I know him well: you are very welcome, Sir. Enter a Servant. Sirrah, lead these gentlemen To my two daughters; and then tell them both, We will go walk a little in the orchard, So I to her, and so she yields to me; For I am rough, and woo not like a babe. Father, BAP. Well may'st thou woo, and happy be thy speed! 1 'on the nail.' 2 sole part during the period of her viduity. * deeds ad hoc. 120 130 ACT II Sc. I ACT II PET. Ay; to the proof; as mountains are for winds, Re-enter HORTENSIO, with his head broke. 140 BAP. How now, my Friend! why dost thou look so pale? BAP. What, will my daughter prove a good musician? Iron may hold with her, but never lutes. BAP. Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute? I did but tell her she mistook her frets,1 And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering, 150 Frets call you these? quoth she; I'll fume with them: As on a pillory, looking through the lute; And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms, PET. Now, by the World, it is a lusty wench; Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you? 160 170 [Exeunt all but PETRUCHIO. 1 stops. And say she uttereth piercing eloquence: When I shall ask the banns, and when be married. 180 ACT II Sc. I Enter KATHARINA. Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear. Kath. Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing: They call me Katharine that do talk of me. PET. You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst; Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife. 190 KATH. Mov'd! in good time:3 let him that mov'd you hither Remove you hence: I knew you at the first KATH. Asses are made to bear, and so are you. For, knowing thee to be but young and light— PET. Should be! should buzz! ΚΑΤΗ. 200 Well ta'en,' and like a buzzard.5 PET. O slow-wing'd turtle! shall a buzzard® take' thee? 1 cates cakes. 2 acclaimed. 3 à la bonne heure. 4 apprehended. 6 kite; buteo ignavus. 7 capture. 5 thick-wit. 31 ACT II Sc. I KATH. Ay; for1 a turtle; as she takes a buzzard. PET. Come, come, you Wasp; i'faith, you are too angry. PET. My remedy is, then, to pluck it out. KATH. Ay; if the fool could find it where it lies. 210 PET. Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. KATH. In his tongue. PET. Whose tongue? KATH. Your's, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. PET. What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman. КАТН. PET. I swear I'll cuff you, That I'll try. [striking him. if you strike again. KATH. So may you lose your arms : If you strike me, you are no gentleman; And if no gentleman, why, then no arms. PET. A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books !2 PET. A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen. KATH. No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven. 220 PET. Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour. KATH. It is my fashion when I see a crab.* PET. Why, here's no crab; and therefore look not sour. PET. Then shew it me. KATH. Had I a glass, I would. PET. What, you mean my face? KATH. Well aim'd of such a young one. PET. КАТН. for you. 230 "Tis with cares. I care not. PET. Nay; hear you, Kate: in sooth, you 'scape not so. PET. No, not a whit: I find you passing gentle. 'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen, 1 = to be. 2 herald's registers. 3 trimming on a fool's cap. ✦ crab-apple. 240 For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous; Why does the world report that Kate doth limp? As Kate this chamber with her princely gait? O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate; And then let Kate be chaste, and Dian sportful! KATH. A witty mother! witness else her son! KATH. Yes; and so keep you warm. Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well, Re-enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and TRANIO. BAP. Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with My daughter? 250 260 270 ACT II Sc. I 1 with a play on 'cat.' III: E 33 |