of Romeo and Iuliet.
350369But to reioyce in
splendor of mine owne.
351370 Enter Capulets Wife and Nurse. 352371Wife. Nur
se wher's my daughter? call her forth to me.
353372 Nurse. Now by my maidenhead, at twelue yeare old I bad her 354373come, what Lamb, what Ladie-bird, God forbid, 355374Wheres this Girle? what Iuliet.
357376Iuliet. How now who calls?
359378Iuli. Madam I am here, what is your will?
360379 Wife. This is the matter. Nur
se giue leaue a while, we mu
st talk
361380in
secret. Nur
se come backe againe, I haue remembred mee,
362381thou'
se heare our coun
sel. Thou knowe
st my daughters of a pre
- 364383Nurse. Faith I can tell her age vnto an houre. 365384Wife. Shee's not fourteene.
366385 Nurse. Ile lay fourteene of my teeth, and yet to my teene be it 367386spoken, I haue but foure, shees not fourteene. 369387How long is it now to Lammas tide?
370388Wife. A fortnight and odde dayes.
371389 Nurse. Euen or odde, of all daies in the yeare come Lammas
Eue at 372390night stal she be fourteen. Su
san
and she, God rest all Christian soules, 373391were of an age. Well Su
san
is with God, she was too good for me: But 374392as I said, on Lammas
Eue at night shall she be fourteene, that shall 375393shee marrie, I remember it well. Tis since the Earth-quake now 377394eleuen yeares, and she was weand I neuer shall forget it, of all the daies 378395of the yeare vpon that day: for I had then laide worme-wood to my 379396dug, sitting in the sun vnder the Doue-house wall. My Lord and 380397you were then at Mantua,
nay I doo beare a braine. But as I said, 381398when it did taste the worme-wood on the nipple of my dug, and 383399felt it bitter, pretie foole, to see it teachie and fall out with the Dugge. 384400Shake quoth the Doue-house, twas no need I trow to bid me trudge: 385401and since that time it is a leuen yeares, for then she could stand hylone, 386402nay byth roode she could haue run and wadled all about: for euen 388403the day before she broke her brow, and then my husband, God be with his