SC. IV.]
ROMEO AND JULIET
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| Rom.
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Here's goodly gear![E 1]
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Enter Nurse and Peter.[C 1]
| Mer.
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A sail, a sail![C 2]110
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| Nurse.
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My fan,[E 3] Peter.
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| Mer.
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Good Peter, to hide her face;[C 6] for her fan's115
the fairer of the two.[C 7]
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| Nurse.
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God ye[E 4] good morrow, gentlemen.
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| Mer.
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God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.
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| Mer.
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'Tis no less, I tell you;[C 8] for the bawdy hand120
of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.[E 5]
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| Nurse.
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Out upon you! what a man are you!
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| Rom.
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One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for
himself[C 9] to mar.
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- ↑ 109. Enter …] Enter Nurse and her man Q, F (after longer, 108).
- ↑ 110. A sail, a sail] Q, F (but continued to Romeo); A sail, a sail, a sail. Q1 (given to Mercutio).
- ↑ 111. Ben.] Q1; Mer. Q, F.
- ↑ 112–115. Peter! … Peter] Q, F; Peter, pree thee give me my fan. Mer. Pree thee doo good Peter, Q1.
- ↑ 113. Anon?] Theobald; Anon. Q, F.
- ↑ 115. face;] F3, face, Q, face? F.
- ↑ 116. fairer … two] Q1, fairer face. Q, fairer face? F.
- ↑ 120. you] F, yee Q.
- ↑ 123, 124. for himself] Q1; himself Q, F.
- ↑ 109. gear] Gear is used for talk, and, in a depreciatory sense, rubbishy talk; also for stuff, and, in a depreciatory sense, rubbish. It is also used for apparel, attire. Probably Romeo refers to the preceding talk, not to the habiliments of the approaching nurse.
- ↑ 111. Ben.] Benvolio, slow to kindle, is caught into the fire of fun; see line 138. But some editors accept the arrangement of speeches in Q, F.
- ↑ 114. fan] Compare Love's Labour's Lost, iv. i. 147: "To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!" Farmer quotes The Serving Man's Comfort, 1598: "The mistress must have one to carry her cloake and hood, another her fanne."
- ↑ 117. God ye] short for God give ye; on good den, see [[../../Act 1/Scene 2|I. ii. 57.]]
- ↑ 121. prick of noon] point or mark of noon; so "noontide prick," 3 Henry VI. i. iv. 34, and Lucrece, line 781.