Romeo and Juliet (Excerpts)

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Comparative Literature 4DW, Spring 2013Dr. Rodrguez Drissi

ROMEO and JULIET (for class use only)

SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.

Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket

FRIR LURENCE

The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,

Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,

And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels

From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:

Now, ere the sun adance his !urning eye,

The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,

" must up-fill this osier cage of ours#ith !aleful weeds and precious-$uiced flowers%

The earth that's nature's mother is her tom!&

#hat is her !urying grae that is her wom!,

And from her wom! children of diers kind

#e sucking on her natural !osom find,

any for many irtues e(cellent,

None !ut for some and yet all different%

), mickle is the powerful grace that lies

"n her!s, plants, stones, and their true qualities:

For nought so ile that on the earth doth lie

*ut to the earth some special good doth gie,

Nor aught so good !ut strain'd from that fair use

+eolts from true !irth, stum!ling on a!use:

irtue itself turns ice, !eing misapplied&

And ice sometimes !y action dignified%

#ithin the infant rind of this small flower

oison hath residence and medicine power:

For this, !eing smelt, with that part cheers each part&

*eing tasted, slays all senses with the heart%

Two such opposed kings encamp them still

"n man as well as her!s, grace and rude will&And where the worser is predominant,

Full soon the canker death eats up that plant%

Enter ROMEO

ROMEO

.ood morrow, father%

FRIR LURENCE

*enedicite/

#hat early tongue so sweet saluteth me0

1oung son, it argues a distemper'd head2o soon to !id good morrow to thy !ed:

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Care keeps his watch in eery old man's eye,

And where care lodges, sleep will neer lie&

*ut where un!ruised youth with unstuff'd !rain

3oth couch his lim!s, there golden sleep doth reign:

Therefore thy earliness doth me assure

Thou art up-roused !y some distemperature&)r if not so, then here " hit it right,

)ur +omeo hath not !een in !ed to-night%

ROMEO

That last is true& the sweeter rest was mine%

FRIR LURENCE

.od pardon sin/ wast thou with +osaline0

ROMEO

#ith +osaline, my ghostly father0 no&

" hae forgot that name, and that name's woe%

FRIR LURENCE

That's my good son: !ut where hast thou !een, then0ROMEO

"'ll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again%

" hae !een feasting with mine enemy,

#here on a sudden one hath wounded me,

That's !y me wounded: !oth our remedies

#ithin thy help and holy physic lies:

" !ear no hatred, !lessed man, for, lo,

y intercession likewise steads my foe%

FRIR LURENCE

*e plain, good son, and homely in thy drift&

+iddling confession finds !ut riddling shrift%

ROMEO

Then plainly know my heart's dear loe is set

)n the fair daughter of rich Capulet:

As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine&

And all com!ined, sae what thou must com!ine

*y holy marriage: when and where and how

#e met, we woo'd and made e(change of ow,

"'ll tell thee as we pass& !ut this " pray,

That thou consent to marry us to-day%

FRIR LURENCE4oly 2aint Francis, what a change is here/

"s +osaline, whom thou didst loe so dear,

2o soon forsaken0 young men's loe then lies

Not truly in their hearts, !ut in their eyes%

5esu aria, what a deal of !rine

4ath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for +osaline/

4ow much salt water thrown away in waste,

To season loe, that of it doth not taste/

The sun not yet thy sighs from heaen clears,

Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears&

6o, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit)f an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:

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"f e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,

Thou and these woes were all for +osaline:

And art thou changed0 pronounce this sentence then,

#omen may fall, when there's no strength in men%

ROMEO

Thou chid'st me oft for loing +osaline%FRIR LURENCE

For doting, not for loing, pupil mine%

ROMEO

And !ad'st me !ury loe%

FRIR LURENCE

Not in a grae,

To lay one in, another out to hae%

ROMEO

" pray thee, chide not& she whom " loe now

3oth grace for grace and loe for loe allow&

The other did not so%FRIR LURENCE

), she knew well

Thy loe did read !y rote and could not spell%

*ut come, young waerer, come, go with me,

"n one respect "'ll thy assistant !e&

For this alliance may so happy proe,

To turn your households' rancour to pure loe%

ROMEO

), let us hence& " stand on sudden haste%

FRIR LURENCE

#isely and slow& they stum!le that run fast%

Exeunt

SCENE I!. s"ree".

Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO

MERCUTIO

#here the deil should this +omeo !e0

Came he not home to-night0

#EN!OLIONot to his father's& " spoke with his man%

MERCUTIO

Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that +osaline%

Torments him so, that he will sure run mad%

#EN!OLIO

Ty!alt, the kinsman of old Capulet,

4ath sent a letter to his father's house%

MERCUTIO

A challenge, on my life%

#EN!OLIO

+omeo will answer it%

MERCUTIO

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Any man that can write may answer a letter%

#EN!OLIO

Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he

dares, !eing dared%

MERCUTIO

Alas poor +omeo/ he is already dead& sta!!ed with awhite wench's !lack eye& shot through the ear with a

loe-song& the ery pin of his heart cleft with the

!lind !ow-!oy's !utt-shaft: and is he a man to

encounter Ty!alt0

#EN!OLIO

#hy, what is Ty!alt0

MERCUTIO

ore than prince of cats, " can tell you% ), he is

the courageous captain of compliments% 4e fights as

you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and

proportion& rests me his minim rest, one, two, andthe third in your !osom: the ery !utcher of a silk

!utton, a duellist, a duellist& a gentleman of the

ery first house, of the first and second cause:

ah, the immortal passado/ the punto reerso/ the

hai/

#EN!OLIO

The what0

MERCUTIO

The po( of such antic, lisping, affecting

fantasticoes& these new tuners of accents/ '*y 5esu,

a ery good !lade/ a ery tall man/ a ery good

whore/' #hy, is not this a lamenta!le thing,

grandsire, that we should !e thus afflicted with

these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these

perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form,

that they cannot at ease on the old !ench0 ), their

!ones, their !ones/

Enter ROMEO

#EN!OLIO4ere comes +omeo, here comes +omeo%

MERCUTIO

#ithout his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,

how art thou fishified/ Now is he for the num!ers

that etrarch flowed in: 6aura to his lady was !ut a

kitchen-wench& marry, she had a !etter loe to

!e-rhyme her& 3ido a dowdy& Cleopatra a gipsy&

4elen and 4ero hildings and harlots& This!e a grey

eye or so, !ut not to the purpose% 2ignior

+omeo, !on $our/ there's a French salutation

to your French slop% 1ou gae us the counterfeitfairly last night%

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ROMEO

.ood morrow to you !oth% #hat counterfeit did " gie you0

MERCUTIO

The ship, sir, the slip& can you not conceie0

ROMEO

ardon, good ercutio, my !usiness was great& and insuch a case as mine a man may strain courtesy%

MERCUTIO

That's as much as to say, such a case as yours

constrains a man to !ow in the hams%

ROMEO

eaning, to court'sy%

MERCUTIO

Thou hast most kindly hit it%

ROMEO

A most courteous e(position%

MERCUTIONay, " am the ery pink of courtesy%

ROMEO

ink for flower%

MERCUTIO

+ight%

ROMEO

#hy, then is my pump well flowered%

MERCUTIO

#ell said: follow me this $est now till thou hast

worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it

is worn, the $est may remain after the wearing sole singular%

ROMEO

) single-soled $est, solely singular for the

singleness%

MERCUTIO

Come !etween us, good *enolio& my wits faint%

ROMEO

2witch and spurs, switch and spurs& or "'ll cry a match%

MERCUTIO

Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, " hae

done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one ofthy wits than, " am sure, " hae in my whole fie:

was " with you there for the goose0

ROMEO

Thou wast neer with me for any thing when thou wast

not there for the goose%

MERCUTIO

" will !ite thee !y the ear for that $est%

ROMEO

Nay, good goose, !ite not%

MERCUTIO

Thy wit is a ery !itter sweeting& it is a mostsharp sauce%

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ROMEO

And is it not well sered in to a sweet goose0

MERCUTIO

) here's a wit of cheeril, that stretches from an

inch narrow to an ell !road/

ROMEO" stretch it out for that word '!road&' which added

to the goose, proes thee far and wide a !road goose%

MERCUTIO

#hy, is not this !etter now than groaning for loe0

now art thou socia!le, now art thou +omeo& now art

thou what thou art, !y art as well as !y nature:

for this drielling loe is like a great natural,

that runs lolling up and down to hide his !au!le in a hole%

#EN!OLIO

2top there, stop there%

MERCUTIOThou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair%

#EN!OLIO

Thou wouldst else hae made thy tale large%

MERCUTIO

), thou art deceied& " would hae made it short:

for " was come to the whole depth of my tale& and

meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer%

ROMEO

4ere's goodly gear/

Enter Nurse and PETER

MERCUTIO

A sail, a sail/

#EN!OLIO

Two, two& a shirt and a smock%

Nurse

eter/

$ETER

Anon/

Nursey fan, eter%

MERCUTIO

.ood eter, to hide her face& for her fan's the

fairer face%

Nurse

.od ye good morrow, gentlemen%

MERCUTIO

.od ye good den, fair gentlewoman%

Nurse

"s it good den0

MERCUTIO

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'Tis no less, " tell you, for the !awdy hand of the

dial is now upon the prick of noon%

Nurse

)ut upon you/ what a man are you/

ROMEO

)ne, gentlewoman, that .od hath made for himself tomar%

Nurse

*y my troth, it is well said& 'for himself to mar,'

quoth a'0 .entlemen, can any of you tell me where "

may find the young +omeo0

ROMEO

" can tell you& !ut young +omeo will !e older when

you hae found him than he was when you sought him:

" am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse%

Nurse

1ou say well%MERCUTIO

1ea, is the worst well0 ery well took, i' faith&

wisely, wisely%

Nurse

if you !e he, sir, " desire some confidence with

you%

#EN!OLIO

2he will indite him to some supper%

MERCUTIO

A !awd, a !awd, a !awd/ so ho/

ROMEO

#hat hast thou found0

MERCUTIO

No hare, sir& unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,

that is something stale and hoar ere it !e spent%

in!s

An old hare hoar,

And an old hare hoar,

"s ery good meat in lent*ut a hare that is hoar

"s too much for a score,

#hen it hoars ere it !e spent%

+omeo, will you come to your father's0 we'll

to dinner, thither%

ROMEO

" will follow you%

MERCUTIO

Farewell, ancient lady& farewell,

in!in!

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'lady, lady, lady%'

Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO

Nurse

arry, farewell/ " pray you, sir, what saucymerchant was this, that was so full of his ropery0

ROMEO

A gentleman, nurse, that loes to hear himself talk,

and will speak more in a minute than he will stand

to in a month%

Nurse

An a' speak any thing against me, "'ll take him

down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such

5acks& and if " cannot, "'ll find those that shall%

2cury knae/ " am none of his flirt-gills& " am

none of his skains-mates% And thou must stand !ytoo, and suffer eery knae to use me at his pleasure0

$ETER

" saw no man use you a pleasure& if " had, my weapon

should quickly hae !een out, " warrant you: " dare

draw as soon as another man, if " see occasion in a

good quarrel, and the law on my side%

Nurse

Now, afore .od, " am so e(ed, that eery part a!out

me quiers% 2cury knae/ ray you, sir, a word:

and as " told you, my young lady !ade me inquire you

out& what she !ade me say, " will keep to myself:

!ut first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into

a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a ery gross

kind of !ehaior, as they say: for the gentlewoman

is young& and, therefore, if you should deal dou!le

with her, truly it were an ill thing to !e offered

to any gentlewoman, and ery weak dealing%

ROMEO

Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress% "

protest unto thee--

Nurse.ood heart, and, i' faith, " will tell her as much:

6ord, 6ord, she will !e a $oyful woman%

ROMEO

#hat wilt thou tell her, nurse0 thou dost not mark me%

Nurse

" will tell her, sir, that you do protest& which, as

" take it, is a gentlemanlike offer%

ROMEO

*id her deise

2ome means to come to shrift this afternoon&

And there she shall at Friar 6aurence' cell*e shried and married% 4ere is for thy pains%

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Nurse

No truly sir& not a penny%

ROMEO

.o to& " say you shall%

Nurse

This afternoon, sir0 well, she shall !e there%ROMEO

And stay, good nurse, !ehind the a!!ey wall:

#ithin this hour my man shall !e with thee

And !ring thee cords made like a tackled stair&

#hich to the high top-gallant of my $oy

ust !e my conoy in the secret night%

Farewell& !e trusty, and "'ll quit thy pains:

Farewell& commend me to thy mistress%

Nurse

Now .od in heaen !less thee/ 4ark you, sir%

ROMEO#hat say'st thou, my dear nurse0

Nurse

"s your man secret0 3id you ne'er hear say,

Two may keep counsel, putting one away0

ROMEO

" warrant thee, my man's as true as steel%

NURSE

#ell, sir& my mistress is the sweetest lady--6ord,

6ord/ when 'twas a little prating thing:--), there

is a no!leman in town, one aris, that would fain

lay knife a!oard& !ut she, good soul, had as lief

see a toad, a ery toad, as see him% " anger her

sometimes and tell her that aris is the properer

man& !ut, "'ll warrant you, when " say so, she looks

as pale as any clout in the ersal world% 3oth not

rosemary and +omeo !egin !oth with a letter0

ROMEO

Ay, nurse& what of that0 !oth with an +%

Nurse

Ah% mocker/ that's the dog's name& + is for

the--No& " know it !egins with some otherletter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of

it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good

to hear it%

ROMEO

Commend me to thy lady%

Nurse

Ay, a thousand times%

Exit R"#e"

eter/$ETER

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Anon/

Nurse

eter, take my fan, and go !efore and apace%

Exeunt

CT !

SCENE I. Man"ua. s"ree".

Enter ROMEO

ROMEO

"f " may trust the flattering truth of sleep,

y dreams presage some $oyful news at hand:

y !osom's lord sits lightly in his throne&

And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit6ifts me a!oe the ground with cheerful thoughts%

" dreamt my lady came and found me dead--

2trange dream, that gies a dead man leae

to think/--

And !reathed such life with kisses in my lips,

That " reied, and was an emperor%

Ah me/ how sweet is loe itself possess'd,

#hen !ut loe's shadows are so rich in $oy/

Enter BALT$AAR, b""ted

News from erona/--4ow now, *althasar/

3ost thou not !ring me letters from the friar0

4ow doth my lady0 "s my father well0

4ow fares my 5uliet0 that " ask again&

For nothing can !e ill, if she !e well%

#LT%SR

Then she is well, and nothing can !e ill:

4er !ody sleeps in Capel's monument,

And her immortal part with angels lies%

" saw her laid low in her kindred's ault,

And presently took post to tell it you:

), pardon me for !ringing these ill news,

2ince you did leae it for my office, sir%

ROMEO

"s it een so0 then " defy you, stars/

Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,

And hire post-horses& " will hence to-night%

#LT%SR

" do !eseech you, sir, hae patience:

1our looks are pale and wild, and do import

2ome misadenture%ROMEO

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Tush, thou art deceied:

6eae me, and do the thing " !id thee do%

4ast thou no letters to me from the friar0

#LT%SR

No, my good lord%

ROMEONo matter: get thee gone,

And hire those horses& "'ll !e with thee straight%

Exit BALT$AAR

#ell, 5uliet, " will lie with thee to-night%

6et's see for means: ) mischief, thou art swift

To enter in the thoughts of desperate men/

" do remem!er an apothecary,--

And herea!outs he dwells,--which late " noted

"n tatter'd weeds, with oerwhelming !rows,Culling of simples& meagre were his looks,

2harp misery had worn him to the !ones:

And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,

An alligator stuff'd, and other skins

)f ill-shaped fishes& and a!out his sheles

A !eggarly account of empty !o(es,

.reen earthen pots, !ladders and musty seeds,

+emnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,

#ere thinly scatter'd, to make up a show%

Noting this penury, to myself " said

'An if a man did need a poison now,

#hose sale is present death in antua,

4ere lies a caitiff wretch would sell it him%'

), this same thought did !ut forerun my need&

And this same needy man must sell it me%

As " remem!er, this should !e the house%

*eing holiday, the !eggar's shop is shut%

#hat, ho/ apothecary/

Enter A%"the&ar'

&o"ecary

#ho calls so loud0

ROMEO

Come hither, man% " see that thou art poor:

4old, there is forty ducats: let me hae

A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear

As will disperse itself through all the eins

That the life-weary taker may fall dead

And that the trunk may !e discharged of !reath

As iolently as hasty powder fired

3oth hurry from the fatal cannon's wom!%&o"ecary

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2uch mortal drugs " hae& !ut antua's law

"s death to any he that utters them%

ROMEO

Art thou so !are and full of wretchedness,

And fear'st to die0 famine is in thy cheeks,

Need and oppression stareth in thine eyes,Contempt and !eggary hangs upon thy !ack&

The world is not thy friend nor the world's law&

The world affords no law to make thee rich&

Then !e not poor, !ut !reak it, and take this%

&o"ecary

y poerty, !ut not my will, consents%

ROMEO

" pay thy poerty, and not thy will%

&o"ecary

ut this in any liquid thing you will,

And drink it off& and, if you had the strength)f twenty men, it would dispatch you straight%

ROMEO

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,

3oing more murders in this loathsome world,

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell%

" sell thee poison& thou hast sold me none%

Farewell: !uy food, and get thyself in flesh%

Come, cordial and not poison, go with me

To 5uliet's grae& for there must " use thee%

Exeunt

SCENE II. Friar Laurence's cell.

Enter FRIAR (O$N

FRIR JO%N

4oly Franciscan friar/ !rother, ho/

Enter FRIAR LAURENCE

FRIR LURENCEThis same should !e the oice of Friar 5ohn%

#elcome from antua: what says +omeo0

)r, if his mind !e writ, gie me his letter%

FRIR JO%N

.oing to find a !are-foot !rother out

)ne of our order, to associate me,

4ere in this city isiting the sick,

And finding him, the searchers of the town,

2uspecting that we !oth were in a house

#here the infectious pestilence did reign,

2eal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth&

2o that my speed to antua there was stay'd%

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FRIR LURENCE

#ho !are my letter, then, to +omeo0

FRIR JO%N

" could not send it,--here it is again,--

Nor get a messenger to !ring it thee,

2o fearful were they of infection%FRIR LURENCE

7nhappy fortune/ !y my !rotherhood,

The letter was not nice !ut full of charge

)f dear import, and the neglecting it

ay do much danger% Friar 5ohn, go hence&

.et me an iron crow, and !ring it straight

7nto my cell%

FRIR JO%N

*rother, "'ll go and !ring it thee%

Exit

FRIR LURENCE

Now must " to the monument alone&

#ithin three hours will fair 5uliet wake:

2he will !eshrew me much that +omeo

4ath had no notice of these accidents&

*ut " will write again to antua,

And keep her at my cell till +omeo come&

oor liing corse, closed in a dead man's tom!/

Exit

SCENE III. curcyard in i" a "o* *elon+in+ "o "e Ca&ule"s.

Enter PARI, and his Pa!e bearin! )*"wers and a t"r&h

$RIS

.ie me thy torch, !oy: hence, and stand aloof:

1et put it out, for " would not !e seen%

7nder yond yew-trees lay thee all along,

4olding thine ear close to the hollow ground&

2o shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,*eing loose, unfirm, with digging up of graes,

*ut thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,

As signal that thou hear'st something approach%

.ie me those flowers% 3o as " !id thee, go%

$,E

8Aside9 " am almost afraid to stand alone

4ere in the churchyard& yet " will adenture%

Retires

$RIS

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2weet flower, with flowers thy !ridal !ed " strew,--

) woe/ thy canopy is dust and stones&--

#hich with sweet water nightly " will dew,

)r, wanting that, with tears distill'd !y moans:

The o!sequies that " for thee will keep

Nightly shall !e to strew thy grae and weep%

The Pa!e whist*es

The !oy gies warning something doth approach%

#hat cursed foot wanders this way to-night,

To cross my o!sequies and true loe's rite0

#hat with a torch/ muffle me, night, awhile%

Retires

Enter ROMEO and BALT$AAR, with a t"r&h, #att"&k, + &

ROMEO

.ie me that mattock and the wrenching iron%

4old, take this letter& early in the morning

2ee thou delier it to my lord and father%

.ie me the light: upon thy life, " charge thee,

#hate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,

And do not interrupt me in my course%

#hy " descend into this !ed of death,

"s partly to !ehold my lady's face&

*ut chiefly to take thence from her dead finger

A precious ring, a ring that " must use

"n dear employment: therefore hence, !e gone:

*ut if thou, $ealous, dost return to pry

"n what " further shall intend to do,

*y heaen, " will tear thee $oint !y $oint

And strew this hungry churchyard with thy lim!s:

The time and my intents are saage-wild,

ore fierce and more ine(ora!le far

Than empty tigers or the roaring sea%

#LT%SR" will !e gone, sir, and not trou!le you%

ROMEO

2o shalt thou show me friendship% Take thou that:

6ie, and !e prosperous: and farewell, good fellow%

#LT%SR

8Aside9 For all this same, "'ll hide me herea!out:

4is looks " fear, and his intents " dou!t%

Retires

ROMEO

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Thou detesta!le maw, thou wom! of death,

.orged with the dearest morsel of the earth,

Thus " enforce thy rotten $aws to open,

And, in despite, "'ll cram thee with more food/

O%ens the t"#b

$RIS

This is that !anish'd haughty ontague,

That murder'd my loe's cousin, with which grief,

"t is supposed, the fair creature died&

And here is come to do some illanous shame

To the dead !odies: " will apprehend him%

C"#es )"rward

2top thy unhallow'd toil, ile ontague/

Can engeance !e pursued further than death0

Condemned illain, " do apprehend thee:

)!ey, and go with me& for thou must die%

ROMEO

" must indeed& and therefore came " hither%

.ood gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man&

Fly hence, and leae me: think upon these gone&

6et them affright thee% " !eseech thee, youth,

ut not another sin upon my head,

*y urging me to fury: ), !e gone/

*y heaen, " loe thee !etter than myself&

For " come hither arm'd against myself:

2tay not, !e gone& lie, and hereafter say,

A madman's mercy !ade thee run away%

$RIS

" do defy thy con$urations,

And apprehend thee for a felon here%

ROMEO

#ilt thou prooke me0 then hae at thee, !oy/

The' )i!ht

$,E

) 6ord, they fight/ " will go call the watch%

Exit

$RIS

), " am slain/

Fa**s

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"f thou !e merciful,

)pen the tom!, lay me with 5uliet%

ies

ROMEO"n faith, " will% 6et me peruse this face%

ercutio's kinsman, no!le County aris/

#hat said my man, when my !etossed soul

3id not attend him as we rode0 " think

4e told me aris should hae married 5uliet:

2aid he not so0 or did " dream it so0

)r am " mad, hearing him talk of 5uliet,

To think it was so0 ), gie me thy hand,

)ne writ with me in sour misfortune's !ook/

"'ll !ury thee in a triumphant grae&

A grae0 ) no/ a lantern, slaughter'd youth,For here lies 5uliet, and her !eauty makes

This ault a feasting presence full of light%

3eath, lie thou there, !y a dead man interr'd%

La'in! PARI in the t"#b

4ow oft when men are at the point of death

4ae they !een merry/ which their keepers call

A lightning !efore death: ), how may "

Call this a lightning0 ) my loe/ my wife/

3eath, that hath suck'd the honey of thy !reath,

4ath had no power yet upon thy !eauty:

Thou art not conquer'd& !eauty's ensign yet

"s crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,

And death's pale flag is not adanced there%

Ty!alt, liest thou there in thy !loody sheet0

), what more faour can " do to thee,

Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain

To sunder his that was thine enemy0

Forgie me, cousin/ Ah, dear 5uliet,

#hy art thou yet so fair0 shall " !elieeThat unsu!stantial death is amorous,

And that the lean a!horred monster keeps

Thee here in dark to !e his paramour0

For fear of that, " still will stay with thee&

And neer from this palace of dim night

3epart again: here, here will " remain

#ith worms that are thy cham!er-maids& ), here

#ill " set up my eerlasting rest,

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

From this world-wearied flesh% yes, look your last/

Arms, take your last em!race/ and, lips, ) youThe doors of !reath, seal with a righteous kiss

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A dateless !argain to engrossing death/

Come, !itter conduct, come, unsaoury guide/

Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on

The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary !ark/

4ere's to my loe/

rinks

) true apothecary/

Thy drugs are quick% Thus with a kiss " die%

ies

Enter, at the "ther end ") the &hur&h'ard, FRIAR LAURENCE, with a *antern, &r"w, and

s%ade

FRIR LURENCE2aint Francis !e my speed/ how oft to-night

4ae my old feet stum!led at graes/ #ho's there0

#LT%SR

4ere's one, a friend, and one that knows you well%

FRIR LURENCE

*liss !e upon you/ Tell me, good my friend,

#hat torch is yond, that ainly lends his light

To gru!s and eyeless skulls0 as " discern,

"t !urneth in the Capel's monument%

#LT%SR

"t doth so, holy sir& and there's my master,

)ne that you loe%

FRIR LURENCE

#ho is it0

#LT%SR

+omeo%

FRIR LURENCE

4ow long hath he !een there0

#LT%SR

Full half an hour%

FRIR LURENCE.o with me to the ault%

#LT%SR

" dare not, sir

y master knows not !ut " am gone hence&

And fearfully did menace me with death,

"f " did stay to look on his intents%

FRIR LURENCE

2tay, then& "'ll go alone% Fear comes upon me:

), much " fear some ill unlucky thing%

#LT%SR

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As " did sleep under this yew-tree here,

" dreamt my master and another fought,

And that my master slew him%

FRIR LURENCE

+omeo/

Ad-an&es

Alack, alack, what !lood is this, which stains

The stony entrance of this sepulchre0

#hat mean these masterless and gory swords

To lie discolour'd !y this place of peace0

Enters the t"#b

+omeo/ ), pale/ #ho else0 what, aris too0

And steep'd in !lood0 Ah, what an unkind hour"s guilty of this lamenta!le chance/

The lady stirs%

(ULIET wakes

JULIET

) comforta!le friar/ where is my lord0

" do remem!er well where " should !e,

And there " am% #here is my +omeo0

N"ise within

FRIR LURENCE

" hear some noise% 6ady, come from that nest

)f death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:

A greater power than we can contradict

4ath thwarted our intents% Come, come away%

Thy hus!and in thy !osom there lies dead&

And aris too% Come, "'ll dispose of thee

Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:

2tay not to question, for the watch is coming&Come, go, good 5uliet,

N"ise a!ain

" dare no longer stay%

JULIET

.o, get thee hence, for " will not away%

Exit FRIAR LAURENCE

#hat's here0 a cup, closed in my true loe's hand0oison, " see, hath !een his timeless end:

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) churl/ drunk all, and left no friendly drop

To help me after0 " will kiss thy lips&

4aply some poison yet doth hang on them,

To make die with a restoratie%

.isses hi#

Thy lips are warm%

Firs" -a"can

8#ithin9 6ead, !oy: which way0

JULIET

1ea, noise0 then "'ll !e !rief% ) happy dagger/

nat&hin! ROMEO/s da!!er

This is thy sheath&

tabs herse*)

there rust, and let me die%

Fa**s "n ROMEO/s b"d', and dies

Enter 0at&h, with the Pa!e ") PARI

$,E

This is the place& there, where the torch doth !urn%Firs" -a"can

The ground is !loody& search a!out the churchyard:

.o, some of you, whoe'er you find attach%

itiful sight/ here lies the county slain,

And 5uliet !leeding, warm, and newly dead,

#ho here hath lain these two days !uried%

.o, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:

+aise up the ontagues: some others search:

#e see the ground whereon these woes do lie&

*ut the true ground of all these piteous woes

#e cannot without circumstance descry%

Re1enter s"#e ") the 0at&h, with BALT$AAR

Second -a"can

4ere's +omeo's man& we found him in the churchyard%

Firs" -a"can

4old him in safety, till the prince come hither%

Re1enter "thers ") the 0at&h, with FRIAR LAURENCE

Tird -a"can

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4ere is a friar, that trem!les, sighs and weeps:

#e took this mattock and this spade from him,

As he was coming from this churchyard side%

Firs" -a"can

A great suspicion: stay the friar too%

Enter the PRINCE and Attendants

$RINCE

#hat misadenture is so early up,

That calls our person from our morning's rest0

Enter CAPULET, LA2 CAPULET, and "thers

C$ULET

#hat should it !e, that they so shriek a!road0

L/ C$ULETThe people in the street cry +omeo,

2ome 5uliet, and some aris& and all run,

#ith open outcry toward our monument%

$RINCE

#hat fear is this which startles in our ears0

Firs" -a"can

2oereign, here lies the County aris slain&

And +omeo dead& and 5uliet, dead !efore,

#arm and new kill'd%

$RINCE

2earch, seek, and know how this foul murder comes%

Firs" -a"can

4ere is a friar, and slaughter'd +omeo's man&

#ith instruments upon them, fit to open

These dead men's tom!s%

C$ULET

) heaens/ ) wife, look how our daughter !leeds/

This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house

"s empty on the !ack of ontague,--

And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's !osom/

L/ C$ULET) me/ this sight of death is as a !ell,

That warns my old age to a sepulchre%

Enter MONTA3UE and "thers

$RINCE

Come, ontague& for thou art early up,

To see thy son and heir more early down%

MONT,UE

Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night&

.rief of my son's e(ile hath stopp'd her !reath:#hat further woe conspires against mine age0

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$RINCE

6ook, and thou shalt see%

MONT,UE

) thou untaught/ what manners is in this0

To press !efore thy father to a grae0

$RINCE2eal up the mouth of outrage for a while,

Till we can clear these am!iguities,

And know their spring, their head, their

true descent&

And then will " !e general of your woes,

And lead you een to death: meantime for!ear,

And let mischance !e slae to patience%

*ring forth the parties of suspicion%

FRIR LURENCE

" am the greatest, a!le to do least,

1et most suspected, as the time and place3oth make against me of this direful murder&

And here " stand, !oth to impeach and purge

yself condemned and myself e(cused%

$RINCE

Then say at once what thou dost know in this%

FRIR LURENCE

" will !e !rief, for my short date of !reath

"s not so long as is a tedious tale%

+omeo, there dead, was hus!and to that 5uliet&

And she, there dead, that +omeo's faithful wife:

" married them& and their stol'n marriage-day

#as Ty!alt's dooms-day, whose untimely death

*anish'd the new-made !ridegroom from the city,

For whom, and not for Ty!alt, 5uliet pined%

1ou, to remoe that siege of grief from her,

*etroth'd and would hae married her perforce

To County aris: then comes she to me,

And, with wild looks, !id me deise some mean

To rid her from this second marriage,

)r in my cell there would she kill herself%

Then gae " her, so tutor'd !y my art,A sleeping potion& which so took effect

As " intended, for it wrought on her

The form of death: meantime " writ to +omeo,

That he should hither come as this dire night,

To help to take her from her !orrow'd grae,

*eing the time the potion's force should cease%

*ut he which !ore my letter, Friar 5ohn,

#as stay'd !y accident, and yesternight

+eturn'd my letter !ack% Then all alone

At the prefi(ed hour of her waking,

Came " to take her from her kindred's ault&eaning to keep her closely at my cell,

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Till " coneniently could send to +omeo:

*ut when " came, some minute ere the time

)f her awaking, here untimely lay

The no!le aris and true +omeo dead%

2he wakes& and " entreated her come forth,

And !ear this work of heaen with patience:*ut then a noise did scare me from the tom!&

And she, too desperate, would not go with me,

*ut, as it seems, did iolence on herself%

All this " know& and to the marriage

4er nurse is priy: and, if aught in this

iscarried !y my fault, let my old life

*e sacrificed, some hour !efore his time,

7nto the rigour of seerest law%

$RINCE

#e still hae known thee for a holy man%

#here's +omeo's man0 what can he say in this0#LT%SR

" !rought my master news of 5uliet's death&

And then in post he came from antua

To this same place, to this same monument%

This letter he early !id me gie his father,

And threatened me with death, going in the ault,

" departed not and left him there%

$RINCE

.ie me the letter& " will look on it%

#here is the county's page, that raised the watch0

2irrah, what made your master in this place0

$,E

4e came with flowers to strew his lady's grae&

And !id me stand aloof, and so " did:

Anon comes one with light to ope the tom!&

And !y and !y my master drew on him&

And then " ran away to call the watch%

$RINCE

This letter doth make good the friar's words,

Their course of loe, the tidings of her death:

And here he writes that he did !uy a poison)f a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal

Came to this ault to die, and lie with 5uliet%

#here !e these enemies0 Capulet/ ontague/

2ee, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaen finds means to kill your $oys with loe%

And " for winking at your discords too

4ae lost a !race of kinsmen: all are punish'd%

C$ULET

) !rother ontague, gie me thy hand:

This is my daughter's $ointure, for no more

Can " demand%MONT,UE

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*ut " can gie thee more:

For " will raise her statue in pure gold&

That while erona !y that name is known,

There shall no figure at such rate !e set

As that of true and faithful 5uliet%

C$ULETAs rich shall +omeo's !y his lady's lie&

oor sacrifices of our enmity/

$RINCE

A glooming peace this morning with it !rings&

The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:

.o hence, to hae more talk of these sad things&

2ome shall !e pardon'd, and some punished:

For neer was a story of more woe

Than this of 5uliet and her +omeo%

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