TAMING OF THE SHREW.

PETRUCHIO'S WOOING.

Why came I hither, but to that intent?
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I not heard the sea, puff'd up with
winds,

Rage like an angry boar, chafed with sweat?
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
Have I not in a pitched battle heard

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?

And do you tell me of a woman's tongue;
That gives not half so great a blow to the

ear,

As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?

Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.

PASSION.

Where two raging fires meet together,

They do consume the thing that feeds their fury : Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all,

PETRUCHIO'S WEDDING GARMENTS.

Biondella. Petruchio is coming, in a new hat and an old jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a pair of boots that had been candlecases, one buckled, another laced; an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town armoury, with a broken hilt, and chapeless, with two broken points his horse hipped with an old mothy saddle, the stirrups of no kindred; besides, possessed with the glanders, and like to mose in the chine; troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of wind-galls, sped with spavins, raied with the yellows, past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots; swayed in the back, and shoulder-shotten; ne'er-legged before, and with a half-checked bit, and a head-stall of sheep's leather, which, being restrained to keep

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him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots; one girth six times pieced, and a woman's crupper of velure, which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread.

Baptista. Who comes with him?

Bion. O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red and blue list; an old hat, and 'The Humour of Forty Fancies' pricked in 't for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparel; and not like a Christian footboy, or a gentleman's lackey.

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,

And for thy maintenance: commits his body
To painful labour, both by sea and land;
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;

And craves no other tribute at thy hands,
But love, fair looks, and true obedience ;-
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband:
And when she's froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,

What is she, but a foul contending rebel,
And graceless traitor to her loving lord ?—
I am ashamed that women are so simple

To offer war, where they should kneel for

peace;

Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,

When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world;
But that our soft conditions, and our hearts,
Should well agree with our external parts?

MENTAL WORTH GREATEST.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich;

And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,

So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

ADAGES AND APOTHEGMS.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Let the world slip; we shall ne'er be younger.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
There be good fellows in the world, an' a man

could light on them.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Frame your manners to the time.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. To beguile the old folks, how the young folks lay their heads together!

Do as adversaries do in law,-strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

May not young men die, as well as old?
Winter tames man, woman, and beast.
The poorest service is repaid with thanks.
Better once than never, for never too late.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.