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A light condition in a beauty dark. [20]

ROSALINE

We need more light to find your meaning out.

KAT HARINE

You’ll mar the light by taking it in snuff;
Therefore, I’ll darkly end the argument.

ROSALINE

Look what you do, you do it still i’th’dark.

KAT HARINE

So do not you, for you are a light wench. [25]

ROSALINE

Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light.

KAT HARINE

You weigh me not? O, that’s you care not for me!

ROSALINE

Great reason, for past cure is still past care.

PRINCESS

Well bandied both! A set of wit well played.
But, Rosaline, you have a favour too - [30]
Who sent it? And what is it?

ROSALINE

I would you knew.
An if my face were but as fair as yours,
My favour were as great. Be witness this -
Nay, I have verses too, I thank Berowne;
The numbers true, and, were the numbering too, [35]
I were the fairest goddess on the ground.
I am compared to twenty thousand fairs.
O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter!

PRINCESS