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That in gold clasps[E 1] locks in the golden story: So shall you share all that he doth possess, By having him making yourself no less.

Nurse.

No less! nay, bigger: women[C 1] grow by men. 95

Lady Cap.

Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?

Jul.	I'll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart[E 2] mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it[C 2] fly.

Enter a Servant.

Serv.

Madam, the guests are come, supper served 100 up, you called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.

Lady Cap.

We follow thee. [Exit Serv.]—Juliet, 105 the County[E 3] stays.

Nurse.

Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. [Exeunt.

1. 95. bigger: women] F, bigger women Q.
2. 99. it] omitted Q, F, Q3; present in the rest.

1. 92. clasps] Paris's bride is still the binding; there is a play on clasps; the golden clasps (embraces) of a bride shutting in the golden story of love. In Othello, I. i. 127, we have "the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor." T. Bright, Treatise of Melancholy, 1586, p. 36, compares soul and body to lovers handfasted by "that golden claspe of the spirite."
2. 98. endart] Pope, from Q1, reads ingage, which meant entangle.
3. 106. County] Count, probably an adoption of Italian conte with retention of the final syllable. So All's Well, III, vii. 22, "a ring the county wears."