No Fear Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 2
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Enter CAPULET, LADY
CAPULET, NURSE, and two or three
SERVINGMEN
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CAPULET enters with LADY
CAPULET, the NURSE, and two or three
SERVINGMEN. | |
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CAPULET
(gives paper to FIRST
SERVINGMAN) So many guests invite as
here are writ.
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CAPULET
(giving the FIRST SERVINGMAN
a piece of paper) Invite all the
guests on this list.
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Exit FIRST SERVINGMAN
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exits. | |
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(to SECOND
SERVINGMAN) Sirrah, go hire me twenty
cunning cooks.
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(to SECOND
SERVINGMAN) Boy, go hire twenty
skilled cooks.
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SECOND SERVINGMAN
You shall have none ill, sir, for I’ll try if they can
lick their fingers.
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SECOND SERVINGMAN
You won’t get any bad cooks from me. I’ll test
them by making them lick their fingers.
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CAPULET
How canst thou try them so?
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CAPULET
How can you test them like that?
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SECOND SERVINGMAN
Marry, sir, ’tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own
fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with
me.
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SECOND SERVINGMAN
Easy, sir. It’s a bad cook who can’t lick his
own fingers. So the cooks who can’t lick their fingers
aren’t hired.
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CAPULET
Go, be gone.
We shall be much unfurnished for this time.
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CAPULET
Go, get out of here.
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Exit SECOND SERVINGMAN
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exits. | |
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What, is my daughter gone to Friar Lawrence?
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We’re unprepared for this wedding celebration.
(to the
NURSE) What, has my daughter gone to
see Friar Lawrence?
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NURSE
Ay, forsooth.
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NURSE
Yes, that’s true.
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CAPULET
Well, he may chance to do some good on her.
A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.
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CAPULET
Well, there’s a chance he may do her some good.
She’s a stubborn little brat.
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Enter JULIET
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JULIET enters. |
