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How? |
GRUMIO: |
Out of their saddles into the dirt; and thereby |
hangs a tale. |
CURTIS: |
Let's ha't, good Grumio. |
GRUMIO: |
Lend thine ear. |
CURTIS: |
Here. |
GRUMIO: |
There. |
CURTIS: |
This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale. |
GRUMIO: |
And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale: and this |
cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech |
listening. Now I begin: Imprimis, we came down a |
foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress,-- |
CURTIS: |
Both of one horse? |
GRUMIO: |
What's that to thee? |
CURTIS: |
Why, a horse. |
GRUMIO: |
Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crossed me, |
thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she |
under her horse; thou shouldst have heard in how |
miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her |
with the horse upon her, how he beat me because |
her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt |
to pluck him off me, how he swore, how she prayed, |
that never prayed before, how I cried, how the |
horses ran away, how her bridle was burst, how I |
lost my crupper, with many things of worthy memory, |
which now shall die in oblivion and thou return |
unexperienced to thy grave. |
CURTIS: |
By this reckoning he is more shrew than she. |
GRUMIO: |
Ay; and that thou and the proudest of you all shall |
find when he comes home. But what talk I of this? |
Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip, |
Walter, Sugarsop and the rest: let their heads be |
sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their |
garters of an indifferent knit: let them curtsy |
with their left legs and not presume to touch a hair |
of my master's horse-tail till they kiss their |
hands. Are they all ready? |
CURTIS: |
They are. |
GRUMIO: |
Call them forth. |
CURTIS: |
Do you hear, ho? you must meet my master to |
countenance my mistress. |
GRUMIO: |
Why, she hath a face of her own. |
CURTIS: |
Who knows not that? |
GRUMIO: |
Thou, it seems, that calls for company to |
countenance her. |
CURTIS: |
I call them forth to credit her. |
GRUMIO: |
Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them. |
NATHANIEL: |
Welcome home, Grumio! |
PHILIP: |
How now, Grumio! |
JOSEPH: |
What, Grumio! |
NICHOLAS: |
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