Act 4
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Enter PETRUCHIO,
KATHERINE, HORTENSIO and Servants
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PETRUCHIO, KATHERINE
and HORTENSIO enter, accompanied by
servants.
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PETRUCHIO
Come on, i' God’s name, once more toward our
father’s.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
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PETRUCHIO
Come, let’s continue on toward your father’s
house. Good Lord, how bright and splendid is the moon
tonight!
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KATHERINE
The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.
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KATHERINE
The moon? You mean the sun! It is not nighttime now.
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PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
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PETRUCHIO
I say it’s the moon that shines so bright.
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KATHERINE
5I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
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KATHERINE
I know it’s the sun that shines so bright.
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PETRUCHIO
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.—
10Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed!
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PETRUCHIO
Now, by my mother’s son, and that’s me, it will
be moon or star or whatever I want before I’ll travel to
your father’s house.
(to servants) Go return our
horses.— Constantly contradicted and contradicted, and
nothing but contradicted!
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HORTENSIO
(to
KATHERINE) Say as he says, or we
shall never go.
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HORTENSIO
(to
KATHERINE) Say what he wants or
we’ll never go.
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KATHERINE
Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.
An if you please to call it a rush candle,
15Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
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KATHERINE
Since we’ve come this far,
please—let’s continue on. And whatever it
is—moon or sun or anything you like—if you
want to call it a tea candle, that’s what it is as far as
I’m concerned. From now on, I promise.
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PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon.
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PETRUCHIO
I say it’s the moon.
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KATHERINE
I know it is the moon.
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KATHERINE
I know it’s the moon.
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PETRUCHIO
Nay, then you lie. It is the blessèd sun.
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PETRUCHIO
Well, you’re a liar, then. It’s the blessed
sun.
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