Project SHROOD

Soft and Hard Real-time Object-Oriented Databases



Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in,
I will continue that I broach'd in jest.
I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife
With wealth enough and young and beauteous,
Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:
Her only fault, and that is faults enough,
Is that she is intolerable curst
And SHROOD and froward, so beyond all measure
That, were my state far worser than it is,
I would not wed her for a mine of gold.

Hortensio.
William Shakespeare,
"The Taming of the Shrew"
(A German Translation is also available.)