Hor. Pet. Hor. Who shall begin? Content. Pet. Nay, I will win my wager better yet; Re-enter KATHARINA, with BIANCA and Widow. See, where she comes; and brings your froward wives As prisoners to her womanly persuasion. · it down. Wid. Well! let me never have a cause to sigh, A match; 'tis done. Till I be brought to such a silly pass! That will I. Go, [Exit. Bap. Son, I will be your half, Bianca comes. How now! what news? Now, where's my wife? Bian. Fye! what a foolish duty call you this? What duty they do owe their lords and husbands. Pet. Come on, I say; and first begin with her. Pet. I say, she shall ;-and first begin with her. And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, A woman mov'd, is like a fountain troubled, Bion. She says, you have some goodly jest in Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, hand; She will not come; she bids you come to her. Sirrah, Grumio, go to your mistress; Hor. What? Bap. Now, by my holidame, here comes Ka- Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, Kath. What is your will, sir, that you send for me? [Exit KATHARINA. For she is chang'd, as she had never been. ACT I. Sicilia. An Antichamber in Leontes' such an affection, which cannot choose but branch Palace. Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMIS. Arch. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. Cam. I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. Arch. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be justified in our loves: for, indeed, Cam. 'Beseech you, in so rare Arch. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence - I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks: that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us. Cam. You pay a great deal too dear, for what's given freely. Arch. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. Cam. Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then now. Since their more mature dignities, and royal necessities, made separation of their society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally attornied', with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies; that they have seemed to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue their loves! Arch. I think, there is not in the world either malice, or matter, to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius; it is a gentleman of the greatest promise, that ever came into my note. Cam. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that, indeed, physicks the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they, that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their life, to see him a man. Arch. Would they else be content to die? Cum. Yes: if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live. Arch. If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. [Exeunt Supplied by substitution of embassies 2 Wide waste of country. 3 Affords a cordial to the state |