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Now I perceive thou art my reverend father.
Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
Bap. (c.) Rise, rise, my child.

gary's this?

[Kneels

What strange væ

I came to see thee, with my son and daughter.
How lik'st thou wedlock? Art not alter'd, Kate?
Kat. Indeed I am; almost transform'd to stone.
Pet. Chang'd for the better much: art not, my Kate?
Kat. So good a master cannot choose but mend me.
Hor. Here is a wonder, if you talk of wonders.
Bia. And so it is; I wonder what it bodes.

Pet. Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, And awful rule, and right supremacy:

And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy?
Bia. Was ever woman's spirit broke so soon!
What is the matter, Kate? Hold up thy head;
Nor lose our sex's best prerogative,

To wish and have our will.

Pet. Peace, brawler, peace!

Or I will give the meek Hortensio,

Your husband there, my taming recipe.

Katharine, I charge thee, tell this headstrong woman, What duty 'tis she owes her lord and husband.

Kat. Such duty as the subject owes the prince,

E'en such a woman oweth to her husband.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper;
One that cares for thee,

And for thy maintenance: commits his body
To painful labour, both by see and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
While thou ly'st 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.
Pet. Well said, my Kate!

lady.

You'll learn that lesson,

Bap. Now joy betide thee, son Petruchio!
And fair befall thee, my now gentle Katharine !
Go home with me along, and I will add
Another fortune to another daughter;

For thou art chang'd, as thou hadst never been.
Pet. My fortune is sufficient: here's my wealth,
Kiss me, my Kate; and, since thou art become
So prudent, kind, and dutiful a wife,

Petruchio here shall doff the lordly husband;

An honest mask which I throw off with pleasure.
Far hence all rudeness, wilfulness, and noise,
And be our future lives one gentle stream
Of mutual love, compliance, and regard!

Kat. Nay, then, I'm all unworthy of thy love,
And look with blushes on my former self.
How shameful 'tis, when women are so simple,
To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,
Where bound to love, to honour, and obey!

DISPOSITION OF THE CHARACTERS AT THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN.

BAPTISTA. PETRUCHIO. KATHA, HORTEN. BIANCA, R.]

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THE END.

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Secrets Worth Knowing.

Nicholas. How sensibly he talks! why, 'tis five thousand per cent. profit. I'll be bled directly.

Act V. Scene 2.

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FRINTED FROM THE ACTING COPY, WITH REMARKS,
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL;

To which are added,

A DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTUME,-CAST OF THE CHARACTERS, ENTRANCES AND EXITS,-RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, AND THE WHOLE OF THE STAGE BUSINESS.

As now performed at the

THEATRES ROYAL, LONDON.

EMBELLISHED WITH A FINE WOOD-ENGRAVING,

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