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;
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Kate-Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
For dainties are all cates; and therefore, Kate,
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation ;—
Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town,
Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
(Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,)
Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife.

KATH. Mov'd! in good time: let him that mov'd you hither Remove you hence: knew you at the first,

You were a moveable.

BAP. Now, Signior Petrucio: How speed you with my daughter PET. 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 show'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.

PET. Father, 't is thus,-yourself and all the world, That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her;

If she be curst, it is for policy:

For she's not froward, but modest as the dove;
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
For patience she will prove a second Grissel;
And Roman Lucrece for her chastity:

And to conclude,- -we have 'greed so well together,
That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING OF FRANCE.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. 50. 8.

DUKE OF FLORENCE.

Appears, Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3.

BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 5.
Act III. sc. 3; sc. 5; sc. 6. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3.
Act V. sc. 3.

LAFEU, an old Lord.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 5.
Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Act IV. sc. 5.

PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2.

Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 4; sc. 5.

Rinan

Act III. sc. 5; sc. 6. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3.

Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Several young French Lords that serve with Bertram in the

Florentine war.

Appear, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3.

Act III. sc. 1; sc. 6.
Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3.

Steward, servant to the Countess of Rousillon.
Appears, Act I. sc. 3. Act III. sc. 4.

Cl wn, servant to the Countess of Rousillon.
Appears, Act I. sc. 3. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 2.
Act IV. sc. 5. Act V. sc. 2.

Astringer.

Appears, Act V. sc. 1.

A Page.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.