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EVERY lesson has a reflection in the last 5 minutes. WHAT - SO WHAT - NOW WHAT?
And I’ll woo her fiercely when she comes. If she yells at me, I’ll tell her she sings as sweetly as a nightingale. If she frowns, I’ll say she looks as serene as roses washed by the morning dew. If she’s mute and won’t say a word, I’ll compliment her talkativeness, her moving eloquence. If she sends me packing, I’ll thank her as if she’d asked me to stay with her for a week. If she says she won’t marry me, I’ll ask her when we should make our marriage announcement, and when the wedding will be. Here she comes. Now’s the time, Petruchio: speak.
[Enter Katherina]
Good morrow, Kate, for that's your name, I hear.
Katherina
You’ve heard well — for someone hard of hearing. They call me Katherina, those who speak of me.
Petruchio
You’re lying, I know you’re just called Kate. Or good old Kate, or sometimes Kate the cruel. But definitely Kate. The prettiest Kate in the world. Kate from Kateville, my sweetest Kate, for sweets are all Kates — so, Kate, hear me out, Kate my only comfort. I’ve heard so much about you. Your good manners are praised everywhere, your virtues and your beauty are thoroughly well-known. I’m so moved by your reputation that I’ve come to woo you — not as thoroughly as you deserve — and ask you to be my wife.
Katherina
Moved, you say? Well tell whoever moved you here to remove you. You definitely seem like a moveable.
Petruchio
What’s a moveable?
Katherina
A piece of furniture. A stool.
Petruchio
Exactly. So come sit on me.
Katherina
As if you were a donkey. Asses were made for bearing, and so are you.
Petruchio
Women are made for bearing, and so are you.
Katherina
Me? Not by a weak donkey like you.
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