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Servants to Petruchio GRUMIO CURTIS
PEDANT, set up to personate Vincentio Daughters to Baptista KATHERINA, the shrew BIANCA WIDOW Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio
SCENE: Sometimes in Padua, and sometimes in PETRUCHIO ' S house in the country.
INDUCTION. SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a heath. [ Enter HOSTESS and SLY.] SLY. I ' ll pheeze you, in faith. HOSTESS. A pair of stocks, you rogue!
SLY. Y ' are a baggage; the Slys are no rogues; look in the chronicles: we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore, paucas pallabris; let the world slide. Sessa!
HOSTESS. You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
SLY. No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy, go to thy cold bed and warm thee.
HOSTESS. I know my remedy; I must go fetch the third-borough. [ Exit.]