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Capulet, Lines 176-196
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Act 3,
Scene 5
Lines 176-196

Capulet performs a speech from Act 3, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 3.5 Performance: Capulet, Lines 176-196

Capulet

God's bread, it makes me mad.
Day, night, hour; tide, time; work, play;
Alone, in company — still my care hath been
To have her matched. And having now provided
A gentleman of noble parentage,
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly ligned,             
Stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts,
Proportioned as one's thought would wish a man;
And then to have a wretched puling fool,
A whining maumet, in her fortune's tender,
To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love,
I am too young, I pray you pardon me'.
But, an you will not wed, I'll pardon you.
Graze where you will, you shall not house with me.
Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest.
Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise.                 
An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;
An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
For by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,
Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.
Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn.