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I call them forth to credit her.

     GRUMIO

Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.

                                Enter four or five Servingmen.

     NAT HANIEL

Welcome home, Grumio. [95]

     PHILIP

How now, Grumio.

     JOSEPH

What, Grumio.

     NICHOLAS

Fellow Grumio.

     NAT HANIEL

How now, old lad.

     GRUMIO

Welcome, you. How now, you. What, you [100] Fellow, you. And thus much
for greeting. Now, my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?

     NAT HANIEL

All things is ready. How near is our master?

     GRUMIO

E’en at hand, alighted by this. And therefore be not - Cock’s passion,
silence! I hear my master. [105]

                                Enter Petruchio and Katherina.

     PET RUCHIO

     Where be these knaves? What, no man at door
     To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse?
     Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?
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