Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
And place your hands below your husband’s foot:
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready, may it do him ease!”
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“Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat.”
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“Sir, here’s the door, this is Lucentio’s house,
My father bears more toward the market-place;
Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.”
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“Now, by my mother’s son, and that’s myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list”
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“O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red a blue list; an old hat, and The humour of forty fancies pricked in’t for a feather, a monster, a very monster in apparel” (III, 3)
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KATHARINA

Then, God be blessed, it is the blessed sun:
But sun it is not, when you say it is not;
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it named, even that it is;
And so it shall be for Katharine.
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Act IV s5 (18-22)

BIONDELLO

I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir: and so adieu, sir.
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Act IV s4 (95-97)

“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For ‘t is the mind that makes the body rich”
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“Why, this was moulded on a porringer;
A velvet dish;—fie, fie! ‘t is lewd and filthy;
Why, ‘t is 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.”
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“Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments”
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“Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave”
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KATHARINA

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart concealing it will break;
And rather than it shall, I will be free
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
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Act IV s3 (77-80)