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
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
of Romeo and Iuliet.
428440And
find delight, writ there with bewties pen,
429441Examine euery married liniament,
430442And
see how one an other lends content:
431443And what ob
scurde in this faire volume lies,
432444Finde written in the margeant of his eyes.
433445This precious booke of loue, this vnbound louer,
434446To bewti
fie him, onely lacks a Couer.
435447The
fish liues in the
sea, and tis much pride
436448For faire without the faire, within to hide:
437449That booke in manies eyes doth
share the glorie
438450That in gold cla
spes locks in the golden
storie:
439451So
shall you
share all that he doth po
sse
sse,
440452By hauing him, making your
selfe no le
sse.
441453Nurse. No le
sse, nay bigger women grow by men.
442454OldLa. Speake brie
fly, can you like of
Paris loue?
443455Iuli. Ile looke to like, if looking liking moue.
444456But no more deepe will I endart mine eye,
445457Then your con
sent giues
strength to make
flie.
Enter Serving. 447458 Ser. Madam the gue
sts are come,
supper
seru'd vp, you cald,
448459my young Lady askt for, the Nur
se cur
st in the Pantrie, and e
- 449460uerie thing in extremitie: I mu
st hence to wait, I be
seech you
451462Mo. We follow thee,
Iuliet the Countie
staies.
452463Nur. Go gyrle,
seeke happie nights to happie dayes.