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1  Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  Re-enter Baptista, Gremio and Tranio.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
3  Signior Baptista, you are happily met.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
4  Patience, good Katherine, and Baptista too.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
5  Enter Baptista, Katherina, Bianca, Gremio and Hortensio.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
6  Enter Petrucio, Katherina, Bianca, Baptista, Hortensio, Grumio and Train.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
7  Over and beside Signior Baptista's liberality, I'll mend it with a largess.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
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8  Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio, Katherina, Bianca, Lucentio and Attendants.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
9  Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste, And every day I cannot come to woo.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
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10  So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after, That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
11  But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter: Now is the day we long have looked for; I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
12  Her father is Baptista Minola, An affable and courteous gentleman; Her name is Katherina Minola, Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
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13  If he be credulous and trust my tale, I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio, And give assurance to Baptista Minola, As if he were the right Vincentio.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
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14  Baptista is a noble gentleman, To whom my father is not all unknown; And were his daughter fairer than she is, She may more suitors have, and me for one.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
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15  This, by the way, I let you understand: My father is here look'd for every day To pass assurance of a dower in marriage 'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here: In all these circumstances I'll instruct you.'
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
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16  But come; since this bar in law makes us friends, it shall be so far forth friendly maintained, till by helping Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband, we set his youngest free for a husband, and then have to't afresh.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
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17  Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace, And offer me disguis'd in sober robes, To old Baptista as a schoolmaster Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca; That so I may, by this device at least Have leave and leisure to make love to her, And unsuspected court her by herself.
The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
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