PET. Twenty crowns!

I'll venture fo much on my hawk, or hound,
But twenty times fo much upon my wife.

"Kate. Then, you that live thus by your pampered wils, "Now lift to me, and marke what I fhall fay."Th' eternal power, that with his only breath, "Shall caufe this end, and this beginning frame, "Not in time, nor before time, but with time confus'd, "For al the courfe of yeares, of ages, months, "Of feafons temperate, of dayes and houres, "Are tun'd and topt by measure of his hand. "The firft world was a forme without a forme, "A heape confus'd, a mixture al deform'd, "A gulfe of gulfes, a body bodileffe, "Where al the elements were orderleffe, "Before the great commander of the world, "The king of kings, the glorious God of heaven, "Who in fix daies did frame his heavenly worke, "And made al things to ftand in perfect course. "Then to his image he did make a man, "Olde Adam, and from his fide afleepe, "A rib was taken; of which the Lord did make "The woe of man, fo term'd by Adam then, "Woman, for that by her came finne to us, "And for her finne was Adam doom'd to die. "As Sara to her husband, so should we "Obey them, love them, keepe and nourish them, "If they by any meanes do want our helpes: Laying our hands under their feet to tread, "If that by that we might procure their eafe; And, for a prefident, Ile firft begin, "And lay my hand under my husband's feet.

[She laies her hand under her husband's feet. "Feran. Inough fweet; the wager thou haft won; "And they, I am fure, cannot deny the fame.

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Alfon. I, Ferando, the wager thou haft won;

"And for to fhew thee how I am pleas'd in this,

"A hundred pounds I freely give thee more,

"Another dowry for another daughter,

"For fhe is not the fame fhe was before.

"Feron. Thanks, fweet father; gentlemen, good night;

"For Kate and I will leave you for to-night:

BAP. Son, I will be your half, Bianca comes. Luc. I'll have no halves; I'll bear it all myself.

Re-enter BIONDELLO.

How now! what news?

BION.

Sir, my mistress fends you word

That she is bufy, and fhe cannot come.

" "Tis Kate and I am wed, and you are sped : And fo farewell, for we will to our bed.

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[Exeunt Ferando, Kate, and Sander.

Alfon. Now Aurelius, what fay you to this? "Aurel. Beleeve me, father I rejoyce to fee

"Ferando and his wife fo lovingly agree.

[Exeunt Aurelius and Phylema, and Alfonso and Valeria. "Emel. How now, Polidor? in a dumpe? What faift thou man?

"Pol. I fay, thou art a fhrew.

"Emel. That's better than a sheepe.

"Pol. Well, fince 'tis done, come, let's

goe.

[Exeunt Polidor and Emilia.

"Then enter two, bearing of Slie in his own apparell againe, and leaves him where they found him, and then goes out: then enters the Tapfter.

"Tapfler. Now that the darkefome night is overpaft,

"And dawning day appeares in christall skie,

"Now muft I hafte abroade: but foft! who's this?

"What Slie? o wondrous! hath he laine heere all night? "Ile wake him; I thinke hee's starved by this,

"But that his belly was fo ftufft with ale:

"What now Slie! awake for shame."—&c. STEEVINS.

PET. How! fhe is bufy, and fhe cannot come! Is that an answer?

GRE.

Ay, and a kind one too:

Pray God, fir, your wife fend you not a worse.
PET. I hope, better.

HOR. Sirrah, Biondello, go, and entreat my wife
To come to me forthwith. [Exit BIONDEllo.
PET.
O, ho! entreat her!

Nay, then she needs must come.

HOR. I am afraid, fir, Do what you can, yours will not be entreated.

Re-enter BIONDELLO.

Now, where's my wife?

BION. She fays, you have fome goodly jeft in hand; She will not come; fhe bids you come to her. PET. Worfe and worfe; fhe will not come! O vile, Intolerable, not to be endur'd!

Sirrah, Grumio, go to your mistress;

Say, I command her come to me. [Exit GRUMIO. HOR. I know her anfwer.

PET.

HOR.

What?

She will not come.3

PET. The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.

Enter KATHARINA.

BAP. Now, by my holidame, here comes Katharina!

KATH. What is your will, fir, that you fend for me?

3 She will not come.] I have added the word-come, to complete the measure, which was here defective; as indeed it is, almost irremediably, in feveral parts of the prefent fcene. STEEVENS.

PET. Where is your fifter, and Hortenfio's wife! KATH. They fit conferring by the parlour fire. PET. Go, fetch them hither; if they deny to

come,

Swinge me them foundly forth unto their husbands: Away, I fay, and bring them hither straight. [Exit KATHARINA. Luc. Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder. HOR. And fo it is; I wonder, what it bodes. PET. Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,

And awful rule, and right fupremacy;

And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy.
BAP. Now fair befal thee, good Petruchio!
The wager thou haft won; and I will add
Unto their loffes twenty thousand crowns;
Another dowry to another daughter,
For fhe is chang'd, as the had never been.

PET. Nay, I will win my wager better yet;
And fhow more sign of her obedience,
Her new-built virtue and obedience.

Re-enter KATHARINA, with BIANCA and Widow.

See, where he comes; and brings your froward wives

As prifoners to her womanly perfuafion.-
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 figh, Till I be brought to fuch a filly pafs!

BIAN. Fie! what a foolish duty call you this?

M.WOODWARD in the Character of PETRU CHIO, Catherine, that Cap of yours becomes you not off with that Bauble, throw it under foot,