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“He that has the two fair daughters, is't he you mean”
Discussion
Act 1,
Scene 2
Lines 214-218

An explanation of Biondello’s question in Act 1, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Grumio (servant)

[Aside] I would I were as sure of a good dinner.    
[Enter Lucentio's two servants, Tranio and Biondello. Tranio is impersonating Lucentio, and Biondello is playing along with the deception.]

Tranio-as-Lucentio

Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold, tell me,     
I beseech you, which is the readiest way to the house of     
Signor Baptista Minola?

Biondello

He that has the two fair daughters, is't he you mean?

This seems like an odd question for the servant Biondello to be posing to his presumed master. But remember that Lucentio has given Tranio instructions to mix in with the other suitors (Gremio and Hortensio), and let it be known that he (the assumed Lucentio) is also a suitor. Biondello is clumsily trying to help work this into the conversation.