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hoar ere it be spent.
He walks by them and sings.

And old hare hoar, [130]
And an old hare hoar,
Is very good meat in Lent.
But a hare that is hoar
Is too much for a score
When it hoars ere it be spent. [135]
Romeo, will you come to your father’s? We’ll to dinner thither.

ROMEO

I will follow you.

MERCUT IO

Farewell, ancient lady, farewell, lady, lady, lady. [140]
Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio.

NURSE

I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his
ropery?

ROMEO

A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in
a minute than he will stand to in a month. [145]

NURSE

And a speak anything against me I’ll take him down, and a were lustier
than he is, and twenty such jacks. And if I cannot, I’ll find those that shall.
Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills, I am none of his skains-mates.
[150]

She turns to Peter her man.
And thou must stand by too and suffer every knave to use me at his
pleasure!

PET ER

I saw no man use you at his pleasure; if I had, my weapon should quickly
have been out. I warrant you, I dare draw as soon as another man, if I see
occasion in a [155] good quarrel, and the law on my side.

NURSE