Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Act 4 - Scene 4
Hall in Capulet’s house.
Lady Capulet : Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
Nurse : They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
Capulet : Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,
[p]The
curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:
[p]Look to the baked meats,
good Angelica:
[p]Spare not for the cost.
Nurse : Go, you cot-quean, go,
[p]Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick
to-morrow
[p]For this night's watching.
Capulet : No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now
[p]All night for lesser
cause, and ne'er been sick.
Lady Capulet : Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
[p]But I will watch you
from such watching now.
Capulet : A jealous hood, a jealous hood!
Capulet : Now, fellow,
[p]What's there?
First Servant : Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
Capulet : Make haste, make haste.
[p][Exit First Servant]
[p]Sirrah, fetch drier
logs:
[p]Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Second Servant : I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
[p]And never trouble
Peter for the matter.
Capulet : Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!
[p]Thou shalt be
logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:
[p]The county will be here with
music straight,
[p]For so he said he would: I hear him near.
[p][Music
within]
[p]Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!
[p][Re-enter
Nurse]
[p]Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
[p]I'll go and chat
with Paris: hie, make haste,
[p]Make haste; the bridegroom he is come
already:
[p]Make haste, I say.
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