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Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
Wait, take these keys and get some more spices, Nurse.
They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
They are asking for dates and quinces in the kitchen.
Come, stir, stir, stir!
Come on, get moving, get moving, get moving!
The second cock hath crow’d,
The second rooster has crowed.
The curfew bell hath rung,’tis three o’clock.
The curfew bell has rung. It’s three o’clock.
Look to the bak’d meats, good Angelica; Spare not for cost.
Go get the baked meats, good Angelica. Do not worry about the cost.
Go, you cot-quean, go,
Go, you cottage-housewife, go.
Get you to bed; faith, you’ll be sick tomorrow For this night’s watching.
Go to bed! God! You will be sick tomorrow from staying up all night.
No, not a whit.
No, not at all.
What! I have watch’d ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.
What! I have stayed up all night before too for lesser cause, and has never been sick.
Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
Yes, you have been a woman-chaser in your time.
But I will watch you from such watching now.
But I will keep an eye on you to make sure you don’t stay up for those reasons anymore.
A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!
A jealous-woman, a jealous-woman!
Now, fellow, what’s there?
Now, fellow, what are you carrying?
Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
Things for the cook, sir. But I do not know what exactly.
Make haste, make haste.
Hurry up, hurry up.
—Sirrah, fetch drier logs.
Servant, fetch logs that are drier.
Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Call Peter. He will show you where they are.
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
I have a head, sir, that will find out the logs.
And never trouble Peter for the matter.
And I do not have to trouble Peter for this matter.
Mass and well said; a merry whoreson, ha.
God and well said! A joking bastard, ha!
Thou shalt be loggerhead.
You must be a loggerhead.
—Good faith,’tis day.
In good faith, it is day already.
The County will be here with music straight, For so he said he would. I hear him near.
The Count will be here with musicians, for he said he would. I hear him coming.
Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say!
Nurse! Wife! Hey, hi! What, Nurse, I say!
Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up.
Go wake up Juliet. Go and get her dressed.
I’ll go and chat with Paris.
I will go and chat with Paris.
Hie, make haste, Make haste;
Hurry, hurry up, hurry up!
the bridegroom he is come already.
The bridegroom is already here.
Make haste I say.
Hurry up, I say.