1 Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.
2 My husband and my lord, my lord and husband; I am your wife in all obedience.
3 I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet; The meat was well, if you were so contented.
4 Go fetch them hither; if they deny to come, Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands.
5 Katherine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.
6 This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs; It will be pastime passing excellent, If it be husbanded with modesty.
7 Your husband, being troubled with a shrew, Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe; And now you know my meaning.
8 Gentlemen, importune me no farther, For how I firmly am resolv'd you know; That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter Before I have a husband for the elder.
9 Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot, And place your hands below your husband's foot: In token of which duty, if he please, My hand is ready; may it do him ease.
10 But come; since this bar in law makes us friends, it shall be so far forth friendly maintained, till by helping Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband, we set his youngest free for a husband, and then have to't afresh.
11 I know the boy will well usurp the grace, Voice, gait, and action of a gentlewoman; I long to hear him call the drunkard husband; And how my men will stay themselves from laughter When they do homage to this simple peasant.