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Nurse, Lines 213b-226
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Act 3,
Scene 5
Lines 213b-226

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

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 3.5 Performance: Nurse, Lines 213b-226

Nurse

                                    Faith, here it is.
Romeo is banishèd; and all the world to nothing
That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;
Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth.
Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
I think it best you married with the County.
O, he's a lovely gentleman!
Romeo's a dish-clout to him. An eagle, madam,
Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye                    
As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,
I think you are happy in this second match,
For it excels your first. Or if it did not,
Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,
As living here, and you no use of him.