May God in heaven bless you. Now please listen, sir.
ROMEO
What sayst thou, my dear Nurse?
ROMEO
What do you have to say, my dear Nurse?
NURSE
100
Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,
“Two may keep counsel, putting one
away”?
NURSE
Can your man keep a secret? Haven't you ever heard the
saying, “Two can conspire to put one
away”?
ROMEO
Warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.
ROMEO
I assure you, my man is as true as steel.
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?
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?
ROMEO
Ay, Nurse, what of that? Both with an
R.
ROMEO
Yes, Nurse, what about that? They both begin with the letter
“R.”
NURSE
105
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.
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.
