of Romeo and Iuliet.
13231304She would be as
swift in motion as a ball,
13241305My words would bandie her to my
sweete loue.
13251306 M. And his to me, but old folks, many fain as they wer dead,
13271307Vnwieldie,
slowe, heauie, and pale as lead.
13291309O God
she comes, ô hony Nur
se what newes?
13301310Ha
st thou met with him?
send thy man away.
13321312 Iu. Now good
sweete
Nurse, O Lord, why looke
st thou
sad?
13341313Though newes be
sad, yet tell them merily.
13351314If good, thou
shame
st the mu
sicke of
sweete newes,
13361315By playing it to me, with
so
sower a face.
13371316Nur. I am a wearie, giue me leaue a while,
13381317Fie how my bones ake, what a iaunce haue I?
13391318Iu. I would thou had
st my bones, and I thy newes:
13401319Nay come I pray thee
speake, good good Nur
se
speake.
13411320Nur. Ie
su what ha
ste, can you not
stay a while?
13421321Do you not
see that I am out of breath?
13431322Iu. How art thou out of breath, when thou ha
st breath
13441323To
say to me, that thou art out of breath?
13451324The excu
se that thou doe
st make in this delay,
13461325Is longer then the tale thou doe
st excu
se.
13471326Is thy newes good or bad? an
swere to that,
13481327Say either, and ile
stay the circum
stance:
13491328Let me be
satis
fied, i
st good or bad?
13501329 Nur. Well, you haue made a
simple choy
se, you know not
13511330how to chu
se a man:
Romeo, no not he though his face be bet
- 13521331ter then any mans, yet his leg excels all mens, and for a hand
13531332and a foote and a body, though they be not to be talkt on, yet
13541333they are pa
st compare: he is not the
flower of curte
sie, but ile
13551334warrant him, as gentle as a lamme: go thy wayes wench,
serue
13561335God. What haue you dinde at home?
13571336Iu. No, no. But all this did I know before.
13581337What
sayes he of our marriage, what of that?
13591338Nur. Lord how my head akes, what a head haue I?
13601339It beates as it would fall in twentie peeces.
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