Reading The Taming of the Shrew — William Shakespeare

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First, as you know, my house within the City

Is richly furnished with plate and gold,

Basons and ewers to laue her dainty hands:

My hangings all of tirian tapestry:

In Iuory cofers I haue stuft my crownes:

In Cypres chests my arras counterpoints,

Costly apparell, tents, and Canopies,

Fine Linnen, Turky cushions bost with pearle,

Vallens of Venice gold, in needle worke:

Pewter and brasse, and all things that belongs

To house or housekeeping: then at my farme

I haue a hundred milch‑kine to the pale,

Sixe‑score fat Oxen standing in my stalls,

And all things answerable to this portion.

My selfe am strooke in yeeres I must confesse,

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