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Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
[Enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, TRANIO, KATHERINA, BIANCA, LUCENTIO, and others,
attendants]
BAPTISTA [To TRANIO]
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Signior | Lucen|tio, this | is the 'point|ed
day
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That Kath/erine and Pe|truchio | should be | married,
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And yet | we hear | not of | our son-|in-law:
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What will | be said?| What mock|ery will | it be?
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To want | the bride|groom when | the priest |
attends
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To speak | the ce|remo|nial rites | of
mar||riage?
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What says | Lucen|tio to | this shame | of ours?
KATHERINE
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No shame | but mine,| I must | forsooth | be
forced
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To give | my hand | opposed | against | my heart
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Unto a | mad-brain rudes|by, full | of spleen,
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Who wooed | in haste,| and means | to wed at |
leisure:
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I told | you I,| he was | a frant|ic fool,
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Hiding his | bitter | jests in | blunt be|havior,
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And to | be not|ed for | a mer|ry man;
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He'll woo | a thous|and, appoint | the day | of
mar||riage,
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Make | friends, in|vite, and | proclaim | the
banns,
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Yet nev|er means | to wed | where he | hath
wooed:
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Now must | the world | point at | poor
Kath/erine,
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And say,| Lo, there | is mad | Petruch|io's wife
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If it | would please | him come | and mar|ry her.
TRANIO
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Patience | good Kath|erine and | Baptis|ta too,
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Upon | my life | Petruch|io means | but well,
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Whatev|er for|tune stays | him from | his word,
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Though he | be blunt,| I know | him pas|sing
wise,
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Though he be | merry,| yet wi|thal he's | honest.
KATHERINE
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Would Kath|erine | had nev|er seen | him though.
[Exit weeping, followed by BIANCA and others]
BAPTISTA
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Go girl*,| I can|not blame | thee now | to weep,
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For such | an in|jury | would vex | a ve|ry saint,
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Much more a shrew | of thy | impa|tient hum|or.
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[Enter BIONDELLO]
BIONDELLO
Master, master, news, old news, and such news as you never heard of.
BAPTISTA
Is it new and old too? how may that be?
BIONDELLO
Why, is it not news to hear of Petruchio's coming?
BAPTISTA
Is he come?
BIONDELLO
Why no sir.
BAPTISTA
What then?
BIONDELLO
He is coming.
BAPTISTA
When will he be here?
BIONDELLO
When he stands where I am, and sees you there.
TRANIO
But say, what to thine old news?
BIONDELLO
Why Petruchio is coming, in a new hat and an old jerkin, a pair of old
breeches thrice turned; a pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one
buckled, another laced: an old rusty sword tane out of the town-armory, with
a broken hilt, and chapeless: with two broken points: his horse hipped with
an old mothy saddle, and stirrups of no kindred: besides possessed with the
glanders, and like to mose in the chine, troubled with the lampass, infected
with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with spavins, rayed with yellows,
past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the
bots, swayed in the back, and shoulder-shotten, near-legged before, and with
a half-chequed bit, and a head-stall of sheep's leather, which being
restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now
repaired with knots: one girth six time pieced, and a woman's crupper of
velure, which hath two letters for her name, fairly set down in studs, and
here and there pieced with packthread.
BAPTISTA
Who comes with him?
BIONDELLO
Oh sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse: with a
linen stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a
red and blue list, an old hat, and the humor of forty fancies pricked in
it for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparel, and not like a
Christian footboy, or a gentleman's lackey.
TRANIO
'Tis some odd humor pricks him to this fashion, yet oftentimes he goes but
mean-apparelled.
BAPTISTA
I am glad he's come, howsoere he comes.
BIONDELLO
Why sir, he comes not.
BAPTISTA
Didst thou not say he comes?
BIONDELLO
Who, that Petruchio came?
BAPTISTA
Aye, that Petruchio came.
BIONDELLO
No sir, I say his horse comes with him on his back.
BAPTISTA
Why that's all one.
BIONDELLO
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Nay by | Saint Jamy,
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I hold you | a penny,
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A horse and | a man
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Is more | than one,|
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And yet | not ma|ny.
[Enter PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO]
PETRUCHIO
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Come, where / be these | gallants?| Who's at | home?
BAPTISTA
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You || are wel|come sir.
PETRUCHIO
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And yet | I come | not well.
BAPTISTA
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And yet | you halt | not.
TRANIO
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Not | so well | apparel||led
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As I wish | you were.
PETRUCHIO
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Were it better | I should rush | in thus.
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But where | is Kate?| Where is | my love|ly
bride?
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How does | my fath|er? gent|les methinks | you
frown,
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And where|fore gaze | this good|ly comp|any,
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As if | they saw | some wond|rous mon|ument,
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Some com|et, or | unus|ual prod|igy?
BAPTISTA
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Why sir,| you know | this is | your wed|ding day:
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First were | we sad,| fearing | you would | not
come,
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Now sad|der that | you come | so un|provid||ed:
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Fie,| doff this | habit,| shame to your | estate,
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An eye-|sore to | our sol|emn fest|ival.
TRANIO
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And tell | us what | occa|sion of / import
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Hath all | so long | detained | you from | your
wife,
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And sent | you hith|er so | unlike | yourself?
PETRUCHIO
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Tedious | it were | to tell,| and harsh | to
hear,
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Suffi|ceth I | am come | to keep | my word,
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Though in | some part | enfor|ced to | digress,
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Which at | more leis|ure, I | will so | excuse,
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As you | shall well | be sat|isfied | withal.
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But where | is Kate?| I stay | too long |
from her,
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The morn|ing wears,| 'tis time | we were | at
church.
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See not | your bride | in these | unreve|rent
robes,
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Go to | my chamb|er, put | on clothes | of mine.
PETRUCHIO
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Not I, | believe | me, thus | I'll vis|it her.
BAPTISTA
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But thus | I trust | you will | not mar|ry her.
PETRUCHIO
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Good sooth | even thus:| therefore | have done |
with words,
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To me | she's mar|ried, not | unto | my clothes:
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Could I | repair | what she | will wear | in me,
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As I | can change | these poor | accout|rements,
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'Twere well | for Kate,| and bet|ter for | myself.
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But what | a fool | am I | to chat | with you,
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When I | should bid | good mor|row to | my bride?
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And seal | the tit|le with | a love|ly kiss.
[Exeunt PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO]
TRANIO
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He hath | some mean|ing in | his mad | attire,
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We will | persuade | him be | it pos|sible,
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To put | on bet|ter ere | he go | to church.
BAPTISTA
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I'll aft|er him,| and see | the event | of this.
[Exeunt BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and attendants]
TRANIO
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But sir, love | concern|eth us | to add
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Her fath|er's lik|ing, which | to bring | to
pass
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As I be|fore un|parted | to your | worship,
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I am | to get | a man | whatere | he be,
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It skills | not much,| we'll fit | him to | our
turn,
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And he shall | be Vin|centi|o of | Pisa,
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And make | assur|ance here | in Pad|ua
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Of great|er sums | than I | have prom|ised,
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So shall | you qui|etly | enjoy | your hope,
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And mar|ry sweet | Bian|ca with | consent.
LUCENTIO
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Were it | not that | my fel|low school|master
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Doth^watch | Bian|ca's steps | so nar|rowly:
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'Twere good | methinks | to steal | our
mar|riage,
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Which once | perfor|med, let | all the world |
say* no,
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I'll keep | mine^own | despite | of all | the
world.
TRANIO
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That by | degrees | we mean | to look | into,
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And watch | our vant|age in | this bus|iness:
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We'll ov|er-reach | the greybeard Grem|io,
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The nar|row-pry|ing fath|er, Min|ola,
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The quaint | musi|cian, am|orous Li|cio,
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All for | my mast|er's sake | Lucen|tio.
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Signior | Gremi|o, came | you from | the church?
[Enter GREMIO]
GREMIO
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As wil|lingly | as ere | I came | from school.
TRANIO
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And is | the bride | and bridegroom com|ing
home?
GREMIO
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A bride|groom* say | you? 'tis | a groom | indeed,
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A grumb|ling groom,| and that | the girl | shall
find.
TRANIO
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Curseder | than she,| why 'tis | impos|sible.
GREMIO
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Why he's | a devil,| a devil,| a ve|ry fiend.
TRANIO
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Why she's | a devil,| a devil,| the dev|il's dam.
GREMIO
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Tut, she's | a lamb,| a dove,| a fool | to him:
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I'll tell | you Sir | Lucen|tio; when | the
priest
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Should ask | if Kath|erine | should be | his
wife,
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Aye, by | Gogs Wouns / quoth^he,| and swore | so loud,
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That all | amazed | the priest | let fall | the
book,
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And as | he stooped | again | to take | it up,
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The mad-|brained bridegroom | took him | such a
cuff,
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That down | fell priest and book,| and book |
and priest,
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Now take | them up | quoth he,| if an|y list.
TRANIO
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What said | the wench | when he | rose a|gain?
GREMIO
Trembled and shook: for why, he stamped and swore, as if the vicar meant to
cozen him: but after many ceremonies done, he calls for wine, a health quoth
he, as if he had been aboard carousing to his mates after a storm, quaffed
off the muscadel, and threw the sops all in the sexton's face: having no
other reason, but that his beard grew thin and hungerly, and seemed to ask him
sops as he was drinking: This done, he took the bride about the neck, and
kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, that at the parting all the
church did echo: and I seeing this, came thence for very shame, and after me
I know the rout is coming, such a mad marriage never was before: hark,
hark, I hear the minstrels play.
[Music. Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHERINA, BIANCA, BAPTISTA, HORTENSIO, GRUMIO,
and Train]
PETRUCHIO
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Gentlemen | and friends,| I thank | you for |
your pains,
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I know | you think | to dine | with me | today,
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And have | prepared | great store of wed|ding
cheer,
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But so | it is,| my haste | doth call | me hence,
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And there|fore here | I mean | to take | my
leave.
BAPTISTA
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Is it pos|sible | you will | away | tonight?
PETRUCHIO
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I must | away | today | before night come:
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Make it no | wonder:| if you | knew my |
business,
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You would | entreat | me rath|er go | than
stay:
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And hon|est comp|any,| I thank | you all,
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That have | beheld | me give | away | myself
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To this / most pa|tient, sweet,| and vir|tuous
wife,
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Dine with | my fath|er, drink | a health | to me,
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For I | must hence,| and fare|well to | you all.
TRANIO
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Let us en|treat you | stay till | after | dinner.
PETRUCHIO
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It may | not be.
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Let me | entreat | you.
PETRUCHIO
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It can|not be.
KATHERINE
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Let me | entreat | you.
PETRUCHIO
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I am | content.
KATHERINE
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Are you | content | to stay?
PETRUCHIO
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I am | content | you shall | entreat | me stay,
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But yet | not^stay,| entreat | me how | you can.
KATHERINE
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Now if | you love | me stay.
PETRUCHIO
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Grumio,| my
horse.
GRUMIO
Aye sir, they be ready, the oats have eaten the horses.
KATHERINE
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Nay then, \\
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Do what | thou canst,| I will / not go | today,
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No, nor | tomor|row, not | till I please |
myself,
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The door | is op|en sir,| there* lies | your way,
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You may | be jog|ging whiles | your boots |
are green:
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For me,| I'll not | be gone | till I please |
myself,
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'Tis like | you'll prove | a jol|ly sur|ly groom,
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That take it | on you | at the | first so |
roundly.
PETRUCHIO
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O Kate | content | thee, prith|ee be | not
ang||ry.
KATHERINE
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I will | be ang|ry, what | hast thou | to do?
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Father, be | quiet,| he shall | stay my |
leisure.
GREMIO
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Aye mar|ry sir,| now it | begins | to work.
KATHERINE
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Gentlemen,| forward | to the | bridal | dinner,
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I see | a wom|an may | be made | a fool
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If she | had not | a spir|it to | resist.
PETRUCHIO
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They shall | go for|ward Kate | at thy | command.
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Obey | the bride | you that | attend | on her.
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Go to | the feast,| revel | and dom|ineer,
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Carouse | full meas/ure to | her maid|enhead,
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Be mad | and mer|ry, or / go hang | yourselves:
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But for | my bon|ny Kate,| she must | with me:
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Nay look | not big,| nor stamp,| nor stare,| nor
fret,
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I will | be mast|er of | what is | mine^own,
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She is | my goods,| my chat|tels, she | is my
house,
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My house|hold | stuff,| my field,| my barn,
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My horse,| my ox,| my ass,| my an|ything,
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And here | she stands,| touch her | whoev|er
dare,
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I'll bring | mine ac|tion on | the proud|est he
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That stops | my way | in Pad|ua:| Grumio,
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Draw forth | thy weap|on, we | are beset |
with thieves,
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Rescue | thy mist|ress if | thou be | a man:
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Fear* not | sweet^wench,| they shall | not touch
| thee Kate,
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I'll buck|ler thee | against | a mil|lion.
[Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHERINA, and GRUMIO]
BAPTISTA
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Nay, let | them go,| a coup|le of qui|et ones.
GREMIO
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Went they | not quick|ly, I | should die | with laugh||ing.
TRANIO
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Of / all mad | matches | never was | the like.
LUCENTIO
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Mistress,| what's your o|pinion | of your |
sister?
BIANCA
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That be|ing mad | herself,| she's mad|ly mat|ed.
GREMIO
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I war|rant him | Petruch|io | is Kat|ed.
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BAPTISTA
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Neigh|bors and friends,| though bride | and bride|groom^wants
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For to sup|ply the | places | at the | table,
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You know | there wants | no junk|ets at | the
feast:
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Lucen|tio, you | shall supply | the bride|groom's^place,
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And let | Bian|ca take | her sis|ter's room.
TRANIO
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Shall sweet | Bian|ca prac|tice how | to bride it?
BAPTISTA
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She shall | Lucen|tio: Come | gentlemen | let's
go.
[Exeunt]