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Sly, Lines 16-23
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Act Introduction,
Scene 2
Lines 16-23

Sly performs lines 16-23 of Introduction 2 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew Introduction 2 Performance: Sly, Lines 16-23

Sly

What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher
Sly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, by birth a peddler, by     
education a cardmaker, by transmutation a bear-herd,    
and now by present profession a tinker? Ask Marian     
Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not. If     
she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale,     
score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom. What,     
I am not bestraught! Here's —