Marry, peace it bodes, and love and quiet life, And awful rule and right supremacy; And, to be short, what not, that’s sweet and happy?
“it”, referring to the wonder of Katherine’s obedience, plays right into the hands of Petruchio’s character. A cocky man who has “tamed the shrew”, calls upon this wonder with peace, love, and a quiet life. Since all of these adjectives are in the same line, they are in the essence of Petruchio’s imagination from his point of view, seeing the world as he wants in, with his heroism at the forefront. However, his “awful rule and right supremacy” belongs to that of this time period, in which only a woman who was molded to fit that of a man’s bride could settle down, and Petruchio accomplished this through his awful rule. The “right supremacy” refers to his right in the time period to a wife that he finds perfect for him. These two phrases are coupled together in the same line in order to say that one can’t exist without the other. The longest line in his short triplet of lines begins with the phrase “and, to be short”, followed by the fact that since he was able to mold Katherine in his perfect image, why should it not be followed by something that is sweet and happy? He has succeeded in finding his wife while keeping his head held high and managing to higher his status in society, while humiliating Katherine even more and stripping her of any of her personality or originality.