Reading The Taming of the Shrew — William Shakespeare

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Me Pardonato, gentle master mine:

I am in all affected as your selfe,

Glad that you thus continue your resolue,

To sucke the sweets of sweete Philosophie.

Onely (good master) while we do admire

This vertue, and this morall discipline,

Let's be no Stoickes, nor no stockes I pray,

Or so deuote to Aristotles checkes

As Ouid; be an out‑cast quite abiur'd:

Balke Lodgicke with acquaintaince that you haue,

And practise Rhetoricke in your common talke,

Musicke and Poesie vse, to quicken you,

The Mathematickes, and the Metaphysickes

Fall to them as you finde your stomacke serues you:

No profit growes, where is no pleasure tane:

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