Romeo and Juliet

Act 1, Scene 3

How many teeth does the nurse have what does it tell about her?

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Nurse only has four teeth. Her comment tells us that she has a sense of humor and poor eating habits.

I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth—and yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four—she is not fourteen. How long is it now to Lammastide?

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