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Hortensio and Lucentio are two of Bianca鈥檚 suitors. Bianca鈥檚 father, Baptista, has forbidden any suitor鈥檚 to woo Bianca until her older sister, Kate, is married off. In order to get closer to Bianca and attempt to woo her in secret, both Lucentio and Hortensio decide to disguise themselves as tutors. Each of them successfully gains entry into their home and get time with Bianca, but they have to compete with one another. Bianca first starts to learn Greek and Latin from Lucentio (who pretends
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Start: LUCENTIO
Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir:
Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
Her sister Katharina welcomed you withal?
HORTENSIO
But, wrangling pedant, this is
The patroness of heavenly harmony:
Then give me leave to have prerogative;
And when in music we have spent an hour,
Your lecture shall have leisure for as
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