ACT 4
[Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse]
LADY CAPULET
Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
Here, take these keys and fetch more precious spices.
NURSE
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
They need more dates and quinces in the kitchen.
[Enter CAPULET]
CAPULET
Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed,
Come on, chop, chop! The second cockerel’s crowed,
The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:
The alarm bell has been rung, it’s three o’clock.
Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:
Sort out the baked meats, good Angelica:
Spare not for the cost.
Let no expense be spared.
NURSE
Go, you cot-quean, go,
Go, cottage-boss,
Get you to bed; faith. You'll be sick to-morrow
Get off to bed, else you’ll be sick tomorrow
For this night's watching.
By staying up all night.
CAPULET
No, not a whit: what! I have watched ere now
No, that is nonsense! I’ve stayed up before now
All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.
All night for lesser jobs, and not been sick.
LADY CAPULET
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
Yes, you have chased the women in your time;
But I will watch you from such watching now.
But now I keep an eye on you to stop that.
[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse]
CAPULET
A jealous hood, a jealous hood!
You wear a hat of jealousy!
[Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets]
Now, fellow,
Now, fellow,
What's there?
What’s this you have?
FIRST SERVANT
Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
Things for the cook, sir; but I don’t know what.
CAPULET
Make haste, make haste.
Well, hurry up.
[Exit First Servant]
Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
Young man, bring drier logs:
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Call Peter, he will show you where they are.
SECOND SERVANT
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
I have a brain to work out where the logs are
And never trouble Peter for the matter.
Without the need to trouble Peter for that.
[Exit]
CAPULET
Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!
Well said; you are happy son-of-a-bitch!
Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:
You’ll have a head of logs. Good grief, it’s daytime:
The county will be here with music straight,
The Count will soon be here, with music playing,
For so he said he would: I hear him near.
Or so he said he would. I hear him nearby.
[Music within]
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!
Nurse! Wife! Where are you? What, where are you, nurse!
[Re-enter Nurse]
Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
Go wake up Juliet, and dress her smartly;
I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,
I’ll go and chat with Paris; hurry up;
Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:
Quickly; the bridegroom is already here.
Make haste, I say.
Make haste, I say.
[Exeunt]
