...Commend me to thy master. [Exit tailor. wr¿uano Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's Even in these honest mean habiliments: Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, For ‘¿ the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest douds, So honour...

...Petruchio, clothes (one of reputation's currencies) do not make the man, nor the woman either: "Our purses proud, our garments poor, / For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich" (1v.v.1/3-6). To see an upper-class "honor" peering through the meanness of a lower social class is...

...commend me to thy master. Exit Tailor PETRUCHIO Well, come my Kate, we will unto your father's Even in these honest mean habiliments. Our purses shall...And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 170 So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his...

...play's surface the ideas I have been tracing: Well, come, my Kate. We will unto your father's Even in these honest, mean habiliments; Our purses shall...darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. (4.3.167—72) Or, as Shakespeare puts it in Sonnet 146, ‘Within be fed, without be rich no more'....

...been tracing: Well, come, my Kate. We will unto your father's Even in these honest, mean habiiments; Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, For...darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. (4.3.167—72) Or, as Shakespeare puts it in Sonnet 146, ‘Within be fed, without be rich no more'....

...amenities that preserve the social order, but also the value of judging by quality and not appearance: Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor. For...And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit. (IV, iii, 171-174) The man who utters these lines is a fellow of...

...amenities that preserve the social order, but also the value of judging by quality and not appearance: Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor. For...And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds. So honor peereth in the meanest habit. (IV, iii, 171-174) The man who utters these lines is a fellow of...

...which clothing can neither reveal nor conceal: Well, come, my Kate. We will unto your father's Even in these honest, mean habiliments. Our purses shall...And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit. (4.3.165-70) Petruchio is rough and woos not like a babe. Acts...

...The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, 2.8-12 The drunkard, Sly, protests he has hardly any clothes. 10 Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, For...And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit. Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, 4.3.171-4 11 Trinculo. O...

...nobility of merit was more important than nobility of birth. Petruccio underlines the importance of merit: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich, And as...darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. (The Taming of the Shrew, IV.iii.i7o-72) King Simonides makes the same point: "Opinion's but a fool,...