Juliet sends the Nurse and Lady Capulet away so that she can carry out the plan alone. Juliet imagines poison, suffocation and madness in the family tomb but resolves to proceed. Invoking Romeo, Juliet empties the vial and falls upon her bed.
SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet’s House.
Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse.
LADY CAPULET
Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
NURSE
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
Enter Capulet.
CAPULET
Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cockthe second crowing of the cock during the night, conventionally marking about three in the morning. hath crow’d,The curfew bell hath rung, ’tis three o’clock.Look to the bak’d meats, good Angelica;Spare not for cost.
NURSE
Go, you cot-queana man who meddles in household work regarded as belonging to women., go,Get you to bed; faith, you’ll be sick tomorrowFor this night’s watching.
CAPULET
No, not a whit. What! I have watch’d ere nowAll night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.
LADY CAPULET
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunta man who pursues women sexually; a woman-chaser. in your time;But I will watch you from such watching now.
Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.
CAPULET
A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!
Enter Servants, with spits, logs and baskets.
CAPULET
Now, fellow, what’s there?
FIRST SERVANT
Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
CAPULET
Make haste, make haste.
Exit First Servant.
CAPULET
—Sirrah, fetch drier logs.Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
SECOND SERVANT
I have a head, sir, that will find out logsAnd never trouble Peter for the matter.
Exit.
CAPULET
Mass and well said; a merry whoreson, ha.Thou shalt be loggerhead.—Good faith, ’tis day.The County will be here with music straight,For so he said he would. I hear him near.
Play music.
CAPULET
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say!
Re-enter Nurse.
CAPULET
Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up.I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already.Make haste I say.