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A room in Capulet's house.
[Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse]
LADY CAPULET
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Nurse^where's | my daught|er? Call | her forth | to
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NURSE
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Now by | my maid|enhead,| at twelve | year^old
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I bade | her come,| what^lamb:| what la|dybird,
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God for|bid, where's*| this girl?| What Jul|iet?
[Enter JULIET]
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How now,| who calls?
NURSE
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Your | mother.|
JULIET
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Madam | I am | here, what / is your | will?
LADY CAPULET
This is the matter: Nurse give leave awhile, we must talk in secret. Nurse
come back again, I have remembered me, thou's hear our counsel. Thou knowest
my daughter's of a pretty age.
NURSE
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Faith^I | can tell | her age | unto | an hour.
LADY CAPULET
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She's not | fourteen.
NURSE
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I'll lay | fourteen | of my teeth,
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And yet | to my | teeth be | it spoken,
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I have |
but four,| she's not | fourteen.
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How long | is it now | to Lam|mas-tide? (tetra with prev two)
LADY CAPULET
A fortnight and odd days.
NURSE
Even or odd, of all days in the year come Lammas-eve at night shall she be
fourteen. Susan and she, God rest all Christian
souls, were of an age. Well Susan is with God, she was too good for me. But as I said,
on Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen, that shall she marry, I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years, and she was weaned I never shall forget
it, of all the days of the year, upon that
day: for I had then laid wormwood to my dug sitting in the sun under the
dove-house wall, my lord and you were then at Mantua, nay I do bear a brain.But as I said,
when it did taste the wormwood on the nipple of my dug,and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
to see it tetchy, and fall out with the
dug, shake quoth the dove-house, 'twas no need I
trow to bid me trudge: and since that time it is eleven years, for then she
could stand alone, nay by the rood she could have run,and waddled all about:
for even the day before she broke her brow, and then my husband God be with his soul,
he was a merry man,took up the child, yea quoth he,dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall back/ward when thou hast more wit,
wilt thou not Jule? And by my holidame, the pretty wretch left crying, and
said Aye: to see now how a jest shall come about. I warrant, and I should live a thousand years, I never should forget it: Wilt thou not Jule quoth he?
And pretty fool it stinted, and said Aye.
LADY CAPULET
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Enough | of this,| I pray | thee hold | thy
peace.
NURSE
Yes madam, yet I cannot choose but laugh, to think it should leave crying,
and say aye: and yet I warrant it had upon its brow, a bump as big as a
young cockerel's stone? A parlous knock, and it cried bitterly. Yea quoth my
husband, fallst upon thy face, thou wilt fall backward when thou comst to
age: wilt thou not Jule? It stinted and said
Aye.
JULIET
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And stint | thou too,| I pray | thee nurse,| say
I.
NURSE
Peace I have done. God mark thee to his grace thou wast the
prettiest babe that ere I nursed, and I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish.
LADY CAPULET
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Marry | that mar|ry is | the ve|ry theme
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I came | to talk of.| Tell me,| daughter |
Juliet,
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How stands | your dis|posi|tion to | be married?
JULIET
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It is an | honor | that I | dream not of.
NURSE
An honor, were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst sucked wisdom from thy teat.
LADY CAPULET
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Well think | of mar|riage now,| younger | than
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Here in | Vero|na, lad|ies of | esteem,
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Are made | alrea|dy moth|ers. By / my count
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I was | your moth|er, much | upon | these^years
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That you | are now | a maid,| Thus^then | in
brief:
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The val|iant Par|is seeks | you for | his love.
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A man | young^la|dy, la|dy, such | a man
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As all | the world.| Why he's | a man | of wax.
LADY CAPULET
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Veron|a's sum|mer hath | not such a flower.
NURSE
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Nay he's | a flower,| in faith | a ve|ry flower.
LADY CAPULET
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What say | you, Can | you love | the gent|leman?
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This^night | you shall | behold | him at | our
feast,
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Read^ore | the vol|ume of / young Par|is' face,
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And find | delight,| writ there | with beaut|y's
pen:
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Exa|mine eve|ry mar|ried lin|eament,
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And see | how one | anoth|er lends | content:
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And what | obscured | in this / fair vol|ume lies,
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Find writ/ten in | the marg|ent of | his eyes.
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This pre|cious book | of love,| this un|bound
lov|er,
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To beaut|ify | him, on|ly lacks | a cov|er.
(hex with prev)
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The fish | lives^in | the sea,| and 'tis much
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For fair | without,| the fair | within | to hide:
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That book | in ma|ny's eyes | doth share | the glo|ry,
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That in / gold clasps,| locks^in | the gold|en
sto|ry: (hex with prev)
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So shall | you share | all that | he doth |
possess,
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By hav|ing him,| making | yourself | no less.
NURSE
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No less,| nay big|ger; wom|en grow | by men.
LADY CAPULET
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Speak brief/ly, can | you like | of Par|is' love?
JULIET
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I'll look | to like,| if look|ing lik|ing move,
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But no | more* deep | will I | endart | mine^eye,
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Than your | consent | gives^strength | to make |
it fly.
[Enter a Servant]
SERVANT
Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you called, my young lady
asked for, the nurse cursed in the pantry, and everything in extremity: I
must hence to wait, I beseech you follow straight.
[Exit Servant]
LADY CAPULET
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We fol|low thee, Jul|iet,| the count|y stays.
NURSE
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Go* girl,| seek^hap|py nights | to hap|py days.
[Exeunt]