Curt. By this reckoning he [is] more shrew than she.

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Gru. Ay; and that thou and the proudest of you all

shall find when he comes home. But what talk I of this?

Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip, [Walter], [Sugarsop]

and the rest: let their heads be [sleekly] combed,

their blue coats brushed and their garters of an [indifferent]

[knit:] let them curtsy with their left legs and not presume

to touch a hair of my master's horse-tail till they kiss their

hands. Are they all ready?