Romeo and Juliet ACT 1, SCENE 3 [Capulet House. LADY CAPULET & NURSE] LADY CAPULET 1.3.1 Nurse, Where's My Daughter? Call He
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Romeo and Juliet ACT 1, SCENE 3 [Capulet house. LADY CAPULET & NURSE] LADY CAPULET 1.3.1 Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to me. NURSE 1.3.2 Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old, virginity I bade her come.—What, lamb! What, ladybird!— told God forbid! Where's this girl?—What, Juliet! JULIET [enters] 1.3.5 How now, who calls? NURSE 1.3.6 Your mother. JULIET 1.3.7 Madam, I am here. What is your will? what do you want LADY CAPULET 1.3.8 This is the matter.—Nurse, give leave awhile, leave us We must talk in secret.—Nurse, come back again! I have remembered me, thou's hear our counsel. you shall, conversation Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age. NURSE 1.3.12 Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. indeed LADY CAPULET 1.3.13 She's not fourteen. NURSE 1.3.14 I'll lay fourteen of my teeth, and yet, to my teen I'll bet, suffering be it spoken, I have but four. She's not fourteen. only four teeth How long is it now to Lammas-tide? Lummas Day, August 1 LADY CAPULET 1.3.17 A fortnight and odd days. two weeks, a few days NURSE 1.3.18 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— 1.3.20 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, 1.3.25 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, put a bitter extract on my breast Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall. pigeon coop My lord and you were then at Mantua. 1.3.30 —Nay, I do bear a brain!—But, as I said, have a good memory When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple the baby Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, dear To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug! irritable, refuse "Shake," quoth the dove-house. 'Twas no need, I trow, said, believe 1.3.35 To bid me trudge. tell me to move And since that time it is eleven years. For then she could stand alone. Nay, by the rood, Holy Cross 1.3.40 She could have run and waddled all about, For even the day before, she broke her brow, bumped her forehead 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? said 1.3.45 Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit, lay on your back (bawdy), learning Wilt thou not, Jule?" And by my holy-dame, the Virgin Mary The pretty wretch left crying and said "Ay." dear, stopped To see now how a jest shall come about! joke, come true I warrant, if1 I should live a thousand years, I swear, and2 1.3.50 I never should forget it. "Wilt thou not, Jule?" quoth he. And, pretty fool, it stinted and said "Ay." stopped LADY CAPULET 1.3.54 Enough of this. I pray thee, hold thy peace! I ask you, be quiet NURSE 1.3.55 Yes, madam, yet I cannot choose but laugh, can't help but laugh To think it should leave crying and say "Ay." And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow I swear A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, rooster's testicle A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly. terrible "Yea," quoth my husband, "Fall'st upon thy face? 1.3.60 Thou wilt fall backward when thou come'st to age, Wilt thou not, Jule?" It stinted and said "Ay." JULIET 1.3.63 And stint thou too, I pray thee, Nurse, say I! I ask you, stop NURSE 1.3.64 Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace, bless you Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And I might live to see thee married once, if I have my wish. LADY CAPULET 1.3.68 Marry, that "marry" is the very theme I came to talk of.—Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your disposition to be married? how do you feel about marriage JULIET 1.3.71 It is an honor1 that I dream not of. NURSE 1.3.72 An honor1? Were not I thine2 only nurse, thy1, if I weren't your only wet-nurse I would say thou hadst sucked wisdom from thy teat. the breast LADY CAPULET 1.3.75 Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you, Here in Verona, ladies of esteem high-breeding Are made already mothers. By my count I was your mother much upon these years at the same age That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief: The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. NURSE 1.3.81 A man, young lady! Lady, such a man As all the world. Why, he's a man of wax! perfect like a wax model LADY CAPULET 1.3.83 Verona's summer hath not such a flower. NURSE 1.3.84 Nay, he's a flower, in faith, a very flower. indeed LADY CAPULET 1.3.85 What say you? Can you love the gentleman? This night you shall behold him at our feast. see Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, read like a book And find delight writ there with beauty's pen. written Examine every married lineament well balanced facial feature And see how one another lends content, each tells a story 1.3.90 And what obscured in this fair volume lies anything unclear in this book Find written in the margent of his eyes. margins This precious book of love, this unbound lover, uncovered/unmarried To beautify him, only lacks a cover. he only needs a cover The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride a splendid sight 1.3.95 For fair without the fair within to hide. beauty outside is beauty within That book in many's eyes doth share the glory a book cover is made That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. beautiful by a beautiful tale So shall you share all that he doth possess all his wealth and status By having him, making yourself no less. marrying him NURSE 1.3.101 No less? Nay, bigger. Women grow by men. get pregnant LADY CAPULET 1.3.102 Speak briefly. Can you like of Paris' love? JULIET 1.3.103 I'll look to like, if looking liking move, if looks will make me like him But no more deep will I endart2 mine eye engage1: I won't look any deeper Than your consent gives strength to make it1 fly. than you want me to SERVANT [enters] 1.3.106 Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, have come you called, my young lady asked for, they're calling for you the Nurse cursed in the pantry, and is being cursed everything in extremity. I must hence is in chaos, go away to wait. I beseech you, follow straight. wait tables, beg, right away LADY CAPULET 1.3.111 We follow thee. [Servant exits] will follow Juliet, the County stays. the Count is waiting NURSE 1.3.112 Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. to make [They exit] .