1 Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress.
2 And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall.
3 Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse and Servants.
4 Nurse, give leave awhile, We must talk in secret.
5 Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
6 All this I know; and to the marriage Her Nurse is privy.
7 Nurse, come back again, I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.
8 The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse, In half an hour she promised to return.
9 Come cords, come Nurse, I'll to my wedding bed, And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead.
10 I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news: Nay come, I pray thee speak; good, good Nurse, speak.
11 Wednesday is tomorrow; Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone, Let not thy Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
12 O, here comes my Nurse, And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.
13 A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
14 Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you called, my young lady asked for, the Nurse cursed in the pantry, and everything in extremity.
15 So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the nurse this night sit up with you, For I am sure you have your hands full all In this so sudden business.
16 But, gentle Nurse, I pray thee leave me to myself tonight; For I have need of many orisons To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.