Long. Let’s part the word.

Kath.

No, I’ll not be your half:

250 Take all, and wean it; it may prove an ox.

[251] Long. Look, how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!

Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so.

Kath. Then die a calf, before your horns do grow.

Long. One word in private with you, ere I die.

255 Kath. Bleat softly, then; the butcher hears you cry. [They converse apart.

Boyet. The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen