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Not so well apparell’d as I wish you were. [90]
PET RUCHIO
Were it not better I should rush in thus?
But where is Kate? Where is my lovely bride?
How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown.
And wherefore gaze this goodly company,
As if they saw some wondrous monument, [95]
Some comet, or unusual prodigy?
BAPT IST A
Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day.
First were we sad, fearing you would not come,
Now sadder that you come so unprovided.
Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate, [100]
An eyesore to our solemn festival!
T RANIO
And tell us what occasion of import
Hath all so long detain’d you from your wife
And sent you hither so unlike yourself.
PET RUCHIO
Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear. [105]
Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
Though in some part enforced to digress,
Which at more leisure I will so excuse
As you shall well be satisfied withal.
But where is Kate? I stay too long from her. [110]
The morning wears, ’tis time we were at church.
T RANIO
See not your bride in these unreverent robes,
Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.
PET RUCHIO
Not I, believe me. Thus I’ll visit her.
BAPT IST A
But thus, I trust, you will not marry her. [115]
