AcT 2, ScEnE 5 AcT 2 ScEnE 5


Capulet’s orchard. Enter JULIET


JuLiEt The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse. In half an hour she promised to return. Perchance1


O, she is lame! Love’s heralds2 hills.


she cannot meet him – that’s not so. should be thoughts,


Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams Driving back shadows over louring3 Therefore do nimble-pinioned4


doves draw Love,5 10


And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. Now is the sun upon the highmost hill Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve Is three long hours – yet she is not come. Had she affections6


She would be as swift in motion as a ball. My words would bandy7


And his to me: But old folks – many feign8 Unwieldy,9


slow, heavy and pale as lead.


O God, she comes! [Enter NURSE and PETER] O honey Nurse, what news?


Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away. 20


NuRsE Peter, stay at the gate. [Exit PETER]


JuLiEt Now, good sweet Nurse – O Lord, why look’st thou sad? Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily. If good, thou sham’st the music of sweet news By playing it to me with so sour a face.


NuRsE I am aweary.10 Give me leave a while Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce11 have I!


JuLiEt I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news. Nay, come, I pray thee, speak – good, good Nurse, speak.


NuRsE Jesu, what haste? Can you not stay12 30 Do you not see that I am out of breath?


a while? 12 stay: wait


10 aweary: tired 11


What a jaunce have I!: I’ve had such a tiring journey


1 2


Perchance: Perhaps heralds: messengers


3 4 5


louring: overcast/ menacing


nimble-pinioned: swift- winged


draw Love: pull Love in a chariot


and warm youthful blood, her to my sweet love, as they were dead –


6 affections: passion 7


bandy: throw/strike (as with a racket)


8 9 feign: pretend/act


Unwieldy: awkward/ clumsy


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