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And I, seeing 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.

music.

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

Pet. Gentlemen and friends, I thank

pains :

you for

your

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

Bap. Is 't possible, you will away to-night?
Pet. I must away to-day, before night come.
Make it no wonder : if you knew my business,
You would entreat me rather go than stay.
And, honest company, I thank you all,
That have beheld me give away myself

To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife.
Dine with my father, drink a health to me;
For I must hence and farewell to you all.
Tra. Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.
Pet. It may not be.

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Pet. I am content you shall entreat me stay;

But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.
Kath. Now, if you love me, stay.

Pet.

Grumio, my horse. Gru. Ay, sir, they be ready; the oats have eaten the horse.

Kath. Nay, then,

Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day;
No, nor to-morrow, nor till I please myself.
The door is open, sir; there lies your way:
You may be jogging, whiles your boots are green.
For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself :-
"Tis like, you'll prove a jolly surly groom,
That take it on you at the first so roundly.

Pet. O Kate, content thee; pr'ythee, be not

angry.

Kath. I will be angry. What hast thou to do ?— Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure.

Gre. Ay, marry, sir: now it begins to work.

Kath. Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner :— I see, a woman may be made a fool,

If she had not a spirit to resist.

Pet. They shall go forward, Kate, at thy coin-
mand:-

Obey the bride, you that attend on her;
Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,

Be mad and merry,- -or go hang yourselves :
But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret:
I will be master of what is mine own
She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,

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My household-stuff, my field, my barn,

My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing;

And here she stands, touch her whoever dare:
I'll bring my action on the proudest he

That stops my way in Padua.

-Grumio,

Draw forth thy weapon; we're beset with thieves ; Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.—

Fear not, sweet wench; they shall not touch thee,

Kate:

I'll buckler thee against a million.

[Exeunt Petruchio, Katharina, and Grumio. Bap. Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones. Gre. Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing.

Tra. Of all mad matches, never was the like! Luc. Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?

Bian. That, being mad herself, she's madly mated.

Gre. I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.

Bap. Neighbors and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants

For to supply the places at the table,

You know there wants no junkets 1 at the feast.Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place; And let Bianca take her sister's room.

Tra. Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?

1 Sweetmeats.

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