13111292Iu. The clocke
strooke nine when I did
send the Nur
se,
13121293In halfe an houre
she promi
sed to returne,
13131294Perchance
she cannot meete him, thats not
so:
13141295Oh
she is lame, loues heraulds
should be thoughts,
13151296Which ten times fa
ster glides then the Suns beames,
13161297Driuing backe
shadowes ouer lowring hills.
13171298Therefore do nimble piniond doues draw loue,
13181299And therefore hath the wind
swift
Cupid wings:
13191300Now is the Sun vpon the highmo
st hill,
13201301Of this dayes iourney, and from nine till twelue,
13211302Is there long houres, yet
she is not come,
13221303Had
she a
ffe
ctions and warme youthfull bloud,
She
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.
F My
The most lamentable Tragedie
13611340My back a tother
side, a my backe, my backe:
13621341Be
shrewe your heart for
sending me about
13631342To catch my death with iaun
sing vp and downe.
13641343Iu. Ifaith I am
sorrie that thou art not well.
13651344Sweete,
sweete,
sweete Nur
se, tell me what
sayes my loue?
13661345Nur. Your loue
sayes like an hone
st gentleman,
13671346And a Courteous, and a kinde, and a hand
some,
13681347And I warrant a vertuous, where is your mother?
13691348 Iu. Where is my mother, why
she is within, wher
shuld
she be?
13721350Your loue
sayes like an hone
st gentleman,
13751353Are you
so hot, marrie come vp I trow,
13761354Is this the poultis for my aking bones:
13771355Henceforward do your me
ssages your
selfe.
13781356Iu. Heres
such a coyle, come what
saies
Romeo?
13791357Nur. Haue you got leaue to go to
shrift to day?
13811359Nur. Then high you hence to Frier
Lawrence Cell,
13821360There
stayes a husband to make you a wife:
13831361Now comes the wanton bloud vp in your cheekes,
13841362Theile be in
scarlet
straight at any newes:
13851363Hie you to Church, I mu
st an other way,
13861364To fetch a Ladder by the which your loue
13871365Mu
st climbe a birds nea
st soone when it is darke,
13881366I am the drudge, and toyle in your delight:
13891367But you
shall beare the burthen
soone at night.
13901368Go ile to dinner, hie you to the Cell.
13911369Iuli. Hie to high fortune,hone
st Nur
se farewell.