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- Act 2 Scene 4
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- Juliet anxiously waits for the Nurse, who arrives
- breathless and complaining of the tiring journey
- she has had. After teasing Juliet, the Nurse tells her
- of RomeoÆs plans for their marriage.
- 3 Perchance: perhaps.
- 6 louring: gloomy.
- 7 nimble-pinioned doves: swift-winged
- doves, which in classical mythology draw the
- chariot of Venus, goddess of love.
- 8 wind-swift: swift as the wind.
- 9 highmost hill: at the height.
- 12 affections: desires.
- blood: passion.
- 13, 14, 15 Juliet wishes that the Nurse could be
- like a tennis ball, so that she and Romeo ù like
- two tennis players ù could strike (ôbandyö) her
- between them.
- 22 news: this noun could be either singular or
- plural in the sixteenth century.
- 26 jaunce: exhausting trip.
- 29 stay: wait.
- 33 in this delay: for this delay.
- 36 stay the circumstance: wait for the details.
- 38 simple: foolish.
- 42 not to be talked on: not worth talking
- about.
- 43 flower: model.
- 44 Go thy ways: away you go.
- 50 aÆ tÆother side: on the other side.
- 51 Beshrew: curse.
- 52 jauncing: tripping.
- 55 honest: honourable.
- 61 GodÆs lady: i.e. the Virgin Mary.
- 62 hot: impatient.
- 65 coil: fuss.
- 66 shrift: confession.
- 68 hie: go.
- 70 wanton: uncontrolled.
- 71 be in scarlet: i.e. blush.
- 75 toil in your delight: labour for your
- happiness.
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