And Now Petruchio, Speak

Posted by Ken McCoy (Orlando-Daytona Beach, FL, United States) on 30 June 2007 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

The famous Petruchio bravado in this play-within-a-play. Pure Shakespeare:

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I not heard the sea puff'd up with winds
Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
Have I not in a pitched battle heard
Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?
And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,
That gives not half so great a blow to hear
As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.

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