ACT III.

[Scene I.] Padua. [Baptista's house.]

Enter Lucentio, Hortensio, and Bianca.

Luc. Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir:

Have you so soon forgot the entertainment

Her sister Katharine welcomed you withal?

Hor. [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,