wife? come, Kath. They sit conferring by the parlour fire. Pet. Go fetch them hither; if they deny to [bands: Swinge me them soundly forth unto their hus. Away, I say, and bring them hither straight. [Erit KATHARINA. Luc. Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder. Hor. And so it is; I wonder what it bodes. Pet. Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, An awful rule, and right supremacy; [happy. And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and Bap. Now fair befal thee, good Petruchio! The wager thou hast won; and I will add Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns; Another dowry to another daughter, For she is changed, as she had never been. Pet. Nay, I will win my wager better yet; And show more sign of her obedience, Her new-built virtue and obedience. Re-enter KATHARINA, with BIANCA, and Widow. See, where she comes; and brings your froward wives As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.Katharine, that cap of yours becomes you not; Off with that bauble, throw it under foot. [KATHARINA pulls off her cap, and throws it down. Wid. Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh, Till I be brought to such a silly pass! Bian. Fie! what a foolish duty call you this? Luc. I would, your duty were as foolish too: The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca, Hath cost me an hundred crowns since sup. per-time [duty. Bian. The more fool you, for laying on my Pet. Katharine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women [bands. What duty they do owe their lords and husWid. Come, come, you're mocking, we will have no telling. [her, Pet. Come on, Isay; and first begin with • Gentle tempers. Vid. She shall not. Pet. I say, she shal!:-and first begin with ter. (kind brow; Kath. Fie, fie! unknit that threat'ning unAnd dart not scornful glances from those eyes, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: It blots thy beauty, as frosts bite the meads; Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair And in no sense is meet, or amiable. [buds; A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty; And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thez, And for thy maintenance: commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold. While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience;Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband: And, when she's froward, peevish, sulien,sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she, but a foul contending rebel, And graceless traitor to her loving lord?I am ashamed, that women are so simple To offer war, where they should kneel for peace Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth Unapt to toil and trouble in the world; But that our soft conditions and our hearts, Should well agree with our external parts? Come, come, you froward and unable wormat My mind hath been as big as one of yours, My heart as great; my reason, haply, more, To bandy word for word, and frown for frown: Our strength as weak, our weakness past com But now, I see our lances are but straws; pare, That seeming to be most, which we least are. Then vail your stomachst, for it is no boot; And place your hands below your husband's In token of which duty, if he please, [foot: My hand is ready, may it do him ease. Pet. Why, there's a wench!-Come on, and kiss me, Kate. (shalt ha't. Luc. Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou Vin. 'Tis a good hearing, when children are toward. Luc. But a harsh hearing, when women are froward. Pet. Come, Kate, we'll to bed :———— We three are married, but you two are sped. 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white; [TO LUCENTIO. And, being a winner, God give you good night! [Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATH. Hor, Now go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrew. Luc. "Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tained so. [Exeunt. ↑ Abate your spirits. Two other Ladies, attending the Queen. МОРБА, DORCAS, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs for a dance; Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Guards, &c. ACT I. SCENE 1. Sicilia. An Antechamber in though not personal, have been royally attor Leontes Palace. Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS. Arch. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohe mia, and your Sicilia. Cam. I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. Arch. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be justified in our loves: for, indeed, Cam. 'Beseech you, Arch. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence-iu so rare-I know not what to say. nied, with interchange of gifts, letters, loving loves! Arch. I think, there is not in the world either malice, or matter, to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius; it is a gentleman of the greatest promise, that ever came into my note. Cam. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that, Arch. Would they else be content to die? We will give you sleepy drinks; that your why they should desire to live. senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us. Cam. You pay a great deal too dear, for what's given freely. Arch. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. Cam. Sicilia cannot shew himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their childboods; and there rooted betwixt | Arch. If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. [Exeunt. Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, [throne them then such an affection, which cannot The shepherd's note, since we have left our choose but branch now. Since their more entre diguities, and royal necessities, made separation of their society, their encounters, Without a burden: time as long again Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our • Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies. Affords a cordial to the state. [thanks + Wide was of country. 2D 3 . 806 SHAKSPEARE. Go hence in debt: And therefore, like a cipher, Leon. Sir, that's to morrow. [chance, Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder, Leon. Tongue-tied, our queen? speak you. Leon. Well said, Hermione. Her. To tell, he longs to see his son, were But let him say so then, and let him go; The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia To let him there a month, behind the gest I love thee not a jars o' the clock behind Her. Nay, but you will? Her. Verily! I may not, verily. You put me off with limber vows: But I, Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths, [Aa 1. Pol. when [two? Boldly, Not guilty; the imposition clear'd, Her. By this we gather, You have tripp'd since. Her. Grace to boot! Her. What? have I twice said well? when [make us was't before? I pr'ythee, tell me : Cram us with praise, and Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily, Yon shall not go; a lady's verily is As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? Force me to keep you as a prisoner, • Nipping. + Gests were the names of the stages where the king appointed to lie during a royal progress. A diminutive of lords. I Indeed. Tick. Flimsy * Setting aside original sin. To be full like me:-yet, they say, we are 307 Hearty fellow. A horned one, a cuckold. Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now; And many a man there is, even at this present, Now, while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm, [absence, That little thinks she has been sluiced in his And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour, by Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't, [open'd, Whiles other men have gates; and those gates As mine, against their will: Should all despair. That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang theinselves. Physic for't there is man. Cam. Ay, my good lord. Leon. Go play, Mamillius; thon'rt an honest [Erit MAMILLIUS. Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer. Cam. You had much ado to make his anchor When you cast out, it still came home. [hoic: Leon. Didst note it? Cam. He would not stay at your petitions; His business more material. [made Leon. Didst perceive it? They're here with me already; whispering, Sicilia is a so-forth: 'l'is far gone, [rounding, When I shall gust † it last.-How came't, Ca That he did stay? [millo, Cam. At the good queen's entreaty. Leon. At the queen's, be't: good, should be But so it is, it is not. Was this taken [pertinent; By any understanding pate but thine? For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in [is't, More than the common blocks:-Not noted But of the finer natures? by some severals, Of bead-piece extraordinary? lower messes Perchance, are to this business purblind: say. Cam. Business, my lord? I think, most understand Bohemia stays here longer. Leon. Cam. Ha? Stays here longer. Leon. Ay, but why? [treaties Cam. To satisfy your highness, and the enOf our most gracious mistress. Leon. Satisfy The entreaties of your mistress? satisfy ?Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Cainillo, With all the nearest things to my heart, as well My chamber-councils: wherein, priest-like, thon Hast cleansed my bosom ; I from thee departed Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been Deceived in thy integrity, deceived • To round in the ear was to tell secretly. o hox is to hamstring. [Act 1. In that which seems so. If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward; Cam. A servant, grafted in my serious trust, I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, Leon. Have not you seen, Camillo, (But that's past doubt: you have; or your eye glass Is thicker than a cuckold's horn ;) or heard, (For, to a vision so apparent, rumour Cannot be mute,) or thought, (for cogitation Resides not in that man, that does not think it,) My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess, (Or else be impudently negative, To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought,) then [say, My wife's a hobby-horse; deserves a name As rank as any flax-wench, that puts to Before her troth-plight: say it, and justify it. Cam. I would not be a stander-by, to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart, You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate, were sin As deep as that, though true. Leon. Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh? (a note infallible Of breaking honesty :) horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more [blind swift? Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes With the pin and web, but theirs, theirs only, That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing? Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing My wife is nothing; nor nothing have thes nothings, + Taste. |