The most lamentable Tragedie
389404 his soule, a was a merrie man, tooke vp the child, yea quoth he, doest 390405thou fall vpon thy face? thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more 391406wit, wilt thou not Iule?
And by my holydam, the pretie wretch left 393407crying, and said I: to see now how a ieast shall come about: I warrant, 394408and I should liue a thousand yeares, I neuer should forget it: wilt thou 395409not Iule
quoth he? and pretie foole it stinted, and said I. 397410Old La. Inough of this, I pray thee hold thy peace.
398411 Nurse. Yes Madam, yet I can not chuse but laugh, to thinke it 399412should leaue crying, and say I: and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a 400413bump as big as a young Cockrels stone: a perillous knock, and it cryed 401414bitterly. Yea quoth my husband, fallst vpon thy face, thou wilt fall 402415backward when thou commest to age: wilt thou not Iule?
It stinted, 405417Iuli. And
stint thou too, I pray thee Nur
se,
say I.
406418 Nurse. Peace I haue done: God marke thee too his grace, thou 407419wast the prettiest babe that ere I nurst, and I might liue to see thee 408420married once, I haue my wish. 409421Old La. Marrie, that marrie is the very theame
410422I came to talke of, tell me daughter
Iuliet, 411423How
stands your di
spo
sitions to be married?
412424Iuliet. It is an houre that I dreame not of.
413425 Nurse. An houre, were not I thine onely Nurse, I would say thou 414426hadst suckt wisedome from thy teate. 415427Old La. Well thinke of marriage now, yonger then you
416428Here in
Verona, Ladies of e
steeme,
417429Are made alreadie mothers by my count.
418430I was your mother, much vpon the
se yeares
419431That you are now a maide, thus then in briefe:
420432The valiant
Paris seekes you for his loue.
421433Nurse. A man young Lady, Lady, such a man as all the world. 423435OldLa. Veronas Sommer hath not
such a
flower.
424436Nurse. Nay hees a flower, in faith a very flower. 425437Old La. What
say you, can you loue the Gentleman?
426438This night you
shall behold him at our fea
st,
427439Reade ore the volume of young
Paris face,
And