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Anything like?
ROSALINE
Much in the letters, nothing in the praise. [40]
PRINCESS
Beauteous as ink - a good conclusion.
KAT HARINE
Fair as a text B in a copy-book.
ROSALINE
’Ware pencils, ho! Let me not die your debtor,
My red dominical, my golden letter.
O that your face were not so full of O’s! [45]
PRINCESS
A pox of that jest, and I beshrew all shrews.
But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumaine?
KAT HARINE
Madam, this glove.
PRINCESS
Did he not send you twain?
KAT HARINE
Yes, madam; and, moreover,
Some thousand verses of a faithful lover; [50]
A huge translation of hypocrisy,
Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.
MARIA
This, and these pearls, to me sent Longaville.
The letter is too long by half a mile.
PRINCESS
I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart [55]
The chain were longer and the letter short?
