Cap.
So many guests invite as here are writ. [Exit ^note First Servant.

Sirrah, go hire me twenty ^note cunning cooks.

Sec. Serv. ^note

You shall have none ill, sir, for I'll try if they can lick their fingers.

Cap.

How canst thou try them so?

Sec. Serv. ^note

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. ^note [Exit ^note Sec. Servant.
We shall be much unfurnish'd for this time.
What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence? ^note

Nurse.
Ay, forsooth.

Cap.
Well, he may chance to do some good on her:
A peevish self-will'd ^note harlotry it is. Enter Juliet.

Nurse.
See where she comes from shrift with merry look ^note. ^note

Cap.
How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding? ^note

Jul.
Where I have learn'd me ^note to repent the sin
Of disobedient opposition
To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd ^note
By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,
To beg ^note your pardon: pardon, I beseech you!
Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.

Cap.
Send for the county ^note; go tell him of this:
I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.

Jul.
I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell,
And gave him what becomed ^note love I might,
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.

Cap.
Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up:
This is as't ^note should be. Let me see the county;
Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither ^note.
Now, afore God, this reverend holy ^note friar,
All our whole city is much bound to him ^note.

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?

La. Cap.
No, not till Thursday; there is ^note time enough.

Cap.
Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church tomorrow. ^{note note} [Exeunt Juliet and Nurse. ^note

La. Cap.
We shall be short in our provision ^note:
'Tis now near night.

Cap.
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 him up ^note
Against to-morrow: my heart is ^note wondrous light,
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd. [Exeunt. ^note

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