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Act 4, Scene 4

Hall in Capulet's house.

Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse.

Lady Capulet

Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.

Nurse to Juliet

They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Enter CAPULET.

Capulet

Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crowed,

The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:

Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:

Spare not for cost.

Nurse to Juliet

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 watched 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.

Now, fellow, what is there?

First Servant

Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.

Capulet

Make haste, make haste. Exit First Serv.

Sirrah, fetch drier logs:

Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.

First 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 loggerhead. 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.