Grumio Why, therefore fire, for I have caught extreme cold. Where's the cook? Is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the servingmen in their new fustian, their white stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on? Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills fair without, the carpets laid, and everything in order? Read more about popup_note_index_item 2714
Grumio First, know my horse is tired, my master and mistress fallen out. Curtis How? Grumio Out of their saddles, into the dirt, and thereby hangs a tale. Read more about popup_note_index_item 2715
Grumio Lend thine ear. Curtis Here. Grumio [Striking him] There. Curtis This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale! Grumio And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseech listening. Read more about popup_note_index_item 2716
Curtis By this reckoning, he is more shrew than she. Grumio Ay, and that thou and the proudest of you all shall find when he comes home. But what talk I of this? Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip, Walter, Sugarsop and the rest. Let their heads be slickly combed, their blue coats brushed, and their garters of an indifferent knit. Let them curtsy with their left legs, and not presume to touch a hair of my master's horse-tail till they kiss their hands. Are they all ready? Read more about popup_note_index_item 2717
Curtis I prithee, good Grumio, tell me how goes the world? Grumio A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine, and therefore, fire. Do thy duty, and have thy duty, for my master and mistress are almost frozen to death. Curtis There's fire ready, and therefore, good Grumio, the news. Read more about popup_note_index_item 2710
Curtis I prithee, good Grumio, tell me how goes the world? Grumio A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine, and therefore, fire. Do thy duty, and have thy duty, for my master and mistress are almost frozen to death. Curtis There's fire ready, and therefore, good Grumio, the news. Grumio Why, 'Jack, boy, ho boy!' and as much news as wilt thou. Read more about popup_note_index_item 2711
Curtis There's fire ready, and therefore, good Grumio, the news. Grumio Why, 'Jack, boy, ho boy!' and as much news as wilt thou. Curtis Come, you are so full of cony-catching. Read more about popup_note_index_item 2712
Curtis Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported? Grumio She was, good Curtis, before this frost. But thou knowest winter tames man, woman and beast; for it hath tamed my old master, and my new mistress, and myself, fellow Curtis. Curtis Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast. Read more about popup_note_index_item 2708
Curtis Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported? Grumio She was, good Curtis, before this frost. But thou knowest winter tames man, woman and beast; for it hath tamed my old master, and my new mistress, and myself, fellow Curtis. Curtis Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast. Grumio Am I but three inches? Why, thy horn is a foot, and so long am I at the least. But wilt thou make a fire, Read more about popup_note_index_item 2709
Curtis Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported? Grumio She was, good Curtis, before this frost. But thou knowest winter tames man, woman and beast; for it hath tamed my old master, and my new mistress, and myself, fellow Curtis. Read more about popup_note_index_item 2707
