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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT II.
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Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest! |
| Nurse. | O, God's lady dear! Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow;65 Is this the poultice for my aching bones? Henceforward do your messages yourself. |
| Jul. | Here's such a coil![E 1] come, what says Romeo? |
| Nurse. | Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day? |
| Jul. | I have.70 |
| Nurse. | Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell; There stays a husband to make you a wife: Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks, They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.[E 2] Hie you to church; I must another way,75 To fetch a ladder, by the which your love Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark; I am the drudge, and toil in your delight; But you shall bear the burden soon at night. Go; I'll to dinner; hie you to the cell.80 |
| Jul. | Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.[E 3][Exeunt. |
- ↑ 64. your mother] Q, F; my mother Ff 2–4.
- ↑ 68. coil] turmoil, fuss, as often in Shakespeare. In place of this line Q 1 has:
"Nay stay sweet Nurse, I doo intreate thee now,
What sayes my Love, my Lord, my Romeo?" - ↑ 74. They'll … news] Hanmer reads: "They'll be in scarlet straitway at my news"; S. Walker conjectures: "They … straight at my next news"; Keightley reads: "They will be straight in scarlet at my news." Perhaps the words mean only It is their way to redden at any surprise.
- ↑ 80, 81.] Instead of these lines Q 1 has:—
"Doth this newes please you now?
Iul. How doth her latter words revive my hart,
Thankes gentle Nurse, dispatch thy busines,
And Ile not faile to meete my Romeo."
