And in this borrowed likeness of fhrunk death Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes Jul. Give me, oh give me, tell me not of fear. [Taking the phial. Fri. Hold, get you gone, be ftrong and profperous In this refolve; I'll fend a friar with speed To Mantua, with my letters to thy Lord. Jul. Love, give me ftrength, and ftrength fhall help afford. Farewel, dear father! SCENE II. [Exeunt. Changes to Capulet's house. Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurfe, and two or three Servants. Cap. So many guests invite, as here are writ; twenty cunning cooks. Ser. You shall have none ill, Sir; for I'll try if they can lick their fingers. Cap. How canft thou try them fo? Ser. Marry, Sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his fingers, goes not with me. Cap. Go, be gone. We fhall be much, &c. Nurfe. Ay, forfooth. Cap. Well, he may chance to do fome good on her : A peevish felf-will'd harlotry it is. Enter Juliet. Nurfe. See where fhe comes from fhrift with merry look. Cap. How now, my head ftrong? where have you. been gadding? Jul. Where I have learn'd me to repent the fin To you and your behefts; and am injoin'd Cap. Send for the County, go tell him of this; Cap. Why, I am glad on't; this is well, ftand up; As you think fit to furnith me to ntorrow? La. Cap. No, not till Thurfday, there is time enough.. Cap. Go, nurfe, go with her; we'll to church to-[Exeunt Juliet and Nurfe.. La. Cap. We fhall be fhort in our provision; morrow. 'Tis now near night. Cap. Tuh, I will stir about, And all things fhall be well, I warrant thee, wife: Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her, I'll not to bed to-night, let me alone: What, ho! They are all forth; well, I will walk my myfelf Against to morrow, My heart's wondrous light.. Since this fame wayward girl is so reclaim'd. [Exeunt Capulet and Lady Capulet. SCENE III. Changes to Juliet's chamber. Enter Juliet and Nurfe. Jul. Ay, thofe attires are beft; but, gentle nurse, I pray thee leave me to myself to night : For I have need of many oritons To move the heav'ns to fmile upon my state, La. Cap. What, are you bufy, do you need my help? So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the nurse this night fit up with you; For I am fure you have your hands full all,` In this fo fudden business, La. Cap. Good night, Get thee to bed and relt, for thou haft need. [Exeunt. Jul. Farewel again! -God knows when we fhall meet I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, My difmal Icene I needs must act alone: Come, phial-What if this mixture do not work at all? No, no, this fhall forbid it; lie thou there [Pointing to a dagger. • What if it be a poison which the Friar Subtly hath miniftred, to have me dead, Left in this marriage he fhould be dishonour'd, I fear it is; and yet methinks it should not, • Comes to redeem me? there's a fearful point!: Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, 10 whofe foul mouth no healthfome air breathes in,, And there be strangled ere my Romeo comes? Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, (As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones > Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, So early waking, what with lothsome smells, And fhrieks, like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. • Or, if I wake, fhall I not be distraught, (Invironed with all these hideous fears), And inadly play with my forefathers' joints, And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his fhroud? And in this rage, with fome great kinfinan's bone,, As with a club, dash out my defp'rate brains? O look! methinks I fee my coutin's ghost -Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body [She throws herself on the bed.. S CENE IV. Changes to Capulet's ball. La. Cap. Hold, take thefe keys, and fetch more fpices, nurse. Nurfe. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.. Enter Capulet. Cap. Come, ftir, ftir, ftir, the fecond cock hatha The curfeu bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock: [crow'd,, Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica. Spare not for cost. Nurfe. Go, go, you cot-quean, go; Get you to bed; 'faith, you'll be fick to morrow'> For this night's watching Cap. No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now All night for a lefs cause, and ne'er been fick. La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time: But I will watch you, from fuch watching, now. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood Now, fellow, what's there? Enter three or four with fpits, and logs, and baskets. Ser. Things for the cook, Sir, but I know not what. Cap. Make hafte, make haste; firrah, fetch drier logs; Call Peter, he will shew thee where they are. Ser I have a head, Sir, that with find out logs, And never trouble Peter for the matter. Cap. 'Mafs, and well faid, a merry whorefon, ha ! Thou shalt be logger-head Good faith 'tis day. [Play mufic. The County will be here with music straight, For fo he faid he would. I hear him near. Nurfe, wife, what, ho! what, nurfe, I fay?: Enter Nurfe Go, waken Juliet, go and trim her up, Make halte, I fay. [Exeunt Capulet and Nurfe, feverally... s. C E NA E- V. Changes to Juliet's chamber, Juliet on a bed. Nurfe. Miftrefs,-what, miftrefs! Juliet-Faft, is Why, lamb-why, lady-Fie, you flug-a-bed- bride What, not a word! you take your pennyworths now; |