Kath. No, sir; God forbid :-but ashamed to kiss. Pet. Why, then let's home again :-Come, sirrah,! let's away. Kath. Nay, I will give thee a kiss: now pray thee, love, stay. Pet. Is not this well?-Come, my sweet Kate; Better once than never, for never too late. [Exe. Pet. Nay, that you shall not; since you have Have at you for a bitter jest or two. [Exeunt Bianca, Katharina, and Widow. Pet. She hath prevented me.-Here, Signior Tranio, SCENE II.-A room in Lucentio's house. Al agree: And time it is, when raging war is done, [They sit at table. were true. Pet. Now for my life, Hortensio fears2 his widow. Pet. You are sensible, and yet you miss my Hor. To her, widow! down. hound, Which runs himself, and catches for his master. I Pet. Well, I say-no: and therefore, for assu A Twenty crowns. I'll venture so much on my hawk, or hound, Pet. Hor. Who shall begin? Content. A match; 'tis done. Bap. Son, I will be your half, Bianca comes. How now! what news? Bion. Sir, my mistress sends you word, Gre. Ay, and a kind one too: Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse. Hor. Sirrah, Biondello, go, and entreat my O, ho [Exit Biondello. entreat her! Pet. A hundred marks, my Kate does put her Nay, then she must needs come. Hor. That's my office. Pet. Spoke like an officer:-Ha, to thee, lad. (1) A banquet was a refection consisting of fruit, cakes, &c. Say, I command her come to me. Hor. I know her answer. Pet. Hor. [Exit Grumio. Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, What? Bap. Now, by my holidame, here comes Katha-Too little payment for so great a debt. Kath. What is your will, sir, that you send for me? come, Pet. Where is your sister, and Hortensio's wife? An awful rule, and right supremacy; Re-enter Katharina, with Bianca, and Widow. See, where she comes; and brings your froward wives As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.— [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 a hundred crowns since supper-time. Bian. The more fool you, for laying on my duty. Pet. Katharine, I charge thee, tell these head strong women What duty they do owe their lords and husbands. Wid. Come, come, you're mocking; we will have no telling. Pet. Come on, I say; and first begin with her. Wid. She shall not. Pet. I say, she shall ;-and first begin with her. Kath. Fie, fie! unknit that threat'ning unkind brow; And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, A woman mov'd, is like a fountain troubled, Such duty as the subject owes the prince, pare, That seeming to be most, which we least are. Pet. Why, there's a wench!-Come on, and kiss me, Kate. Luc. Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt ha't. 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 tam'd a curst shrew. Luc. 'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam'd so. [Exeunt. that they can hardly be called two, without injury Of this play the two plots are so well united, to the art with which they are interwoven. The attention is entertained with all the variety of a double plot, yet is not distracted by unconnected incidents. The part between Katharine and Petruchio is eminently sprightly and diverting. At the marriage of Bianca, the arrival of the real father, perhaps, produces more perplexity than pleasure. The whole play is very popular and diverting. JOHNSON. (2) Abate your spirits. ACT I. SCENE I-Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes' palace. Enter Camillo and Archidamus. Archidamus. 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 Bohemia and your Sicilia. Cam. I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which ne 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 Clown, his son. Servant to the old shepher. Hermione, queen to Leontes. Perdita, daughter to Leontes and Hermione. Paulina, wife to Antigonus. Emilia, a lady, Two other ladies, Mopsa, attending the queen. Dorcas, Shepherdesses. Lords, ladies, and attendants; satyrs for a dance, shepherds, shepherdesses, guards, &c. Scene, sometimes in Sicilia, sometimes in Bohemia. 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, indeed, phywent on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their sics the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they, that life, to see him a man. Arch. Would they else be content to die? Cam. Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live. Arch. If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. [Exeunt. SCENE II-The same. A room of state in the palace. Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Hermione, Mamillius, Camillo, and attendants. Pol. Nine changes of the wat'ry star have been in so rare-I know not what to say.--We will The shepherd's note, since we have left our throne give you sleepy drinks; that your senses, unintelli-Without a burden: time as long again gent of our insufficience, may, though they can- Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks: not praise us, as little accuse us. Arch. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utter ance. And yet we should, for perpetuity, Cam. You pay a great deal too dear, for what's Go hence in debt: And therefore, like a cipher, given freely. Yet standing in rich place, I multiply, With one we-thank-you, many thousands more That go before it. Leon. Stay your thanks awhile; Cam. Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to And pay them when you part. Bohemia. They were trained together in their Pol. Sir, that's to-morrow. childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance, such an affection, which cannot choose but branch Or breed upon our absence: That may blow now. Since their more mature dignities, and royal No sneaping winds at home, to make us say, necessities, made separation of their society, their This is put forth too truly! Besides, I have stay'd encounters, though not personal, have been royally To tire your royalty. attornied' with interchange of gifts, letters, loving Leon. embassies; that they have seemed to be together, Than you can put us to't. (1) Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies. We are tougher, brother, No longer stay. longer. Pol. (3) Affords a cordial to the state. (4) Nipping. |