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JULIET
Madam, I am here, what is your will?
LADY CAPULET
This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile,
We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again,
I have remember’d me, thou’s hear our counsel.
Thou knowest my daughter’s of a pretty age. [10]
NURSE
Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
LADY CAPULET
She’s not fourteen.
NURSE
I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth -
And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four -
She’s not fourteen. How long is it now
To Lammas-tide?
LADY CAPULET
A fortnight and odd days. [15]
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, [20]
On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
That shall she; marry, I remember it well.
’Tis since the earthquake now eleven years,
And she was wean’d - I never shall forget it -
Of all the days of the year upon that day. [25]
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall.
My lord and you were then at Mantua -
Nay I do bear a brain. But as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple [30]
