pastry place where pastry is made.
curfew bell the bell used especially in the medieval and renaissance periods, which rang in the morning and evening to signal curfew.
cot-quean a man who usurped the place of the housewife. The Nurse teases Capulet for the pride and concern he takes in household affairs.
lesser cause that is, a woman, an amorous liaison.
you have been a mouse-hunt in your time you have chased after women in your youth. "Mouse" was an amorous term for a woman and here suggests the image of a cat prowling after a mouse.
jealous hood jealous wife. Capulet is humorously responding to his wife's remarks about his past.
loggerhead a stupid fellow; blockhead. Capulet puns on the second servant's ability to find logs for the fire.






















