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Padua. LUCENTIO'S house.
[Enter BAPTISTA, VINCENTIO, GREMIO, the Pedant, LUCENTIO, BIANCA, PETRUCHIO,
KATHERINA, HORTENSIO, and Widow, TRANIO, BIONDELLO, and GRUMIO the
Serving-men with Tranio bringing in a banquet]
LUCENTIO
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At last,| though long,| our jar|ring notes |
agree.
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And time | it is | when rag|ing war | is done,
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To smile | at escapes | and per|ils ov|erblown;
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My fair | Bianca | bid my | father | welcome,
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While I | with self-|same* kind|ness wel|come
thine:
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Brother | Petruch|io, sis|ter Kath|erine,
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And thou | Hortens|io with | thy lov|ing wid||ow:
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Feast | with the best,| and wel|come to | my
house,
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My ban|quet is | to close | our stom|achs up
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After | our great | good cheer:| Pray you | sit
down,
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For now | we sit | to chat | as well | as eat.
PETRUCHIO
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Nothing | but sit | and sit,| and eat | and eat.
BAPTISTA
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Padua | affords | this kind|ness, son |
Petru||chio.
PETRUCHIO
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Pad|ua affords | nothing | but what | is kind.
HORTENSIO
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For both | our sakes | I would | that word | were true.
PETRUCHIO
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Now for my | life Hor|tensio | fears his | widow.
WIDOW
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Then nev|er trust | me if | I be | afeard.
PETRUCHIO
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You are ve|ry sens|ible,| and yet you miss | my
sense: ??
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I mean | Hortens|io | is afeard | of you.
WIDOW
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He that | is gid|dy thinks | the world | turns round.
PETRUCHIO
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Roundly | replied.
KATHERINE
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Mistress,| how mean | you that?
WIDOW
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Thus I | conceive | by him. \\
PETRUCHIO
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Conceives | by me, how | likes Hor|tensi|o that?
HORTENSIO
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My wid|ow says,| thus she | conceives | her tale.
PETRUCHIO
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Very | well* men|ded: Kiss | him for that,| good
wid||ow.
KATHERINE
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He | that is gid|dy thinks | the world | turns^round.
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I pray | you tell | me what | you meant | by
that.
WIDOW
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Your hus|band be|ing troub|led with | a shrew,
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Measures | my hus|band's sor|row by / his woe:
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And now | you know | my mea|ning.
KATHERINE
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A ve|ry mean | mea|ning. (tetra with prev)
WIDOW
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Right,| I mean you. \\
KATHERINE
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And I | am mean | indeed,| respec|ting you.
PETRUCHIO
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To her | Kate.
HORTENSIO
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To her | widow. (di with prev)
PETRUCHIO
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A hund|red marks,| my Kate | does put | her down.
HORTENSIO
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That's my | office. \\
PETRUCHIO
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Spoke like an of|ficer:| ha to | the lad.
[Drinks to HORTENSIO]
BAPTISTA
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How likes Grem|io these | quick-witted folks?
GREMIO
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Believe | me sir,| they butt | togeth|er well.
BIANCA
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Head, and | butt and | has|ty-witted | body,
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Would say | your head | and butt | were head |
and horn.
VINCENTIO
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Aye | mistress | bride, hath / that a|wakened you?
BIANCA
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Aye, but not | frighted me,| therefore | I'll sleep |
again.
PETRUCHIO
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Nay that | you shall / not since | you have |
begun:
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Have at | you for | a bit|ter jest | or two.
BIANCA
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Am I | your bird,| I mean | to shift | my bush,
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And then | pursue | me as | you draw | your bow.
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You are | welcome | all. \\
[Exeunt BIANCA, KATHERINA, and WIDOW]
PETRUCHIO
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She hath pre|vented | me, here | Signior |
Tranio.
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This bird | you aimed | at, though | you hit |
her not,
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Therefore | a health | to all | that shot | and
missed.
TRANIO
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Oh sir,| Lucen|tio slipped | me like | his
grey||hound,
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Which | runs him|self, and | catches | for his mas||ter.
PETRUCHIO
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A good | swift sim/ile,| but some|thing
cur||rish.
TRANIO
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'Tis well | sir that | you hunt|ed for |
yourself:
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'Tis thought | your deer | does hold | you at | a
bay,
BAPTISTA
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Oh, oh Petruch|io, Tran|io hits | you now.
LUCENTIO
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I thank | thee for | that gird | good* Tran|io.
HORTENSIO
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Confess,| confess,| hath he | not hit | you here?
PETRUCHIO
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He has | a lit|tle galled | me I | confess:
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And as | the jest | did glance | away | from me,
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'Tis ten | to one | it maimed | you two |
outright.
BAPTISTA
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Now^in | good* sad|ness son | Petruch|io,
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I think | thou hast | the ver|iest shrew | of
all.
PETRUCHIO
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Well, I | say no:| and there|fore for |
assur||ance,
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Let's^each | one^send | unto | his wife,
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And he | whose wife | is most | obed|ient,
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To come | at first | when he | doth send | for her,
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Shall win | the wag|er which | we will | propose.
HORTENSIO
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Content,| What's the | wager?
LUCENTIO
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Twenty crowns.
PETRUCHIO
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Twenty | crowns, \\
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I'll vent|ure so | much of | my hawk | or hound,
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But twen|ty times | so much | upon | my wife.
LUCENTIO
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A hund|red then.
HORTENSIO
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Content.
PETRUCHIO
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A match,| 'tis done.
HORTENSIO
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Who shall | begin?
LUCENTIO
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That will I. (di with prev)
Go Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.
BIONDELLO
I go.
[Exit]
BAPTISTA
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Son, I'll be | your half,| Bian|ca comes.
LUCENTIO
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I'll have | no halves:| I'll bear | it all |
myself.
[Enter BIONDELLO]
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How now,| what news?
BIONDELLO
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Sir, my | mistress | sends you || word
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That | she is | busy,| and she can|not come.
PETRUCHIO
How? She's busy, and she cannot come: is that an answer?
GREMIO
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Aye,| and a kind |
one^too: \\
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Pray* God | sir your | wife^send | you not | a worse.
PETRUCHIO
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I hope | better. \\
HORTENSIO
Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife to come to me forthwith.
[Exit BIONDELLO]
PETRUCHIO
Oh ho, entreat her, nay then she must needs come.
HORTENSIO
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I am | afraid | sir, do | what you can
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Yours will | not be en|treated:| now, where's | my
wife?
[Enter BIONDELLO]
BIONDELLO
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She says | you have | some good|ly jest | in
hand,
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She will | not come:| she bids | you come to
her.
PETRUCHIO
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Worse and | worse, she | will not come:
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Oh vile,|| intol|era|ble, not | to be | endured:
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Sirrah | Grumi|o, go / to your | mistress,
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Say I | command | her come | to me.|
[Exit GRUMIO]
HORTENSIO
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I know | her ans|wer.
PETRUCHIO
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What?
HORTENSIO
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She will | not.
PETRUCHIO
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The foul|er for|tune mine,| and there | an end.
BAPTISTA
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Now* by | my hol|idame | here comes^|Katherine.
[Enter KATHERINE]
KATHERINE
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What is | your will | sir, that | you send | for
me?
PETRUCHIO
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Where is | your sis|ter, and | Hortens|io's wife?
KATHERINE
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They sit | confer|ring by | the par|lor fire.
PETRUCHIO
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Go fetch | them hith|er, if | they deny | to
come,
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Swinge me | them sound|ly forth | unto their |
husbands:
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Away | I say,| and bring | them hith|er straight.
[Exit KATHERINE]
LUCENTIO
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Here is a | wonder,| if you | talk of a | wonder.
HORTENSIO
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And so | it is:| I wond|er what | it bodes.
PETRUCHIO
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Marry | peace it | bodes, and | love, and | quiet
|| life,
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And | awful | rule, and | right su|premacy:
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And to be | short, what | not, that's | sweet and
| happy.
BAPTISTA
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Now fair befall | thee good | Petruch|io;
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The wag|er thou | hast won,| and I | will add
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Unto | their los|ses twen|ty thous|and crowns;
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Anoth|er dow|ry to a|nother | daughter,
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For she | is changed | as she | had nev|er been.
PETRUCHIO
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Nay, I | will win | my wag|er bet|ter yet,
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And show more sign | of her | obed|ience,
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Her new-|built vir/tue and | obed|ience.
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See where | she comes,| and brings | your
fro|ward wives
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As pris|oners to | her wom|anly | persua||sion:
[Enter KATHARINE, with BIANCA and Widow]
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Kath|erine, that cap | of yours | becomes | you
not,
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Off with | that baub|le, throw | it und|er-foot.
WIDOW
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Lord let | me nev|er have | a cause | to sigh,
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Till^I | be brought | to such | a sil|ly pass.
BIANCA
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Fie what | a fool|ish du|ty call | you this?
LUCENTIO
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I would | your du|ty were | as fool|ish too:
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The wis|dom of your | duty,| fair Bi|anca,
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Hath cost | me a hund|red crowns | since
sup|pertime.
BIANCA
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The more fool you | for lay|ing on my | duty.
PETRUCHIO
Katherine I charge thee tell these headstrong women, what duty they do owe
their lords and husbands.
WIDOW
Come, come, you're mocking: we will have no telling.
PETRUCHIO
Come on I say, and first begin with her.
WIDOW
She shall not.
PETRUCHIO
I say she shall, and first begin with her.
KATHERINE
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Fie, fie, unknit | that threa|tening un/kind
brow,
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And dart not scorn|ful glan|ces from |
those^eyes,
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To wound | thy lord,| thy king,| thy
gov|ernor.
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It blots | thy beaut|y, as frosts | do bite | the
meads,
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Confounds | thy fame,| as whirl|winds shake fair
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And in | no sense is meet | or am|iable.
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A wom|an moved,| is like | a fount|ain troub|led,
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Muddy,| ill-seeming,| thick, be|reft of | beauty, (hex with
prev)
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And while | it is so,| none so | dry or | thirsty
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Will deign | to sip,| or touch | one drop | of
it.
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Thy hus|band is thy | lord, thy | life, thy |
keeper,
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Thy head,| thy sove|reign: one | that cares | for
thee,
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And for thy | mainte|nance. Com|mits his | body
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To pain|ful lab|or, both | by sea | and land:
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To watch | the night | in storms,| the day | in
cold,
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Whilst^thou | *liest warm | at home,| secure | and
safe,
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And craves | no oth|er tri|bute at | thy hands,
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But love,| fair* looks,| and true | obed|ience;
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Too lit|tle pay|ment for | so great | a debt.
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Such du|ty as | the sub|ject^owes | the prince,
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Eene such a | woman | oweth | to her | husband:
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And when | she is fro|ward, peev|ish, sul|len,
sour,
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And not | obed|ient to | his hon|est will,
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What is | she but a | foul con|tending | rebel,
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And grace|less trait|or to | her lov|ing lord?
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I am a|shamed that | women | are so | simple,
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To of|fer war,| where they | should kneel | for
peace:
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Or seek | for rule,| supre|macy,| and sway,
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When they | are bound | to serve,| love, and |
obey.
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Why are | our bod|ies soft,| and weak,| and
smooth,
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Unapt | to toil | and troub|le in | the world,
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But that | our soft | condi|tions, and | our hearts,
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Should well | agree | with our | exter|nal parts?
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Come*, come,| you fro|ward and | una|ble worms,
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My mind | hath been | as big | as one | of yours,
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My heart | as great,| my reas|on hap|ly more,
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To ban|dy word | for word,| and frown | for
frown;
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But now | I see | our lan|ces are | but straws:
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Our strength | as weak,| our weak|ness past |
compare,
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That seem|ing to be most,| which we | indeed least are.
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Then vail | your stom|achs, for | it is | no*
boot,
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And place | your hands | below | your hus|band's
foot:
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In tok|en of | which du|ty, if | he please,
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My hand | is rea|dy, may | it do | him ease.
PETRUCHIO
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Why there's | a wench:| Come on,| and kiss | me
Kate.
LUCENTIO
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Well go | thy ways | old lad | for thou | shalt
have it.
VINCENTIO
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'Tis a good^|hearing when | children are
| toward.
LUCENTIO
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But a harsh | hearing, when | women are | froward.
(dactyl w prev)
PETRUCHIO
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Come,| Kate,| we'll | to bed.
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We three^are | married, but | you two are | sped.
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'Twas I won*| the wager,| though you hit | the
white,
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And being | a winner,| God* give you | good night.
[Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHERINE]
HORTENSIO
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Now go | thy ways,| thou hast tamed | a curs|ed shrew.
LUCENTIO
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'Tis a wond|er, by | your leave,| she will be |
tamed so.
[Exeunt]