The Works of Shakspere, Revised from the Best Authorities

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...too: Pray God, sir, your wife send 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 must needs come. Hor. I am afraid, sir, Do what you can, yours will not be entreated. Re-enter Biondello. Now, where's my wife 1 Bion. She says, you have some goodly jest in hand; She will not come; she bids you come to her. Pet. Worse and worse; she will not come! O vile, Intolerable, not to be endured!--Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress; Say, I command her come to me. Exit Grumio. Hor. I know her answer. Pet. What? Hor. She will not. Pet. The fouler fortune mine, and there an end. Enter Katharina. Bap. Now, by my holidame, here comes Katharina! Kath. What is your will, sir, that you send for me? Pet. Where is your sister and Hortensio's wife? Kath. They sit conferring by the parlour fire. Pet. Go, fetch them hither: if they deny to come, Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands; Away, I say, and bring them hither straight. Exit Katharina. Luc. Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder. Hor. And so it is; I wonder what it bodes. Pet. Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, An awful rule, and right supremacy; And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy? Bap. Now fair befal thee, good Petruchio! The wager thou hast won; and I will add Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns: Another dowry to another daughter, For she is changed as she had never been. Pet. Nay, I will win my wager better yet; And shew more sign of her obedience, Her new-built virtue and obedience. Re-enter Katharina, with Bianca and Widow. See where she comes; and brings your froward wives As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.--Katharine, that cap of...