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And now I find report a very liar; |
For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, |
But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers: |
Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance, |
Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will, |
Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk, |
But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers, |
With gentle conference, soft and affable. |
Why does the world report that Kate doth limp? |
O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig |
Is straight and slender and as brown in hue |
As hazel nuts and sweeter than the kernels. |
O, let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt. |
KATHARINA: |
Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Did ever Dian so become a grove |
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! |
KATHARINA: |
Where did you study all this goodly speech? |
PETRUCHIO: |
It is extempore, from my mother-wit. |
KATHARINA: |
A witty mother! witless else her son. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Am I not wise? |
KATHARINA: |
Yes; keep you warm. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharina, in thy bed: |
And therefore, setting all this chat aside, |
Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented |
That you shall be my wife; your dowry 'greed on; |
And, Will you, nill you, I will marry you. |
Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn; |
For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty, |
Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well, |
Thou must be married to no man but me; |
For I am he am born to tame you Kate, |
And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate |
Conformable as other household Kates. |
Here comes your father: never make denial; |
I must and will have Katharina to my wife. |
BAPTISTA: |
Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter? |
PETRUCHIO: |
How but well, sir? how but well? |
It were impossible I should speed amiss. |
BAPTISTA: |
Why, how now, daughter Katharina! in your dumps? |
KATHARINA: |
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-cup ruffian and a swearing Jack, |
That thinks with oaths to face the matter out. |
PETRUCHIO: |
Father, 'tis 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. |
KATHARINA: |
I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first. |
GREMIO: |
Hark, Petruchio; she says she'll see thee |
hang'd first. |
TRANIO: |
Is this your speeding? nay, then, good night our part! |
PETRUCHIO: |
Be patient, gentlemen; I choose her for myself: |
If she and I be pleased, what's that to you? |
'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone, |
That she shall still be curst in company. |
I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe |
How much she loves me: O, the kindest Kate! |
She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss |
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