Act 4 — Scene IV.
Reading edition · Edition 5
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.— 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 to-morrow For this night's watching. Capulet. No, not a whit. What! I have watch' ere now 10 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 Now, fellow, What's there? 1 Servant. Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what. Capulet. Make haste, make haste.—[Exit Servant.] Sirrah, fetch drier logs; Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. 2 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! 21 Thou shalt be logger-head.—Good faith, 'tis day; 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, Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already; Make haste, I say. [Exeunt.