Speeches (Lines) for Tailor in "The Taming of the Shrew"

Hortensio. [Aside] I see she's like to have neither cap nor gown.

Tailor. You bid me make it orderly and well,
According to the fashion and the time.

Petruchio. Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee.

Tailor. She says your worship means to make a puppet of her.

Petruchio. O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou
thimble,
Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou-
Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread!
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;
Or I shall so bemete thee with thy yard
As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st!
I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown.

Tailor. Your worship is deceiv'd; the gown is made
Just as my master had direction.
Grumio gave order how it should be done.

Grumio. I gave him no order; I gave him the stuff.

Tailor. But how did you desire it should be made?

Grumio. Marry, sir, with needle and thread.

Tailor. But did you not request to have it cut?

Grumio. Thou hast fac'd many things.

Tailor. I have.

Grumio. Face not me. Thou hast brav'd many men; brave not me. I
will neither be fac'd nor brav'd. I say unto thee, I bid thy
master cut out the gown; but I did not bid him cut it to pieces.
Ergo, thou liest.

Tailor. Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify.

Grumio. The note lies in's throat, if he say I said so.

Tailor. [Reads] 'Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown'-

Petruchio. Proceed.

Tailor. [Reads] 'With a small compass'd cape'-

Grumio. I confess the cape.

Tailor. [Reads] 'With a trunk sleeve'-

Grumio. I confess two sleeves.

Tailor. [Reads] 'The sleeves curiously cut.'

Grumio. Error i' th' bill, sir; error i' th' bill! I commanded the
sleeves should be cut out, and sew'd up again; and that I'll
prove upon thee, though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.

Tailor. This is true that I say; an I had thee in place where, thou
shouldst know it.