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Updated: June 25, 2025
And then he sent his servant, saying, "Sirrah, go to your mistress and tell her I command her to come to me." The company had scarcely time to think she would not obey this summons when Baptista, all in amaze, exclaimed: "Now, by my holidame, here comes Katharine!" And she entered, saying meekly to Petruchio, "What is your will, sir, that you send for me?"
Had Primgate wanted to paint her at that particular moment I should have suggested Katherine during the earlier stages listening to a curtain lecture from Petruchio. "Are you suggesting that all women should take her for a model?" "No," I said, "I'm not. Though were we living in Chaucer's time I might; and you would not think it even silly.
The tables were spread, and supper soon served; but Petruchio, pretending to find fault with every dish, threw the meat about the floor, and ordered the servants to remove it away, and all this he did, as he said, in love for his Katherine, that she might not eat meat that was not well dressed.
In the mean time Petruchio was settling with himself the mode of courtship be should pursue; and he said: "I will woo her with some spirit when she comes. If she rails at me, why, then I will tell her she sings as sweetly as a nightingale; and if she frowns, I will say she looks as clear as roses newly washed with dew.
That a girl student should mistake "Launcelot Gobbo" for King Arthur's knight is not a matter of surprise to one who remembers how three young men, graduates of the oldest and proudest colleges in the land, placidly confessed ignorance of "Petruchio." Shakespeare, after all, belongs to "the realms of gold."
So stiffen your backbone, Petruchio, and make this next dialogue with me as rapid as you know. Come back at me like flash-fire don't lag a breath we'll stir the house to laughter, or know the reason why. Ready?"
'He's been so horribly nice to me! And the Petruchio having once got the upper hand, the Katherine was like her prototype almost overdoing it. The corduroy trousers, Russian boots, the flame-coloured jersey actually arrived. Cicely looked at them wistfully and locked them up.
At length, after a weary journey, during which Katherine had heard nothing but the wild ravings of Petruchio at the servant and the horses, they arrived at his house. Petruchio welcomed her kindly to her home, but he resolved she should have neither rest nor food that night.
Lucentio and Hortensio raised the wager to a hundred crowns, and Lucentio first sent his servant to desire Bianca would come to him. But the servant returned, and said: "Sir, my mistress sends you word she is busy and cannot come." "How," said Petruchio, "does she say she is busy and cannot come? Is that an answer for a wife?"
To this the other two husbands willingly consented, for they were confident that their gentle wives would prove more obedient than the headstrong Katharine, and they proposed a wager of twenty crowns. But Petruchio merrily said he would lay as much as that upon his hawk or hound, but twenty times as much upon his wife.
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