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Scene II IT
Enter the Princess, Rosaline, Maria, and Katharine.
PRINCESS
Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart
If fairings come thus plentifully in.
A lady walled about with diamonds!
Look you what I have from the loving King.
ROSALINE
Madam, came nothing else along with that? [5]
PRINCESS
Nothing but this? Yes, as much love in rhyme
As would be crammed up in a sheet of paper,
Writ o’ both sides the leaf, margin and all,
That he was fain to seal on Cupid’s name.
ROSALINE
That was the way to make his godhead wax, [10]
For he hath been five thousand year a boy.
KAT HARINE
Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too.
ROSALINE
You’ll ne’er be friends with him; ’a killed your sister.
KAT HARINE
He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy;
And so she died. Had she been light, like you, [15]
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
She might ha’ been a grandam ere she died.
And so may you, for a light heart lives long.
ROSALINE
What’s your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
KAT HARINE
