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| Enter Iuliet and Nurse. | Enter Juliet and Nurse | | RJ IV.iii.1.1 | |
| Iul. | JULIET | | | |
| I those attires are best, but gentle Nurse | Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse, | attire (n.) head-dress | RJ IV.iii.1 | |
| | gentle (adj.)courteous, friendly, kind | | |
| I pray thee leaue me to my selfe to night: | I pray thee leave me to myself tonight. | | RJ IV.iii.2 | |
| For I haue need of many Orysons, | For I have need of many orisons | orison (n.)prayer, plea | RJ IV.iii.3 | |
| To moue the heauens to smile vpon my state, | To move the heavens to smile upon my state, | | RJ IV.iii.4 | |
| Which well thou know'st, is crosse and full of sin. | Which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin. | cross (adj.)perverse, contrarious, contradictory | RJ IV.iii.5 | |
| Enter Mother. | Enter Lady Capulet | | RJ IV.iii.6 | |
| Mo. | LADY CAPULET | | | |
| What are you busie ho? need you my help? | What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help? | | RJ IV.iii.6 | |
| Iul. | JULIET | | | |
| No Madam, we haue cul'd such necessaries | No, madam. We have culled such necessaries | cull (v.)select, pick out, choose | RJ IV.iii.7 | |
| As are behoouefull for our state to morrow: | As are behoveful for our state tomorrow. | state (n.)ceremony, celebration | RJ IV.iii.8 | |
| | behoveful, behoofeful (adj.)needful, necessary, useful | | |
| So please you, let me now be left alone; | So please you, let me now be left alone, | | RJ IV.iii.9 | |
| And let the Nurse this night sit vp with you, | And let the Nurse this night sit up with you. | | RJ IV.iii.10 | |
| For I am sure, you haue your hands full all, | For I am sure you have your hands full all | | RJ IV.iii.11 | |
| In this so sudden businesse. | In this so sudden business. | | RJ IV.iii.12.1 | |
| Mo. | LADY CAPULET | | | |
| Goodnight. | Good night. | | RJ IV.iii.12.2 | |
| Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need. | Go thee to bed, and rest. For thou hast need. | | RJ IV.iii.13 | |
| Exeunt. | Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse | | RJ IV.iii.13 | |
| Iul. | JULIET | | | |
| Farewell: / God knowes when we shall meete againe. | Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. | | RJ IV.iii.14 | |
| I haue a faint cold feare thrills through my veines, | I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins | faint (adj.)faint-hearted, timorous, fearful | RJ IV.iii.15 | |
| | thrill (v.)pass like a shiver, tremble | | |
| That almost freezes vp the heate of fire: | That almost freezes up the heat of life. | | RJ IV.iii.16 | |
| Ile call them backe againe to comfort me. | I'll call them back again to comfort me. | | RJ IV.iii.17 | |
| Nurse, what should she do here? | Nurse! – What should she do here? | | RJ IV.iii.18 | |
| My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone: | My dismal scene I needs must act alone. | dismal (adj.)disastrous, calamitous, devastating | RJ IV.iii.19 | |
| Come Viall, | Come, vial. | vial (n.)phial, small bottle, flask | RJ IV.iii.20 | |
| what if this mixture do not worke at all? | What if this mixture do not work at all? | | RJ IV.iii.21 | |
| Shall I be married then to morrow morning? | Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? | | RJ IV.iii.22 | |
| No, no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there, | No, no! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. | | RJ IV.iii.23 | |
| She lays down a knife | | RJ IV.iii.24 | |
| What if it be a poyson which the Frier | What if it be a poison which the Friar | | RJ IV.iii.24 | |
| Subtilly hath ministred to haue me dead, | Subtly hath ministered to have me dead, | subtly, subtilly (adv.)deceitfully, treacherously, deceptively | RJ IV.iii.25 | |
| Least in this marriage he should be dishonour'd, | Lest in this marriage he should be dishonoured | | RJ IV.iii.26 | |
| Because he married me before to Romeo? | Because he married me before to Romeo? | | RJ IV.iii.27 | |
| I feare it is, and yet me thinkes it should not, | I fear it is. And yet methinks it should not, | methinks(t), methought(s) (v.)it seems / seemed to me | RJ IV.iii.28 | |
| For he hath still beene tried a holy man. | For he hath still been tried a holy man. | still (adv.)constantly, always, continually | RJ IV.iii.29 | |
| | try (v.)prove, ascertain, find out | | |
| How, if when I am laid into the Tombe, | How if, when I am laid into the tomb, | | RJ IV.iii.30 | |
| I wake before the time that Romeo | I wake before the time that Romeo | | RJ IV.iii.31 | |
| Come to redeeme me? There's a fearefull point: | Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point! | | RJ IV.iii.32 | |
| Shall I not then be stifled in the Vault? | Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, | | RJ IV.iii.33 | |
| To whose foule mouth no healthsome ayre breaths in, | To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, | | RJ IV.iii.34 | |
| And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes. | And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? | | RJ IV.iii.35 | |
| Or if I liue, is it not very like, | Or, if I live, is it not very like | like (adv.)likely, probable / probably | RJ IV.iii.36 | |
| The horrible conceit of death and night, | The horrible conceit of death and night, | conceit (n.)imagining, brooding, fanciful thought | RJ IV.iii.37 | |
| Together with the terror of the place, | Together with the terror of the place – | | RJ IV.iii.38 | |
| As in a Vaulte, an ancient receptacle, | As in a vault, an ancient receptacle | receptacle (n.)repository, storehouse, receiving chamber | RJ IV.iii.39 | |
| Where for these many hundred yeeres the bones | Where for this many hundred years the bones | | RJ IV.iii.40 | |
| Of all my buried Auncestors are packt, | Of all my buried ancestors are packed; | | RJ IV.iii.41 | |
| Where bloody Tybalt, yet but greene in earth, | Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, | green (adj.)fresh, recent, new | RJ IV.iii.42 | |
| Lies festring in his shrow'd, where as they say, | Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, | fester (v.)corrupt, putrify, rot | RJ IV.iii.43 | |
| At some houres in the night, Spirits resort: | At some hours in the night spirits resort – | | RJ IV.iii.44 | |
| Alacke, alacke, is it not like that I | Alack, alack, is it not like that I, | | RJ IV.iii.45 | |
| So early waking, what with loathsome smels, | So early waking – what with loathsome smells, | | RJ IV.iii.46 | |
| And shrikes like Mandrakes torne out of the earth, | And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, | mandrake (n.)variety of poisonous plant [thought to emit a lethal shriek when pulled from the ground] | RJ IV.iii.47 | |
| That liuing mortalls hearing them, run mad. | That living mortals, hearing them, run mad – | | RJ IV.iii.48 | |
| O if I walke, shall I not be distraught, | O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, | | RJ IV.iii.49 | |
| Inuironed with all these hidious feares, | Environed with all these hideous fears, | environ (v.)surround, envelop, encircle, engulf | RJ IV.iii.50 | |
| And madly play with my forefathers ioynts? | And madly play with my forefathers' joints, | | RJ IV.iii.51 | |
| And plucke the mangled Tybalt from his shrow'd? | And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud, | | RJ IV.iii.52 | |
| And in this rage, with some great kinsmans bone, | And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone | rage (n.)madness, insanity, derangement | RJ IV.iii.53 | |
| As (with a club) dash out my desperate braines. | As with a club dash out my desperate brains? | | RJ IV.iii.54 | |
| O looke, me thinks I see my Cozins Ghost, | O, look! Methinks I see my cousin's ghost | methinks(t), methought(s) (v.)it seems / seemed to me | RJ IV.iii.55 | |
| Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body | Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body | | RJ IV.iii.56 | |
| Vpon my Rapiers point: stay Tybalt, stay; | Upon a rapier's point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! | stay (v.)stop, halt, come to a standstill | RJ IV.iii.57 | |
| | rapier (n.)light sharp-pointed sword used for thrusting | | |
| Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, | Romeo, Romeo, Romeo. | | RJ IV.iii.58 | |
| here's drinke: I drinke to thee. | Here's drink. I drink to thee. | | RJ IV.iii.59 | |
| She falls upon her bed within the curtains | | RJ IV.iii.59 | |