Pet. Now, for my life, Hortensio fears bus wi- Pet. How! She is busy, and she cannot come ! dow. is that an answer 1 Wid. Tuen never trust me if I be afeard. Gre Ay, and a kind one too: Pet. You are sensible, and yet you wiss my | Pray God, Sir, your wife send you not a worse. sense : Pet. I hope, better. I mean, Hortensio is ateard of you. Hor. Sirrah, Biondello, go, and entreal my wife Wid. He that is giddy, thinks the world turns To come to me torthwith. Exit Bivnuello. round. Pet. 0, ho! entreat her! Pet. Roundly replied. Nav, then she asl needs come. Kath. Mistress, how mrab you that! Hor. I am, afraid, Sir, Wid. Thus I conceive by him. Do what you can, yours will not be entreated. Re-enter BIONDELLO. hand; Pet. Worse and worse; she will uot come! O vile, Wid. Your husband, being troubled with a shrew, Sirrah, Grumio, go to your mistress; Say, 'command her come to me. (Exit Grumio. for. I know her answer. kuth. A very piean meaning. Pet. What ? Hor. She will pot come. Enter KATHARINA. rina! Hor. That's my office. Kath. What is your will, Sir, that you send for me? Pet. Spoke like an officer:-Ha' to thee, lad. Pet. Where is your sister, and Mortensio's wite! (Drinks to Hortensio. Kath. They sit conferring by the parlour tire. Bap. How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks ? Pet. Go, ietch them hither; if they deny to Grp. Believe ine, Sir, they butt together well. come, šiun. Head, and butt? An hasty-witted body Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands. Would say, your lead and buti were head and Away, I say, and bring them hither straight. hom. (Ezit katharinu. Vin. Ay, mistress Uride, hath that awaken'd you ? Laic. Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder. Bian. "Ay, but not frighted me; therefore I'll Hor. And so it is; I wonder what it bodes.. sleep again. Pet. Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet Pet. Nay, that you shall not; since you have lite, begui, An awful rule, and right supremacy ; And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy. Another Pet. Nay, I will win my wager better yet; Re-enter KATHARINA, with BLANCA, and Widow. wives Tra. 'Tis well, Sir , that you hunted for yoursels; As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.Tis thought, your deer does hold you at a bay. Katharine, that cap of yours becomes you not; Bap. Oho, Petruchio, Tranio kits you now, Off with that bauble, throw it under foot. Luc. I thank thee for that gird I, goud Travio. (Katharina pulls off her Cay, and Hor. Confess, confess ; hath he not hit you here? throu's it down. Pet. 'A has a little gall'd me, I confess; Wid. Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh, And, as the jest did glance away from me, Till I be brought to such a silly pass ! 'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright. Bian. Fie! What a foolish duty call you this? Bap: Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio, Luc. I would your duty were as foolish too : I think thou hast the veriest'slırew of all. The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca, Pet. Well, I say no : aud therefore, for assur- Hath cost me an hundred crowns since supper-tine. ance, Bian. The more fool you, for laying on my duty. Let's each one send unto his wife ; Pet. Katharine, I charge thee, tell these headAnd he, whose wife is most obedient strong women To come at first when he doth send for her, What duty they do owe their lords and husbands. Shall win the wager which we will propose. Wid. Come, come, you're mocking; we will have Hor. Content ;-What is the wager? no telling: Lw. Twenty crowns. Pet. Come on, I say; and first begin with her. Pet. Twenty crowns ! Wid. She shall not. I'll venture so much on my hawk, or hound, Pet. I say, she shall ;--and first begin with lier. But twenty times so much upon my wife. Kath. Fie, tie! Unknit that threat'ning wikind Luc. A hundred then. brow; And dart uot scornful glances from those eyes, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake lair Luds; And in no sense is meet, or amiable. [Exit. A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, Will deign to sip, or touch one drop ot it. Thy husband thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Bion. Sir, my mistress sends you word Thy head, thy sovereigo; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To watch the night in stormis, the day in cold, Sarcasm. While thou liest warnu at home, secure and sale; Pet. She hath prevented me. Here, siguior for she is changed as she had never been. Hor. Content. Hor. Who shall begin ? Bion. I go. llow now! Whutnews? • Dreads. me, Kate, And craves no o ner tribnte at thy hands, That seeming to be most, which we least are. But love, fair looks, and true obedience ; Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot; Too little payment for so great a debt. And place your hands below your husband's fons In token of which duty, it' he please, Luc. Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt ha't. I am ashamed, that women are so simple Vin. 'Tis a good hearing, when children are To offer war where they should kneel for peace; toward. Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, Luc. But a harsh hearing, when women are fro- ward. We three are married, but you two are sped. [To Lucentie, Come, come, you froward and unable worms! And, being a winner, God give you good night! My niind hath been as big as one of yours, (Exeunt Petruchio' and Katharina. My heart as great ; my reason, haply, more, Hor. Now go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst To bandy word for word, and frown for frown: shrew. But now, I see our lances are bat straws; Luc. Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be Our strength as weak, our weakness past cumpare, lamed so. (Excuri. Gentle temper. • Abate your spirits. ACT L SCENE II.-T'he same. -A Room of State in the Palace. Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERNIONK, MAMIL LIUS, Canulo, and Allendants. Enter CANILLO, and ARCHIDAMUS. Pol. Nine changes of the wat'ry star have benim Cam. I think, this coming sommer, the king of Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cypher, With one we-thank-you, many thousands more And pay them when you part. To tire your royalty, Cam. You pay a great deal too dear, for what's Leon. We are tougher, brother, given freely. Than you can put us to'l. Pol. Very sooth, to-morrow. in that world, counters, though not personal, have been royally So soon as yours, could win me : so it should now, attornied with interchange of gifts, letters, loving Were there necessity in your request, although embassies ; that they have seem'd to be together, Twere needful I denied it. My affairs though absent : shook hands, as over a vast *; and Do even drag me honieward: which to hinder, embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed Were, in your love, a whip to me ; my stay, winds. The heavens continue their loves ! To you a charge and trouble: to save both, Arch. I think, there is not in the world either Farewell, our brother. malice, or matter, to alter it. You have an un- Leon. Tongue-tied, our queen? Speak you. speakable confort of your young prince Mamillius ; Her. I had thought, Sir, to have held iny peace, it is a gentleman of the greatest promise, that ever until came into my note. You had drawn oaths from him, not to stay. You, Sir, Cam. I very well agree with you in the hopes of Charge him too coldly: tell him, you are sure, him : it is a gallant child; one that, indeed, phy. All in Bohemia's well: this satistaction sics the subject i, makes old hearts fresh : they, that the by-gone day proclaim'd; say this to him, went on cratches ere he was born, desire yet their He's beat from his best ward. life, to see him a man, Leon. Well said, Hermione. Arch. Would they else be content to die? Her. To tell, he longs to see his son were strong: Cam. Yes; if there were no other excuse why But let him say so then, and let him go; they should desire to live. Bilt let him swear $0, and he shall not stay, Arch. If the king had no son, they would desire We'll thwack him hence with distaffs to live on crutches uill he had one. (Ereunt. Yet of your royal presence (70 Polirenes.) I'll ad venture • Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies. The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia. • Wide waste of country. • Affords a cordial to the state » Nipping. 參 you? 2 리 the sun, You take my lord, I'll give him my commission, Her. It is Grace, indeed. Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice: The one for ever earu'd a royal husband; The other for some while a friend. (Giving her hand to Polizenes, Her. Nay, but you will ? Leon. Too hot, too hot: (Aside. Pol. I may not, verily. To mingle friendship far, is mingling bloods. I have tremor cordis on me :- My heart dances; But nol for joy,-not joy.-This entertainment Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with May a free face put on; derive a liberty oaths, Prom heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily, And weil become the agent: it may, I grant : You shall not go; a lady's verily is But to be paddling palins, and pinching tingers, As polent as a lord's. Will you go yet? As now they are ; and making practised smiles, Force me to keep you as a prisoner, As in a looking glass;- and then to sigh, as 'illere Art thou my boy? Leon l' fecks Why, that's my bawcock 1. What, hast smatch'd thy nose ? Which is for me less easy to commit, They say, it's a copy out of mine. Come, captain, Than you to punish. We must be neat ; not neat, but cleanly, captai: And yel the steer, the heifer, and the call, [Observing Polixenes and Hermit You were pretty lordings || then. Upon his palna -How now, you wanton calfi Art thou my calf'? Leon. Thou want'st a rough pash, and the shoots that I havell, That will say any thing: but were they false As dice are to be wish'd, by one that fixes No bourn [ 'twixt his and mine'; yet were it true To say this boy were like me.-Come, Sir page, Affection ! thy intention stabs the center : Thou dost make possible, things not su held, Communicatest with dreams :-(How can this bef) With what's unreal thou coactive art, And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credenti, Thou may'st co-joiu witli something; and thou dost; Pol. What means Sicilia ? Her. He something seems unsettled. Pol. How, my lord ? What cheer'? How is't with you, best brother? Her. You look, As if you held a brow of much distraction : Leon. No, in good earnest.- How sovietimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness; and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! (Aside.)--Looking on the lines Of my boy's face, methoughts, I did recoil Twenty three years; and saw myself unbreech'd, In my green velvet coat: my dagger nuzzled, Lest it should bite its master, and so prove, How like, methought, I then was to this kernel, Mam. No, my lord, I'll fight. Leon. You will? Why, happy man be his dolefit My brother, Pol. If at home, Sir, He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter : He makes a July's day short as December; And, with his varying childness, cures in me death, 1 Hearty fellow. 1. e. Playing with her fingers, as if on a spinet, • Gests were the names of the stages where the !! Thou wantest a rough head, and the budung Tick. •• Blue. * Pea-cod. by Will you be cajoled! Selling aside original sin. May his share of life be a happy one! # Credibie. Lro. So stands this squire Hast cleansed my bosom! I from thee departea Cam. Be it forbid, my lord ! Leon. To bide upon 'i ;-Thou art not honest ; Q: Apparent to my heart. If thou inclmest that way, thou art a coward : Her. If you would seek 115, Which hoxes • honesty behind, restraining We are yours i the garden: shall's attend you From course required: or else thou must be counte. there? À servant, grafted in my serious trust, Leon. To your own bents dispose you : you'll be And therein negligent; or else a fool, found, That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawy Cum. My gracious lord, In every one of these no man is free, Amongst the infinite doings of the world, Sometime puts furth: in your affairs, my lord, I play'd ine rool, it was my negligence, Which oft afects the wisest: these, my lord, Are such allow'd infirmities, that honesty 'Tis none of mine. (For, to a vision so apparent, rumour As mine, against tbeir will: should all despair, Cannot be mute,) or thought, (for cogitation That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Resides not in that man, that does not think it,) Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess, none; (Or else be inipudently negative, It is a bawdy planet, that will strike To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought,) then say Before her troth-plight: say it, and justify it. Cam. I would not be a stander-by, to hear You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate, were sin What! Camillo there? As deep as that, though true. l'am. Ay, my good lord. Leon. Is whispering nothing! (Erit Jamillius. Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career Camillo, this great Sir will yet stay longer. Of laugliter with a siglı? (A note infallible own. You had much ado to make his anchor hold ; of breaking honesty :) horsing foot on foot ? When you cast out, it still came home. Skulking in corners ? Wishing clocks more swift? leon. Didst note it? Hours, minites? Noon, midnight? And all eyes Cam. He would not stay at your petitions ; made blind His business more material. With the piu and web , but theirs, theirs only, Leon. Didst thou perceive it? That would unseen be wicked ? Is this nothing? They're here with me already; whispering, round. Why, then the world, and all that's in 't, is nothing; ing ll. The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia nothing; Sicilia is a so-forth : 'tis far gone, Wy wife is nothing; vor nothing have these noWhen I shall gust it last.-How came't, Camillo, things, That he did stay? If this be nothing. Com. At the good queen's entreaty. Cam. Good my lord, be cured Leon. At the queen's be't: good, should be per. of this diseased opinion, and betimes ; linent; For 'tis most dangerous. lut so it is, it is not. Was this taken Leon. Say, it be ; 'uis true. Liany understanding pate but thine? Cam. No, no, iny lord. Lem. It is; you lie, you lie: (um. Business, my lord ? I think, most understand Inclining to them both; were my wife's liver Infected as hier life, she would not live Leon. Hat The running of one glass 1. Cam. Stays liere longer. Cam. Who does intect her? Leon. Ay, but why? Leon. Why he, that wears her like her medal, Cam. To satisfy your highness, and the entreaties hanging of our most gracious mistress. Abont his neck, Bohemia : who,-if I Leon. Satisfy Had servants true about me; that bare eyes To see alike inine honour as their profits, Have bench'd, and rear'd to worship; whu may'st • To hox is to hamstring, 1 Hour-glass. see |