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Luc.

Tranio, let’s go.

One thing more rests, that thyself execute—

To make one among these wooers. If thou ask me why,

Sufficeth my reasons are both good and weighty.

Exeunt.

The Presenters above speaks.

1. Serv. My lord, you nod, you do not mind the play.

Sly. Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely; comes there any more of it?

Page. My lord, ’tis but begun.

Sly. ’Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady; would ’twere done!

They sit and mark.

¶

Enter Petruchio and his man Grumio.

Pet.

Verona, for a while I take my leave

To see my friends in Padua, but of all

My best beloved and approved friend,

Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.

Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say.

Gru. Knock, sir? whom should I knock? Is there any man has rebus’d your worship?

Pet. Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.

Gru. Knock you here, sir? Why, sir, what am I, sir, that I should knock you here, sir?

Pet.

Villain, I say, knock me at this gate,

And rap me well, or I’ll knock your knave’s pate.