JULIET                        How if, when I am laid into the tomb,                         I wake before the time that Romeo                         Comes to redeem me? There’s a fearful point!                         Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,                         To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,                         And there lie strangled ere my Romeo […]

JULIET                        What if this mixture do not work at all?                         Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?                         No, no, this shall forbid it; lie thou there.                         [Laying down her dagger.]                         What if it be a poison which the Friar                         Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,                         Lest in this […]

JULIET                        Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.                         I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins                         That almost freezes up the heat of life:                         I’ll call them back again to comfort me.                         Nurse! – What should she do here?                         My dismal scene I needs must act alone. […]

Enter Mother [LADY CAPULET] LADY CAPULET         What, are you busy, ho? need you my help? JULIET                                    No, madam, we have culled such necessaries                                     As are behoveful for our state tomorrow.                                     So please you, let me now be left alone,                                     And let the Nurse this night sit up with you,                                     For I am […]

[4.3] Enter JULIET and NURSE. JULIET                        Ay, those attires are best, but, gentle Nurse,                         I pray thee leave me to myself tonight: For I have need of many orisons                         To move the heavens to smile upon my state,                         Which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin. (4.3.1-5) Again the time jumps forward: only […]

LADY CAPULET         We shall be short in our provision,                                     ’Tis now near night. CAPULET                                                        Tush, I will stir about,                                     And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:                                     Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;                                     I’ll not to bed tonight; let me alone,                                     I’ll play the huswife […]

JULIET                                    Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,                                     To help me sort such needful ornaments                                     As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow? LADY CAPULET         No, not till Thursday, there is time enough. CAPULET                    Go, Nurse, go with her, we’ll to church tomorrow.                                                             Exeunt [Juliet and Nurse] (4.2.32-36) Now that she’s […]

CAPULET        Send for the County, go tell him of this.                         I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning. JULIET                        I met the youthful lord at Lawrence’ cell,                         And gave him what becomèd love I might,                         Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty. CAPULET        Why, I am glad on’t, this is well, stand […]

CAPULET        What, is my daughter gone to Friar Lawrence? NURSE            Ay, forsooth. CAPULET        Well, he may chance to do some good on her.                         A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.                                     Enter JULIET. NURSE            See where she comes from shrift with merry look. CAPULET        How now, my headstrong, where have you been gadding? JULIET                        Where I […]

[4.2] Enter FatherCAPULET, Mother[LADY CAPULET], NURSE, andSERVINGMEN, two or three. CAPULET                    So many guests invite as here are writ.                                                                                     [Exit Servingman]                                     Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. SERVINGMAN            You shall have none ill, sir, for I’ll try if they can lick their fingers. CAPULET                    How can’st thou try them so? SERVINGMAN            Marry, […]