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GRUMIO . Out of their saddles into the dirt ; and thereby hangs a tale .
CURTIS . Let ' s ha ' t , good Grumio . GRUMIO . Lend thine ear . CURTIS . Here . GRUMIO . [ Striking him .] There . CURTIS . This ' tis 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 car and beseech listening . Now I begin : Imprimis , we came down a foul hill , my master riding behind my mistress , --
CURTIS . Both of one horse ? GRUMIO . What ' s that to thee ? CURTIS . Why , a horse .
GRUMIO . Tell thou the tale : but hadst thou not crossed me , thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she under her horse ; thou shouldst have heard in how miry a place , how she was bemoiled ; how he left her with the horse upon her ; how he beat me because her horse stumbled ; how she waded through the dirt to pluck him off me : how he swore ; how she prayed , that never prayed before ; how I cried ; how the horses ran away ; how her bridle was burst ; how I lost my crupper ; with many things of worthy memory , which now shall die in oblivion , and thou return unexperienced to thy grave .
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 ,