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Juliet and the Nurse, Lines 54-77
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Act 2,
Scene 5
Lines 54-77

Juliet and the Nurse perform an excerpt of Act 2, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 2.5 Performance: Juliet and Nurse, Lines 54-77

Nurse

Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a
courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I
warrant, a virtuous, — where is your mother?

Juliet

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.

Juliet

Here's such a coil. Come, what says Romeo?

Nurse

Have you got leave to go to shrift today?

Juliet

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.
I am the drudge and toil in your delight,
But you shall bear the burden soon at night.
Go; I'll to dinner. Hie you to the cell.

Juliet

Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.
[Exit]