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Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn,

For by this light whereby I see thy beauty,

Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,

Thou must be married to no man but me;

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,

And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate

Conformable as other household Kates.

Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio [as Lucentio].

Here comes your father. Never make denial;

I must and will have Katherine to my wife.

Bap.

Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?

Pet.

How but well, sir? how but well?

It were impossible I should speed amiss.

Bap.

Why, how now, daughter Katherine, in your dumps?

Kath.

Call you me daughter? Now I promise you

You have show’d a tender fatherly regard,

To wish me wed to one half lunatic,

A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack,

That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.

Pet.

Father, ’tis thus: yourself and all the world,

That talk’d of her, have talk’d amiss of her.

If she be curst, it is for policy,

For she’s not froward, but modest as the dove;