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GRUMIO

Knock, sir? Whom should I knock? Is there any man has rebused your
worship?

     PET RUCHIO

Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.

     GRUMIO

Knock you here, sir? Why, sir, what am I, sir, that I should knock you here,
sir? [10]

     PET RUCHIO

     Villain, I say, knock me at this gate,
     And rap me well, or I’ll knock your knave’s pate.

     GRUMIO

     My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock you first,
     And then I know after who comes by the worst.

     PET RUCHIO

Will it not be? [15]
     Faith, sirrah, and you’ll not knock, I’ll ring it.
     I’ll try how you can solfa and sing it.
                                                                 He wrings him by the ears.

     GRUMIO

Help, masters, help! My master is mad.

     PET RUCHIO

Now knock when I bid you, sirrah villain.

                                          Enter Hortensio.

     HORT ENSIO

How now, what’s the matter? My old [20] friend Grumio, and my good
friend Petruchio? How do you all at Verona?

     PET RUCHIO

     Signor Hortensio, come you to part the fray?
     Con tutto il cuore ben trovato, may I say.
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