SCENE III. JULIET'S Chamber. Enter JULIET and Nurse. Jul.. Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse, I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night; To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin. Enter Lady Capulet, La. Cap. What, are you busy, ho? need you my help? So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the nurse this night sit up with you; For, I am sure, you have your hands full all, La. Cap. Good night: Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. Jul. Farewell! [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse. God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, I'll call them back again to comfort me. — Nurse! What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. What if this mixture do not work at all, Shall I be married, then, to-morrow morning? this shall forbid it: lie thou there. No, no; [Laying down a Dagger. What if it be a poison, which the friar I fear, it is; and yet, methinks, it should not, I will not entertain so bad a thought. Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point! To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, The horrible conceit of death and night, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, Alack, alack! is it not like, that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad; Upon a rapier's point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! Romeo! Romeo! Romeo! here 's drink - I drink to thee. [She throws herself on the Bed. 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. Enter CAPULet. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, The curfew bell hath rung, 't is three o'clock: Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica: 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 La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood! What's there? Enter Servants, with Spits, Logs, and Baskets. 1 Serv. Things for the cook, Sir; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste, [Exit 1 Serv.] 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. Cap. 'Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! Thou shalt be logger-head. The County will be here with music straight, For so he said he would. Sirrah, [Exit. [Music within. I hear him near. - Enter Nurse. Go, waken Juliet; go, and trim her up: I'll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste, SCENE V. [Exeunt. JULIET'S Chamber; JULIET on the Bed. Nurse. Mistress! Why, lamb! why, bride! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed! Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! you take your pennyworths now: Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, The county Paris hath set up his rest, That you shall rest but little. God forgive me, I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam! He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be? -- What, drest! and in your clothes! and down again! my lord! my lady! Enter Lady Capulet. La. Cap. What noise is here? La. Cap. What is the matter! La. Cap. O me! Ome! O lamentable day! Look, look! O heavy day! 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, 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; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. O lamentable day! Nurse. O woful time! Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Enter Friar LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians. O son! the night before thy wedding day : Flower as she was, deflowered by him. And leave him all; life, living, all is death's! Par. Have I thought long to see this morning's face, And doth it give me such a sight at this? La. Cap. Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Most miserable hour, that e'er time saw In lasting labour of his pilgrimage! But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, But one thing to rejoice and solace in, And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight. Nurse. O woe, O woful, woful, woful day! Most lamentable day! most woful day, That ever, ever, I did yet behold! O day! O day! O day! O hateful day! |