La. Cap.
Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, nurse.

Nur.
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

Enter Capulet.

Cap.
Come, stir, stir, stir, the second cock hath crow'd,
The curphew bell hath rung, 'tis three a-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.

Cap.
No not a whit: what, I have watch'd ere now
All night for a less cause, and ne'er been sick.

La. Cap.
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,
But I will watch you, from such watching, now. [Ex. Lady Capulet and Nurse.

Cap.
A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood—
Now, fellow, what's there? Enter three or four with spits, and logs, and baskets.

Ser.
Things for the cook, Sir, but I know not what.

Cap.
Make haste, make haste, sirrah, 'fetch drier logs,
Call Peter, he will shew thee where they are.

Ser.
I have a head, Sir, that will find out logs,
And never trouble Peter for the matter.

Cap.
Mass and well said, a merry horson, ha!
Thou shalt be logger-head—good faith, 'tis day. [Play musick.
The County will be here with musick 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, I say. [Exit Capulet.

Previous section

Next section