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I am in all affected as yourself,
Glad that you thus continue your resolve
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only, good master, while we do admire
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This virtue and this moral discipline,
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Let's be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray,
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Or so devote to Aristotle's checks
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As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured.
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Balk logic with acquainta nce that you have
And practice rhetoric in your common talk.
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Music and poesy use to quicken you.
The mathematics and the metaphysics,
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Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
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In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
LUCENTIO
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Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
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If Biondello now were come ashore,
We could at once put us in readiness
And take a lodging fit to entertain
Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.
But stay awhile, what company is this?
TRANIO
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Master, some show to welcome us to town.
Enter Baptista with bis two daughters
Kate and Bianca, Gremio a pantaloon,
[and] Hortensio suitor to Bianca.