LADY CAPULET
Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
Early modern literature
Drama, gender & the body
Modern spelling. Stage directions omitted.
LADY CAPULET
Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
NURSE
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
CAPULET
Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock crow’d,
The curfew bell rung, three o’clock.
Look to the bak’d meats, good Angelica;
Spare not for cost.
NURSE
Go, you cot-quean, go,
Get you to bed; faith, you’ll be sick tomorrow
For this night’s watching.
CAPULET
No, not a whit. What! I have watch’d now
All night for lesser cause, and been sick.
LADY CAPULET
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
But I will watch you from such watching now.
CAPULET
A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!
CAPULET
Now, fellow, what’s there?
FIRST SERVANT
Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
CAPULET
Make haste, make haste.
CAPULET
—, fetch drier logs.
Call Peter, he will show where they are.
SECOND SERVANT
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
And never trouble Peter for the matter.
CAPULET
Mass and well said; a merry whoreson, ha.
be loggerhead.—Good faith, day.
The County will be here with music straight,
For so he said he would. I hear him near.
CAPULET
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say!
CAPULET
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.
Open Romeo and Juliet in the 1623 First Folio. See its words in the cloud.
Modern spelling for reading. The edition is public domain in the United States. Edition source.