RoMeO & JuLiEt 60


too much…score: not worth paying for


But a hare that is hoar Is too much for a score,60 When it hoars ere it be spent.


Romeo, will you come to your father’s? We’ll to dinner, thither.


RoMeO 130 I will follow you.


MeRcUtIo Farewell, ancient lady. Farewell [singing] ‘lady, lady, lady.’ [Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO]


61 saucy: rude 62 ropery: roguery


NuRsE I pray you, sir, what saucy61 so full of his ropery?62


63 stand to: live up to merchant was this, that was


RoMeO A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to63 month.


in a 64 lustier: more spirited 140


65 66


flirt-gills: immoral women


skains-mates: cut-throat companions


NuRsE An a’ speak anything against me, I’ll take him down, an a’ were lustier64


if I cannot, I’ll find those that shall. Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills;65


[To PETER] And thou must stand by too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure!


PeTeR I saw no man use you at his pleasure.67 67


use you at his pleasure: 1. mock you 2. have sex with you


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 good quarrel, and the law on my side.


NuRsE Now, afore God, I am so vexed,68


68 vexed: annoyed 150 that every part about


me quivers. Scurvy knave! [To ROMEO] Pray you, sir, a word. And as I told you, my young lady bid me enquire you out. What she bid me say, I will keep to myself. But first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise,69


69


lead her into a fool’s paradise: deceive her


70 deal double: trick 71


weak dealing: poor way of carrying on


72 commend me: praise me 73 protest: promise


90


than he is – and twenty such Jacks! And I am none of his skains-mates!66


of behaviour, as they say. For the gentlewoman is young and, therefore, if you should deal double70


as they say, it were a very gross kind with her, truly


it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.71


RoMeO Nurse, commend me72 unto thee –


to thy lady and mistress. I protest73


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