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, 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 ; ? 150 160 170 Exeunt all but PETRUCHIO. 1 stops. And say she uttereth piercing eloquence: When I shall ask the banns, and when be married. Enter KATHARINA. 180 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, 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- КАТН. 200 Well ta'en,' and like a buzzard." PET. O slow-wing'd turtle! shall a buzzard take thee? 1 cates cakes. 2 acclaimed. 3 à la bonne heure. • kite; buteo ignavus. 7 4 apprehended. capture. 5 thick-wit. 31 ACT II Sc. I ACT II Sc. I KATH. Ay; for 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. That I'll try. [striking him. KATH. If you strike me, you are no gentleman; 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. KATH. There is, there is. 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. Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you. PET. КАТН. 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. Yes; and so keep you warm. PET. Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharine, in thy bed: 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 ACT II PET. Sc. I How but well, Sir? how but well? It were impossible I should speed amiss. BAP. Why, how now, daughter Katharine! in your dumps? KATH. Call you me daughter? now, I promise you, You have shew'd a tender fatherly regard, To wish me wed to one half lunatic; A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack, That thinks with oaths to face the matter out. For she's not froward, but modest as the dove; For patience she will prove a second Grissel, And, to conclude, we have 'greed so well together KATH. I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first. 280 290 Hark, hark. Petruchio! she says she 'll see thee hang'd first. "Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone, I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe How much she loves me: O, the kindest Kate! O, you are novices! 'tis a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, 3 A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day. 300 310 |