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ROMEO AND JULIET. 63 

Nurse. Your love says, like an honest gentleman, 
And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, 
And, I warrant, a virtuous, — Where is your mother ? 

Juliet. Where is my mother ! why, she is within • 
Where should she be ? How oddly thou repliest ! 
'Your love says, like an honest gentleman. 
Where is your mother ? ' 

Nurse. God's lady dear ! 

Are you so hot ? marry, come up, I trow ; 
Is this the poultice for my aching bones ? 
Henceforward do your messages yourself. 
Juliet. Here's such a coil! — come, what says Romeo? 
Nurse. Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day ? 
Juliet. I have. 

Nurse. Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell ; 
There stays a husband to make you a wife. 
Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks, 
They'll be in scarlet straight at any news. 
Hie you to church ; I must another way. 
To fetch a ladder, by the which your love 
Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark ; 
I am the drudge, and toil in your delight. 
Go ; I'll to dinner : hie you to the cell. 
Juliet. Hie to high fortune !— Honest nurse, farewell. 

\Exeunt.