Taming of the Shrew

[Guru]

Tailor


But how did you desire it should be made?

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


Marry, sir, with needle and thread.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


But did you not request to have it cut?

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


Thou hast faced many things.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


I have.

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


Face not me: thou hast braved many men; brave not
me; I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto
thee, I bid thy master cut out the gown; but I did
not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


Read it.

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


The note lies in's throat, if he say I said so.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


[Reads] 'Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown:'

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in
the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom
of brown thread: I said a gown.

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


Proceed.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


[Reads] 'With a small compassed cape:'

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


I confess the cape.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


[Reads] 'With a trunk sleeve:'

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


I confess two sleeves.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


[Reads] 'The sleeves curiously cut.'

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


Ay, there's the villany.

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


Error i' the bill, sir; error i' the bill.
I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and
sewed up again; and that I'll prove upon thee,
though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.

 

[Guru]

Tailor


This is true that I say: an I had thee
in place where, thou shouldst know it.

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


I am for thee straight: take thou the
bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.

 

[Guru]

HORTENSIO


God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds.

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.

 

[Guru]

GRUMIO


You are i' the right, sir: 'tis for my mistress.

 

[Guru]

PETRUCHIO


Go, take it up unto thy master's use.