Hor.

Luc.

Now go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew.

'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.

1 The old play continues thus:

[Exeunt.1

“Then enter two, bearing Slie in his own apparel againe, and leaves him where they found him, and then goes out: "then enters the Tapster.

Tapster. Now that the darksome night is overpast,

And dawning day appeares in christall skie,

Now must I haste abroade: but softe! who's this?

What, Slie? O wondrous! hath he laine heere all night!

Ile wake him: I thinke he's starved by this,

But that his belly was so stufft with ale:

What now, Slie? awake for shame.

Slie. [Awaking.] Sim, give's more wine.-What, all the players gone? -Am I not a lord?

Tap. A lord, with a murrain!-Come, art thou drunk still?

Slie. Who's this? Tapster!-Oh, I have had the bravest dream that ever thou heard'st in all thy life.

Tap. Yea, marry, but thou hadst best get thee home, for your wife will curse you for dreaming here all night.

Slie. Will she? I know how to tame a shrew. I dreamt upon it all this night, and thou hast wak'd me out of the best dream that ever I had, but I'll to my wife, and tame her too, if she anger me."

OLE

Or this play the two plots are so well united that they can hardly be called two, without injury to the art with which they are interwoven. The attention is entertained with all the variety of a double plot, yet is not distracted by unconnected incidents.

The part between Katharina and Petruchio is eminently sprightly and diverting. At the marriage of Bianca, the arrival of the real father, perhaps, produces more perplexity than pleasure. The whole play is very popular and diverting.

JOHNSON.

END OF VOL. II.