FIRST SERVANT
You are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for, in the
great chamber.

SECOND SERVANT
We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys. Be brisk awhile, and
the longer liver take all.

Exeunt

Enter Capulet, &c. with the Guests and Gentlewomen to the Maskers.

CAPULET
Welcome, gentlemen, ladies that have their toes
Unplagu'd with corns will have a bout with you.
Ah my mistresses, which of you all
Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
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:
You are welcome, gentlemen! Come, musicians, play.
A hall, a hall! give room, and foot it, girls.

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.
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 mask?

CAPULET'S COUSIN
By'r Lady, thirty years.

CAPULET
What, man, 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:
'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,

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