Bian. [Reads.] Gamut I am, the ground | For such an injury would vex a saint, of all accord. A re, to plead Hortensio's passion Serv. Mistress, your father prays you leave your books, And help to dress your sister's chamber up; 1on know, to-morrow is the wedding-day. Bian. Farewell, sweet masters, both; I must be gone. [Exeunt BIANCA & Servant. Luc. 'Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay. [Exit. Hor. But I have cause to pry into this pedant; Methinks, he looks as though he were in love:Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble, To cast thy wand'ring eyes on every stalet, Seize thee, that list: If once I find thee ranging, Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing. [Exit. SCENE II. The same. Before Baptista's House. Enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, TRANIO, KATHA To give my hand, opposed against my heart, وام ; tista too Upon my life, Petruchio means but well," Whatever fortune stays him from his word: Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise; Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest. Kath. Would, Katharine had never seen him though! Exit, weeping, followed by BIANCA, and others. Bap. Go, girl; I cannot blame thee now Loweep Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour. Enter BIONDELLO. Bion. Master, master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of! Bap. Is it new and old too? how may that be? ? Bion. Why, is it not news, to hear of Petruchio's coming?. Bap. Is he come? Bion. Why, nó, sir. Bap. What then? Bion. He is coming. Bap. When will he be here? Bion. When he stands where I am, and sees you there. Tra. But, say, what: To thine old news. Bion. Why, Petrichio is coning, in a new hat and an old jerkin; a pair of old breeches, thrice turned; a pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled, another laced; an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town armory, with a broken hilt, and chapeless ; with two broken points: His horse hipped with an old mothy saddle, the stirrups of no kindred: besides, possessed with the glanders, and like to mose in the chine; troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of windlows, past cure of the fives 1, stark spoiled galls, sped with spavins, raied with the yel with the staggers, begnawn with the bots; swayed in the back, and shoulder shotten; ne'er-legged before, and with a half-checked bit, and a head-stall of sheep's leather; which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots: one girt six times pieced, and a wo man's crupper of velure, which hath two letters for her name, fairly set down in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread. . Bip. Who comes with him ? Bion. O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with a linen stock** on one leg, and a kersey boot-huse on the other, gartered with a red and blue list; an old hat, and The humour of forty fancies pricked in't for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparel; and not like a christian footboy, or a gentleinan's lackey: Tra. Tis some odd humour, pricks him to this fashion Yet oftentimes he goes but mean apparell'd. Bap. I am glad he is come, howsoe'er he • Fantastically of Bait, decoy: :t Caprice, inconstancy: dastenper in horses, little dittering from the strangletins Velvet. s Farcy. far || Vives; a Stocking. As I wish you were. And wherefore gaze' this goodly company Bap. Why, sir, you know, this is your wed ding-day: [come; First were we sad, fearing you would not Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. Fie! doff this habit, shame to your estate," An eye-sore to our solemn festival. Tra. And tell us, what occasion of import Hath all so long detained you from your wife, And sent you hither so unlike yourself? Pet. Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear: Sufficeth, I am come to keep my word,, Though in some part enforced to digress; Which, at more leisure, I will so excuse As you shall well be satisfied withal. But, where is Kate? I stay too long from her; [church. The morning wears, 'tis time we were at Tra. See not your bride in these unreverent robes; her. T Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine. And seal the title with a lovely kiss? [Exeunt PETRUCHIO, GRUMI0, and BIONDELLO. Tra. He hath some meaning in his mad We will persuade him, be it possible, [attire: To put on better ere he go to church. Bap. I'll after him, and see the event of [Exit. Tra. But, sir, to her love concerneth us to add Her father's liking: Which to bring to pass, As I before imparted to your worship, I am to get a man,-whate'er he be, this. It skills not much; we'll fit him to our turn, 1 Luc. Were it not that my fellow school...master log Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly, I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world. Tra. That by degrees we mean to look into, And watch our vantage in this business: w Signior Gremio! came you from the church? Gre. As willingly as e'er I came from school. I Tra. And is the bride and bridegroom coming home? [indeed, Gre. A bridegroom, say you? 'tis a groom, A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find. Tra. Carster than she? why, 'tis impossi ble. [fiend. Gre. Why, he's a devil, a devil, a very Tra. Why, she's a devil, a devil, the de[him. vil's dam. Gre. Tut! she's a lamb, à dove, a fool to I'll tell you, sir Lucentio; When the priest Should ask-if Katharine should be his wife, Ay, by gogs-wouns, quoth he; and swore so loud, That, all amazed, the priest let fall the book: But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking. This done, he took the bride about the neck; And kiss'd her lips with suc with such a clamorous smack, so That, at the parting, all the church did echo. 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. ⚫i. e., To deviate from my promise. + Matters. for the company present to drink wine immediately after the marriage-ceremony. I know, you think to dine with me to-day, And have prepared great store of wedding cheer; I see, a woman may be made a fool, Pet. They shall go forward, Kate, at thy But so it is, my haste doth call me hence, And therefore here I mean to take my leave. Obey the bride, yon that attend on her: Bap. Is't possible, you will away to-night? Go to the feast, revel and domineer, Pet. I must away to-day, before night Carouse full measure to her maidenhead, [ness, Be mad and merry,—or go hang yourselves; busi-But for my bonny Kate, she must with me. Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret; come : Make it no wonder; if you knew my Dine with my father, drink a health to me; Gre. Pet. It cannot be. Pet. I am content. Let me entreat you.' Let me entreat you. Are you content to stay? Pet. I am content you shall entreat me stay; But yet not stay, entreat me how you can. Pet. 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; For me, I'll not be gone, till I please myself; Kath. I will be angry; What hast thou to do? Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure. Kath. Gentlemen, forward to the bridal I will be master of what is mine own: My household-stuff, my field, my barn, Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man :- I'll buckler thee against a million. [Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHARINE, and GRUMIO. ones. Bap. Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet Gre. I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated. For to supply the places at the table, Bap. She shall, Lucentio.-Come, Gentle- ACT IV. B SCENE I. A Hall in Petruchio's Country | fire, shall warm myself; for, considering the House. Enter GRUMIO. Gru. Fie, fie, on all tired jades! on all mad masters! and all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever man so rayed t? 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 month, my heart in my belly, ere I should come by a fire to thaw me :-But, I, with blowing the Delicacies. Curt. Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported? | I lost my crupper-with many things of Gru. She was, good Curtis, before this frost: worthy memory; which now shall die in but, thou know'st, winter tames man, woman, oblivion, and thou return unexperienced to and beast; for it hath tamed my old master, thy grave. and my new mistress, and myself, fellow Curtis. Curt. Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast. Gru. Am I but three inches? why, thy horn is a foot; and so long am I, at the least. But wilt thou make 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. Curt. There's fire ready; And therefore, good Grumio, the news? Gru. Why, Jack boy! ho boy! and as much news as thou wilt. Curt.Come, you are so full of coney-catching: Gru. Why therefore, fire; for I have caught extreme cold. Where's the cook? is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept; the serving-men in their new fustian, their white stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on? Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills 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 tired; my master and mistress fallen out. Curt. Here. Gru. There. {Striking him. Curt. This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale. Gru. And therefore 'tis called, a sensible tale: and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening. Now I begin: Imprimis, we came down a foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress :→→ Curt. Both on one horse? Gru. Tell thou the tale :But hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place: how she was bemoiled; 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 prayed-that never prayed before; how I cried; how the horses ran away; how her bridle was burstt; how 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 combed, their blue coats brushed, and their garters of an indifferent knit: let them curtsey 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 callest for company to countenance her. Curt. I call them forth to credit her. Gru. Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them. Enter several Servants. Gru. Welcome, you ;-how now, you; what, you ;-fellow, you;-and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat? Nath. All things is ready: How near is our master? Gru. E'en at hand, alighted by this; and therefore be not,- -Cock's passion, silence! I hear my master. Enter PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA. Pet. Where be these knaves? What, no man at door, To hold my stirrup, nor to take my horse! All Serv. Here, here, sir; here, sir. [sir!Pet. Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms! What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?Where is the foolish kuave I sent before? Gru. Here, sir; as foolish as I was before. Pet. You peasant swain! you whoreson malt-horse drudge! Did I not bid thee meet me in the park, made, (heel; And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i'the There was no links to colour Peter's hat, And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing: There were none fine, but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory; The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly; Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet | yon. Nath, [Advancing.] Peter, didst ever see the like? Peter. He kills her in her own humour. Gru. Where is he? [in→→ Pet. Go, rascals, go, and fetch my supper [Exeunt some of the Servants. Where is the life that late I led [Sings. Where are those-Sit down, Kate, and wel Soud, goud, soud, soud *! (come. Making a sermon of continency, to her: Re-enter Servants, with supper. And rails, and swears, and rates; that she, Why, when, I say?-Nay, good sweet Kate, poor soul, od tod & [speak; be merry. Off with my boots, you rogues, you villains; other. Knows not which way to stand, to look, to It was the friar of orders gray, [Sings As he forth walked on his way: 19. Pet. Thus have I politicly begun my reign, Out, ont, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry: And 'tis my hope to end successfully: Take that, and mend the plucking off the My falcon now is sharp, and passing empty; [Strikes him. And, till she stoop, she must not be full-gorged, Be merry, Kate:-Some water, here; what,For then she never looks upon her lure t. ho!->>> ot [hence, Another way I have to man, my haggard, Where's my spaniel Troilus?-Sirrah, get you To make her come, and know her keeper's call, And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither: That is,-to watch her, as we watch these kites, [Exit Servant. That bates, and beat, and will not be obedient. One, Kate, that you must kiss, and. be ac- She eat no meat to day, nor, none shall eat; quainted with. yun of yang Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall Where are my slippers ?-Shall I have some As with the meat, some undeserved fault [not; water? [A bason is presented to him. I'll find about the making of the bed;, Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily: And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, [Servant lets the ewer full. This way the coverlet, another way the You whoreson villain! will you let it fall? Ay, and amid this hurly, I intend||, [sheets :[Strikes him. That all is done in reverend care of her; Kath. Patience, I pray you; 'twas a fault And, in conclusion, se shall watch all night: unwilling. [knave! And, if she chance to nod, I'll rail, and brawl, Pet. A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear'd And with the clamour keep her still awake. Come, Kate, sit down; I know you have a This is a way to kill, a wife with kindness; stomach. (shall 1 And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour : Will you give thanks, sweet Kate; or else 1 Serv. Pet. Who brought it? o 1 Serv. I. Pet. 'Tis burnt; and so is all the meatuit, What dogs are these?-Where is the rascal cook? [dresser, How durst you, villains, bring it from the And serve it thus to me that love it not? There, take it to you, trenchers, cups, and all: [Throws the meat, &c. about the stage. You heedlessjoltheads, and unmanner'd slaves! What, do you grumble? I'll be with you straight. [quiet; Kath. I pray you, husband, be not so disThe meat was well, if you were so contented. Pet. I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away; He that knows better how to tame a shrew, [Exit. SCENE II. Padua. Before Baptista's House. Enter TRANIO and HORTENSIO. Hor. Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said, Stand by, and mark the manner of his teach dining.. Jer zit on [They stand aside. Enter BIANCA and LUCENTIO Bian. What, master, read you? first resolve your art. Luc. While you, sweet dear, prove mistress And I expressiyain forbid to touch it, You that durst swear that your mistress Bianca Tra. O despiteful love! unconstant womanI tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful. [kind?1 Hor. Mistake no more: I am not Licio, A word coined by Shakspeare to express the noise made by a person heated and fatigued. |