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62 ROMEO AND JULIET. 

Nurse. Jesu, wliat haste ? can yon not stay awhile ? 
Do yon not see that I am ont of breath ? 

Juliet. How art thon ont of breath, when thon hast 
breath 
To say to me that thon art ont of breath ? 
The excnse that thou dost make in this delay 
Is longer than the tale thou dost excnse. 
Is thy news good, or bad ? answer to that ; 
Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance. 
Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad ? 

Nurse. Well, you have made a simple choice; yon know 
not how to choose a man. Romeo ! no, not he ; though 
his face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels all 
men's ; and for a hand, and a foot, and a bod}', though 
thej"- be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare : 
he is not the flower of courtesy, but, I'll warrant him, as 
gentle as a lamb. Go thy waj^s, wench ; serve God. 
What, have you dined at home ? 

Juliet. No, no ; but all this did I know before. 
AVhat says he of our marriage ? what of that ? 

Nurse. Lord, how my head aches ! what a head have I ! 
It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. 
]\ry back o' t'other side, — 0, my back, my back ! 
l>oshrew your heart for sending me about, 
To catch my death with jaunting up and down ! 

Juliet. V faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. 
Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love ?