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As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd As Socrates’ Xanthippe or a worse,
She moves me not, or not removes, at least Affection’s edge in me, were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas.
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
Grumio: Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his mind is. Why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne’er
a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses. Why, nothing comes amiss,
so money comes withal.
Hortensio: Petruchio, since we are stepp’d thus far in, I will continue that I broach’d in jest.
I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife
With wealth enough, and young and beauteous; Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman;
Her only fault, and that is faults enough,
Is that she is intolerable curst,
And shrewd and froward so beyond all measure That, were my state far worser than it is,
I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
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Petruchio: Hortensio, peace. Thou know’st not gold’s effect. Tell me her father’s name, and ‘tis enough;
For I will board her though she chide as loud
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
Hortensio: Her father is Baptista Minola, An affable and courteous gentleman;
Her name is Katherine Minola,
Renown’d in Padua for her scolding tongue.
Petruchio: I know her father, though I know not her; And he knew my deceased father well.
I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her;
And therefore let me be thus bold with you
To give you over at this first encounter— Unless you will accomp any me thither.
Grumio: [to Hortensio] I pray you, sir, let him go while
the humour lasts. O’ my word, and she knew him as well as I do, she would think scolding would do little good upon him.
She may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so.
Why, that’s nothing; an he begin once, he’ll rail in
his rope-tricks. I’ll tell you what, sir: an she
stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in
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