Act+IV+Scene+3

//SCENE III. A room in PETRUCHIO'S house.//
> ======//Enter KATHARINA and GRUMIO//======

**GRUMIO**
> ======No, no, I cannot disobay Petruchio; I do value my life.====== **KATHARINA** > ======The more I mess up, the worse he treats me.====== > What, did he marry me to starve me? > beggars, that have come to my fathers door, > have treated me better than this man. > If not, They still have chariaty for money: > ======But I, who never knew how to treat,====== > ======Nor never needed to treat people,====== > ======Am starved, dizzy for lack of sleep,====== > ======With a promis kept doing as he says to be treated well:====== > ======Bu what makes me most angry is even with these wants,====== > ======He does to make perfect love;====== > ======As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,====== > ======The deadly sickness or else present death.====== > ======I beg of you go get me something to eat;====== > ======I do not care what, as long as it's wholesome food.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======What about some decedent bacon?======

**KATHARINA**
> ======It's sounds terrific: please, let me have it.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======I fear it has choleric.====== > ======What about some stakes?======

**KATHARINA**
> ======I like it: good Grumio, get it for me.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======I cannot tell; I fear it's choleric.====== > ======What do you say to a piece of beef and mustard?======

**KATHARINA**
> ======A wonderful dish, please get it!======

**GRUMIO**
> ======No, the mustard is a little too hot.======

**KATHARINA**
> ======Then, give me the beef and seperate the mustard until it cools down.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======No, I will not : its either you will have the mustard and the beef together,====== > ======Or you won't get anything.====== >

**KATHARINA**
> ======Then both, or one, or anything.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======Why then, the mustard without any beef at all.======

**KATHARINA**
> ======NO! get out of here you worthless slave,====== > ======//Beats him//====== > ======Give me any kind of meat:====== > ======Shame on all of you for not giving me something ,====== > ======You will all feel my misery!====== > ======Go,get out of here, I say.====== > ======//Enter PETRUCHIO and HORTENSIO with meat//======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======How are you kate, sweet lovely Kate?======

**HORTENSIO**
> ======How are you?======

**KATHARINA**
> ======I'm not as well as I could be.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Pluck up my spirits; look cheerfully upon me.====== > ======Here love; you see how diligent I am====== > ======To dress my meat myself and bring it you:====== > ======I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness deserves thanks.====== > What? not even a thank you, fine then, you get nothing! > ======And all my pains is sorted to no proof.====== > ======Here, take away this dish.======

**KATHARINA**
> ======I pray you, let it stand.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======The poorest service is repaid with thanks;====== > ======And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.======

**KATHARINA**
> thank you

**HORTENSIO**
> ======Signior Petruchio, for shame! You are to blame.====== > ======Come, Kate, I'll Give you my company.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======[Aside] Eat it all up, Hortensio, if you want to learn something from me.====== > ======all good things I'm doing is to try to unrap your gentle heart!====== > ======Kate,You can eat at a later time: and now, my honey love,====== > ======We will return to your father's house====== > ======And be given manny valubles such as,====== > ======silken coats and caps and golden rings,====== > ======With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things;====== > ======With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,====== > ======With amber bracelets, beads and all this knavery.====== > and we'll then later eat. The tailor stays on his own time, > ======To deck your body with his breath taking treasure.====== > ======//Enter Tailor//====== > ======Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;====== > ======Lay the gownd here fo us all to see.====== > ======//Enter Haberdasher//====== > ======What news with you, sir?======

**Haberdasher**
> Here is the cap. > > **PETRUCHIO** > ======What the...; this had is offle====== > ======It is far to lopsided 'its lewd and filthy:====== > ======Why, 'its a cockle or a walnut-shell,====== > ======A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap:====== > ======get it out of here! come, let me have a bigger more grand hat..======

**KATHARINA**
> ======I'll have no bigger: this does fit the time,====== > ======And gentlewomen wear such caps as these======

**PETRUCHIO**
> When you are gentle, you shall have one too, > And not till then.

**HORTENSIO**
> ======[Aside] That might be a while.====== **KATHARINA** > ======Why, sir, I trust I may have a right to speak;====== > ======And speak I will; I am no child, no babe:====== > ======Your better allow me to speak my mind,====== > ======And if you cannot, best Cover or cut off your ears.====== > ======My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,====== > ======Or else my heart concealing it will break,====== > ======And then shall I, I will be free====== > ======Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Why, you are right; it is a paltry cap,====== > ======A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie:====== > ======I loved it well,Even though you didn't.======

**KATHARINA**
> ======Love me or don't, I like the cap;====== > ======And i'll have it, or I will have none.====== > ======//Exit Haberdasher//======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======The gown? why, ay: come, tailor, let us see't.====== > ======O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?====== > ======What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon:====== > ======What, up and down, carved like an apple-tart?====== > ======Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,====== > ======Like to a censer in a barber's shop:====== > ======Why, what,blind and misdirected tailor, called this a gown!====== **HORTENSIO** > ======[Aside] I see she ain't getting a cap or a gown today.====== **Tailor** > ======You told me to make and I did.====== > ======It is perfect style of the time.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======I did; but if you be remember'd,====== > ======I did not bid you destroy it's beauty.====== > Go,go on to your next constomer, > ======you are leaving without my blessings sir:====== > ======now make the best gown out of this rag you've shown me.======

**KATHARINA**
> ======I never saw a better-fashion'd gown,====== > ======More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable:====== > ======Are you trying to use me.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Why, true; he means to use you.======

**Tailor**
> ======She says your worship means to make====== > ======a puppet of her.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======O monstrous arrogance! you lier, you idiot ,====== > ======you donkey,you yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!====== > ======flea, you nit, you winter-cricket you====== > ======invaid my house with your twisted 'Gowns'?====== > ======Away, you rag, you quantity, you remnant;====== > ======Or I shall hurt you as you have hert my eyes with your gown!====== > ======I tell you, I, that you have killed 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.======

**Tailor**
> ======But how did you desire it should be made?======

**GRUMIO**
> ======modern and stylish sir, with needle and thread.======

**Tailor**
> ======But did you not request to have it cut?======

**GRUMIO**
> ======you have faced many things.======

**Tailor**
> ======I have.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======but not me:you have braved many men;but not me; I will neither be faced nor braved. I say you didn't listen====== > I bid him master cut out the gown; but I did > ======not bid him cut it to pieces: there for we can conclude your lying.======

**Tailor**
> ======Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Read it.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======The note is fake.====== **Tailor** > ======[Reads] 'Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown:'======

**GRUMIO**
> ======Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me and====== > throw me out the window and kill me. **PETRUCHIO** > ======Proceed.======

**Tailor**
> ======[Reads] 'With a small compassed cape:'======

**GRUMIO**
> ======I confess the cape.======

**Tailor**
> ======[Reads] 'With a trunk sleeve:'======

**GRUMIO**
> ======I confess two sleeves.======

**Tailor**
> ======[Reads] 'The sleeves curiously cut.'======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Ay, there's the villany.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======Error i' the bill, sir; error i' the bill.====== > ======I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and====== > ======sewed up again; and that I'll prove upon thee,====== > ======though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.======

**Tailor**
> ======This is true that I say: an I had thee====== > ======in place where, thou shouldst know it.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======I am for thee straight: take thou the====== > ======bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======You are i' the right, sir: 'tis for my mistress.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Go, take it up unto thy master's use.======

**GRUMIO**
> ======Villain, not for thy life: take up my mistress'====== > ======gown for thy master's use!======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?======

**GRUMIO**
> ======sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:====== > ======Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use!====== > ======O, fie======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======[Aside] Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.====== > ======Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more.======

**HORTENSIO**
> ======Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow:====== > ======Take no unkindness of his hasty words:====== > ======Away! I say; commend me to thy master.====== > ======//Exit Tailor//======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's====== > ======Even in these honest mean habiliments:====== > ======Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;====== > ======For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;====== > ======And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,====== > ======So honour peereth in the meanest habit.====== > ======What is the jay more precious than the lark,====== > ======Because his fathers are more beautiful?====== > ======Or is the adder better than the eel,====== > ======Because his painted skin contents the eye?====== > ======O, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse====== > ======For this poor furniture and mean array.====== > ======if thou account'st it shame. lay it on me;====== > ======And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,====== > ======To feast and sport us at thy father's house.====== > ======Go, call my men, and let us straight to him;====== > ======And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;====== > ======There will we mount, and thither walk on foot====== > ======Let's see; I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,====== > ======And well we may come there by dinner-time.======

**KATHARINA**
> ======I dare assure you, sir, its almost two;====== > ======And it will be supper-time when you get there.======

**PETRUCHIO**
> ======It shall be seven ere I go to horse:====== > ======Look, what I speak, or do, or think to do,====== > ======You are still crossing it. Sirs, let't alone:====== > ======I will not go today; and ere I do,====== > ======It will be the time I say it is.======

**HORTENSIO**
> ======[Aside] Why, so this gallant will command the sun.====== > ======//ExeuntG//======