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Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 by Various
page 7 of 70 (10%)
has none. A little earlier, still in the same scene, the following bit
of dialogue occurs:--

"_Kath._ I'll have no bigger; this doth fit the time,
And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.

"_Pet._ When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
and not till then."

Katharine's use of the term "gentlewomen" suggests here Petruchio's
"gentle." In the other play the reply is evidently imitated, but with
the absence of the suggestive cue:--

"For I will home again unto my father's house.

"_Ferando_. I, when y'are meeke and gentle, but not before."--p. 194.

Petruchio, having dispatched the tailor and haberbasher, proceeds--

"Well, come my Kate: we will unto your father's,
Even in these honest mean habiliments;
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;"--p. 198.

throughout continuing to urge the vanity of outward appearance, in
reference to the "ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things,"
which he had promised her, and with which the phrase "honest mean
habiliments" is used in contrast. The sufficiency _to the mind_ of
these,

"For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich,"
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