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ROMEO AND JULIET. 109
Enter Lady Capulet.
Lady Capulet. What, are you busy, ho ? need you my
help ?
Juliet. Ko, madam ; we have cull'd such necessaries
As are behoveful for our state to-morrow :
So jjlease you, let me now be left alone,
And let the nurse this night sit up with you ;
For, T am sure, you have your hands full all,
In this so sudden business.
Lady Capulet. Good night ;
Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.
{Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.
Juliet. Farewell ! — God knows when we shall meet
again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life ;
I'll call them back again to comfort me. —
Nurse ! — What should she do here ?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone. —
Come, vial. —
What if this mixture do not work at all ?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning ?
No, no ! — this shall forbid it. — Lie thou there.
\Laying doivn a dagger.
What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,