No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Act 2 Scene 4 Page 6

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PETER Anon!	PETER I’m at your service.
NURSE My fan, Peter.	NURSE Give me my fan, Peter.
MERCUTIO Good, Peter, to hide her face, for her fan’s the fairer face.	MERCUTIO Good Peter, give her her fan to hide her face. Her fan is prettier than her face.
NURSE God ye good morrow, gentlemen.	NURSE Good morning, gentlemen.
MERCUTIO 55God ye good e'en, fair gentlewoman.	MERCUTIO Good afternoon, fair lady.
NURSE Is it good e'en?	NURSE Is it now afternoon?
MERCUTIO 'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.	MERCUTIO It’s not earlier than that, I tell you. The lusty hand Again, Mercutio’s language is full of offensive sexual innuendo. lusty hand of the clock is now pricking noon.
NURSE Out upon you! What a man are you?	NURSE Get out of here! What kind of man are you?
MERCUTIO One, gentlewoman, that God hath made, himself to mar.	MERCUTIO I’m a man, my lady, that God has made for himself to ruin.
NURSE 60By my troth, it is well said. “For himself to mar,” quoth he? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I may find the young Romeo?	NURSE I swear, you speak the truth. “For himself to ruin,” he says. Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I can find young Romeo?
ROMEO I can tell you, but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him. I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.	ROMEO I can tell you, but young Romeo will be older when you find him than he was when you started looking for him. I am the youngest man by that name, because there is no one younger, or worse.
NURSE You say well.	NURSE You speak well.