On Jul 17, 2005, at 6:06 PM, keith helgesen wrote:

<x-tad-bigger>Interesting- the line from the show "Kiss me Kate" = I've come to </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>swive</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> it  (something)ly in Padua.  - always had me puzzled! It makes sense now!</x-tad-bigger>


On the off chance that this is not a joke, the actual line is "I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua," and comes straight from Shakespeare. Petrucchio has come there to find a rich wife, regardless (as he explains in the rest of the song) of her looks or temperament.

Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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