The wager thou hast won; and I will add Enter Catharina, Bianca and Widow. [She pulls off her cap, and throws it down. Wid. Lord, let me never have a cause to fight, 'Till I be brought to fuch. a filly pafs. Bian. Fie, what a foolish duty call you this? Luc. I would, your duty were as foolish too! The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca, Coft me an hundred crowns fince fupper-time. Bian. The more fool you, for laying on my duty. Pet. Catharine, I charge thee, tell these headftrong Women, What duty they owe to their Lords and Husbands. Wid. Come, come, you're mocking; we will have no telling. Pet. Come on, I say, and first begin with her. Pet. I fay, fhe fhall; and firft begin with her. A Woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, Thy Thy Hufband is thy Lord, thy Life, thy Keeper, When they are bound to ferve, love, and obey. But that our foft conditions and our hearts My hand is ready, may it do him ease. Pet. Why, there's a wench: come on, and kifs me, Kate. Luc. Well, go thy ways, old lad, for thou fhalt ha't. Vin. 'Tis a good hearing, when children are toward. Luc. Luc. But a harsh hearing, when women are froward. We three are married, but you two are sped. [Exeunt Petruchio and Catharina. Hor. Now go thy ways, thou haft tam'd a curst Shrew. Luc. 'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be [Exeunt omnes. tam'd fo. Enter two fervants bearing Sly in his own apparel, and leaving him on the Stage. Then enter a Tapfter. Sly awaking.] Sim, give's fome more wine-what, all the Players gone? am not I a Lord? Tap. A Lord, with a murrain! come, art thou drunk Still? Sly. Who's this? Tapfter! oh, I have had the bravest dream that ever thou heardft in all thy life. Tap. Yea, marry, but thou hadst beft get thee home, for your Wife will courfe you for dreaming here all night. Sly. Will he? I know how to tame a Shrew. I dreamt upon it all this night, and thou haft wak'd me out of the beft dream that ever I had. But I'll to nry Wife and tame her too, if fhe anger me. ALL'S Dramatis Perfonæ. KING of France. Duke of Florence. Bertram, Count of Roufillon. Parolles, a parafitical follower of Bertram; a coward, but vain, and a great pretender to valour. Several young French Lords, that ferve with Bertram in the Florentine war. Steward, Clown, } Servants to the Countess of Roufillon. Countess of Roufillon, mother to Bertram. Helena, daughter to Gerard de Narbon, a famous phyfician, fome time fince dead. An old widow of Florence. Diana, daughter to the widow. Mariana, } Neighbours, and friends to the widow. Lords, attending on the King; Officers, Soldiers, &c. SCENE lies partly in France; and, partly in ALL's |