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“you come with your appendix”
Wordplay
Act 4,
Scene 4
Lines 95-100

An explanation of “appendix” in Act 4, Scene 4 of myShakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

 

Biondello

I cannot tarry. I knew a wench married in an    
afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff
a rabbit, and so may you, sir; and so, adieu, sir. My
master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke's to bid
the priest be ready to come against you come with your     
appendix.
  1. Biondello is continuing his book publishing metaphor.
  2. Another meaning of appendix is appendage, a wife.