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Katherina, Lines 1-16
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Act 4,
Scene 3
Lines 1-16

Katherina performs lines 2-16 of Act 4, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 4.3 Performance: Katherina, Lines 2-16

[A room in Petruchio's house in Verona. Enter Katherina and Grumio (Petruchio’s servant) in the middle of a conversation.]

Grumio

No, no, forsooth, I dare not for my life.    

Katherina

The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.    
What, did he marry me to famish me?    
Beggars that come unto my father's door,
Upon entreaty, have a present alms;    
If not, elsewhere they meet with charity.
But I, who never knew how to entreat,    
Nor never needed that I should entreat,
Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
With oaths kept waking and with brawling fed;    
And that which spites me more than all these wants,
He does it under name of perfect love,    
As who should say if I should sleep or eat,    
'Twere deadly sickness or else present death.    
I prithee, go and get me some repast,     
I care not what, so it be wholesome food.