But that his beard grew thin and hungerly,
And feem'd to ask him fops as he was drinking.
This done, he took the bride about the neck;
And kifs'd her lips with fuch a clamorous fmack,
That, at the parting, all the church did echo."
I, feeing this,' came thence for very shame;
And after me, I know, the rout is coming:
Such a mad marriage never was before:
Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play. [Mufick.

Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, BIANCA, BAPTISTA, HORTENSIO, GRUMIO, and Train.

PET. Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains :

I know, you think to dine with me to-day,
And have prepar'd great store of wedding cheer;
But fo it is, my hafte doth call me hence,
And therefore here I mean to take my leave.

b virginitatem] promittit, quod ipfa grato animo recolens, pari ratione modo, paulo poft mutato in uxorium habitum operculo capitis, ingreffa, poculum, uti noftrates vocant, uxorium leviter delibans, amorem, fidem, diligentiam, & fubje&tionem promittit." Stiernhook de Jure Sueonum & Gothorum vetufto, p. 163, quarto, 1672. MALONE.

9 And kifs'd her lips with fuch a clamorous fmack,

That, at the parting, all the church did echo.] It appears from the following paffage in Marfton's Infatiate Countess, that this was alfo part of the marriage ceremonial:

"The kiffe thou gav'ft me in the church, here take."

STEEVENS.

This alfo is a very ancient custom, as appears from the following rubrick, with which I was furnished by the late Reverend Mr. Bowle." Surgant ambo, fponfus et fponfa, et accipiat fponfus pacem a facerdote, et ferat fponfæ, ofculans eam, et neminem alium, nec ipfe, nec ipfa." Manuale Sarum, Paris, 1533, 4to. fol. 69.

MALONE.

2 I, feeing this,] The old copy has,And I feeing-. And was probably caught from the beginning of the next line. The emendation is Sir T. Hanmer's. MALONE.

let them curt'fy with their left legs; and not prefume to touch a hair of my master's horfe-tail, till they kifs their hands. Are they all ready?

CURT. They are.

GRU. Call them forth.

CURT. Do you hear, ho? you must meet my master, to countenance my mistress.

GRU. Why, the hath a face of her own.

CURT. Who knows not that?

GRU. Thou, it seems; that call'ft for company to countenance her.

CURT. I call them forth to credit her.

GRU. Why, fhe comes to borrow nothing of them.

Enter feveral Servants.

NATH. Welcome home, Grumio.

PHIL. How now, Grumio?

Jos. What, Grumio!

NICH. Fellow Grumio!

NATH. HOW now, old lad?

GRU. Welcome, you;-how now, you;-what, you ;-fellow, you;-and thus much for greeting. Now, my fpruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?

NATH. All things is ready: How near is our mafter?

a branched velvet jerkin,-red filk ftockings, and parti-coloured garters." MALONE.

All things is ready:] Though in general it is proper to correct the falfe concords that are found in almoft every page of the old copy, here it would be improper; becaufe the language fuits the character. MALONE.

GRU. E'en at hand, alighted by this; and therefore be not,Cock's paffion, filence!I hear my master.

Enter PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA.

PET. Where be these knaves? What, no man at door,"

Enter Petruchio, &c.] Thus the original play:

"Enter Ferando and Kate.

"Ferand. Now welcome Kate. Wheres these villaines, "Heere? what, not fupper yet upon the boord!

"Nor table spread, nor nothing done at all! "Where's that villaine that I fent before?

"San. Now, adfum, fir.

"Feran. Come hither you villaine; Ile cut your nofe "You rogue: help me off with my bootes: wil't please "You to lay the cloth? Sowns the villaine

"Hurts my foote: pull eafily I fay: yet againe?

[He beats them all. They cover the boord, and fetch in the meate. "Sowns, burnt and fcorch't! who dreft this meate?

"Will. Forfooth, John Cooke.

[He throwes downe the table and meate, and all, and beates them all. "Feran. Goe, you villaines; bring me fuch meate?

"Out of my fight, I fay, and bear it hence.

"Come, Kate, wee'l have other meate provided:

"Is there a fire in my chamber, fir?

"San. I, forfooth.

[Exeunt Ferando and Kate.

"Manent ferving men, and eate up all the meate. "Tom. Sownes, I thinke of my conscience my mafter's madde fince he was married.

"Will. I laft what a box he gave Sander

"For pulling off his bootes.

"Enter Ferando again.

"San. I hurt his foot for the nonce, man. "Feran. Did you so, you damned villaine?

[He beates them all out again.

"This humour must I hold me to a while,
"To bridle and holde back my head-strong wife,
"With curbes of hunger, eafe, and want of fleepe:
"Nor fleep nor meate shall she enjoy to-night;
"Ile mew her up as men do mew their hawkes,
"And make her gently come unto the lewre:

To hold my stirrup, nor to take my horse!
Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?

ALL SERV. Here, here, fir; here fir.

PET. Here, fir! here, fir! here, fir! here, fir!You loggerheaded and unpolish'd grooms! What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?Where is the foolish knave I fent before?

GRU. Here, fir; as foolish as I was before.
PET. You peasant fwain! you whorefon malt-
horfe drudge!

Did I not bid thee meet me in the park,
And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?

GRU. Nathaniel's coat, fir, was not fully made, And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel; There was no link to colour Peter's hat,"

And Walter's dagger was not come from fheathing:

There were none fine, but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory;

The reft were ragged, old, and beggarly;

Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you. PET. Go, rafcals, go, and fetch my supper in.[Exeunt fome of the Servants.

"Were fhe as ftubborne, or as full of ftrength "As was the Thracian horse Alcides tamde,

"That king Egeus fed with flesh of men,

"Yet would I pull her downe and make her come,

"As hungry hawkes do flie unto their lewre."

[Exit. STEEVENS.

-at door,] Door is here, and in other places, used as a diffyllable. MALONE.

2

-no link to colour Peter's hat,] A link is a torch of pitch. Greene, in his Mihil Mumchance, fays" This cozenage is used likewife in felling old hats found upon dung-hills, instead of newe, blackt over with the Smoake of an old linke.' STEEVENS.

Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man:-
Fear not, fweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate;
I'll buckler thee against a million.

[Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHARINE, and GRUMIO.
BAP. Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones.
GRE. Went they not quickly, I fhould die with
laughing.

TRA. Of all mad matches, never was the like!
Luc. Mistress, what's your opinion of your fifter?
BIAN. That, being mad herself, she's madly
mated.

GRE. I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.
BAP. Neighbours and friends, though bride and
bridegroom wants

For to fupply the places at the table,

You know, there wants no junkets at the feaft ;Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place; And let Bianca take her fifter's room.

TRA. Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it? BAP. She fhall, Lucentio.-Come, gentlemen let's go. [Exeunt.

ACT IV. SCENE I.

A Hall in Petruchio's Country Houfe.

Enter GRUMIO.

GRU. Fie, fie, on all tired jades! on all mad masters! and all foul ways! Was ever man fo beaten? was ever man fo ray'd?' was ever man fo

5 —was ever man fo ray'd?] That is, was ever man fo mark'd with lafhes. JOHNSON.