a man who is prepared to marry any woman – no matter how foul, old or curst she is. He uses exaggerated, hyperbolic language from the outset. "One rich enough to be Pertruchio's wife – as wealth is burden of wooing dance – but also as foul as florentious love. As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewed as socrates xanthippe." The abov
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