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Romeo and Juliet - Act 4, scene 4Act 4, scene 4
⌜Scene 4⌝
Synopsis:
The Capulets and the Nurse stay up all night to get ready for the wedding. Capulet, hearing Paris approach with musicians, orders the Nurse to wake Juliet.
Enter ⌜Lady Capulet⌝ and Nurse.LADY CAPULET
2550 Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
NURSE
2551 They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
Enter old Capulet.
CAPULET
2552 Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed.
2553 The curfew bell hath rung. ’Tis three o’clock.—
2554 5 Look to the baked meats, good Angelica.
2555 Spare not for cost.
NURSE 2556 Go, you cot-quean, go,
2557 Get you to bed. Faith, you’ll be sick tomorrow
2558 For this night’s watching.
CAPULET
2559 10 No, not a whit. What, I have watched ere now
2560 All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.
LADY CAPULET
2561 Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,
2562 But I will watch you from such watching now.
Lady ⌜Capulet⌝ and Nurse exit.
CAPULET
2563 A jealous hood, a jealous hood!
Enter three or four ⌜Servingmen⌝ with spits and logs
and baskets.
2564 15 Now fellow,
2565 What is there?
⌜FIRST SERVINGMAN⌝
2566 Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what.
CAPULET
2567 Make haste, make haste.⌜First Servingman exits.⌝
2568 Sirrah, fetch drier logs.
2569 20 Call Peter. He will show thee where they are.
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⌜SECOND SERVINGMAN⌝ 2570 I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
2571 And never trouble Peter for the matter.
CAPULET
2572 Mass, and well said. A merry whoreson, ha!
2573 Thou shalt be loggerhead.
⌜Second Servingman exits.⌝
2574 25 Good ⌜faith,⌝ ’tis day.
2575 The County will be here with music straight,
Play music.
2576 For so he said he would. I hear him near.—
2577 Nurse!—Wife! What ho!—What, nurse, I say!
Enter Nurse.
2578 Go waken Juliet. Go and trim her up.
2579 30 I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,
2580 Make haste. The bridegroom he is come already.
2581 Make haste, I say.
⌜He exits.⌝