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ACT 1, SCENE 3 – Lady Capulet talks to Juliet about marriage to Paris
[Capulet house. LADY CAPULET & NURSE]
LADY CAPULET 1.3.1
Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to me.
NURSE 1.3.2
Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old, virginity
I bade her come.—What, lamb! What, ladybird!— told
God forbid! Where's this girl?—What, Juliet!
JULIET [enters] 1.3.5
How now, who calls?
NURSE 1.3.6
Your mother.
JULIET 1.3.7
Madam, I am here. What is your will? what do you want
LADY CAPULET 1.3.8
This is the matter.—Nurse, give leave awhile, leave us
We must talk in secret.—Nurse, come back again!
I have remembered me, thou's hear our counsel. you shall, conversation
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.
NURSE 1.3.12
Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. indeed
LADY CAPULET 1.3.13
She's not fourteen.
NURSE 1.3.14
I'll lay fourteen of my teeth, and yet, to my teen I'll bet, suffering
be it spoken, I have but four. She's not fourteen. only four teeth
How long is it now to Lammas-tide? Lummas Day, August 1
LADY CAPULET 1.3.17
A fortnight and odd days. two weeks, a few days
NURSE 1.3.18
Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she—God rest all Christian souls— 1.3.20
Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me. But, as I said,
On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
That shall she. Marry, I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years, 1.3.25
And she was weaned—I never shall forget it—
Of all the days of the year, upon that day.
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, put a bitter extract on my breast
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall. pigeon coop
My lord and you were then at Mantua. 1.3.30
—Nay, I do bear a brain!—But, as I said, have a good memory
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple the baby
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, dear
To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug! irritable,...