LADY CAPULET: Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.
NURSE: Now by my maidenhead at twelve year old,
I bade her come.
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3. The Nurse is Juliet’s caretaker since she was a baby and a secondary mother figure for her. From the moment she speaks her first line here, we can see right away that she is a bawdy and humorous character. When Lady Capulet asks her where Juliet is, she typically answers with a dirty joke, swearing by her virginity at twelve.