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Petruchio, Katherina, and Vincentio, Lines 27-57b
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Act 4,
Scene 5
Lines 27-57

Petruchio, Katherina, and Vincentio perform lines 27-57b of Act 4, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

myShakespeare| Taming of the Shrew 4.5 Performance: Petruchio, Katherina and Vincentio, Lines 27-57b

Petruchio

[To Vincentio] Good morrow, gentle mistress. Where away?    
Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?
Such war of white and red within her cheeks!    
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty    
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
[To Vincentio] Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.

Hortensio

[Aside] A' will make the man mad, to make a woman of him.

Katherina

Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
Whither away , or where is thy abode?
Happy the parents of so fair a child;
Happier the man whom favorable stars    
Allot thee for his lovely bedfellow.

Petruchio

Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad.
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered;
And not a maiden as thou say'st he is.

Katherina

[To Vincentio] Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes
That have been so bedazzled with the sun,
That everything I look on seemeth green.
Now I perceive thou art a reverend father;
Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.

Petruchio

Do, good old grandsire, and withal make known
Which way thou travellest. If along with us,
We shall be joyful of thy company.

Vincentio

Fair sir, and you, my merry mistress,
That with your strange encounter much amazed me,    
My name is called Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,
And bound I am to Padua, there to visit
A son of mine, which long I have not seen.