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Dia.

I found it not. King. If it were yours by none of all these ways, How could you give it him?

Dia. I never gave it him. Laf. This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off and on at pleasure.

King. This ring was mine, I gave it his first wife.
Dia. It might be yours, or hers, for aught I know.
King. Take her away, I do not like her now:
To prison with her; and away with him.-

Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring,
Thou diest within this hour.

Dia.

King. Take her away.
Dia.

I'll never tell you.

I'll put in bail, my liege.
King. I think thee now some common customer.
Dia. By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you.
King. Wherefore hast thou accused him all this
while?

Dia. Because, he's guilty, and he is not guilty;
He knows, I am no maid, and he'll swear to 't:
I'll swear, I am a maid, and he knows not.
Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life;
I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.

(Pointing to Lafeu.) King. She does abuse our ears; to prison with her, Dia. Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, roval sir; [Exit Widow.

The jeweller, that owes the ring, is sent for,
And he shall surety me. But for this lord,
Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,
Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:
He knows himself, my bed he hath defiled;
And at that time he got his wife with child:
Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick ;
So there's my riddle, One, that's dead, is quick:
And now behold the meaning.

King.

Re-enter Widow with HELENA.

Is there no exorcist

Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes ?
Is 't real, that I see?

Hel.

'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,

No, my good lord:

Both, both; O, pardon!

The name and not the thing.

Ber.

Hel. O, my good lord, when I was like this maid, I found you wond'rous kind. There is your ring,

And, look you, here's your letter: This it says,
When from my finger you can get this ring,
And are by me with child, &c.-This is done:
Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?

Ber. If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly. I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.

Hel. If it appear not plain, and prove untrue,
Deadly divorce step between me and you!-
O my dear mother, do I see you living?

Laf. Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon.Good Tom Drum, (to Parolles.) lend me a handkerchief: So, I thank thee; wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.

King. Let us from point to point this story know,
To make the even truth in pleasure flow:
If thou be 'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,

(To Diana.)
Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;
For I can guess, that by thy honest aid,
Thou kept'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.-
Of that, and all the progress, more and less,
Resolvedly more leisure shall express :
All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

(Advancing.)

(Flourish.)

The king's a beggar, now the play is done :
All is well ended, if the suit be won,

That you express content; which we will pay,
With strife to please you, day exceeding day:
Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;
Your gentle hands lend us, and take our heart.

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TAMING

OF

THE SHREW.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

A Lord.
CHRISTOPHER SLY, a drunken

Tinker,

Hostess, Page, Players, Huntsmen, and other Servants attending on the Lord,

Persons in the
Induction.

BAPTISTA, a rich Gentleman of Padua.

VINCENTIO, an old Gentleman of Pisa.

LUCENTIO, Son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca. PETRUCHIO, a Gentleman of Verona, a Suitor to Katharina.

GREMIO,

HORTENSIO,

Suitors to Bianca.

TRANIO,

Servants to Lucentio.

BIONDELLO,

Servants to Petruchio.

GRUMIO,

CURTIS,

Pedant, an old Fellow, set up to personate Vin

centio.

KATHARINA, the Shrew,

BIANCA, her Sister,

Widow,

",} Daughters to Baptista.

Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants, attending on Baptista and Petruchio.

SCENE,-Sometimes in Padua; and sometimes in Petruchio's House in the Country.

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