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BOMEO AND JULIET. 33 

Ah. ha, 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 Avhispering tale in a fair lady's ear. 

Such as would please ; 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone : — 

You are welcome, gentlemen ! Come, musicians, play. — 

A hall, a hall ! give room ! and foot it, girls. — 

[^Music plays, and they dance. 
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 ? 

2 Capulet. By 'r lady, thirty years. 

Capulet. 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. 

2 Capulet. 'Tis more, 'tis more : his son is elder, sir ; 
His son is thirty. 

Capulet. Will you tell me that ? 

His son was but a ward two years ago.