Grumio

Gremio
Oh, sir, such a life with such a wife were strange.
But if you have a stomach, to ’t, i’ God’s name!
You shall have me assisting you in all.
But will you woo this wildcat?
Petruchio
Will I live?
Grumio
Will he woo her? Ay, or I’ll hang her.
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Petruchio, to Tranio
Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth:
The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for,
Her father keeps from all access of suitors
And will not promise her to any man
Until the elder sister first be wed.
The younger then is free, and not before.
Tranio,
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Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters,
and all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? Was
ever man so ’rayed? Was ever man so weary? I am
sent before to make a fire, and they are coming
after to warm them. Now were not I a little pot and
soon hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth,
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Curtis
Is she so hot a shrew as she’s reported?
Grumio
She was, good Curtis, before this frost. But
thou know’st winter tames man, woman, and
beast, for it hath tamed my old master and my new
mistress and myself, fellow Curtis.
Curtis
Away, you three-inch fool, I am no beast!
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Grumio
Lend thine ear.
Curtis
Here.
Grumio
There! He slaps Curtis on the ear.
Curtis
This ’tis to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
Grumio
And therefore ’tis called a sensible tale. And
this cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseech
list’ning.
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Katherine
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 starved for meat,
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