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Scene: Padua, and Petruchio’s country house]

Enter beggar, Christophero Sly, and Hostess.

Sly. I’ll pheeze you, in faith.

Host. A pair of stocks, you rogue!

Sly. Y’ are a baggage, the Slys are no rogues. Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore paucas pallabris, let the world slide. Sessa!

Host. You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?

Sly. No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.

Host. I know my remedy; I must go fetch the [thirdborough].

Exit.

Sly. Third, or fourth, or fift borough, I’ll answer him by law. I’ll not budge an inch, boy; let him come, and kindly.

Falls asleep.

Wind horns. Enter a Lord from hunting, with his

Train.

Lord.

Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds

(Brach Merriman, the poor cur, is emboss’d),

And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth’d brach.

Saw’st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good

At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?

I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.