Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

No Fear Act 4 Scene 2

No Fear Act 4 Scene 2 Page 1

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Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, NURSE, and two or three SERVINGMEN	CAPULET enters with LADY CAPULET, the NURSE, and two or three SERVINGMEN.
CAPULET (gives paper to FIRST SERVINGMAN) So many guests invite as here are writ.	CAPULET (giving the FIRST SERVINGMAN a piece of paper) Invite all the guests on this list.
Exit FIRST SERVINGMAN	The FIRST SERVINGMAN exits.
(to SECOND SERVINGMAN) Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.	(to SECOND SERVINGMAN) Boy, go hire twenty skilled cooks.
SECOND SERVINGMAN You shall have none ill, sir, for I’ll try if they can lick their fingers.	SECOND SERVINGMAN You won’t get any bad cooks from me. I’ll test them by making them lick their fingers.
CAPULET How canst thou try them so?	CAPULET How can you test them like that?
SECOND SERVINGMAN 5Marry, sir, ’tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me.	SECOND SERVINGMAN Easy, sir. It’s a bad cook who can’t lick his own fingers. So the cooks who can’t lick their fingers aren’t hired.
CAPULET Go, be gone. We shall be much unfurnished for this time.	CAPULET Go, get out of here.
Exit SECOND SERVINGMAN	The SECOND SERVINGMAN exits.
What, is my daughter gone to Friar Lawrence?	We’re unprepared for this wedding celebration. (to the NURSE) What, has my daughter gone to see Friar Lawrence?
NURSE Ay, forsooth.	NURSE Yes, that’s true.
CAPULET 10Well, he may chance to do some good on her. A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.	CAPULET Well, there’s a chance he may do her some good. She’s a stubborn little brat.
Enter JULIET	JULIET enters.

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