The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Page B

velvet dish. Fie, fie, ’tis lewd 67 and filthy.
    Why, ’tis a cockle 68 or a walnut-shell,
     A knack, a toy, a trick 69 , a baby’s cap.
    Away with it! Come, let me have a bigger.
    KATE     I’ll have no bigger. This doth fit the time 71 ,
    And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.
    PETRUCHIO     When you are gentle 73 , you shall have one too,
    And not till then.
    HORTENSIO     That will not be in haste.
    Aside
    KATE     Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,
    And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.
    Your betters have endured me 78 say my mind,
    And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
    My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
    Or else my heart concealing it will break,
    And rather than it shall, I will be free
    Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
    PETRUCHIO     Why, thou say’st true. It is a paltry cap,
    A custard-coffin 85 , a bauble, a silken pie.
    I love thee well in that thou lik’st it not.
    KATE     Love me or love me not, I like the cap,
    And it I will have, or I will have none.
    [
Exit Haberdasher
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    PETRUCHIO     Thy gown? Why, ay. Come, tailor, let us see’t.
    O mercy, God! What masquing stuff 90 is here?
    What’s this? A sleeve? ’Tis like a demi-cannon 91 .
    What, up and down 92 , carved like an apple tart?
    Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
    Like to a censer 94 in a barber’s shop.
    Why, what o’devil’s name, tailor, call’st thou this?
    HORTENSIO     I see she’s like to have neither cap nor gown.
    Aside
    TAILOR     You bid me make it orderly and well,
    According to the fashion and the time.
    PETRUCHIO     Marry, and did 99 . But if you be remembered,
    I did not bid you mar 100 it to the time.
    Go, hop me over every kennel home 101 ,
    For you shall hop without my custom, sir:
    I’ll none of it. Hence, make your best of it 103 .
    KATE     I never saw a better-fashioned gown,
    More quaint 105 , more pleasing, nor more commendable.
     Belike 106 you mean to make a puppet of me.
    PETRUCHIO     Why, true, he means to make a puppet of thee.
    TAILOR     She says your worship means to make a puppet of her.
    PETRUCHIO     O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble,
    Thou yard 110 , three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!
    Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou!
     Braved 112 in mine own house with a skein of thread?
    Away, thou rag, thou quantity 113 , thou remnant,
    Or I shall so be-mete 114 thee with thy yard
    As thou shalt think on prating 115 whilst thou liv’st!
    I tell thee, I, that thou hast marred her gown.
    TAILOR     Your worship is deceived. The gown is made
    Just as my master had direction.
    Grumio gave order how it should be done.
    GRUMIO     I gave him no order, I gave him the stuff 120 .
    TAILOR     But how did you desire it should be made?
    GRUMIO     Marry, sir, with needle and thread.
    TAILOR     But did you not request to have it cut?
    GRUMIO     Thou hast faced 124 many things.
    TAILOR     I have.
    GRUMIO     Face not me. Thou hast braved 126 many men, brave
    not me; I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto thee, I
    bid thy master cut out the gown, but I did not bid him cut it
    to pieces. Ergo
129 , thou liest.
    TAILOR     Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify.
    Shows bill
    PETRUCHIO     Read it.
    GRUMIO      The note lies in’s throat 132 , if he say I said so.
    TAILOR     ‘
Imprimis
, a loose-bodied gown 133 .’
    Reads
    GRUMIO     Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in
    the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom 135 of brown
    thread: I said a gown.
    PETRUCHIO