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Lucentio

I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible

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Tranio
I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible
That love should of a sudden take such hold?
Lucentio
O Tranio, till I found it to be true,
I never thought it possible or likely.
But see, while idly I stood looking on,
I found the effect of love-in-idleness,
And now in plainness do confess to thee
That art to me as secret and as dear
As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was:

Tranio,
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Act 1
Scene 1
Line 148

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Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner

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Katherine
Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.
I see a woman may be made a fool
If she had not a spirit to resist.
Petruchio
They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.—
Obey the bride, you that attend on her.
Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,
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Act 3
Scene 2
Line 225

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Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder

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Lucentio
Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.
Hortensio
And so it is. I wonder what it bodes.
Petruchio
Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,
An awful rule, and right supremacy,
And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy.
Baptista
Now fair befall thee,
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Act 5
Scene 2
Line 119

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