“You must ... countenance my mistress”
Wordplay
Act 4,
Scene 1
Lines 80-85
Curtis
Grumio
Curtis
Grumio
When Curtis reminds the other servants to “countenance” (pay their respects to) Katherina, Grumio makes a joke by assuming Curtis used “countenance” in its other sense, to give a face to something — for example, to give a face to a name.