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Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2] |
Grumio |
557 |
Knock, sir! Whom should I knock?
Is there any man has rebus'd your worship?
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2 |
Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2] |
Grumio |
580 |
Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin. If this
be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service- look you, sir:
he bid me knock him and rap him soundly, sir. Well, was it fit
for a servant to use his master so; being, perhaps, for aught I
see, two and thirty, a pip out?
Whom would to God I had well knock'd at first,
Then had not Grumio come by the worst.
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3 |
Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2] |
Gremio |
692 |
O, very well; I have perus'd the note.
Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound-
All books of love, see that at any hand;
And see you read no other lectures to her.
You understand me- over and beside
Signior Baptista's liberality,
I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,
And let me have them very well perfum'd;
For she is sweeter than perfume itself
To whom they go to. What will you read to her?
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4 |
Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2] |
Hortensio |
727 |
Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love.
Listen to me, and if you speak me fair
I'll tell you news indifferent good for either.
Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
Upon agreement from us to his liking,
Will undertake to woo curst Katherine;
Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.
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5 |
Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2] |
Tranio |
791 |
Softly, my masters! If you be gentlemen,
Do me this right- hear me with patience.
Baptista is a noble gentleman,
To whom my father is not all unknown,
And, were his daughter fairer than she is,
She may more suitors have, and me for one.
Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers;
Then well one more may fair Bianca have;
And so she shall: Lucentio shall make one,
Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.
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6 |
Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2] |
Petruchio |
812 |
Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth:
The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for,
Her father keeps from all access of suitors,
And will not promise her to any man
Until the elder sister first be wed.
The younger then is free, and not before.
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7 |
Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2] |
Hortensio |
824 |
Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive;
And since you do profess to be a suitor,
You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
To whom we all rest generally beholding.
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8 |
Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1] |
Katherina |
844 |
Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tell
Whom thou lov'st best. See thou dissemble not.
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9 |
Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1] |
Katherina |
1107 |
Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command.
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10 |
Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 4] |
Pedant |
2182 |
Soft, son!
Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua
To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
Of love between your daughter and himself;
And- for the good report I hear of you,
And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
And she to him- to stay him not too long,
I am content, in a good father's care,
To have him match'd; and, if you please to like
No worse than I, upon some agreement
Me shall you find ready and willing
With one consent to have her so bestow'd;
For curious I cannot be with you,
Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.
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Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 5] |
Katherina |
2304 |
Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
Whither away, or where is thy abode?
Happy the parents of so fair a child;
Happier the man whom favourable stars
Allots thee for his lovely bed-fellow.
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