SCENE II.-Hall in CAPULET'S House. Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, and Servants. Cap. So many guests invite as here are writ. [Exit first Servant. Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. 2 Serv. You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they can lick their fingers. Cap. How canst thou try them so? 2 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 second Servant. We shall be much unfurnish'd for this time. What, is my daughter gone to Friar Lawrence? Nurse. Ay, forsooth. Cap. Well, he may chance to do some good on her: A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is. Nurse. See where she comes from shrift with merry look. Enter JULIET. 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 By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here, And beg your pardon :-pardon, I beseech you! Cap. Send for the county; go tell him of this: Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. Cap. Why, I am glad on't; this is well,—stand up,This is as't should be.-Let me see the county; Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither. Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar, All our whole city is much bound to him. Jul. Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, To help me sort such needful ornaments As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? Lady C. No, not till Thursday; there is time enough. Cap. Go, nurse, go with her.-We'll to church to-morrow. [Exeunt JULIET and Nurse. Lady C. We shall be short in our provision: 'Tis now near night. Cap. Tush, I will stir about, And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife: I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone; I'll play the housewife for this once.-What, ho!-- Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light SCENE III.-JULIET'S Chamber. Enter JULIET and Nurse. [Exeunt. Jul. Ay, those attires are best:-but, gentle nurse, I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night; For I have need of many orisons To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Enter LADY CAPULET. Lady C. What, are you busy, ho? need you my help? Jul. No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries As are behoveful for our state to-morrow: So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the nurse this night sit up with you; For I am sure you have your hands full all Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse. Jul. Farewell!-God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me;- My dismal scene I needs must act alone.- What if this mixture do not work at all? [Laying down her dagger. What if it be a poison, which the friar Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd, 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, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, So early waking,--what with loathsome smells, [Throws herself on the bed. SCENE IV.-Hall in CAPULET'S House. Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse. Lady C. 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, The curfew bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:- Spare not for cost. Nurse. Go, you cot-quean, go, Get you to bed; faith, you'll be sick to-morrow For this night's watching. Cap. No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. Lady C. 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!—Now, fellow, Enter Servants, with spits, logs, and baskets. What's there? 1 Serv. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Serv.]—Sirrah, fetch drier logs: Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. 2 Serv. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs, And never trouble Peter for the matter. Cap. Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! [Exit. [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, [Exeunt. SCENE V.-JULIET'S Chamber; JULIET on the bed. Enter Nurse. Nurse. Mistress !-what, mistress!-Juliet!-fast, I war rant her, she: Why, lamb!-why, lady!-fie, you slug-a-bed! Why, love, I say!-madam! sweetheart!-why, bride!— What, not a word?-you take your pennyworths now; Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, The County Paris hath set up his rest That you shall rest but little.-God forgive me, Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep! I must needs wake her.-Madam, madam, madam !— He'll fright you up, i' faith.-Will it not be? What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again! Enter LADY CAPULET. Lady C. What noise is here? Lady C. What is the matter? O lamentable day! Look, look! O heavy day! Lady C. O me, O me!-my child, my only life, Revive, look up, or I will die with thee! Help, help!-call help. Enter CAPULET. Cap. For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. Life and these lips have long been separated: O woeful time! Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. Enter FRIAR LAWRENCE and PARIS, with Musicians. Fri. L. Come, is the bride ready to go to church? Cap. Ready to go, but never to return: O son, the night before thy wedding-day Hath death lain with thy bride:-there she lies, Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded: I will die, Par. Have I thought long to see this morning's face, And doth it give me such a sight as this? Lady C. Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! |