Act 2, Scene 5 - Video Performance: Juliet and the Nurse, Lines 20-36

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Juliet and the Nurse, Lines 20-36

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Act 2,

Scene 5

Lines 20-36

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 20-36

Now, good sweet nurse — O Lord, why lookest thou sad?

Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;

If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news

By playing it to me with so sour a face.

I am aweary, give me leave awhile.

Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I!

I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news.

Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak.

Jesu, what haste? Can you not stay awhile?

Do you not see that I am out of breath?

How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath

To say to me that thou art out of breath?

The excuse that thou dost make in this delay

Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.

Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that;

Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance.

Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?