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Romeo and Juliet, II. v

Nurse. Lord! how my head aches; what a head have I!

It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.

My back o' t'other side; O! my back, my back!

Beshrew your heart for sending me about,

To catch my death with jauncing up and down.

Jul. I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.

Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?

Nurse. Your love says, like an honest gentle-

man, and a courteous, and a kind, and a hand-

some, and, I warrant, a virtuous,—Where is

your mother?

Jul. Where is my mother! why, she is within;

Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest:

'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,

Where is your mother?'

Nurse. O! God's lady dear,

Are you so hot? Marry, come up, I trow;

Is this the poultice for my aching bones?

Henceforward do your messages yourself.

Jul. Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?

Nurse. Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?

Jul. I have.

Nurse. Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell,

There stays a husband to make you a wife:

Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,

They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.

Hie you to church; I must another way,

To fetch a ladder, by the which your love

Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark;

 52 beshrew: ill luck to

64 Marry, come up: expression of disgust

67 coil: fuss

70 hie: hasten 