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Romeo and Juliet, I. iii

That I will show you shining at this feast,

And she shall scant show well that now shows best.

Rom. I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,

But to rejoice in splendour of mine own.

[Exeunt.]

Lady Cap. Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.

Nurse. Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,—

I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!

God forbid! where's this girl? what, Juliet!

Jul. How now! who calls?

Nurse. Your mother.

Jul. Madam, I am here.

What is your will?

Lady Cap. This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile.

We must talk in secret: nurse, come back again;

I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.

Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.

Nurse. Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.

Lady Cap. She's not fourteen.

Nurse. I'll lay fourteen of my teeth—

And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four—

She is not fourteen. How long is it now

To Lammas-tide?

 7 give leave: leave us

9 thou's: thou shalt

12 lay: wager

13 teen: grief

15 Lammas-tide: August 1

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