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The Taming of the Shrew (Folio, 1623)
2294Enter Petruchio, Kate, Hortentio
2295Petr. Come on a Gods name, once more toward our
2296 fathers:
2297Good Lord how bright and goodly shines the Moone.
2298Kate. The Moone, the Sunne: it is not Moonelight
2299 now.
It
226The Taming of the Shrew.
2304Or ere I iourney to your Fathers house:
2305Goe on, and fetch our horses backe againe,
2313Kate. I know it is the Moone.
2317And the Moone changes euen as your minde:
2318What you will haue it nam'd, euen that it is,
2322And not vnluckily against the Bias:
2323But soft, Company is comming here.
2324Enter Vincentio.
2325Good morrow gentle Mistris, where away:
2326Tell me sweete Kate, and tell me truely too,
2328Such warre of white and red within her cheekes:
2330As those two eyes become that heauenly face?
2331Faire louely Maide, once more good day to thee:
2332Sweete Kate embrace her for her beauties sake.
2333Hort. A will make the man mad to make the woman
2334 of him.
2336Whether away, or whether is thy aboade?
2337Happy the Parents of so faire a childe;
2338Happier the man whom fauourable stars
2339A lots thee for his louely bedfellow.
2340Petr. Why how now Kate, I hope thou art not mad,
2341This is a man old, wrinckled, faded, withered,
2345That euery thing I looke on seemeth greene:
2346Now I p erceiue thou art a reuerent Father:
2347Pardon I pray thee for my mad mistaking.
2349Which way thou trauellest, if along with vs,
2350We shall be ioyfull of thy companie.
2353My name is call'd Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,
2354And bound I am to Padua, there to visite
2356Petr. What is his name?
2359And now by Law, as well as reuerent age,
2360I may intitle thee my louing Father,
2362Thy Sonne by this hath married: wonder not,
2364Her dowrie wealthie, and of worthie birth;
2366The Spouse of any noble Gentleman:
2367Let me imbrace with old Vincentio,
2369Who will of thy arriuall be full ioyous.
2372Vpon the companie you ouertake?
2376Hor. Well Petruchio, this has put me in heart;
2377Haue to my Widdow, and if she froward,