Romeo and Juliet

By William Shakespeare


Act IV -- SCENE IV:

	Hall in Capulet's house.

	[Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse]

LADY CAPULET:
	Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.

Nurse:
	They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

	[Enter CAPULET]

CAPULET:
	Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,
	The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:
	Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:
	Spare not for the cost.

Nurse:
	Go, you cot-quean, go,
	Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow
	For this night's watching.

CAPULET:
	No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now
	All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.

LADY CAPULET:
	Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
	But I will watch you from such watching now.

	[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse]

CAPULET:
	A jealous hood, a jealous hood!

	[Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs,
	and baskets]

	:
	          Now, fellow,
	What's there?

First Servant:
	Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.

CAPULET:
	Make haste, make haste.

	[Exit First Servant]

	:
	  Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
	Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.

Second Servant:
	I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
	And never trouble Peter for the matter.

	[Exit]

CAPULET:
	Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!
	Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:
	The county will be here with music straight,
	For so he said he would: I hear him near.

	[Music within]

	Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!

	[Re-enter Nurse]

	Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
	I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,
	Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:
	Make haste, I say.

	[Exeunt]

	


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