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You understand me, sir? So shall you stay

Till you have done your business in the city.

If this be court’sy, sir, accept of it.

Ped.

O sir, I do, and will repute you ever

The patron of my life and liberty.

Tra.

Then go with me to make the matter good.

This by the way I let you understand:

My father is here look’d for every day,

To pass assurance of a dow’r in marriage

’Twixt me and one Baptista’s daughter here.

In all these circumstances I’ll instruct you;

Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.

Exeunt.

¶

Enter Katherina and Grumio.

Gru.

No, no, forsooth I dare not for my life.

Kath.

The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.

What, did he marry me to famish me?

Beggars that come unto my father’s door

Upon entreaty have a present alms,

If not, elsewhere they meet with charity;

But I, who never knew how to entreat,

Nor never needed that I should entreat,

Am starv’d for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,

With oaths kept waking, and with brawling fed;

And that which spites me more than all these wants,