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Enter PETRUCHIO, KATE,
HORTENSIO.
PETRUCHIO
1 Come on, i' God's name; once more toward our father's.
2 Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
KATHARINA
3 The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now.
PETRUCHIO
4 I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
KATHARINA
5 I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
PETRUCHIO
6 Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,
7 It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
8 Or ere I journey to your father's house.
9 Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
10 Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!
HORTENSIO
11 Say as he says, or we shall never go.
KATHARINA
12 Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
13 And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
14 An if you please to call it a rush-candle,
15 Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
PETRUCHIO
16 I say it is the moon.
KATHARINA
16 I know it is the moon.
PETRUCHIO
17 Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.
KATHARINA
18 Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun:
19 But sun it is not, when you say it is not;
20 And the moon changes even as your mind.
21 What you will have it named, even that it is;
22 And so it shall be so for Katharina.
HORTENSIO
23 Petruchio, go thy ways; the field is won.
PETRUCHIO
24 Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,
25 And not unluckily against the bias.
26 But, soft! company is coming here.
27 Good morrow, gentle mistress: where away? 28 Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too, 29 Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman? 30 Such war of white and red within her cheeks! 31 What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty, 32 As those two eyes become that heavenly face? 33 Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee. 34 Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.
HORTENSIO
35 A' will make the man mad, to make a
36 woman of him.
KATHARINA
37 Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
38 Whither away, or where is thy abode?
39 Happy the parents of so fair a child;
40 Happier the man, whom favorable stars
41 Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow!
PETRUCHIO
42 Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad:
43 This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd,
44 And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is.
KATHARINA
45 Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,
46 That have been so bedazzled with the sun
47 That everything I look on seemeth green:
48 Now I perceive thou art a reverend father;
49 Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
PETRUCHIO
50 Do, good old grandsire; and withal make known
51 Which way thou travellest: if along with us,
52 We shall be joyful of thy company.
VINCENTIO
53 Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,
54 That with your strange encounter much amazed me,
55 My name is call'd Vincentio; my dwelling Pisa;
56 And bound I am to Padua; there to visit
57 A son of mine, which long I have not seen.
PETRUCHIO
58 What is his name?
VINCENTIO
58 Lucentio, gentle sir.
PETRUCHIO
59 Happily we met; the happier for thy son.
60 And now by law, as well as reverend age,
61 I may entitle thee my loving father:
62 The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,
63 Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,
64 Nor be grieved: she is of good esteem,
65 Her dowery wealthy, and of worthy birth;
66 Beside, so qualified as may beseem
67 The spouse of any noble gentleman.
68 Let me embrace with old Vincentio,
69 And wander we to see thy honest son,
70 Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
VINCENTIO
71 But is it true? or else is it your pleasure,
72 Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest
73 Upon the company you overtake?
HORTENSIO
74 I do assure thee, father, so it is.
PETRUCHIO
75 Come, go along, and see the truth hereof;
76 For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.
HORTENSIO
77 Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart.
78 Have to my widow! and if she be froward,
79 Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward.
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