Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)
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of Romeo and Iuliet.
350But to reioyce in splendor of mine owne.
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Enter Capulets wife and Nurce.
¶VVife: Nurce wher's my daughter call her forth to
352.1mee.
¶Nurce:Now by my maiden head at twelue yeare old I
¶bad her come, what Lamb, what Ladie bird, God forbid.
355VVher's this girle? what Iuliet.
Enter Iuliet.
¶Iuliet: How now who cals?
¶Nurce:Your Mother.
¶Iul: Madame I am here, what is your will?
¶est my daughters of a prettie age.
¶Nurce:Faith I can tell her age vnto a houre.
365VVife: Shee's not fourteene.
¶Nnrce: Ile lay fourteene of my teeth, and yet to my
¶How long is it now to Lammas-tide?
370VVife: A fortnight and odde dayes.
¶Nurce: Euen or odde, of all dayes in the yeare come
¶rie I remember it well. Tis since the Earth-quake nowe e-
¶all the daies of the yeare vpon that day: for I had then laid
380housewall. My Lord and you were then at Mantua, nay I
¶wood on the nipple of my dug, & felt it bitter, pretty foole
to