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More Walnuts in Shakespeare
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Another curious echo of the "knackle of walnuts" occurs in the Taming of the Shrew, when Petruccio mocks a hat brought to him and his wife by a haberdasher:
"...Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap."
4.3 ll. 66-67
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"...Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap."
4.3 ll. 66-67
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