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Biondello, Lines 41-66
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Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 41-66

Biondello performs lines 41-66 of Act 3, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 3.2 Performance: Biondello, Lines 41-66

Biondello

Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and
an old jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a pair    
of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled,    
another laced; an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town
armory, with a broken hilt and chapeless, with two     
broken points; his horse hipped, with an old mothy     
saddle and stirrups of no kindred; besides, possessed     
with the glanders and like to mose in the chine; troub-    
led with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of     
windgalls, sped with spavins, rayed with yellows,     
past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers,     
begnawn with the bots, swayed in the back and
shoulder-shotten, near-legged before and with a half-checked
bit and a head-stall of sheep’s leather which,     
being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been    
often burst and now repaired with knots; one girth six     
time pieced, and a woman's crupper of velure which     
hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs,     
and here and there pieced with packthread.    

Baptista

Who comes with him?

Biondello

O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned    
like the horse: with a linen stock on one leg and a kersey     
boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red and blue list;
an old hat and the humor of forty fancies pricked in't for     
a feather — a monster, a very monster in apparel, and not
like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey.