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Hortensio, Lines 145-156
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Act 2,
Scene 1
Lines 145-156

Hortensio performs lines 145-156 of Act 2, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 2.1 Performance: Hortensio, Lines 145-156

Hortensio

Why, no, for she hath broke the lute to me.
I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
And bowed her hand to teach her fingering,
When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
'Frets, call you these?' quoth she, 'I'll fume with them.'
And with that word she struck me on the head,
And through the instrument my pate made way;    
And there I stood amazèd for a while,
As on a pillory looking through the lute,    
While she did call me ‘rascal fiddler’
And ‘twangling Jack’ with twenty such vile terms,    
As had she studied to misuse me so.