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Author: William Shakespeare
Editor: Erin Sadlack
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Romeo and Juliet (Modern, Quarto 2)

[Scene 14/III.iv]
Enter old Capulet, his wife, and Paris.
Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckily,
That we have had no time to move our daughter.
Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
And so did I. Well, we were born to die.
'Tis very late; she'll not come down tonight.
2000I promise you, but for your company,
I would have been abed an hour ago.
These times of woe afford no times to woo.
Madam, goodnight, commend me to your daughter.
Capulet's Wife
I will, and know her mind early tomorrow.
2005Tonight she's mewed up to her heaviness.
Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my child's love; I think she will be ruled
In all respects by me. Nay, more, I doubt it not.
Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;
2010Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love
And bid her,--mark you me?--on Wednesday next.
But soft, what day is this?
Monday, my Lord.
Monday, ha ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon.
2015A Thursday let it be, a Thursday tell her
She shall be married to this noble earl.
Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?
We'll keep no great ado--a friend or two.
For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
2020It may be thought we held him carelessly,
Being our kinsman, if we revel much.
Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,
And there an end, but what say you to Thursday?
My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.
Well, get you gone, a Thursday be it then.--
[To Wife] Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed.
Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day.
Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!
2030Afore me, it is so very late that we may call it early by and by.
Goodnight.
Exeunt.