Romeo and Juliet
Act I, Scene 5
Verona. A hall in Capulet’s house.
- Servingmen come forth with napkins.
First Servingman
1 - 2- Where’s Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He shift a
- trencher? He scrape a trencher?
Second Servingman
3 - 4- When good manners shall lie all in one or two men’s hands,
- and they unwash’d too, ’tis a foul thing.
First Servingman
5 - 9-
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- Nell.
- Exit Second Servant.
- Anthony and Potpan!
- Enter Anthony and Potpan.
Anthony
10- Ay, boy, ready.
First Servingman
11 - 12- You are look’d for and call’d for, ask’d for and sought for,
- in the great chamber.
Potpan
13 - 14- We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys, be brisk a
- while, and the longer liver take all.
- Exeunt.
- Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Old Capulet, Juliet, Tybalt,
- Nurse, Servingmen, and all the Guests and Gentlewomen to the
- Maskers.
Capulet
15 - 32- Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes
- Unplagu’d with corns will walk a bout with you.
- Ah, my mistresses, which of you all
- Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
- She I’ll swear hath corns. Am I come near ye now?
- Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day
- That I have worn a visor and could tell
- A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear,
- Such as would please; ’tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone.
- You are welcome, gentlemen! Come, musicians, play.
- Music plays, and they dance.
- A hall, a hall! Give room! And foot it, girls.
- More light, you knaves, and turn the tables up;
- And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
- Ah, sirrah, this unlook’d-for sport comes well.
- Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet,
- For you and I are past our dancing days.
- How long is’t now since last yourself and I
- Were in a mask?
Old Capulet
33- By’r lady, thirty years.
Capulet
34 - 37- What, man? ’Tis not so much, ’tis not so much:
- ’Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,
- Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,
- Some five and twenty years, and then we mask’d.
Old Capulet
38 - 39- ’Tis more, ’tis more. His son is elder, sir;
- His son is thirty.
Capulet
40 - 41- Will you tell me that?
- His son was but a ward two years ago.
Romeo
42 - 43- To Third Servingman.
- What lady’s that which doth enrich the hand
- Of yonder knight?
Third Servingman
44- I know not, sir.
Romeo
45 - 54- O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
- It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
- As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear—
- Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
- So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
- As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.
- The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,
- And touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
- Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
- For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
Tybalt
55 - 60- This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
- Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
- Come hither, cover’d with an antic face,
- To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
- Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,
- To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
Capulet
61- Why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?
Tybalt
62 - 64- Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe;
- A villain that is hither come in spite
- To scorn at our solemnity this night.
Capulet
65- Young Romeo is it?
Tybalt
66- ’Tis he, that villain Romeo.
Capulet
67 - 76- Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone,
- ’A bears him like a portly gentleman;
- And to say truth, Verona brags of him
- To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth.
- I would not for the wealth of all this town
- Here in my house do him disparagement;
- Therefore be patient, take no note of him;
- It is my will, the which if thou respect,
- Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
- An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.
Tybalt
77 - 78- It fits when such a villain is a guest.
- I’ll not endure him.
Capulet
79 - 84- He shall be endured.
- What, goodman boy? I say he shall, go to!
- Am I the master here, or you? Go to!
- You’ll not endure him! God shall mend my soul,
- You’ll make a mutiny among my guests!
- You will set cock-a-hoop! You’ll be the man!
Tybalt
85- Why, uncle, ’tis a shame.
Capulet
86 - 92- Go to, go to,
- You are a saucy boy. Is’t so indeed?
- This trick may chance to scath you, I know what.
- You must contrary me! Marry, ’tis time.—
- Well said, my hearts!—You are a princox, go,
- Be quiet, or—More light, more light!—For shame,
- I’ll make you quiet, what!—Cheerly, my hearts!
Tybalt
93 - 96- Patience perforce with willful choler meeting
- Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
- I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,
- Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall.
- Exit.
Romeo
97 - 100- To Juliet.
- If I profane with my unworthiest hand
- This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
- My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
- To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
101 - 104- Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
- Which mannerly devotion shows in this:
- For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
- And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
Romeo
105- Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet
106- Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray’r.
Romeo
107 - 108- O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do,
- They pray—grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet
109- Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Romeo
110 - 111- Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
- Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purg’d.
- Kissing her.
Juliet
112- Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo
113 - 114- Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg’d!
- Give me my sin again.
- Kissing her again.
Juliet
115- You kiss by th’ book.
Nurse
116- Madam, your mother craves a word with you.
Romeo
117- What is her mother?
Nurse
118 - 123- Marry, bachelor,
- Her mother is the lady of the house,
- And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.
- I nurs’d her daughter that you talk’d withal;
- I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
- Shall have the chinks.
Romeo
124 - 125- Is she a Capulet?
- O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.
Benvolio
126- Away, be gone, the sport is at the best.
Romeo
127- Ay, so I fear, the more is my unrest.
Capulet
128 - 134- Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone,
- We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.
- They whisper in his ear.
- Is it e’en so? Why then I thank you all.
- I thank you, honest gentlemen, good night.
- More torches here! Come on, then let’s to bed.
- To Second Capulet.
- Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late,
- I’ll to my rest.
- Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse.
Juliet
135- Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?
Nurse
136- The son and heir of old Tiberio.
Juliet
137- What’s he that now is going out of door?
Nurse
138- Marry, that, I think, be young Petruchio.
Juliet
139- What’s he that follows here, that would not dance?
Nurse
140- I know not.
Juliet
141 - 142- Go ask his name.—If he be married,
- My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.
Nurse
143 - 144- His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
- The only son of your great enemy.
Juliet
145 - 148- My only love sprung from my only hate!
- Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
- Prodigious birth of love it is to me
- That I must love a loathed enemy.
Nurse
149- What’s tis? What’s tis?
Juliet
150 - 151- A rhyme I learnt even now
- Of one I danc’d withal.
- One calls within, “Juliet!”
Nurse
152 - 153- Anon, anon!
- Come let’s away, the strangers all are gone.
- Exeunt.
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