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17<h3>ACT I</h3>
18<h3>PROLOGUE</h3>
19<blockquote>
20<a name="1.0.1">Two households, both alike in dignity,</a><br>
21<a name="1.0.2">In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</a><br>
22<a name="1.0.3">From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</a><br>
23<a name="1.0.4">Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</a><br>
24<a name="1.0.5">From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</a><br>
25<a name="1.0.6">A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</a><br>
26<a name="1.0.7">Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</a><br>
27<a name="1.0.8">Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</a><br>
28<a name="1.0.9">The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,</a><br>
29<a name="1.0.10">And the continuance of their parents' rage,</a><br>
30<a name="1.0.11">Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</a><br>
31<a name="1.0.12">Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</a><br>
32<a name="1.0.13">The which if you with patient ears attend,</a><br>
33<a name="1.0.14">What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</a><br>
34</blockquote>
35<h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3>
36<p></p><blockquote>
37<i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i>
38</blockquote>
39
40<a name="speech1"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
41<blockquote>
42<a name="1.1.1">Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</a><br>
43</blockquote>
44
45<a name="speech2"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
46<blockquote>
47<a name="1.1.2">No, for then we should be colliers.</a><br>
48</blockquote>
49
50<a name="speech3"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
51<blockquote>
52<a name="1.1.3">I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.</a><br>
53</blockquote>
54
55<a name="speech4"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
56<blockquote>
57<a name="1.1.4">Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.</a><br>
58</blockquote>
59
60<a name="speech5"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
61<blockquote>
62<a name="1.1.5">I strike quickly, being moved.</a><br>
63</blockquote>
64
65<a name="speech6"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
66<blockquote>
67<a name="1.1.6">But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</a><br>
68</blockquote>
69
70<a name="speech7"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
71<blockquote>
72<a name="1.1.7">A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</a><br>
73</blockquote>
74
75<a name="speech8"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
76<blockquote>
77<a name="1.1.8">To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:</a><br>
78<a name="1.1.9">therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</a><br>
79</blockquote>
80
81<a name="speech9"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
82<blockquote>
83<a name="1.1.10">A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will</a><br>
84<a name="1.1.11">take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</a><br>
85</blockquote>
86
87<a name="speech10"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
88<blockquote>
89<a name="1.1.12">That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes</a><br>
90<a name="1.1.13">to the wall.</a><br>
91</blockquote>
92
93<a name="speech11"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
94<blockquote>
95<a name="1.1.14">True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</a><br>
96<a name="1.1.15">are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</a><br>
97<a name="1.1.16">Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</a><br>
98<a name="1.1.17">to the wall.</a><br>
99</blockquote>
100
101<a name="speech12"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
102<blockquote>
103<a name="1.1.18">The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</a><br>
104</blockquote>
105
106<a name="speech13"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
107<blockquote>
108<a name="1.1.19">'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</a><br>
109<a name="1.1.20">have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</a><br>
110<a name="1.1.21">maids, and cut off their heads.</a><br>
111</blockquote>
112
113<a name="speech14"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
114<blockquote>
115<a name="1.1.22">The heads of the maids?</a><br>
116</blockquote>
117
118<a name="speech15"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
119<blockquote>
120<a name="1.1.23">Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</a><br>
121<a name="1.1.24">take it in what sense thou wilt.</a><br>
122</blockquote>
123
124<a name="speech16"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
125<blockquote>
126<a name="1.1.25">They must take it in sense that feel it.</a><br>
127</blockquote>
128
129<a name="speech17"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
130<blockquote>
131<a name="1.1.26">Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</a><br>
132<a name="1.1.27">'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.</a><br>
133</blockquote>
134
135<a name="speech18"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
136<blockquote>
137<a name="1.1.28">'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</a><br>
138<a name="1.1.29">hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</a><br>
139<a name="1.1.30">two of the house of the Montagues.</a><br>
140</blockquote>
141
142<a name="speech19"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
143<blockquote>
144<a name="1.1.31">My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</a><br>
145</blockquote>
146
147<a name="speech20"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
148<blockquote>
149<a name="1.1.32">How! turn thy back and run?</a><br>
150</blockquote>
151
152<a name="speech21"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
153<blockquote>
154<a name="1.1.33">Fear me not.</a><br>
155</blockquote>
156
157<a name="speech22"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
158<blockquote>
159<a name="1.1.34">No, marry; I fear thee!</a><br>
160</blockquote>
161
162<a name="speech23"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
163<blockquote>
164<a name="1.1.35">Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.</a><br>
165</blockquote>
166
167<a name="speech24"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
168<blockquote>
169<a name="1.1.36">I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</a><br>
170<a name="1.1.37">they list.</a><br>
171</blockquote>
172
173<a name="speech25"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
174<blockquote>
175<a name="1.1.38">Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</a><br>
176<a name="1.1.39">which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</a><br>
177<p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p>
178</blockquote>
179
180<a name="speech26"><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
181<blockquote>
182<a name="1.1.40">Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</a><br>
183</blockquote>
184
185<a name="speech27"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
186<blockquote>
187<a name="1.1.41">I do bite my thumb, sir.</a><br>
188</blockquote>
189
190<a name="speech28"><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
191<blockquote>
192<a name="1.1.42">Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</a><br>
193</blockquote>
194
195<a name="speech29"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
196<blockquote>
197<a name="1.1.43">[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say</a><br>
198<a name="1.1.44">ay?</a><br>
199</blockquote>
200
201<a name="speech30"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
202<blockquote>
203<a name="1.1.45">No.</a><br>
204</blockquote>
205
206<a name="speech31"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
207<blockquote>
208<a name="1.1.46">No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</a><br>
209<a name="1.1.47">bite my thumb, sir.</a><br>
210</blockquote>
211
212<a name="speech32"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
213<blockquote>
214<a name="1.1.48">Do you quarrel, sir?</a><br>
215</blockquote>
216
217<a name="speech33"><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
218<blockquote>
219<a name="1.1.49">Quarrel sir! no, sir.</a><br>
220</blockquote>
221
222<a name="speech34"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
223<blockquote>
224<a name="1.1.50">If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</a><br>
225</blockquote>
226
227<a name="speech35"><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
228<blockquote>
229<a name="1.1.51">No better.</a><br>
230</blockquote>
231
232<a name="speech36"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
233<blockquote>
234<a name="1.1.52">Well, sir.</a><br>
235</blockquote>
236
237<a name="speech37"><b>GREGORY</b></a>
238<blockquote>
239<a name="1.1.53">Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</a><br>
240</blockquote>
241
242<a name="speech38"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
243<blockquote>
244<a name="1.1.54">Yes, better, sir.</a><br>
245</blockquote>
246
247<a name="speech39"><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
248<blockquote>
249<a name="1.1.55">You lie.</a><br>
250</blockquote>
251
252<a name="speech40"><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
253<blockquote>
254<a name="1.1.56">Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</a><br>
255<p><i>They fight</i></p>
256<p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p>
257</blockquote>
258
259<a name="speech41"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
260<blockquote>
261<a name="1.1.57">Part, fools!</a><br>
262<a name="1.1.58">Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</a><br>
263<p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p>
264<p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p>
265</blockquote>
266
267<a name="speech42"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
268<blockquote>
269<a name="1.1.59">What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</a><br>
270<a name="1.1.60">Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</a><br>
271</blockquote>
272
273<a name="speech43"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
274<blockquote>
275<a name="1.1.61">I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</a><br>
276<a name="1.1.62">Or manage it to part these men with me.</a><br>
277</blockquote>
278
279<a name="speech44"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
280<blockquote>
281<a name="1.1.63">What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,</a><br>
282<a name="1.1.64">As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</a><br>
283<a name="1.1.65">Have at thee, coward!</a><br>
284<p><i>They fight</i></p>
285<p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p>
286</blockquote>
287
288<a name="speech45"><b>First Citizen</b></a>
289<blockquote>
290<a name="1.1.66">Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</a><br>
291<a name="1.1.67">Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</a><br>
292<p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p>
293</blockquote>
294
295<a name="speech46"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
296<blockquote>
297<a name="1.1.68">What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</a><br>
298</blockquote>
299
300<a name="speech47"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
301<blockquote>
302<a name="1.1.69">A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?</a><br>
303</blockquote>
304
305<a name="speech48"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
306<blockquote>
307<a name="1.1.70">My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,</a><br>
308<a name="1.1.71">And flourishes his blade in spite of me.</a><br>
309<p><i>Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE</i></p>
310</blockquote>
311
312<a name="speech49"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
313<blockquote>
314<a name="1.1.72">Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go.</a><br>
315</blockquote>
316
317<a name="speech50"><b>LADY MONTAGUE</b></a>
318<blockquote>
319<a name="1.1.73">Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.</a><br>
320<p><i>Enter PRINCE, with Attendants</i></p>
321</blockquote>
322
323<a name="speech51"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
324<blockquote>
325<a name="1.1.74">Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,</a><br>
326<a name="1.1.75">Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--</a><br>
327<a name="1.1.76">Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,</a><br>
328<a name="1.1.77">That quench the fire of your pernicious rage</a><br>
329<a name="1.1.78">With purple fountains issuing from your veins,</a><br>
330<a name="1.1.79">On pain of torture, from those bloody hands</a><br>
331<a name="1.1.80">Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,</a><br>
332<a name="1.1.81">And hear the sentence of your moved prince.</a><br>
333<a name="1.1.82">Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,</a><br>
334<a name="1.1.83">By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,</a><br>
335<a name="1.1.84">Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,</a><br>
336<a name="1.1.85">And made Verona's ancient citizens</a><br>
337<a name="1.1.86">Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,</a><br>
338<a name="1.1.87">To wield old partisans, in hands as old,</a><br>
339<a name="1.1.88">Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:</a><br>
340<a name="1.1.89">If ever you disturb our streets again,</a><br>
341<a name="1.1.90">Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.</a><br>
342<a name="1.1.91">For this time, all the rest depart away:</a><br>
343<a name="1.1.92">You Capulet; shall go along with me:</a><br>
344<a name="1.1.93">And, Montague, come you this afternoon,</a><br>
345<a name="1.1.94">To know our further pleasure in this case,</a><br>
346<a name="1.1.95">To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.</a><br>
347<a name="1.1.96">Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.</a><br>
348<p><i>Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO</i></p>
349</blockquote>
350
351<a name="speech52"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
352<blockquote>
353<a name="1.1.97">Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?</a><br>
354<a name="1.1.98">Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?</a><br>
355</blockquote>
356
357<a name="speech53"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
358<blockquote>
359<a name="1.1.99">Here were the servants of your adversary,</a><br>
360<a name="1.1.100">And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:</a><br>
361<a name="1.1.101">I drew to part them: in the instant came</a><br>
362<a name="1.1.102">The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,</a><br>
363<a name="1.1.103">Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,</a><br>
364<a name="1.1.104">He swung about his head and cut the winds,</a><br>
365<a name="1.1.105">Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:</a><br>
366<a name="1.1.106">While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,</a><br>
367<a name="1.1.107">Came more and more and fought on part and part,</a><br>
368<a name="1.1.108">Till the prince came, who parted either part.</a><br>
369</blockquote>
370
371<a name="speech54"><b>LADY MONTAGUE</b></a>
372<blockquote>
373<a name="1.1.109">O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?</a><br>
374<a name="1.1.110">Right glad I am he was not at this fray.</a><br>
375</blockquote>
376
377<a name="speech55"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
378<blockquote>
379<a name="1.1.111">Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun</a><br>
380<a name="1.1.112">Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,</a><br>
381<a name="1.1.113">A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;</a><br>
382<a name="1.1.114">Where, underneath the grove of sycamore</a><br>
383<a name="1.1.115">That westward rooteth from the city's side,</a><br>
384<a name="1.1.116">So early walking did I see your son:</a><br>
385<a name="1.1.117">Towards him I made, but he was ware of me</a><br>
386<a name="1.1.118">And stole into the covert of the wood:</a><br>
387<a name="1.1.119">I, measuring his affections by my own,</a><br>
388<a name="1.1.120">That most are busied when they're most alone,</a><br>
389<a name="1.1.121">Pursued my humour not pursuing his,</a><br>
390<a name="1.1.122">And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.</a><br>
391</blockquote>
392
393<a name="speech56"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
394<blockquote>
395<a name="1.1.123">Many a morning hath he there been seen,</a><br>
396<a name="1.1.124">With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.</a><br>
397<a name="1.1.125">Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;</a><br>
398<a name="1.1.126">But all so soon as the all-cheering sun</a><br>
399<a name="1.1.127">Should in the furthest east begin to draw</a><br>
400<a name="1.1.128">The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,</a><br>
401<a name="1.1.129">Away from the light steals home my heavy son,</a><br>
402<a name="1.1.130">And private in his chamber pens himself,</a><br>
403<a name="1.1.131">Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out</a><br>
404<a name="1.1.132">And makes himself an artificial night:</a><br>
405<a name="1.1.133">Black and portentous must this humour prove,</a><br>
406<a name="1.1.134">Unless good counsel may the cause remove.</a><br>
407</blockquote>
408
409<a name="speech57"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
410<blockquote>
411<a name="1.1.135">My noble uncle, do you know the cause?</a><br>
412</blockquote>
413
414<a name="speech58"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
415<blockquote>
416<a name="1.1.136">I neither know it nor can learn of him.</a><br>
417</blockquote>
418
419<a name="speech59"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
420<blockquote>
421<a name="1.1.137">Have you importuned him by any means?</a><br>
422</blockquote>
423
424<a name="speech60"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
425<blockquote>
426<a name="1.1.138">Both by myself and many other friends:</a><br>
427<a name="1.1.139">But he, his own affections' counsellor,</a><br>
428<a name="1.1.140">Is to himself--I will not say how true--</a><br>
429<a name="1.1.141">But to himself so secret and so close,</a><br>
430<a name="1.1.142">So far from sounding and discovery,</a><br>
431<a name="1.1.143">As is the bud bit with an envious worm,</a><br>
432<a name="1.1.144">Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,</a><br>
433<a name="1.1.145">Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.</a><br>
434<a name="1.1.146">Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.</a><br>
435<a name="1.1.147">We would as willingly give cure as know.</a><br>
436<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
437</blockquote>
438
439<a name="speech61"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
440<blockquote>
441<a name="1.1.148">See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;</a><br>
442<a name="1.1.149">I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.</a><br>
443</blockquote>
444
445<a name="speech62"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
446<blockquote>
447<a name="1.1.150">I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,</a><br>
448<a name="1.1.151">To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.</a><br>
449<p><i>Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE</i></p>
450</blockquote>
451
452<a name="speech63"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
453<blockquote>
454<a name="1.1.152">Good-morrow, cousin.</a><br>
455</blockquote>
456
457<a name="speech64"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
458<blockquote>
459<a name="1.1.153">Is the day so young?</a><br>
460</blockquote>
461
462<a name="speech65"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
463<blockquote>
464<a name="1.1.154">But new struck nine.</a><br>
465</blockquote>
466
467<a name="speech66"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
468<blockquote>
469<a name="1.1.155">Ay me! sad hours seem long.</a><br>
470<a name="1.1.156">Was that my father that went hence so fast?</a><br>
471</blockquote>
472
473<a name="speech67"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
474<blockquote>
475<a name="1.1.157">It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?</a><br>
476</blockquote>
477
478<a name="speech68"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
479<blockquote>
480<a name="1.1.158">Not having that, which, having, makes them short.</a><br>
481</blockquote>
482
483<a name="speech69"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
484<blockquote>
485<a name="1.1.159">In love?</a><br>
486</blockquote>
487
488<a name="speech70"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
489<blockquote>
490<a name="1.1.160">Out--</a><br>
491</blockquote>
492
493<a name="speech71"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
494<blockquote>
495<a name="1.1.161">Of love?</a><br>
496</blockquote>
497
498<a name="speech72"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
499<blockquote>
500<a name="1.1.162">Out of her favour, where I am in love.</a><br>
501</blockquote>
502
503<a name="speech73"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
504<blockquote>
505<a name="1.1.163">Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,</a><br>
506<a name="1.1.164">Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!</a><br>
507</blockquote>
508
509<a name="speech74"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
510<blockquote>
511<a name="1.1.165">Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,</a><br>
512<a name="1.1.166">Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!</a><br>
513<a name="1.1.167">Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?</a><br>
514<a name="1.1.168">Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.</a><br>
515<a name="1.1.169">Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.</a><br>
516<a name="1.1.170">Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!</a><br>
517<a name="1.1.171">O any thing, of nothing first create!</a><br>
518<a name="1.1.172">O heavy lightness! serious vanity!</a><br>
519<a name="1.1.173">Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!</a><br>
520<a name="1.1.174">Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,</a><br>
521<a name="1.1.175">sick health!</a><br>
522<a name="1.1.176">Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!</a><br>
523<a name="1.1.177">This love feel I, that feel no love in this.</a><br>
524<a name="1.1.178">Dost thou not laugh?</a><br>
525</blockquote>
526
527<a name="speech75"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
528<blockquote>
529<a name="1.1.179">No, coz, I rather weep.</a><br>
530</blockquote>
531
532<a name="speech76"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
533<blockquote>
534<a name="1.1.180">Good heart, at what?</a><br>
535</blockquote>
536
537<a name="speech77"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
538<blockquote>
539<a name="1.1.181">At thy good heart's oppression.</a><br>
540</blockquote>
541
542<a name="speech78"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
543<blockquote>
544<a name="1.1.182">Why, such is love's transgression.</a><br>
545<a name="1.1.183">Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,</a><br>
546<a name="1.1.184">Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest</a><br>
547<a name="1.1.185">With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown</a><br>
548<a name="1.1.186">Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.</a><br>
549<a name="1.1.187">Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;</a><br>
550<a name="1.1.188">Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;</a><br>
551<a name="1.1.189">Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:</a><br>
552<a name="1.1.190">What is it else? a madness most discreet,</a><br>
553<a name="1.1.191">A choking gall and a preserving sweet.</a><br>
554<a name="1.1.192">Farewell, my coz.</a><br>
555</blockquote>
556
557<a name="speech79"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
558<blockquote>
559<a name="1.1.193"> Soft! I will go along;</a><br>
560<a name="1.1.194">An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.</a><br>
561</blockquote>
562
563<a name="speech80"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
564<blockquote>
565<a name="1.1.195">Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here;</a><br>
566<a name="1.1.196">This is not Romeo, he's some other where.</a><br>
567</blockquote>
568
569<a name="speech81"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
570<blockquote>
571<a name="1.1.197">Tell me in sadness, who is that you love.</a><br>
572</blockquote>
573
574<a name="speech82"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
575<blockquote>
576<a name="1.1.198">What, shall I groan and tell thee?</a><br>
577</blockquote>
578
579<a name="speech83"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
580<blockquote>
581<a name="1.1.199">Groan! why, no.</a><br>
582<a name="1.1.200">But sadly tell me who.</a><br>
583</blockquote>
584
585<a name="speech84"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
586<blockquote>
587<a name="1.1.201">Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:</a><br>
588<a name="1.1.202">Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill!</a><br>
589<a name="1.1.203">In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.</a><br>
590</blockquote>
591
592<a name="speech85"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
593<blockquote>
594<a name="1.1.204">I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved.</a><br>
595</blockquote>
596
597<a name="speech86"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
598<blockquote>
599<a name="1.1.205">A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.</a><br>
600</blockquote>
601
602<a name="speech87"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
603<blockquote>
604<a name="1.1.206">A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.</a><br>
605</blockquote>
606
607<a name="speech88"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
608<blockquote>
609<a name="1.1.207">Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit</a><br>
610<a name="1.1.208">With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;</a><br>
611<a name="1.1.209">And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,</a><br>
612<a name="1.1.210">From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.</a><br>
613<a name="1.1.211">She will not stay the siege of loving terms,</a><br>
614<a name="1.1.212">Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,</a><br>
615<a name="1.1.213">Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:</a><br>
616<a name="1.1.214">O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,</a><br>
617<a name="1.1.215">That when she dies with beauty dies her store.</a><br>
618</blockquote>
619
620<a name="speech89"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
621<blockquote>
622<a name="1.1.216">Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?</a><br>
623</blockquote>
624
625<a name="speech90"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
626<blockquote>
627<a name="1.1.217">She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,</a><br>
628<a name="1.1.218">For beauty starved with her severity</a><br>
629<a name="1.1.219">Cuts beauty off from all posterity.</a><br>
630<a name="1.1.220">She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,</a><br>
631<a name="1.1.221">To merit bliss by making me despair:</a><br>
632<a name="1.1.222">She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow</a><br>
633<a name="1.1.223">Do I live dead that live to tell it now.</a><br>
634</blockquote>
635
636<a name="speech91"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
637<blockquote>
638<a name="1.1.224">Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.</a><br>
639</blockquote>
640
641<a name="speech92"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
642<blockquote>
643<a name="1.1.225">O, teach me how I should forget to think.</a><br>
644</blockquote>
645
646<a name="speech93"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
647<blockquote>
648<a name="1.1.226">By giving liberty unto thine eyes;</a><br>
649<a name="1.1.227">Examine other beauties.</a><br>
650</blockquote>
651
652<a name="speech94"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
653<blockquote>
654<a name="1.1.228">'Tis the way</a><br>
655<a name="1.1.229">To call hers exquisite, in question more:</a><br>
656<a name="1.1.230">These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows</a><br>
657<a name="1.1.231">Being black put us in mind they hide the fair;</a><br>
658<a name="1.1.232">He that is strucken blind cannot forget</a><br>
659<a name="1.1.233">The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:</a><br>
660<a name="1.1.234">Show me a mistress that is passing fair,</a><br>
661<a name="1.1.235">What doth her beauty serve, but as a note</a><br>
662<a name="1.1.236">Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?</a><br>
663<a name="1.1.237">Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.</a><br>
664</blockquote>
665
666<a name="speech95"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
667<blockquote>
668<a name="1.1.238">I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.</a><br>
669<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
670</blockquote>
671<h3>SCENE II. A street.</h3>
672<p></p><blockquote>
673<i>Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant</i>
674</blockquote>
675
676<a name="speech1"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
677<blockquote>
678<a name="1.2.1">But Montague is bound as well as I,</a><br>
679<a name="1.2.2">In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,</a><br>
680<a name="1.2.3">For men so old as we to keep the peace.</a><br>
681</blockquote>
682
683<a name="speech2"><b>PARIS</b></a>
684<blockquote>
685<a name="1.2.4">Of honourable reckoning are you both;</a><br>
686<a name="1.2.5">And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.</a><br>
687<a name="1.2.6">But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?</a><br>
688</blockquote>
689
690<a name="speech3"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
691<blockquote>
692<a name="1.2.7">But saying o'er what I have said before:</a><br>
693<a name="1.2.8">My child is yet a stranger in the world;</a><br>
694<a name="1.2.9">She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,</a><br>
695<a name="1.2.10">Let two more summers wither in their pride,</a><br>
696<a name="1.2.11">Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.</a><br>
697</blockquote>
698
699<a name="speech4"><b>PARIS</b></a>
700<blockquote>
701<a name="1.2.12">Younger than she are happy mothers made.</a><br>
702</blockquote>
703
704<a name="speech5"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
705<blockquote>
706<a name="1.2.13">And too soon marr'd are those so early made.</a><br>
707<a name="1.2.14">The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,</a><br>
708<a name="1.2.15">She is the hopeful lady of my earth:</a><br>
709<a name="1.2.16">But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,</a><br>
710<a name="1.2.17">My will to her consent is but a part;</a><br>
711<a name="1.2.18">An she agree, within her scope of choice</a><br>
712<a name="1.2.19">Lies my consent and fair according voice.</a><br>
713<a name="1.2.20">This night I hold an old accustom'd feast,</a><br>
714<a name="1.2.21">Whereto I have invited many a guest,</a><br>
715<a name="1.2.22">Such as I love; and you, among the store,</a><br>
716<a name="1.2.23">One more, most welcome, makes my number more.</a><br>
717<a name="1.2.24">At my poor house look to behold this night</a><br>
718<a name="1.2.25">Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:</a><br>
719<a name="1.2.26">Such comfort as do lusty young men feel</a><br>
720<a name="1.2.27">When well-apparell'd April on the heel</a><br>
721<a name="1.2.28">Of limping winter treads, even such delight</a><br>
722<a name="1.2.29">Among fresh female buds shall you this night</a><br>
723<a name="1.2.30">Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,</a><br>
724<a name="1.2.31">And like her most whose merit most shall be:</a><br>
725<a name="1.2.32">Which on more view, of many mine being one</a><br>
726<a name="1.2.33">May stand in number, though in reckoning none,</a><br>
727<a name="1.2.34">Come, go with me.</a><br>
728<p><i>To Servant, giving a paper</i></p>
729<a name="1.2.35">Go, sirrah, trudge about</a><br>
730<a name="1.2.36">Through fair Verona; find those persons out</a><br>
731<a name="1.2.37">Whose names are written there, and to them say,</a><br>
732<a name="1.2.38">My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.</a><br>
733<p><i>Exeunt CAPULET and PARIS</i></p>
734</blockquote>
735
736<a name="speech6"><b>Servant</b></a>
737<blockquote>
738<a name="1.2.39">Find them out whose names are written here! It is</a><br>
739<a name="1.2.40">written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his</a><br>
740<a name="1.2.41">yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with</a><br>
741<a name="1.2.42">his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am</a><br>
742<a name="1.2.43">sent to find those persons whose names are here</a><br>
743<a name="1.2.44">writ, and can never find what names the writing</a><br>
744<a name="1.2.45">person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.</a><br>
745<p><i>Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO</i></p>
746</blockquote>
747
748<a name="speech7"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
749<blockquote>
750<a name="1.2.46">Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,</a><br>
751<a name="1.2.47">One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;</a><br>
752<a name="1.2.48">Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;</a><br>
753<a name="1.2.49">One desperate grief cures with another's languish:</a><br>
754<a name="1.2.50">Take thou some new infection to thy eye,</a><br>
755<a name="1.2.51">And the rank poison of the old will die.</a><br>
756</blockquote>
757
758<a name="speech8"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
759<blockquote>
760<a name="1.2.52">Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that.</a><br>
761</blockquote>
762
763<a name="speech9"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
764<blockquote>
765<a name="1.2.53">For what, I pray thee?</a><br>
766</blockquote>
767
768<a name="speech10"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
769<blockquote>
770<a name="1.2.54">For your broken shin.</a><br>
771</blockquote>
772
773<a name="speech11"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
774<blockquote>
775<a name="1.2.55">Why, Romeo, art thou mad?</a><br>
776</blockquote>
777
778<a name="speech12"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
779<blockquote>
780<a name="1.2.56">Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is;</a><br>
781<a name="1.2.57">Shut up in prison, kept without my food,</a><br>
782<a name="1.2.58">Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow.</a><br>
783</blockquote>
784
785<a name="speech13"><b>Servant</b></a>
786<blockquote>
787<a name="1.2.59">God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?</a><br>
788</blockquote>
789
790<a name="speech14"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
791<blockquote>
792<a name="1.2.60">Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.</a><br>
793</blockquote>
794
795<a name="speech15"><b>Servant</b></a>
796<blockquote>
797<a name="1.2.61">Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I</a><br>
798<a name="1.2.62">pray, can you read any thing you see?</a><br>
799</blockquote>
800
801<a name="speech16"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
802<blockquote>
803<a name="1.2.63">Ay, if I know the letters and the language.</a><br>
804</blockquote>
805
806<a name="speech17"><b>Servant</b></a>
807<blockquote>
808<a name="1.2.64">Ye say honestly: rest you merry!</a><br>
809</blockquote>
810
811<a name="speech18"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
812<blockquote>
813<a name="1.2.65">Stay, fellow; I can read.</a><br>
814<p><i>Reads</i></p>
815<a name="1.2.66">'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;</a><br>
816<a name="1.2.67">County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady</a><br>
817<a name="1.2.68">widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely</a><br>
818<a name="1.2.69">nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine</a><br>
819<a name="1.2.70">uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece</a><br>
820<a name="1.2.71">Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin</a><br>
821<a name="1.2.72">Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair</a><br>
822<a name="1.2.73">assembly: whither should they come?</a><br>
823</blockquote>
824
825<a name="speech19"><b>Servant</b></a>
826<blockquote>
827<a name="1.2.74">Up.</a><br>
828</blockquote>
829
830<a name="speech20"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
831<blockquote>
832<a name="1.2.75">Whither?</a><br>
833</blockquote>
834
835<a name="speech21"><b>Servant</b></a>
836<blockquote>
837<a name="1.2.76">To supper; to our house.</a><br>
838</blockquote>
839
840<a name="speech22"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
841<blockquote>
842<a name="1.2.77">Whose house?</a><br>
843</blockquote>
844
845<a name="speech23"><b>Servant</b></a>
846<blockquote>
847<a name="1.2.78">My master's.</a><br>
848</blockquote>
849
850<a name="speech24"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
851<blockquote>
852<a name="1.2.79">Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.</a><br>
853</blockquote>
854
855<a name="speech25"><b>Servant</b></a>
856<blockquote>
857<a name="1.2.80">Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the</a><br>
858<a name="1.2.81">great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house</a><br>
859<a name="1.2.82">of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.</a><br>
860<a name="1.2.83">Rest you merry!</a><br>
861<p><i>Exit</i></p>
862</blockquote>
863
864<a name="speech26"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
865<blockquote>
866<a name="1.2.84">At this same ancient feast of Capulet's</a><br>
867<a name="1.2.85">Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,</a><br>
868<a name="1.2.86">With all the admired beauties of Verona:</a><br>
869<a name="1.2.87">Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,</a><br>
870<a name="1.2.88">Compare her face with some that I shall show,</a><br>
871<a name="1.2.89">And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.</a><br>
872</blockquote>
873
874<a name="speech27"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
875<blockquote>
876<a name="1.2.90">When the devout religion of mine eye</a><br>
877<a name="1.2.91">Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;</a><br>
878<a name="1.2.92">And these, who often drown'd could never die,</a><br>
879<a name="1.2.93">Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!</a><br>
880<a name="1.2.94">One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun</a><br>
881<a name="1.2.95">Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.</a><br>
882</blockquote>
883
884<a name="speech28"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
885<blockquote>
886<a name="1.2.96">Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,</a><br>
887<a name="1.2.97">Herself poised with herself in either eye:</a><br>
888<a name="1.2.98">But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd</a><br>
889<a name="1.2.99">Your lady's love against some other maid</a><br>
890<a name="1.2.100">That I will show you shining at this feast,</a><br>
891<a name="1.2.101">And she shall scant show well that now shows best.</a><br>
892</blockquote>
893
894<a name="speech29"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
895<blockquote>
896<a name="1.2.102">I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,</a><br>
897<a name="1.2.103">But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.</a><br>
898<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
899</blockquote>
900<h3>SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house.</h3>
901<p></p><blockquote>
902<i>Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i>
903</blockquote>
904
905<a name="speech1"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
906<blockquote>
907<a name="1.3.1">Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.</a><br>
908</blockquote>
909
910<a name="speech2"><b>Nurse</b></a>
911<blockquote>
912<a name="1.3.2">Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,</a><br>
913<a name="1.3.3">I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!</a><br>
914<a name="1.3.4">God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!</a><br>
915<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
916</blockquote>
917
918<a name="speech3"><b>JULIET</b></a>
919<blockquote>
920<a name="1.3.5">How now! who calls?</a><br>
921</blockquote>
922
923<a name="speech4"><b>Nurse</b></a>
924<blockquote>
925<a name="1.3.6">Your mother.</a><br>
926</blockquote>
927
928<a name="speech5"><b>JULIET</b></a>
929<blockquote>
930<a name="1.3.7">Madam, I am here.</a><br>
931<a name="1.3.8">What is your will?</a><br>
932</blockquote>
933
934<a name="speech6"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
935<blockquote>
936<a name="1.3.9">This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,</a><br>
937<a name="1.3.10">We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;</a><br>
938<a name="1.3.11">I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.</a><br>
939<a name="1.3.12">Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.</a><br>
940</blockquote>
941
942<a name="speech7"><b>Nurse</b></a>
943<blockquote>
944<a name="1.3.13">Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.</a><br>
945</blockquote>
946
947<a name="speech8"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
948<blockquote>
949<a name="1.3.14">She's not fourteen.</a><br>
950</blockquote>
951
952<a name="speech9"><b>Nurse</b></a>
953<blockquote>
954<a name="1.3.15">I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--</a><br>
955<a name="1.3.16">And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--</a><br>
956<a name="1.3.17">She is not fourteen. How long is it now</a><br>
957<a name="1.3.18">To Lammas-tide?</a><br>
958</blockquote>
959
960<a name="speech10"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
961<blockquote>
962<a name="1.3.19"> A fortnight and odd days.</a><br>
963</blockquote>
964
965<a name="speech11"><b>Nurse</b></a>
966<blockquote>
967<a name="1.3.20">Even or odd, of all days in the year,</a><br>
968<a name="1.3.21">Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.</a><br>
969<a name="1.3.22">Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--</a><br>
970<a name="1.3.23">Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;</a><br>
971<a name="1.3.24">She was too good for me: but, as I said,</a><br>
972<a name="1.3.25">On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;</a><br>
973<a name="1.3.26">That shall she, marry; I remember it well.</a><br>
974<a name="1.3.27">'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;</a><br>
975<a name="1.3.28">And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--</a><br>
976<a name="1.3.29">Of all the days of the year, upon that day:</a><br>
977<a name="1.3.30">For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,</a><br>
978<a name="1.3.31">Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;</a><br>
979<a name="1.3.32">My lord and you were then at Mantua:--</a><br>
980<a name="1.3.33">Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,</a><br>
981<a name="1.3.34">When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple</a><br>
982<a name="1.3.35">Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,</a><br>
983<a name="1.3.36">To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!</a><br>
984<a name="1.3.37">Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,</a><br>
985<a name="1.3.38">To bid me trudge:</a><br>
986<a name="1.3.39">And since that time it is eleven years;</a><br>
987<a name="1.3.40">For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,</a><br>
988<a name="1.3.41">She could have run and waddled all about;</a><br>
989<a name="1.3.42">For even the day before, she broke her brow:</a><br>
990<a name="1.3.43">And then my husband--God be with his soul!</a><br>
991<a name="1.3.44">A' was a merry man--took up the child:</a><br>
992<a name="1.3.45">'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?</a><br>
993<a name="1.3.46">Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;</a><br>
994<a name="1.3.47">Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,</a><br>
995<a name="1.3.48">The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'</a><br>
996<a name="1.3.49">To see, now, how a jest shall come about!</a><br>
997<a name="1.3.50">I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,</a><br>
998<a name="1.3.51">I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;</a><br>
999<a name="1.3.52">And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'</a><br>
1000</blockquote>
1001
1002<a name="speech12"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
1003<blockquote>
1004<a name="1.3.53">Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.</a><br>
1005</blockquote>
1006
1007<a name="speech13"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1008<blockquote>
1009<a name="1.3.54">Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,</a><br>
1010<a name="1.3.55">To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'</a><br>
1011<a name="1.3.56">And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow</a><br>
1012<a name="1.3.57">A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;</a><br>
1013<a name="1.3.58">A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:</a><br>
1014<a name="1.3.59">'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?</a><br>
1015<a name="1.3.60">Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;</a><br>
1016<a name="1.3.61">Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'</a><br>
1017</blockquote>
1018
1019<a name="speech14"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1020<blockquote>
1021<a name="1.3.62">And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.</a><br>
1022</blockquote>
1023
1024<a name="speech15"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1025<blockquote>
1026<a name="1.3.63">Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!</a><br>
1027<a name="1.3.64">Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:</a><br>
1028<a name="1.3.65">An I might live to see thee married once,</a><br>
1029<a name="1.3.66">I have my wish.</a><br>
1030</blockquote>
1031
1032<a name="speech16"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
1033<blockquote>
1034<a name="1.3.67">Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme</a><br>
1035<a name="1.3.68">I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,</a><br>
1036<a name="1.3.69">How stands your disposition to be married?</a><br>
1037</blockquote>
1038
1039<a name="speech17"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1040<blockquote>
1041<a name="1.3.70">It is an honour that I dream not of.</a><br>
1042</blockquote>
1043
1044<a name="speech18"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1045<blockquote>
1046<a name="1.3.71">An honour! were not I thine only nurse,</a><br>
1047<a name="1.3.72">I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.</a><br>
1048</blockquote>
1049
1050<a name="speech19"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
1051<blockquote>
1052<a name="1.3.73">Well, think of marriage now; younger than you,</a><br>
1053<a name="1.3.74">Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,</a><br>
1054<a name="1.3.75">Are made already mothers: by my count,</a><br>
1055<a name="1.3.76">I was your mother much upon these years</a><br>
1056<a name="1.3.77">That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:</a><br>
1057<a name="1.3.78">The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.</a><br>
1058</blockquote>
1059
1060<a name="speech20"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1061<blockquote>
1062<a name="1.3.79">A man, young lady! lady, such a man</a><br>
1063<a name="1.3.80">As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.</a><br>
1064</blockquote>
1065
1066<a name="speech21"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
1067<blockquote>
1068<a name="1.3.81">Verona's summer hath not such a flower.</a><br>
1069</blockquote>
1070
1071<a name="speech22"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1072<blockquote>
1073<a name="1.3.82">Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.</a><br>
1074</blockquote>
1075
1076<a name="speech23"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
1077<blockquote>
1078<a name="1.3.83">What say you? can you love the gentleman?</a><br>
1079<a name="1.3.84">This night you shall behold him at our feast;</a><br>
1080<a name="1.3.85">Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,</a><br>
1081<a name="1.3.86">And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;</a><br>
1082<a name="1.3.87">Examine every married lineament,</a><br>
1083<a name="1.3.88">And see how one another lends content</a><br>
1084<a name="1.3.89">And what obscured in this fair volume lies</a><br>
1085<a name="1.3.90">Find written in the margent of his eyes.</a><br>
1086<a name="1.3.91">This precious book of love, this unbound lover,</a><br>
1087<a name="1.3.92">To beautify him, only lacks a cover:</a><br>
1088<a name="1.3.93">The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride</a><br>
1089<a name="1.3.94">For fair without the fair within to hide:</a><br>
1090<a name="1.3.95">That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,</a><br>
1091<a name="1.3.96">That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;</a><br>
1092<a name="1.3.97">So shall you share all that he doth possess,</a><br>
1093<a name="1.3.98">By having him, making yourself no less.</a><br>
1094</blockquote>
1095
1096<a name="speech24"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1097<blockquote>
1098<a name="1.3.99">No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men.</a><br>
1099</blockquote>
1100
1101<a name="speech25"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
1102<blockquote>
1103<a name="1.3.100">Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?</a><br>
1104</blockquote>
1105
1106<a name="speech26"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1107<blockquote>
1108<a name="1.3.101">I'll look to like, if looking liking move:</a><br>
1109<a name="1.3.102">But no more deep will I endart mine eye</a><br>
1110<a name="1.3.103">Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.</a><br>
1111<p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
1112</blockquote>
1113
1114<a name="speech27"><b>Servant</b></a>
1115<blockquote>
1116<a name="1.3.104">Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you</a><br>
1117<a name="1.3.105">called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in</a><br>
1118<a name="1.3.106">the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must</a><br>
1119<a name="1.3.107">hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.</a><br>
1120</blockquote>
1121
1122<a name="speech28"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
1123<blockquote>
1124<a name="1.3.108">We follow thee.</a><br>
1125<p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
1126<a name="1.3.109">Juliet, the county stays.</a><br>
1127</blockquote>
1128
1129<a name="speech29"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1130<blockquote>
1131<a name="1.3.110">Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.</a><br>
1132<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
1133</blockquote>
1134<h3>SCENE IV. A street.</h3>
1135<p></p><blockquote>
1136<i>Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others</i>
1137</blockquote>
1138
1139<a name="speech1"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1140<blockquote>
1141<a name="1.4.1">What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?</a><br>
1142<a name="1.4.2">Or shall we on without a apology?</a><br>
1143</blockquote>
1144
1145<a name="speech2"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1146<blockquote>
1147<a name="1.4.3">The date is out of such prolixity:</a><br>
1148<a name="1.4.4">We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,</a><br>
1149<a name="1.4.5">Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,</a><br>
1150<a name="1.4.6">Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;</a><br>
1151<a name="1.4.7">Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke</a><br>
1152<a name="1.4.8">After the prompter, for our entrance:</a><br>
1153<a name="1.4.9">But let them measure us by what they will;</a><br>
1154<a name="1.4.10">We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.</a><br>
1155</blockquote>
1156
1157<a name="speech3"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1158<blockquote>
1159<a name="1.4.11">Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;</a><br>
1160<a name="1.4.12">Being but heavy, I will bear the light.</a><br>
1161</blockquote>
1162
1163<a name="speech4"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1164<blockquote>
1165<a name="1.4.13">Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.</a><br>
1166</blockquote>
1167
1168<a name="speech5"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1169<blockquote>
1170<a name="1.4.14">Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes</a><br>
1171<a name="1.4.15">With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead</a><br>
1172<a name="1.4.16">So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.</a><br>
1173</blockquote>
1174
1175<a name="speech6"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1176<blockquote>
1177<a name="1.4.17">You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,</a><br>
1178<a name="1.4.18">And soar with them above a common bound.</a><br>
1179</blockquote>
1180
1181<a name="speech7"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1182<blockquote>
1183<a name="1.4.19">I am too sore enpierced with his shaft</a><br>
1184<a name="1.4.20">To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,</a><br>
1185<a name="1.4.21">I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:</a><br>
1186<a name="1.4.22">Under love's heavy burden do I sink.</a><br>
1187</blockquote>
1188
1189<a name="speech8"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1190<blockquote>
1191<a name="1.4.23">And, to sink in it, should you burden love;</a><br>
1192<a name="1.4.24">Too great oppression for a tender thing.</a><br>
1193</blockquote>
1194
1195<a name="speech9"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1196<blockquote>
1197<a name="1.4.25">Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,</a><br>
1198<a name="1.4.26">Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.</a><br>
1199</blockquote>
1200
1201<a name="speech10"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1202<blockquote>
1203<a name="1.4.27">If love be rough with you, be rough with love;</a><br>
1204<a name="1.4.28">Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.</a><br>
1205<a name="1.4.29">Give me a case to put my visage in:</a><br>
1206<a name="1.4.30">A visor for a visor! what care I</a><br>
1207<a name="1.4.31">What curious eye doth quote deformities?</a><br>
1208<a name="1.4.32">Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.</a><br>
1209</blockquote>
1210
1211<a name="speech11"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1212<blockquote>
1213<a name="1.4.33">Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in,</a><br>
1214<a name="1.4.34">But every man betake him to his legs.</a><br>
1215</blockquote>
1216
1217<a name="speech12"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1218<blockquote>
1219<a name="1.4.35">A torch for me: let wantons light of heart</a><br>
1220<a name="1.4.36">Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,</a><br>
1221<a name="1.4.37">For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase;</a><br>
1222<a name="1.4.38">I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.</a><br>
1223<a name="1.4.39">The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.</a><br>
1224</blockquote>
1225
1226<a name="speech13"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1227<blockquote>
1228<a name="1.4.40">Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:</a><br>
1229<a name="1.4.41">If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire</a><br>
1230<a name="1.4.42">Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st</a><br>
1231<a name="1.4.43">Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!</a><br>
1232</blockquote>
1233
1234<a name="speech14"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1235<blockquote>
1236<a name="1.4.44">Nay, that's not so.</a><br>
1237</blockquote>
1238
1239<a name="speech15"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1240<blockquote>
1241<a name="1.4.45">I mean, sir, in delay</a><br>
1242<a name="1.4.46">We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.</a><br>
1243<a name="1.4.47">Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits</a><br>
1244<a name="1.4.48">Five times in that ere once in our five wits.</a><br>
1245</blockquote>
1246
1247<a name="speech16"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1248<blockquote>
1249<a name="1.4.49">And we mean well in going to this mask;</a><br>
1250<a name="1.4.50">But 'tis no wit to go.</a><br>
1251</blockquote>
1252
1253<a name="speech17"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1254<blockquote>
1255<a name="1.4.51">Why, may one ask?</a><br>
1256</blockquote>
1257
1258<a name="speech18"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1259<blockquote>
1260<a name="1.4.52">I dream'd a dream to-night.</a><br>
1261</blockquote>
1262
1263<a name="speech19"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1264<blockquote>
1265<a name="1.4.53">And so did I.</a><br>
1266</blockquote>
1267
1268<a name="speech20"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1269<blockquote>
1270<a name="1.4.54">Well, what was yours?</a><br>
1271</blockquote>
1272
1273<a name="speech21"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1274<blockquote>
1275<a name="1.4.55">That dreamers often lie.</a><br>
1276</blockquote>
1277
1278<a name="speech22"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1279<blockquote>
1280<a name="1.4.56">In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.</a><br>
1281</blockquote>
1282
1283<a name="speech23"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1284<blockquote>
1285<a name="1.4.57">O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.</a><br>
1286<a name="1.4.58">She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes</a><br>
1287<a name="1.4.59">In shape no bigger than an agate-stone</a><br>
1288<a name="1.4.60">On the fore-finger of an alderman,</a><br>
1289<a name="1.4.61">Drawn with a team of little atomies</a><br>
1290<a name="1.4.62">Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;</a><br>
1291<a name="1.4.63">Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,</a><br>
1292<a name="1.4.64">The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,</a><br>
1293<a name="1.4.65">The traces of the smallest spider's web,</a><br>
1294<a name="1.4.66">The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,</a><br>
1295<a name="1.4.67">Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,</a><br>
1296<a name="1.4.68">Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,</a><br>
1297<a name="1.4.69">Not so big as a round little worm</a><br>
1298<a name="1.4.70">Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;</a><br>
1299<a name="1.4.71">Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut</a><br>
1300<a name="1.4.72">Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,</a><br>
1301<a name="1.4.73">Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.</a><br>
1302<a name="1.4.74">And in this state she gallops night by night</a><br>
1303<a name="1.4.75">Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;</a><br>
1304<a name="1.4.76">O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,</a><br>
1305<a name="1.4.77">O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,</a><br>
1306<a name="1.4.78">O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,</a><br>
1307<a name="1.4.79">Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,</a><br>
1308<a name="1.4.80">Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:</a><br>
1309<a name="1.4.81">Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,</a><br>
1310<a name="1.4.82">And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;</a><br>
1311<a name="1.4.83">And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail</a><br>
1312<a name="1.4.84">Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,</a><br>
1313<a name="1.4.85">Then dreams, he of another benefice:</a><br>
1314<a name="1.4.86">Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,</a><br>
1315<a name="1.4.87">And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,</a><br>
1316<a name="1.4.88">Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,</a><br>
1317<a name="1.4.89">Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon</a><br>
1318<a name="1.4.90">Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,</a><br>
1319<a name="1.4.91">And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two</a><br>
1320<a name="1.4.92">And sleeps again. This is that very Mab</a><br>
1321<a name="1.4.93">That plats the manes of horses in the night,</a><br>
1322<a name="1.4.94">And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,</a><br>
1323<a name="1.4.95">Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:</a><br>
1324<a name="1.4.96">This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,</a><br>
1325<a name="1.4.97">That presses them and learns them first to bear,</a><br>
1326<a name="1.4.98">Making them women of good carriage:</a><br>
1327<a name="1.4.99">This is she--</a><br>
1328</blockquote>
1329
1330<a name="speech24"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1331<blockquote>
1332<a name="1.4.100"> Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!</a><br>
1333<a name="1.4.101">Thou talk'st of nothing.</a><br>
1334</blockquote>
1335
1336<a name="speech25"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1337<blockquote>
1338<a name="1.4.102">True, I talk of dreams,</a><br>
1339<a name="1.4.103">Which are the children of an idle brain,</a><br>
1340<a name="1.4.104">Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,</a><br>
1341<a name="1.4.105">Which is as thin of substance as the air</a><br>
1342<a name="1.4.106">And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes</a><br>
1343<a name="1.4.107">Even now the frozen bosom of the north,</a><br>
1344<a name="1.4.108">And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,</a><br>
1345<a name="1.4.109">Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.</a><br>
1346</blockquote>
1347
1348<a name="speech26"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1349<blockquote>
1350<a name="1.4.110">This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves;</a><br>
1351<a name="1.4.111">Supper is done, and we shall come too late.</a><br>
1352</blockquote>
1353
1354<a name="speech27"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1355<blockquote>
1356<a name="1.4.112">I fear, too early: for my mind misgives</a><br>
1357<a name="1.4.113">Some consequence yet hanging in the stars</a><br>
1358<a name="1.4.114">Shall bitterly begin his fearful date</a><br>
1359<a name="1.4.115">With this night's revels and expire the term</a><br>
1360<a name="1.4.116">Of a despised life closed in my breast</a><br>
1361<a name="1.4.117">By some vile forfeit of untimely death.</a><br>
1362<a name="1.4.118">But He, that hath the steerage of my course,</a><br>
1363<a name="1.4.119">Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.</a><br>
1364</blockquote>
1365
1366<a name="speech28"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1367<blockquote>
1368<a name="1.4.120">Strike, drum.</a><br>
1369<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
1370</blockquote>
1371<h3>SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house.</h3>
1372<p></p><blockquote>
1373<i>Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins</i>
1374</blockquote>
1375
1376<a name="speech1"><b>First Servant</b></a>
1377<blockquote>
1378<a name="1.5.1">Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He</a><br>
1379<a name="1.5.2">shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!</a><br>
1380</blockquote>
1381
1382<a name="speech2"><b>Second Servant</b></a>
1383<blockquote>
1384<a name="1.5.3">When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's</a><br>
1385<a name="1.5.4">hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.</a><br>
1386</blockquote>
1387
1388<a name="speech3"><b>First Servant</b></a>
1389<blockquote>
1390<a name="1.5.5">Away with the joint-stools, remove the</a><br>
1391<a name="1.5.6">court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save</a><br>
1392<a name="1.5.7">me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let</a><br>
1393<a name="1.5.8">the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.</a><br>
1394<a name="1.5.9">Antony, and Potpan!</a><br>
1395</blockquote>
1396
1397<a name="speech4"><b>Second Servant</b></a>
1398<blockquote>
1399<a name="1.5.10">Ay, boy, ready.</a><br>
1400</blockquote>
1401
1402<a name="speech5"><b>First Servant</b></a>
1403<blockquote>
1404<a name="1.5.11">You are looked for and called for, asked for and</a><br>
1405<a name="1.5.12">sought for, in the great chamber.</a><br>
1406</blockquote>
1407
1408<a name="speech6"><b>Second Servant</b></a>
1409<blockquote>
1410<a name="1.5.13">We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be</a><br>
1411<a name="1.5.14">brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.</a><br>
1412<p><i>Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers</i></p>
1413</blockquote>
1414
1415<a name="speech7"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1416<blockquote>
1417<a name="1.5.15">Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes</a><br>
1418<a name="1.5.16">Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you.</a><br>
1419<a name="1.5.17">Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all</a><br>
1420<a name="1.5.18">Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,</a><br>
1421<a name="1.5.19">She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?</a><br>
1422<a name="1.5.20">Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day</a><br>
1423<a name="1.5.21">That I have worn a visor and could tell</a><br>
1424<a name="1.5.22">A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,</a><br>
1425<a name="1.5.23">Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:</a><br>
1426<a name="1.5.24">You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.</a><br>
1427<a name="1.5.25">A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.</a><br>
1428<p><i>Music plays, and they dance</i></p>
1429<a name="1.5.26">More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,</a><br>
1430<a name="1.5.27">And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.</a><br>
1431<a name="1.5.28">Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.</a><br>
1432<a name="1.5.29">Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;</a><br>
1433<a name="1.5.30">For you and I are past our dancing days:</a><br>
1434<a name="1.5.31">How long is't now since last yourself and I</a><br>
1435<a name="1.5.32">Were in a mask?</a><br>
1436</blockquote>
1437
1438<a name="speech8"><b>Second Capulet</b></a>
1439<blockquote>
1440<a name="1.5.33"> By'r lady, thirty years.</a><br>
1441</blockquote>
1442
1443<a name="speech9"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1444<blockquote>
1445<a name="1.5.34">What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:</a><br>
1446<a name="1.5.35">'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,</a><br>
1447<a name="1.5.36">Come pentecost as quickly as it will,</a><br>
1448<a name="1.5.37">Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd.</a><br>
1449</blockquote>
1450
1451<a name="speech10"><b>Second Capulet</b></a>
1452<blockquote>
1453<a name="1.5.38">'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir;</a><br>
1454<a name="1.5.39">His son is thirty.</a><br>
1455</blockquote>
1456
1457<a name="speech11"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1458<blockquote>
1459<a name="1.5.40"> Will you tell me that?</a><br>
1460<a name="1.5.41">His son was but a ward two years ago.</a><br>
1461</blockquote>
1462
1463<a name="speech12"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1464<blockquote>
1465<a name="1.5.42">[To a Servingman] What lady is that, which doth</a><br>
1466<a name="1.5.43">enrich the hand</a><br>
1467<a name="1.5.44">Of yonder knight?</a><br>
1468</blockquote>
1469
1470<a name="speech13"><b>Servant</b></a>
1471<blockquote>
1472<a name="1.5.45">I know not, sir.</a><br>
1473</blockquote>
1474
1475<a name="speech14"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1476<blockquote>
1477<a name="1.5.46">O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!</a><br>
1478<a name="1.5.47">It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night</a><br>
1479<a name="1.5.48">Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;</a><br>
1480<a name="1.5.49">Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!</a><br>
1481<a name="1.5.50">So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,</a><br>
1482<a name="1.5.51">As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.</a><br>
1483<a name="1.5.52">The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,</a><br>
1484<a name="1.5.53">And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.</a><br>
1485<a name="1.5.54">Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!</a><br>
1486<a name="1.5.55">For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.</a><br>
1487</blockquote>
1488
1489<a name="speech15"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
1490<blockquote>
1491<a name="1.5.56">This, by his voice, should be a Montague.</a><br>
1492<a name="1.5.57">Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave</a><br>
1493<a name="1.5.58">Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,</a><br>
1494<a name="1.5.59">To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?</a><br>
1495<a name="1.5.60">Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,</a><br>
1496<a name="1.5.61">To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.</a><br>
1497</blockquote>
1498
1499<a name="speech16"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1500<blockquote>
1501<a name="1.5.62">Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?</a><br>
1502</blockquote>
1503
1504<a name="speech17"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
1505<blockquote>
1506<a name="1.5.63">Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,</a><br>
1507<a name="1.5.64">A villain that is hither come in spite,</a><br>
1508<a name="1.5.65">To scorn at our solemnity this night.</a><br>
1509</blockquote>
1510
1511<a name="speech18"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1512<blockquote>
1513<a name="1.5.66">Young Romeo is it?</a><br>
1514</blockquote>
1515
1516<a name="speech19"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
1517<blockquote>
1518<a name="1.5.67">'Tis he, that villain Romeo.</a><br>
1519</blockquote>
1520
1521<a name="speech20"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1522<blockquote>
1523<a name="1.5.68">Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;</a><br>
1524<a name="1.5.69">He bears him like a portly gentleman;</a><br>
1525<a name="1.5.70">And, to say truth, Verona brags of him</a><br>
1526<a name="1.5.71">To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:</a><br>
1527<a name="1.5.72">I would not for the wealth of all the town</a><br>
1528<a name="1.5.73">Here in my house do him disparagement:</a><br>
1529<a name="1.5.74">Therefore be patient, take no note of him:</a><br>
1530<a name="1.5.75">It is my will, the which if thou respect,</a><br>
1531<a name="1.5.76">Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,</a><br>
1532<a name="1.5.77">And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.</a><br>
1533</blockquote>
1534
1535<a name="speech21"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
1536<blockquote>
1537<a name="1.5.78">It fits, when such a villain is a guest:</a><br>
1538<a name="1.5.79">I'll not endure him.</a><br>
1539</blockquote>
1540
1541<a name="speech22"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1542<blockquote>
1543<a name="1.5.80">He shall be endured:</a><br>
1544<a name="1.5.81">What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;</a><br>
1545<a name="1.5.82">Am I the master here, or you? go to.</a><br>
1546<a name="1.5.83">You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!</a><br>
1547<a name="1.5.84">You'll make a mutiny among my guests!</a><br>
1548<a name="1.5.85">You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!</a><br>
1549</blockquote>
1550
1551<a name="speech23"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
1552<blockquote>
1553<a name="1.5.86">Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.</a><br>
1554</blockquote>
1555
1556<a name="speech24"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1557<blockquote>
1558<a name="1.5.87">Go to, go to;</a><br>
1559<a name="1.5.88">You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?</a><br>
1560<a name="1.5.89">This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:</a><br>
1561<a name="1.5.90">You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.</a><br>
1562<a name="1.5.91">Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:</a><br>
1563<a name="1.5.92">Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!</a><br>
1564<a name="1.5.93">I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!</a><br>
1565</blockquote>
1566
1567<a name="speech25"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
1568<blockquote>
1569<a name="1.5.94">Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting</a><br>
1570<a name="1.5.95">Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.</a><br>
1571<a name="1.5.96">I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall</a><br>
1572<a name="1.5.97">Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.</a><br>
1573<p><i>Exit</i></p>
1574</blockquote>
1575
1576<a name="speech26"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1577<blockquote>
1578<a name="1.5.98">[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand</a><br>
1579<a name="1.5.99">This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:</a><br>
1580<a name="1.5.100">My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand</a><br>
1581<a name="1.5.101">To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.</a><br>
1582</blockquote>
1583
1584<a name="speech27"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1585<blockquote>
1586<a name="1.5.102">Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,</a><br>
1587<a name="1.5.103">Which mannerly devotion shows in this;</a><br>
1588<a name="1.5.104">For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,</a><br>
1589<a name="1.5.105">And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.</a><br>
1590</blockquote>
1591
1592<a name="speech28"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1593<blockquote>
1594<a name="1.5.106">Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?</a><br>
1595</blockquote>
1596
1597<a name="speech29"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1598<blockquote>
1599<a name="1.5.107">Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.</a><br>
1600</blockquote>
1601
1602<a name="speech30"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1603<blockquote>
1604<a name="1.5.108">O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;</a><br>
1605<a name="1.5.109">They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.</a><br>
1606</blockquote>
1607
1608<a name="speech31"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1609<blockquote>
1610<a name="1.5.110">Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.</a><br>
1611</blockquote>
1612
1613<a name="speech32"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1614<blockquote>
1615<a name="1.5.111">Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.</a><br>
1616<a name="1.5.112">Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.</a><br>
1617</blockquote>
1618
1619<a name="speech33"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1620<blockquote>
1621<a name="1.5.113">Then have my lips the sin that they have took.</a><br>
1622</blockquote>
1623
1624<a name="speech34"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1625<blockquote>
1626<a name="1.5.114">Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!</a><br>
1627<a name="1.5.115">Give me my sin again.</a><br>
1628</blockquote>
1629
1630<a name="speech35"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1631<blockquote>
1632<a name="1.5.116">You kiss by the book.</a><br>
1633</blockquote>
1634
1635<a name="speech36"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1636<blockquote>
1637<a name="1.5.117">Madam, your mother craves a word with you.</a><br>
1638</blockquote>
1639
1640<a name="speech37"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1641<blockquote>
1642<a name="1.5.118">What is her mother?</a><br>
1643</blockquote>
1644
1645<a name="speech38"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1646<blockquote>
1647<a name="1.5.119">Marry, bachelor,</a><br>
1648<a name="1.5.120">Her mother is the lady of the house,</a><br>
1649<a name="1.5.121">And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous</a><br>
1650<a name="1.5.122">I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;</a><br>
1651<a name="1.5.123">I tell you, he that can lay hold of her</a><br>
1652<a name="1.5.124">Shall have the chinks.</a><br>
1653</blockquote>
1654
1655<a name="speech39"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1656<blockquote>
1657<a name="1.5.125">Is she a Capulet?</a><br>
1658<a name="1.5.126">O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.</a><br>
1659</blockquote>
1660
1661<a name="speech40"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1662<blockquote>
1663<a name="1.5.127">Away, begone; the sport is at the best.</a><br>
1664</blockquote>
1665
1666<a name="speech41"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1667<blockquote>
1668<a name="1.5.128">Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.</a><br>
1669</blockquote>
1670
1671<a name="speech42"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
1672<blockquote>
1673<a name="1.5.129">Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;</a><br>
1674<a name="1.5.130">We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.</a><br>
1675<a name="1.5.131">Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all</a><br>
1676<a name="1.5.132">I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.</a><br>
1677<a name="1.5.133">More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.</a><br>
1678<a name="1.5.134">Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:</a><br>
1679<a name="1.5.135">I'll to my rest.</a><br>
1680<p><i>Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse</i></p>
1681</blockquote>
1682
1683<a name="speech43"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1684<blockquote>
1685<a name="1.5.136">Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?</a><br>
1686</blockquote>
1687
1688<a name="speech44"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1689<blockquote>
1690<a name="1.5.137">The son and heir of old Tiberio.</a><br>
1691</blockquote>
1692
1693<a name="speech45"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1694<blockquote>
1695<a name="1.5.138">What's he that now is going out of door?</a><br>
1696</blockquote>
1697
1698<a name="speech46"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1699<blockquote>
1700<a name="1.5.139">Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.</a><br>
1701</blockquote>
1702
1703<a name="speech47"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1704<blockquote>
1705<a name="1.5.140">What's he that follows there, that would not dance?</a><br>
1706</blockquote>
1707
1708<a name="speech48"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1709<blockquote>
1710<a name="1.5.141">I know not.</a><br>
1711</blockquote>
1712
1713<a name="speech49"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1714<blockquote>
1715<a name="1.5.142">Go ask his name: if he be married.</a><br>
1716<a name="1.5.143">My grave is like to be my wedding bed.</a><br>
1717</blockquote>
1718
1719<a name="speech50"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1720<blockquote>
1721<a name="1.5.144">His name is Romeo, and a Montague;</a><br>
1722<a name="1.5.145">The only son of your great enemy.</a><br>
1723</blockquote>
1724
1725<a name="speech51"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1726<blockquote>
1727<a name="1.5.146">My only love sprung from my only hate!</a><br>
1728<a name="1.5.147">Too early seen unknown, and known too late!</a><br>
1729<a name="1.5.148">Prodigious birth of love it is to me,</a><br>
1730<a name="1.5.149">That I must love a loathed enemy.</a><br>
1731</blockquote>
1732
1733<a name="speech52"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1734<blockquote>
1735<a name="1.5.150">What's this? what's this?</a><br>
1736</blockquote>
1737
1738<a name="speech53"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1739<blockquote>
1740<a name="1.5.151">A rhyme I learn'd even now</a><br>
1741<a name="1.5.152">Of one I danced withal.</a><br>
1742<p><i>One calls within 'Juliet.'</i></p>
1743</blockquote>
1744
1745<a name="speech54"><b>Nurse</b></a>
1746<blockquote>
1747<a name="1.5.153">Anon, anon!</a><br>
1748<a name="1.5.154">Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.</a><br>
1749<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
1750</blockquote><p>
1751</p><h3>ACT II</h3>
1752<h3>PROLOGUE</h3>
1753<p></p><blockquote>
1754<i>Enter Chorus</i>
1755</blockquote>
1756
1757<a name="speech1"><b>Chorus</b></a>
1758<blockquote>
1759<a name="2.0.1">Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,</a><br>
1760<a name="2.0.2">And young affection gapes to be his heir;</a><br>
1761<a name="2.0.3">That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,</a><br>
1762<a name="2.0.4">With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.</a><br>
1763<a name="2.0.5">Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,</a><br>
1764<a name="2.0.6">Alike betwitched by the charm of looks,</a><br>
1765<a name="2.0.7">But to his foe supposed he must complain,</a><br>
1766<a name="2.0.8">And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:</a><br>
1767<a name="2.0.9">Being held a foe, he may not have access</a><br>
1768<a name="2.0.10">To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;</a><br>
1769<a name="2.0.11">And she as much in love, her means much less</a><br>
1770<a name="2.0.12">To meet her new-beloved any where:</a><br>
1771<a name="2.0.13">But passion lends them power, time means, to meet</a><br>
1772<a name="2.0.14">Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.</a><br>
1773<p><i>Exit</i></p>
1774</blockquote>
1775<h3>SCENE I. A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard.</h3>
1776<p></p><blockquote>
1777<i>Enter ROMEO</i>
1778</blockquote>
1779
1780<a name="speech1"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1781<blockquote>
1782<a name="2.1.1">Can I go forward when my heart is here?</a><br>
1783<a name="2.1.2">Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.</a><br>
1784<p><i>He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it</i></p>
1785<p><i>Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO</i></p>
1786</blockquote>
1787
1788<a name="speech2"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1789<blockquote>
1790<a name="2.1.3">Romeo! my cousin Romeo!</a><br>
1791</blockquote>
1792
1793<a name="speech3"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1794<blockquote>
1795<a name="2.1.4">He is wise;</a><br>
1796<a name="2.1.5">And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed.</a><br>
1797</blockquote>
1798
1799<a name="speech4"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1800<blockquote>
1801<a name="2.1.6">He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:</a><br>
1802<a name="2.1.7">Call, good Mercutio.</a><br>
1803</blockquote>
1804
1805<a name="speech5"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1806<blockquote>
1807<a name="2.1.8">Nay, I'll conjure too.</a><br>
1808<a name="2.1.9">Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!</a><br>
1809<a name="2.1.10">Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:</a><br>
1810<a name="2.1.11">Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;</a><br>
1811<a name="2.1.12">Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'</a><br>
1812<a name="2.1.13">Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,</a><br>
1813<a name="2.1.14">One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,</a><br>
1814<a name="2.1.15">Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,</a><br>
1815<a name="2.1.16">When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!</a><br>
1816<a name="2.1.17">He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;</a><br>
1817<a name="2.1.18">The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.</a><br>
1818<a name="2.1.19">I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,</a><br>
1819<a name="2.1.20">By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,</a><br>
1820<a name="2.1.21">By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh</a><br>
1821<a name="2.1.22">And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,</a><br>
1822<a name="2.1.23">That in thy likeness thou appear to us!</a><br>
1823</blockquote>
1824
1825<a name="speech6"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1826<blockquote>
1827<a name="2.1.24">And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.</a><br>
1828</blockquote>
1829
1830<a name="speech7"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1831<blockquote>
1832<a name="2.1.25">This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him</a><br>
1833<a name="2.1.26">To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle</a><br>
1834<a name="2.1.27">Of some strange nature, letting it there stand</a><br>
1835<a name="2.1.28">Till she had laid it and conjured it down;</a><br>
1836<a name="2.1.29">That were some spite: my invocation</a><br>
1837<a name="2.1.30">Is fair and honest, and in his mistres s' name</a><br>
1838<a name="2.1.31">I conjure only but to raise up him.</a><br>
1839</blockquote>
1840
1841<a name="speech8"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1842<blockquote>
1843<a name="2.1.32">Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,</a><br>
1844<a name="2.1.33">To be consorted with the humorous night:</a><br>
1845<a name="2.1.34">Blind is his love and best befits the dark.</a><br>
1846</blockquote>
1847
1848<a name="speech9"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
1849<blockquote>
1850<a name="2.1.35">If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.</a><br>
1851<a name="2.1.36">Now will he sit under a medlar tree,</a><br>
1852<a name="2.1.37">And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit</a><br>
1853<a name="2.1.38">As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.</a><br>
1854<a name="2.1.39">Romeo, that she were, O, that she were</a><br>
1855<a name="2.1.40">An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!</a><br>
1856<a name="2.1.41">Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;</a><br>
1857<a name="2.1.42">This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:</a><br>
1858<a name="2.1.43">Come, shall we go?</a><br>
1859</blockquote>
1860
1861<a name="speech10"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
1862<blockquote>
1863<a name="2.1.44"> Go, then; for 'tis in vain</a><br>
1864<a name="2.1.45">To seek him here that means not to be found.</a><br>
1865<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
1866</blockquote>
1867<h3>SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
1868<p></p><blockquote>
1869<i>Enter ROMEO</i>
1870</blockquote>
1871
1872<a name="speech1"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1873<blockquote>
1874<a name="2.2.1">He jests at scars that never felt a wound.</a><br>
1875<p><i>JULIET appears above at a window</i></p>
1876<a name="2.2.2">But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?</a><br>
1877<a name="2.2.3">It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.</a><br>
1878<a name="2.2.4">Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,</a><br>
1879<a name="2.2.5">Who is already sick and pale with grief,</a><br>
1880<a name="2.2.6">That thou her maid art far more fair than she:</a><br>
1881<a name="2.2.7">Be not her maid, since she is envious;</a><br>
1882<a name="2.2.8">Her vestal livery is but sick and green</a><br>
1883<a name="2.2.9">And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.</a><br>
1884<a name="2.2.10">It is my lady, O, it is my love!</a><br>
1885<a name="2.2.11">O, that she knew she were!</a><br>
1886<a name="2.2.12">She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?</a><br>
1887<a name="2.2.13">Her eye discourses; I will answer it.</a><br>
1888<a name="2.2.14">I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:</a><br>
1889<a name="2.2.15">Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,</a><br>
1890<a name="2.2.16">Having some business, do entreat her eyes</a><br>
1891<a name="2.2.17">To twinkle in their spheres till they return.</a><br>
1892<a name="2.2.18">What if her eyes were there, they in her head?</a><br>
1893<a name="2.2.19">The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,</a><br>
1894<a name="2.2.20">As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven</a><br>
1895<a name="2.2.21">Would through the airy region stream so bright</a><br>
1896<a name="2.2.22">That birds would sing and think it were not night.</a><br>
1897<a name="2.2.23">See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!</a><br>
1898<a name="2.2.24">O, that I were a glove upon that hand,</a><br>
1899<a name="2.2.25">That I might touch that cheek!</a><br>
1900</blockquote>
1901
1902<a name="speech2"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1903<blockquote>
1904<a name="2.2.26">Ay me!</a><br>
1905</blockquote>
1906
1907<a name="speech3"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1908<blockquote>
1909<a name="2.2.27">She speaks:</a><br>
1910<a name="2.2.28">O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art</a><br>
1911<a name="2.2.29">As glorious to this night, being o'er my head</a><br>
1912<a name="2.2.30">As is a winged messenger of heaven</a><br>
1913<a name="2.2.31">Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes</a><br>
1914<a name="2.2.32">Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him</a><br>
1915<a name="2.2.33">When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds</a><br>
1916<a name="2.2.34">And sails upon the bosom of the air.</a><br>
1917</blockquote>
1918
1919<a name="speech4"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1920<blockquote>
1921<a name="2.2.35">O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?</a><br>
1922<a name="2.2.36">Deny thy father and refuse thy name;</a><br>
1923<a name="2.2.37">Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,</a><br>
1924<a name="2.2.38">And I'll no longer be a Capulet.</a><br>
1925</blockquote>
1926
1927<a name="speech5"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1928<blockquote>
1929<a name="2.2.39">[Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?</a><br>
1930</blockquote>
1931
1932<a name="speech6"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1933<blockquote>
1934<a name="2.2.40">'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;</a><br>
1935<a name="2.2.41">Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.</a><br>
1936<a name="2.2.42">What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,</a><br>
1937<a name="2.2.43">Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part</a><br>
1938<a name="2.2.44">Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!</a><br>
1939<a name="2.2.45">What's in a name? that which we call a rose</a><br>
1940<a name="2.2.46">By any other name would smell as sweet;</a><br>
1941<a name="2.2.47">So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,</a><br>
1942<a name="2.2.48">Retain that dear perfection which he owes</a><br>
1943<a name="2.2.49">Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,</a><br>
1944<a name="2.2.50">And for that name which is no part of thee</a><br>
1945<a name="2.2.51">Take all myself.</a><br>
1946</blockquote>
1947
1948<a name="speech7"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1949<blockquote>
1950<a name="2.2.52"> I take thee at thy word:</a><br>
1951<a name="2.2.53">Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;</a><br>
1952<a name="2.2.54">Henceforth I never will be Romeo.</a><br>
1953</blockquote>
1954
1955<a name="speech8"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1956<blockquote>
1957<a name="2.2.55">What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night</a><br>
1958<a name="2.2.56">So stumblest on my counsel?</a><br>
1959</blockquote>
1960
1961<a name="speech9"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1962<blockquote>
1963<a name="2.2.57">By a name</a><br>
1964<a name="2.2.58">I know not how to tell thee who I am:</a><br>
1965<a name="2.2.59">My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,</a><br>
1966<a name="2.2.60">Because it is an enemy to thee;</a><br>
1967<a name="2.2.61">Had I it written, I would tear the word.</a><br>
1968</blockquote>
1969
1970<a name="speech10"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1971<blockquote>
1972<a name="2.2.62">My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words</a><br>
1973<a name="2.2.63">Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:</a><br>
1974<a name="2.2.64">Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?</a><br>
1975</blockquote>
1976
1977<a name="speech11"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1978<blockquote>
1979<a name="2.2.65">Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.</a><br>
1980</blockquote>
1981
1982<a name="speech12"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1983<blockquote>
1984<a name="2.2.66">How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?</a><br>
1985<a name="2.2.67">The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,</a><br>
1986<a name="2.2.68">And the place death, considering who thou art,</a><br>
1987<a name="2.2.69">If any of my kinsmen find thee here.</a><br>
1988</blockquote>
1989
1990<a name="speech13"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
1991<blockquote>
1992<a name="2.2.70">With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;</a><br>
1993<a name="2.2.71">For stony limits cannot hold love out,</a><br>
1994<a name="2.2.72">And what love can do that dares love attempt;</a><br>
1995<a name="2.2.73">Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.</a><br>
1996</blockquote>
1997
1998<a name="speech14"><b>JULIET</b></a>
1999<blockquote>
2000<a name="2.2.74">If they do see thee, they will murder thee.</a><br>
2001</blockquote>
2002
2003<a name="speech15"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2004<blockquote>
2005<a name="2.2.75">Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye</a><br>
2006<a name="2.2.76">Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,</a><br>
2007<a name="2.2.77">And I am proof against their enmity.</a><br>
2008</blockquote>
2009
2010<a name="speech16"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2011<blockquote>
2012<a name="2.2.78">I would not for the world they saw thee here.</a><br>
2013</blockquote>
2014
2015<a name="speech17"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2016<blockquote>
2017<a name="2.2.79">I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;</a><br>
2018<a name="2.2.80">And but thou love me, let them find me here:</a><br>
2019<a name="2.2.81">My life were better ended by their hate,</a><br>
2020<a name="2.2.82">Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.</a><br>
2021</blockquote>
2022
2023<a name="speech18"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2024<blockquote>
2025<a name="2.2.83">By whose direction found'st thou out this place?</a><br>
2026</blockquote>
2027
2028<a name="speech19"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2029<blockquote>
2030<a name="2.2.84">By love, who first did prompt me to inquire;</a><br>
2031<a name="2.2.85">He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.</a><br>
2032<a name="2.2.86">I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far</a><br>
2033<a name="2.2.87">As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,</a><br>
2034<a name="2.2.88">I would adventure for such merchandise.</a><br>
2035</blockquote>
2036
2037<a name="speech20"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2038<blockquote>
2039<a name="2.2.89">Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,</a><br>
2040<a name="2.2.90">Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek</a><br>
2041<a name="2.2.91">For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night</a><br>
2042<a name="2.2.92">Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny</a><br>
2043<a name="2.2.93">What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!</a><br>
2044<a name="2.2.94">Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'</a><br>
2045<a name="2.2.95">And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,</a><br>
2046<a name="2.2.96">Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries</a><br>
2047<a name="2.2.97">Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,</a><br>
2048<a name="2.2.98">If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:</a><br>
2049<a name="2.2.99">Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,</a><br>
2050<a name="2.2.100">I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,</a><br>
2051<a name="2.2.101">So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.</a><br>
2052<a name="2.2.102">In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,</a><br>
2053<a name="2.2.103">And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:</a><br>
2054<a name="2.2.104">But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true</a><br>
2055<a name="2.2.105">Than those that have more cunning to be strange.</a><br>
2056<a name="2.2.106">I should have been more strange, I must confess,</a><br>
2057<a name="2.2.107">But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,</a><br>
2058<a name="2.2.108">My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,</a><br>
2059<a name="2.2.109">And not impute this yielding to light love,</a><br>
2060<a name="2.2.110">Which the dark night hath so discovered.</a><br>
2061</blockquote>
2062
2063<a name="speech21"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2064<blockquote>
2065<a name="2.2.111">Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear</a><br>
2066<a name="2.2.112">That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--</a><br>
2067</blockquote>
2068
2069<a name="speech22"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2070<blockquote>
2071<a name="2.2.113">O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,</a><br>
2072<a name="2.2.114">That monthly changes in her circled orb,</a><br>
2073<a name="2.2.115">Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.</a><br>
2074</blockquote>
2075
2076<a name="speech23"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2077<blockquote>
2078<a name="2.2.116">What shall I swear by?</a><br>
2079</blockquote>
2080
2081<a name="speech24"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2082<blockquote>
2083<a name="2.2.117">Do not swear at all;</a><br>
2084<a name="2.2.118">Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,</a><br>
2085<a name="2.2.119">Which is the god of my idolatry,</a><br>
2086<a name="2.2.120">And I'll believe thee.</a><br>
2087</blockquote>
2088
2089<a name="speech25"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2090<blockquote>
2091<a name="2.2.121">If my heart's dear love--</a><br>
2092</blockquote>
2093
2094<a name="speech26"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2095<blockquote>
2096<a name="2.2.122">Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,</a><br>
2097<a name="2.2.123">I have no joy of this contract to-night:</a><br>
2098<a name="2.2.124">It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;</a><br>
2099<a name="2.2.125">Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be</a><br>
2100<a name="2.2.126">Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!</a><br>
2101<a name="2.2.127">This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,</a><br>
2102<a name="2.2.128">May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.</a><br>
2103<a name="2.2.129">Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest</a><br>
2104<a name="2.2.130">Come to thy heart as that within my breast!</a><br>
2105</blockquote>
2106
2107<a name="speech27"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2108<blockquote>
2109<a name="2.2.131">O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?</a><br>
2110</blockquote>
2111
2112<a name="speech28"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2113<blockquote>
2114<a name="2.2.132">What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?</a><br>
2115</blockquote>
2116
2117<a name="speech29"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2118<blockquote>
2119<a name="2.2.133">The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.</a><br>
2120</blockquote>
2121
2122<a name="speech30"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2123<blockquote>
2124<a name="2.2.134">I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:</a><br>
2125<a name="2.2.135">And yet I would it were to give again.</a><br>
2126</blockquote>
2127
2128<a name="speech31"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2129<blockquote>
2130<a name="2.2.136">Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?</a><br>
2131</blockquote>
2132
2133<a name="speech32"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2134<blockquote>
2135<a name="2.2.137">But to be frank, and give it thee again.</a><br>
2136<a name="2.2.138">And yet I wish but for the thing I have:</a><br>
2137<a name="2.2.139">My bounty is as boundless as the sea,</a><br>
2138<a name="2.2.140">My love as deep; the more I give to thee,</a><br>
2139<a name="2.2.141">The more I have, for both are infinite.</a><br>
2140<p><i>Nurse calls within</i></p>
2141<a name="2.2.142">I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!</a><br>
2142<a name="2.2.143">Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.</a><br>
2143<a name="2.2.144">Stay but a little, I will come again.</a><br>
2144<p><i>Exit, above</i></p>
2145</blockquote>
2146
2147<a name="speech33"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2148<blockquote>
2149<a name="2.2.145">O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard.</a><br>
2150<a name="2.2.146">Being in night, all this is but a dream,</a><br>
2151<a name="2.2.147">Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.</a><br>
2152<p><i>Re-enter JULIET, above</i></p>
2153</blockquote>
2154
2155<a name="speech34"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2156<blockquote>
2157<a name="2.2.148">Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.</a><br>
2158<a name="2.2.149">If that thy bent of love be honourable,</a><br>
2159<a name="2.2.150">Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,</a><br>
2160<a name="2.2.151">By one that I'll procure to come to thee,</a><br>
2161<a name="2.2.152">Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;</a><br>
2162<a name="2.2.153">And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay</a><br>
2163<a name="2.2.154">And follow thee my lord throughout the world.</a><br>
2164</blockquote>
2165
2166<a name="speech35"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2167<blockquote>
2168<a name="2.2.155">[Within] Madam!</a><br>
2169</blockquote>
2170
2171<a name="speech36"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2172<blockquote>
2173<a name="2.2.156">I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,</a><br>
2174<a name="2.2.157">I do beseech thee--</a><br>
2175</blockquote>
2176
2177<a name="speech37"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2178<blockquote>
2179<a name="2.2.158">[Within] Madam!</a><br>
2180</blockquote>
2181
2182<a name="speech38"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2183<blockquote>
2184<a name="2.2.159">By and by, I come:--</a><br>
2185<a name="2.2.160">To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:</a><br>
2186<a name="2.2.161">To-morrow will I send.</a><br>
2187</blockquote>
2188
2189<a name="speech39"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2190<blockquote>
2191<a name="2.2.162">So thrive my soul--</a><br>
2192</blockquote>
2193
2194<a name="speech40"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2195<blockquote>
2196<a name="2.2.163">A thousand times good night!</a><br>
2197<p><i>Exit, above</i></p>
2198</blockquote>
2199
2200<a name="speech41"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2201<blockquote>
2202<a name="2.2.164">A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.</a><br>
2203<a name="2.2.165">Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from</a><br>
2204<a name="2.2.166">their books,</a><br>
2205<a name="2.2.167">But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.</a><br>
2206<p><i>Retiring</i></p>
2207<p><i>Re-enter JULIET, above</i></p>
2208</blockquote>
2209
2210<a name="speech42"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2211<blockquote>
2212<a name="2.2.168">Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice,</a><br>
2213<a name="2.2.169">To lure this tassel-gentle back again!</a><br>
2214<a name="2.2.170">Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;</a><br>
2215<a name="2.2.171">Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,</a><br>
2216<a name="2.2.172">And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,</a><br>
2217<a name="2.2.173">With repetition of my Romeo's name.</a><br>
2218</blockquote>
2219
2220<a name="speech43"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2221<blockquote>
2222<a name="2.2.174">It is my soul that calls upon my name:</a><br>
2223<a name="2.2.175">How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,</a><br>
2224<a name="2.2.176">Like softest music to attending ears!</a><br>
2225</blockquote>
2226
2227<a name="speech44"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2228<blockquote>
2229<a name="2.2.177">Romeo!</a><br>
2230</blockquote>
2231
2232<a name="speech45"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2233<blockquote>
2234<a name="2.2.178"> My dear?</a><br>
2235</blockquote>
2236
2237<a name="speech46"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2238<blockquote>
2239<a name="2.2.179"> At what o'clock to-morrow</a><br>
2240<a name="2.2.180">Shall I send to thee?</a><br>
2241</blockquote>
2242
2243<a name="speech47"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2244<blockquote>
2245<a name="2.2.181">At the hour of nine.</a><br>
2246</blockquote>
2247
2248<a name="speech48"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2249<blockquote>
2250<a name="2.2.182">I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.</a><br>
2251<a name="2.2.183">I have forgot why I did call thee back.</a><br>
2252</blockquote>
2253
2254<a name="speech49"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2255<blockquote>
2256<a name="2.2.184">Let me stand here till thou remember it.</a><br>
2257</blockquote>
2258
2259<a name="speech50"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2260<blockquote>
2261<a name="2.2.185">I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,</a><br>
2262<a name="2.2.186">Remembering how I love thy company.</a><br>
2263</blockquote>
2264
2265<a name="speech51"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2266<blockquote>
2267<a name="2.2.187">And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,</a><br>
2268<a name="2.2.188">Forgetting any other home but this.</a><br>
2269</blockquote>
2270
2271<a name="speech52"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2272<blockquote>
2273<a name="2.2.189">'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:</a><br>
2274<a name="2.2.190">And yet no further than a wanton's bird;</a><br>
2275<a name="2.2.191">Who lets it hop a little from her hand,</a><br>
2276<a name="2.2.192">Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,</a><br>
2277<a name="2.2.193">And with a silk thread plucks it back again,</a><br>
2278<a name="2.2.194">So loving-jealous of his liberty.</a><br>
2279</blockquote>
2280
2281<a name="speech53"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2282<blockquote>
2283<a name="2.2.195">I would I were thy bird.</a><br>
2284</blockquote>
2285
2286<a name="speech54"><b>JULIET</b></a>
2287<blockquote>
2288<a name="2.2.196">Sweet, so would I:</a><br>
2289<a name="2.2.197">Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.</a><br>
2290<a name="2.2.198">Good night, good night! parting is such</a><br>
2291<a name="2.2.199">sweet sorrow,</a><br>
2292<a name="2.2.200">That I shall say good night till it be morrow.</a><br>
2293<p><i>Exit above</i></p>
2294</blockquote>
2295
2296<a name="speech55"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2297<blockquote>
2298<a name="2.2.201">Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!</a><br>
2299<a name="2.2.202">Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!</a><br>
2300<a name="2.2.203">Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,</a><br>
2301<a name="2.2.204">His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.</a><br>
2302<p><i>Exit</i></p>
2303</blockquote>
2304<h3>SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
2305<p></p><blockquote>
2306<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket</i>
2307</blockquote>
2308
2309<a name="speech1"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2310<blockquote>
2311<a name="2.3.1">The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,</a><br>
2312<a name="2.3.2">Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,</a><br>
2313<a name="2.3.3">And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels</a><br>
2314<a name="2.3.4">From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:</a><br>
2315<a name="2.3.5">Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,</a><br>
2316<a name="2.3.6">The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,</a><br>
2317<a name="2.3.7">I must up-fill this osier cage of ours</a><br>
2318<a name="2.3.8">With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.</a><br>
2319<a name="2.3.9">The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;</a><br>
2320<a name="2.3.10">What is her burying grave that is her womb,</a><br>
2321<a name="2.3.11">And from her womb children of divers kind</a><br>
2322<a name="2.3.12">We sucking on her natural bosom find,</a><br>
2323<a name="2.3.13">Many for many virtues excellent,</a><br>
2324<a name="2.3.14">None but for some and yet all different.</a><br>
2325<a name="2.3.15">O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies</a><br>
2326<a name="2.3.16">In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:</a><br>
2327<a name="2.3.17">For nought so vile that on the earth doth live</a><br>
2328<a name="2.3.18">But to the earth some special good doth give,</a><br>
2329<a name="2.3.19">Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use</a><br>
2330<a name="2.3.20">Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:</a><br>
2331<a name="2.3.21">Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;</a><br>
2332<a name="2.3.22">And vice sometimes by action dignified.</a><br>
2333<a name="2.3.23">Within the infant rind of this small flower</a><br>
2334<a name="2.3.24">Poison hath residence and medicine power:</a><br>
2335<a name="2.3.25">For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;</a><br>
2336<a name="2.3.26">Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.</a><br>
2337<a name="2.3.27">Two such opposed kings encamp them still</a><br>
2338<a name="2.3.28">In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;</a><br>
2339<a name="2.3.29">And where the worser is predominant,</a><br>
2340<a name="2.3.30">Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.</a><br>
2341<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
2342</blockquote>
2343
2344<a name="speech2"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2345<blockquote>
2346<a name="2.3.31">Good morrow, father.</a><br>
2347</blockquote>
2348
2349<a name="speech3"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2350<blockquote>
2351<a name="2.3.32">Benedicite!</a><br>
2352<a name="2.3.33">What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?</a><br>
2353<a name="2.3.34">Young son, it argues a distemper'd head</a><br>
2354<a name="2.3.35">So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:</a><br>
2355<a name="2.3.36">Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,</a><br>
2356<a name="2.3.37">And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;</a><br>
2357<a name="2.3.38">But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain</a><br>
2358<a name="2.3.39">Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:</a><br>
2359<a name="2.3.40">Therefore thy earliness doth me assure</a><br>
2360<a name="2.3.41">Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;</a><br>
2361<a name="2.3.42">Or if not so, then here I hit it right,</a><br>
2362<a name="2.3.43">Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.</a><br>
2363</blockquote>
2364
2365<a name="speech4"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2366<blockquote>
2367<a name="2.3.44">That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.</a><br>
2368</blockquote>
2369
2370<a name="speech5"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2371<blockquote>
2372<a name="2.3.45">God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?</a><br>
2373</blockquote>
2374
2375<a name="speech6"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2376<blockquote>
2377<a name="2.3.46">With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no;</a><br>
2378<a name="2.3.47">I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.</a><br>
2379</blockquote>
2380
2381<a name="speech7"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2382<blockquote>
2383<a name="2.3.48">That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?</a><br>
2384</blockquote>
2385
2386<a name="speech8"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2387<blockquote>
2388<a name="2.3.49">I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.</a><br>
2389<a name="2.3.50">I have been feasting with mine enemy,</a><br>
2390<a name="2.3.51">Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,</a><br>
2391<a name="2.3.52">That's by me wounded: both our remedies</a><br>
2392<a name="2.3.53">Within thy help and holy physic lies:</a><br>
2393<a name="2.3.54">I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,</a><br>
2394<a name="2.3.55">My intercession likewise steads my foe.</a><br>
2395</blockquote>
2396
2397<a name="speech9"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2398<blockquote>
2399<a name="2.3.56">Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;</a><br>
2400<a name="2.3.57">Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.</a><br>
2401</blockquote>
2402
2403<a name="speech10"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2404<blockquote>
2405<a name="2.3.58">Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set</a><br>
2406<a name="2.3.59">On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:</a><br>
2407<a name="2.3.60">As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;</a><br>
2408<a name="2.3.61">And all combined, save what thou must combine</a><br>
2409<a name="2.3.62">By holy marriage: when and where and how</a><br>
2410<a name="2.3.63">We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,</a><br>
2411<a name="2.3.64">I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,</a><br>
2412<a name="2.3.65">That thou consent to marry us to-day.</a><br>
2413</blockquote>
2414
2415<a name="speech11"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2416<blockquote>
2417<a name="2.3.66">Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!</a><br>
2418<a name="2.3.67">Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,</a><br>
2419<a name="2.3.68">So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies</a><br>
2420<a name="2.3.69">Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.</a><br>
2421<a name="2.3.70">Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine</a><br>
2422<a name="2.3.71">Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!</a><br>
2423<a name="2.3.72">How much salt water thrown away in waste,</a><br>
2424<a name="2.3.73">To season love, that of it doth not taste!</a><br>
2425<a name="2.3.74">The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,</a><br>
2426<a name="2.3.75">Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;</a><br>
2427<a name="2.3.76">Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit</a><br>
2428<a name="2.3.77">Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:</a><br>
2429<a name="2.3.78">If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,</a><br>
2430<a name="2.3.79">Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:</a><br>
2431<a name="2.3.80">And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,</a><br>
2432<a name="2.3.81">Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.</a><br>
2433</blockquote>
2434
2435<a name="speech12"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2436<blockquote>
2437<a name="2.3.82">Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.</a><br>
2438</blockquote>
2439
2440<a name="speech13"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2441<blockquote>
2442<a name="2.3.83">For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.</a><br>
2443</blockquote>
2444
2445<a name="speech14"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2446<blockquote>
2447<a name="2.3.84">And bad'st me bury love.</a><br>
2448</blockquote>
2449
2450<a name="speech15"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2451<blockquote>
2452<a name="2.3.85">Not in a grave,</a><br>
2453<a name="2.3.86">To lay one in, another out to have.</a><br>
2454</blockquote>
2455
2456<a name="speech16"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2457<blockquote>
2458<a name="2.3.87">I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now</a><br>
2459<a name="2.3.88">Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;</a><br>
2460<a name="2.3.89">The other did not so.</a><br>
2461</blockquote>
2462
2463<a name="speech17"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2464<blockquote>
2465<a name="2.3.90">O, she knew well</a><br>
2466<a name="2.3.91">Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.</a><br>
2467<a name="2.3.92">But come, young waverer, come, go with me,</a><br>
2468<a name="2.3.93">In one respect I'll thy assistant be;</a><br>
2469<a name="2.3.94">For this alliance may so happy prove,</a><br>
2470<a name="2.3.95">To turn your households' rancour to pure love.</a><br>
2471</blockquote>
2472
2473<a name="speech18"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2474<blockquote>
2475<a name="2.3.96">O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste.</a><br>
2476</blockquote>
2477
2478<a name="speech19"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
2479<blockquote>
2480<a name="2.3.97">Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.</a><br>
2481<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
2482</blockquote>
2483<h3>SCENE IV. A street.</h3>
2484<p></p><blockquote>
2485<i>Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO</i>
2486</blockquote>
2487
2488<a name="speech1"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2489<blockquote>
2490<a name="2.4.1">Where the devil should this Romeo be?</a><br>
2491<a name="2.4.2">Came he not home to-night?</a><br>
2492</blockquote>
2493
2494<a name="speech2"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2495<blockquote>
2496<a name="2.4.3">Not to his father's; I spoke with his man.</a><br>
2497</blockquote>
2498
2499<a name="speech3"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2500<blockquote>
2501<a name="2.4.4">Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline.</a><br>
2502<a name="2.4.5">Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.</a><br>
2503</blockquote>
2504
2505<a name="speech4"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2506<blockquote>
2507<a name="2.4.6">Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,</a><br>
2508<a name="2.4.7">Hath sent a letter to his father's house.</a><br>
2509</blockquote>
2510
2511<a name="speech5"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2512<blockquote>
2513<a name="2.4.8">A challenge, on my life.</a><br>
2514</blockquote>
2515
2516<a name="speech6"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2517<blockquote>
2518<a name="2.4.9">Romeo will answer it.</a><br>
2519</blockquote>
2520
2521<a name="speech7"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2522<blockquote>
2523<a name="2.4.10">Any man that can write may answer a letter.</a><br>
2524</blockquote>
2525
2526<a name="speech8"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2527<blockquote>
2528<a name="2.4.11">Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he</a><br>
2529<a name="2.4.12">dares, being dared.</a><br>
2530</blockquote>
2531
2532<a name="speech9"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2533<blockquote>
2534<a name="2.4.13">Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a</a><br>
2535<a name="2.4.14">white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a</a><br>
2536<a name="2.4.15">love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the</a><br>
2537<a name="2.4.16">blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to</a><br>
2538<a name="2.4.17">encounter Tybalt?</a><br>
2539</blockquote>
2540
2541<a name="speech10"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2542<blockquote>
2543<a name="2.4.18">Why, what is Tybalt?</a><br>
2544</blockquote>
2545
2546<a name="speech11"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2547<blockquote>
2548<a name="2.4.19">More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is</a><br>
2549<a name="2.4.20">the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as</a><br>
2550<a name="2.4.21">you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and</a><br>
2551<a name="2.4.22">proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and</a><br>
2552<a name="2.4.23">the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk</a><br>
2553<a name="2.4.24">button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the</a><br>
2554<a name="2.4.25">very first house, of the first and second cause:</a><br>
2555<a name="2.4.26">ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the</a><br>
2556<a name="2.4.27">hai!</a><br>
2557</blockquote>
2558
2559<a name="speech12"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2560<blockquote>
2561<a name="2.4.28">The what?</a><br>
2562</blockquote>
2563
2564<a name="speech13"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2565<blockquote>
2566<a name="2.4.29">The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting</a><br>
2567<a name="2.4.30">fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu,</a><br>
2568<a name="2.4.31">a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good</a><br>
2569<a name="2.4.32">whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing,</a><br>
2570<a name="2.4.33">grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with</a><br>
2571<a name="2.4.34">these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these</a><br>
2572<a name="2.4.35">perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form,</a><br>
2573<a name="2.4.36">that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their</a><br>
2574<a name="2.4.37">bones, their bones!</a><br>
2575<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
2576</blockquote>
2577
2578<a name="speech14"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2579<blockquote>
2580<a name="2.4.38">Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.</a><br>
2581</blockquote>
2582
2583<a name="speech15"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2584<blockquote>
2585<a name="2.4.39">Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,</a><br>
2586<a name="2.4.40">how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers</a><br>
2587<a name="2.4.41">that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a</a><br>
2588<a name="2.4.42">kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to</a><br>
2589<a name="2.4.43">be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;</a><br>
2590<a name="2.4.44">Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey</a><br>
2591<a name="2.4.45">eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior</a><br>
2592<a name="2.4.46">Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation</a><br>
2593<a name="2.4.47">to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit</a><br>
2594<a name="2.4.48">fairly last night.</a><br>
2595</blockquote>
2596
2597<a name="speech16"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2598<blockquote>
2599<a name="2.4.49">Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?</a><br>
2600</blockquote>
2601
2602<a name="speech17"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2603<blockquote>
2604<a name="2.4.50">The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?</a><br>
2605</blockquote>
2606
2607<a name="speech18"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2608<blockquote>
2609<a name="2.4.51">Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in</a><br>
2610<a name="2.4.52">such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.</a><br>
2611</blockquote>
2612
2613<a name="speech19"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2614<blockquote>
2615<a name="2.4.53">That's as much as to say, such a case as yours</a><br>
2616<a name="2.4.54">constrains a man to bow in the hams.</a><br>
2617</blockquote>
2618
2619<a name="speech20"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2620<blockquote>
2621<a name="2.4.55">Meaning, to court'sy.</a><br>
2622</blockquote>
2623
2624<a name="speech21"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2625<blockquote>
2626<a name="2.4.56">Thou hast most kindly hit it.</a><br>
2627</blockquote>
2628
2629<a name="speech22"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2630<blockquote>
2631<a name="2.4.57">A most courteous exposition.</a><br>
2632</blockquote>
2633
2634<a name="speech23"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2635<blockquote>
2636<a name="2.4.58">Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.</a><br>
2637</blockquote>
2638
2639<a name="speech24"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2640<blockquote>
2641<a name="2.4.59">Pink for flower.</a><br>
2642</blockquote>
2643
2644<a name="speech25"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2645<blockquote>
2646<a name="2.4.60">Right.</a><br>
2647</blockquote>
2648
2649<a name="speech26"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2650<blockquote>
2651<a name="2.4.61">Why, then is my pump well flowered.</a><br>
2652</blockquote>
2653
2654<a name="speech27"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2655<blockquote>
2656<a name="2.4.62">Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast</a><br>
2657<a name="2.4.63">worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it</a><br>
2658<a name="2.4.64">is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular.</a><br>
2659</blockquote>
2660
2661<a name="speech28"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2662<blockquote>
2663<a name="2.4.65">O single-soled jest, solely singular for the</a><br>
2664<a name="2.4.66">singleness.</a><br>
2665</blockquote>
2666
2667<a name="speech29"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2668<blockquote>
2669<a name="2.4.67">Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.</a><br>
2670</blockquote>
2671
2672<a name="speech30"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2673<blockquote>
2674<a name="2.4.68">Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match.</a><br>
2675</blockquote>
2676
2677<a name="speech31"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2678<blockquote>
2679<a name="2.4.69">Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have</a><br>
2680<a name="2.4.70">done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of</a><br>
2681<a name="2.4.71">thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:</a><br>
2682<a name="2.4.72">was I with you there for the goose?</a><br>
2683</blockquote>
2684
2685<a name="speech32"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2686<blockquote>
2687<a name="2.4.73">Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast</a><br>
2688<a name="2.4.74">not there for the goose.</a><br>
2689</blockquote>
2690
2691<a name="speech33"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2692<blockquote>
2693<a name="2.4.75">I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.</a><br>
2694</blockquote>
2695
2696<a name="speech34"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2697<blockquote>
2698<a name="2.4.76">Nay, good goose, bite not.</a><br>
2699</blockquote>
2700
2701<a name="speech35"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2702<blockquote>
2703<a name="2.4.77">Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most</a><br>
2704<a name="2.4.78">sharp sauce.</a><br>
2705</blockquote>
2706
2707<a name="speech36"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2708<blockquote>
2709<a name="2.4.79">And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?</a><br>
2710</blockquote>
2711
2712<a name="speech37"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2713<blockquote>
2714<a name="2.4.80">O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an</a><br>
2715<a name="2.4.81">inch narrow to an ell broad!</a><br>
2716</blockquote>
2717
2718<a name="speech38"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2719<blockquote>
2720<a name="2.4.82">I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added</a><br>
2721<a name="2.4.83">to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.</a><br>
2722</blockquote>
2723
2724<a name="speech39"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2725<blockquote>
2726<a name="2.4.84">Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?</a><br>
2727<a name="2.4.85">now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art</a><br>
2728<a name="2.4.86">thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:</a><br>
2729<a name="2.4.87">for this drivelling love is like a great natural,</a><br>
2730<a name="2.4.88">that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.</a><br>
2731</blockquote>
2732
2733<a name="speech40"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2734<blockquote>
2735<a name="2.4.89">Stop there, stop there.</a><br>
2736</blockquote>
2737
2738<a name="speech41"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2739<blockquote>
2740<a name="2.4.90">Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.</a><br>
2741</blockquote>
2742
2743<a name="speech42"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2744<blockquote>
2745<a name="2.4.91">Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.</a><br>
2746</blockquote>
2747
2748<a name="speech43"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2749<blockquote>
2750<a name="2.4.92">O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short:</a><br>
2751<a name="2.4.93">for I was come to the whole depth of my tale; and</a><br>
2752<a name="2.4.94">meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.</a><br>
2753</blockquote>
2754
2755<a name="speech44"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2756<blockquote>
2757<a name="2.4.95">Here's goodly gear!</a><br>
2758<p><i>Enter Nurse and PETER</i></p>
2759</blockquote>
2760
2761<a name="speech45"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2762<blockquote>
2763<a name="2.4.96">A sail, a sail!</a><br>
2764</blockquote>
2765
2766<a name="speech46"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2767<blockquote>
2768<a name="2.4.97">Two, two; a shirt and a smock.</a><br>
2769</blockquote>
2770
2771<a name="speech47"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2772<blockquote>
2773<a name="2.4.98">Peter!</a><br>
2774</blockquote>
2775
2776<a name="speech48"><b>PETER</b></a>
2777<blockquote>
2778<a name="2.4.99">Anon!</a><br>
2779</blockquote>
2780
2781<a name="speech49"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2782<blockquote>
2783<a name="2.4.100">My fan, Peter.</a><br>
2784</blockquote>
2785
2786<a name="speech50"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2787<blockquote>
2788<a name="2.4.101">Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the</a><br>
2789<a name="2.4.102">fairer face.</a><br>
2790</blockquote>
2791
2792<a name="speech51"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2793<blockquote>
2794<a name="2.4.103">God ye good morrow, gentlemen.</a><br>
2795</blockquote>
2796
2797<a name="speech52"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2798<blockquote>
2799<a name="2.4.104">God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.</a><br>
2800</blockquote>
2801
2802<a name="speech53"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2803<blockquote>
2804<a name="2.4.105">Is it good den?</a><br>
2805</blockquote>
2806
2807<a name="speech54"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2808<blockquote>
2809<a name="2.4.106">'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the</a><br>
2810<a name="2.4.107">dial is now upon the prick of noon.</a><br>
2811</blockquote>
2812
2813<a name="speech55"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2814<blockquote>
2815<a name="2.4.108">Out upon you! what a man are you!</a><br>
2816</blockquote>
2817
2818<a name="speech56"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2819<blockquote>
2820<a name="2.4.109">One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to</a><br>
2821<a name="2.4.110">mar.</a><br>
2822</blockquote>
2823
2824<a name="speech57"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2825<blockquote>
2826<a name="2.4.111">By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,'</a><br>
2827<a name="2.4.112">quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I</a><br>
2828<a name="2.4.113">may find the young Romeo?</a><br>
2829</blockquote>
2830
2831<a name="speech58"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2832<blockquote>
2833<a name="2.4.114">I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when</a><br>
2834<a name="2.4.115">you have found him than he was when you sought him:</a><br>
2835<a name="2.4.116">I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.</a><br>
2836</blockquote>
2837
2838<a name="speech59"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2839<blockquote>
2840<a name="2.4.117">You say well.</a><br>
2841</blockquote>
2842
2843<a name="speech60"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2844<blockquote>
2845<a name="2.4.118">Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith;</a><br>
2846<a name="2.4.119">wisely, wisely.</a><br>
2847</blockquote>
2848
2849<a name="speech61"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2850<blockquote>
2851<a name="2.4.120">if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with</a><br>
2852<a name="2.4.121">you.</a><br>
2853</blockquote>
2854
2855<a name="speech62"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
2856<blockquote>
2857<a name="2.4.122">She will indite him to some supper.</a><br>
2858</blockquote>
2859
2860<a name="speech63"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2861<blockquote>
2862<a name="2.4.123">A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho!</a><br>
2863</blockquote>
2864
2865<a name="speech64"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2866<blockquote>
2867<a name="2.4.124">What hast thou found?</a><br>
2868</blockquote>
2869
2870<a name="speech65"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2871<blockquote>
2872<a name="2.4.125">No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,</a><br>
2873<a name="2.4.126">that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.</a><br>
2874<p><i>Sings</i></p>
2875<a name="2.4.127">An old hare hoar,</a><br>
2876<a name="2.4.128">And an old hare hoar,</a><br>
2877<a name="2.4.129">Is very good meat in lent</a><br>
2878<a name="2.4.130">But a hare that is hoar</a><br>
2879<a name="2.4.131">Is too much for a score,</a><br>
2880<a name="2.4.132">When it hoars ere it be spent.</a><br>
2881<a name="2.4.133">Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll</a><br>
2882<a name="2.4.134">to dinner, thither.</a><br>
2883</blockquote>
2884
2885<a name="speech66"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2886<blockquote>
2887<a name="2.4.135">I will follow you.</a><br>
2888</blockquote>
2889
2890<a name="speech67"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
2891<blockquote>
2892<a name="2.4.136">Farewell, ancient lady; farewell,</a><br>
2893<p><i>Singing</i></p>
2894<a name="2.4.137">'lady, lady, lady.'</a><br>
2895<p><i>Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO</i></p>
2896</blockquote>
2897
2898<a name="speech68"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2899<blockquote>
2900<a name="2.4.138">Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy</a><br>
2901<a name="2.4.139">merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?</a><br>
2902</blockquote>
2903
2904<a name="speech69"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2905<blockquote>
2906<a name="2.4.140">A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,</a><br>
2907<a name="2.4.141">and will speak more in a minute than he will stand</a><br>
2908<a name="2.4.142">to in a month.</a><br>
2909</blockquote>
2910
2911<a name="speech70"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2912<blockquote>
2913<a name="2.4.143">An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him</a><br>
2914<a name="2.4.144">down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such</a><br>
2915<a name="2.4.145">Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall.</a><br>
2916<a name="2.4.146">Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am</a><br>
2917<a name="2.4.147">none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by</a><br>
2918<a name="2.4.148">too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?</a><br>
2919</blockquote>
2920
2921<a name="speech71"><b>PETER</b></a>
2922<blockquote>
2923<a name="2.4.149">I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon</a><br>
2924<a name="2.4.150">should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare</a><br>
2925<a name="2.4.151">draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a</a><br>
2926<a name="2.4.152">good quarrel, and the law on my side.</a><br>
2927</blockquote>
2928
2929<a name="speech72"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2930<blockquote>
2931<a name="2.4.153">Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about</a><br>
2932<a name="2.4.154">me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:</a><br>
2933<a name="2.4.155">and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you</a><br>
2934<a name="2.4.156">out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:</a><br>
2935<a name="2.4.157">but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into</a><br>
2936<a name="2.4.158">a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross</a><br>
2937<a name="2.4.159">kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman</a><br>
2938<a name="2.4.160">is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double</a><br>
2939<a name="2.4.161">with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered</a><br>
2940<a name="2.4.162">to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.</a><br>
2941</blockquote>
2942
2943<a name="speech73"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2944<blockquote>
2945<a name="2.4.163">Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I</a><br>
2946<a name="2.4.164">protest unto thee--</a><br>
2947</blockquote>
2948
2949<a name="speech74"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2950<blockquote>
2951<a name="2.4.165">Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much:</a><br>
2952<a name="2.4.166">Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.</a><br>
2953</blockquote>
2954
2955<a name="speech75"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2956<blockquote>
2957<a name="2.4.167">What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me.</a><br>
2958</blockquote>
2959
2960<a name="speech76"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2961<blockquote>
2962<a name="2.4.168">I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as</a><br>
2963<a name="2.4.169">I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.</a><br>
2964</blockquote>
2965
2966<a name="speech77"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2967<blockquote>
2968<a name="2.4.170">Bid her devise</a><br>
2969<a name="2.4.171">Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;</a><br>
2970<a name="2.4.172">And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell</a><br>
2971<a name="2.4.173">Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.</a><br>
2972</blockquote>
2973
2974<a name="speech78"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2975<blockquote>
2976<a name="2.4.174">No truly sir; not a penny.</a><br>
2977</blockquote>
2978
2979<a name="speech79"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2980<blockquote>
2981<a name="2.4.175">Go to; I say you shall.</a><br>
2982</blockquote>
2983
2984<a name="speech80"><b>Nurse</b></a>
2985<blockquote>
2986<a name="2.4.176">This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there.</a><br>
2987</blockquote>
2988
2989<a name="speech81"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
2990<blockquote>
2991<a name="2.4.177">And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall:</a><br>
2992<a name="2.4.178">Within this hour my man shall be with thee</a><br>
2993<a name="2.4.179">And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair;</a><br>
2994<a name="2.4.180">Which to the high top-gallant of my joy</a><br>
2995<a name="2.4.181">Must be my convoy in the secret night.</a><br>
2996<a name="2.4.182">Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains:</a><br>
2997<a name="2.4.183">Farewell; commend me to thy mistress.</a><br>
2998</blockquote>
2999
3000<a name="speech82"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3001<blockquote>
3002<a name="2.4.184">Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.</a><br>
3003</blockquote>
3004
3005<a name="speech83"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3006<blockquote>
3007<a name="2.4.185">What say'st thou, my dear nurse?</a><br>
3008</blockquote>
3009
3010<a name="speech84"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3011<blockquote>
3012<a name="2.4.186">Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,</a><br>
3013<a name="2.4.187">Two may keep counsel, putting one away?</a><br>
3014</blockquote>
3015
3016<a name="speech85"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3017<blockquote>
3018<a name="2.4.188">I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.</a><br>
3019</blockquote>
3020
3021<a name="speech86"><b>NURSE</b></a>
3022<blockquote>
3023<a name="2.4.189">Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,</a><br>
3024<a name="2.4.190">Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there</a><br>
3025<a name="2.4.191">is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain</a><br>
3026<a name="2.4.192">lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief</a><br>
3027<a name="2.4.193">see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her</a><br>
3028<a name="2.4.194">sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer</a><br>
3029<a name="2.4.195">man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks</a><br>
3030<a name="2.4.196">as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not</a><br>
3031<a name="2.4.197">rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?</a><br>
3032</blockquote>
3033
3034<a name="speech87"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3035<blockquote>
3036<a name="2.4.198">Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.</a><br>
3037</blockquote>
3038
3039<a name="speech88"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3040<blockquote>
3041<a name="2.4.199">Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for</a><br>
3042<a name="2.4.200">the--No; I know it begins with some other</a><br>
3043<a name="2.4.201">letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of</a><br>
3044<a name="2.4.202">it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good</a><br>
3045<a name="2.4.203">to hear it.</a><br>
3046</blockquote>
3047
3048<a name="speech89"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3049<blockquote>
3050<a name="2.4.204">Commend me to thy lady.</a><br>
3051</blockquote>
3052
3053<a name="speech90"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3054<blockquote>
3055<a name="2.4.205">Ay, a thousand times.</a><br>
3056<p><i>Exit Romeo</i></p>
3057<a name="2.4.206">Peter!</a><br>
3058</blockquote>
3059
3060<a name="speech91"><b>PETER</b></a>
3061<blockquote>
3062<a name="2.4.207">Anon!</a><br>
3063</blockquote>
3064
3065<a name="speech92"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3066<blockquote>
3067<a name="2.4.208">Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace.</a><br>
3068<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
3069</blockquote>
3070<h3>SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
3071<p></p><blockquote>
3072<i>Enter JULIET</i>
3073</blockquote>
3074
3075<a name="speech1"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3076<blockquote>
3077<a name="2.5.1">The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;</a><br>
3078<a name="2.5.2">In half an hour she promised to return.</a><br>
3079<a name="2.5.3">Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.</a><br>
3080<a name="2.5.4">O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,</a><br>
3081<a name="2.5.5">Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,</a><br>
3082<a name="2.5.6">Driving back shadows over louring hills:</a><br>
3083<a name="2.5.7">Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,</a><br>
3084<a name="2.5.8">And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.</a><br>
3085<a name="2.5.9">Now is the sun upon the highmost hill</a><br>
3086<a name="2.5.10">Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve</a><br>
3087<a name="2.5.11">Is three long hours, yet she is not come.</a><br>
3088<a name="2.5.12">Had she affections and warm youthful blood,</a><br>
3089<a name="2.5.13">She would be as swift in motion as a ball;</a><br>
3090<a name="2.5.14">My words would bandy her to my sweet love,</a><br>
3091<a name="2.5.15">And his to me:</a><br>
3092<a name="2.5.16">But old folks, many feign as they were dead;</a><br>
3093<a name="2.5.17">Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.</a><br>
3094<a name="2.5.18">O God, she comes!</a><br>
3095<p><i>Enter Nurse and PETER</i></p>
3096<a name="2.5.19">O honey nurse, what news?</a><br>
3097<a name="2.5.20">Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.</a><br>
3098</blockquote>
3099
3100<a name="speech2"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3101<blockquote>
3102<a name="2.5.21">Peter, stay at the gate.</a><br>
3103<p><i>Exit PETER</i></p>
3104</blockquote>
3105
3106<a name="speech3"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3107<blockquote>
3108<a name="2.5.22">Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad?</a><br>
3109<a name="2.5.23">Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;</a><br>
3110<a name="2.5.24">If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news</a><br>
3111<a name="2.5.25">By playing it to me with so sour a face.</a><br>
3112</blockquote>
3113
3114<a name="speech4"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3115<blockquote>
3116<a name="2.5.26">I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:</a><br>
3117<a name="2.5.27">Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had!</a><br>
3118</blockquote>
3119
3120<a name="speech5"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3121<blockquote>
3122<a name="2.5.28">I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:</a><br>
3123<a name="2.5.29">Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak.</a><br>
3124</blockquote>
3125
3126<a name="speech6"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3127<blockquote>
3128<a name="2.5.30">Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?</a><br>
3129<a name="2.5.31">Do you not see that I am out of breath?</a><br>
3130</blockquote>
3131
3132<a name="speech7"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3133<blockquote>
3134<a name="2.5.32">How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath</a><br>
3135<a name="2.5.33">To say to me that thou art out of breath?</a><br>
3136<a name="2.5.34">The excuse that thou dost make in this delay</a><br>
3137<a name="2.5.35">Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.</a><br>
3138<a name="2.5.36">Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;</a><br>
3139<a name="2.5.37">Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:</a><br>
3140<a name="2.5.38">Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?</a><br>
3141</blockquote>
3142
3143<a name="speech8"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3144<blockquote>
3145<a name="2.5.39">Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not</a><br>
3146<a name="2.5.40">how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his</a><br>
3147<a name="2.5.41">face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels</a><br>
3148<a name="2.5.42">all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body,</a><br>
3149<a name="2.5.43">though they be not to be talked on, yet they are</a><br>
3150<a name="2.5.44">past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy,</a><br>
3151<a name="2.5.45">but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy</a><br>
3152<a name="2.5.46">ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home?</a><br>
3153</blockquote>
3154
3155<a name="speech9"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3156<blockquote>
3157<a name="2.5.47">No, no: but all this did I know before.</a><br>
3158<a name="2.5.48">What says he of our marriage? what of that?</a><br>
3159</blockquote>
3160
3161<a name="speech10"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3162<blockquote>
3163<a name="2.5.49">Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I!</a><br>
3164<a name="2.5.50">It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.</a><br>
3165<a name="2.5.51">My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back!</a><br>
3166<a name="2.5.52">Beshrew your heart for sending me about,</a><br>
3167<a name="2.5.53">To catch my death with jaunting up and down!</a><br>
3168</blockquote>
3169
3170<a name="speech11"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3171<blockquote>
3172<a name="2.5.54">I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.</a><br>
3173<a name="2.5.55">Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?</a><br>
3174</blockquote>
3175
3176<a name="speech12"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3177<blockquote>
3178<a name="2.5.56">Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a</a><br>
3179<a name="2.5.57">courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I</a><br>
3180<a name="2.5.58">warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother?</a><br>
3181</blockquote>
3182
3183<a name="speech13"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3184<blockquote>
3185<a name="2.5.59">Where is my mother! why, she is within;</a><br>
3186<a name="2.5.60">Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!</a><br>
3187<a name="2.5.61">'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,</a><br>
3188<a name="2.5.62">Where is your mother?'</a><br>
3189</blockquote>
3190
3191<a name="speech14"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3192<blockquote>
3193<a name="2.5.63">O God's lady dear!</a><br>
3194<a name="2.5.64">Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow;</a><br>
3195<a name="2.5.65">Is this the poultice for my aching bones?</a><br>
3196<a name="2.5.66">Henceforward do your messages yourself.</a><br>
3197</blockquote>
3198
3199<a name="speech15"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3200<blockquote>
3201<a name="2.5.67">Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?</a><br>
3202</blockquote>
3203
3204<a name="speech16"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3205<blockquote>
3206<a name="2.5.68">Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?</a><br>
3207</blockquote>
3208
3209<a name="speech17"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3210<blockquote>
3211<a name="2.5.69">I have.</a><br>
3212</blockquote>
3213
3214<a name="speech18"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3215<blockquote>
3216<a name="2.5.70">Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell;</a><br>
3217<a name="2.5.71">There stays a husband to make you a wife:</a><br>
3218<a name="2.5.72">Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,</a><br>
3219<a name="2.5.73">They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.</a><br>
3220<a name="2.5.74">Hie you to church; I must another way,</a><br>
3221<a name="2.5.75">To fetch a ladder, by the which your love</a><br>
3222<a name="2.5.76">Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark:</a><br>
3223<a name="2.5.77">I am the drudge and toil in your delight,</a><br>
3224<a name="2.5.78">But you shall bear the burden soon at night.</a><br>
3225<a name="2.5.79">Go; I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell.</a><br>
3226</blockquote>
3227
3228<a name="speech19"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3229<blockquote>
3230<a name="2.5.80">Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.</a><br>
3231<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
3232</blockquote>
3233<h3>SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
3234<p></p><blockquote>
3235<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO</i>
3236</blockquote>
3237
3238<a name="speech1"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
3239<blockquote>
3240<a name="2.6.1">So smile the heavens upon this holy act,</a><br>
3241<a name="2.6.2">That after hours with sorrow chide us not!</a><br>
3242</blockquote>
3243
3244<a name="speech2"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3245<blockquote>
3246<a name="2.6.3">Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,</a><br>
3247<a name="2.6.4">It cannot countervail the exchange of joy</a><br>
3248<a name="2.6.5">That one short minute gives me in her sight:</a><br>
3249<a name="2.6.6">Do thou but close our hands with holy words,</a><br>
3250<a name="2.6.7">Then love-devouring death do what he dare;</a><br>
3251<a name="2.6.8">It is enough I may but call her mine.</a><br>
3252</blockquote>
3253
3254<a name="speech3"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
3255<blockquote>
3256<a name="2.6.9">These violent delights have violent ends</a><br>
3257<a name="2.6.10">And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,</a><br>
3258<a name="2.6.11">Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey</a><br>
3259<a name="2.6.12">Is loathsome in his own deliciousness</a><br>
3260<a name="2.6.13">And in the taste confounds the appetite:</a><br>
3261<a name="2.6.14">Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;</a><br>
3262<a name="2.6.15">Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.</a><br>
3263<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
3264<a name="2.6.16">Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot</a><br>
3265<a name="2.6.17">Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:</a><br>
3266<a name="2.6.18">A lover may bestride the gossamer</a><br>
3267<a name="2.6.19">That idles in the wanton summer air,</a><br>
3268<a name="2.6.20">And yet not fall; so light is vanity.</a><br>
3269</blockquote>
3270
3271<a name="speech4"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3272<blockquote>
3273<a name="2.6.21">Good even to my ghostly confessor.</a><br>
3274</blockquote>
3275
3276<a name="speech5"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
3277<blockquote>
3278<a name="2.6.22">Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.</a><br>
3279</blockquote>
3280
3281<a name="speech6"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3282<blockquote>
3283<a name="2.6.23">As much to him, else is his thanks too much.</a><br>
3284</blockquote>
3285
3286<a name="speech7"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3287<blockquote>
3288<a name="2.6.24">Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy</a><br>
3289<a name="2.6.25">Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more</a><br>
3290<a name="2.6.26">To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath</a><br>
3291<a name="2.6.27">This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue</a><br>
3292<a name="2.6.28">Unfold the imagined happiness that both</a><br>
3293<a name="2.6.29">Receive in either by this dear encounter.</a><br>
3294</blockquote>
3295
3296<a name="speech8"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3297<blockquote>
3298<a name="2.6.30">Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,</a><br>
3299<a name="2.6.31">Brags of his substance, not of ornament:</a><br>
3300<a name="2.6.32">They are but beggars that can count their worth;</a><br>
3301<a name="2.6.33">But my true love is grown to such excess</a><br>
3302<a name="2.6.34">I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.</a><br>
3303</blockquote>
3304
3305<a name="speech9"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
3306<blockquote>
3307<a name="2.6.35">Come, come with me, and we will make short work;</a><br>
3308<a name="2.6.36">For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone</a><br>
3309<a name="2.6.37">Till holy church incorporate two in one.</a><br>
3310<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
3311</blockquote><p>
3312</p><h3>ACT III</h3>
3313<h3>SCENE I. A public place.</h3>
3314<p></p><blockquote>
3315<i>Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants</i>
3316</blockquote>
3317
3318<a name="speech1"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3319<blockquote>
3320<a name="3.1.1">I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:</a><br>
3321<a name="3.1.2">The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,</a><br>
3322<a name="3.1.3">And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;</a><br>
3323<a name="3.1.4">For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.</a><br>
3324</blockquote>
3325
3326<a name="speech2"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3327<blockquote>
3328<a name="3.1.5">Thou art like one of those fellows that when he</a><br>
3329<a name="3.1.6">enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword</a><br>
3330<a name="3.1.7">upon the table and says 'God send me no need of</a><br>
3331<a name="3.1.8">thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws</a><br>
3332<a name="3.1.9">it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.</a><br>
3333</blockquote>
3334
3335<a name="speech3"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3336<blockquote>
3337<a name="3.1.10">Am I like such a fellow?</a><br>
3338</blockquote>
3339
3340<a name="speech4"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3341<blockquote>
3342<a name="3.1.11">Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as</a><br>
3343<a name="3.1.12">any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as</a><br>
3344<a name="3.1.13">soon moody to be moved.</a><br>
3345</blockquote>
3346
3347<a name="speech5"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3348<blockquote>
3349<a name="3.1.14">And what to?</a><br>
3350</blockquote>
3351
3352<a name="speech6"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3353<blockquote>
3354<a name="3.1.15">Nay, an there were two such, we should have none</a><br>
3355<a name="3.1.16">shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why,</a><br>
3356<a name="3.1.17">thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more,</a><br>
3357<a name="3.1.18">or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou</a><br>
3358<a name="3.1.19">wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no</a><br>
3359<a name="3.1.20">other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what</a><br>
3360<a name="3.1.21">eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?</a><br>
3361<a name="3.1.22">Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of</a><br>
3362<a name="3.1.23">meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as</a><br>
3363<a name="3.1.24">an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a</a><br>
3364<a name="3.1.25">man for coughing in the street, because he hath</a><br>
3365<a name="3.1.26">wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:</a><br>
3366<a name="3.1.27">didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing</a><br>
3367<a name="3.1.28">his new doublet before Easter? with another, for</a><br>
3368<a name="3.1.29">tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou</a><br>
3369<a name="3.1.30">wilt tutor me from quarrelling!</a><br>
3370</blockquote>
3371
3372<a name="speech7"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3373<blockquote>
3374<a name="3.1.31">An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man</a><br>
3375<a name="3.1.32">should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.</a><br>
3376</blockquote>
3377
3378<a name="speech8"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3379<blockquote>
3380<a name="3.1.33">The fee-simple! O simple!</a><br>
3381</blockquote>
3382
3383<a name="speech9"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3384<blockquote>
3385<a name="3.1.34">By my head, here come the Capulets.</a><br>
3386</blockquote>
3387
3388<a name="speech10"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3389<blockquote>
3390<a name="3.1.35">By my heel, I care not.</a><br>
3391<p><i>Enter TYBALT and others</i></p>
3392</blockquote>
3393
3394<a name="speech11"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3395<blockquote>
3396<a name="3.1.36">Follow me close, for I will speak to them.</a><br>
3397<a name="3.1.37">Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.</a><br>
3398</blockquote>
3399
3400<a name="speech12"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3401<blockquote>
3402<a name="3.1.38">And but one word with one of us? couple it with</a><br>
3403<a name="3.1.39">something; make it a word and a blow.</a><br>
3404</blockquote>
3405
3406<a name="speech13"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3407<blockquote>
3408<a name="3.1.40">You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you</a><br>
3409<a name="3.1.41">will give me occasion.</a><br>
3410</blockquote>
3411
3412<a name="speech14"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3413<blockquote>
3414<a name="3.1.42">Could you not take some occasion without giving?</a><br>
3415</blockquote>
3416
3417<a name="speech15"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3418<blockquote>
3419<a name="3.1.43">Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,--</a><br>
3420</blockquote>
3421
3422<a name="speech16"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3423<blockquote>
3424<a name="3.1.44">Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an</a><br>
3425<a name="3.1.45">thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but</a><br>
3426<a name="3.1.46">discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall</a><br>
3427<a name="3.1.47">make you dance. 'Zounds, consort!</a><br>
3428</blockquote>
3429
3430<a name="speech17"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3431<blockquote>
3432<a name="3.1.48">We talk here in the public haunt of men:</a><br>
3433<a name="3.1.49">Either withdraw unto some private place,</a><br>
3434<a name="3.1.50">And reason coldly of your grievances,</a><br>
3435<a name="3.1.51">Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.</a><br>
3436</blockquote>
3437
3438<a name="speech18"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3439<blockquote>
3440<a name="3.1.52">Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;</a><br>
3441<a name="3.1.53">I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.</a><br>
3442<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
3443</blockquote>
3444
3445<a name="speech19"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3446<blockquote>
3447<a name="3.1.54">Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man.</a><br>
3448</blockquote>
3449
3450<a name="speech20"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3451<blockquote>
3452<a name="3.1.55">But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:</a><br>
3453<a name="3.1.56">Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;</a><br>
3454<a name="3.1.57">Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'</a><br>
3455</blockquote>
3456
3457<a name="speech21"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3458<blockquote>
3459<a name="3.1.58">Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford</a><br>
3460<a name="3.1.59">No better term than this,--thou art a villain.</a><br>
3461</blockquote>
3462
3463<a name="speech22"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3464<blockquote>
3465<a name="3.1.60">Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee</a><br>
3466<a name="3.1.61">Doth much excuse the appertaining rage</a><br>
3467<a name="3.1.62">To such a greeting: villain am I none;</a><br>
3468<a name="3.1.63">Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.</a><br>
3469</blockquote>
3470
3471<a name="speech23"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3472<blockquote>
3473<a name="3.1.64">Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries</a><br>
3474<a name="3.1.65">That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.</a><br>
3475</blockquote>
3476
3477<a name="speech24"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3478<blockquote>
3479<a name="3.1.66">I do protest, I never injured thee,</a><br>
3480<a name="3.1.67">But love thee better than thou canst devise,</a><br>
3481<a name="3.1.68">Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:</a><br>
3482<a name="3.1.69">And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender</a><br>
3483<a name="3.1.70">As dearly as my own,--be satisfied.</a><br>
3484</blockquote>
3485
3486<a name="speech25"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3487<blockquote>
3488<a name="3.1.71">O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!</a><br>
3489<a name="3.1.72">Alla stoccata carries it away.</a><br>
3490<p><i>Draws</i></p>
3491<a name="3.1.73">Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?</a><br>
3492</blockquote>
3493
3494<a name="speech26"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3495<blockquote>
3496<a name="3.1.74">What wouldst thou have with me?</a><br>
3497</blockquote>
3498
3499<a name="speech27"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3500<blockquote>
3501<a name="3.1.75">Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine</a><br>
3502<a name="3.1.76">lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you</a><br>
3503<a name="3.1.77">shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the</a><br>
3504<a name="3.1.78">eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher</a><br>
3505<a name="3.1.79">by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your</a><br>
3506<a name="3.1.80">ears ere it be out.</a><br>
3507</blockquote>
3508
3509<a name="speech28"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3510<blockquote>
3511<a name="3.1.81">I am for you.</a><br>
3512<p><i>Drawing</i></p>
3513</blockquote>
3514
3515<a name="speech29"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3516<blockquote>
3517<a name="3.1.82">Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.</a><br>
3518</blockquote>
3519
3520<a name="speech30"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3521<blockquote>
3522<a name="3.1.83">Come, sir, your passado.</a><br>
3523<p><i>They fight</i></p>
3524</blockquote>
3525
3526<a name="speech31"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3527<blockquote>
3528<a name="3.1.84">Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.</a><br>
3529<a name="3.1.85">Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!</a><br>
3530<a name="3.1.86">Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath</a><br>
3531<a name="3.1.87">Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:</a><br>
3532<a name="3.1.88">Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!</a><br>
3533<p><i>TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers</i></p>
3534</blockquote>
3535
3536<a name="speech32"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3537<blockquote>
3538<a name="3.1.89">I am hurt.</a><br>
3539<a name="3.1.90">A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.</a><br>
3540<a name="3.1.91">Is he gone, and hath nothing?</a><br>
3541</blockquote>
3542
3543<a name="speech33"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3544<blockquote>
3545<a name="3.1.92">What, art thou hurt?</a><br>
3546</blockquote>
3547
3548<a name="speech34"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3549<blockquote>
3550<a name="3.1.93">Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.</a><br>
3551<a name="3.1.94">Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.</a><br>
3552<p><i>Exit Page</i></p>
3553</blockquote>
3554
3555<a name="speech35"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3556<blockquote>
3557<a name="3.1.95">Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.</a><br>
3558</blockquote>
3559
3560<a name="speech36"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3561<blockquote>
3562<a name="3.1.96">No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a</a><br>
3563<a name="3.1.97">church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for</a><br>
3564<a name="3.1.98">me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I</a><br>
3565<a name="3.1.99">am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'</a><br>
3566<a name="3.1.100">both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a</a><br>
3567<a name="3.1.101">cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a</a><br>
3568<a name="3.1.102">rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of</a><br>
3569<a name="3.1.103">arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I</a><br>
3570<a name="3.1.104">was hurt under your arm.</a><br>
3571</blockquote>
3572
3573<a name="speech37"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3574<blockquote>
3575<a name="3.1.105">I thought all for the best.</a><br>
3576</blockquote>
3577
3578<a name="speech38"><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
3579<blockquote>
3580<a name="3.1.106">Help me into some house, Benvolio,</a><br>
3581<a name="3.1.107">Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!</a><br>
3582<a name="3.1.108">They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,</a><br>
3583<a name="3.1.109">And soundly too: your houses!</a><br>
3584<p><i>Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO</i></p>
3585</blockquote>
3586
3587<a name="speech39"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3588<blockquote>
3589<a name="3.1.110">This gentleman, the prince's near ally,</a><br>
3590<a name="3.1.111">My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt</a><br>
3591<a name="3.1.112">In my behalf; my reputation stain'd</a><br>
3592<a name="3.1.113">With Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hour</a><br>
3593<a name="3.1.114">Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,</a><br>
3594<a name="3.1.115">Thy beauty hath made me effeminate</a><br>
3595<a name="3.1.116">And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!</a><br>
3596<p><i>Re-enter BENVOLIO</i></p>
3597</blockquote>
3598
3599<a name="speech40"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3600<blockquote>
3601<a name="3.1.117">O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!</a><br>
3602<a name="3.1.118">That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,</a><br>
3603<a name="3.1.119">Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.</a><br>
3604</blockquote>
3605
3606<a name="speech41"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3607<blockquote>
3608<a name="3.1.120">This day's black fate on more days doth depend;</a><br>
3609<a name="3.1.121">This but begins the woe, others must end.</a><br>
3610</blockquote>
3611
3612<a name="speech42"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3613<blockquote>
3614<a name="3.1.122">Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.</a><br>
3615</blockquote>
3616
3617<a name="speech43"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3618<blockquote>
3619<a name="3.1.123">Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!</a><br>
3620<a name="3.1.124">Away to heaven, respective lenity,</a><br>
3621<a name="3.1.125">And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!</a><br>
3622<p><i>Re-enter TYBALT</i></p>
3623<a name="3.1.126">Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,</a><br>
3624<a name="3.1.127">That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul</a><br>
3625<a name="3.1.128">Is but a little way above our heads,</a><br>
3626<a name="3.1.129">Staying for thine to keep him company:</a><br>
3627<a name="3.1.130">Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.</a><br>
3628</blockquote>
3629
3630<a name="speech44"><b>TYBALT</b></a>
3631<blockquote>
3632<a name="3.1.131">Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,</a><br>
3633<a name="3.1.132">Shalt with him hence.</a><br>
3634</blockquote>
3635
3636<a name="speech45"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3637<blockquote>
3638<a name="3.1.133">This shall determine that.</a><br>
3639<p><i>They fight; TYBALT falls</i></p>
3640</blockquote>
3641
3642<a name="speech46"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3643<blockquote>
3644<a name="3.1.134">Romeo, away, be gone!</a><br>
3645<a name="3.1.135">The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.</a><br>
3646<a name="3.1.136">Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,</a><br>
3647<a name="3.1.137">If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!</a><br>
3648</blockquote>
3649
3650<a name="speech47"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
3651<blockquote>
3652<a name="3.1.138">O, I am fortune's fool!</a><br>
3653</blockquote>
3654
3655<a name="speech48"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3656<blockquote>
3657<a name="3.1.139">Why dost thou stay?</a><br>
3658<p><i>Exit ROMEO</i></p>
3659<p><i>Enter Citizens, & c</i></p>
3660</blockquote>
3661
3662<a name="speech49"><b>First Citizen</b></a>
3663<blockquote>
3664<a name="3.1.140">Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio?</a><br>
3665<a name="3.1.141">Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?</a><br>
3666</blockquote>
3667
3668<a name="speech50"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3669<blockquote>
3670<a name="3.1.142">There lies that Tybalt.</a><br>
3671</blockquote>
3672
3673<a name="speech51"><b>First Citizen</b></a>
3674<blockquote>
3675<a name="3.1.143">Up, sir, go with me;</a><br>
3676<a name="3.1.144">I charge thee in the princes name, obey.</a><br>
3677<p><i>Enter Prince, attended; MONTAGUE, CAPULET, their Wives, and others</i></p>
3678</blockquote>
3679
3680<a name="speech52"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
3681<blockquote>
3682<a name="3.1.145">Where are the vile beginners of this fray?</a><br>
3683</blockquote>
3684
3685<a name="speech53"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3686<blockquote>
3687<a name="3.1.146">O noble prince, I can discover all</a><br>
3688<a name="3.1.147">The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:</a><br>
3689<a name="3.1.148">There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,</a><br>
3690<a name="3.1.149">That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.</a><br>
3691</blockquote>
3692
3693<a name="speech54"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
3694<blockquote>
3695<a name="3.1.150">Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!</a><br>
3696<a name="3.1.151">O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt</a><br>
3697<a name="3.1.152">O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,</a><br>
3698<a name="3.1.153">For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague.</a><br>
3699<a name="3.1.154">O cousin, cousin!</a><br>
3700</blockquote>
3701
3702<a name="speech55"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
3703<blockquote>
3704<a name="3.1.155">Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?</a><br>
3705</blockquote>
3706
3707<a name="speech56"><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
3708<blockquote>
3709<a name="3.1.156">Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay;</a><br>
3710<a name="3.1.157">Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink</a><br>
3711<a name="3.1.158">How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal</a><br>
3712<a name="3.1.159">Your high displeasure: all this uttered</a><br>
3713<a name="3.1.160">With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,</a><br>
3714<a name="3.1.161">Could not take truce with the unruly spleen</a><br>
3715<a name="3.1.162">Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts</a><br>
3716<a name="3.1.163">With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,</a><br>
3717<a name="3.1.164">Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,</a><br>
3718<a name="3.1.165">And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats</a><br>
3719<a name="3.1.166">Cold death aside, and with the other sends</a><br>
3720<a name="3.1.167">It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,</a><br>
3721<a name="3.1.168">Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,</a><br>
3722<a name="3.1.169">'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than</a><br>
3723<a name="3.1.170">his tongue,</a><br>
3724<a name="3.1.171">His agile arm beats down their fatal points,</a><br>
3725<a name="3.1.172">And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm</a><br>
3726<a name="3.1.173">An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life</a><br>
3727<a name="3.1.174">Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled;</a><br>
3728<a name="3.1.175">But by and by comes back to Romeo,</a><br>
3729<a name="3.1.176">Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,</a><br>
3730<a name="3.1.177">And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I</a><br>
3731<a name="3.1.178">Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.</a><br>
3732<a name="3.1.179">And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.</a><br>
3733<a name="3.1.180">This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.</a><br>
3734</blockquote>
3735
3736<a name="speech57"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
3737<blockquote>
3738<a name="3.1.181">He is a kinsman to the Montague;</a><br>
3739<a name="3.1.182">Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:</a><br>
3740<a name="3.1.183">Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,</a><br>
3741<a name="3.1.184">And all those twenty could but kill one life.</a><br>
3742<a name="3.1.185">I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;</a><br>
3743<a name="3.1.186">Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.</a><br>
3744</blockquote>
3745
3746<a name="speech58"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
3747<blockquote>
3748<a name="3.1.187">Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;</a><br>
3749<a name="3.1.188">Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?</a><br>
3750</blockquote>
3751
3752<a name="speech59"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
3753<blockquote>
3754<a name="3.1.189">Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend;</a><br>
3755<a name="3.1.190">His fault concludes but what the law should end,</a><br>
3756<a name="3.1.191">The life of Tybalt.</a><br>
3757</blockquote>
3758
3759<a name="speech60"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
3760<blockquote>
3761<a name="3.1.192">And for that offence</a><br>
3762<a name="3.1.193">Immediately we do exile him hence:</a><br>
3763<a name="3.1.194">I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,</a><br>
3764<a name="3.1.195">My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;</a><br>
3765<a name="3.1.196">But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine</a><br>
3766<a name="3.1.197">That you shall all repent the loss of mine:</a><br>
3767<a name="3.1.198">I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;</a><br>
3768<a name="3.1.199">Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:</a><br>
3769<a name="3.1.200">Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,</a><br>
3770<a name="3.1.201">Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.</a><br>
3771<a name="3.1.202">Bear hence this body and attend our will:</a><br>
3772<a name="3.1.203">Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.</a><br>
3773<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
3774</blockquote>
3775<h3>SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
3776<p></p><blockquote>
3777<i>Enter JULIET</i>
3778</blockquote>
3779
3780<a name="speech1"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3781<blockquote>
3782<a name="3.2.1">Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,</a><br>
3783<a name="3.2.2">Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner</a><br>
3784<a name="3.2.3">As Phaethon would whip you to the west,</a><br>
3785<a name="3.2.4">And bring in cloudy night immediately.</a><br>
3786<a name="3.2.5">Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,</a><br>
3787<a name="3.2.6">That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo</a><br>
3788<a name="3.2.7">Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.</a><br>
3789<a name="3.2.8">Lovers can see to do their amorous rites</a><br>
3790<a name="3.2.9">By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,</a><br>
3791<a name="3.2.10">It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,</a><br>
3792<a name="3.2.11">Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,</a><br>
3793<a name="3.2.12">And learn me how to lose a winning match,</a><br>
3794<a name="3.2.13">Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:</a><br>
3795<a name="3.2.14">Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,</a><br>
3796<a name="3.2.15">With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,</a><br>
3797<a name="3.2.16">Think true love acted simple modesty.</a><br>
3798<a name="3.2.17">Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;</a><br>
3799<a name="3.2.18">For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night</a><br>
3800<a name="3.2.19">Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.</a><br>
3801<a name="3.2.20">Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,</a><br>
3802<a name="3.2.21">Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,</a><br>
3803<a name="3.2.22">Take him and cut him out in little stars,</a><br>
3804<a name="3.2.23">And he will make the face of heaven so fine</a><br>
3805<a name="3.2.24">That all the world will be in love with night</a><br>
3806<a name="3.2.25">And pay no worship to the garish sun.</a><br>
3807<a name="3.2.26">O, I have bought the mansion of a love,</a><br>
3808<a name="3.2.27">But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,</a><br>
3809<a name="3.2.28">Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day</a><br>
3810<a name="3.2.29">As is the night before some festival</a><br>
3811<a name="3.2.30">To an impatient child that hath new robes</a><br>
3812<a name="3.2.31">And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse,</a><br>
3813<a name="3.2.32">And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks</a><br>
3814<a name="3.2.33">But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.</a><br>
3815<p><i>Enter Nurse, with cords</i></p>
3816<a name="3.2.34">Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords</a><br>
3817<a name="3.2.35">That Romeo bid thee fetch?</a><br>
3818</blockquote>
3819
3820<a name="speech2"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3821<blockquote>
3822<a name="3.2.36">Ay, ay, the cords.</a><br>
3823<p><i>Throws them down</i></p>
3824</blockquote>
3825
3826<a name="speech3"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3827<blockquote>
3828<a name="3.2.37">Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands?</a><br>
3829</blockquote>
3830
3831<a name="speech4"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3832<blockquote>
3833<a name="3.2.38">Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!</a><br>
3834<a name="3.2.39">We are undone, lady, we are undone!</a><br>
3835<a name="3.2.40">Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead!</a><br>
3836</blockquote>
3837
3838<a name="speech5"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3839<blockquote>
3840<a name="3.2.41">Can heaven be so envious?</a><br>
3841</blockquote>
3842
3843<a name="speech6"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3844<blockquote>
3845<a name="3.2.42">Romeo can,</a><br>
3846<a name="3.2.43">Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!</a><br>
3847<a name="3.2.44">Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!</a><br>
3848</blockquote>
3849
3850<a name="speech7"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3851<blockquote>
3852<a name="3.2.45">What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus?</a><br>
3853<a name="3.2.46">This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell.</a><br>
3854<a name="3.2.47">Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'</a><br>
3855<a name="3.2.48">And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more</a><br>
3856<a name="3.2.49">Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:</a><br>
3857<a name="3.2.50">I am not I, if there be such an I;</a><br>
3858<a name="3.2.51">Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'</a><br>
3859<a name="3.2.52">If he be slain, say 'I'; or if not, no:</a><br>
3860<a name="3.2.53">Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.</a><br>
3861</blockquote>
3862
3863<a name="speech8"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3864<blockquote>
3865<a name="3.2.54">I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,--</a><br>
3866<a name="3.2.55">God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:</a><br>
3867<a name="3.2.56">A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;</a><br>
3868<a name="3.2.57">Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,</a><br>
3869<a name="3.2.58">All in gore-blood; I swounded at the sight.</a><br>
3870</blockquote>
3871
3872<a name="speech9"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3873<blockquote>
3874<a name="3.2.59">O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!</a><br>
3875<a name="3.2.60">To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty!</a><br>
3876<a name="3.2.61">Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;</a><br>
3877<a name="3.2.62">And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!</a><br>
3878</blockquote>
3879
3880<a name="speech10"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3881<blockquote>
3882<a name="3.2.63">O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!</a><br>
3883<a name="3.2.64">O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman!</a><br>
3884<a name="3.2.65">That ever I should live to see thee dead!</a><br>
3885</blockquote>
3886
3887<a name="speech11"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3888<blockquote>
3889<a name="3.2.66">What storm is this that blows so contrary?</a><br>
3890<a name="3.2.67">Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?</a><br>
3891<a name="3.2.68">My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?</a><br>
3892<a name="3.2.69">Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!</a><br>
3893<a name="3.2.70">For who is living, if those two are gone?</a><br>
3894</blockquote>
3895
3896<a name="speech12"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3897<blockquote>
3898<a name="3.2.71">Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished;</a><br>
3899<a name="3.2.72">Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished.</a><br>
3900</blockquote>
3901
3902<a name="speech13"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3903<blockquote>
3904<a name="3.2.73">O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?</a><br>
3905</blockquote>
3906
3907<a name="speech14"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3908<blockquote>
3909<a name="3.2.74">It did, it did; alas the day, it did!</a><br>
3910</blockquote>
3911
3912<a name="speech15"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3913<blockquote>
3914<a name="3.2.75">O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!</a><br>
3915<a name="3.2.76">Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?</a><br>
3916<a name="3.2.77">Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!</a><br>
3917<a name="3.2.78">Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!</a><br>
3918<a name="3.2.79">Despised substance of divinest show!</a><br>
3919<a name="3.2.80">Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,</a><br>
3920<a name="3.2.81">A damned saint, an honourable villain!</a><br>
3921<a name="3.2.82">O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,</a><br>
3922<a name="3.2.83">When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend</a><br>
3923<a name="3.2.84">In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?</a><br>
3924<a name="3.2.85">Was ever book containing such vile matter</a><br>
3925<a name="3.2.86">So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell</a><br>
3926<a name="3.2.87">In such a gorgeous palace!</a><br>
3927</blockquote>
3928
3929<a name="speech16"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3930<blockquote>
3931<a name="3.2.88">There's no trust,</a><br>
3932<a name="3.2.89">No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,</a><br>
3933<a name="3.2.90">All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.</a><br>
3934<a name="3.2.91">Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:</a><br>
3935<a name="3.2.92">These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.</a><br>
3936<a name="3.2.93">Shame come to Romeo!</a><br>
3937</blockquote>
3938
3939<a name="speech17"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3940<blockquote>
3941<a name="3.2.94">Blister'd be thy tongue</a><br>
3942<a name="3.2.95">For such a wish! he was not born to shame:</a><br>
3943<a name="3.2.96">Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;</a><br>
3944<a name="3.2.97">For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd</a><br>
3945<a name="3.2.98">Sole monarch of the universal earth.</a><br>
3946<a name="3.2.99">O, what a beast was I to chide at him!</a><br>
3947</blockquote>
3948
3949<a name="speech18"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3950<blockquote>
3951<a name="3.2.100">Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?</a><br>
3952</blockquote>
3953
3954<a name="speech19"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3955<blockquote>
3956<a name="3.2.101">Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?</a><br>
3957<a name="3.2.102">Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,</a><br>
3958<a name="3.2.103">When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?</a><br>
3959<a name="3.2.104">But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?</a><br>
3960<a name="3.2.105">That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:</a><br>
3961<a name="3.2.106">Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;</a><br>
3962<a name="3.2.107">Your tributary drops belong to woe,</a><br>
3963<a name="3.2.108">Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.</a><br>
3964<a name="3.2.109">My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;</a><br>
3965<a name="3.2.110">And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:</a><br>
3966<a name="3.2.111">All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?</a><br>
3967<a name="3.2.112">Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,</a><br>
3968<a name="3.2.113">That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;</a><br>
3969<a name="3.2.114">But, O, it presses to my memory,</a><br>
3970<a name="3.2.115">Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:</a><br>
3971<a name="3.2.116">'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished;'</a><br>
3972<a name="3.2.117">That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'</a><br>
3973<a name="3.2.118">Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death</a><br>
3974<a name="3.2.119">Was woe enough, if it had ended there:</a><br>
3975<a name="3.2.120">Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship</a><br>
3976<a name="3.2.121">And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,</a><br>
3977<a name="3.2.122">Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'</a><br>
3978<a name="3.2.123">Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,</a><br>
3979<a name="3.2.124">Which modern lamentations might have moved?</a><br>
3980<a name="3.2.125">But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,</a><br>
3981<a name="3.2.126">'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,</a><br>
3982<a name="3.2.127">Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,</a><br>
3983<a name="3.2.128">All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'</a><br>
3984<a name="3.2.129">There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,</a><br>
3985<a name="3.2.130">In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.</a><br>
3986<a name="3.2.131">Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?</a><br>
3987</blockquote>
3988
3989<a name="speech20"><b>Nurse</b></a>
3990<blockquote>
3991<a name="3.2.132">Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse:</a><br>
3992<a name="3.2.133">Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.</a><br>
3993</blockquote>
3994
3995<a name="speech21"><b>JULIET</b></a>
3996<blockquote>
3997<a name="3.2.134">Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,</a><br>
3998<a name="3.2.135">When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.</a><br>
3999<a name="3.2.136">Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,</a><br>
4000<a name="3.2.137">Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:</a><br>
4001<a name="3.2.138">He made you for a highway to my bed;</a><br>
4002<a name="3.2.139">But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.</a><br>
4003<a name="3.2.140">Come, cords, come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;</a><br>
4004<a name="3.2.141">And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!</a><br>
4005</blockquote>
4006
4007<a name="speech22"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4008<blockquote>
4009<a name="3.2.142">Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo</a><br>
4010<a name="3.2.143">To comfort you: I wot well where he is.</a><br>
4011<a name="3.2.144">Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:</a><br>
4012<a name="3.2.145">I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell.</a><br>
4013</blockquote>
4014
4015<a name="speech23"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4016<blockquote>
4017<a name="3.2.146">O, find him! give this ring to my true knight,</a><br>
4018<a name="3.2.147">And bid him come to take his last farewell.</a><br>
4019<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4020</blockquote>
4021<h3>SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
4022<p></p><blockquote>
4023<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE</i>
4024</blockquote>
4025
4026<a name="speech1"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4027<blockquote>
4028<a name="3.3.1">Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:</a><br>
4029<a name="3.3.2">Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,</a><br>
4030<a name="3.3.3">And thou art wedded to calamity.</a><br>
4031<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
4032</blockquote>
4033
4034<a name="speech2"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4035<blockquote>
4036<a name="3.3.4">Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?</a><br>
4037<a name="3.3.5">What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,</a><br>
4038<a name="3.3.6">That I yet know not?</a><br>
4039</blockquote>
4040
4041<a name="speech3"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4042<blockquote>
4043<a name="3.3.7">Too familiar</a><br>
4044<a name="3.3.8">Is my dear son with such sour company:</a><br>
4045<a name="3.3.9">I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.</a><br>
4046</blockquote>
4047
4048<a name="speech4"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4049<blockquote>
4050<a name="3.3.10">What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?</a><br>
4051</blockquote>
4052
4053<a name="speech5"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4054<blockquote>
4055<a name="3.3.11">A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,</a><br>
4056<a name="3.3.12">Not body's death, but body's banishment.</a><br>
4057</blockquote>
4058
4059<a name="speech6"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4060<blockquote>
4061<a name="3.3.13">Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'</a><br>
4062<a name="3.3.14">For exile hath more terror in his look,</a><br>
4063<a name="3.3.15">Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'</a><br>
4064</blockquote>
4065
4066<a name="speech7"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4067<blockquote>
4068<a name="3.3.16">Hence from Verona art thou banished:</a><br>
4069<a name="3.3.17">Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.</a><br>
4070</blockquote>
4071
4072<a name="speech8"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4073<blockquote>
4074<a name="3.3.18">There is no world without Verona walls,</a><br>
4075<a name="3.3.19">But purgatory, torture, hell itself.</a><br>
4076<a name="3.3.20">Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,</a><br>
4077<a name="3.3.21">And world's exile is death: then banished,</a><br>
4078<a name="3.3.22">Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,</a><br>
4079<a name="3.3.23">Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,</a><br>
4080<a name="3.3.24">And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.</a><br>
4081</blockquote>
4082
4083<a name="speech9"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4084<blockquote>
4085<a name="3.3.25">O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!</a><br>
4086<a name="3.3.26">Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,</a><br>
4087<a name="3.3.27">Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,</a><br>
4088<a name="3.3.28">And turn'd that black word death to banishment:</a><br>
4089<a name="3.3.29">This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.</a><br>
4090</blockquote>
4091
4092<a name="speech10"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4093<blockquote>
4094<a name="3.3.30">'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,</a><br>
4095<a name="3.3.31">Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog</a><br>
4096<a name="3.3.32">And little mouse, every unworthy thing,</a><br>
4097<a name="3.3.33">Live here in heaven and may look on her;</a><br>
4098<a name="3.3.34">But Romeo may not: more validity,</a><br>
4099<a name="3.3.35">More honourable state, more courtship lives</a><br>
4100<a name="3.3.36">In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize</a><br>
4101<a name="3.3.37">On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand</a><br>
4102<a name="3.3.38">And steal immortal blessing from her lips,</a><br>
4103<a name="3.3.39">Who even in pure and vestal modesty,</a><br>
4104<a name="3.3.40">Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;</a><br>
4105<a name="3.3.41">But Romeo may not; he is banished:</a><br>
4106<a name="3.3.42">Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:</a><br>
4107<a name="3.3.43">They are free men, but I am banished.</a><br>
4108<a name="3.3.44">And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?</a><br>
4109<a name="3.3.45">Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,</a><br>
4110<a name="3.3.46">No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,</a><br>
4111<a name="3.3.47">But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?</a><br>
4112<a name="3.3.48">O friar, the damned use that word in hell;</a><br>
4113<a name="3.3.49">Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,</a><br>
4114<a name="3.3.50">Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,</a><br>
4115<a name="3.3.51">A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,</a><br>
4116<a name="3.3.52">To mangle me with that word 'banished'?</a><br>
4117</blockquote>
4118
4119<a name="speech11"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4120<blockquote>
4121<a name="3.3.53">Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.</a><br>
4122</blockquote>
4123
4124<a name="speech12"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4125<blockquote>
4126<a name="3.3.54">O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.</a><br>
4127</blockquote>
4128
4129<a name="speech13"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4130<blockquote>
4131<a name="3.3.55">I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:</a><br>
4132<a name="3.3.56">Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,</a><br>
4133<a name="3.3.57">To comfort thee, though thou art banished.</a><br>
4134</blockquote>
4135
4136<a name="speech14"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4137<blockquote>
4138<a name="3.3.58">Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy!</a><br>
4139<a name="3.3.59">Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,</a><br>
4140<a name="3.3.60">Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,</a><br>
4141<a name="3.3.61">It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.</a><br>
4142</blockquote>
4143
4144<a name="speech15"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4145<blockquote>
4146<a name="3.3.62">O, then I see that madmen have no ears.</a><br>
4147</blockquote>
4148
4149<a name="speech16"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4150<blockquote>
4151<a name="3.3.63">How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?</a><br>
4152</blockquote>
4153
4154<a name="speech17"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4155<blockquote>
4156<a name="3.3.64">Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.</a><br>
4157</blockquote>
4158
4159<a name="speech18"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4160<blockquote>
4161<a name="3.3.65">Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:</a><br>
4162<a name="3.3.66">Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,</a><br>
4163<a name="3.3.67">An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,</a><br>
4164<a name="3.3.68">Doting like me and like me banished,</a><br>
4165<a name="3.3.69">Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,</a><br>
4166<a name="3.3.70">And fall upon the ground, as I do now,</a><br>
4167<a name="3.3.71">Taking the measure of an unmade grave.</a><br>
4168<p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
4169</blockquote>
4170
4171<a name="speech19"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4172<blockquote>
4173<a name="3.3.72">Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself.</a><br>
4174</blockquote>
4175
4176<a name="speech20"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4177<blockquote>
4178<a name="3.3.73">Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans,</a><br>
4179<a name="3.3.74">Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.</a><br>
4180<p><i>Knocking</i></p>
4181</blockquote>
4182
4183<a name="speech21"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4184<blockquote>
4185<a name="3.3.75">Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise;</a><br>
4186<a name="3.3.76">Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up;</a><br>
4187<p><i>Knocking</i></p>
4188<a name="3.3.77">Run to my study. By and by! God's will,</a><br>
4189<a name="3.3.78">What simpleness is this! I come, I come!</a><br>
4190<p><i>Knocking</i></p>
4191<a name="3.3.79">Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?</a><br>
4192</blockquote>
4193
4194<a name="speech22"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4195<blockquote>
4196<a name="3.3.80">[Within] Let me come in, and you shall know</a><br>
4197<a name="3.3.81">my errand;</a><br>
4198<a name="3.3.82">I come from Lady Juliet.</a><br>
4199</blockquote>
4200
4201<a name="speech23"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4202<blockquote>
4203<a name="3.3.83">Welcome, then.</a><br>
4204<p><i>Enter Nurse</i></p>
4205</blockquote>
4206
4207<a name="speech24"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4208<blockquote>
4209<a name="3.3.84">O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,</a><br>
4210<a name="3.3.85">Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?</a><br>
4211</blockquote>
4212
4213<a name="speech25"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4214<blockquote>
4215<a name="3.3.86">There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.</a><br>
4216</blockquote>
4217
4218<a name="speech26"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4219<blockquote>
4220<a name="3.3.87">O, he is even in my mistress' case,</a><br>
4221<a name="3.3.88">Just in her case! O woful sympathy!</a><br>
4222<a name="3.3.89">Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,</a><br>
4223<a name="3.3.90">Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.</a><br>
4224<a name="3.3.91">Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man:</a><br>
4225<a name="3.3.92">For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;</a><br>
4226<a name="3.3.93">Why should you fall into so deep an O?</a><br>
4227</blockquote>
4228
4229<a name="speech27"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4230<blockquote>
4231<a name="3.3.94">Nurse!</a><br>
4232</blockquote>
4233
4234<a name="speech28"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4235<blockquote>
4236<a name="3.3.95">Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all.</a><br>
4237</blockquote>
4238
4239<a name="speech29"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4240<blockquote>
4241<a name="3.3.96">Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?</a><br>
4242<a name="3.3.97">Doth she not think me an old murderer,</a><br>
4243<a name="3.3.98">Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy</a><br>
4244<a name="3.3.99">With blood removed but little from her own?</a><br>
4245<a name="3.3.100">Where is she? and how doth she? and what says</a><br>
4246<a name="3.3.101">My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?</a><br>
4247</blockquote>
4248
4249<a name="speech30"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4250<blockquote>
4251<a name="3.3.102">O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;</a><br>
4252<a name="3.3.103">And now falls on her bed; and then starts up,</a><br>
4253<a name="3.3.104">And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,</a><br>
4254<a name="3.3.105">And then down falls again.</a><br>
4255</blockquote>
4256
4257<a name="speech31"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4258<blockquote>
4259<a name="3.3.106">As if that name,</a><br>
4260<a name="3.3.107">Shot from the deadly level of a gun,</a><br>
4261<a name="3.3.108">Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand</a><br>
4262<a name="3.3.109">Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,</a><br>
4263<a name="3.3.110">In what vile part of this anatomy</a><br>
4264<a name="3.3.111">Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack</a><br>
4265<a name="3.3.112">The hateful mansion.</a><br>
4266<p><i>Drawing his sword</i></p>
4267</blockquote>
4268
4269<a name="speech32"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4270<blockquote>
4271<a name="3.3.113">Hold thy desperate hand:</a><br>
4272<a name="3.3.114">Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:</a><br>
4273<a name="3.3.115">Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote</a><br>
4274<a name="3.3.116">The unreasonable fury of a beast:</a><br>
4275<a name="3.3.117">Unseemly woman in a seeming man!</a><br>
4276<a name="3.3.118">Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!</a><br>
4277<a name="3.3.119">Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,</a><br>
4278<a name="3.3.120">I thought thy disposition better temper'd.</a><br>
4279<a name="3.3.121">Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?</a><br>
4280<a name="3.3.122">And stay thy lady too that lives in thee,</a><br>
4281<a name="3.3.123">By doing damned hate upon thyself?</a><br>
4282<a name="3.3.124">Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?</a><br>
4283<a name="3.3.125">Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet</a><br>
4284<a name="3.3.126">In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose.</a><br>
4285<a name="3.3.127">Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;</a><br>
4286<a name="3.3.128">Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,</a><br>
4287<a name="3.3.129">And usest none in that true use indeed</a><br>
4288<a name="3.3.130">Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:</a><br>
4289<a name="3.3.131">Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,</a><br>
4290<a name="3.3.132">Digressing from the valour of a man;</a><br>
4291<a name="3.3.133">Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,</a><br>
4292<a name="3.3.134">Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;</a><br>
4293<a name="3.3.135">Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,</a><br>
4294<a name="3.3.136">Misshapen in the conduct of them both,</a><br>
4295<a name="3.3.137">Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask,</a><br>
4296<a name="3.3.138">Is set afire by thine own ignorance,</a><br>
4297<a name="3.3.139">And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.</a><br>
4298<a name="3.3.140">What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,</a><br>
4299<a name="3.3.141">For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;</a><br>
4300<a name="3.3.142">There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,</a><br>
4301<a name="3.3.143">But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too:</a><br>
4302<a name="3.3.144">The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend</a><br>
4303<a name="3.3.145">And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:</a><br>
4304<a name="3.3.146">A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back;</a><br>
4305<a name="3.3.147">Happiness courts thee in her best array;</a><br>
4306<a name="3.3.148">But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,</a><br>
4307<a name="3.3.149">Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:</a><br>
4308<a name="3.3.150">Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.</a><br>
4309<a name="3.3.151">Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,</a><br>
4310<a name="3.3.152">Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:</a><br>
4311<a name="3.3.153">But look thou stay not till the watch be set,</a><br>
4312<a name="3.3.154">For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;</a><br>
4313<a name="3.3.155">Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time</a><br>
4314<a name="3.3.156">To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,</a><br>
4315<a name="3.3.157">Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back</a><br>
4316<a name="3.3.158">With twenty hundred thousand times more joy</a><br>
4317<a name="3.3.159">Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.</a><br>
4318<a name="3.3.160">Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;</a><br>
4319<a name="3.3.161">And bid her hasten all the house to bed,</a><br>
4320<a name="3.3.162">Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:</a><br>
4321<a name="3.3.163">Romeo is coming.</a><br>
4322</blockquote>
4323
4324<a name="speech33"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4325<blockquote>
4326<a name="3.3.164">O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night</a><br>
4327<a name="3.3.165">To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!</a><br>
4328<a name="3.3.166">My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.</a><br>
4329</blockquote>
4330
4331<a name="speech34"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4332<blockquote>
4333<a name="3.3.167">Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.</a><br>
4334</blockquote>
4335
4336<a name="speech35"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4337<blockquote>
4338<a name="3.3.168">Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:</a><br>
4339<a name="3.3.169">Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.</a><br>
4340<p><i>Exit</i></p>
4341</blockquote>
4342
4343<a name="speech36"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4344<blockquote>
4345<a name="3.3.170">How well my comfort is revived by this!</a><br>
4346</blockquote>
4347
4348<a name="speech37"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4349<blockquote>
4350<a name="3.3.171">Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:</a><br>
4351<a name="3.3.172">Either be gone before the watch be set,</a><br>
4352<a name="3.3.173">Or by the break of day disguised from hence:</a><br>
4353<a name="3.3.174">Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,</a><br>
4354<a name="3.3.175">And he shall signify from time to time</a><br>
4355<a name="3.3.176">Every good hap to you that chances here:</a><br>
4356<a name="3.3.177">Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.</a><br>
4357</blockquote>
4358
4359<a name="speech38"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4360<blockquote>
4361<a name="3.3.178">But that a joy past joy calls out on me,</a><br>
4362<a name="3.3.179">It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell.</a><br>
4363<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4364</blockquote>
4365<h3>SCENE IV. A room in Capulet's house.</h3>
4366<p></p><blockquote>
4367<i>Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS</i>
4368</blockquote>
4369
4370<a name="speech1"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4371<blockquote>
4372<a name="3.4.1">Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,</a><br>
4373<a name="3.4.2">That we have had no time to move our daughter:</a><br>
4374<a name="3.4.3">Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,</a><br>
4375<a name="3.4.4">And so did I:--Well, we were born to die.</a><br>
4376<a name="3.4.5">'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:</a><br>
4377<a name="3.4.6">I promise you, but for your company,</a><br>
4378<a name="3.4.7">I would have been a-bed an hour ago.</a><br>
4379</blockquote>
4380
4381<a name="speech2"><b>PARIS</b></a>
4382<blockquote>
4383<a name="3.4.8">These times of woe afford no time to woo.</a><br>
4384<a name="3.4.9">Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.</a><br>
4385</blockquote>
4386
4387<a name="speech3"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4388<blockquote>
4389<a name="3.4.10">I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;</a><br>
4390<a name="3.4.11">To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.</a><br>
4391</blockquote>
4392
4393<a name="speech4"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4394<blockquote>
4395<a name="3.4.12">Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender</a><br>
4396<a name="3.4.13">Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled</a><br>
4397<a name="3.4.14">In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.</a><br>
4398<a name="3.4.15">Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;</a><br>
4399<a name="3.4.16">Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;</a><br>
4400<a name="3.4.17">And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--</a><br>
4401<a name="3.4.18">But, soft! what day is this?</a><br>
4402</blockquote>
4403
4404<a name="speech5"><b>PARIS</b></a>
4405<blockquote>
4406<a name="3.4.19">Monday, my lord,</a><br>
4407</blockquote>
4408
4409<a name="speech6"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4410<blockquote>
4411<a name="3.4.20">Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,</a><br>
4412<a name="3.4.21">O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,</a><br>
4413<a name="3.4.22">She shall be married to this noble earl.</a><br>
4414<a name="3.4.23">Will you be ready? do you like this haste?</a><br>
4415<a name="3.4.24">We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two;</a><br>
4416<a name="3.4.25">For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,</a><br>
4417<a name="3.4.26">It may be thought we held him carelessly,</a><br>
4418<a name="3.4.27">Being our kinsman, if we revel much:</a><br>
4419<a name="3.4.28">Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,</a><br>
4420<a name="3.4.29">And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?</a><br>
4421</blockquote>
4422
4423<a name="speech7"><b>PARIS</b></a>
4424<blockquote>
4425<a name="3.4.30">My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.</a><br>
4426</blockquote>
4427
4428<a name="speech8"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4429<blockquote>
4430<a name="3.4.31">Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then.</a><br>
4431<a name="3.4.32">Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,</a><br>
4432<a name="3.4.33">Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.</a><br>
4433<a name="3.4.34">Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!</a><br>
4434<a name="3.4.35">Afore me! it is so very very late,</a><br>
4435<a name="3.4.36">That we may call it early by and by.</a><br>
4436<a name="3.4.37">Good night.</a><br>
4437<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
4438</blockquote>
4439<h3>SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
4440<p></p><blockquote>
4441<i>Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the window</i>
4442</blockquote>
4443
4444<a name="speech1"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4445<blockquote>
4446<a name="3.5.1">Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:</a><br>
4447<a name="3.5.2">It was the nightingale, and not the lark,</a><br>
4448<a name="3.5.3">That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;</a><br>
4449<a name="3.5.4">Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:</a><br>
4450<a name="3.5.5">Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.</a><br>
4451</blockquote>
4452
4453<a name="speech2"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4454<blockquote>
4455<a name="3.5.6">It was the lark, the herald of the morn,</a><br>
4456<a name="3.5.7">No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks</a><br>
4457<a name="3.5.8">Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:</a><br>
4458<a name="3.5.9">Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day</a><br>
4459<a name="3.5.10">Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.</a><br>
4460<a name="3.5.11">I must be gone and live, or stay and die.</a><br>
4461</blockquote>
4462
4463<a name="speech3"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4464<blockquote>
4465<a name="3.5.12">Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:</a><br>
4466<a name="3.5.13">It is some meteor that the sun exhales,</a><br>
4467<a name="3.5.14">To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,</a><br>
4468<a name="3.5.15">And light thee on thy way to Mantua:</a><br>
4469<a name="3.5.16">Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.</a><br>
4470</blockquote>
4471
4472<a name="speech4"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4473<blockquote>
4474<a name="3.5.17">Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;</a><br>
4475<a name="3.5.18">I am content, so thou wilt have it so.</a><br>
4476<a name="3.5.19">I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,</a><br>
4477<a name="3.5.20">'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;</a><br>
4478<a name="3.5.21">Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat</a><br>
4479<a name="3.5.22">The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:</a><br>
4480<a name="3.5.23">I have more care to stay than will to go:</a><br>
4481<a name="3.5.24">Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.</a><br>
4482<a name="3.5.25">How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.</a><br>
4483</blockquote>
4484
4485<a name="speech5"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4486<blockquote>
4487<a name="3.5.26">It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!</a><br>
4488<a name="3.5.27">It is the lark that sings so out of tune,</a><br>
4489<a name="3.5.28">Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.</a><br>
4490<a name="3.5.29">Some say the lark makes sweet division;</a><br>
4491<a name="3.5.30">This doth not so, for she divideth us:</a><br>
4492<a name="3.5.31">Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,</a><br>
4493<a name="3.5.32">O, now I would they had changed voices too!</a><br>
4494<a name="3.5.33">Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,</a><br>
4495<a name="3.5.34">Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,</a><br>
4496<a name="3.5.35">O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.</a><br>
4497</blockquote>
4498
4499<a name="speech6"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4500<blockquote>
4501<a name="3.5.36">More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!</a><br>
4502<p><i>Enter Nurse, to the chamber</i></p>
4503</blockquote>
4504
4505<a name="speech7"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4506<blockquote>
4507<a name="3.5.37">Madam!</a><br>
4508</blockquote>
4509
4510<a name="speech8"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4511<blockquote>
4512<a name="3.5.38">Nurse?</a><br>
4513</blockquote>
4514
4515<a name="speech9"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4516<blockquote>
4517<a name="3.5.39">Your lady mother is coming to your chamber:</a><br>
4518<a name="3.5.40">The day is broke; be wary, look about.</a><br>
4519<p><i>Exit</i></p>
4520</blockquote>
4521
4522<a name="speech10"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4523<blockquote>
4524<a name="3.5.41">Then, window, let day in, and let life out.</a><br>
4525</blockquote>
4526
4527<a name="speech11"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4528<blockquote>
4529<a name="3.5.42">Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.</a><br>
4530<p><i>He goeth down</i></p>
4531</blockquote>
4532
4533<a name="speech12"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4534<blockquote>
4535<a name="3.5.43">Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!</a><br>
4536<a name="3.5.44">I must hear from thee every day in the hour,</a><br>
4537<a name="3.5.45">For in a minute there are many days:</a><br>
4538<a name="3.5.46">O, by this count I shall be much in years</a><br>
4539<a name="3.5.47">Ere I again behold my Romeo!</a><br>
4540</blockquote>
4541
4542<a name="speech13"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4543<blockquote>
4544<a name="3.5.48">Farewell!</a><br>
4545<a name="3.5.49">I will omit no opportunity</a><br>
4546<a name="3.5.50">That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.</a><br>
4547</blockquote>
4548
4549<a name="speech14"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4550<blockquote>
4551<a name="3.5.51">O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?</a><br>
4552</blockquote>
4553
4554<a name="speech15"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4555<blockquote>
4556<a name="3.5.52">I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve</a><br>
4557<a name="3.5.53">For sweet discourses in our time to come.</a><br>
4558</blockquote>
4559
4560<a name="speech16"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4561<blockquote>
4562<a name="3.5.54">O God, I have an ill-divining soul!</a><br>
4563<a name="3.5.55">Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,</a><br>
4564<a name="3.5.56">As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:</a><br>
4565<a name="3.5.57">Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.</a><br>
4566</blockquote>
4567
4568<a name="speech17"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
4569<blockquote>
4570<a name="3.5.58">And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:</a><br>
4571<a name="3.5.59">Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!</a><br>
4572<p><i>Exit</i></p>
4573</blockquote>
4574
4575<a name="speech18"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4576<blockquote>
4577<a name="3.5.60">O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:</a><br>
4578<a name="3.5.61">If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.</a><br>
4579<a name="3.5.62">That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;</a><br>
4580<a name="3.5.63">For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,</a><br>
4581<a name="3.5.64">But send him back.</a><br>
4582</blockquote>
4583
4584<a name="speech19"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4585<blockquote>
4586<a name="3.5.65">[Within] Ho, daughter! are you up?</a><br>
4587</blockquote>
4588
4589<a name="speech20"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4590<blockquote>
4591<a name="3.5.66">Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother?</a><br>
4592<a name="3.5.67">Is she not down so late, or up so early?</a><br>
4593<a name="3.5.68">What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?</a><br>
4594<p><i>Enter LADY CAPULET</i></p>
4595</blockquote>
4596
4597<a name="speech21"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4598<blockquote>
4599<a name="3.5.69">Why, how now, Juliet!</a><br>
4600</blockquote>
4601
4602<a name="speech22"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4603<blockquote>
4604<a name="3.5.70">Madam, I am not well.</a><br>
4605</blockquote>
4606
4607<a name="speech23"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4608<blockquote>
4609<a name="3.5.71">Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?</a><br>
4610<a name="3.5.72">What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?</a><br>
4611<a name="3.5.73">An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;</a><br>
4612<a name="3.5.74">Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love;</a><br>
4613<a name="3.5.75">But much of grief shows still some want of wit.</a><br>
4614</blockquote>
4615
4616<a name="speech24"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4617<blockquote>
4618<a name="3.5.76">Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.</a><br>
4619</blockquote>
4620
4621<a name="speech25"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4622<blockquote>
4623<a name="3.5.77">So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend</a><br>
4624<a name="3.5.78">Which you weep for.</a><br>
4625</blockquote>
4626
4627<a name="speech26"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4628<blockquote>
4629<a name="3.5.79">Feeling so the loss,</a><br>
4630<a name="3.5.80">Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.</a><br>
4631</blockquote>
4632
4633<a name="speech27"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4634<blockquote>
4635<a name="3.5.81">Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,</a><br>
4636<a name="3.5.82">As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.</a><br>
4637</blockquote>
4638
4639<a name="speech28"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4640<blockquote>
4641<a name="3.5.83">What villain madam?</a><br>
4642</blockquote>
4643
4644<a name="speech29"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4645<blockquote>
4646<a name="3.5.84">That same villain, Romeo.</a><br>
4647</blockquote>
4648
4649<a name="speech30"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4650<blockquote>
4651<a name="3.5.85">[Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.--</a><br>
4652<a name="3.5.86">God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart;</a><br>
4653<a name="3.5.87">And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.</a><br>
4654</blockquote>
4655
4656<a name="speech31"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4657<blockquote>
4658<a name="3.5.88">That is, because the traitor murderer lives.</a><br>
4659</blockquote>
4660
4661<a name="speech32"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4662<blockquote>
4663<a name="3.5.89">Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:</a><br>
4664<a name="3.5.90">Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!</a><br>
4665</blockquote>
4666
4667<a name="speech33"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4668<blockquote>
4669<a name="3.5.91">We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:</a><br>
4670<a name="3.5.92">Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,</a><br>
4671<a name="3.5.93">Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,</a><br>
4672<a name="3.5.94">Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,</a><br>
4673<a name="3.5.95">That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:</a><br>
4674<a name="3.5.96">And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.</a><br>
4675</blockquote>
4676
4677<a name="speech34"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4678<blockquote>
4679<a name="3.5.97">Indeed, I never shall be satisfied</a><br>
4680<a name="3.5.98">With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--</a><br>
4681<a name="3.5.99">Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.</a><br>
4682<a name="3.5.100">Madam, if you could find out but a man</a><br>
4683<a name="3.5.101">To bear a poison, I would temper it;</a><br>
4684<a name="3.5.102">That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,</a><br>
4685<a name="3.5.103">Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors</a><br>
4686<a name="3.5.104">To hear him named, and cannot come to him.</a><br>
4687<a name="3.5.105">To wreak the love I bore my cousin</a><br>
4688<a name="3.5.106">Upon his body that slaughter'd him!</a><br>
4689</blockquote>
4690
4691<a name="speech35"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4692<blockquote>
4693<a name="3.5.107">Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.</a><br>
4694<a name="3.5.108">But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.</a><br>
4695</blockquote>
4696
4697<a name="speech36"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4698<blockquote>
4699<a name="3.5.109">And joy comes well in such a needy time:</a><br>
4700<a name="3.5.110">What are they, I beseech your ladyship?</a><br>
4701</blockquote>
4702
4703<a name="speech37"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4704<blockquote>
4705<a name="3.5.111">Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;</a><br>
4706<a name="3.5.112">One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,</a><br>
4707<a name="3.5.113">Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,</a><br>
4708<a name="3.5.114">That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for.</a><br>
4709</blockquote>
4710
4711<a name="speech38"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4712<blockquote>
4713<a name="3.5.115">Madam, in happy time, what day is that?</a><br>
4714</blockquote>
4715
4716<a name="speech39"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4717<blockquote>
4718<a name="3.5.116">Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,</a><br>
4719<a name="3.5.117">The gallant, young and noble gentleman,</a><br>
4720<a name="3.5.118">The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,</a><br>
4721<a name="3.5.119">Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.</a><br>
4722</blockquote>
4723
4724<a name="speech40"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4725<blockquote>
4726<a name="3.5.120">Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too,</a><br>
4727<a name="3.5.121">He shall not make me there a joyful bride.</a><br>
4728<a name="3.5.122">I wonder at this haste; that I must wed</a><br>
4729<a name="3.5.123">Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.</a><br>
4730<a name="3.5.124">I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,</a><br>
4731<a name="3.5.125">I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,</a><br>
4732<a name="3.5.126">It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,</a><br>
4733<a name="3.5.127">Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!</a><br>
4734</blockquote>
4735
4736<a name="speech41"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4737<blockquote>
4738<a name="3.5.128">Here comes your father; tell him so yourself,</a><br>
4739<a name="3.5.129">And see how he will take it at your hands.</a><br>
4740<p><i>Enter CAPULET and Nurse</i></p>
4741</blockquote>
4742
4743<a name="speech42"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4744<blockquote>
4745<a name="3.5.130">When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;</a><br>
4746<a name="3.5.131">But for the sunset of my brother's son</a><br>
4747<a name="3.5.132">It rains downright.</a><br>
4748<a name="3.5.133">How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?</a><br>
4749<a name="3.5.134">Evermore showering? In one little body</a><br>
4750<a name="3.5.135">Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind;</a><br>
4751<a name="3.5.136">For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,</a><br>
4752<a name="3.5.137">Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,</a><br>
4753<a name="3.5.138">Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;</a><br>
4754<a name="3.5.139">Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,</a><br>
4755<a name="3.5.140">Without a sudden calm, will overset</a><br>
4756<a name="3.5.141">Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife!</a><br>
4757<a name="3.5.142">Have you deliver'd to her our decree?</a><br>
4758</blockquote>
4759
4760<a name="speech43"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4761<blockquote>
4762<a name="3.5.143">Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.</a><br>
4763<a name="3.5.144">I would the fool were married to her grave!</a><br>
4764</blockquote>
4765
4766<a name="speech44"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4767<blockquote>
4768<a name="3.5.145">Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife.</a><br>
4769<a name="3.5.146">How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?</a><br>
4770<a name="3.5.147">Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,</a><br>
4771<a name="3.5.148">Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought</a><br>
4772<a name="3.5.149">So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?</a><br>
4773</blockquote>
4774
4775<a name="speech45"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4776<blockquote>
4777<a name="3.5.150">Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have:</a><br>
4778<a name="3.5.151">Proud can I never be of what I hate;</a><br>
4779<a name="3.5.152">But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.</a><br>
4780</blockquote>
4781
4782<a name="speech46"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4783<blockquote>
4784<a name="3.5.153">How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?</a><br>
4785<a name="3.5.154">'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'</a><br>
4786<a name="3.5.155">And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,</a><br>
4787<a name="3.5.156">Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,</a><br>
4788<a name="3.5.157">But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,</a><br>
4789<a name="3.5.158">To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,</a><br>
4790<a name="3.5.159">Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.</a><br>
4791<a name="3.5.160">Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!</a><br>
4792<a name="3.5.161">You tallow-face!</a><br>
4793</blockquote>
4794
4795<a name="speech47"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4796<blockquote>
4797<a name="3.5.162"> Fie, fie! what, are you mad?</a><br>
4798</blockquote>
4799
4800<a name="speech48"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4801<blockquote>
4802<a name="3.5.163">Good father, I beseech you on my knees,</a><br>
4803<a name="3.5.164">Hear me with patience but to speak a word.</a><br>
4804</blockquote>
4805
4806<a name="speech49"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4807<blockquote>
4808<a name="3.5.165">Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!</a><br>
4809<a name="3.5.166">I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,</a><br>
4810<a name="3.5.167">Or never after look me in the face:</a><br>
4811<a name="3.5.168">Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;</a><br>
4812<a name="3.5.169">My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest</a><br>
4813<a name="3.5.170">That God had lent us but this only child;</a><br>
4814<a name="3.5.171">But now I see this one is one too much,</a><br>
4815<a name="3.5.172">And that we have a curse in having her:</a><br>
4816<a name="3.5.173">Out on her, hilding!</a><br>
4817</blockquote>
4818
4819<a name="speech50"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4820<blockquote>
4821<a name="3.5.174">God in heaven bless her!</a><br>
4822<a name="3.5.175">You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.</a><br>
4823</blockquote>
4824
4825<a name="speech51"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4826<blockquote>
4827<a name="3.5.176">And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,</a><br>
4828<a name="3.5.177">Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.</a><br>
4829</blockquote>
4830
4831<a name="speech52"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4832<blockquote>
4833<a name="3.5.178">I speak no treason.</a><br>
4834</blockquote>
4835
4836<a name="speech53"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4837<blockquote>
4838<a name="3.5.179">O, God ye god-den.</a><br>
4839</blockquote>
4840
4841<a name="speech54"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4842<blockquote>
4843<a name="3.5.180">May not one speak?</a><br>
4844</blockquote>
4845
4846<a name="speech55"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4847<blockquote>
4848<a name="3.5.181"> Peace, you mumbling fool!</a><br>
4849<a name="3.5.182">Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;</a><br>
4850<a name="3.5.183">For here we need it not.</a><br>
4851</blockquote>
4852
4853<a name="speech56"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4854<blockquote>
4855<a name="3.5.184">You are too hot.</a><br>
4856</blockquote>
4857
4858<a name="speech57"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
4859<blockquote>
4860<a name="3.5.185">God's bread! it makes me mad:</a><br>
4861<a name="3.5.186">Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,</a><br>
4862<a name="3.5.187">Alone, in company, still my care hath been</a><br>
4863<a name="3.5.188">To have her match'd: and having now provided</a><br>
4864<a name="3.5.189">A gentleman of noble parentage,</a><br>
4865<a name="3.5.190">Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,</a><br>
4866<a name="3.5.191">Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,</a><br>
4867<a name="3.5.192">Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;</a><br>
4868<a name="3.5.193">And then to have a wretched puling fool,</a><br>
4869<a name="3.5.194">A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,</a><br>
4870<a name="3.5.195">To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,</a><br>
4871<a name="3.5.196">I am too young; I pray you, pardon me.'</a><br>
4872<a name="3.5.197">But, as you will not wed, I'll pardon you:</a><br>
4873<a name="3.5.198">Graze where you will you shall not house with me:</a><br>
4874<a name="3.5.199">Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest.</a><br>
4875<a name="3.5.200">Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise:</a><br>
4876<a name="3.5.201">An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;</a><br>
4877<a name="3.5.202">And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in</a><br>
4878<a name="3.5.203">the streets,</a><br>
4879<a name="3.5.204">For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,</a><br>
4880<a name="3.5.205">Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:</a><br>
4881<a name="3.5.206">Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn.</a><br>
4882<p><i>Exit</i></p>
4883</blockquote>
4884
4885<a name="speech58"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4886<blockquote>
4887<a name="3.5.207">Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,</a><br>
4888<a name="3.5.208">That sees into the bottom of my grief?</a><br>
4889<a name="3.5.209">O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!</a><br>
4890<a name="3.5.210">Delay this marriage for a month, a week;</a><br>
4891<a name="3.5.211">Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed</a><br>
4892<a name="3.5.212">In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.</a><br>
4893</blockquote>
4894
4895<a name="speech59"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
4896<blockquote>
4897<a name="3.5.213">Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word:</a><br>
4898<a name="3.5.214">Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.</a><br>
4899<p><i>Exit</i></p>
4900</blockquote>
4901
4902<a name="speech60"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4903<blockquote>
4904<a name="3.5.215">O God!--O nurse, how shall this be prevented?</a><br>
4905<a name="3.5.216">My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;</a><br>
4906<a name="3.5.217">How shall that faith return again to earth,</a><br>
4907<a name="3.5.218">Unless that husband send it me from heaven</a><br>
4908<a name="3.5.219">By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.</a><br>
4909<a name="3.5.220">Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems</a><br>
4910<a name="3.5.221">Upon so soft a subject as myself!</a><br>
4911<a name="3.5.222">What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?</a><br>
4912<a name="3.5.223">Some comfort, nurse.</a><br>
4913</blockquote>
4914
4915<a name="speech61"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4916<blockquote>
4917<a name="3.5.224">Faith, here it is.</a><br>
4918<a name="3.5.225">Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing,</a><br>
4919<a name="3.5.226">That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;</a><br>
4920<a name="3.5.227">Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.</a><br>
4921<a name="3.5.228">Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,</a><br>
4922<a name="3.5.229">I think it best you married with the county.</a><br>
4923<a name="3.5.230">O, he's a lovely gentleman!</a><br>
4924<a name="3.5.231">Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,</a><br>
4925<a name="3.5.232">Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye</a><br>
4926<a name="3.5.233">As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,</a><br>
4927<a name="3.5.234">I think you are happy in this second match,</a><br>
4928<a name="3.5.235">For it excels your first: or if it did not,</a><br>
4929<a name="3.5.236">Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,</a><br>
4930<a name="3.5.237">As living here and you no use of him.</a><br>
4931</blockquote>
4932
4933<a name="speech62"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4934<blockquote>
4935<a name="3.5.238">Speakest thou from thy heart?</a><br>
4936</blockquote>
4937
4938<a name="speech63"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4939<blockquote>
4940<a name="3.5.239">And from my soul too;</a><br>
4941<a name="3.5.240">Or else beshrew them both.</a><br>
4942</blockquote>
4943
4944<a name="speech64"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4945<blockquote>
4946<a name="3.5.241">Amen!</a><br>
4947</blockquote>
4948
4949<a name="speech65"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4950<blockquote>
4951<a name="3.5.242">What?</a><br>
4952</blockquote>
4953
4954<a name="speech66"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4955<blockquote>
4956<a name="3.5.243">Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.</a><br>
4957<a name="3.5.244">Go in: and tell my lady I am gone,</a><br>
4958<a name="3.5.245">Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell,</a><br>
4959<a name="3.5.246">To make confession and to be absolved.</a><br>
4960</blockquote>
4961
4962<a name="speech67"><b>Nurse</b></a>
4963<blockquote>
4964<a name="3.5.247">Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.</a><br>
4965<p><i>Exit</i></p>
4966</blockquote>
4967
4968<a name="speech68"><b>JULIET</b></a>
4969<blockquote>
4970<a name="3.5.248">Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!</a><br>
4971<a name="3.5.249">Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,</a><br>
4972<a name="3.5.250">Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue</a><br>
4973<a name="3.5.251">Which she hath praised him with above compare</a><br>
4974<a name="3.5.252">So many thousand times? Go, counsellor;</a><br>
4975<a name="3.5.253">Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.</a><br>
4976<a name="3.5.254">I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:</a><br>
4977<a name="3.5.255">If all else fail, myself have power to die.</a><br>
4978<p><i>Exit</i></p>
4979</blockquote><p>
4980</p><h3>ACT IV</h3>
4981<h3>SCENE I. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
4982<p></p><blockquote>
4983<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS</i>
4984</blockquote>
4985
4986<a name="speech1"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4987<blockquote>
4988<a name="4.1.1">On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.</a><br>
4989</blockquote>
4990
4991<a name="speech2"><b>PARIS</b></a>
4992<blockquote>
4993<a name="4.1.2">My father Capulet will have it so;</a><br>
4994<a name="4.1.3">And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.</a><br>
4995</blockquote>
4996
4997<a name="speech3"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
4998<blockquote>
4999<a name="4.1.4">You say you do not know the lady's mind:</a><br>
5000<a name="4.1.5">Uneven is the course, I like it not.</a><br>
5001</blockquote>
5002
5003<a name="speech4"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5004<blockquote>
5005<a name="4.1.6">Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,</a><br>
5006<a name="4.1.7">And therefore have I little talk'd of love;</a><br>
5007<a name="4.1.8">For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.</a><br>
5008<a name="4.1.9">Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous</a><br>
5009<a name="4.1.10">That she doth give her sorrow so much sway,</a><br>
5010<a name="4.1.11">And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,</a><br>
5011<a name="4.1.12">To stop the inundation of her tears;</a><br>
5012<a name="4.1.13">Which, too much minded by herself alone,</a><br>
5013<a name="4.1.14">May be put from her by society:</a><br>
5014<a name="4.1.15">Now do you know the reason of this haste.</a><br>
5015</blockquote>
5016
5017<a name="speech5"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5018<blockquote>
5019<a name="4.1.16">[Aside] I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.</a><br>
5020<a name="4.1.17">Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell.</a><br>
5021<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
5022</blockquote>
5023
5024<a name="speech6"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5025<blockquote>
5026<a name="4.1.18">Happily met, my lady and my wife!</a><br>
5027</blockquote>
5028
5029<a name="speech7"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5030<blockquote>
5031<a name="4.1.19">That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.</a><br>
5032</blockquote>
5033
5034<a name="speech8"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5035<blockquote>
5036<a name="4.1.20">That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.</a><br>
5037</blockquote>
5038
5039<a name="speech9"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5040<blockquote>
5041<a name="4.1.21">What must be shall be.</a><br>
5042</blockquote>
5043
5044<a name="speech10"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5045<blockquote>
5046<a name="4.1.22">That's a certain text.</a><br>
5047</blockquote>
5048
5049<a name="speech11"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5050<blockquote>
5051<a name="4.1.23">Come you to make confession to this father?</a><br>
5052</blockquote>
5053
5054<a name="speech12"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5055<blockquote>
5056<a name="4.1.24">To answer that, I should confess to you.</a><br>
5057</blockquote>
5058
5059<a name="speech13"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5060<blockquote>
5061<a name="4.1.25">Do not deny to him that you love me.</a><br>
5062</blockquote>
5063
5064<a name="speech14"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5065<blockquote>
5066<a name="4.1.26">I will confess to you that I love him.</a><br>
5067</blockquote>
5068
5069<a name="speech15"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5070<blockquote>
5071<a name="4.1.27">So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.</a><br>
5072</blockquote>
5073
5074<a name="speech16"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5075<blockquote>
5076<a name="4.1.28">If I do so, it will be of more price,</a><br>
5077<a name="4.1.29">Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.</a><br>
5078</blockquote>
5079
5080<a name="speech17"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5081<blockquote>
5082<a name="4.1.30">Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.</a><br>
5083</blockquote>
5084
5085<a name="speech18"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5086<blockquote>
5087<a name="4.1.31">The tears have got small victory by that;</a><br>
5088<a name="4.1.32">For it was bad enough before their spite.</a><br>
5089</blockquote>
5090
5091<a name="speech19"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5092<blockquote>
5093<a name="4.1.33">Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.</a><br>
5094</blockquote>
5095
5096<a name="speech20"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5097<blockquote>
5098<a name="4.1.34">That is no slander, sir, which is a truth;</a><br>
5099<a name="4.1.35">And what I spake, I spake it to my face.</a><br>
5100</blockquote>
5101
5102<a name="speech21"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5103<blockquote>
5104<a name="4.1.36">Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.</a><br>
5105</blockquote>
5106
5107<a name="speech22"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5108<blockquote>
5109<a name="4.1.37">It may be so, for it is not mine own.</a><br>
5110<a name="4.1.38">Are you at leisure, holy father, now;</a><br>
5111<a name="4.1.39">Or shall I come to you at evening mass?</a><br>
5112</blockquote>
5113
5114<a name="speech23"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5115<blockquote>
5116<a name="4.1.40">My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.</a><br>
5117<a name="4.1.41">My lord, we must entreat the time alone.</a><br>
5118</blockquote>
5119
5120<a name="speech24"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5121<blockquote>
5122<a name="4.1.42">God shield I should disturb devotion!</a><br>
5123<a name="4.1.43">Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye:</a><br>
5124<a name="4.1.44">Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss.</a><br>
5125<p><i>Exit</i></p>
5126</blockquote>
5127
5128<a name="speech25"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5129<blockquote>
5130<a name="4.1.45">O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,</a><br>
5131<a name="4.1.46">Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!</a><br>
5132</blockquote>
5133
5134<a name="speech26"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5135<blockquote>
5136<a name="4.1.47">Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief;</a><br>
5137<a name="4.1.48">It strains me past the compass of my wits:</a><br>
5138<a name="4.1.49">I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,</a><br>
5139<a name="4.1.50">On Thursday next be married to this county.</a><br>
5140</blockquote>
5141
5142<a name="speech27"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5143<blockquote>
5144<a name="4.1.51">Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,</a><br>
5145<a name="4.1.52">Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:</a><br>
5146<a name="4.1.53">If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,</a><br>
5147<a name="4.1.54">Do thou but call my resolution wise,</a><br>
5148<a name="4.1.55">And with this knife I'll help it presently.</a><br>
5149<a name="4.1.56">God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;</a><br>
5150<a name="4.1.57">And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,</a><br>
5151<a name="4.1.58">Shall be the label to another deed,</a><br>
5152<a name="4.1.59">Or my true heart with treacherous revolt</a><br>
5153<a name="4.1.60">Turn to another, this shall slay them both:</a><br>
5154<a name="4.1.61">Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,</a><br>
5155<a name="4.1.62">Give me some present counsel, or, behold,</a><br>
5156<a name="4.1.63">'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife</a><br>
5157<a name="4.1.64">Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that</a><br>
5158<a name="4.1.65">Which the commission of thy years and art</a><br>
5159<a name="4.1.66">Could to no issue of true honour bring.</a><br>
5160<a name="4.1.67">Be not so long to speak; I long to die,</a><br>
5161<a name="4.1.68">If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.</a><br>
5162</blockquote>
5163
5164<a name="speech28"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5165<blockquote>
5166<a name="4.1.69">Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,</a><br>
5167<a name="4.1.70">Which craves as desperate an execution.</a><br>
5168<a name="4.1.71">As that is desperate which we would prevent.</a><br>
5169<a name="4.1.72">If, rather than to marry County Paris,</a><br>
5170<a name="4.1.73">Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,</a><br>
5171<a name="4.1.74">Then is it likely thou wilt undertake</a><br>
5172<a name="4.1.75">A thing like death to chide away this shame,</a><br>
5173<a name="4.1.76">That copest with death himself to scape from it:</a><br>
5174<a name="4.1.77">And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.</a><br>
5175</blockquote>
5176
5177<a name="speech29"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5178<blockquote>
5179<a name="4.1.78">O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,</a><br>
5180<a name="4.1.79">From off the battlements of yonder tower;</a><br>
5181<a name="4.1.80">Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk</a><br>
5182<a name="4.1.81">Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;</a><br>
5183<a name="4.1.82">Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,</a><br>
5184<a name="4.1.83">O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,</a><br>
5185<a name="4.1.84">With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;</a><br>
5186<a name="4.1.85">Or bid me go into a new-made grave</a><br>
5187<a name="4.1.86">And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;</a><br>
5188<a name="4.1.87">Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;</a><br>
5189<a name="4.1.88">And I will do it without fear or doubt,</a><br>
5190<a name="4.1.89">To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.</a><br>
5191</blockquote>
5192
5193<a name="speech30"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5194<blockquote>
5195<a name="4.1.90">Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent</a><br>
5196<a name="4.1.91">To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:</a><br>
5197<a name="4.1.92">To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;</a><br>
5198<a name="4.1.93">Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:</a><br>
5199<a name="4.1.94">Take thou this vial, being then in bed,</a><br>
5200<a name="4.1.95">And this distilled liquor drink thou off;</a><br>
5201<a name="4.1.96">When presently through all thy veins shall run</a><br>
5202<a name="4.1.97">A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse</a><br>
5203<a name="4.1.98">Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:</a><br>
5204<a name="4.1.99">No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;</a><br>
5205<a name="4.1.100">The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade</a><br>
5206<a name="4.1.101">To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall,</a><br>
5207<a name="4.1.102">Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;</a><br>
5208<a name="4.1.103">Each part, deprived of supple government,</a><br>
5209<a name="4.1.104">Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:</a><br>
5210<a name="4.1.105">And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death</a><br>
5211<a name="4.1.106">Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,</a><br>
5212<a name="4.1.107">And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.</a><br>
5213<a name="4.1.108">Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes</a><br>
5214<a name="4.1.109">To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:</a><br>
5215<a name="4.1.110">Then, as the manner of our country is,</a><br>
5216<a name="4.1.111">In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier</a><br>
5217<a name="4.1.112">Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault</a><br>
5218<a name="4.1.113">Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.</a><br>
5219<a name="4.1.114">In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,</a><br>
5220<a name="4.1.115">Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,</a><br>
5221<a name="4.1.116">And hither shall he come: and he and I</a><br>
5222<a name="4.1.117">Will watch thy waking, and that very night</a><br>
5223<a name="4.1.118">Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.</a><br>
5224<a name="4.1.119">And this shall free thee from this present shame;</a><br>
5225<a name="4.1.120">If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,</a><br>
5226<a name="4.1.121">Abate thy valour in the acting it.</a><br>
5227</blockquote>
5228
5229<a name="speech31"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5230<blockquote>
5231<a name="4.1.122">Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!</a><br>
5232</blockquote>
5233
5234<a name="speech32"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5235<blockquote>
5236<a name="4.1.123">Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous</a><br>
5237<a name="4.1.124">In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed</a><br>
5238<a name="4.1.125">To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.</a><br>
5239</blockquote>
5240
5241<a name="speech33"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5242<blockquote>
5243<a name="4.1.126">Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.</a><br>
5244<a name="4.1.127">Farewell, dear father!</a><br>
5245<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
5246</blockquote>
5247<h3>SCENE II. Hall in Capulet's house.</h3>
5248<p></p><blockquote>
5249<i>Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, and two Servingmen</i>
5250</blockquote>
5251
5252<a name="speech1"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5253<blockquote>
5254<a name="4.2.1">So many guests invite as here are writ.</a><br>
5255<p><i>Exit First Servant</i></p>
5256<a name="4.2.2">Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.</a><br>
5257</blockquote>
5258
5259<a name="speech2"><b>Second Servant</b></a>
5260<blockquote>
5261<a name="4.2.3">You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they</a><br>
5262<a name="4.2.4">can lick their fingers.</a><br>
5263</blockquote>
5264
5265<a name="speech3"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5266<blockquote>
5267<a name="4.2.5">How canst thou try them so?</a><br>
5268</blockquote>
5269
5270<a name="speech4"><b>Second Servant</b></a>
5271<blockquote>
5272<a name="4.2.6">Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his</a><br>
5273<a name="4.2.7">own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his</a><br>
5274<a name="4.2.8">fingers goes not with me.</a><br>
5275</blockquote>
5276
5277<a name="speech5"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5278<blockquote>
5279<a name="4.2.9">Go, be gone.</a><br>
5280<p><i>Exit Second Servant</i></p>
5281<a name="4.2.10">We shall be much unfurnished for this time.</a><br>
5282<a name="4.2.11">What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?</a><br>
5283</blockquote>
5284
5285<a name="speech6"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5286<blockquote>
5287<a name="4.2.12">Ay, forsooth.</a><br>
5288</blockquote>
5289
5290<a name="speech7"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5291<blockquote>
5292<a name="4.2.13">Well, he may chance to do some good on her:</a><br>
5293<a name="4.2.14">A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is.</a><br>
5294</blockquote>
5295
5296<a name="speech8"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5297<blockquote>
5298<a name="4.2.15">See where she comes from shrift with merry look.</a><br>
5299<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
5300</blockquote>
5301
5302<a name="speech9"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5303<blockquote>
5304<a name="4.2.16">How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?</a><br>
5305</blockquote>
5306
5307<a name="speech10"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5308<blockquote>
5309<a name="4.2.17">Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin</a><br>
5310<a name="4.2.18">Of disobedient opposition</a><br>
5311<a name="4.2.19">To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd</a><br>
5312<a name="4.2.20">By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,</a><br>
5313<a name="4.2.21">And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you!</a><br>
5314<a name="4.2.22">Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.</a><br>
5315</blockquote>
5316
5317<a name="speech11"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5318<blockquote>
5319<a name="4.2.23">Send for the county; go tell him of this:</a><br>
5320<a name="4.2.24">I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.</a><br>
5321</blockquote>
5322
5323<a name="speech12"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5324<blockquote>
5325<a name="4.2.25">I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell;</a><br>
5326<a name="4.2.26">And gave him what becomed love I might,</a><br>
5327<a name="4.2.27">Not step o'er the bounds of modesty.</a><br>
5328</blockquote>
5329
5330<a name="speech13"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5331<blockquote>
5332<a name="4.2.28">Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up:</a><br>
5333<a name="4.2.29">This is as't should be. Let me see the county;</a><br>
5334<a name="4.2.30">Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.</a><br>
5335<a name="4.2.31">Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar,</a><br>
5336<a name="4.2.32">Our whole city is much bound to him.</a><br>
5337</blockquote>
5338
5339<a name="speech14"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5340<blockquote>
5341<a name="4.2.33">Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,</a><br>
5342<a name="4.2.34">To help me sort such needful ornaments</a><br>
5343<a name="4.2.35">As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?</a><br>
5344</blockquote>
5345
5346<a name="speech15"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5347<blockquote>
5348<a name="4.2.36">No, not till Thursday; there is time enough.</a><br>
5349</blockquote>
5350
5351<a name="speech16"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5352<blockquote>
5353<a name="4.2.37">Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.</a><br>
5354<p><i>Exeunt JULIET and Nurse</i></p>
5355</blockquote>
5356
5357<a name="speech17"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5358<blockquote>
5359<a name="4.2.38">We shall be short in our provision:</a><br>
5360<a name="4.2.39">'Tis now near night.</a><br>
5361</blockquote>
5362
5363<a name="speech18"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5364<blockquote>
5365<a name="4.2.40">Tush, I will stir about,</a><br>
5366<a name="4.2.41">And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:</a><br>
5367<a name="4.2.42">Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;</a><br>
5368<a name="4.2.43">I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone;</a><br>
5369<a name="4.2.44">I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!</a><br>
5370<a name="4.2.45">They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself</a><br>
5371<a name="4.2.46">To County Paris, to prepare him up</a><br>
5372<a name="4.2.47">Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light,</a><br>
5373<a name="4.2.48">Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.</a><br>
5374<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
5375</blockquote>
5376<h3>SCENE III. Juliet's chamber.</h3>
5377<p></p><blockquote>
5378<i>Enter JULIET and Nurse</i>
5379</blockquote>
5380
5381<a name="speech1"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5382<blockquote>
5383<a name="4.3.1">Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,</a><br>
5384<a name="4.3.2">I pray thee, leave me to my self to-night,</a><br>
5385<a name="4.3.3">For I have need of many orisons</a><br>
5386<a name="4.3.4">To move the heavens to smile upon my state,</a><br>
5387<a name="4.3.5">Which, well thou know'st, is cross, and full of sin.</a><br>
5388<p><i>Enter LADY CAPULET</i></p>
5389</blockquote>
5390
5391<a name="speech2"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5392<blockquote>
5393<a name="4.3.6">What, are you busy, ho? need you my help?</a><br>
5394</blockquote>
5395
5396<a name="speech3"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5397<blockquote>
5398<a name="4.3.7">No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries</a><br>
5399<a name="4.3.8">As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:</a><br>
5400<a name="4.3.9">So please you, let me now be left alone,</a><br>
5401<a name="4.3.10">And let the nurse this night sit up with you;</a><br>
5402<a name="4.3.11">For, I am sure, you have your hands full all,</a><br>
5403<a name="4.3.12">In this so sudden business.</a><br>
5404</blockquote>
5405
5406<a name="speech4"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5407<blockquote>
5408<a name="4.3.13">Good night:</a><br>
5409<a name="4.3.14">Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need.</a><br>
5410<p><i>Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i></p>
5411</blockquote>
5412
5413<a name="speech5"><b>JULIET</b></a>
5414<blockquote>
5415<a name="4.3.15">Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.</a><br>
5416<a name="4.3.16">I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,</a><br>
5417<a name="4.3.17">That almost freezes up the heat of life:</a><br>
5418<a name="4.3.18">I'll call them back again to comfort me:</a><br>
5419<a name="4.3.19">Nurse! What should she do here?</a><br>
5420<a name="4.3.20">My dismal scene I needs must act alone.</a><br>
5421<a name="4.3.21">Come, vial.</a><br>
5422<a name="4.3.22">What if this mixture do not work at all?</a><br>
5423<a name="4.3.23">Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?</a><br>
5424<a name="4.3.24">No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.</a><br>
5425<p><i>Laying down her dagger</i></p>
5426<a name="4.3.25">What if it be a poison, which the friar</a><br>
5427<a name="4.3.26">Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,</a><br>
5428<a name="4.3.27">Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,</a><br>
5429<a name="4.3.28">Because he married me before to Romeo?</a><br>
5430<a name="4.3.29">I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,</a><br>
5431<a name="4.3.30">For he hath still been tried a holy man.</a><br>
5432<a name="4.3.31">How if, when I am laid into the tomb,</a><br>
5433<a name="4.3.32">I wake before the time that Romeo</a><br>
5434<a name="4.3.33">Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!</a><br>
5435<a name="4.3.34">Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,</a><br>
5436<a name="4.3.35">To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,</a><br>
5437<a name="4.3.36">And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?</a><br>
5438<a name="4.3.37">Or, if I live, is it not very like,</a><br>
5439<a name="4.3.38">The horrible conceit of death and night,</a><br>
5440<a name="4.3.39">Together with the terror of the place,--</a><br>
5441<a name="4.3.40">As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,</a><br>
5442<a name="4.3.41">Where, for these many hundred years, the bones</a><br>
5443<a name="4.3.42">Of all my buried ancestors are packed:</a><br>
5444<a name="4.3.43">Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,</a><br>
5445<a name="4.3.44">Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,</a><br>
5446<a name="4.3.45">At some hours in the night spirits resort;--</a><br>
5447<a name="4.3.46">Alack, alack, is it not like that I,</a><br>
5448<a name="4.3.47">So early waking, what with loathsome smells,</a><br>
5449<a name="4.3.48">And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,</a><br>
5450<a name="4.3.49">That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--</a><br>
5451<a name="4.3.50">O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,</a><br>
5452<a name="4.3.51">Environed with all these hideous fears?</a><br>
5453<a name="4.3.52">And madly play with my forefather's joints?</a><br>
5454<a name="4.3.53">And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?</a><br>
5455<a name="4.3.54">And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,</a><br>
5456<a name="4.3.55">As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?</a><br>
5457<a name="4.3.56">O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost</a><br>
5458<a name="4.3.57">Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body</a><br>
5459<a name="4.3.58">Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!</a><br>
5460<a name="4.3.59">Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.</a><br>
5461<p><i>She falls upon her bed, within the curtains</i></p>
5462</blockquote>
5463<h3>SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house.</h3>
5464<p></p><blockquote>
5465<i>Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i>
5466</blockquote>
5467
5468<a name="speech1"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5469<blockquote>
5470<a name="4.4.1">Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.</a><br>
5471</blockquote>
5472
5473<a name="speech2"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5474<blockquote>
5475<a name="4.4.2">They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.</a><br>
5476<p><i>Enter CAPULET</i></p>
5477</blockquote>
5478
5479<a name="speech3"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5480<blockquote>
5481<a name="4.4.3">Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,</a><br>
5482<a name="4.4.4">The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:</a><br>
5483<a name="4.4.5">Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:</a><br>
5484<a name="4.4.6">Spare not for the cost.</a><br>
5485</blockquote>
5486
5487<a name="speech4"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5488<blockquote>
5489<a name="4.4.7">Go, you cot-quean, go,</a><br>
5490<a name="4.4.8">Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow</a><br>
5491<a name="4.4.9">For this night's watching.</a><br>
5492</blockquote>
5493
5494<a name="speech5"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5495<blockquote>
5496<a name="4.4.10">No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now</a><br>
5497<a name="4.4.11">All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.</a><br>
5498</blockquote>
5499
5500<a name="speech6"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5501<blockquote>
5502<a name="4.4.12">Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;</a><br>
5503<a name="4.4.13">But I will watch you from such watching now.</a><br>
5504<p><i>Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i></p>
5505</blockquote>
5506
5507<a name="speech7"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5508<blockquote>
5509<a name="4.4.14">A jealous hood, a jealous hood!</a><br>
5510<p><i>Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets</i></p>
5511<a name="4.4.15">Now, fellow,</a><br>
5512<a name="4.4.16">What's there?</a><br>
5513</blockquote>
5514
5515<a name="speech8"><b>First Servant</b></a>
5516<blockquote>
5517<a name="4.4.17">Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.</a><br>
5518</blockquote>
5519
5520<a name="speech9"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5521<blockquote>
5522<a name="4.4.18">Make haste, make haste.</a><br>
5523<p><i>Exit First Servant</i></p>
5524<a name="4.4.19">Sirrah, fetch drier logs:</a><br>
5525<a name="4.4.20">Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.</a><br>
5526</blockquote>
5527
5528<a name="speech10"><b>Second Servant</b></a>
5529<blockquote>
5530<a name="4.4.21">I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,</a><br>
5531<a name="4.4.22">And never trouble Peter for the matter.</a><br>
5532<p><i>Exit</i></p>
5533</blockquote>
5534
5535<a name="speech11"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5536<blockquote>
5537<a name="4.4.23">Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!</a><br>
5538<a name="4.4.24">Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:</a><br>
5539<a name="4.4.25">The county will be here with music straight,</a><br>
5540<a name="4.4.26">For so he said he would: I hear him near.</a><br>
5541<p><i>Music within</i></p>
5542<a name="4.4.27">Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!</a><br>
5543<p><i>Re-enter Nurse</i></p>
5544<a name="4.4.28">Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;</a><br>
5545<a name="4.4.29">I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,</a><br>
5546<a name="4.4.30">Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:</a><br>
5547<a name="4.4.31">Make haste, I say.</a><br>
5548<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
5549</blockquote>
5550<h3>SCENE V. Juliet's chamber.</h3>
5551<p></p><blockquote>
5552<i>Enter Nurse</i>
5553</blockquote>
5554
5555<a name="speech1"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5556<blockquote>
5557<a name="4.5.1">Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she:</a><br>
5558<a name="4.5.2">Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!</a><br>
5559<a name="4.5.3">Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!</a><br>
5560<a name="4.5.4">What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now;</a><br>
5561<a name="4.5.5">Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,</a><br>
5562<a name="4.5.6">The County Paris hath set up his rest,</a><br>
5563<a name="4.5.7">That you shall rest but little. God forgive me,</a><br>
5564<a name="4.5.8">Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!</a><br>
5565<a name="4.5.9">I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam!</a><br>
5566<a name="4.5.10">Ay, let the county take you in your bed;</a><br>
5567<a name="4.5.11">He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be?</a><br>
5568<p><i>Undraws the curtains</i></p>
5569<a name="4.5.12">What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!</a><br>
5570<a name="4.5.13">I must needs wake you; Lady! lady! lady!</a><br>
5571<a name="4.5.14">Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!</a><br>
5572<a name="4.5.15">O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!</a><br>
5573<a name="4.5.16">Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady!</a><br>
5574<p><i>Enter LADY CAPULET</i></p>
5575</blockquote>
5576
5577<a name="speech2"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5578<blockquote>
5579<a name="4.5.17">What noise is here?</a><br>
5580</blockquote>
5581
5582<a name="speech3"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5583<blockquote>
5584<a name="4.5.18">O lamentable day!</a><br>
5585</blockquote>
5586
5587<a name="speech4"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5588<blockquote>
5589<a name="4.5.19">What is the matter?</a><br>
5590</blockquote>
5591
5592<a name="speech5"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5593<blockquote>
5594<a name="4.5.20">Look, look! O heavy day!</a><br>
5595</blockquote>
5596
5597<a name="speech6"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5598<blockquote>
5599<a name="4.5.21">O me, O me! My child, my only life,</a><br>
5600<a name="4.5.22">Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!</a><br>
5601<a name="4.5.23">Help, help! Call help.</a><br>
5602<p><i>Enter CAPULET</i></p>
5603</blockquote>
5604
5605<a name="speech7"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5606<blockquote>
5607<a name="4.5.24">For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come.</a><br>
5608</blockquote>
5609
5610<a name="speech8"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5611<blockquote>
5612<a name="4.5.25">She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!</a><br>
5613</blockquote>
5614
5615<a name="speech9"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5616<blockquote>
5617<a name="4.5.26">Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!</a><br>
5618</blockquote>
5619
5620<a name="speech10"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5621<blockquote>
5622<a name="4.5.27">Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold:</a><br>
5623<a name="4.5.28">Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;</a><br>
5624<a name="4.5.29">Life and these lips have long been separated:</a><br>
5625<a name="4.5.30">Death lies on her like an untimely frost</a><br>
5626<a name="4.5.31">Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.</a><br>
5627</blockquote>
5628
5629<a name="speech11"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5630<blockquote>
5631<a name="4.5.32">O lamentable day!</a><br>
5632</blockquote>
5633
5634<a name="speech12"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5635<blockquote>
5636<a name="4.5.33"> O woful time!</a><br>
5637</blockquote>
5638
5639<a name="speech13"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5640<blockquote>
5641<a name="4.5.34">Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,</a><br>
5642<a name="4.5.35">Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.</a><br>
5643<p><i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians</i></p>
5644</blockquote>
5645
5646<a name="speech14"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5647<blockquote>
5648<a name="4.5.36">Come, is the bride ready to go to church?</a><br>
5649</blockquote>
5650
5651<a name="speech15"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5652<blockquote>
5653<a name="4.5.37">Ready to go, but never to return.</a><br>
5654<a name="4.5.38">O son! the night before thy wedding-day</a><br>
5655<a name="4.5.39">Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,</a><br>
5656<a name="4.5.40">Flower as she was, deflowered by him.</a><br>
5657<a name="4.5.41">Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;</a><br>
5658<a name="4.5.42">My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,</a><br>
5659<a name="4.5.43">And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.</a><br>
5660</blockquote>
5661
5662<a name="speech16"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5663<blockquote>
5664<a name="4.5.44">Have I thought long to see this morning's face,</a><br>
5665<a name="4.5.45">And doth it give me such a sight as this?</a><br>
5666</blockquote>
5667
5668<a name="speech17"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
5669<blockquote>
5670<a name="4.5.46">Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!</a><br>
5671<a name="4.5.47">Most miserable hour that e'er time saw</a><br>
5672<a name="4.5.48">In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!</a><br>
5673<a name="4.5.49">But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,</a><br>
5674<a name="4.5.50">But one thing to rejoice and solace in,</a><br>
5675<a name="4.5.51">And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!</a><br>
5676</blockquote>
5677
5678<a name="speech18"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5679<blockquote>
5680<a name="4.5.52">O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!</a><br>
5681<a name="4.5.53">Most lamentable day, most woful day,</a><br>
5682<a name="4.5.54">That ever, ever, I did yet behold!</a><br>
5683<a name="4.5.55">O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!</a><br>
5684<a name="4.5.56">Never was seen so black a day as this:</a><br>
5685<a name="4.5.57">O woful day, O woful day!</a><br>
5686</blockquote>
5687
5688<a name="speech19"><b>PARIS</b></a>
5689<blockquote>
5690<a name="4.5.58">Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!</a><br>
5691<a name="4.5.59">Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,</a><br>
5692<a name="4.5.60">By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!</a><br>
5693<a name="4.5.61">O love! O life! not life, but love in death!</a><br>
5694</blockquote>
5695
5696<a name="speech20"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5697<blockquote>
5698<a name="4.5.62">Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!</a><br>
5699<a name="4.5.63">Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now</a><br>
5700<a name="4.5.64">To murder, murder our solemnity?</a><br>
5701<a name="4.5.65">O child! O child! my soul, and not my child!</a><br>
5702<a name="4.5.66">Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead;</a><br>
5703<a name="4.5.67">And with my child my joys are buried.</a><br>
5704</blockquote>
5705
5706<a name="speech21"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5707<blockquote>
5708<a name="4.5.68">Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not</a><br>
5709<a name="4.5.69">In these confusions. Heaven and yourself</a><br>
5710<a name="4.5.70">Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all,</a><br>
5711<a name="4.5.71">And all the better is it for the maid:</a><br>
5712<a name="4.5.72">Your part in her you could not keep from death,</a><br>
5713<a name="4.5.73">But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.</a><br>
5714<a name="4.5.74">The most you sought was her promotion;</a><br>
5715<a name="4.5.75">For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced:</a><br>
5716<a name="4.5.76">And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced</a><br>
5717<a name="4.5.77">Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?</a><br>
5718<a name="4.5.78">O, in this love, you love your child so ill,</a><br>
5719<a name="4.5.79">That you run mad, seeing that she is well:</a><br>
5720<a name="4.5.80">She's not well married that lives married long;</a><br>
5721<a name="4.5.81">But she's best married that dies married young.</a><br>
5722<a name="4.5.82">Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary</a><br>
5723<a name="4.5.83">On this fair corse; and, as the custom is,</a><br>
5724<a name="4.5.84">In all her best array bear her to church:</a><br>
5725<a name="4.5.85">For though fond nature bids us an lament,</a><br>
5726<a name="4.5.86">Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.</a><br>
5727</blockquote>
5728
5729<a name="speech22"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
5730<blockquote>
5731<a name="4.5.87">All things that we ordained festival,</a><br>
5732<a name="4.5.88">Turn from their office to black funeral;</a><br>
5733<a name="4.5.89">Our instruments to melancholy bells,</a><br>
5734<a name="4.5.90">Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,</a><br>
5735<a name="4.5.91">Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,</a><br>
5736<a name="4.5.92">Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,</a><br>
5737<a name="4.5.93">And all things change them to the contrary.</a><br>
5738</blockquote>
5739
5740<a name="speech23"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
5741<blockquote>
5742<a name="4.5.94">Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him;</a><br>
5743<a name="4.5.95">And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare</a><br>
5744<a name="4.5.96">To follow this fair corse unto her grave:</a><br>
5745<a name="4.5.97">The heavens do lour upon you for some ill;</a><br>
5746<a name="4.5.98">Move them no more by crossing their high will.</a><br>
5747<p><i>Exeunt CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, PARIS, and FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
5748</blockquote>
5749
5750<a name="speech24"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5751<blockquote>
5752<a name="4.5.99">Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.</a><br>
5753</blockquote>
5754
5755<a name="speech25"><b>Nurse</b></a>
5756<blockquote>
5757<a name="4.5.100">Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up;</a><br>
5758<a name="4.5.101">For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.</a><br>
5759<p><i>Exit</i></p>
5760</blockquote>
5761
5762<a name="speech26"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5763<blockquote>
5764<a name="4.5.102">Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.</a><br>
5765<p><i>Enter PETER</i></p>
5766</blockquote>
5767
5768<a name="speech27"><b>PETER</b></a>
5769<blockquote>
5770<a name="4.5.103">Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, Heart's</a><br>
5771<a name="4.5.104">ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.'</a><br>
5772</blockquote>
5773
5774<a name="speech28"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5775<blockquote>
5776<a name="4.5.105">Why 'Heart's ease?'</a><br>
5777</blockquote>
5778
5779<a name="speech29"><b>PETER</b></a>
5780<blockquote>
5781<a name="4.5.106">O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My</a><br>
5782<a name="4.5.107">heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump,</a><br>
5783<a name="4.5.108">to comfort me.</a><br>
5784</blockquote>
5785
5786<a name="speech30"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5787<blockquote>
5788<a name="4.5.109">Not a dump we; 'tis no time to play now.</a><br>
5789</blockquote>
5790
5791<a name="speech31"><b>PETER</b></a>
5792<blockquote>
5793<a name="4.5.110">You will not, then?</a><br>
5794</blockquote>
5795
5796<a name="speech32"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5797<blockquote>
5798<a name="4.5.111">No.</a><br>
5799</blockquote>
5800
5801<a name="speech33"><b>PETER</b></a>
5802<blockquote>
5803<a name="4.5.112">I will then give it you soundly.</a><br>
5804</blockquote>
5805
5806<a name="speech34"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5807<blockquote>
5808<a name="4.5.113">What will you give us?</a><br>
5809</blockquote>
5810
5811<a name="speech35"><b>PETER</b></a>
5812<blockquote>
5813<a name="4.5.114">No money, on my faith, but the gleek;</a><br>
5814<a name="4.5.115">I will give you the minstrel.</a><br>
5815</blockquote>
5816
5817<a name="speech36"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5818<blockquote>
5819<a name="4.5.116">Then I will give you the serving-creature.</a><br>
5820</blockquote>
5821
5822<a name="speech37"><b>PETER</b></a>
5823<blockquote>
5824<a name="4.5.117">Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on</a><br>
5825<a name="4.5.118">your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you,</a><br>
5826<a name="4.5.119">I'll fa you; do you note me?</a><br>
5827</blockquote>
5828
5829<a name="speech38"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5830<blockquote>
5831<a name="4.5.120">An you re us and fa us, you note us.</a><br>
5832</blockquote>
5833
5834<a name="speech39"><b>Second Musician</b></a>
5835<blockquote>
5836<a name="4.5.121">Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.</a><br>
5837</blockquote>
5838
5839<a name="speech40"><b>PETER</b></a>
5840<blockquote>
5841<a name="4.5.122">Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you</a><br>
5842<a name="4.5.123">with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer</a><br>
5843<a name="4.5.124">me like men:</a><br>
5844<a name="4.5.125">'When griping grief the heart doth wound,</a><br>
5845<a name="4.5.126">And doleful dumps the mind oppress,</a><br>
5846<a name="4.5.127">Then music with her silver sound'--</a><br>
5847<a name="4.5.128">why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver</a><br>
5848<a name="4.5.129">sound'? What say you, Simon Catling?</a><br>
5849</blockquote>
5850
5851<a name="speech41"><b>Musician</b></a>
5852<blockquote>
5853<a name="4.5.130">Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.</a><br>
5854</blockquote>
5855
5856<a name="speech42"><b>PETER</b></a>
5857<blockquote>
5858<a name="4.5.131">Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck?</a><br>
5859</blockquote>
5860
5861<a name="speech43"><b>Second Musician</b></a>
5862<blockquote>
5863<a name="4.5.132">I say 'silver sound,' because musicians sound for silver.</a><br>
5864</blockquote>
5865
5866<a name="speech44"><b>PETER</b></a>
5867<blockquote>
5868<a name="4.5.133">Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?</a><br>
5869</blockquote>
5870
5871<a name="speech45"><b>Third Musician</b></a>
5872<blockquote>
5873<a name="4.5.134">Faith, I know not what to say.</a><br>
5874</blockquote>
5875
5876<a name="speech46"><b>PETER</b></a>
5877<blockquote>
5878<a name="4.5.135">O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say</a><br>
5879<a name="4.5.136">for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,'</a><br>
5880<a name="4.5.137">because musicians have no gold for sounding:</a><br>
5881<a name="4.5.138">'Then music with her silver sound</a><br>
5882<a name="4.5.139">With speedy help doth lend redress.'</a><br>
5883<p><i>Exit</i></p>
5884</blockquote>
5885
5886<a name="speech47"><b>First Musician</b></a>
5887<blockquote>
5888<a name="4.5.140">What a pestilent knave is this same!</a><br>
5889</blockquote>
5890
5891<a name="speech48"><b>Second Musician</b></a>
5892<blockquote>
5893<a name="4.5.141">Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry for the</a><br>
5894<a name="4.5.142">mourners, and stay dinner.</a><br>
5895<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
5896</blockquote><p>
5897</p><h3>ACT V</h3>
5898<h3>SCENE I. Mantua. A street.</h3>
5899<p></p><blockquote>
5900<i>Enter ROMEO</i>
5901</blockquote>
5902
5903<a name="speech1"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
5904<blockquote>
5905<a name="5.1.1">If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,</a><br>
5906<a name="5.1.2">My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:</a><br>
5907<a name="5.1.3">My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;</a><br>
5908<a name="5.1.4">And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit</a><br>
5909<a name="5.1.5">Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.</a><br>
5910<a name="5.1.6">I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--</a><br>
5911<a name="5.1.7">Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave</a><br>
5912<a name="5.1.8">to think!--</a><br>
5913<a name="5.1.9">And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,</a><br>
5914<a name="5.1.10">That I revived, and was an emperor.</a><br>
5915<a name="5.1.11">Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,</a><br>
5916<a name="5.1.12">When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!</a><br>
5917<p><i>Enter BALTHASAR, booted</i></p>
5918<a name="5.1.13">News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!</a><br>
5919<a name="5.1.14">Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?</a><br>
5920<a name="5.1.15">How doth my lady? Is my father well?</a><br>
5921<a name="5.1.16">How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;</a><br>
5922<a name="5.1.17">For nothing can be ill, if she be well.</a><br>
5923</blockquote>
5924
5925<a name="speech2"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
5926<blockquote>
5927<a name="5.1.18">Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:</a><br>
5928<a name="5.1.19">Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,</a><br>
5929<a name="5.1.20">And her immortal part with angels lives.</a><br>
5930<a name="5.1.21">I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,</a><br>
5931<a name="5.1.22">And presently took post to tell it you:</a><br>
5932<a name="5.1.23">O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,</a><br>
5933<a name="5.1.24">Since you did leave it for my office, sir.</a><br>
5934</blockquote>
5935
5936<a name="speech3"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
5937<blockquote>
5938<a name="5.1.25">Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!</a><br>
5939<a name="5.1.26">Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,</a><br>
5940<a name="5.1.27">And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.</a><br>
5941</blockquote>
5942
5943<a name="speech4"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
5944<blockquote>
5945<a name="5.1.28">I do beseech you, sir, have patience:</a><br>
5946<a name="5.1.29">Your looks are pale and wild, and do import</a><br>
5947<a name="5.1.30">Some misadventure.</a><br>
5948</blockquote>
5949
5950<a name="speech5"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
5951<blockquote>
5952<a name="5.1.31"> Tush, thou art deceived:</a><br>
5953<a name="5.1.32">Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.</a><br>
5954<a name="5.1.33">Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?</a><br>
5955</blockquote>
5956
5957<a name="speech6"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
5958<blockquote>
5959<a name="5.1.34">No, my good lord.</a><br>
5960</blockquote>
5961
5962<a name="speech7"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
5963<blockquote>
5964<a name="5.1.35"> No matter: get thee gone,</a><br>
5965<a name="5.1.36">And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.</a><br>
5966<p><i>Exit BALTHASAR</i></p>
5967<a name="5.1.37">Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.</a><br>
5968<a name="5.1.38">Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift</a><br>
5969<a name="5.1.39">To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!</a><br>
5970<a name="5.1.40">I do remember an apothecary,--</a><br>
5971<a name="5.1.41">And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted</a><br>
5972<a name="5.1.42">In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,</a><br>
5973<a name="5.1.43">Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,</a><br>
5974<a name="5.1.44">Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:</a><br>
5975<a name="5.1.45">And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,</a><br>
5976<a name="5.1.46">An alligator stuff'd, and other skins</a><br>
5977<a name="5.1.47">Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves</a><br>
5978<a name="5.1.48">A beggarly account of empty boxes,</a><br>
5979<a name="5.1.49">Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,</a><br>
5980<a name="5.1.50">Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,</a><br>
5981<a name="5.1.51">Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.</a><br>
5982<a name="5.1.52">Noting this penury, to myself I said</a><br>
5983<a name="5.1.53">'An if a man did need a poison now,</a><br>
5984<a name="5.1.54">Whose sale is present death in Mantua,</a><br>
5985<a name="5.1.55">Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'</a><br>
5986<a name="5.1.56">O, this same thought did but forerun my need;</a><br>
5987<a name="5.1.57">And this same needy man must sell it me.</a><br>
5988<a name="5.1.58">As I remember, this should be the house.</a><br>
5989<a name="5.1.59">Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.</a><br>
5990<a name="5.1.60">What, ho! apothecary!</a><br>
5991<p><i>Enter Apothecary</i></p>
5992</blockquote>
5993
5994<a name="speech8"><b>Apothecary</b></a>
5995<blockquote>
5996<a name="5.1.61">Who calls so loud?</a><br>
5997</blockquote>
5998
5999<a name="speech9"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6000<blockquote>
6001<a name="5.1.62">Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:</a><br>
6002<a name="5.1.63">Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have</a><br>
6003<a name="5.1.64">A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear</a><br>
6004<a name="5.1.65">As will disperse itself through all the veins</a><br>
6005<a name="5.1.66">That the life-weary taker may fall dead</a><br>
6006<a name="5.1.67">And that the trunk may be discharged of breath</a><br>
6007<a name="5.1.68">As violently as hasty powder fired</a><br>
6008<a name="5.1.69">Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.</a><br>
6009</blockquote>
6010
6011<a name="speech10"><b>Apothecary</b></a>
6012<blockquote>
6013<a name="5.1.70">Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law</a><br>
6014<a name="5.1.71">Is death to any he that utters them.</a><br>
6015</blockquote>
6016
6017<a name="speech11"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6018<blockquote>
6019<a name="5.1.72">Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,</a><br>
6020<a name="5.1.73">And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,</a><br>
6021<a name="5.1.74">Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,</a><br>
6022<a name="5.1.75">Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;</a><br>
6023<a name="5.1.76">The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;</a><br>
6024<a name="5.1.77">The world affords no law to make thee rich;</a><br>
6025<a name="5.1.78">Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.</a><br>
6026</blockquote>
6027
6028<a name="speech12"><b>Apothecary</b></a>
6029<blockquote>
6030<a name="5.1.79">My poverty, but not my will, consents.</a><br>
6031</blockquote>
6032
6033<a name="speech13"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6034<blockquote>
6035<a name="5.1.80">I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.</a><br>
6036</blockquote>
6037
6038<a name="speech14"><b>Apothecary</b></a>
6039<blockquote>
6040<a name="5.1.81">Put this in any liquid thing you will,</a><br>
6041<a name="5.1.82">And drink it off; and, if you had the strength</a><br>
6042<a name="5.1.83">Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.</a><br>
6043</blockquote>
6044
6045<a name="speech15"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6046<blockquote>
6047<a name="5.1.84">There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,</a><br>
6048<a name="5.1.85">Doing more murders in this loathsome world,</a><br>
6049<a name="5.1.86">Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.</a><br>
6050<a name="5.1.87">I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.</a><br>
6051<a name="5.1.88">Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.</a><br>
6052<a name="5.1.89">Come, cordial and not poison, go with me</a><br>
6053<a name="5.1.90">To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.</a><br>
6054<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
6055</blockquote>
6056<h3>SCENE II. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
6057<p></p><blockquote>
6058<i>Enter FRIAR JOHN</i>
6059</blockquote>
6060
6061<a name="speech1"><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
6062<blockquote>
6063<a name="5.2.1">Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!</a><br>
6064<p><i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
6065</blockquote>
6066
6067<a name="speech2"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6068<blockquote>
6069<a name="5.2.2">This same should be the voice of Friar John.</a><br>
6070<a name="5.2.3">Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?</a><br>
6071<a name="5.2.4">Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.</a><br>
6072</blockquote>
6073
6074<a name="speech3"><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
6075<blockquote>
6076<a name="5.2.5">Going to find a bare-foot brother out</a><br>
6077<a name="5.2.6">One of our order, to associate me,</a><br>
6078<a name="5.2.7">Here in this city visiting the sick,</a><br>
6079<a name="5.2.8">And finding him, the searchers of the town,</a><br>
6080<a name="5.2.9">Suspecting that we both were in a house</a><br>
6081<a name="5.2.10">Where the infectious pestilence did reign,</a><br>
6082<a name="5.2.11">Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;</a><br>
6083<a name="5.2.12">So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.</a><br>
6084</blockquote>
6085
6086<a name="speech4"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6087<blockquote>
6088<a name="5.2.13">Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?</a><br>
6089</blockquote>
6090
6091<a name="speech5"><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
6092<blockquote>
6093<a name="5.2.14">I could not send it,--here it is again,--</a><br>
6094<a name="5.2.15">Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,</a><br>
6095<a name="5.2.16">So fearful were they of infection.</a><br>
6096</blockquote>
6097
6098<a name="speech6"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6099<blockquote>
6100<a name="5.2.17">Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,</a><br>
6101<a name="5.2.18">The letter was not nice but full of charge</a><br>
6102<a name="5.2.19">Of dear import, and the neglecting it</a><br>
6103<a name="5.2.20">May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;</a><br>
6104<a name="5.2.21">Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight</a><br>
6105<a name="5.2.22">Unto my cell.</a><br>
6106</blockquote>
6107
6108<a name="speech7"><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
6109<blockquote>
6110<a name="5.2.23">Brother, I'll go and bring it thee.</a><br>
6111<p><i>Exit</i></p>
6112</blockquote>
6113
6114<a name="speech8"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6115<blockquote>
6116<a name="5.2.24">Now must I to the monument alone;</a><br>
6117<a name="5.2.25">Within three hours will fair Juliet wake:</a><br>
6118<a name="5.2.26">She will beshrew me much that Romeo</a><br>
6119<a name="5.2.27">Hath had no notice of these accidents;</a><br>
6120<a name="5.2.28">But I will write again to Mantua,</a><br>
6121<a name="5.2.29">And keep her at my cell till Romeo come;</a><br>
6122<a name="5.2.30">Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!</a><br>
6123<p><i>Exit</i></p>
6124</blockquote>
6125<h3>SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.</h3>
6126<p></p><blockquote>
6127<i>Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch</i>
6128</blockquote>
6129
6130<a name="speech1"><b>PARIS</b></a>
6131<blockquote>
6132<a name="5.3.1">Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:</a><br>
6133<a name="5.3.2">Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.</a><br>
6134<a name="5.3.3">Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,</a><br>
6135<a name="5.3.4">Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;</a><br>
6136<a name="5.3.5">So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,</a><br>
6137<a name="5.3.6">Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,</a><br>
6138<a name="5.3.7">But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,</a><br>
6139<a name="5.3.8">As signal that thou hear'st something approach.</a><br>
6140<a name="5.3.9">Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.</a><br>
6141</blockquote>
6142
6143<a name="speech2"><b>PAGE</b></a>
6144<blockquote>
6145<a name="5.3.10">[Aside] I am almost afraid to stand alone</a><br>
6146<a name="5.3.11">Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.</a><br>
6147<p><i>Retires</i></p>
6148</blockquote>
6149
6150<a name="speech3"><b>PARIS</b></a>
6151<blockquote>
6152<a name="5.3.12">Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--</a><br>
6153<a name="5.3.13">O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--</a><br>
6154<a name="5.3.14">Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,</a><br>
6155<a name="5.3.15">Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:</a><br>
6156<a name="5.3.16">The obsequies that I for thee will keep</a><br>
6157<a name="5.3.17">Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.</a><br>
6158<p><i>The Page whistles</i></p>
6159<a name="5.3.18">The boy gives warning something doth approach.</a><br>
6160<a name="5.3.19">What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,</a><br>
6161<a name="5.3.20">To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?</a><br>
6162<a name="5.3.21">What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.</a><br>
6163<p><i>Retires</i></p>
6164<p><i>Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch, mattock, & c</i></p>
6165</blockquote>
6166
6167<a name="speech4"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6168<blockquote>
6169<a name="5.3.22">Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.</a><br>
6170<a name="5.3.23">Hold, take this letter; early in the morning</a><br>
6171<a name="5.3.24">See thou deliver it to my lord and father.</a><br>
6172<a name="5.3.25">Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,</a><br>
6173<a name="5.3.26">Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,</a><br>
6174<a name="5.3.27">And do not interrupt me in my course.</a><br>
6175<a name="5.3.28">Why I descend into this bed of death,</a><br>
6176<a name="5.3.29">Is partly to behold my lady's face;</a><br>
6177<a name="5.3.30">But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger</a><br>
6178<a name="5.3.31">A precious ring, a ring that I must use</a><br>
6179<a name="5.3.32">In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:</a><br>
6180<a name="5.3.33">But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry</a><br>
6181<a name="5.3.34">In what I further shall intend to do,</a><br>
6182<a name="5.3.35">By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint</a><br>
6183<a name="5.3.36">And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:</a><br>
6184<a name="5.3.37">The time and my intents are savage-wild,</a><br>
6185<a name="5.3.38">More fierce and more inexorable far</a><br>
6186<a name="5.3.39">Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.</a><br>
6187</blockquote>
6188
6189<a name="speech5"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6190<blockquote>
6191<a name="5.3.40">I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.</a><br>
6192</blockquote>
6193
6194<a name="speech6"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6195<blockquote>
6196<a name="5.3.41">So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:</a><br>
6197<a name="5.3.42">Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.</a><br>
6198</blockquote>
6199
6200<a name="speech7"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6201<blockquote>
6202<a name="5.3.43">[Aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:</a><br>
6203<a name="5.3.44">His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.</a><br>
6204<p><i>Retires</i></p>
6205</blockquote>
6206
6207<a name="speech8"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6208<blockquote>
6209<a name="5.3.45">Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,</a><br>
6210<a name="5.3.46">Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,</a><br>
6211<a name="5.3.47">Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,</a><br>
6212<a name="5.3.48">And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!</a><br>
6213<p><i>Opens the tomb</i></p>
6214</blockquote>
6215
6216<a name="speech9"><b>PARIS</b></a>
6217<blockquote>
6218<a name="5.3.49">This is that banish'd haughty Montague,</a><br>
6219<a name="5.3.50">That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,</a><br>
6220<a name="5.3.51">It is supposed, the fair creature died;</a><br>
6221<a name="5.3.52">And here is come to do some villanous shame</a><br>
6222<a name="5.3.53">To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.</a><br>
6223<p><i>Comes forward</i></p>
6224<a name="5.3.54">Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!</a><br>
6225<a name="5.3.55">Can vengeance be pursued further than death?</a><br>
6226<a name="5.3.56">Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:</a><br>
6227<a name="5.3.57">Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.</a><br>
6228</blockquote>
6229
6230<a name="speech10"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6231<blockquote>
6232<a name="5.3.58">I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.</a><br>
6233<a name="5.3.59">Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;</a><br>
6234<a name="5.3.60">Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;</a><br>
6235<a name="5.3.61">Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,</a><br>
6236<a name="5.3.62">Put not another sin upon my head,</a><br>
6237<a name="5.3.63">By urging me to fury: O, be gone!</a><br>
6238<a name="5.3.64">By heaven, I love thee better than myself;</a><br>
6239<a name="5.3.65">For I come hither arm'd against myself:</a><br>
6240<a name="5.3.66">Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say,</a><br>
6241<a name="5.3.67">A madman's mercy bade thee run away.</a><br>
6242</blockquote>
6243
6244<a name="speech11"><b>PARIS</b></a>
6245<blockquote>
6246<a name="5.3.68">I do defy thy conjurations,</a><br>
6247<a name="5.3.69">And apprehend thee for a felon here.</a><br>
6248</blockquote>
6249
6250<a name="speech12"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6251<blockquote>
6252<a name="5.3.70">Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!</a><br>
6253<p><i>They fight</i></p>
6254</blockquote>
6255
6256<a name="speech13"><b>PAGE</b></a>
6257<blockquote>
6258<a name="5.3.71">O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.</a><br>
6259<p><i>Exit</i></p>
6260</blockquote>
6261
6262<a name="speech14"><b>PARIS</b></a>
6263<blockquote>
6264<a name="5.3.72">O, I am slain!</a><br>
6265<p><i>Falls</i></p>
6266<a name="5.3.73">If thou be merciful,</a><br>
6267<a name="5.3.74">Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.</a><br>
6268<p><i>Dies</i></p>
6269</blockquote>
6270
6271<a name="speech15"><b>ROMEO</b></a>
6272<blockquote>
6273<a name="5.3.75">In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.</a><br>
6274<a name="5.3.76">Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!</a><br>
6275<a name="5.3.77">What said my man, when my betossed soul</a><br>
6276<a name="5.3.78">Did not attend him as we rode? I think</a><br>
6277<a name="5.3.79">He told me Paris should have married Juliet:</a><br>
6278<a name="5.3.80">Said he not so? or did I dream it so?</a><br>
6279<a name="5.3.81">Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,</a><br>
6280<a name="5.3.82">To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,</a><br>
6281<a name="5.3.83">One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!</a><br>
6282<a name="5.3.84">I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;</a><br>
6283<a name="5.3.85">A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,</a><br>
6284<a name="5.3.86">For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes</a><br>
6285<a name="5.3.87">This vault a feasting presence full of light.</a><br>
6286<a name="5.3.88">Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.</a><br>
6287<p><i>Laying PARIS in the tomb</i></p>
6288<a name="5.3.89">How oft when men are at the point of death</a><br>
6289<a name="5.3.90">Have they been merry! which their keepers call</a><br>
6290<a name="5.3.91">A lightning before death: O, how may I</a><br>
6291<a name="5.3.92">Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!</a><br>
6292<a name="5.3.93">Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,</a><br>
6293<a name="5.3.94">Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:</a><br>
6294<a name="5.3.95">Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet</a><br>
6295<a name="5.3.96">Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,</a><br>
6296<a name="5.3.97">And death's pale flag is not advanced there.</a><br>
6297<a name="5.3.98">Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?</a><br>
6298<a name="5.3.99">O, what more favour can I do to thee,</a><br>
6299<a name="5.3.100">Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain</a><br>
6300<a name="5.3.101">To sunder his that was thine enemy?</a><br>
6301<a name="5.3.102">Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,</a><br>
6302<a name="5.3.103">Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe</a><br>
6303<a name="5.3.104">That unsubstantial death is amorous,</a><br>
6304<a name="5.3.105">And that the lean abhorred monster keeps</a><br>
6305<a name="5.3.106">Thee here in dark to be his paramour?</a><br>
6306<a name="5.3.107">For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;</a><br>
6307<a name="5.3.108">And never from this palace of dim night</a><br>
6308<a name="5.3.109">Depart again: here, here will I remain</a><br>
6309<a name="5.3.110">With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here</a><br>
6310<a name="5.3.111">Will I set up my everlasting rest,</a><br>
6311<a name="5.3.112">And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars</a><br>
6312<a name="5.3.113">From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!</a><br>
6313<a name="5.3.114">Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you</a><br>
6314<a name="5.3.115">The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss</a><br>
6315<a name="5.3.116">A dateless bargain to engrossing death!</a><br>
6316<a name="5.3.117">Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!</a><br>
6317<a name="5.3.118">Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on</a><br>
6318<a name="5.3.119">The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!</a><br>
6319<a name="5.3.120">Here's to my love!</a><br>
6320<p><i>Drinks</i></p>
6321<a name="5.3.121">O true apothecary!</a><br>
6322<a name="5.3.122">Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.</a><br>
6323<p><i>Dies</i></p>
6324<p><i>Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade</i></p>
6325</blockquote>
6326
6327<a name="speech16"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6328<blockquote>
6329<a name="5.3.123">Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night</a><br>
6330<a name="5.3.124">Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?</a><br>
6331</blockquote>
6332
6333<a name="speech17"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6334<blockquote>
6335<a name="5.3.125">Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.</a><br>
6336</blockquote>
6337
6338<a name="speech18"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6339<blockquote>
6340<a name="5.3.126">Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,</a><br>
6341<a name="5.3.127">What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light</a><br>
6342<a name="5.3.128">To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,</a><br>
6343<a name="5.3.129">It burneth in the Capel's monument.</a><br>
6344</blockquote>
6345
6346<a name="speech19"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6347<blockquote>
6348<a name="5.3.130">It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,</a><br>
6349<a name="5.3.131">One that you love.</a><br>
6350</blockquote>
6351
6352<a name="speech20"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6353<blockquote>
6354<a name="5.3.132"> Who is it?</a><br>
6355</blockquote>
6356
6357<a name="speech21"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6358<blockquote>
6359<a name="5.3.133">Romeo.</a><br>
6360</blockquote>
6361
6362<a name="speech22"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6363<blockquote>
6364<a name="5.3.134">How long hath he been there?</a><br>
6365</blockquote>
6366
6367<a name="speech23"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6368<blockquote>
6369<a name="5.3.135">Full half an hour.</a><br>
6370</blockquote>
6371
6372<a name="speech24"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6373<blockquote>
6374<a name="5.3.136">Go with me to the vault.</a><br>
6375</blockquote>
6376
6377<a name="speech25"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6378<blockquote>
6379<a name="5.3.137">I dare not, sir</a><br>
6380<a name="5.3.138">My master knows not but I am gone hence;</a><br>
6381<a name="5.3.139">And fearfully did menace me with death,</a><br>
6382<a name="5.3.140">If I did stay to look on his intents.</a><br>
6383</blockquote>
6384
6385<a name="speech26"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6386<blockquote>
6387<a name="5.3.141">Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me:</a><br>
6388<a name="5.3.142">O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.</a><br>
6389</blockquote>
6390
6391<a name="speech27"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6392<blockquote>
6393<a name="5.3.143">As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,</a><br>
6394<a name="5.3.144">I dreamt my master and another fought,</a><br>
6395<a name="5.3.145">And that my master slew him.</a><br>
6396</blockquote>
6397
6398<a name="speech28"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6399<blockquote>
6400<a name="5.3.146">Romeo!</a><br>
6401<p><i>Advances</i></p>
6402<a name="5.3.147">Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains</a><br>
6403<a name="5.3.148">The stony entrance of this sepulchre?</a><br>
6404<a name="5.3.149">What mean these masterless and gory swords</a><br>
6405<a name="5.3.150">To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?</a><br>
6406<p><i>Enters the tomb</i></p>
6407<a name="5.3.151">Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?</a><br>
6408<a name="5.3.152">And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour</a><br>
6409<a name="5.3.153">Is guilty of this lamentable chance!</a><br>
6410<a name="5.3.154">The lady stirs.</a><br>
6411<p><i>JULIET wakes</i></p>
6412</blockquote>
6413
6414<a name="speech29"><b>JULIET</b></a>
6415<blockquote>
6416<a name="5.3.155">O comfortable friar! where is my lord?</a><br>
6417<a name="5.3.156">I do remember well where I should be,</a><br>
6418<a name="5.3.157">And there I am. Where is my Romeo?</a><br>
6419<p><i>Noise within</i></p>
6420</blockquote>
6421
6422<a name="speech30"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6423<blockquote>
6424<a name="5.3.158">I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest</a><br>
6425<a name="5.3.159">Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:</a><br>
6426<a name="5.3.160">A greater power than we can contradict</a><br>
6427<a name="5.3.161">Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.</a><br>
6428<a name="5.3.162">Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;</a><br>
6429<a name="5.3.163">And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee</a><br>
6430<a name="5.3.164">Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:</a><br>
6431<a name="5.3.165">Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;</a><br>
6432<a name="5.3.166">Come, go, good Juliet,</a><br>
6433<p><i>Noise again</i></p>
6434<a name="5.3.167">I dare no longer stay.</a><br>
6435</blockquote>
6436
6437<a name="speech31"><b>JULIET</b></a>
6438<blockquote>
6439<a name="5.3.168">Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.</a><br>
6440<p><i>Exit FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
6441<a name="5.3.169">What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?</a><br>
6442<a name="5.3.170">Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:</a><br>
6443<a name="5.3.171">O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop</a><br>
6444<a name="5.3.172">To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;</a><br>
6445<a name="5.3.173">Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,</a><br>
6446<a name="5.3.174">To make die with a restorative.</a><br>
6447<p><i>Kisses him</i></p>
6448<a name="5.3.175">Thy lips are warm.</a><br>
6449</blockquote>
6450
6451<a name="speech32"><b>First Watchman</b></a>
6452<blockquote>
6453<a name="5.3.176">[Within] Lead, boy: which way?</a><br>
6454</blockquote>
6455
6456<a name="speech33"><b>JULIET</b></a>
6457<blockquote>
6458<a name="5.3.177">Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!</a><br>
6459<p><i>Snatching ROMEO's dagger</i></p>
6460<a name="5.3.178">This is thy sheath;</a><br>
6461<p><i>Stabs herself</i></p>
6462<a name="5.3.179">there rust, and let me die.</a><br>
6463<p><i>Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies</i></p>
6464<p><i>Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS</i></p>
6465</blockquote>
6466
6467<a name="speech34"><b>PAGE</b></a>
6468<blockquote>
6469<a name="5.3.180">This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.</a><br>
6470</blockquote>
6471
6472<a name="speech35"><b>First Watchman</b></a>
6473<blockquote>
6474<a name="5.3.181">The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:</a><br>
6475<a name="5.3.182">Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.</a><br>
6476<a name="5.3.183">Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain,</a><br>
6477<a name="5.3.184">And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,</a><br>
6478<a name="5.3.185">Who here hath lain these two days buried.</a><br>
6479<a name="5.3.186">Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:</a><br>
6480<a name="5.3.187">Raise up the Montagues: some others search:</a><br>
6481<a name="5.3.188">We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;</a><br>
6482<a name="5.3.189">But the true ground of all these piteous woes</a><br>
6483<a name="5.3.190">We cannot without circumstance descry.</a><br>
6484<p><i>Re-enter some of the Watch, with BALTHASAR</i></p>
6485</blockquote>
6486
6487<a name="speech36"><b>Second Watchman</b></a>
6488<blockquote>
6489<a name="5.3.191">Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.</a><br>
6490</blockquote>
6491
6492<a name="speech37"><b>First Watchman</b></a>
6493<blockquote>
6494<a name="5.3.192">Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither.</a><br>
6495<p><i>Re-enter others of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
6496</blockquote>
6497
6498<a name="speech38"><b>Third Watchman</b></a>
6499<blockquote>
6500<a name="5.3.193">Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:</a><br>
6501<a name="5.3.194">We took this mattock and this spade from him,</a><br>
6502<a name="5.3.195">As he was coming from this churchyard side.</a><br>
6503</blockquote>
6504
6505<a name="speech39"><b>First Watchman</b></a>
6506<blockquote>
6507<a name="5.3.196">A great suspicion: stay the friar too.</a><br>
6508<p><i>Enter the PRINCE and Attendants</i></p>
6509</blockquote>
6510
6511<a name="speech40"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6512<blockquote>
6513<a name="5.3.197">What misadventure is so early up,</a><br>
6514<a name="5.3.198">That calls our person from our morning's rest?</a><br>
6515<p><i>Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others</i></p>
6516</blockquote>
6517
6518<a name="speech41"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
6519<blockquote>
6520<a name="5.3.199">What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?</a><br>
6521</blockquote>
6522
6523<a name="speech42"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
6524<blockquote>
6525<a name="5.3.200">The people in the street cry Romeo,</a><br>
6526<a name="5.3.201">Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,</a><br>
6527<a name="5.3.202">With open outcry toward our monument.</a><br>
6528</blockquote>
6529
6530<a name="speech43"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6531<blockquote>
6532<a name="5.3.203">What fear is this which startles in our ears?</a><br>
6533</blockquote>
6534
6535<a name="speech44"><b>First Watchman</b></a>
6536<blockquote>
6537<a name="5.3.204">Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;</a><br>
6538<a name="5.3.205">And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,</a><br>
6539<a name="5.3.206">Warm and new kill'd.</a><br>
6540</blockquote>
6541
6542<a name="speech45"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6543<blockquote>
6544<a name="5.3.207">Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.</a><br>
6545</blockquote>
6546
6547<a name="speech46"><b>First Watchman</b></a>
6548<blockquote>
6549<a name="5.3.208">Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;</a><br>
6550<a name="5.3.209">With instruments upon them, fit to open</a><br>
6551<a name="5.3.210">These dead men's tombs.</a><br>
6552</blockquote>
6553
6554<a name="speech47"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
6555<blockquote>
6556<a name="5.3.211">O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!</a><br>
6557<a name="5.3.212">This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house</a><br>
6558<a name="5.3.213">Is empty on the back of Montague,--</a><br>
6559<a name="5.3.214">And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!</a><br>
6560</blockquote>
6561
6562<a name="speech48"><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
6563<blockquote>
6564<a name="5.3.215">O me! this sight of death is as a bell,</a><br>
6565<a name="5.3.216">That warns my old age to a sepulchre.</a><br>
6566<p><i>Enter MONTAGUE and others</i></p>
6567</blockquote>
6568
6569<a name="speech49"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6570<blockquote>
6571<a name="5.3.217">Come, Montague; for thou art early up,</a><br>
6572<a name="5.3.218">To see thy son and heir more early down.</a><br>
6573</blockquote>
6574
6575<a name="speech50"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
6576<blockquote>
6577<a name="5.3.219">Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;</a><br>
6578<a name="5.3.220">Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:</a><br>
6579<a name="5.3.221">What further woe conspires against mine age?</a><br>
6580</blockquote>
6581
6582<a name="speech51"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6583<blockquote>
6584<a name="5.3.222">Look, and thou shalt see.</a><br>
6585</blockquote>
6586
6587<a name="speech52"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
6588<blockquote>
6589<a name="5.3.223">O thou untaught! what manners is in this?</a><br>
6590<a name="5.3.224">To press before thy father to a grave?</a><br>
6591</blockquote>
6592
6593<a name="speech53"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6594<blockquote>
6595<a name="5.3.225">Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,</a><br>
6596<a name="5.3.226">Till we can clear these ambiguities,</a><br>
6597<a name="5.3.227">And know their spring, their head, their</a><br>
6598<a name="5.3.228">true descent;</a><br>
6599<a name="5.3.229">And then will I be general of your woes,</a><br>
6600<a name="5.3.230">And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,</a><br>
6601<a name="5.3.231">And let mischance be slave to patience.</a><br>
6602<a name="5.3.232">Bring forth the parties of suspicion.</a><br>
6603</blockquote>
6604
6605<a name="speech54"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6606<blockquote>
6607<a name="5.3.233">I am the greatest, able to do least,</a><br>
6608<a name="5.3.234">Yet most suspected, as the time and place</a><br>
6609<a name="5.3.235">Doth make against me of this direful murder;</a><br>
6610<a name="5.3.236">And here I stand, both to impeach and purge</a><br>
6611<a name="5.3.237">Myself condemned and myself excused.</a><br>
6612</blockquote>
6613
6614<a name="speech55"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6615<blockquote>
6616<a name="5.3.238">Then say at once what thou dost know in this.</a><br>
6617</blockquote>
6618
6619<a name="speech56"><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
6620<blockquote>
6621<a name="5.3.239">I will be brief, for my short date of breath</a><br>
6622<a name="5.3.240">Is not so long as is a tedious tale.</a><br>
6623<a name="5.3.241">Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;</a><br>
6624<a name="5.3.242">And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:</a><br>
6625<a name="5.3.243">I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day</a><br>
6626<a name="5.3.244">Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death</a><br>
6627<a name="5.3.245">Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,</a><br>
6628<a name="5.3.246">For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.</a><br>
6629<a name="5.3.247">You, to remove that siege of grief from her,</a><br>
6630<a name="5.3.248">Betroth'd and would have married her perforce</a><br>
6631<a name="5.3.249">To County Paris: then comes she to me,</a><br>
6632<a name="5.3.250">And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean</a><br>
6633<a name="5.3.251">To rid her from this second marriage,</a><br>
6634<a name="5.3.252">Or in my cell there would she kill herself.</a><br>
6635<a name="5.3.253">Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,</a><br>
6636<a name="5.3.254">A sleeping potion; which so took effect</a><br>
6637<a name="5.3.255">As I intended, for it wrought on her</a><br>
6638<a name="5.3.256">The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,</a><br>
6639<a name="5.3.257">That he should hither come as this dire night,</a><br>
6640<a name="5.3.258">To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,</a><br>
6641<a name="5.3.259">Being the time the potion's force should cease.</a><br>
6642<a name="5.3.260">But he which bore my letter, Friar John,</a><br>
6643<a name="5.3.261">Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight</a><br>
6644<a name="5.3.262">Return'd my letter back. Then all alone</a><br>
6645<a name="5.3.263">At the prefixed hour of her waking,</a><br>
6646<a name="5.3.264">Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;</a><br>
6647<a name="5.3.265">Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,</a><br>
6648<a name="5.3.266">Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:</a><br>
6649<a name="5.3.267">But when I came, some minute ere the time</a><br>
6650<a name="5.3.268">Of her awaking, here untimely lay</a><br>
6651<a name="5.3.269">The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.</a><br>
6652<a name="5.3.270">She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,</a><br>
6653<a name="5.3.271">And bear this work of heaven with patience:</a><br>
6654<a name="5.3.272">But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;</a><br>
6655<a name="5.3.273">And she, too desperate, would not go with me,</a><br>
6656<a name="5.3.274">But, as it seems, did violence on herself.</a><br>
6657<a name="5.3.275">All this I know; and to the marriage</a><br>
6658<a name="5.3.276">Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this</a><br>
6659<a name="5.3.277">Miscarried by my fault, let my old life</a><br>
6660<a name="5.3.278">Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,</a><br>
6661<a name="5.3.279">Unto the rigour of severest law.</a><br>
6662</blockquote>
6663
6664<a name="speech57"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6665<blockquote>
6666<a name="5.3.280">We still have known thee for a holy man.</a><br>
6667<a name="5.3.281">Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?</a><br>
6668</blockquote>
6669
6670<a name="speech58"><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
6671<blockquote>
6672<a name="5.3.282">I brought my master news of Juliet's death;</a><br>
6673<a name="5.3.283">And then in post he came from Mantua</a><br>
6674<a name="5.3.284">To this same place, to this same monument.</a><br>
6675<a name="5.3.285">This letter he early bid me give his father,</a><br>
6676<a name="5.3.286">And threatened me with death, going in the vault,</a><br>
6677<a name="5.3.287">I departed not and left him there.</a><br>
6678</blockquote>
6679
6680<a name="speech59"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6681<blockquote>
6682<a name="5.3.288">Give me the letter; I will look on it.</a><br>
6683<a name="5.3.289">Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?</a><br>
6684<a name="5.3.290">Sirrah, what made your master in this place?</a><br>
6685</blockquote>
6686
6687<a name="speech60"><b>PAGE</b></a>
6688<blockquote>
6689<a name="5.3.291">He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;</a><br>
6690<a name="5.3.292">And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:</a><br>
6691<a name="5.3.293">Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;</a><br>
6692<a name="5.3.294">And by and by my master drew on him;</a><br>
6693<a name="5.3.295">And then I ran away to call the watch.</a><br>
6694</blockquote>
6695
6696<a name="speech61"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6697<blockquote>
6698<a name="5.3.296">This letter doth make good the friar's words,</a><br>
6699<a name="5.3.297">Their course of love, the tidings of her death:</a><br>
6700<a name="5.3.298">And here he writes that he did buy a poison</a><br>
6701<a name="5.3.299">Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal</a><br>
6702<a name="5.3.300">Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.</a><br>
6703<a name="5.3.301">Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!</a><br>
6704<a name="5.3.302">See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,</a><br>
6705<a name="5.3.303">That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.</a><br>
6706<a name="5.3.304">And I for winking at your discords too</a><br>
6707<a name="5.3.305">Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.</a><br>
6708</blockquote>
6709
6710<a name="speech62"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
6711<blockquote>
6712<a name="5.3.306">O brother Montague, give me thy hand:</a><br>
6713<a name="5.3.307">This is my daughter's jointure, for no more</a><br>
6714<a name="5.3.308">Can I demand.</a><br>
6715</blockquote>
6716
6717<a name="speech63"><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
6718<blockquote>
6719<a name="5.3.309"> But I can give thee more:</a><br>
6720<a name="5.3.310">For I will raise her statue in pure gold;</a><br>
6721<a name="5.3.311">That while Verona by that name is known,</a><br>
6722<a name="5.3.312">There shall no figure at such rate be set</a><br>
6723<a name="5.3.313">As that of true and faithful Juliet.</a><br>
6724</blockquote>
6725
6726<a name="speech64"><b>CAPULET</b></a>
6727<blockquote>
6728<a name="5.3.314">As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;</a><br>
6729<a name="5.3.315">Poor sacrifices of our enmity!</a><br>
6730</blockquote>
6731
6732<a name="speech65"><b>PRINCE</b></a>
6733<blockquote>
6734<a name="5.3.316">A glooming peace this morning with it brings;</a><br>
6735<a name="5.3.317">The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:</a><br>
6736<a name="5.3.318">Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;</a><br>
6737<a name="5.3.319">Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:</a><br>
6738<a name="5.3.320">For never was a story of more woe</a><br>
6739<a name="5.3.321">Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.</a><br>
6740<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
6741
6742
6743
6744
6745</blockquote></body></html>