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The Taming of the Shrew ACT II SCENE I Padua. A room in BAPTISTA'S house. Enter KATHARINA and BIANCA BIANCA Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself, To make a bondmaid and a slave of me; That I disdain: but for these other gawds, Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself, 5 Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat; Or what you will command me will I do, So well I know my duty to my elders. KATHARINA Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not. 10 BIANCA Believe me, sister, of all the men alive I never yet beheld that special face Which I could fancy more than any other. KATHARINA Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio? BIANCA If you affect him, sister, here I swear 15 I'll plead for you myself, but you shall have him. KATHARINA O then, belike, you fancy riches more: You will have Gremio to keep you fair. BIANCA Is it for him you do envy me so? 20 Nay then you jest, and now I well perceive You have but jested with me all this while: I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands. KATHARINA If that be jest, then all the rest was so. Strikes her Enter BAPTISTA BAPTISTA Why, how now, dame! whence grows this insolence? 25 Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps. Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her. For shame, thou helding of a devilish spirit, Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee? When did she cross thee with a bitter word? 30 KATHARINA Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged. Flies after BIANCA BAPTISTA What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in. Exit BIANCA KATHARINA What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day 35 And for your love to her lead apes in hell. Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep Till I can find occasion of revenge. Exit BAPTISTA Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I? But who comes here? 40 Petruchio Enter ;PETRUCHIO, Good morrow, sir BAPTISTA Good morrow God save you, gentleman! PETRUCHIO And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous? BAPTISTA I have a daughter, sir, called Katharina. 45 PETRUCHIO Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love, What dowry shall I have with her to wife? BAPTISTA Whence are you, sir? what may I call your name? PETRUCHIO Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste, And every day I cannot come to woo. 50 I am a gentleman of Verona, sir, That, hearing of her beauty and her wit, Her affability and bashful modesty, Her wondrous qualities and mild behavior, Am bold to show myself a forward guest 55 Within your house, to make mine eye the witness Of that report which I so oft have heard. Petruchio is my name; Antonio's son, A man well known throughout all Italy. BAPTISTA I know him well: you are welcome for his sake. PETRUCHIO Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love, 65 What dowry shall I have with her to wife? BAPTISTA After my death the one half of my lands, And in possession twenty thousand crowns. PETRUCHIO And, for that dowry, I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever: ….all my lands and leases whatsoever: 75 BAPTISTA Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd, That is, her love; for that is all in all. 85 PETRUCHIO Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; So I to her and so she yields to me; For I am rough and woo not like a babe. BAPTISTA Signior Petruchio, will you go with us, Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you? 90 PETRUCHIO I pray you do. Exit BAPTISTA PETRUCHIO I will attend her here, And woo her with some spirit when she comes. Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain 95 She sings as sweetly as a nightingale: Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew… But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak. ENTER KATHARINA 100 PETRUCHIO Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear. Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing: KATHARINA They call me Katharina that do talk of me. You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, PETRUCHIO And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; 105 But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, 110 Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife. Moved! in good time: let him that moved you hither KATHARINA Remove you hence: I knew you at the first You were a moveable. Why, what's a moveable? 115 PETRUCHIO A join'd-stool. KATHARINA Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me. PETRUCHIO Asses are made to bear, and so are you. KATHARINA Women are made to bear, and so are you. PETRUCHIO No such jade as you, if me you mean. 120 KATHARINA Alas! good Kate, I will not burden thee; PETRUCHIO For, knowing thee to be but young and light-- Too light for such a swain as you to catch; Good Kate; I am a gentleman. KATHARINA That I'll try. 125 She strikes him PETRUCHIO I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again. PETRUCHIO Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. KATHARINA If I be waspish, best beware my sting. PETRUCHIO My remedy is then, to pluck it out. 130 KATHARINA Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies, PETRUCHIO Who knows not where a wasp does PETRUCHIO wear his sting? In his tail. KATHARINA In his tongue. PETRUCHIO Whose tongue? 135 KATHARINA Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. PETRUCHIO Thou must be married to no man but me; For I am he am born to tame you Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Conformable as other household Kates. 140 Here comes your father: never make denial; I must and will have Katharina to my wife. Re-enter BAPTISTA BAPTISTA Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter? PETRUCHIO How but well, sir? how but well? It were impossible I should speed amiss. 145 BAPTISTA Why, how now, daughter Katharina! in your dumps? KATHARINA Call you me daughter? now, I promise you You have show'd a tender fatherly regard, To wish me wed to one half lunatic; PETRUCHIO Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world, That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her: If she be curst, it is for policy, And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together, 155 That upon Sunday is the wedding-day. 365