No Fear Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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Act 2, Scene 4, Page 10
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NURSE
Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.
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NURSE
May God in heaven bless you. Now please listen, sir.
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ROMEO
What sayst thou, my dear Nurse?
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ROMEO
What do you have to say, my dear Nurse?
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NURSE
Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,
“Two may keep counsel, putting one
away”?
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NURSE
Can your man keep a secret? Haven’t you ever heard the
saying, “Two can conspire to put one
away”?
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ROMEO
Warrant thee, my man’s as true as steel.
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ROMEO
I assure you, my man is as true as steel.
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NURSE
Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady.—Lord,
Lord! when ’twas a little prating thing.—Oh,
there is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife
aboard, but she, good soul, had as lief see a toad, a very toad, as
see him. I anger her sometimes and tell her that Paris is the
properer man. But, I’ll warrant you, when I say so, she
looks as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not
rosemary and
Romeo begin both with a
letter?
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NURSE
Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady. Lord, Lord, when she
was a little baby—Oh, there is one nobleman in the city,
a guy named Paris, who would be happy to claim her as his own.
Juliet would rather look at a toad than at him. I make her angry
sometimes by saying that Paris is more handsome than you are. But
when I say so, I swear she turns white as a sheet. Don’t “rosemary” and “Romeo” begin with
the same letter?
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ROMEO
Ay, Nurse, what of that? Both with an
R.
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ROMEO
Yes, Nurse, what about that? They both begin with the letter
“R.”
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NURSE
Ah, mocker, that’s the dog’s name.
R is for the—No, I know
it begins with some other letter, and she hath the prettiest
sententious of it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good to
hear it.
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NURSE
Ah, you jokester—that’s the dog’s
name. “R” is for the—no, I know
it begins with another letter. She says the most beautiful things
about you and rosemary. It would be good for you to hear the things
she says.
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ROMEO
Commend me to thy lady.
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ROMEO
Give my compliments to your lady.
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NURSE
Ay, a thousand times.—Peter!
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NURSE
Yes, a thousand times. Peter!
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PETER
Anon!
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PETER
I’m ready.
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NURSE
Before and apace.
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NURSE
(giving PETER
her fan) Go ahead. Go quickly.
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