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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 plays.

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Re-enter PETRUCHIO, KATE, BIANCA, BAPTISTA,

GRUMIO; with HORTENSIO and Train,
Pet. Gentlemen and Friends, I thank you for your

pains: I know

you

think to dine with me to-day,
And have prepar'd great store of wedding-cheer ;
But, so it is, my haste doth call me hence,

And therefore here I mean to take leave.
Bap. Is 't possible you will away to-night?
Pet. I must away to-day before night come :

Make it no wonder; if you knew my business, ,
You would entreat me rather go
And, honest Company,

I thank
That have beheld me give away myself

this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife: Dine with my father, drink a health to me;

For I must hence; and farewell to you all.
Tra. Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.
PET. It may not be.
GRE.

Let me entreat you, Sir.
PET. It cannot be.
KΑΤΗ.

Let me entreat you stay.
Pet. I am content.
KΑΤΗ.

Are
you

content to stay? Pet. I am content you shall entreat me stay;

But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.
KATH. Now, if you love me, stay.
РЕТ.

Grumio, my horse.
GRU. Ay, Sir; they be ready: the oats have eaten the

horses.
KATH. Nay, then,

Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day;
No; nor to-morrow, nor till I please myself.
The door is open, Sir; there lies your way;
You may be jogging whiles your boots are green;

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For me, I 'll not be gone till I please myself:
'Tis like prove a jolly surly groom,

That take it on you at the first so roundly.
PET. 0, Kate, content thee; pr’ythee, be not angry.
Kath. I will be angry: what hast thou to do?

Father, be quiet: he shall stay my leisure.
GRE. Ay, marry, Sir; now it begins to work.
Kath. Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner:

I see a woman may be made a fool,

If she had not a spirit to resist.
Pet. They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command :

Obey the bride, you that attend on her;
Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,
Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves !
But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
Nay; look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;
I will be master of what is mine own:
She is my goods, my chattels; she is
She is my household st

household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing:
And here she stands, touch her whoever dare ;
I'll bring mine action on the proudest He,
That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,
Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves;
Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.
Fear not, sweet Wench! they shall not touch thee,

Kate:
I 'll buckler thee against a million.

[Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, and GRUMIO.
Bap. Nay; let them go, a couple of quiet ones.
GRE. Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing.
TRA. Of all mad matches never was the like.
Luc. Mistress, what's

your opinion of

your

sister?
Bian. That, being mad herself, she's madly mated.
GRE. I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.
Bap. Neighbours and Friends, though bride and bride-

my house,

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groom wants

For to supply the places at the table,
You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
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You shall supply the bridegroom's place, Lucentio;

And let Bianca take her sister's room.
TRA. Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?
BAP. She shall, Lucentio. Come, Gentlemen, let's

go.
[exeunt.

ACT IV

SCENE I. PETRUCHIO's House.

Enter GRUMIO.

Gru. Fie, fie on all tir'd jades, on all mad masters, and

all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten ? was ever man so ray'd ?" 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 !

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Enter CURTIS.
CURT. Who is that calls so coldly?
GRU. A piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou may'st slide

from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run
but

my head and my neck. A fire, good Curtis. CURT. Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio ? GRU. O, ay, Curtis, ay; and therefore fire, fire; cast on

no water. Curt. Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported ? Gru. She was, good Curtis, before this frost : but thou

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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? Curt. I pr’ythee, good Grumio, tell me, how goes the

world? Gru. 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. Curr. There's fire ready; and therefore, good Grumio,

the news. Gru. Why, Jack, Boy! ho, Boy! and as much news as

will thaw. Curt. Come, you are so full of cony-catching !! GRU. Why, therefore fire; for I have caught extreme

cold. Where's the cook? is supper ready, the house trimm'd, rushes strew'd, cobwebs swept; the servingmen in their new fustian, their white stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on? Be the jacks fair within, the jills8 fair without, the carpets laid, and

every thing in order ? CURT. All ready; and therefore, I pray thee, news? GRU. First, know, my horse is tir’d; my master and

mistress fallen out.
CURT. How?
Gru. Out of their saddles into the dirt; and thereby

hangs a tale.
CURT. Let's ha't, good Grumio.
Gru. Lend thine ear.
CURT. Here.
GRU. There.
CURT. This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
GRU. And therefore 'tis callid a sensible tale: and this

cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech
listening. Now I begin : Imprimis, we came down a

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thou should'st have heard how her horse fell, and she ACT IV under her horse; thou should'st have heard in how Sc. I miry a place; how she was bemoil'd ;' 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 pray'd, that never pray'd 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 unex

perienc'd' to thy grave. Curt. By this reckoning, he is more shrew than she. GRU. Ay; 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 comb'd, their blue coats brush'd, 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?
CURT. They are.
GRU. Call them forth.
Curt. Do you hear, ho ? you must meet my master, to

? countenance

my mistress.
Gru. Why, she hath a face of her own.
CURT. Who knows not that?
GRU. Thou, it seems, that calls for company to counten-

ance her.
Curt. I call them forth to credit her.6
Gru. Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.

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Enter four or five Serving-men.
Nath. Welcome home, Grumio!
Phil. How now, Grumio !
Jos. What, Grumio!
Nich. Fellow Grumio !
Nath. How now, old Lad!
GRU. Welcome, you! how now, you! what, you !
i bemired. 3 uninformed.

proper thread.
* crook and scrape.

o entertain.
8 do her credit.
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