“Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”—RALEIGH.
True, Petruchio kissed Katrina “with such a clamorous smack, that at the
parting all the church did echo”; but his object was not to express his
Love, but to tease and tame the shrew. Loud kisses, moreover, might
betray the lovers to profane ears, and bring on a fatal attack of
Coyness on the girl’s part—
“The greatest sin ’twixt heaven and hell
Is first to kiss and then to tell.”