act 3 scene 5


I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,


It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!


LADY CAPULET Here comes your father; tell him so yourself, And see how he will take it at your hands.


Enter CAPULET and NURSE CAPULET


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When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;


But for the sunset of my brother’s son It rains downright. How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears? Evermore showering? In one little body Thou counterfeit’st a bark, a sea, a wind;


For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, 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, ROMEO AND JULIET 125 155


chop-logic foolish talk minion young brat


150 145


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It rains downright Juliet’s tears for her cousin are like torrential rain


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a conduit a water pipe, a fountain


Thou counterfeit’st a bark you’re like a poor ship tossed on a stormy sea


140 overset capsize, turn over


decree a command, an order


These are very cruel words. Lady Capulet shows no sympathy for Juliet. It later turns out to be ironic that she wishes her daughter were dead. This is an example of dramatic irony, foreshadowing events to come (see page 162).


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