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24 ROMEO AND JULIET. 

Juliet. Madam, I am here. 

What is your will ? 

Lad}/ Ccqyulet. This is the matter: — Nurse, give leave 
awhile, 
We must talk in secret. — Nurse, come back again ; 
T have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel. 
Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age. 

Nurse. Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. 

Lady Caindet. She's not fourteen. 

Nurse. I'll lay fourteen of m.j teeth, — 
And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four, — 
She is not fourteen. How long is it now 
To Lammas-tide ? 

Lady Capulet. A fortnight and odd days. 

Nurse. Even or odd, of all days in the year, 
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. 
Susan and she — God rest all Christian souls ! — 
Were of an age : well, Susan is with God ; 
She was too good for me : but, as I said, 
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen ; 
That shall she, marry ; I remember it well. 
'Tis since the earthquake noAv eleven years ; 
And she was wean'd, — I never shall forget it, — 
Of all the days of the year, upon that day : 
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, 
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall ; 
My lord and you were then at Mantua. —