SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house. Romeo and Juliet  Shakespeare homepage  |  Romeo and Juliet  | Act 4, Scene 4 

 Previous scene  |  Next scene  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 the cost. 

 Nurse  Go, you cot-quean, 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-hunt 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 Servant  Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. 

 CAPULET  Make haste, make haste. 



 Exit First Servant  Sirrah, fetch drier logs: 

 Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. 

 Second Servant  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-head. 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! 



 Re-enter 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  Shakespeare homepage  |  Romeo and Juliet  | Act 4, Scene 4 

 Previous scene  |  Next scene 