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I am content you shall entreat me stay,

But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.

Kath.

Now if you love me stay.

Pet.

Grumio, my horse.

Gru. Ay, sir, they be ready; the oats have eaten the horses.

Kath.

Nay then,

Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day,

No, nor to-morrow—not till I please myself.

The door is open, sir, there lies your way;

You may be jogging whiles your boots are green.

For me, I’ll not be gone till I please myself.

’Tis like you’ll prove a jolly surly groom,

That take it on you at the first so roundly.

Pet.

O Kate, content thee, prithee be not angry.

Kath.

I will be angry; what hast thou to do?

Father, be quiet, he shall stay my leisure.

Gre.

Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.

Kath.

Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.

I see a woman may be made a fool,

If she had not a spirit to resist.

Pet.

They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.

Obey the bride, you that attend on her.

Go to the feast, revel and domineer,

Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,