"Hic ibat, as i told you before, Simois, I am Lucentio, hic est, son unto Vincentio of Pisa, Segia tellus, disguised thus to get your love, Hic steterat, and that Lucentio that comes a wooing, Priami, is my man Tranio, regia, bearing my port, celsa senis, that we might beguile the old pantaloon."
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy, and this passage proved that fact exactly. Lucentio, disguised as a Latin teacher, is wooing Baptista's daughter through translations of Latin text. This specific passage is important because it is when Lucentio confesses that he is not a teacher, and that he has employed this deception to gain Bianca's affection. She replies that she does not yet trust him, but for him to have hope, thereby foreshadowing that something important is going to happen between the two of them.
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