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Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me. |
I did but tell her she mistook her frets, |
And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering; |
When, with a most impatient devilish spirit, |
'Frets, call you these?' quoth she; 'I'll fume |
with them:' |
And, with that word, she struck me on the head, |
And through the instrument my pate made way; |
And there I stood amazed for a while, |
As on a pillory, looking through the lute; |
While she did call me rascal fiddler |
And twangling Jack; with twenty such vile terms, |
As had she studied to misuse me so. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; |
I love her ten times more than e'er I did: |
O, how I long to have some chat with her! |
BAPTISTA: |
Well, go with me and be not so discomfited: |
Proceed in practise with my younger daughter; |
She's apt to learn and thankful for good turns. |
Signior Petruchio, will you go with us, |
Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you? |
PETRUCHIO: |
I pray you do. |
I will attend her here, |
And woo her with some spirit when she comes. |
Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain |
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale: |
Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear |
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew: |
Say she be mute and will not speak a word; |
Then I'll commend her volubility, |
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence: |
If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks, |
As though she bid me stay by her a week: |
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day |
When I shall ask the banns and when be married. |
But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak. |
Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear. |
KATHARINA: |
Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing: |
They call me Katharina that do talk of me. |
PETRUCHIO: |
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 Kates, and therefore, Kate, |
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; |
Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, |
Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, |
Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, |
Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife. |
KATHARINA: |
Moved! in good time: let him that moved you hither |
Remove you hence: I knew you at the first |
You were a moveable. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Why, what's a moveable? |
KATHARINA: |
A join'd-stool. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me. |
KATHARINA: |
Asses are made to bear, and so are you. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Women are made to bear, and so are you. |
KATHARINA: |
No such jade as you, if me you mean. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Alas! good Kate, I will not burden thee; |
For, knowing thee to be but young and light-- |
KATHARINA: |
Too light for such a swain as you to catch; |
And yet as heavy as my weight should be. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Should be! should--buzz! |
KATHARINA: |
Well ta'en, and like a buzzard. |
PETRUCHIO: |
O slow-wing'd turtle! shall a buzzard take thee? |
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