KATHARINE AND PETRUCHIO,

A COMEDY;

TAKEN BY

DAVID GARRICK

FROM

THE TAMING OF A SHREW:

REVISED BY

J. P. KEMBLE;

AND NOW FIRST PUBLISHED AS IT IS ACTED AT

THE THEATRE ROYAL

IN

Covent Garden.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE THEATRE.

1810.

Price One Shilling.

Printed by S. GOSNELL, Little Queen Street, London.

Scene-Baptista's House in Padua, and Petruchio's.

Country-house.

ACT I

SCENE,
Baptista's House.

A Hall.

Enter BAPTISTA, PETRUCHIO,-and GRUMIO, who waits behind.

Bap. THUS have I, 'gainst my own self-interest, Repeated all the worst you 're to expect

From my shrewd daughter, Katharine :-if you '11

venture,

Maugre my plain and honest declaration,
You have my free consent, win her and wed her.
Pet. Signior Baptista, thus it stands with me.

Antonio, my father, is deceas'd:

You knew him well, and, knowing him, know me, Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,

Which I have better'd, rather than decreas'd:

And I have thrust myself into the world,
Haply to wive and thrive, as best I may.
My business asketh haste, old signior,
And every day I cannot come to woo :
Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,
That covenants may be kept on either hand.

Bap. Yes, when the special thing is well obtain'd,

My daughter's love; for that is all in all.

Pet. Why, that is nothing; for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory, as she proud-minded;