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Taming of the Shrew
[Prologue, 2] |
Lord |
172 |
Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth!
Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment,
And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
Look how thy servants do attend on thee,
Each in his office ready at thy beck.
Wilt thou have music? Hark! Apollo plays, [Music]
And twenty caged nightingales do sing.
Or wilt thou sleep? We'll have thee to a couch
Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis.
Say thou wilt walk: we will bestrew the ground.
Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapp'd,
Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
Above the morning lark. Or wilt thou hunt?
Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
And fetch shall echoes from the hollow earth.
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2 |
Taming of the Shrew
[Prologue, 2] |
Lord |
206 |
Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord.
Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
Than any woman in this waning age.
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3 |
Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1] |
Petruchio |
1046 |
Thou hast hit it. Come, sit on me.
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4 |
Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1] |
Petruchio |
1092 |
No, not a whit; I find you passing gentle.
'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen,
And now I find report a very liar;
For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime 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 sland'rous 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.
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5 |
Taming of the Shrew
[III, 2] |
Katherina |
1582 |
I will be angry; what hast thou to do?
Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure.
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6 |
Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3] |
Petruchio |
2010 |
[Aside] Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.-
Much good do it unto thy gentle heart!
Kate, eat apace. And now, my honey love,
Will we return unto thy father's house
And revel it as bravely as the best,
With silken coats and caps, and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things,
With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry.
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.
What, hast thou din'd? The tailor stays thy leisure,
To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.
[Enter TAILOR]
Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;
Lay forth the gown.
[Enter HABERDASHER]
What news with you, sir?
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Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3] |
Petruchio |
2070 |
O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou
thimble,
Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou-
Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread!
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;
Or I shall so bemete thee with thy yard
As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st!
I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown.
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8 |
Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3] |
Grumio |
2086 |
Thou hast fac'd many things.
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9 |
Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3] |
Grumio |
2088 |
Face not me. Thou hast brav'd many men; brave not me. I
will neither be fac'd nor brav'd. I say unto thee, I bid thy
master cut out the gown; but I did not bid him cut it to pieces.
Ergo, thou liest.
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10 |
Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 4] |
Tranio |
2172 |
But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?
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11 |
Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 5] |
Petruchio |
2291 |
Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,
And not unluckily against the bias.
But, soft! Company is coming here.
[Enter VINCENTIO]
[To VINCENTIO] Good-morrow, gentle mistress; where away?-
Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?
Such war of white and red within her cheeks!
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.
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Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 5] |
Hortensio |
2346 |
Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart.
Have to my widow; and if she be froward,
Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward. Exit
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13 |
Taming of the Shrew
[V, 1] |
Baptista Minola |
2450 |
How hast thou offended?
Where is Lucentio?
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14 |
Taming of the Shrew
[V, 2] |
Baptista Minola |
2555 |
Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,
I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.
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15 |
Taming of the Shrew
[V, 2] |
Baptista Minola |
2617 |
Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
The wager thou hast won; and I will add
Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns;
Another dowry to another daughter,
For she is chang'd, as she had never been.
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Taming of the Shrew
[V, 2] |
Hortensio |
2697 |
Now go thy ways; thou hast tam'd a curst shrow.
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