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Act 3, Scene 4

A room in Capulet's house.

Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS.

Capulet

Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,

That we have had no time to move our daughter:

Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,

And so did I: — Well, we were born to die.

'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:

I promise you, but for your company,

I would have been a-bed an hour ago.

Paris

These times of woe afford no times to woo.

Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.

Lady Capulet

I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;

To-night she's mewed up to her heaviness.

Capulet

Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender

Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled

In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.

Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;

Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;

And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next —

But, soft! what day is this?

Paris

Monday, my lord.

Capulet

Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,

A' Thursday let it be: a' Thursday, tell her,

She shall be married to this noble earl.

Will you be ready? do you like this haste?

We'll keep no great ado, — a friend or two;

For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,

It may be thought we held him carelessly,

Being our kinsman, if we revel much:

Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,

And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?

Paris

My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.

Capulet

Well, get you gone: a' Thursday be it, then.

Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,

Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.

Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!

Afore me! it is so very late,

That we may call it early by and by.

Good night. Exeunt.