Scene II. Hall in Capulet's house. Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and two Servingmen. Cap. So many guests invite as here are writ. [Exit First Servant. Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. Sec. Serv. You shall have none ill, sir, for I'll try if they can lick their fingers. Cap. How canst thou try them so? Sec. Serv. Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me. Cap. Go, be gone. [Exit Sec. Servant. We shall be much unfurnish'd for this time. What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence? Nurse. Ay, forsooth. Cap. Well, he may chance to do some good on her: Enter Juliet. ΙΟ Nurse. See where she comes from shrift with merry look. Cap. How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding? Jul. Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin Of disobedient opposition To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd 20 Cap. Send for the county; go tell him of this: I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning. And gave him what becomed love I might, Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither. As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? 30 La. Cap. No, not till Thursday; there is time enough. Cap. Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow. [Exeunt Juliet and Nurse. La. Cap. We shall be short in our provision: Cap. 'Tis now near night. Tush, I will stir about, And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife: 40 What, ho! I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone; Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light, [Exeunt. Scene III. Juliet's chamber. Enter Juliet and Nurse. Jul. Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse, To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Enter Lady Capulet. La. Cap. What, are you busy, ho? need you my help? As are behoveful for our state to-morrow: La. Cap. Good night: Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need. ΙΟ [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse. What if this mixture do not work at all? 20 [Laying down a dagger. What if it be a poison, which the friar I fear it is and yet, methinks, it should not, I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point. To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, Where for this many hundred years the bones So early waking, what with loathsome smells 30. 40 50 Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body [She falls upon her bed, within the curtains. Scene IV. Hall in Capulet's house. Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse. La. Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Enter Capulet. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, Nurse. Go, you cot-quean, go, Get you to bed; faith, you'll be sick to-morrow Cap. No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now ΙΟ All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood! Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, and logs, and baskets. What's there? Now, fellow, First Serv. Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what. |