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Look that you take upon you as you should. Exeunt.
You understand me, sir. So shall you stay
Till you have done your business in the city. [110]
If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.

PEDANT

O sir, I do, and will repute you ever
The patron of my life and liberty.

T RANIO

Then go with me to make the matter good.
This, by the way, I let you understand; [115]
My father is here look’d for every day
To pass assurance of a dower in marriage
’Twixt me and one Baptista’s daughter here.
In all these circumstances I’ll instruct you.
Go with me to clothe you as becomes you. [120]

Scene III IT

Enter Katherina and Grumio.

GRUMIO

No, no, forsooth, I dare not for my life.

KAT HERINA

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, [5]
If not, elsewhere they meet with charity.
But I, who never knew how to entreat,
Nor never needed that I should entreat,
Am starv’d for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
With oaths kept waking, and with brawling fed. [10]
And that which spites me more than all these wants,
He does it under name of perfect love,
As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,
’Twere deadly sickness or else present death.