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Olliolli 2 scene 56/12/2023 ![]() You’ll turn scarlet at anything I tell you. Ah, now that lively blush comes into your cheeks. There waits a husband ready to make you a wife. Then get yourself to Friar Laurence’s cell. What a fuss! Come on, what did Romeo say? Nurseĭo you have permission to go make confession today? Juliet You can deliver your messages yourself from now on! Juliet Is this the treatment that my aching bones deserve? Oh Mother Mary! Are you really this riled up? Come on, calm down. Where is my mother! Why, she’s inside, where else would she be? What bizarre replies you give! “Your love says, like an honest man, ‘where is your mother?’”! Nurse Your love says, like a man who’s honest, and courteous, and kind, and handsome, and I think probably virtuous - Where’s your mother? Juliet Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me what my love said! Nurse Oh, my back, too, on this other side, oh my back, my back! Curse your heart for sending me all over creation so I’d catch my death with all this running around! Juliet Oh Lord, my head aches! What a headache I’ve got! It’s throbbing like it’ll break into twenty pieces. What did he say about our marriage? What about that? Nurse But I knew all of that about Romeo before. He’s not the model of courtesy, but I’m sure he’s as gentle as a lamb. As for the rest of his body, although no one talks about that, it’s quite nice. Though he is better looking than anyone, and his legs are better than anyone’s. Well, you’ve made your choice, but you don’t know how to pick a man. Let me know that, at least, is it good or bad? Nurse Say either of those, and I’ll wait for the detailed story. How can you be out of breath when you have enough breath to say to me “I’m out of breath”? The excuses you’re making for your delay are longer than the story you’re trying to put off! Is your news good or bad? Answer that. Jesus, such hurry! Can’t you wait awhile? Don’t you see that I’m out of breath? Juliet I wish you had my bones and I had your news! Come on, please, tell me. Hell, my bones ache! What a long journey that was! Juliet If the news is good, play it like sweet music, don’t make it sour with that face. Now, my dear sweet nurse - oh Lord, why do you look so serious?Įven if the news is bad, please tell it more happily. Oh God, here she comes! Dear nurse, what’s the news? Have you met with him? Send your servant away. But so many old folks act like they’re already dead - unwieldy, slow, and heavy as lead. My message would hit her to my sweet love, and his message would send her back to me. If she had my emotions and my younger blood, she’d be there and back as quick as a tennis ball. The sun is at its highest point of the day's journey, and from nine to noon is three long hours, yet she hasn’t come back. That’s why they say Venus, the goddess of love, travels in a chariot pulled by swift doves, and Cupid is always drawn with wings. She’s so slow! Love’s messengers should move as quick as thoughts, which are ten times as fast as the sunbeams that push shadows back over the hillsides. It was nine o’clock when I sent the nurse.
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