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Juliet, Lines 1-4
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Act 2,
Scene 5
Lines 1-17

Juliet performs a speech from Act 2, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 2.5 Performance: Juliet, Lines 1-17

[In front of the Capulet house.  Enter Juliet]

Juliet

The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.
Perchance she cannot meet him — that's not so.
O, she is lame! Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
Driving back shadows over louring hills.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve             
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me. But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
O God, she comes! O honey nurse, what news?