Upstart Crow (TV Series)

The Quality of Mercy (2016)

Gemma Whelan: Kate

Quotes 

• Kate : I speak Latin, I understand compound interest. I can be your secretary.

  Will : But you're a girl, Girls can't be secretaries, it's unheard of.

• Kate : You wait, Mr. Shakespeare, I will find a way to prove my worth.

  Will : Kate, gentle Kate, thou provest thy worth every day with thy joyous smile, thy girlish laugh and the soft tender grace that all Eve's daughters bring to the rough world of men.

  Kate : Oh, Mr. Shakespeare, you are like he who gives support. Like that which sweetens all that it covers. You are a great poet and are like the heavens.

  Will : Kate, your words move me, but I would fain know their meaning.

  Kate : Why, he who gives support is a patron. That which sweetens all that it covers be but icing. A great poet is a bard. And the heavens of course be starred. Put them together and you get...

  Will : Patron-icing bard-starred.

  Kate : I'll leave it with you.