TPTT The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ACT IV
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
SCENE I. Friar Laurence's cell.
SCENE II. Hall in Capulet's house.
SCENE III. Juliet's chamber.
SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house.
SCENE V. Juliet's chamber.
ACT V
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SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house.
Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse
LADY CAPULET
      Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
Nurse
      They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
Enter CAPULET
CAPULET
      Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,
      The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:
5     Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:
      Spare not for the cost.
Nurse
      Go, you cot-quean, go,
      Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow
      For this night's watching.
CAPULET
10    No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now
      All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.
LADY CAPULET
      Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
      But I will watch you from such watching now.
Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse
CAPULET
      A jealous hood, a jealous hood!

Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets

15    Now, fellow,
      What's there?
First Servant
      Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
CAPULET
      Make haste, make haste.

Exit First Servant

      Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
20    Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Second Servant
      I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
      And never trouble Peter for the matter.
Exit
CAPULET
      Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!
      Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:
25    The county will be here with music straight,
      For so he said he would: I hear him near.

Music within

      Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!

Re-enter Nurse

      Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
      I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,
30    Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:
      Make haste, I say.
Exeunt
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