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 loathsome smells, And madly play with my forefathers' joints? [she throws herself on the bed. 1 This plant was vulgarly supposed to possess a degree of animal life; and, when torn from the ground, to utter a groan fatal to him that pulled it up. 2 Distracted. SCENE IV. Capulet's hall. Enter LADY CAPULET and NURSE. L. Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.1 Enter CAPUlet. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir; the second cock hath crow'd, The curfew bell hath rung; 'tis three o'clock. 2 Nurse. Cap. No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. L. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt 3 in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse. i. e. the room where the pastry was made. A man who busies himself with women's occupations. 3 Mouse was an amorous term of endearment. SHAK. XIII. 3 Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!-Now, fellow, What's there? Enter SERVANTS, with spits, logs, and baskets. 1 Ser. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit Servant.]— Sirrah, fetch drier logs : Call Peter; he will show thee where they are. 2 Ser. 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 loggerhead.--Good faith, 'tis day : [music within. For so he said he would. I hear him near.— Enter NURSE. Go, waken Juliet; go, and trim her up; I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste, [Exeunt. SCENE V. Juliet's chamber; Juliet on the bed. Enter NURSE. Nurse. Mistress!-what, mistress! - Juliet!fast, I warrant her, she : Why, lamb-why, lady!-fie, you slug-a-bed!Why, love, I say!-madam! sweetheart!-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, dam!— Ay, let the county take you in your bed; He'll fright you up, i' faith.-Will it not be? What, dress'd, and in your clothes, and down again! I must needs wake you.-Lady! lady! lady!- Some aqua vitæ, ho!-my lord! my lady! Enter LADY CAPULET. L. Cap. What noise is here? Nurse. L. Cap. What is the matter? O lamentable day! Nurse. Look, look! O heavy day! L. 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. Cap. For shame; bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. Nurse. She's dead, deceased; she's dead: alack the day! L. 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: Nurse. O lamentable day! L. Cap. O woful time! Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians. F. Lau. Come, is the bride ready to go to church? Cap. Ready to go, but never to return: O son, the night before thy wedding day |