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longer liver [15] take all.
Exeunt (Servingmen).
Enter (Capulet, Lady Capulet, Juliet, Tybalt, Nurse and) all the Guests
and Gentlewomen to the Masquers.
CAPULET
Welcome, gentlemen, ladies that have their toes
Unplagu’d with corns will walk a bout with you.
Ah my mistresses, which of you all
Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, [20]
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 whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear,
Such as would please. ’Tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone, [25]
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. [30]
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 masque?
COUSIN CAPULET
By’r Lady, thirty years.
CAPULET
What, man, ’tis not so much, ’tis not so much. [35]
’Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,
Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,
Some five and twenty years: and then we masqu’d.
COUSIN CAPULET
’Tis more, ’tis more, his son is elder, sir:
His son is thirty.
CAPULET
