Page 1468 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

When he stands where I am and sees you [40] there.

T RANIO

But say, what to thine old news?

BIONDELLO

Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin; a pair of old
breeches thrice turned; a pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one
buckled, [45] another laced; an old rusty sword ta’en out of the town
armoury, with a broken hilt, and chapeless; with two broken points; his
horse hipped - with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred -
besides, possessed with the glanders and like to mose in the chine, [50]
troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of windgalls,
sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows, past cure of the fives, stark
spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, swayed in the back and
shoulder-shotten, near-legged before, and with a [55] half-cheeked bit and
a headstall of sheep’s leather, which, being restrained to keep him from
stumbling, hath been often burst and new-repaired with knots; one girth
six times pieced, and a woman’s crupper of velure, which hath two letters
for her name fairly set [60] down in studs, and here and there pieced with
packthread.

BAPT IST A

Who comes with him?

BIONDELLO

O sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with a linen
stock on one leg, and [65] a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with
a red and blue list; an old hat, and the humour of forty fancies pricked in’t
for a feather; a monster, a very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian
footboy or a gentleman’s lackey. [70]

T RANIO

’Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion. Yet oftentimes he goes
but mean-apparell’d.

BAPT IST A

I am glad he’s come, howsoe’er he comes.

BIONDELLO