The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Rom._ Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.
_Nurse._ Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:[995]
Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.[996] [_Exit._
_Rom._ How well my comfort is revived by this! 165
_Fri._ Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:[997][998]
Either be gone before the watch be set,[997]
Or by the break of day disguised from hence:[997][999]
Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,
And he shall signify from time to time 170
Every good hap to you that chances here:
Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.
_Rom._ But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
It were a grief, so brief to part with thee:
Farewell.[1000] [_Exeunt._ 175
SCENE IV. _A room in Capulet's house._[1001]
_Enter_ CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, _and_ PARIS.[1002]
_Cap._ Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily
That we have had no time to move our daughter.[1003]
Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
And so did I. Well, we were born to die.
'Tis very late; she'll not come down to-night: 5
I promise you, but for your company,[1004]
I would have been a-bed an hour ago.[1004][1005]
_Par._ These times of woe afford no time to woo.[1006]
Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.
_La. Cap._ I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;[1007] 10
To-night she's mew'd up to her heaviness.[1007][1008]
_Cap._ Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender[1009]
Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled[1010]
In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.[1011]
Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; 15
Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;[1012]
And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--[1013][1014]
But, soft! what day is this?
_Par._ Monday, my lord.
_Cap._ Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon;[1014]
O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,[1015][1016] 20
She shall be married to this noble earl.[1015]
Will you be ready? do you like this haste?[1015]
We'll keep no great ado; a friend or two;[1017]
For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
It may be thought we held him carelessly, 25
Being our kinsman, if we revel much:
Therefore we'll have some half-a-dozen friends,
And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?[1018]
_Par._ My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.[1019]
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