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As on a pillory, looking through the lute, While she did call me rascal fiddler, And, twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms, As had she studied to misuse me so.

Shrew 2/1, 277.

Bap.	Why, how now, daughter Katherine? in your dumps?

Shrew. Act III. 1. Hortensio and Lucentio, the sham musical and classical tutors, give a lesson to Bianca. They quarrel which is to start first.

Lucentio.

Fiddler, forbear: you grow too forward, sir. •••••••

Hortensio.

But, wrangling pedant, this is The patroness of heavenly harmony; Then give me leave to have prerogative, And when in music we have spent an hour, Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.

Luc.	Preposterous ass, that never read so far To know the cause why music was ordained! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, After his studies, or his usual pain? Then give me leave to read philosophy, And while I pause, serve in your harmony.

Bianca settles the question, and orders Hortensio (l. 22).

Take you your instrument, play you the whiles; His lecture will be done, ere you have tun'd.