SCENE IV.
Capulet's Hall.
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 pastry1 note
.
Enter Capulet.
Cap.
Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,
The curfeu bell2 note
hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:—
Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica3 note
:
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Spare not for cost.
Nurse.
Go, go, you cot-quean, go.
Get you to bed; 'faith, you'll be sick to-morrow* note
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.
La. Cap.
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt4 note
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,
What's there?
Enter Servants, with Spits, Logs, and Baskets.
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.
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2 Serv.
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
And never trouble Peter for the matter.
[Exit.
Cap.
'Mass, and well said; A merry whoreson! ha,
Thou shalt be logger-head.—Good 'faith, 'tis day:
The county will be here with musick straight,
[Musick within.
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 say5 note
!
[Exeunt.
James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
