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

[Scene 19/IV.iv]
Enter Lady of the house and Nurse.
2540Capulet's Wife
Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
[Hands Nurse the keys.]
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
Enter old Capulet.
Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed.
The curfew bell hath rung; 'tis three o'clock.
Look to the baked meats, good Angelica,
Spare not for cost.
[To Capulet] Go, you cot-quean, go.
2550Get you to bed. Faith, you'll be sick tomorrow
For this night's watching.
No, not a whit. What, I have watched ere now
All night for lesser cause and ne'er been sick.
Capulet's Wife
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,
2555But I will watch you from such watching now.
Exit Lady and Nurse.
A jealous hood, a jealous hood!--[To Serving-man] Now fellow, what is there?
Enter three or four [serving-men] with spits and logs and baskets.
25601 Serving-man
Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what.
Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Serving-man ]Sirrah, fetch drier logs.
Call Peter; he will show thee where they are.
2 Serving-man
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
And never trouble Peter for the matter.[Exit 2 Serving-man]
Mass, and well said. A merry whoreson, ha!
Thou shalt be loggerhead. Good faith, 'tis day.
Play music.
The County will be here with music straight,
For so he said he would; I hear him near.
2570Nurse! 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![Exeunt Capulet and Nurse.]