SCENE V. _Juliet's Chamber_

_Enter_ Nurse  
Nurse: Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! Fast, I warrant her, she.--
Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!
Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!
What, not a word?--How sound is she asleep!
I needs must wake her.--Madam, madam, madam!
Ay, let the county take you in your bed;
He'll fright you up, i' faith.--Will it not be?
[_Undraws the curtains._]  
What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!
I must needs wake you. Lady! lady! lady!--
Alas, alas!--Help, help! my lady's dead!--  
O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!--
Some aqua vitæ, ho!--My lord! my lady!

_Enter_ LADY CAPULET  
Lady Capulet: What noise is here?  
Nurse: O lamentable day!  
Lady Capulet: What is the matter?  
Nurse: Look, look! O heavy day!  
Lady Capulet: O me, O me! My child, my only life,
Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!--
Help, help! Call help.  

_Enter_ CAPULET  
Capulet: For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come.  
Nurse: She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!  
Lady Capulet: Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!  

Capulet: Ha! let me see her. Out, alas! she's cold;
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.  
Nurse: O lamentable day!  
Lady Capulet: O woful time!  

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