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