Romeo and Juliet
| ACT III SCENE IV | A room in Capulet’s house. | |
| [Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS] | ||
| CAPULET | Things have fall’n out, sir, so unluckily, | |
| That we have had no time to move our daughter: | ||
| Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly, | ||
| And so did I:–Well, we were born to die. | ||
| ‘Tis very late, she’ll not come down to-night: | ||
| I promise you, but for your company, | ||
| I would have been a-bed an hour ago. | ||
| PARIS | These times of woe afford no time to woo. | |
| Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter. | ||
| LADY CAPULET | I will, and know her mind early to-morrow; | 10 |
| To-night she is mew’d up to her heaviness. | ||
| CAPULET | Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender | |
| Of my child’s love: I think she will be ruled | ||
| In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not. | ||
| Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; | ||
| Acquaint her here of my son Paris’ love; | ||
| And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next– | ||
| But, soft! what day is this? | ||
| PARIS | Monday, my lord, | |
| CAPULET | Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon, | |
| O’ Thursday let it be: o’ Thursday, tell her, | 20 | |
| She shall be married to this noble earl. | ||
| Will you be ready? do you like this haste? | ||
| We’ll keep no great ado,–a friend or two; | ||
| For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, | ||
| It may be thought we held him carelessly, | ||
| Being our kinsman, if we revel much: | ||
| Therefore we’ll have some half a dozen friends, | ||
| And there an end. But what say you to Thursday? | ||
| PARIS | My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow. | |
| CAPULET | Well get you gone: o’ Thursday be it, then. | 30 |
| Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed, | ||
| Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day. | ||
| Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho! | ||
| Afore me! it is so very very late, | ||
| That we may call it early by and by. | ||
| Good night. | ||
| [Exeunt] | ||
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