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Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
To the house of Signor Baptista Minola?
BIONDELLO
He that has the two fair daughters, is’t he you [220] mean?
T RANIO
Even he, Biondello.
GREMIO
Hark you, sir, you mean not her too?
T RANIO
Perhaps him and her, sir. What have you to do?
PET RUCHIO
Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray. [225]
T RANIO
I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let’s away.
LUCENT IO
Well begun, Tranio.
HORT ENSIO
Sir, a word ere you go.
Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?
T RANIO
And if I be, sir, is it any offence?
GREMIO
No, if without more words you will get you hence. [230]
T RANIO
Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you?
GREMIO
