1140And then let Kate be chaste, and Dian sportfull.

1141Kate. Where did you study all this goodly speech?

1142Petr. It is extempore, from my mother wit.

1143Kate. A witty mother, witlesse else her sonne.

1144Pet. Am I not wise?

1145Kat. Yes, keepe you warme.

1146Pet. Marry so I meane sweet Katherine in thy bed:

1147And therefore setting all this chat aside,

1148Thus in plaine termes: your father hath consented

1149That you shall be my wife; your dowry greed on,

1150And will you, nill you, I will marry you.

1151Now Kate, I am a husband for your turne,

1152For by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,

1153Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,

1154Thou must be married to no man but me,

1156For I am he am borne to tame you Kate,

1157And bring you from a wilde Kate to a Kate

1158Conformable as other houshold Kates:

1159Heere comes your father, neuer make deniall,

1160Imust, and will haue Katherine to my wife.

1161Bap. Now Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my (daughter?

1162Pet. How but well sir?how but well?

1163It were impossible I should speed amisse.

1164Bap. Why how now daughter Katherine, in your (dumps?

1165Kat. Call you me daughter? now I promise you

1166You haue shewd a tender fatherly regard,

1167To wish me wed to one halfe Lunaticke,

1168A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Iacke,

1169That thinkes with oathes to face the matter out.

1170Pet. Father, 'tis thus, your selfe and all the world

1171That talk'd of her, haue talk'd amisse of her:

1172If she be curst, it is for pollicie,

1173For shee's not froward, but modest as the Doue,

1174Shee is not hot, but temperate as the morne,

1175For patience shee will proue a second Grissell,

1176And Romane Lucrece for her chastitie:

1177And to conclude, we haue greed so well together,

1178That vpon sonday is the wedding day.

1179Kate. Ile see thee hang'd on sonday first.

1180Gre. Hark Petruchio, she saies shee'll see thee hang'd (first.

1181Tra.Is this your speeding?nay thē godnight our part.

1182Pet. Be patient gentlemen, I choose her for my selfe,

1183If she and I be pleas'd, what's that to you?

1184'Tis bargain'd twixt vs twaine being alone,

1185That she shall still be curst in company.

1186I tell you 'tis incredible to beleeue

1187How much she loues me: oh the kindest Kate,

1188Shee hung about my necke, and kisse on kisse

1189Shee vi'd so fast, protesting oath on oath,

1190That in a twinke she won me to her loue.

1191Oh you are nouices, 'tis a world to see

1192How tame when men and women are alone,

1193A meacocke wretch can make the curstest shrew:

1194Giue me thy hand Kate, I will vnto Venice

1195To buy apparell 'gainst the wedding day;

1196Prouide the feast father, and bid the guests,

1197I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.

1198Bap. I know not what to say, but giue me your hāds,

1199God send you ioy, Petruchio, 'tis a match.

1200Gre.Tra. Amen say we, we will be witnesses.

1201Pet. Father, and wife, and gentlemen adieu,

1202I will to Venice, sonday comes apace,

1203We will haue rings, and things, and fine array,

1204And kisse me Kate, we will be married a sonday.

1206Gre. Was euer match clapt vp so sodainly?

1207Bap. Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part,

1208And venture madly on a desperate Mart.

1209Tra. Twas a commodity lay fretting by you,

1210'Twill bring you gaine, or perish on the seas.

1211Bap. The gaine I seeke, is quiet me the match.

1212Gre. No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch:

1213But now Baptista, to your yonger daughter,

1214Now is the day we long haue looked for,

1215I am your neighbour, and was suter first.

1216Tra. And I am one that loue Bianca more

1217Then words can witnesse, or your thoughts can guesse.

1218Gre. Yongling thou canst not loue so deare as I.

1219Tra. Gray-beard thy loue doth freeze.

1220Gre. But thine doth frie,

1221Skipper stand backe, 'tis age that nourisheth.

1222Tra. But youth in Ladies eyes that florisheth.

1223Bap.Content you gentlemen, I wil cōpound this strife

1224'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both

1225That can assure my daughter greatest dower,

1226Shall haue my Biancas loue.

1227Say signior Gremio, what can you assure her?

1228Gre. First, as you know, my house within the City

1229Is richly furnished with plate and gold,

1230Basons and ewers to laue her dainty hands:

1231My hangings all of tirian tapestry:

1232In Iuory cofers I haue stuft my crownes:

1233In Cypres chests my arras counterpoints,

1234Costly apparell, tents, and Canopies,

1235Fine Linnen, Turky cushions bost with pearle,

1236Vallens of Venice gold, in needle worke:

1237Pewter and brasse, and all things that belongs

1238To house or house-keeping: then at my farme

1239I haue a hundred milch-kine to the pale,

1240Sixe-score fat Oxen standing in my stalls,

1241And all things answerable to this portion.

1242My selfe am strooke in yeeres I must confesse,

1243And if I die to morrow this is hers,

1244If whil'st I liue she will be onely mine.

1245Tra. That only came well in: sir, list to me,

1246I am my fathers heyre and onely sonne,

1247If I may haue your daughter to my wife,

1248Ile leaue her houses three or foure as good

1249Within rich Pisa walls, as any one

1250Old Signior Gremio has in Padua,

1251Besides, two thousand Duckets by the yeere

1252Of fruitfull land, all which shall be her ioynter.

1253What, haue I pincht you Signior Gremio?

1254Gre. Two thousand Duckets by the yeere of land,

1255My Land amounts not to so much in all:

1256That she shall haue, besides an Argosie

1257That now is lying in Marcellus roade:

1258What, haue I choakt you with an Argosie?

1259Tra. Gremio, 'tis knowne my father hath no lesse

1260Then three great Argosies, besides two Galliasses

1261And twelue tite Gallies, these I will assure her,

1262And twice as much what ere thou offrest next.

1263Gre. Nay, I haue offred all, I haue no more,

1264And she can haue no more then all I haue,

1265If you like me, she shall haue me and mine.

1266Tra. Why then the maid is mine from all the world

1267By your firme promise, Gremio is out-vied.

1268Bap. I must confesse your offer is the best,

1269And let your father make her the assurance,

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