise you. Imagine ' twere the right Vincentio.
BIONDELLO. Tut! fear not me. TRANIO. But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?
BIONDELLO. I told him that your father was at Venice, And that you look ' d for him this day in Padua.
TRANIO. Thou ' rt a tall fellow; hold thee that to drink. Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, sir.
[ Enter BAPTISTA and LUCENTIO.]
Signior Baptista, you are happily met. [ To the PEDANT ] Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of; I pray you stand good father to me now; Give me