Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse,
and Servingmen two or three.
CAPULET:
So many guests invite as here are writ,
Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.
SERVANT:
You shall have none ill sir, for I'll try
if they can lick their fingers.
CAPULET:
How canst thou try them so?
SERVANT:
Marry sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers:
therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me.
We shall be much unfurnish'd for this time:
What is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?
CAPULET:
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.
CAPULET:
How now my headstrong, where have you been gadding?
JULIET:
Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin
Of disobedient opposition,
To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd
By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,
To beg your pardon, pardon I bessech you,
Henceforward I am ever rul'd by you.
CAPULET:
Send for the County, go tell him of this,
I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.
JULIET:
I met the youthful Lord at Laurence' cell,
And gave him what becomed love I might,
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
CAPULET:
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.
JULIET:
Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,
To help me sort such needful ornaments,
As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?
LADY CAPULET:
No not till Thursday, there is time enough.
CAPULET:
Go Nurse, go with her, we'll to church to-morrow.
LADY CAPULET:
We shall be short in our provision,
CAPULET:
Tush, I will stir about,
And all things shall be well, I warrant thee wife:
Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her,
I'll not to bed to-night, let me alone:
I'll play the housewife for this once, what ho?
They are all forth, well I will walk myself
To County Paris, to prepare up him
Against to-morrow, my heart is wondrous light,
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.