SC. V.
ROMEO AND JULIET
129
I tell thee what: get thee to church o'[C 1] Thursday, |
Nurse. | God in heaven bless her!— You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so. |
Cap. | And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,170 Good prudence; smatter[C 5][E 3] with your gossips;[C 6] go. |
Nurse. | I speak no treason. |
Cap. | O, God ye good den.[C 7][E 4] |
Nurse.[C 8] | May not one speak? |
Cap. | Peace,[E 5] you mumbling fool! Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl,[C 9] For here we need it not. |
Lady Cap. | You are too hot.175 |
- ↑ 161. o'] Theobald; a Q, F.
- ↑ 164. itch.—Wife,] Capell, itch: Wife, Q 5, itch, wife, Q, itch, wife: F.
- ↑ 165. lent] Q, F; sent Q 1.
- ↑ 167. curse] Q, F; crosse Q 1.
- ↑ 171. prudence; smatter] F (comma after Prudence), Prudence smatter Q;
- ↑ gossips] Q, gossip F.
- ↑ 172. Cap. O, ... den] Capell (hyphening God-ye-good-den, and adding ?); Cap. Oh goddegodden Q 1; Father, ô Godigeden Q (continued to Nurse, and so F, spelling Godigoden); Fa. O Godigeden Qq 4, 5.
- ↑ 173. Nurse] Qq 4, 5; omitted Q, F.
- ↑ 174. bowl] Q, bowles F.
- ↑ 165. lent] Many editors prefer the sent of Q 1.
- ↑ 168. hilding] See [[../../Act 2/Scene 4|II. iv. 47]].
- ↑ 171. smatter] prate. So J. Heywood, The Pardoner and the Friar: "What, standest thou there all the day smattering!" Hazlitt's Dodsley's Old Plays, i. 211.
- ↑ 172. God ye good den] God give you good even; see [[../../Act 1/Scene 2|I. ii. 58]]. Qq 4, 5 rightly assign these words to Fa. (Father, i.e. Capulet). Q, F make Father part of the speech, assigning to Nurse the words from "I speak" to "one speak?"
- ↑ 173. Peace] Theobald emended the metre by reading Peace, peace. Fleay conjectures speak t' ye as the close of the Nurse's preceding speech.