Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
Hold, take these keys and go get more spices, Nurse.
Here, take these keys and go fetch more spices, Nurse.
take the keys. get more spices
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
They're calling for dates and quinces in the pastry kitchen.
They need dates and quinces in the kitchen.
they want dates & quinces for the kitchen
Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crow’d,
The curfew bell hath rung, ’tis three o’clock.
Look to the bak’d meats, good Angelica;
Spare not for cost.
Come on, move, move, move! The rooster's crowed twice, the bells have rung, it's three o'clock. Check on the roasted meats, good Angelica. Don't worry about the cost.
Come on, hurry up! It's three in the morning already. Make sure the roasted meat is ready, Angelica. Don't worry about spending money.
hurry! its 3am. check the meat. spare no expense
Go, you cot-quean, go,
Get you to bed; faith, you’ll be sick tomorrow
For this night’s watching.
Go on, you're acting like a housewife, go. Get yourself to bed. I swear, you'll be sick tomorrow from being awake all night.
Come on, you're fussing around like a woman, go to bed. You're going to be sick tomorrow from staying up all night.
go to bed. youll get sick from no sleep
No, not a whit. What! I have watch’d ere now
All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.
No, not at all. What! I've stayed awake all night before for less important reasons and never got sick.
Not at all. I've pulled all-nighters before for less important things, and I've never gotten sick.
nah. ive stayed up all night before. never got sick
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
But I will watch you from such watching now.
Yes, you were a night-owl chasing women when you were younger, but I won't let you stay up like that now.
Yes, you used to be out all hours when you were younger, but I'm not letting you do that anymore.
u were a night owl before but im stopping u now
Act 4-4 is Shakespeare using domestic comedy as an instrument of cruelty. The audience has just watched Juliet drink the potion. Now we watch her family bustle cheerfully toward a wedding that is already cancelled. Every 'make haste' is an irony. Every joke between Capulet and the servants plays against the silence upstairs. This structural technique — comedy immediately before catastrophe — is one of Shakespeare's most reliable devices. It makes the discovery in 4-5 land harder than if we'd simply cut straight there.
A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!
You're being jealous, you're being jealous!
You're getting jealous, you're getting jealous!
ur so jealous
Now, fellow, what’s there?
Now, fellow, what do you have?
Hey, what've you got?
yo whats that
Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
Things for the cook, sir, but I don't know what exactly.
Just supplies for the cook, sir. I'm not sure what.
stuff for the cook. not sure what
Make haste, make haste.
Hurry, hurry.
Get moving, get moving.
go go go
—Sirrah, fetch drier logs.
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
You, fetch drier logs. Call Peter, he will show you where they are.
Get me some dry firewood. Call Peter, he knows where they are.
get dry logs have peter show u where
Lady Capulet's joke about Capulet being a 'mouse-hunt in your time' is one of the play's rare glimpses into the actual quality of the Capulets' marriage. It is not warm. There is a memory behind that line — of nights when his restless energy went elsewhere. She is teasing, but the tease has history in it. Against this backdrop, Capulet's genuine excitement about his daughter's wedding reads differently: he is not just exercising patriarchal authority. He is trying to do something right for his family, probably for the first time in a while. He just doesn't know it's too late.
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
And never trouble Peter for the matter.
I have the brains, sir, to figure out where to get firewood and won't need to ask Peter about it.
I've got the sense to find firewood myself, sir. I don't need to ask Peter.
i can find firewood myself. no need to ask peter
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.
By God, well said! You're a clever fellow. You'll be quite the joker. Good heavens, it's getting light. The County will be here soon with music as he promised. I think I hear him approaching.
By God, well spoken! You're a funny guy. That's a good one. It's getting light out already. Count Paris will be here soon with musicians like he said. I think I hear him coming.
ur a funny guy. its getting light. count paris is almost here with music
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say!
Nurse! Wife! Listen! Nurse, I say!
Nurse! Where are you? Hey, Nurse!
nurse wife where are you
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.
Go wake Juliet, go and dress her up. I'll go and talk with Paris. Hurry, make haste, Make haste; the groom has already arrived. Make haste I say.
Wake Juliet up and get her dressed. I'm going to talk to Paris. Hurry up, The bridegroom is already here. Go, go, go!
wake juliet up get her ready the groom is already here hurry!!
The Reckoning
Shakespeare places this scene of domestic bustle and comedy between Juliet drinking the potion and the Nurse's discovery of her body. The effect is devastating. The household is cheerful, purposeful, alive — and completely unaware that Juliet is lying on her bed in a death-like sleep. Every joke, every instruction, every 'make haste' is a knife. The wedding that was supposed to happen is never coming.
If this happened today…
A family is up at 3am before a big wedding. The father hasn't slept — he's directing caterers, teasing the cook, making everyone hustle. He calls upstairs for the bridesmaid to wake the bride. He's never been happier. Nobody knows.