Definition of "cate"

Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]

Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101

All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]

1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, stanza XX, page 93, lines 172–173

He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked