Shakespeare doesn't paint a picture-perfect description of the Nurse, but one can assume that she is about the same age as Juliet's mother, since she nursed and raised Juliet after her own daughter, Susan, died. So, based on that, and the fact that people simply aged faster in those days, we can say she's probably between 30 and 40 (but looks more like our modern age of 40-50). Later in the play, when Juliet is begging her for more information as to what Romeo said, Nurse goes on about her aches and pains, having Juliet rub her back for her, but some of that could have been just teasing Juliet and making her wait for the information, since Juliet was being quite insistent about hearing the details.
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