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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Taming of the Shrew
[Prologue, 2]

Messenger

276

Your honour's players, hearing your amendment,
Are come to play a pleasant comedy;
For so your doctors hold it very meet,
Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

2

Taming of the Shrew
[I, 1]

Gremio

351

To cart her rather. She's too rough for me.
There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?

3

Taming of the Shrew
[I, 1]

Gremio

363

And me, too, good Lord!

4

Taming of the Shrew
[I, 1]

Katherina

399

Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not?
What! shall I be appointed hours, as though, belike,
I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha! Exit

5

Taming of the Shrew
[I, 1]

Biondello

533

The better for him; would I were so too!

6

Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2]

Hortensio

608

Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee
And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour'd wife?
Thou'dst thank me but a little for my counsel,
And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich,
And very rich; but th'art too much my friend,
And I'll not wish thee to her.

7

Taming of the Shrew
[I, 2]

Gremio

692

O, very well; I have perus'd the note.
Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound-
All books of love, see that at any hand;
And see you read no other lectures to her.
You understand me- over and beside
Signior Baptista's liberality,
I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,
And let me have them very well perfum'd;
For she is sweeter than perfume itself
To whom they go to. What will you read to her?

8

Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1]

Gremio

886

You are too blunt; go to it orderly.

9

Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1]

Gremio

913

Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,
Let us that are poor petitioners speak too.
Bacare! you are marvellous forward.

10

Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1]

Katherina

1052

Too light for such a swain as you to catch;
And yet as heavy as my weight should be.

11

Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1]

Petruchio

1058

Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.

12

Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1]

Katherina

1077

No cock of mine: you crow too like a craven.

13

Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1]

Petruchio

1086

Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.

14

Taming of the Shrew
[III, 1]

Lucentio

1268

Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir.
Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
Her sister Katherine welcome'd you withal?

15

Taming of the Shrew
[III, 2]

Tranio

1384

Patience, good Katherine, and Baptista too.
Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,
Whatever fortune stays him from his word.
Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;
Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest.

16

Taming of the Shrew
[III, 2]

Baptista Minola

1396

Is it new and old too? How may that be?

17

Taming of the Shrew
[III, 2]

Petruchio

1464

Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear;
Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
Though in some part enforced to digress,
Which at more leisure I will so excuse
As you shall well be satisfied withal.
But where is Kate? I stay too long from her;
The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.

18

Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3]

Grumio

1975

I fear it is too choleric a meat.
How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?

19

Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3]

Grumio

1981

Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.

20

Taming of the Shrew
[IV, 3]

Petruchio

2034

When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
And not till then.