Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk,

But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers,

With gentle conference, soft and affable.

Why [does] the world report that Kate doth limp?

O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig

Is straight and slender and as brown in hue

As hazel-nuts and sweeter than the kernels.

O, let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt.

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Kath. Go, fool, and whom thou [keep'st] command.