Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 . Romeo and Juliet
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Scene 4

    [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 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

   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]

    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:
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:
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]