Act IV, Scene 4

Hall in Capulet’s house

[Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse]

Lady Capulet - Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.

Nurse - They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

[Enter CAPULET]

Capulet - Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock: Look to the baked meats, good Angelica: Spare not for the cost.

Nurse - Go, you cot-quean, go, Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow For this night's watching.

Capulet - No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.

Lady Capulet - Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now.

[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse]

Capulet - A jealous hood, a jealous hood!

[Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets]

Capulet - Now, fellow, What's there?

First Servant - Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.

Capulet - Make haste, make haste.

[Exit First Servant]

Sirrah, fetch drier logs: Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.

Second Servant - I have a head, sir, that will find out logs, And never trouble Peter for the matter.

[Exit]

Capulet - Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day: The county will be here with music straight, For so he said he would: I hear him near.

[Music within]

Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!

[Re-enter Nurse]

Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up; I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste, Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: Make haste, I say.

[Exeunt]