罗密欧与朱丽叶初次相遇 Act One - Scene 5 (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT)

角色/Characters:

1. Romeo; Second Serving Man;

2. Juliet; Third Serving Man; Tybalt; Capulet's cousin;

3. First Serving Man; Benvolio; Capulet; Nurse

Note: Voiceover is optional

Romeo and Juliet Act One - Scene 5 (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT)

Voice-over: In the great hall of the Capulets, all is a-bustle. The servants work feverishly to make sure all runs smoothly, and they set aside some food to make sure they have some enjoyment of the feast as well. Capulet makes his rounds through groups of guests, joking with them and encouraging all to dance.

(Serving men come forth with napkins)

FIRST SERVINGMAN:         

Where's Potpan that he helps not

to take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape a

trencher?

SECOND SERVINGMAN:

When good manners shall lie

all in one or two men's hands, and they unwashed

too, 'tis a foul thing.

FIRST SERVINGMAN: 

Away with the joint stools, remove

the court cupboard, look to the plate.

Good thou, save me a piece of march pane, and, as

thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone 

and Nell.—Anthony and Pot pan!

THIRD SERVINGMAN: 

Ay, boy, ready.

FIRST SERVINGMAN:

You are looked for and called for,

asked for and sought for, in the great chamber.

THIRD SERVINGMAN:

We cannot be here and there too. 

Cheerly, boys! Be brisk awhile, and the longer liver

take all. 

(They move aside.)

(Enter Capulet and his household, all the guests and gentlewomen to Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, and the other Maskers)

CAPULET:

Welcome, gentlemen. Ladies that have their toes

Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with

you.

Ah, my mistresses, which of you all

Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,

She, I'll swear, hath corns. Am I come near you

now?

Welcome, gentlemen. I have seen the day

That I have worn a visor and could tell

A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,

Such as would please. 'Tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone.

You are welcome, gentlemen. Come, musicians,

play. 

(Music plays and they dance.)

A hall, a hall, give room! And foot it, girls.

More light, you knaves, and turn the tables up,

And quench the fire; the room is grown too hot.

Ah, sirrah, this unlooked-for sport comes well.

Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet, 

For you and I are past our dancing days.

How long is 't now since last yourself and I

Were in a mask?

CAPULET'S COUSIN:

By'r Lady, thirty years.

CAPULET:

What, man, 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much.