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ACT I - SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house.
Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins

First Servant
1    Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He
2    shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!
Second Servant
3    When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's
4    hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.
First Servant
5    Away with the joint-stools, remove the
6    court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
7    me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
8    the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
9    Antony, and Potpan!
Second Servant
10   Ay, boy, ready.
First Servant
11   You are looked for and called for, asked for and
12   sought for, in the great chamber.
Second Servant
13   We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be
14   brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.
CAPULET
15   Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes
16   Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you.
17   Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
18   Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
19   She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?
20   Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day
21   That I have worn a visor and could tell
22   A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,
23   Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:
24   You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.
25   A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.
Music plays, and they dance
26   More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,
27   And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
28   Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.
29   Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;
30   For you and I are past our dancing days:
31   How long is't now since last yourself and I
32   Were in a mask?
Second Capulet
33   By'r lady, thirty years.
CAPULET
34   What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:
35   'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,
36   Come pentecost as quickly as it will,
37   Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd.
Second Capulet
38   'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir;
39   His son is thirty.
CAPULET
40   Will you tell me that?
41   His son was but a ward two years ago.
ROMEO
To a Servingman
42    What lady is that, which doth
43   enrich the hand
44   Of yonder knight?
Servant
45   I know not, sir.
ROMEO
46   O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
47   It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
48   Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
49   Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
50   So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
51   As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
52   The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
53   And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
54   Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
55   For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
TYBALT
56   This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
57   Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
58   Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
59   To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
60   Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
61   To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
CAPULET
62   Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?
TYBALT
63   Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
64   A villain that is hither come in spite,
65   To scorn at our solemnity this night.
CAPULET
66   Young Romeo is it?
TYBALT
67   'Tis he, that villain Romeo.
CAPULET
68   Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;
69   He bears him like a portly gentleman;
70   And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
71   To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:
72   I would not for the wealth of all the town
73   Here in my house do him disparagement:
74   Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
75   It is my will, the which if thou respect,
76   Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
77   And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.
TYBALT
78   It fits, when such a villain is a guest:
79   I'll not endure him.
CAPULET
80   He shall be endured:
81   What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;
82   Am I the master here, or you? go to.
83   You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!
84   You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
85   You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!
TYBALT
86   Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.
CAPULET
87   Go to, go to;
88   You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?
89   This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
90   You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.
91   Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:
92   Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!
93   I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!
TYBALT
94   Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
95   Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
96   I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
97   Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.
Exit

ROMEO
To JULIET
98    If I profane with my unworthiest hand
99   This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
100  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
101  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET
102  Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
103  Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
104  For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
105  And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
ROMEO
106  Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
107  Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
108  O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
109  They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
110  Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO
111  Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
112  Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
JULIET
113  Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO
114  Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
115  Give me my sin again.
JULIET
116  You kiss by the book.
Nurse
117  Madam, your mother craves a word with you.
ROMEO
118  What is her mother?
Nurse
119  Marry, bachelor,
120  Her mother is the lady of the house,
121  And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous
122  I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;
123  I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
124  Shall have the chinks.
ROMEO
125  Is she a Capulet?
126  O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.
BENVOLIO
127  Away, begone; the sport is at the best.
ROMEO
128  Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.
CAPULET
129  Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;
130  We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.
131  Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all
132  I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.
133  More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.
134  Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:
135  I'll to my rest.
Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse

JULIET
136  Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?
Nurse
137  The son and heir of old Tiberio.
JULIET
138  What's he that now is going out of door?
Nurse
139  Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.
JULIET
140  What's he that follows there, that would not dance?
Nurse
141  I know not.
JULIET
142  Go ask his name: if he be married.
143  My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Nurse
144  His name is Romeo, and a Montague;
145  The only son of your great enemy.
JULIET
146  My only love sprung from my only hate!
147  Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
148  Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
149  That I must love a loathed enemy.
Nurse
150  What's this? what's this?
JULIET
151  A rhyme I learn'd even now
152  Of one I danced withal.
One calls within 'Juliet.'

Nurse
153  Anon, anon!
154  Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.
Exeunt

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Scene Index
ACT I
  • PROLOGUE
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V


  • ACT II
  • PROLOGUE
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V
  • SCENE VI


  • ACT III
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V


  • ACT IV
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V


  • ACT V
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III

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