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Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me

Petruchio, aside to Hortensio
Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.—
Much good do it unto thy gentle heart.
Kate, eat apace.
Katherine and Hortensio prepare to eat.
And now, my honey love,
Will we return unto thy father’s house
And revel it as bravely as the best,

With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things,
With scarves and fans and double change of brav’ry,
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav’ry.

With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things,
With scarves and fans and double change of brav’ry,
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav’ry.
What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure
To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.
Enter Tailor.
Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments.
Lay forth the gown.
Enter Haberdasher.
What news with you, sir?
Haberdasher
Here is the cap your Worship did bespeak.
Petruchio
Why, this was molded on a porringer!
A velvet dish! Fie, fie, ’tis lewd and filthy.
Why, ’tis a cockle or a walnut shell,
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap.
Away with it! Come, let me have a bigger.
Katherine
I’ll have no bigger. This doth fit the time,
And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.
Petruchio
When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
And not till then.
Hortensio, aside
That will not be in haste.
Katherine
Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,
And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.
Your betters have endured me say my mind,
And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break,
And, rather than it shall, I will be free
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
Petruchio
Why, thou sayst true. It is a  paltry cap,
A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie.
I love thee well in that thou lik’st it not.
Katherine
Love me, or love me not, I like the cap,
And it I will have, or I will have none.
Exit Haberdasher.

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Act 4
Scene 3
Line 52

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