It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.

My back o’ t’other side,—O my back, my back!

Beshrew your heart for sending me about

To catch my death with jauncing up and down.


JULIET.

I’faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.

Sweet, sweet, sweet Nurse, tell me, what says my love?


NURSE.

Your love says like an honest gentleman,

And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome,

And I warrant a virtuous,—Where is your mother?


JULIET.

Where is my mother? Why, she is within.

Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest.

‘Your love says, like an honest gentleman,

‘Where is your mother?’


NURSE.

O God’s lady dear,

Are you so hot? Marry, come up, I trow.

Is this the poultice for my aching bones?

Henceforward do your messages yourself.


JULIET.

Here’s such a coil. Come, what says Romeo?


NURSE.

Have you got leave to go to shrift today?


JULIET.

I have.


NURSE.

Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’ cell;

There stays a husband to make you a wife.

Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,

They’ll be in scarlet straight at any news.

Hie you to church. I must another way,

To fetch a ladder by the which your love

Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark.

I am the drudge, and toil in your delight;

But you shall bear the burden soon at night.

Go. I’ll to dinner; hie you to the cell.


JULIET.

Hie to high fortune! Honest Nurse, farewell.


 [Exeunt.]
SCENE VI. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
 Enter Friar Lawrence and

Romeo.
FRIAR LAWRENCE.

So smile the heavens upon this holy act

That after-hours with sorrow chide us not.


ROMEO.

Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,

It cannot countervail the exchange of joy

That one short minute gives me in her sight.

Do thou but close our hands with holy words,

Then love-devouring death do what he dare,

It is enough I may but call her mine.


FRIAR LAWRENCE.

These violent delights have violent ends,