No Fear Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 1, Page 3
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CURTIS
All ready. And therefore, I pray thee, news.
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CURTIS
Everything’s ready. So tell me what’s been going
on.
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GRUMIO
First, know my horse is tired, my master and mistress fallen
out.
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GRUMIO
Well, first of all, my horse is tired and my master and mistress
have had a falling out.
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CURTIS
How?
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CURTIS
How?
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GRUMIO
Out of their saddles into the dirt, and thereby hangs a
tale.
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GRUMIO
From their saddles into the dirt—but that’s
another story.
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CURTIS
Let’s ha' ’t, good Grumio.
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CURTIS
Well, let’s have it, Grumio.
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GRUMIO
Lend thine ear.
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GRUMIO
Lean forward.
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CURTIS
Here.
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CURTIS
Here.
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GRUMIO
There!
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GRUMIO
There!
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Strikes him |
GRUMIO strikes
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CURTIS
This ’tis to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
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CURTIS
This is to feel the news, not hear it.
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GRUMIO
And therefore ’tis called a sensible tale. And this cuff
was but to knock at your ear and beseech list'ning. Now I
begin: Imprimis, we came down a foul hill, my master riding behind
my mistress—
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GRUMIO
That’s what makes it “sensitive”
news. I was just knocking to see if anyone was home. Now,
I’ll begin: first, we came down a steep hill, my master
riding behind my mistress—
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CURTIS
Both of one horse?
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CURTIS
Both on one horse?
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GRUMIO
What’s that to thee?
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GRUMIO
What’s the difference?
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