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To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife. [195]
Dine with my father, drink a health to me,
For I must hence, and farewell to you all.

T RANIO

Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.

PET RUCHIO

It may not be.

GREMIO

Let me entreat you.

PET RUCHIO

It cannot be.

KAT HERINA

Let me entreat you. [200]

PET RUCHIO

I am content.

KAT HERINA

Are you content to stay?

PET RUCHIO

I am content you shall entreat me stay;
But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.

KAT HERINA

Now if you love me, stay.

PET RUCHIO

Grumio, my horse.

GRUMIO

Ay, sir, they be ready; the oats have eaten the [205] horses.

KAT HERINA