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SC. III.
ROMEO AND JULIET
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I'll play the housewife for this once.—What, ho!— They are all forth: well, I will walk myself To County Paris, to prepare him up[C 1]45 Against to-morrow. My heart is wondrous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.[Exeunt. |
SCENE III.—The Same. Juliet's chamber.[C 2]
Enter Juliet and Nurse.
| Jul. | Ay, those attires are best; but, gentle nurse, I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night; For I have need of many orisons To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.[E 1]5 |
Enter Lady Capulet.
| Lady Cap. | What, are you busy, ho? need you[C 3] my help? |
| Jul. | No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries As are behoveful[E 2] for our state to-morrow: So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the nurse this night sit up with you,10 For I am sure you have your hands full all In this so sudden business. |
- ↑ 5. sin] In Q 1 Nurse speaks, "Well theres a cleane smocke under your pillow, and so good night," with which words she departs.
- ↑ 8. behoveful] useful. Only here in Shakespeare; New Eng. Dict. says: "Extremely common from 1400 to 1700; but used since only by archaists." The only example after 1736 is cited from Carlyle's Frederick.
