_Mer._ Why, is not this better now than groaning for[594][612] love? now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art[594][613] thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this[594] drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up[594] and down to hide his bauble in a hole.[594][614] 85 _Ben._ Stop there, stop there.[594] _Mer._ Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the[594] hair.[594] _Ben._ Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.[594] _Mer._ O, thou art deceived; I would have made it[594] 90 short: for I was come to the whole depth of my tale, and[594][615] meant indeed to occupy the argument no longer.[594] _Rom._ Here's goodly gear![616] _Enter_ Nurse _and_ Peter. _Mer._ A sail, a sail![617] _Ben._ Two, two; a shirt and a smock.[618] 95 _Nurse._ Peter! _Peter._ Anon? _Nurse._ My fan, Peter. _Mer._ Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the[619][620] fairer of the two.[620][621] 100 _Nurse._ God ye good morrow, gentlemen. _Mer._ God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.[622] _Nurse._ Is it good den?[623] _Mer._ 'Tis no less, I tell you; for the bawdy hand of[624] the dial is now upon the prick of noon. 105 _Nurse._ Out upon you! what a man are you! _Rom._ One, gentlewoman, that God hath made himself[625] to mar. _Nurse._ By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to[626] mar,' quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where[627] 110 I may find the young Romeo?[628] _Rom._ I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him: I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse. _Nurse._ You say well. 115 _Mer._ Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith; wisely, wisely. _Nurse._ If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with[629] you. _Ben._ She will indite him to some supper.[630] 120 _Mer._ A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho! _Rom._ What hast thou found?[631] _Mer._ No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,[631] that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.[631][632] [_Sings._ An old hare hoar,[631][633] 125 And an old hare hoar,[631][633] Is very good meat in lent:[631][633] But a hare that is hoar,[631][633] Is too much for a score,[631][633] When it hoars ere it be spent.[631][633] 130 Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll to dinner thither. _Rom._ I will follow you.