Taming of the Shrew | Page 54

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gartered with a red and blue list; an old hat, and the ' humour of forty fancies ' prick ' d in ' t for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian footboy or a gentleman ' s lackey.
TRANIO. ' Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion; Yet oftentimes lie goes but mean-apparell ' d.
BAPTISTA. I am glad he ' s come, howsoe ' er he comes. BIONDELLO. Why, sir, he comes not. BAPTISTA. Didst thou not say he comes? BIONDELLO. Who? that Petruchio came? BAPTISTA. Ay, that Petruchio came. BIONDELLO. No, sir; I say his horse comes, with him on his back. BAPTISTA. Why, that ' s all one.
BIONDELLO. Nay, by Saint Jamy, I hold you a penny, A horse and a man Is more than one, And yet not many.
[ Enter PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO.] PETRUCHIO. Come, where be these gallants? Who is at home? BAPTISTA. You are welcome, sir. PETRUCHIO. And yet I come not well. BAPTISTA. And yet you halt not. TRANIO. Not so well apparell ' d As I wish you were.