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She will not.

PET RUCHIO

The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.

Enter Katherina.

BAPT IST A

Now, by my holidame, here comes Katherina.

KAT HERINA

What is your will, sir, that you send for me? [100]

PET RUCHIO

Where is your sister, and Hortensio’s wife?

KAT HERINA

They sit conferring by the parlour fire.

PET RUCHIO

Go fetch them hither. If they deny to come,
Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands.
Away, I say, and bring them hither straight. [105]

[Exit Katherina.]

LUCENT IO

Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.

HORT ENSIO

And so it is. I wonder what it bodes.

PET RUCHIO

Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,
An awful rule, and right supremacy,
And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy. [110]

BAPT IST A

Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
The wager thou hast won, and I will add
Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns,