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The Taming of the Shrew (Folio, 1623)
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210The Taming of the Shrew.
229 hands:
231Oh that once more you knew but what you are:
235But did I neuer speake of all that time.
2361.Man. Oh yes my Lord, but verie idle words,
237For though you lay heere in this goodlie chamber,
238Yet would you say, ye were beaten out of doore,
242Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.
245Nor no such men as you haue reckon'd vp,
246As Stephen Slie, and old Iohn Naps of Greece,
247And Peter Turph, and Henry Pimpernell,
249Which neuer were, nor no man euer saw.
250Beg. Now Lord be thanked for my good amends.
251All. Amen.
252Enter Lady with Attendants.
254Lady. How fares my noble Lord?
255Beg. Marrie I fare well, for heere is cheere enough.
256Where is my wife?
257La. Heere noble Lord, what is thy will with her?
258Beg. Are you my wife, and will not cal me husband?
259My men should call me Lord, I am your good-man.
260La.My husband and my Lord, my Lord and husband
261I am your wife in all obedience.
263Lord. Madam.
264Beg. Alce Madam, or Ione Madam?
269Being all this time abandon'd from your bed.
271Madam vndresse you, and come now to bed.
272La. Thrice noble Lord, let me intreat of you
273To pardon me yet for a night or two:
276In perill to incurre your former malady,
280But I would be loth to fall into my dreames againe: I
282Enter a Messenger.
283Mes.Your Honors Players hearing your amendment,
284Are come to play a pleasant Comedie,
287And melancholly is the Nurse of frenzie,
288Therefore they thought it good you heare a play,
289And frame your minde to mirth and merriment,
290Which barres a thousand harmes, and lengthens life.
292tie, a Christmas gambold, or a tumbling tricke?
299Flourish. Enter Lucentio, and his man Triano.
302I am arriu'd for fruitfull Lumbardie,
303The pleasant garden of great Italy,
304And by my fathers loue and leaue am arm'd
305With his good will, and thy good companie.
307Heere let vs breath, and haply institute
309Pisa renowned for graue Citizens
311A Merchant of great Trafficke through the world:
312Vincentio's come of the Bentiuolij,
313Vincentio's sonne, brough vp in Florence,
315To decke his fortune with his vertuous deedes:
316And therefore Tranio, for the time I studie,
317Vertue and that part of Philosophie
318Will I applie, that treats of happinesse,
319By vertue specially to be atchieu'd.
320Tell me thy minde, for I haue Pisa left,
321And am to Padua come, as he that leaues
326Glad that you thus continue your resolue,
328Onely (good master) while we do admire
329This vertue, and this morall discipline,
330Let's be no Stoickes, nor no stockes I pray,
332As Ouid; be an out-cast quite abiur'd:
333Balke Lodgicke with acquaintance that you haue,
336The Mathematickes, and the Metaphysickes
342We could at once put vs in readinesse,
343And take a Lodging fit to entertaine
344Such friends (as time) in Padua shall beget.
345But stay a while, what companie is this?
347Enter Baptista with his two daughters, Katerina & Bianca,
348Gremio a Pantelowne, Hortentio sister to Bianca.
349Lucen. Tranio, stand by.
350Bap. Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
353Before I haue a husband for the elder:
354If either of you both loue Katherina,
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