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But did you not request to have it cut? [120]
GRUMIO
Thou hast faced many things.
T AILOR
I have.
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 [125] him cut it to pieces. Ergo, thou liest.
T AILOR
Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify.
PET RUCHIO
Read it.
GRUMIO
The note lies in’s throat if he say I said so.
T AILOR
[Reads.] ‘Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown.’ [130]
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.
PET RUCHIO
Proceed.
T AILOR
‘With a small compassed cape.’ [135]
GRUMIO
I confess the cape.
T AILOR
