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Nurse, Lines 18-26
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Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 18-26

The Nurse performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 1.3 Performance: Nurse, Lines 18-26

Nurse

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 —
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,
And she was weaned, — I never shall forget it —