Enter Capulet, with Juliet and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers.
Cap. Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes[326]
Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you:[327] 15
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all[328]
Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?[329]
Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day[330]
That I have worn a visor, and could tell 20
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.[331][332]
A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.[331][333]
[Music plays, and they dance.
More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,[334] 25
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 30
Were in a mask?[335]
Sec. Cap. By'r lady, thirty years.[336]
Cap. What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:
'Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,[337]
Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,
Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd. 35
Sec. Cap. 'Tis more, 'tis more: his son is elder, sir;
His son is thirty.[338]
Cap. Will you tell me that?[339]
His son was but a ward two years ago.[340]
Rom. [To a Servingman] What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand
Of yonder knight? 40
Serv. I know not, sir.[341]