Enter Grumio.

Gru. Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters,

and all foul ways! [Was ever man so beaten?] was ever

man so [rayed?] was ever man so weary? I am sent before

to make a fire, and they are coming after to warm them.

Now, were not I a little pot, and soon hot, my very lips

might freeze to my teeth, my tongue to the roof of my

mouth, my heart in my belly, ere I should come by a fire

to thaw me: but I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself;

for, considering the weather, a taller man than I will