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JULIET

Indeed I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo, till I behold him - dead -
Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex’d. [95]
Madam, if you could find out but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it -
That Romeo should upon receipt thereof
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
To hear him nam’d, and cannot come to him [100]
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that hath slaughter’d him.

LADY CAPULET

Find thou the means and I’ll find such a man.
But now I’ll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.

JULIET

And joy comes well in such a needy time. [105]
What are they, I beseech your ladyship?

LADY CAPULET

Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;
One who to put thee from thy heaviness
Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,
That thou expects not, nor I look’d not for. [110]

JULIET

Madam, in happy time. What day is that?

LADY CAPULET

Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn
The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,
The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church,
Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride. [115]

JULIET

Now by Saint Peter’s Church, and Peter too,
He shall not make me there a joyful bride.
I wonder at this haste, that I must wed
Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.