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ROMEO AND JULIET. 61 

Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams 

Driving back shadows over lowering hills ; 

Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, 

And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. 

Now is the sun upon the highniost h'U 

Of tills day's journey, and IVoiii nine till twelve 

Js three long hours, ycit she is not come. 

Had she affections and warm youthful Ijlood, 

She would be as swil't in motion as a ball ; 

My words would bandy her to my sweet love, 

And his to me : 

But old folks, many feign as they were dead; 

Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. — 

Enter Nurse and Pktkh. 

O God, she eom(!S ! — hom'y nurse, wlia,t news ? 
Hast thou met with him ? Send thy jiian away. 

Nume. Peter, stay at the gat(;. [ICxlt Peter. 

Juliet. Now, good sweet nurse, — Lord, wliy look'st 
thou sad ? 
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; 
If good, thou sham'st the music of sweet news 
By playing it to me with so sour a face. 

Nurse. I am aweary, give me leave awhile, 
Fie, how my bones ache ! what a jaunt have I had ! 

Jallct. I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news. 
Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak.