Romeo and Juliet
| ACT IV SCENE II | Hall in Capulet’s house. | |
| [ Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, and two Servingmen ] | ||
| CAPULET | So many guests invite as here are writ. | |
| [Exit First Servant] | ||
| Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. | ||
| Second Servant | You shall have none ill, sir; for I’ll try if they | |
| can lick their fingers. | ||
| CAPULET | How canst thou try them so? | |
| Second Servant | Marry, sir, ’tis an ill cook that cannot lick his | |
| own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his | ||
| fingers goes not with me. | ||
| CAPULET | Go, be gone. | |
| [Exit Second Servant] | ||
| We shall be much unfurnished for this time. | 10 | |
| What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence? | ||
| Nurse | Ay, forsooth. | |
| CAPULET | Well, he may chance to do some good on her: | |
| A peevish self-will’d harlotry it is. | ||
| Nurse | See where she comes from shrift with merry look. | |
| [Enter JULIET] | ||
| CAPULET | How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding? | |
| JULIET | Where I have learn’d me to repent the sin | |
| Of disobedient opposition | ||
| To you and your behests, and am enjoin’d | ||
| By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here, | ||
| And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you! | 20 | |
| Henceforward I am ever ruled by you. | ||
| CAPULET | Send for the county; go tell him of this: | |
| I’ll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning. | ||
| JULIET | I met the youthful lord at Laurence’ cell; | |
| And gave him what becomed love I might, | ||
| Not step o’er the bounds of modesty. | ||
| CAPULET | Why, I am glad on’t; this is well: stand up: | |
| This is as’t should be. Let me see the county; | ||
| Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither. | ||
| Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar, | 30 | |
| Our whole city is much bound to him. | ||
| JULIET | Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, | |
| To help me sort such needful ornaments | ||
| As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? | ||
| LADY CAPULET | No, not till Thursday; there is time enough. | |
| CAPULET | Go, nurse, go with her: we’ll to church to-morrow. | |
| [Exeunt JULIET and Nurse] | ||
| LADY CAPULET | We shall be short in our provision: | |
| ‘Tis now near night. | ||
| CAPULET | Tush, I will stir about, | |
| And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife: | ||
| Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her; | 40 | |
| I’ll not to bed to-night; let me alone; | ||
| I’ll play the housewife for this once. What, ho! | ||
| They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself | ||
| To County Paris, to prepare him up | ||
| Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light, | ||
| Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim’d. | ||
| [Exeunt] | ||
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