Romeo and Juliet / Ромео и Джульетта

First servant

Where’s Potpan, that he helps not to take away?

He shift a trencher! He scrape a trencher!

Second servant

When good manners shall lie all in one or two men’s hands, and they unwash’d too, ’tis a foul thing.

First servant

Away with the join-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and as thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Antony and Potpan!

Second servant

Ay, boy, ready.

First servant

You are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for, in the great chamber.

Second servant

We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys. Be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.

[Exeunt.]

Enter Capulet, amp;c. with the Guests

and Gentlewomen to the Maskers.

Capulet

Welcome, gentlemen, ladies that have their toes

Unplagu’d with corns will have a bout with you.

Ah my mistresses, which of you all

Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,

She I’ll swear hath corns. Am I come near ye now?

Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day

That I have worn a visor, and could tell

A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear,

Such as would please; ’tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone,

You are welcome, gentlemen! Come, musicians, play.

A hall, a hall, give room! And foot it, girls.

[Music plays, and they dance.

More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,

And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.

Ah sirrah, this unlook’d-for sport comes well.

Nay sit, nay sit, good cousin Capulet,

For you and I are past our dancing days;

How long is’t now since last yourself and I

Were in a mask?

Capulet’s Cousin

By’r Lady, thirty years.

Capulet

What, man, ’tis not so much, ’tis not so much:

’Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,

Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,

Some five and twenty years; and then we mask’d.

Capulet’s Cousin

’Tis more, ’tis more, his son is elder, sir;

His son is thirty.

Capulet

Will you tell me that?

His son was but a ward two years ago.

Romeo

What lady is that, which doth enrich the hand

Of yonder knight?

Servant

I know not, sir.