SC. V.
ROMEO AND JULIET
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Is it e'en so?[E 1] Why then, I thank you all; |
Jul. | Come hither, nurse.[E 2] What is yond gentleman? |
Nurse. | The son and heir of old Tiberio. |
Jul. | What's he that now is going out of door? |
Nurse. | Marry, that, I think, be[C 2] young Petruchio. |
Jul. | What's he that follows there,[C 3] that would not dance? 135 |
Nurse. | I know not. |
Jul. | Go, ask his name.—If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding[C 4] bed.[E 3] |
Nurse. | His name is Romeo, and a Montague; The only son of your[C 5] great enemy. 140 |
Jul. | My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious[E 4] birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. |
Nurse. | What's this? what's this? |
Jul. | A rhyme I learn'd[C 6] even now. 145 Of one I danced withal.[One calls within, "Juliet." |
- ↑ 126. e'en so?] Q1 has stage-direction, "They whisper in his eare," i.e. their reasons for going.
- ↑ 131. Come hither, nurse] The dialogue between Juliet and Nurse was suggested by Brooke's poem.
- ↑ 137, 138. If … bed] Uttered to herself, while the Nurse makes inquiry.
- ↑ 143. Prodigious] Portentous, as in Midsummer Night's Dream, V. i. 419.
have a delicate banquet, with abundance of wine." See Taming of the Shrew, V. ii. 9.