Sly. Madam wife, they say, that I have dream'd, and slept

Above some fifteen year and more.

A Lord.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker.
Hostess, Page, Players, Huntsmen, and
other servants attending on the Lord.

Baptista, a rich gentleman of Padua.
Vincentio, an old gentleman of Pisa.

Persons in the
Induction.

Lucentio, son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca.
Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, a suitor to Katharina.

Pedant, un old fellow set up to personate Vincentio.

Katharina, the Shrew;
Bianca, her sister,

Widow.

} Daughters to Baptista.

Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista

and Petruchio.

SCENE, sometimes in Padua; and sometimes in Petruchio's

House in the Country.

Sly. I'LL pheese you, in faith.

Host. A pair of stocks, you rogue!

Sly. Y'are a baggage; the Slies are no rogues: Look in the chronicles, we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore, paucas pallabris; let the

world slide: Sessa!

Host. You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?

Sly. No, not a denier: Go by, says Jeronimy;Go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.

Host. I know my remedy, I must go fetch the thirdborough. [Erit.

Sly. Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him by law: I'll not budge an inch, boy; let

him come, and kindly.

[Lies down on the ground, and falls asleep.

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