With that suit upon my back, will I ravish her: First, kill him and in her eyes; there shall she see my valour, which will then be a torment to her contempt. He, on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body,—and when my lust has dined,—(which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised) to the court I'll knock her back, foot her home again.
[237]: Roméo et Juliette.
NURSE.
'Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
LADY CAPULET.
She's not fourteen.
NURSE.
Come Lammas eve at night, shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she,—God rest all Christian souls!—
Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God;
She was too good for me: But, as I said,
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd—I never shall forget it,—
Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug.
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall,
My lord and you were then at Mantua:—
Nay, I do bear a brain:—but, as I said,
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretty fool!
To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug.
Shake, quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
To bid me trudge.
And since that time it is eleven years:
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about.
For even the day before she broke her brow.