PETRUCHIO
Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate. 155
Better once than never, for never too late. 156
They exit.
Footnotes
156. Better . . . late: Petruchio combines two proverbs—“ Better once than never” (i.e., “Better late than never”) and “It is never too late to mend.”
156 SD. See “Framing Dialogue,” F.
F. [See The Shrew, 5.1.156 SD.]
Sly sleeps.
LORD
Who’s within there? Come hither, sirs. My lord’s
asleep again. Go take him easily up,
And put him in his own apparel again,
And lay him in the place where we did find him,
Just underneath the alehouse side below.
But see you wake him not in any case.
BOY
It shall be done, my lord.—Come help to bear
him hence.
Exit.
