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I’ll venture so much of my hawk or hound, Exit.
But twenty times so much upon my wife.
LUCENT IO
A hundred then.
HORT ENSIO
Content.
PET RUCHIO
A match! ’Tis done.
HORT ENSIO
Who shall begin?
LUCENT IO
That will I. [75]
Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.
BIONDELLO
I go.
BAPT IST A
Son, I’ll be your half Bianca comes.
LUCENT IO
I’ll have no halves. I’ll bear it all myself.
Enter Biondello.
How now, what news?
BIONDELLO
Sir, my mistress sends you word [80]
That she is busy and she cannot come.
PET RUCHIO
How? She’s busy, and she cannot come?
Is that an answer?
