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  • Title: Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)
  • Editor: Roger Apfelbaum
  • ISBN: 1-55058-299-2

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    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Roger Apfelbaum
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    Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)


    The excellent Tragedie

    1285Must be my conduct in the secret night.
    1285.1Hold, take that for thy paines.
    Nur: No, not a penie truly.
    Rom: I say you shall not chuse.
    Nur: Well, to morrow morning she shall not faile.
    1285.5Rom: Farewell, be trustie, and Ile quite thy paine.Exit
    Nur: Peter, take my fanne, and goe before. Ex. omnes.

    1310Enter Iuliet.

    Iul: The clocke stroke nine when I did send my Nursse
    In halfe an houre she promist to returne.
    Perhaps she cannot finde him. Thats not so.
    1313.1Oh she is lazie, Loues heralds should be thoughts,
    And runne more swift, than hastie powder fierd,
    Doth hurrie from the fearfull Cannons mouth.
    Enter Nurse.
    Oh now she comes. Tell me gentle Nurse,
    1329.1What sayes my Loue?
    Nur: Oh I am wearie, let mee rest a while. Lord how
    my bones ake. Oh wheres my man? Giue me some aqua
    1338.1vitae.
    Iul: I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy newes.
    1339.1Nur: Fie, what a iaunt haue I had: and my backe a to-
    ther side. Lord, Lord, what a case am I in.
    Iul: But tell me sweet Nurse, what sayes Romeo?
    Nur: Romeo, nay, alas you cannot chuse a man. Hees
    no bodie, he is not the Flower of curtesie, he is not a proper
    man: and for a hand, and a foote, and a baudie, wel go thy
    1355way wench, thou hast it ifaith, Lord, Lord, how my head
    1355.1beates?
    Iul: What of all this? tell me what sayes he to our ma-
    riage?
    Nur: Marry he sayes like an honest Gentleman, and a
    kinde, and I warrant a vertuous : wheres your Mother?
    Iul: Lord, Lord, how odly thou repliest? He saies like a
    kinde