Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act I: Scene 5

Scene V. A Hall in Capulet's House.

[Musicians waiting. Enter Servants.]

1 SERVANT.
Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away?
he shift a trencher! he scrape a trencher!

2 SERVANT.
When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's
hands, and they unwash'd too, 'tis a foul thing.

1 SERVANT.
Away with the join-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look
to the plate: — good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and as
thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. —
Antony! and Potpan!

2 SERVANT.
Ay, boy, ready.

1 SERVANT.
You are looked for and called for, asked for
and sought for in the great chamber.

2 SERVANT.
We cannot be here and there too. — Cheerly, boys;
be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.

[They retire behind.]

[Enter Capulet, &c. with the Guests the Maskers.]


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