Yea, but you infer again, facile consilium damus aliis, we can easily give counsel to others; every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her; si hic esses, aliter sentires; if you were in our misery, you would find it otherwise, 'tis not so easily performed.

Petruchio married "the shrew," and then Lucentio married Bianca.

A good, honest, painful man many times hath a shrew to his wife, a sickly, dishonest, slothful, foolish, careless woman to his mate, a proud, peevish flirt, a liquorish, prodigal quean, and by that means all goes to ruin: or if they differ in nature, he is thrifty, she spends all, he wise, she sottish and soft; what agreement can there be?

She will build substance on him, I trow; Who keeps a shrew against her will, had better let her go.

So he resolved to leave two such shrews and one day when they had been scolding as usual he put on the garb of a jogi and in spite of their protests went out into the world.

Eh, without question, you most magnanimously loved that shrew of Salisbury!

thou wouldst not play the shrew to so noble a lord, that soon, no doubt, will be a great Duke?" "He hath tricked and deceived me.

"To sum up all her tongue confessed the shrew."

Fancy if it turned out a shrew like me, Bertie!

Petruchio took little notice of their jokes till the ladies were retired after dinner, and then he perceived Baptista himself joined in the laugh against him; for when Petruchio affirmed that his wife would prove more obedient than theirs, the father of Katherine said, "Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio, I fear you have got the veriest shrew of all."