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Bianca: Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself, To make a bondmaid and a slave of me.
That I disdain; but for these other goods—
Unbind my hands, I’ll pull them off myself,
Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat,
Or what you will command me will I do, So well I know my duty to my elders.
Chunk 4
Katherine: Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tell Whom thou lov’st best. See thou dissemble not.
Bianca: Believe me, sister, of all the men alive I never yet beheld that special face
Which I could fancy more than any other.
Katherine: Minion, thou liest. Is’t not Hortensio? Bianca: If you affect him, sister, here I swear
I’ll plead for you myself but you shall have him.
Katherine: O then, belike, you fancy riches more: You will have Gremio to keep you fair.
Bianca: Is it for him you do envy me so? Nay, then you jest; and now I well perceive You have but jested with me all this while. I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
Katherine: [Strikes her] If that be jest, then all the rest was so. Enter BAPTISTA
Baptista: Why, how now, dame! Whence grows this insolence?
Bianca, stand aside—poor girl, she weeps!
[He unties her hands.] [to Bianca] Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her. [to Katherine] For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit,
Why dost thou wrong her that did ne’er wrong thee?
When did she cross thee with a bitter word?
Chunk 5
Katherine: Her silence flouts me, and I’ll be revenged! [She flies after BIANCA.]
Baptista: What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in. Exit BIANCA
Katherine: What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance bare-foot on her wedding-day,
And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
Talk not to me; I will go sit and weep Till I can find occasion of revenge.
Exit KATHERINE
My Notes
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