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Romeo and Juliet

Act IV, Scene 2

A hall in Capulet's house.
 
[Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, and two Servingmen]
 
CAPULET
          ,       ,         ,         ,          ,
      So ma|ny guests | invite | as here | are writ,
       ,            ,         ,      ,         ,
     
Sirrah,| go hire | me twen|ty cun|ning cooks.
 
[Exit First Servant]
 
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, we shall be much unfurnished for this time: What is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?
 
NURSE
Aye forsooth.
 
CAPULET
            ,          ,         ,          ,        ,
      Well he | may chance | to do | some good | on her,
          ,        ,      ,    ,              ,
      A peev|ish self-|willed harl/otry | it is.
 
NURSE
       ,                ,             ,
      See where | she comes | from shrift
                                                ,       ,
                                          With mer|ry look.
 
[Enter JULIET]
 
CAPULET
           ,         ,     ,
      How now | my head|strong,
        ,           ,          ,
      Where have | you been | gadding?  (tri with prev)
 
JULIET
            ,            ,      ,          ,         ,
      Where I | have learned | me to | repent | the sin
          ,    ,    ,     ,    ,
      Of dis|obed|ient | oppos|ition:
          ,          ,        ,          ,       ,
      To you | and your | behests,| and am | enjoined
          ,      ,               ,    ,           ,
      By ho|ly Laur|ence, to / fall prost|rate* here,
           ,          ,        ,      ,       ,         ->
      And beg | your pard|on: pard|on I | beseech || you,
        ,    ,         2   ,       ,         ,
      Hence|forward | I am ev|er ruled | by you.
 
CAPULET
        ,              ,       ,     ,             ,
      Send for | the count|y, go | tell him | of this,
             ,           ,          ,      ,       ,       2->
      I'll have | this knot | knit up | tomor|row mor||ning.
 
JULIET
         ,          ,         ,        ,           ,
      I met | the youth|ful lord | at Laur|ence' cell,
            ,          ,       ,       ,        ,
      And gave | him what | becom|ed love | I might,
             ,        ,           ,         ,    ,
      Not* step|ping ore | the bounds | of mod|esty.
 
CAPULET
          ,        ,      x                ,           ,
      Why I | am glad | on it, this | is well,| stand^up,
            ,     2      ,      ,     2      ,          ,
      This is | as it should | be, Let me | see the | county:
            ,      ,      ,          ,          ,       ->
      Aye* mar|ry go | I say,| and fetch | him hith||er.
       ,     2      ,           ,        ,      x
      Now | afore* God,| this reve|rend ho|ly friar,
       T    T    T           ,    ,         ,
      Our whole cit|y is / much bound | to him.
 
JULIET
        ,               ,         ,    ,  2      ,
      Nurse will | you go | with me | into my | closet,
           ,         ,           ,       ,     ,
      To help | me sort | such need|ful orn|aments,
          ,      T    T   .   T       ,       ,
      As you | think fit to furn|ish me | tomorrow?
 
LADY CAPULET
           ,           ,          ,          ,       ,
      No* not | till Thurs|day, there | is time | enough.
 
CAPULET
       T   T     T       2
      Go nurse, go | with her,
                                 ,           ,        ,      ->
                               We'll | to church | tomor||row.
 
[Exeunt JULIET and Nurse]
 
LADY CAPULET
       ,        2     ,         ,        ,    ,
      We | shall be short | in our | provis|ion,
            ,      T    T
      'Tis now | near night.
 
CAPULET
                              T     2       ,       ,
                            Tush,| I will stir | about,
           ,       ,                ,       ,      2       ,
      And all | things shall | be well,| I war|rant thee wife:
           ,        ,   2     ,     .   T   T  T
      Go thou | to Jul|iet, help | to deck up her,
            ,        ,        ,      ,          ,
      I'll not | to bed | tonight,| let me | alone:
             ,          ,     ,               ,          ,
      I'll play | the house|wife for | this once.| What ho?
                  ,    ,          ,          ,        ,
      They are / all forth,| Well I | will walk | myself
           ,      ,       ,        ,         ,
      To count|y Par|is, to | prepare | him up
          ,          x          ,          ,         ,
      Against | tomorrow,| my heart | is wond|rous light,
              ,          ,         ,        ,        ,
      Since^this | same^way|ward girl | is so | reclaimed.
 
[Exeunt]

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