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KATHERINA . Why , sir , I trust I may have leave to speak ; And speak I will . I am no child , no babe . Your betters have endur ' d me say my mind , And if you cannot , best you stop your ears . My tongue will tell the anger of my heart , Or else my heart , concealing it , will break ; And rather than it shall , I will be free Even to the uttermost , as I please , in words .
PETRUCHIO . Why , thou say ' st true ; it is a paltry cap , A custard-coffin , a bauble , a silken pie ; I love thee well in that thou lik ' st it not .
KATHERINA . Love me or love me not , I like the cap ; And it I will have , or I will have none .
[ Exit HABERDASHER .]
PETRUCHIO . Thy gown ? Why , ay : come , tailor , let us see ' t . O mercy , God ! what masquing stuff is here ? What ' s this ? A sleeve ? ' Tis like a demi-cannon . What , up and down , carv ' d like an appletart ? Here ' s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash , Like to a censer in a barber ' s shop . Why , what i ' devil ' s name , tailor , call ' st thou this ?
HORTENSIO . [ Aside ] I see she ' s like to have neither cap nor gown .
TAILOR . You bid me make it orderly and well , According to the fashion and the time .
PETRUCHIO . Marry , and did ; but if you be remember ' d , I did not bid you mar it to the time . Go , hop me over every kennel home , For you shall hop without my custom , sir . I ' ll none of it : hence ! make your best of it .
KATHERINA . I never saw a better fashion ' d gown , More quaint , more pleasing , nor more commendable ; Belike you mean to make a puppet of me .
PETRUCHIO . Why , true ; he means to make a puppet of thee . TAILOR . She says your worship means to make a puppet of her .