ACT IV SCENE IV

Romeo and Juliet

ACT IV SCENE IV	Hall in Capulet’s house.
[Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse]
LADY CAPULET	Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
Nurse	They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
[Enter CAPULET]
CAPULET	Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow’d,
	The curfew-bell hath rung, ’tis three o’clock:
	Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:
	Spare not for the cost.
Nurse	Go, you cot-quean, go,
	Get you to bed; faith, You’ll be sick to-morrow
	For this night’s watching.
CAPULET	No, not a whit: what! I have watch’d ere now
	All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.	10
LADY CAPULET	Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
	But I will watch you from such watching now.
[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse]
CAPULET	A jealous hood, a jealous hood!
[ Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets ]
	Now, fellow,
	What’s there?
First Servant	Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
CAPULET	Make haste, make haste.
[Exit First Servant]
	Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
	Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Second Servant	I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
	And never trouble Peter for the matter.
[Exit]
CAPULET	Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!	20
	Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, ’tis day:
	The county will be here with music straight,
	For so he said he would: I hear him near.
[Music within]
	Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!
[Re-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:	26
	Make haste, I say.
[Exeunt]

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