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Delay this marriage for a month, a week;

Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed

In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

Lady Cap. Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word.

Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.

Jul. O God! O nurse! how shall this be prevented?

My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;

How shall that faith return again to earth,

Unless that husband send it me from heaven

By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.

Alack, alack! that heaven should practise stratagems

Upon so soft a subject as myself!

What sayst thou? hast thou not a word of joy?

Some comfort, nurse?

Nurse. Faith, here it is. Romeo

Is banished; and all the world to nothing

That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;

Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.

Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,

I think it best you married with the county.

O! he's a lovely gentleman;

Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,

Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye

As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,

I think you are happy in this second match,

For it excels your first: or if it did not,

Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,

As living here and you no use of him.

Jul. Speakest thou from thy heart?

Nurse. And from my soul, too;

Or else beshrew them both.

 207 faith: pledged fidelity

211 practise stratagems: perform deeds of violence

216 challenge: lay claim to

222 green; cf. n.

