Bartlette's Quotations: The Taming of the Shrew.

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1	Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror.	Induc. Sc. 1.
2	Let the world slide.	Ibid.
3	I 'll not budge an inch.	Ibid.
4	As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were, nor no man ever saw.	Sc. 2.
5	No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.	Act i. Sc. 1.
6	There 's small choice in rotten apples.	Ibid.
7	Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.	Sc. 2.
8	Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.	Ibid.
9	And do as adversaries do in law,-- Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.	Ibid.
10	Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.	Act iii. Sc. 2.
11	And thereby hangs a tale.	Act iv. Sc. 1.
12	My cake is dough.	Act v. Sc. 1.
13	A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,-- Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.	Sc. 2.
14	Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.	Ibid.