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Is it e'en so?[E 1] Why then, I thank you all; I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.— More torches here!—Come on, then[C 1] let's to bed. Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late; 129 I'll to my rest.⁠[Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse.

Jul.	Come hither, nurse.[E 2] What is yond gentleman?

Nurse.

The son and heir of old Tiberio.

Jul.	What's he that now is going out of door?

Nurse.

Marry, that, I think, be[C 2] young Petruchio.

Jul.	What's he that follows there,[C 3] that would not dance? 135

Nurse.

I know not.

Jul.	Go, ask his name.—If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding[C 4] bed.[E 3]

Nurse.

His name is Romeo, and a Montague; The only son of your[C 5] great enemy. 140

Jul.	My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious[E 4] birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

Nurse.

What's this? what's this?

Jul.	⁠A rhyme I learn'd[C 6] even now. 145 Of one I danced withal.[One calls within, "Juliet."

1. 128. on, then] Q, F; on, then, Dyce; on then, Camb.
2. 134. Marry … be] Q, F; That as I think is Q1.
3. 135. there] Q1; here Q, F.
4. 138. wedding] Q, wedded F.
5. 140. your] Q, F; our Ff 2–4.
6. 145. learn'd] Q, learne F.

have a delicate banquet, with abundance of wine." See Taming of the Shrew, V. ii. 9.

1. 126. e'en so?] Q1 has stage-direction, "They whisper in his eare," i.e. their reasons for going.
2. 131. Come hither, nurse] The dialogue between Juliet and Nurse was suggested by Brooke's poem.
3. 137, 138. If … bed] Uttered to herself, while the Nurse makes inquiry.
4. 143. Prodigious] Portentous, as in Midsummer Night's Dream, V. i. 419.