'Then music with her silver sound With speedy help doth lend redress.' [Exit First Mus. What a pestilent knave is this Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare 100 [Exit. First Mus. Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended. Sec. Mus. Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit. Pet. Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer me like men: When griping grief the heart doth wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress, Then music with her silver sound 130 why silver sound'? why 'music with her silver sound? What say you, Simon Catling? First Mus. Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound. [beck? Rom. If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand: I dreamt my lady came and found me deadStrange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think! And breathed such life with kisses in my lips, That I revived, and was an emperor. Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd, 10 News from Verona -How now, Baltha.ar! Bal. Then she is well, and nothing can be ill: 20 Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, paper, And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night. Bal. I do beseech you, sir, have patience : Your looks are pale and wild, and do import Some misadventure. Rom. To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: Green earthen pots, bladders and musty And this same needy man must sell it me. Ap. Enter Apothecary. Who calls so loud? 50 Rom. Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor: Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have As violently as hasty powder fired Is death to any he that utters them. [ness, Rom. Art thou so bare and full of wretchedAnd fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, 70 Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back; The world is not thy friend nor the world's law; The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. Ap. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. Ap. Put this in any liquid thing you will, And drink it off; and, if you had the strength Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight. Rom. There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, 80 Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. SCENE II. Friar Laurence's cell. Enter FRIAR LAURENCE. Fri. L. This same should be the voice of Friar John. Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo? Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. Fri. J. Going to find a bare-foot brother out, One of our order, to associate me, Fri. L. Unhappy fortune by my brotherhood, The letter was not nice but full of charge Fri. J. Brother, I'll go and bring it thee. [Exit. SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets. Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch. Par. Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof: Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. 10 And here is come to do some villanous shame Rom. I must indeed; and therefore came I hither. Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man; Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone; 60 Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, Par. O, I am slain! [Falls.] If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. [Dies. Rom. In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face. 80 Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris ! 110 Will I set up my everlasting rest, Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, U 119 Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIA LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spads Fri. L. Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who there? Fri. L. How long hath he been there? Bal. Full half an hour. 130 Fri. L. Go with me to the vault. Bal. I dare not, sir: My master knows not but I am gone hence; And fearfully did menace me with death, If I did stay to look on his intents. Fri. L. Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me: 0, much I fear some ill unlucky thing. Bal. As I did sleep under this yew-tree here, I dreamt my master and another fought, Romeo! [Advances. Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains The stony entrance of this sepulchre ? What mean these masterless and gory swords To lie discolor'd by this place of peace? [Enters the tomb. Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too? And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour [Juliet wakes. Is guilty of this lamentable chance ! I do remember well where I should be, Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep : Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; Come, go, good Juliet [Noise again], I dare no longer stay. away. Jul. Go, get thee hence, for I will not [Exit Fri. L. 160 What's here ? a cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see hath been his timeless end: charl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips; Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative. [Kisses him. Thy lips are warm. [way? First Watch. [Within] Lead, boy, which [Falls on Romeo's body, and dies. Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS. Page. This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn. First Watch. The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard: Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach. 181 Third Watch. Here is a friar, that trem❤ bles, sighs and weeps: We took this mattock and this spade from him, As he was coming from this churchyard side. First Watch. A great suspicion: stay the friar too. Enter the PRINCE and Attendants. Prince. What misadventure is so early up, That calls our person from our morning's rest? Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others. Cap. What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? 190 La. Cap. The people in the street cry Romeo, Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run, With open outcry toward our monument. Prince. What fear is this which startles in our ears? First Watch. Sovereign, here lies the And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before, Prince. Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes. First Watch. Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man; With instruments upon them, fit to open 200 These dead men's tombs. Cap. O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! This dagger hath mista'en-for, lo, his house a bell, Enter MONTAGUE and others. Prince. Come, Montague; for thou art early up, To see thy son and heir more early down. Mon. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight; 210 Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: What further woe conspires against mine age? Prince. Look, and thou shalt see. Mon. O thou untaught! what manners is in this ? To press before thy father to a grave? Prince. Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, Till we can clear these ambiguities, And know their spring, their head, their true descent; And then will I be general of your woes, And let mischance be slave to patience. 220 Fri. L. I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet most suspected, as the time and place Doth make against me of this direful mur der; And here I stand, both to impeach and purge Myself condemned and myself excused." Prince. Then say at once what thou dost know in this. Fri. L. I will be brief, for my short date of breath 230 Is not so long as is a tedious tale. And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife : I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death [city, Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. You, to remove that siege of grief from her, Betroth'd and would have married her perforce 241 To County Paris: then comes she to me, The form of death: meantime I writ to That he should hither come as this dire night, The noble Paris and true Romeo dead. man. Prince. We still have known thee for a holy 270 Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this? [death; Bal. I brought my master news of Juliet's And then in post he came from Mantua To this same place, to this same monument. This letter he early bid me give his father, And threatened me with death, going in the vault, If I departed not and left him there. Prince. Give me the letter; I will look on it. Where is the county's page, that raised the watch? Sirrah, what made your master in this place? Prince. He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave; 281 And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Prince. This letter doth make good the friar's words, Their course of love, the tidings of her death: 291 See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I for winking at your discords too Have lost a brace of kinsmen : all are punish`d. Mon. Cap. As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; Poor sacrifices of our enmity! Prince. A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. [Exeunt. 309 |