Page 1494 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

Come, mistress Kate, I’ll bear you company.

PETRUCHIO [Aside.]

Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lov’st me. - [50]
Much good do it unto thy gentle heart.
Kate, eat apace. And now, my honey love,
We will return unto thy father’s house,
And revel it as bravely as the best,
With silken coats and caps, and golden rings, [55]
With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things,
With scarfs and fans, and double change of bravery,
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
What, hast thou din’d? The tailor stays thy leisure,
To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure. [60]

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.

PET RUCHIO

Why, this was moulded on a porringer!
A velvet dish! Fie, fie! ’Tis lewd and filthy. [65]
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.

KAT HERINA

I’ll have no bigger. This doth fit the time,
And gentlewoman wear such caps as these. [70]

PET RUCHIO

When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
And not till then.

HORT ENSIO

[Aside.] That will not be in haste.