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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT IV.
| Jul. | I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell,25 And gave him what becomed[E 1] love I might, Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. |
| Cap. | Why, I am glad on 't; this is well: stand up: This is as 't should be.—Let me see the county; Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.—30 Now, afore God, this reverend holy[C 1] friar, All our whole city is much bound to him. |
| Jul. | Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,[E 2] To help me sort such needful ornaments As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?35 |
| Lady Cap. | [E 3]No, not till Thursday; there is[C 2] time enough. |
| Cap. | Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.[Exeunt Juliet and Nurse. |
| Lady Cap. | We shall be short in our provision: 'Tis now near night.[E 4] |
| Cap. | Tush, I will stir about, And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:40 Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;[E 5] I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone; |
- ↑ 26. becomed] becoming, befitting.
- ↑ 33. closet] private chamber, as in Hamlet, II. i. 77.
- ↑ 36. Lady Cap.] In Q 1:
"Moth. I pree thee doo, good Nurse goe in with her,
Helpe her to sort Tyres, Rebatoes, Chaines,
And I will come unto you presently." - ↑ 39. near night] Malone observes that immediately after Romeo's parting from his bride at daybreak she went to the Friar; she returns, and it is near night. Dramatic time is often dealt with by Shakespeare as subject to dramatic illusion.
- ↑ 41. up her] Hudson adopts Lettsom's conjecture her up; so "trim her up," IV. iv. 25.
