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Gremio, Lines 162-178
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Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 162-178

Gremio performs lines 162-178 of Act 3, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 3.2 Performance: Gremio, Lines 162-178

Gremio

Trembled and shook, for why he stamped and swore    
As if the vicar meant to cozen him.    
But after many ceremonies done,
He calls for wine. 'A health!' quoth he as if    
He had been aboard carousing to his mates    
After a storm, quaffed off the muscadel    
And threw the sops all in the sexton's face,    
Having no other reason
But that his beard grew thin and hungerly,    
And seemed to ask him sops as he was drinking.    
This done, he took the bride about the neck
And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack
That at the parting, all the church did echo;    
And I, seeing this, came thence for very shame,    
And after me I know, the rout is coming.    
Such a mad marriage never was before.
Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play.