Without a sudden calm, will overset Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife! Have you deliver'd to her our decree?

Lady Capulet. Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. I would the fool were married to her grave!

Capulet. Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife. How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks? Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest, Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?

Juliet. Not proud you have, but thankful that you have; Proud can I never be of what I hate, But thankful even for hate that is meant love._Capulet._ How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?
'Proud' and 'I thank you' and 'I thank you not,'
And yet 'not proud'! Mistress minion, you, Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,
But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,
To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,
Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.
Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!
You tallow-face!  _Lady Capulet._ Fie, fie! what, are you mad?  _Juliet._ Good father, I beseech you on my knees,
Hear me with patience but to speak a word.  _Capulet._ Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!
I tell thee what, get thee to church o' Thursday
Or never after look me in the face.
Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;
My fingers itch.--Wife, we scarce thought us blest
That God had lent us but this only child,
But now I see this one is one too much,
And that we have a curse in having her;
Out on her, hilding!  _Nurse._ God in heaven bless her!
You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.  _Capulet._ And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,
Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.  _Nurse._ I speak no treason.  _Capulet._ O, God ye god-den!  _Nurse._ May not one speak?  _Capulet._ Peace, you mumbling fool!
Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl,
For here we need it not.  _Lady Capulet._ You are too hot.  _Capulet._ God's bread! it makes me mad! Day, night, late, early,
At home, abroad, alone, in company,
Waking, or sleeping, still my care hath been
To have her match'd; and having now provided
A gentleman of noble parentage,
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man,--
And then to have a wretched puling fool,
A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,

 Prev. P 58/235 next