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BIONDELLO . Why , is it not news to hear of Petruchio ' s coming ?
BAPTISTA . Is he come ? BIONDELLO . Why , no , sir . BAPTISTA . What then ? BIONDELLO . He is coming . BAPTISTA . When will he be here ? BIONDELLO . When he stands where I am and sees you there . TRANIO . But , say , what to thine old news ?
BIONDELLO . Why , Petruchio is coming , in a new hat and an old jerkin ; a pair of old breeches thrice turned ; a pair of boots that have been candle-cases , one buckled , another laced ; an old rusty sword ta ' en out of the town armoury , with a broken hilt , and chapeless ; with two broken points : his horse hipped with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred ; besides , possessed with the glanders and like to mose in the chine ; troubled with the lampass , infected with the fashions , full of windgalls , sped with spavins , rayed with the yellows , past cure of the fives , stark spoiled with the staggers , begnawn with the bots , swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten ; near-legged before , and with a half-checked bit , and a head-stall of sheep ' s leather , which , being restrained to keep him from stumbling , hath been often burst , and now repaired with knots ; one girth six times pieced , and a woman ' s crupper of velure , which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs , and here and there pieced with pack-thread .
BAPTISTA . Who comes with him ?
BIONDELLO . O , sir ! his lackey , for all the world caparisoned like the horse ; with a linen stock on one leg and a kersey boot-hose on the other ,