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Petruchio's country house.
[Enter GRUMIO]
GRUMIO
Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all foul ways: was ever
man so beaten? was ever man so rayed? was ever man so weary? I am sent
before to make a fire, and they are coming after to warm them: now were not
I a little pot, and soon hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth, my
tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in my belly, ere I should come by a
fire to thaw me, but I with blowing the fire, shall warm myself: for
considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold: Holla, ho
Curtis.
CURTIS
Who is that calls so coldly?
GRUMIO
A piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou mayst slide from my shoulder to my
heel, with no greater a run but my head and my neck. A fire good Curtis.
CURTIS
Is my master and his wife coming Grumio?
GRUMIO
Oh aye Curtis aye, and therefore fire, fire, cast on no water.
CURTIS
Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported.
GRUMIO
She was good Curtis before this frost: but thou knowst winter tames
man, woman, and beast: for it hath tamed my old master, and my new mistress,
and myself fellow Curtis.
CURTIS
Away you three-inch fool, I am no beast.
GRUMIO
Am I but three inches? Why thy horn is a foot and so long am I at the
least. But wilt thou make a fire or shall I complain on thee to our
mistress, whose hand (she being now at hand) thou shalt soon feel, to thy
cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office.
CURTIS
I prithee good Grumio, tell me, how goes the world?
GRUMIO
A cold world Curtis in every office but thine, and therefore fire: do thy
duty, and have thy duty, for my master and mistress are almost frozen to
death.
CURTIS
There's fire ready, and therefore good Grumio the news.
GRUMIO
Why Jack boy, ho boy, and as much news as wilt thou.
CURTIS
Come, you are so full of cony-catching.
GRUMIO
Why therefore fire, for I have caught extreme cold. Where's the cook, is
supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the
serving-men in their new fustian, their white stockings, and every officer
his wedding-garment on? Be the jacks fair within, the jills fair without,
the carpets laid, and everything in order?
CURTIS
All ready: and therefore I pray thee news.
GRUMIO
First know my horse is tired, my master and mistress fallen out.
CURTIS
How?
GRUMIO
Out of their saddles into the dirt, and thereby hangs a tale.
CURTIS
Let's have it good Grumio.
GRUMIO
Lend thine ear.
CURTIS
Here.
GRUMIO
There.
CURTIS
This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
GRUMIO
And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale: and this cuff was but to knock at
your ear, and beseech listening. Now I begin, Imprimis we came down a foul
hill, my master riding behind my mistress.
CURTIS
Both of one horse?
GRUMIO
What's that to thee?
CURTIS
Why a horse.
GRUMIO
Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard
how her horse fell, and she under her horse: thou shouldst have heard in how
miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her with the horse upon her,
how he beat me because her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt to
pluck him off me: how he swore, how she prayed, that never prayed before,
how I cried, how the horses ran away, how her bridle was burst: how I lost
my crupper, with many things of worthy memory, which now shall die in
oblivion, and thou return unexperienced to thy grave.
CURTIS
By this reckoning he is more shrew than she.
GRUMIO
Aye, and that thou and the proudest of you all shall find when he comes home.
But what talk I of this? Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip,
Walter, Sugarsop and the rest: let their heads be sleekly combed, their blue
coats brushed, and their garters of an indifferent knit, let them curtsy with
their left legs, and not presume to touch a hair of my master's horse-tail,
till they kiss their hands. Are they all ready?
CURTIS
They are.
GRUMIO
Call them forth.
CURTIS
Do you hear ho? you must meet my master to countenance my mistress.
GRUMIO
Why she hath a face of her own.
CURTIS
Who knows not that?
GRUMIO
Thou it seems, that calls for company to countenance her.
CURTIS
I call them forth to credit her.
GRUMIO
Why she comes to borrow nothing of them.
[Enter four or five Serving-men]
NATHANIEL
Welcome home Grumio.
PHILIP
How now Grumio.
JOSEPH
What Grumio.
NICHOLAS
Fellow Grumio.
NATHANIEL
How now old lad.
GRUMIO
Welcome you: how now you: what you: fellow you: and thus much for
greeting. Now my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?
NATHANIEL
All things is ready, How near is our master?
GRUMIO
Eene at hand, alighted by this: and therefore be not--Cock's passion,
silence, I hear my master.
[Enter PETRUCHIO and KATHERINE]
PETRUCHIO
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Where be | these knaves?| What no | man at | door
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To hold | my stir|rup, nor | to take | my horse?
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Where is | Nathan|iel, Gre|gory,| Philip.
ALL SERVING-MEN
Here, here sir, here sir.
PETRUCHIO
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Here sir,| here sir,| here sir,| here sir,|
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You log|ger-head|ed and / unpol|ished grooms:
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What? No at|tendance?| No re|gard? No | duty?
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Where is | the fool|ish knave | I sent | before?
GRUMIO
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Here sir,| as fool|ish as | I was | before.
PETRUCHIO
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You peas|ant, swain,| you whore|son
malt-|horse^drudge,
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Did I | not bid | thee meet | me in | the park,
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And bring | along | these ras|cal knaves | with
thee?
GRUMIO
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Nathan|iel's coat | sir was / not ful|ly made,
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And Gab|riel's pumps | were all | unpinked | in
the heel:
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There was | no link | to col|or Pet|er's hat,
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And Walt|er's dag|ger was not | come from | sheathing:
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There were | none fine,| but Ad|am, Ralph,| and Greg|ory,
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The rest | were rag|ged, old,| and beg|garly,|
(hex with prev)
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Yet as | they are,| here are they | come to |
meet you.
PETRUCHIO
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Go* ras|cals, go,| and fetch | my sup|per in.
[Singing]
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Where^is | the life | that late | I led?
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Where are | those? Sit | down | Kate,
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And wel|come. Sound, | sound, sound, sound.
[Enter Servants with supper]
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Why when I | say? Nay / good sweet | Kate be |
merry.
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Off with | my boots,| you rogues:| you vil|lains,
when?
[Sings]
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It was | the fri|ar of ord|ers grey,
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As he | forth walk|ed on | his way.
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Out you | rogue, you | pluck my | foot aw|ry,
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Take^||that, and | mend the | plucking | off the
| other.
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Be mer|ry Kate:| Some wat|er here:| what ho.
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Where's my | spaniel | Troilus?| Sirrah,| get you
hence,
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And bid | my cous|in Ferd|inand come*| hither:
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One* Kate | that you | must kiss,| and be
ac|quainted with.
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Where are my | slippers?| Shall I | have some |
water?
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Come Kate | and wash,| and wel|come heart|ily:
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You whore|son vil|lain, will | you let | it fall?
[Strikes him]
KATHERINE
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Patience,| I pray | you, 'twas a | fault
un|willing.
PETRUCHIO
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A whore|son beet|le-head|ed flap-|eared^knave:
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Come Kate | sit down,| I know | you have a |
stomach,
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Will you | give thanks,| sweet* Kate,| or else |
shall I?
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What's this, mut|ton?
FIRST SERVANT
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Aye.
PETRUCHIO
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Who brought | it?
PETER
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I.
PETRUCHIO
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'Tis burnt,| and so | is all | the meat.|
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What dogs | are these?| Where is | the ras|cal
cook?
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How durst | you vil|lains bring it | from the |
dresser,
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And serve | it thus | to me | that love | it not?
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There take | it to | you, trench|ers, cups,|
and all:
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You heed|less jolt|heads, and | unman|nered
slaves.
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What, do | you grumb|le? I'll | be with | you
straight.
KATHERINE
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I pray | you hus|band be | not so dis|quiet,
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The meat | was well,| if you were | so
con|tented.
PETRUCHIO
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I tell | thee Kate,| 'twas burnt | and dried
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And I | express|ly am | forbid | to touch it:
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For it en|genders | choler,| planteth | anger,
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And bet|ter 'twere | that both | of us | did
fast,
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Since^of | ourselves,| ourselves | are chol|eric,
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Than feed | it with / such ov|er-roast|ed
flesh:
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Be pa/tient, to|morrow it | shall be | mended,
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And for / this night,| we'll fast | for comp|any.
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Come I | will bring | thee to thy | bridal |
chamber.
[Exeunt. Enter Servants severally]
NATHANIEL
Peter didst ever see the like?
PETER
He kills her in her own humor.
[Enter CURTIS]
GRUMIO
Where is he?
CURTIS
In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her, and rails, and swears,
and rates, that she (poor soul) knows not which way to stand, to look, to
speak, and sits as one new-risen from a dream. Away, away, for he is coming
hither.
[Exeunt. Enter PETRUCHIO]
PETRUCHIO
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Thus have | I po|liticly | begun | my reign,
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And 'tis | my hope | to end | success|fully:
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My falc|on now | is sharp,| and pas|sing emp|ty;
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And till | she stoop, she | must not | be
full-gorged, (hex with prev)
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For then | she nev|er looks | upon | her lure.
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Anoth|er way | I have | to man | my hag||gard,
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To make | her come | and know | her keep|er's
call:
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That is,| to watch | her, as | we watch | these^kites,
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That bate | and beat | and will not | be
obed|ient:
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She eat | no meat | today,| nor none | shall eat.
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Last^night | she slept | not, nor | tonight | she
shall || not:
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As | with the meat,| some un|deserv|ed fault
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I'll find | about | the mak|ing of | the bed,
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And here | I'll fling | the pil|low, there | the
bolst||er,
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This | way the cov|erlet, anoth|er way | the
sheets:
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Aye, and | amid | this hur|ly I | intend,
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That all | is done | in reve|rend care | of
her,
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And in | conclu|sion, she | shall watch | all^night,
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And if | she chance | to nod,| I'll rail | and
brawl,
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And with | the clam|or keep | her still | awake:
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This is a | way to | kill a | wife with |
kindness,
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And thus | I'll curb | her mad | and
headstrong hum||or:
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He | that knows^bet|ter how | to tame | a shrew,
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Now let | him speak,| 'tis char|ity | to show.
[Exit]