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Lady Capulet:
Fie, fie! What, are you mad?
Juliet:
Good father, I beseech you on my knees,
Hear me with patience but to speak a word.
Capulet:
Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch!
I tell thee what,—get thee to church a Thursday,
Or never after look me in the face.
Speak not, reply not, do not answer me.
My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest
That God had lent us but this only child;
But now I see this one is one too much,
And that we have a curse in having her.
Out on her, hilding.
Nurse:
God in heaven bless her.
You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.
Capulet:
And why, my lady wisdom? Hold your tongue,
Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.
Nurse:
I speak no treason.
Capulet:
O God ye good-en!
Nurse:
May not one speak?
Capulet:
Peace, you mumbling fool!
Utter your gravity o’er a gossip’s bowl,
For here we need it not.
Lady Capulet:
You are too hot.
Capulet:
God’s bread, it makes me mad!
Day, night, hour, ride, time, work, play,
Alone, in company, still my care hath been
To have her match’d, and having now provided
A gentleman of noble parentage,
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly allied,
Stuff’d, as they say, with honourable parts,
Proportion’d as one’s thought would wish a man,
And then to have a wretched puling fool,
A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender,
To answer, ‘I’ll not wed, I cannot love,
I am too young, I pray you pardon me.’
But, and you will not wed, I’ll pardon you.
Graze where you will, you shall not house with me.
Look to’t, think on’t, I do not use to jest.
Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise.
And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;
And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
For by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,
Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.
Trust to’t, bethink you, I’ll not be forsworn.
(Exit.)
Juliet:
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother, cast me not away,
Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.