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VINCENTIO. You shall not choose but drink before you go. I think I shall command your welcome here, And by all likelihood some cheer is toward.
[ Knocks.] GREMIO. They ' re busy within; you were best knock louder. [ Enter PEDANT above, at a window.] PEDANT. What ' s he that knocks as he would beat down the gate? VINCENTIO. Is Signior Lucentio within, sir? PEDANT. He ' s within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.
VINCENTIO. What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two to make merry withal?
PEDANT. Keep your hundred pounds to yourself: he shall need none so long as I live.
PETRUCHIO. Nay, I told you your son was well beloved in Padua. Do you hear, sir? To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa, and is here at the door to speak with him.
PEDANT. Thou liest: his father is come from Padua, and here looking out at the window.
VINCENTIO. Art thou his father? PEDANT. Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her.
PETRUCHIO. [ To VINCENTIO ] Why, how now, gentleman! why, this is flat knavery to take upon you another man ' s name.