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Act Four, Scene Four


    Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse <with herbs>.
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 bak'd meats, good Angelica,
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.
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 with spits, and logs, and baskets.
Now fellow, what is there?
FELLOW:    
Things for the cook sir, but I know not what.
CAPULET:    
Make haste, make haste, sirrah, fetch drier logs.
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
FELLOW:    
I have a head sir, that will find out logs,
And never trouble Peter for the matter.
    Exeunt.
CAPULET:    
Mass and well said, a merry whoreson, ha,
Thou shalt be logger-head; good father, 'tis day.
    Play music.
The County will be here with music straight,
For so he said he would, I hear him near.
Nurse, wife, what ho, what Nurse I say!
    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.
    Exit.







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