{"id":4688,"date":"2015-05-28T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4688"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:31:30","slug":"romeo-and-juliet-act-i-scene-iii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4688","title":{"rendered":"Romeo and Juliet; Act I, Scene iii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romeo and Juliet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 1, Scene 3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Nurse<\/strong><\/p>\n

This speech is used in our interview with Lois Leveen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

20 \u00a0Even or odd, of all days in the year,
\n21 \u00a0Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
\n22 \u00a0Susan and she–God rest all Christian souls!–
\n23 \u00a0Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;
\n24 \u00a0She was too good for me: but, as I said,
\n25 \u00a0On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
\n26 \u00a0That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
\n27 \u00a0‘Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
\n28 \u00a0And she was wean’d,–I never shall forget it,–
\n29 \u00a0Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
\n30 \u00a0For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
\n31 \u00a0Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;
\n32 \u00a0My lord and you were then at Mantua:–
\n33 \u00a0Nay, I do bear a brain:–but, as I said,
\n34 \u00a0When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
\n35 \u00a0Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
\n36 \u00a0To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
\n37 \u00a0Shake quoth the dove-house: ’twas no need, I trow,
\n38 \u00a0To bid me trudge:
\n39 \u00a0And since that time it is eleven years;
\n40 \u00a0For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
\n41 \u00a0She could have run and waddled all about;
\n42 \u00a0For even the day before, she broke her brow:
\n43 \u00a0And then my husband–God be with his soul!
\n44 \u00a0A’ was a merry man–took up the child:
\n45 \u00a0‘Yea,’ quoth he, ‘dost thou fall upon thy face?
\n46 \u00a0Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
\n47 \u00a0Wilt thou not, Jule?’ and, by my holidame,
\n48 \u00a0The pretty wretch left crying and said ‘Ay.’
\n49 \u00a0To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
\n50 \u00a0I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
\n51 \u00a0I never should forget it: ‘Wilt thou not, Jule?’ quoth he;
\n52 \u00a0And, pretty fool, it stinted and said ‘Ay.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romeo and Juliet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 1, Scene 3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Nurse This speech is used in our interview with Lois Leveen. 20 \u00a0Even or odd, of all days in the year, 21 \u00a0Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. 22 \u00a0Susan and she–God rest all Christian souls!– 23 \u00a0Were of an age: well, Susan is<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4688","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-1dC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4695,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4688\/revisions\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}