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Enter Katherina.

Bap.

Now, by my holidam, here comes Katherina!

Kath.

What is your will, sir, that you send for me?

Pet.

Where is your sister, and Hortensio’s wife?

Kath.

They sit conferring by the parlor fire.

Pet.

Go fetch them hither. If they deny to come,

Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands.

Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.

[Exit Katherina.]

Luc.

Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.

Hor.

And so it is; I wonder what it bodes.

Pet.

Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,

An aweful rule, and right supremacy;

And to be short, what not, that’s sweet and happy.

Bap.

Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio!

The wager thou hast won, and I will add

Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns,

Another dowry to another daughter,

For she is chang’d, as she had never been.

Pet.

Nay, I will win my wager better yet,

And show more sign of her obedience,

Her new-built virtue and obedience.

Enter Kate, Bianca, and Widow.

See where she comes, and brings your froward wives