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

Nurse.
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry^{4 note}. Enter Capulet.

Cap.
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, 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 lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.

La. Cap.
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt^{5 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.

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 father! 'tis day:
The County will be here with music straight, [Music 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 say^{6 note}. [Exeunt.

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