Pet. Hortensio, to what end are all these words?

Hor. Sir, let me be so bold [as ask you],

Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter?

Tra. No, sir; but hear I do that he hath two,

The one as famous for a scolding tongue

[As is the other] for beauteous modesty.

Pet. Sir, sir, the first's for me; let her go by.

Gre. Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules;

And let it be more than Alcides' twelve.

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