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“stands”
Wordplay
Act Introduction,
Scene 2
Lines 116-125

An explanation of the wordplay on "stands" in Introduction 2 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. 

Page

Thrice-noble lord, let me entreat of you
To pardon me yet for a night or two,
Or, if not so, until the sun be set,
For your physicians have expressly charged,    
In peril to incur your former malady,    
That I should yet absent me from your bed.    
I hope this reason stands for my excuse.

Sly

Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long. But I     
would be loath to fall into my dreams again. I will     
therefore tarry in despite of the flesh and the blood.    

When the page says that he hopes the reason that he’s given for not getting into bed with Sly will “stand” up, Sly responds with a sexual innuendo.