Page 1505 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

Scene V IT

Enter Petruchio, Katherina, Hortensio [and Servants].

PET RUCHIO

Come on, a God’s name, once more toward our father’s.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!

KAT HERINA

The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.

PET RUCHIO

I say it is the moon that shines so bright.

KAT HERINA

I know it is the sun that shines so bright. [5]

PET RUCHIO

Now by my mother’s son, and that’s myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Or e’er I journey to your father’s house. -
[To Servants.] Go on, and fetch our horses back again. -
Evermore cross’d and cross’d, nothing but cross’d. [10]

HORT ENSIO

Say as he says, or we shall never go.

KAT HERINA

Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.
And if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. [15]

PET RUCHIO

I say it is the moon.

KAT HERINA

I know it is the moon.

PET RUCHIO