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GRUMIO. [ Aside ] For he fears none.
GREMIO. Hortensio, hark: This gentleman is happily arriv ' d, My mind presumes, for his own good and ours.
HORTENSIO. I promis ' d we would be contributors, And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe ' er.
GREMIO. And so we will, provided that he win her. GRUMIO. I would I were as sure of a good dinner. [ Enter TRANIO, bravely apparelled; and BIONDELLO.]
TRANIO. Gentlemen, God save you! If I may be bold, Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?
BIONDELLO. He that has the two fair daughters; is ' t he you mean? TRANIO. Even he, Biondello! GREMIO. Hark you, sir, you mean not her to-- TRANIO. Perhaps him and her, sir; what have you to do? PETRUCHIO. Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray. TRANIO. I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let ' s away. LUCENTIO. [ Aside ] Well begun, Tranio.
HORTENSIO. Sir, a word ere you go. Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?
TRANIO. And if I be, sir, is it any offence?