THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. 359 What! hast thou din'd? The tailor stays thy | Belike you mean to make a puppet of me. leisure, To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure. Enter Tailor. Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments; Lay forth the gown.— Hab. Enter Haberdasher. What news with you, sir? Here is the cap your worship did bespeak. Pet. Why, this was moulded on a porringer; A velvet dish:-fie, fie! 'tis low and filthy: Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap: Kath. I'll have no bigger: this doth fit the time, And gentlewomen wear such caps as these. Pet. When you are gentle, you shall have one too, And not till then. Hor. [Aside.] That will not be in haste. Kath. Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak; And speak I will; I am no child, no babe: I love thee well, in that thou lik'st it not. Kath. Love me or love me not, I like the cap; And it I will have, or I will have none. Pet. Thy gown? why, ay:-come, tailor, let us see't. Oh, mercy! Look, what masquing stuff is here! What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon: What! up and down, carv'd 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, o' mischief's name, tailor, call'st thou this? Hor. [Aside.] I see she's like to have neither cap nor gown. Tai. You bid me make it orderly and well, According to the fashion and the time. Pet. Marry, 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. able: Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail! Just as my master had direction: Grumio gave orders how it should be done. Tai. But how did you desire it should be made? Tai. [Reads.] "With a small compassed cape:" Gru. I confess the cape. Tai. [Reads.] "With a trunk sleeve:- Gru. Error i' the bill, sir; error i̇' 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. Tai. This is true that I say: an I had thee in place where, thou shouldst know it. Gru. I am for thee straight: take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me. Hor. Od's-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds. Pet. Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me. Gru. You are i' the right, sir: 'tis for my mis- Cr is the adder better than the eel, tress. Pet. Go, take it up. Because his painted skin contents the eye? Oh, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse [Aside.] Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor For this poor furniture and mean array. paid.If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me; [To Tailor.] Go, take it hence; be gone, and say And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith, no more. To feast and sport us at thy father's house. Hor. [Aside to Tailor.] Tailor, I'll pay thee Go, call my men, and let us straight to him; for thy gown to-morrow: Take no unkindness of his hasty words: [Exeunt Tailor and Haberdasher. Pet. Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's, Even in these honest mean habiliments: 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. Kath. I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two; And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there. Pet. It 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. Hor. Why, so! this gallant will command the [Exeunt. sun. |