“Whose tongue? Yours, if you talk of tales.”
Wordplay
Act 2,
Scene 1
Lines 212-216
Petruchio
Katherina
Petruchio
Katherina
According to Katherina,
- Since Petruchio has just mentioned a tail, he has a tail on (in) his tongue.
- He also has a “tale” on his tongue in the sense that his talk of marrying her is but a fairy tale.