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ROMEO AND JULIET
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I never should forget it: "Wilt thou not, Jule?"[C 1] quoth he; |
Lady Cap. | Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace. |
Nurse. | Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, 50 To think it should leave crying, and say "Ay": And yet, I warrant, it had upon it[E 2] brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone; A perilous[E 3] knock; and it cried bitterly: "Yea," quoth my husband, "fall'st upon thy face? 55 Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age; Wilt thou not, Jule?" it stinted and said "Ay."[C 2][E 4] |
Jul. | And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I. |
Nurse. | Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace! Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed: 60 An[C 3] I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.[C 4] |
Lady Cap. | Marry, that "marry"[E 5] is the very theme I come to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your disposition[C 5] to be married? 65 |
- ↑ 48. stinted] ceased to weep. Steevens quotes North, Plutarch (of Antony's wound), "the blood stinted a little."
- ↑ 52. it] its; it is a form of the word more common in the Folio than it's. Ff 3, 4 here alter the word to its, and so many editors.
- ↑ 54. perilous] altered by Capell and many editors to parlous. But need we be more Elizabethan than Elizabethan printers?
- ↑ 57. "Ay"] pronounced, and commonly spelt in Shakespeare's time, I; to which Juliet's say I is a retort.
- ↑ 63. Marry, that "marry"] Pope reads, from Q1, "And that same marriage."