READ STUDY GUIDE: Act IV, scenes iii–iv |
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Act IV, Scene iv:
Hall in Capulet's House.
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 bak'd meats, good Angelica; |
| Spare not for 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. |
| 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!—Now, fellow, |
| [Enter Servants, with spits, logs and baskets.] |
| What's there? |
| 1 Servant. |
| Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. |
| Capulet.: |
| Make haste, make haste.[Exit 1 Servant.] |
| —Sirrah, fetch drier logs: |
| Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. |
| 2 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! |
| 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: |
| Make haste, I say. |
| [Exeunt.] |
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