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Act IV, Scene 3
1A room in Petruchio’s house.
2Enter Katharina and Grumio.
3GrumioNo, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life.
4KatharinaThe more my wrong, the more his spite appears:
What, did he marry me to famish me?
Beggars, that come unto my father’s door,
Upon entreaty have a present aims;
If not, elsewhere they meet with charity:
But I, who never knew how to entreat,
Nor never needed that I should entreat,
Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
With oaths kept waking and with brawling fed:
And that which spites me more than all these wants,
He does it under name of perfect love;
As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,
’Twere deadly sickness or else present death.
I prithee go and get me some repast;
I care not what, so it be wholesome food.
5GrumioWhat say you to a neat’s foot?
6Katharina’Tis passing good: I prithee let me have it.
7GrumioI fear it is too choleric a meat.
How say you to a fat tripe finely broil’d?
8KatharinaI like it well: good Grumio, fetch it me.
9GrumioI cannot tell; I fear ’tis choleric.
What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
10KatharinaA dish that I do love to feed upon.
11GrumioAy, but the mustard is too hot a little.
12KatharinaWhy then, the beef, and let the mustard rest.
13GrumioNay then, I will not: you shall have the mustard,
Or else you get no beef of Grumio.
14KatharinaThen both, or one, or any thing thou wilt.
15GrumioWhy then, the mustard without the beef.
16KatharinaGo, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave, Beats him.
That feed’st me with the very name of meat:
Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you,
That triumph thus upon my misery!
Go, get thee gone, I say.
17Enter Petruchio and Hortensio with meat.
18PetruchioHow fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?
19HortensioMistress, what cheer?
20KatharinaFaith, as cold as can be.
21PetruchioPluck up thy spirits; look cheerfully upon me.
Here, love; thou see’st how diligent I am
To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee:
I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks.
What, not a word? Nay, then thou lovest it not;
And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
Here, take away this dish.
22KatharinaI pray you, let it stand.
23PetruchioThe poorest service is repaid with thanks;
And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.
24KatharinaI thank you, sir.
25HortensioSignior Petruchio, fie! you are to blame.
Come, mistress Kate, I’ll bear you company.
26PetruchioAside. 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 fardingales and things;
With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
With amber bracelets, beads and all this knavery.
What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure,
To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.
27Enter Tailor.
28Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;
Lay forth the gown.
29Enter Haberdasher.
30What news with you, sir?
31HaberdasherHere is the cap your worship did bespeak.
32PetruchioWhy, this was moulded on a porringer;
A velvet dish: fie, fie! ’tis lewd and filthy:
Why, ’tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap:
Away with it! come, let me have a bigger.
33KatharinaI’ll have no bigger: this doth fit the time,
And gentlewomen wear such caps as these
34PetruchioWhen you are gentle, you shall have one too,
And not till then.
35HortensioAside. That will not be in haste.
36KatharinaWhy, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;
And speak I will; I am no child, no babe:
Your betters have endured me say my mind,
And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart concealing it will break,
And rather than it shall, I will be free
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
37PetruchioWhy, thou say’st true; it is a paltry cap,
A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie:
I love thee well, in that thou likest it not.
38KatharinaLove me or love me not, I like the cap;
And it I will have, or I will have none. Exit Haberdasher.
39PetruchioThy gown? why, ay: come, tailor, let us see’t.
O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?
What’s this? a sleeve? ’tis like a demi-cannon:
What, up and down, carved like an apple-tart?
Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
Like to a censer in a barber’s shop:
Why, what, i’ devil’s name, tailor, call’st thou this?
40HortensioAside. I see she’s like to have neither cap nor gown.
41TailorYou bid me make it orderly and well,
According to the fashion and the time.
42PetruchioMarry, and did; but if you be remember’d,
I did not bid you mar it to the time.
Go, hop me over every kennel home,
For you shall hop without my custom, sir:
I’ll none of it: hence! make your best of it.
43KatharinaI never saw a better-fashion’d gown,
More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable:
Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.
44PetruchioWhy, true; he means to make a puppet of thee.
45TailorShe says your worship means to make a puppet of her.
46PetruchioO monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble,
Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou!
Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread?
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;
Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard
As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou livest!
I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr’d her gown.
47TailorYour worship is deceived; the gown is made
Just as my master had direction:
Grumio gave order how it should be done.
48GrumioI gave him no order; I gave him the stuff.
49TailorBut how did you desire it should be made?
50GrumioMarry, sir, with needle and thread.
51TailorBut did you not request to have it cut?
52GrumioThou hast faced many things.
53TailorI have.
54GrumioFace not me: thou hast braved many men; brave not me; I will neither be faced nor braved. 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.
55TailorWhy, here is the note of the fashion to testify
56PetruchioRead it.
57GrumioThe note lies in’s throat, if he say I said so.
58TailorReads. “Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown:”
59GrumioMaster, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread: I said a gown.
60PetruchioProceed.
61TailorReads. “With a small compassed cape:”
62GrumioI confess the cape.
63TailorReads. “With a trunk sleeve:”
64GrumioI confess two sleeves.
65TailorReads. “The sleeves curiously cut.”
66PetruchioAy, there’s the villany.
67GrumioError i’ the bill, sir; error i’ the bill. I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and sewed up again; and that I’ll prove upon thee, though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.
68TailorThis is true that I say: an I had thee in place where, thou shouldst know it.
69GrumioI am for thee straight: take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.
70HortensioGod-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds.
71PetruchioWell, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.
72GrumioYou are i’ the right, sir: ’tis for my mistress.
73PetruchioGo, take it up unto thy master’s use.
74GrumioVillain, not for thy life: take up my mistress’ gown for thy master’s use!
75PetruchioWhy, sir, what’s your conceit in that?
76GrumioO, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:
Take up my mistress’ gown to his master’s use!
O, fie, fie, fie!
77PetruchioAside. Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.
Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more.
78HortensioTailor, I’ll pay thee for thy gown to-morrow:
Take no unkindness of his hasty words:
Away! I say; commend me to thy master. Exit Tailor.
79PetruchioWell, come, my Kate; we will unto your father’s
Even in these honest mean habiliments:
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;
For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
What is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his fathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel,
Because his painted skin contents the eye?
O, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse
For this poor furniture and mean array.
If thou account’st it shame, lay it on me;
And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,
To feast and sport us at thy father’s house.
Go, call my men, and let us straight to him;
And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;
There will we mount, and thither walk on foot
Let’s see; I think ’tis now some seven o’clock,
And well we may come there by dinner-time.
80KatharinaI dare assure you, sir, ’tis almost two;
And ’twill be supper-time ere you come there.
81PetruchioIt shall be seven ere I go to horse:
Look, what I speak, or do, or think to do,
You are still crossing it. Sirs, let’t alone:
I will not go to-day; and ere I do,
It shall be what o’clock I say it is.
82HortensioAside. Why, so this gallant will command the sun. Exeunt.