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  • Title: Romeo and Juliet (Modern, Quarto 2)
  • Editor: Erin Sadlack
  • ISBN: 1-55058-299-2

    Copyright Erin Sadlack. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Erin Sadlack
    Not Peer Reviewed

    Romeo and Juliet (Modern, Quarto 2)

    [Scene 19/IV.iv]
    Enter Lady of the house and Nurse.
    2540Capulet's Wife
    Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
    [Hands Nurse the keys.]
    They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
    Enter old Capulet.
    Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed.
    The curfew bell hath rung; 'tis three o'clock.
    Look to the baked meats, good Angelica,
    Spare not for cost.
    [To Capulet] Go, you cot-quean, go.
    2550Get you to bed. Faith, you'll be sick tomorrow
    For this night's watching.
    No, not a whit. What, I have watched ere now
    All night for lesser cause and ne'er been sick.
    Capulet's Wife
    Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,
    2555But I will watch you from such watching now.
    Exit Lady and Nurse.
    A jealous hood, a jealous hood!--[To Serving-man] Now fellow, what is there?
    Enter three or four [serving-men] with spits and logs and baskets.
    25601 Serving-man
    Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what.
    Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Serving-man ]Sirrah, fetch drier logs.
    Call Peter; he will show thee where they are.
    2 Serving-man
    I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
    And never trouble Peter for the matter.[Exit 2 Serving-man]
    Mass, and well said. A merry whoreson, ha!
    Thou shalt be loggerhead. Good faith, 'tis day.
    Play music.
    The County will be here with music straight,
    For so he said he would; I hear him near.
    2570Nurse! Wife! What ho! What, Nurse, I say!
    Enter Nurse.
    Go waken Juliet. Go and trim her up.
    I'll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste;
    Make haste! The bridegroom, he is come already; make haste, I say![Exeunt Capulet and Nurse.]