The Taming of the Shrew
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Thou'dst thank me but a little for my counsel,
And yet I promise thee she shall be rich,

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And very rich.
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But then, th'art too much my friend,
And I'll not wish thee to her.

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O' my word, and she knew him as well as I do,
she'd think scolding would do him little good.

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Signor Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we
Few words suffice;

:18:27
And therefore, if you know
One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife -

:18:31
Since wealth's the burden of my wooing dance -
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Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,
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As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd
As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse,

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She moves me not, or not removes at least
Affection's edge in me,

:18:50
Were she as rough
As are the swelling Adriatic seas.

:18:55
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua.

:19:05
Nay, look you, sir,
he tells you flatly what his mind is.

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Why, give him gold enough
and marry him to a puppet,

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or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head,
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and though she have as many diseases
as two and fifty horses.

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Why, nothing comes amiss,
so money comes withal.

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Crowns have I in my purse, and goods at home,
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And so am come abroad to see the world.
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To find a fortune and to woo...
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a wife.
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And when I came at last to wife
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With a heigh-ho
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The wind and the rain
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By swaggering could I never thrive
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For the rain it raineth every day

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