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Romeo and Juliet

Act II, Scene 5

Capulet's orchard.
 
[Enter JULIET]
 
JULIET
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      The clock | struck nine, when | I did send | the nurse,
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      In half | an hour | she prom|ised to | return,
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      Perchance | she can|not meet | him: that's | not^so:
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      Oh she | is lame, love's her|alds should | be thoughts,
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      Which ten | times^fas|ter glide | than the / sun's beams,  ??
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      Driving back shadows over louring hills.   ????
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      Therefore do |nimble-|pinioned | doves draw love,
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      And there|fore hath | the wind | swift Cupid wings:
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      Now is the | sun u|pon the | highmost hill
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      Of this day's journ|ey, and | from nine | till twelve,
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      Is three | long hours,/ yet she | is not come.
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      Had she | affec|tions and / warm youth|ful blood,
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      She would | be as swift | in mo|tion as | a ball,
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      My words | would ban|dy her | to my / sweet love,
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      And his | to me,| but old | folks,|
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      Many feign | as they | were dead,  \\
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      Unwiel|dy, slow,| heavy,| and pale | as lead.
 
[Enter Nurse and PETER]
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      O God | she comes,| O hon|ey nurse | what news?
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      Hast thou | met with | him? Send | thy man | away.
 
NURSE
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      Peter | stay at | the gate.   \\
 
[Exit PETER]
 
JULIET
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      Now* good | sweet* nurse:
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                                O Lord,| why lookst | thou sad?
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      Though news | be sad,| yet tell | them mer|rily.
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      If good | thou shamst | the mus|ic of / sweet news,
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      By play|ing it to | me, with / so sour | a face.
 
NURSE
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      I am | a-wea|ry, give | me leave | awhile,
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      Fie how | my bones | ache, what | a jaunt | have I had?
 
JULIET
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      I would | thou hadst | my bones,| and I | thy news:
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      Nay* come | I pray | thee speak,| good^good | nurse^speak.
 
NURSE
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      Jesu | what haste?| Can you | not stay | awhile?
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      Do you | not see | that I | am out | of breath?
 
JULIET
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      How art | thou out | of breath,| when thou | hast breath
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      To say | to me,| that thou | art out | of breath?
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      The excuse | that thou | dost make | in this | delay,
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      Is long|er than | the tale | thou dost | excuse.
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      Is thy / news good | or bad?| Answer | to that,
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      Say eith|er, and | I'll stay | the cir|cumstance:
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      Let me | be sat|isfied,| is it good | or bad?
 
NURSE
Well, you have made a simple choice, you know not how to choose a man: Romeo, no not he though his face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels all men's, and for a hand, and a foot, and a body, though they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy, but I'll warrant him as gentle as a lamb: Go thy ways wench, serve God. What have you dined at home?
 
JULIET
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      No* no:| but all | this did | I know | before.
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      What says | he of | our mar|riage? What | of that?
 
NURSE
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      Lord how | my head | aches,| what a head | have I:
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      It beats | as it would | fall in | twenty | pieces.
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      My back | on the oth|er side:| O my back,| my back:
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      Beshrew | your heart | for send|ing me | about,
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      To catch | my death | with jaunt|ing up | and down.
 
JULIET
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      In faith:| I am sor|ry that | thou art | not well,
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      Sweet sweet*,| sweet nurse, tell | me what says | my love?  ??
 
NURSE
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      Your love | says like an hon|est gent|leman,
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      And a court|eous, and | a kind,| and a | handsome,
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      And I war|rant a vir|tuous:| where is your | mother?
 
JULIET
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      Where is | my moth|er?  \\
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      Why she is | within,| where should | she be?
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      How odd|ly thou | replyst:  \\
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      Your love | says like an hon|est gent|leman:
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      Where is | your moth|er?
 
NURSE
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                                O God's | lady | dear,
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      Are you | so hot?| Marry | come up | I trow,
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      Is this | the poult|ice for | my ach|ing bones?
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      Hencefor|ward do | your mes|sages | yourself.
 
JULIET
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      Here's such a coil,| come what | says Rom/eo?
 
NURSE
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      Have you | got^leave | to go | to shrift | today?
 
JULIET
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      I have.  \\
 
NURSE
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      Then hie | you hence | to Fri|ar Laur|ence' cell,
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      There stays a hus|band to / make you | a wife:
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      Now comes | the want|on blood | up in | your cheeks,
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      They'll be | in scar|let straight | at an|y news:
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      Hie^you | to church,| I must^|anoth|er way,
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      To fetch | a lad|der by | the which | your love
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      Must climb | a bird's nest soon | when it | is dark:
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      I am | the drudge,| and toil | in your | delight,
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      But you | shall bear | the burd|en soon | at night.
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      Go I'll | to din|ner, hie | you to | the cell.
 
JULIET
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      Hie to high for|tune, hon|est nurse,| farewell.
 
[Exeunt]

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