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Where did you study all this goodly speech?

Katherine
Where did you study all this goodly speech?
Petruchio
It is extempore, from my mother wit.
Katherine
A witty mother, witless else her son.
Petruchio
Am I not wise?
Katherine
Yes, keep you warm.
Petruchio
Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed.
And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
That you shall be my wife, your dowry ’greed on,
And, will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn,
For by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,
Thou must be married to no man but me.
For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,
And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
Conformable as other household Kates.

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Act 2
Scene 1
Line 277

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