Enter Lady CAPULET. La. Cap. What, are you busy? do you need my help? Jul. No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries As are behoveful for our state to-morrow: So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the nurse this night sit up with you; La. Cap. Good night! Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse. Jul. Farewell!-God knows, when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life : My dismal scene I needs must act alone.— What if this mixture do not work at all? No, no ;-this shall forbid it :-lie thou there.- What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead; I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point! Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, The horrible conceit of death and night, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones So early waking,-what with loathsome smells; [She throws herself on the Bed. The fabulous accounts of the plant called a mandrake give it a degree of animal life, and when it is torn from the ground it groans, which is fatal to him that pulls it up. 2 Distracted. SCENE IV. Capulet's Hall. Enter Lady CAPULET and Nurse. La. Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.3 Enter CAPULET. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, The curfeu bell hath wrung, 'tis three o'clock:- Spare not for cost. Nurse. Go, go, you cot-quean, go, Get you to bed; 'faith, you'll be sick to-morrow Cap. No, not a whit; What! I have watch'd ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt 4 in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!—Now, low, What's there? Enter Servants, with Spits, Logs, and Baskets. fel 1 Serv. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. 3 The room where pies were made. A Mouse was a term of endearment to a woman. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Serv.]—Sirrah, fetch drier logs; Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. 2 Serv. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs, And never trouble Peter for the matter. [Exit. Cap. 'Mass, and well said; A merry whoreson! ha, Thou shalt be logger-head.-Good faith, 'tis day: The county will be here with musick straight, [Musick within. For so he said he would. I hear him near:Nurse!-Wife!-what, ho!-what, nurse, I say! Enter Nurse. Go, waken Juliet, go, and trim her up; I'll go and chat with Paris :-Hie, make haste, Make haste! the bridegroom he is come already: Make haste, I say! SCENE V. Juliet's Chamber; JULIET on the Bed. Enter Nurse. [Exeunt. Nurse. Mistress !-what, mistress!-Juliet!-fast, I warrant her, she: Why, lamb!-why, lady!-fye, you slug-a-bed!Why, love, I say!-madam! sweet-heart!-why, bride! What, not a word?—you take your pennyworths now; Sleep for a week: for the next night, I warrant, That you shall rest but little.-God forgive me, (Marry and amen!) how sound is she asleep! I needs must wake her:-Madam, madam, madam! He'll fright you up, i'faith.—Will it not be? Enter Lady CAPULET. La. Cap. What noise is here? O lamentable day! Look, look! O heavy day! La. Cap. What is the matter? Nurse. La. Cap. O me, O me!-my child, my only life, Revive, look up, or I will die with thee! Help, help!-call help. Enter CAPULET. Çap. For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. Nurse. She's dead, deceas'd, she's dead; alack the day! La. Cap. Alack the day! she's dead, she's dead, she's dead. Cap. Ha! let me see her :-Out, alas! she's cold, Her blood is settled; and her joints are stiff; |