Classic Literature
Romeo and JulietAct 4, Scene 4

Act 4

Scene IV

Hall in Capulet’s house.

Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse.
Lady Capulet Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
Nurse They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
Enter Capulet.
Capulet

Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow’d,
The curfew-bell hath rung, ’tis three o’clock:
Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:
Spare not for cost.

Nurse

Go, you cot-queana mocking term for a man who busies himself with household work, go,
Get you to bed; faith, You’ll be sick to-morrow
For this night’s watching.

Capulet

No, not a whit: what! I have watch’d ere now
All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.

Lady Capulet

Ay, you have been a mouse-hunta man who pursues women in your time;
But I will watch you from such watching now. Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.

Capulet A jealous-hood, a jealous hood!
Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets.

Now, fellow,
What’s there?

First Servingman Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
Capulet

Make haste, make haste. Exit First Servingman. Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.

Second Servingman

I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
And never trouble Peter for the matter. Exit.

Capulet

Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!
Thou shalt be logger-heada blockhead or fool; here, a joke about the servant finding logs. Good faith, ’tis day:
The county will be here with music straight,
For so he said he would: I hear him near. Music within.
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!

Reenter Nurse.

Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
I’ll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,
Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:
Make haste, I say. Exeunt.

Contents

Act 1

Act 1, Scene 55 min

Act 2

Prologue1 minAct 2, Scene 12 minAct 2, Scene 27 minAct 2, Scene 33 minAct 2, Scene 47 minAct 2, Scene 53 minAct 2, Scene 61 min

Act 3

Act 3, Scene 17 minAct 3, Scene 25 minAct 3, Scene 36 minAct 3, Scene 41 minAct 3, Scene 59 min

Act 4

Act 4, Scene 15 minAct 4, Scene 22 minAct 4, Scene 32 minAct 4, Scene 41 minAct 4, Scene 55 min

Act 5

Act 5, Scene 13 minAct 5, Scene 21 minAct 5, Scene 311 minFull contents of Romeo and Juliet
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