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Romeo and Juliet ACT 1, SCENE 5 [Capulet house. Two SERVANTS, Musicians & Guests] 1st SERVANT 1.5. Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? isn't helping to clear tables He shift a trencher! He scrape a trencher! pick up a dish, clean a dish 2nd SERVANT 1.5. When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's work habits hands, and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing. terrible 1st SERVANT 1.5. Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, stools, sideboard look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece of take care of the utensils marchpane, and as thou lovest me, let the marzipan, do me a favor, tell porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. [2nd Servant exits] Antony and Potpan! 3rd SERVANT [enters with another Servant] 1.5. Ay, boy, ready. 1st SERVANT 1.5. You are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for, in the great chamber. hall 3rd SERVANT 1.5. We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys! cheer up Be brisk awhile, and happy while you can the longer liver take all. whoever lives longest [They exit] [LORD & LADY CAPULET, COUSIN CAPULET, NURSE, JULIET, TYBALT, and more Guests enter] CAPULET 1.5. Welcome, gentlemen. Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you.— with no corns, dance Ah ha, my mistresses! Which of you all ladies Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, refuse, coyly refuses She I'll swear hath corns. Am I come near you+^ now?— close to the truth, ye^2 Welcome, gentlemen. I have seen the day 1.5. That I have worn a visor and could tell mask A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, beautiful Such as would please. 'Tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone. delight her You are welcome, gentlemen!—Come, musicians, play!— [Music plays] A hall, a hall, give room!—And foot it, girls!— make, dance [They dance] More light, you knaves, and turn the tables up, idiots, fold 1.5. And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.— put out [ROMEO, MERCUTIO & BENVOLIO enter in masks] Ah, sirrah, this unlooked-for sport comes well! servant, unexpected maskers, [to Cousin] Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet, come at a good time For you and I are past our dancing days. How long is't now since last yourself and I Were in a mask? COUSIN By'r Lady, thirty years. 1.5. CAPULET 1.5. What, man, 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much.
'Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio, wedding Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, Pentecost Sunday Some five and twenty years, and then we masked. twenty five COUSIN 1.5. 'Tis more, 'tis more. His son is elder, sir. older than that His son is thirty. CAPULET Will you tell me that? 1.5. His son was but a ward two years ago. child ROMEO [seeing Juliet; to a Servant^2 ] 1.5. What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand hold the hand Of yonder knight? that gentleman [SERVANT 1.5. I know not, sir.]^2 [not in 1] ROMEO 1.5. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like^1 a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear, as^2 , Ethiopian's Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! everyday use So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, appears, white, among As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. that, stands out 1.5. The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand, dance, where she goes And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. touching her hand, rough Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, before, deny it, eyes For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. TYBALT [aside] 1.5. This, by his voice, should be a Montague! must [to Page] Fetch me my rapier, boy. [Page exits] sword What, dares the slave scumbag Come hither, covered with an antic face, here, mask To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? sneer, festivity Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, family To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin! [starts to go] CAPULET 1.5. Why, how now, kinsman! Wherefore storm you so? hello, why so angry TYBALT 1.5. Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, A villain that is hither come in spite came here, to spite and To scorn at our solemnity this night! festivity CAPULET 1.5. Young Romeo is it? TYBALT 'Tis he, that villain Romeo. 1.5. CAPULET 1.5. Content thee, gentle coz. Let him alone. calm down, nephew He^1 bears him like a portly gentleman, behaves like, dignified And, to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-governed youth. well-behaved I would not for the wealth of all the town Here in my house do him disparagement. disrespect him Therefore be patient. Take no note of him. ignore him 1.5. It is my will, the which if thou respect, wish Show a fair presence and put off these frowns, pleasant face An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. inappropriate expression
ROMEO 1.5.
Sin from my lips? O, trespass sweetly urged! so sweetly you tell me I sinned Give me my sin again. [kisses her] give back JULIET You kiss by th' book. properly 1.5. NURSE 1.5. Madam, your mother craves a word with you. [Juliet goes] ROMEO [to Nurse] 1.5. What is her mother? who NURSE Marry, bachelor, young sir 1.5. Her mother is the lady of the house, And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous. I nursed her daughter that you talked withal. with I tell you, he that can lay hold of her win her Shall have the chinks. [moves away] money ROMEO [aside] Is she a Capulet? 1.5. O dear account! My life is my foe's debt. costly, in debt to my foe BENVOLIO [comes to Romeo] 1 .5. Away, be gone! The sport is at the best! let's go, party, its peak (proverb) ROMEO 1.5. Ay, so I fear. The more is my unrest. uneasiness [All start to exit but Juliet & Nurse] CAPULET 1.5. Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone, We have a trifling foolish banquet towards— desert soon Is it e'en so? Why then, I thank you all. I thank you, honest gentlemen. Good night.— More torches here!—Come on, then let's to bed.— bring more, go to bed Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late. servant, faith, it's getting late I'll to my rest. [exit] go rest JULIET 1.5. Come hither, Nurse. What is yond gentleman? here, who is that NURSE 1.5. The son and heir of old Tiberio. JULIET 1.5. What's he that now is going out of door? who NURSE 1.5. Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio. well JULIET 1.5. What's he that follows there^1 , that would not dance? here^2 NURSE 1.5. I know not. JULIET 1.5. Go ask his name. [Nurse goes] [aside] If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed! NURSE [returning] 1.5. His name is Romeo, and a Montague, The only son of your great enemy! JULIET 1.5. My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, wonderful and ominous That I must love a loathed enemy.
NURSE 1.5.
What's this? What's this? JULIET A rhyme I learned even now 1.5. Of one I danced withal. from someone, with LADY CAPULET^1 [offstage] Juliet! NURSE Anon, anon. in a minute 1.5. Come, let's away. The strangers all are gone. let's go, guests [They exit]
