The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Gru._ You are i' the right, sir: 'tis for my mistress.
_Pet._ Go, take it up unto thy master's use.
_Gru._ Villain, not for thy life: take up my mistress'
gown for thy master's use! 155
_Pet._ Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?
_Gru._ O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:
Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use!
O, fie, fie, fie!
_Pet._ Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid. [_Aside._ 160
Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more.
_Hor._ Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown to-morrow:
Take no unkindness of his hasty words:
Away! I say; commend me to thy master. [_Exit Tailor._
_Pet._ Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's 165
Even in these honest mean habiliments:
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 170
What is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel,
Because his painted skin contents the eye?
O, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse 175
For this poor furniture and mean array.
If thou account'st it shame, lay it on me;
And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,
To feast and sport us at thy father's house.
Go, call my men, and let us straight to him; 180
And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;
There will we mount, and thither walk on foot.
Let's see; I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,
And well we may come there by dinner-time.
_Kath._ I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two; 185
And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there.
_Pet._ It shall be seven ere I go to horse:
Look, what I speak, or do, or think to do,
You are still crossing it. Sirs, let't alone:
I will not go to-day; and ere I do, 190
It shall be what o'clock I say it is.
_Hor._ Why, so this gallant will command the sun.
[_Exeunt._
LINENOTES:
SCENE III.] Steevens. Actus Quartus. Scæna Prima. Ff Q. ACT
IV. SCENE IV. Pope. ACT V. SCENE I. Hanmer. ACT IV. SCENE VI.
Warburton. ACT IV. SCENE II. Capell.
[8] _Nor_ ... _entreat_] omitted in Reed (1803, 1813), Boswell (1821),
&c.
[11] _wants_] _wrongs_ Capell (corrected in MS.).
[19] _choleric_] F1 Q. _phlegmatic_ F2 F3 F4.
[22] _'tis_] _it is_ Rowe. _it's_ Pope.
[27] _Nay then_] _Nay_, _that_ Collier (Collier MS.).
[30] _without_] _e'en without_ Hanmer. _now without_ Capell.
[36] SCENE V. Pope. SCENE VII. Warburton.
[37] _Faith_] _I'faith_ Capell.
[40] [Sets the dish on a table. Capell (after line 39).
[41] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
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