romeo&juliet summer 2011b

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Romeo and Juliet

ACT I

PRELUDE. Verona street. A street scene. There are several unemployed people standingand sitting about—street musicians busking. We see the followinggroups pass by at various times: The Friar and Juliet—with herbschatting about the properties of the plants The !rince" chief of

police" and #ercutio—The !rince doting on his favorite niece" atone point the !rince goes to bust up the busking musicians but#ercutio talks him out of it" !aris passes by and greets his unclethe !rince and cousin" #ercutio The $urse and !eter goinghome after shopping" !eter laden with packages" the $urseberating him as they go" Tybalt arrives and steals a flower from astreet musician" Tybalt goes over and presents the flower to#ercutio who smiles at him then crushes the flower" she flips themusician a coin and leaves Abraham and %althasar enter puttingup #ontague posters over &apulet posters and paying some ofthe street people to wear #ontague buttons and armbands.

SCENE 1. Verona street.'nter (A#!()$ and *+'*)+," of the house of &apulet. Theycarry &apulet political posters. -uring the following" they rip offandor cover up #ontague political posters with their own" andalso pay some of the street people to wear &apulet buttons orarmbandsremove #ontague buttons and armbands.

SAMPSONGregory: o' my word I strike quickly, being moved.

REOR!But thou art not quickly moved to strike.



SAMPSON A dog of the house of #ontague, moves me.

REOR!

o move, is to stir: and to be valiant, is to stand: herefore, if thouart moved, thou runst away.

SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall ofany !an or !aid of #ontague/s.

REOR!hat shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.

SAMPSONrue, and therefore women being the weaker "essels, are everthrust to the wall: therefore I will #ush #ontague/s men from thewall, and thrust his !aids to the wall.

REOR!he $uarrel is between our !asters, and us their men.

SAMPSON

'is all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought withthe men, I will be civil with the !aids, and cut off their heads.

REOR!he heads of the !aids%

SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the !aids, or their !aiden&heads take it in whatsense thou wilt.

REOR!hey must take it in sense, that feel it.

SAMPSON



!e they shall feel while I am able to stand: and 'tis known I am a#retty #iece of flesh.'nter A%+A0A# and %A1T0A(A+

REOR!(raw thy tool) here comes two of the house of the #ontagues.

SAMPSON!y naked wea#on is out: quarrel, I will back thee.

REOR!*ow) turn thy back, and run%

SAMPSON+ear me not.

REOR!o, marry: I fear thee

SAMPSON-et us take the -aw of our sides: let them begin.

REOR!

I will frown as I #ass by, and let them take it as they list.

SAMPSONay, as they dare. I will bite my humb at them, which is adisgrace to them, if they bear it.(A#!()$ bites his thumb.

A"RA#AM(o you bite your humb at us sir%

SAMPSONI do bite my humb, sir.

A"RA#AM(o you bite your humb at us, sir%



SAMPSONIs the -aw of our side, if I say ay%

REOR!

o.

SAMPSONo sir, I do not bite my humb at you sir: but I bite my humb sir.

REOR!(o you quarrel, sir%

A"RA#AM$uarrel sir% no sir.

SAMPSONIf you do sir, I am for you, I serve as good a man as you.0e pastes a &apulet poster over a #ontague poster.

A"RA#AMo better%

SAMPSON

ell sir.T,%A1T enters but stays in the background.

REOR!/ay better: here comes one of my master's kinsmen.

SAMPSON0es, better.

A"RA#AM0ou -ie.

SAMPSON(raw if you be men. *regory , remember thy washing blow.They fight . 'nter %'$2)13)" who does not see T,%A1T



"ENVOLIO1art, +ools, #ut u# your /words, you know not what you do.T,%A1T comes forward.

T!"ALThat, art thou drawn, among these heartless *inds%urn thee Benvolio, look u#on thy death.

"ENVOLIOI do but kee# the #eace, #ut u# thy /word,2r manage it to #art these men with me.

T!"ALT

hat drawn, and talk of #eace% I hate the word As I hate hell, all #ontagues, and thee:*ave at thee, coward.They fight . (everal street people 4oin in the fight.

$irst Citi%en3lubs, Bills, and 1artisans, strike, beat them down.

Se&ond Citi%en

(own with the &apulets)T'ird Citi%en(own with the #ontagues)'nter &A!51'T and 1A-, &A!51'T

CAPULEThat noise is this% Give me my long /word ho.

LAD! CAPULET

A crutch, a crutch: why call you for a /word%'nter #)$TA*5' and Assistant

CAPULET!y /word I say: 2ld #ontague is come,

And flourishes his Blade in s#ite of me.



MONTAUEhou villain &apulet . *old me not, let me go.

Assistanthou shalt not stir a foot to seek a +oe.'nter !+3$&'

PRINCE4ebellious /ub5ects, 6nemies to #eace,1rofaners of this eighbour&stained /teel,ill they not hear%'nter the actors playing +omeo and Juliet above and separate.

!+3$&' shoots his pistol into the air. 'veryone on stage free6es.JULIETwo households

ROMEOboth alike in dignity,

ROMEO( JULIET 7In fair "erona where we lay our /cene8

JULIET+rom ancient grudge, break to new mutiny,

ROMEOhere civil blood

JULIETmakes civil hands unclean:

ROMEO+rom forth the fatal loins of these two foes,

ROMEO( JULIET A #air of star&cross'd -overs, take their life:



ROMEOhose misadventured

JULIET#iteous

ROMEO( JULIEToverthrows,

(oth with their death bury their +athers9 strife.

ROMEOhe fearful #assage of their death&marked love,

JULIET And the continuance of their 1arents' rage,

ROMEO( JULIET 7hich but their children9s end

ROMEOnaught could remove8

JULIETIs now the two hours' traffic of our /tage.

ROMEO( JULIEThe which if you with #atient ears attend,hat here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.'7it the actors playing +omeo and Juliet. When they are gone"the actors on stage resume the scene.

PRINCEhat, ho, you !en, you Beasts:2n #ain of orture, from those bloody handshrow your mistem#er'd ea#ons to the ground,

And hear the /entence of your moved 1rince.hree civil Brawls, bred of an Airy word,



By thee old &apulet and #ontague,*ave thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,If ever you disturb our streets again,0our lives shall #ay the forfeit of the #eace.

+or this time all the rest de#art away:0ou &apulet shall go along with me,

And #ontague come you this afternoon,o know our further #leasure in this case:2nce more on #ain of death, all men de#art.'7eunt all but #)$TA*5'" Assistant" and %'$2)13)

MONTAUEho set this ancient quarrel new abroach%/#eak e#hew, were you by, when it began:

"ENVOLIO*ere were the servants of your adversary,

And yours close fighting ere I did a##roach,I drew to #art them, in the instant camehe fiery Tybalt , with his sword #re#ared.hile we were interchanging thrusts and blows,

3ame more and more, and fought on #art and #art,ill the 1rince came, who #arted either #art.

MONTAUE2 where is +omeo, saw you him to&day%

Assistant4ight glad am I, he was not at this fray.

"ENVOLIO!y -ord, an hour before the worshi##'d /un1eer'd forth the golden window of the 6ast,

A troubled mind drove me to walk abroad,here underneath the grove of /ycamore,hat est&ward rooteth from the 3ity's side:/o early walking did I see your /on:



owards him I made, but he was ware of me And stole into the covert of the wood.

MONTAUE

!any a morning hath he there been seen,ith tears augmenting the fresh morning9s dew,

Adding to clouds, more clouds with his dee# sighs.Black and #ortentous must this humour #rove,nless good counsel may the cause remove.

"ENVOLIO!y oble ncle do you know the cause%

MONTAUEI neither know it, nor can learn of him.3ould we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.e would as willingly give cure, as know.'nter +)#')

"ENVOLIO/ee where he comes, so #lease you ste# aside,I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.

MONTAUE3ome, let's away.'7eunt #)$TA*5' and Assistant

"ENVOLIOGood&morrow 3ousin.

ROMEO

Is the day so young%"ENVOLIOBut new struck nine.

ROMEO Ay me, sad hours seem long:



as that my +ather that went hence so fast%

"ENVOLIOIt was: what sadness lengthens +omeo/s hours%

ROMEOot having that, which having, makes them short.

"ENVOLIOIn love.

ROMEO2ut.

"ENVOLIO2f love.

ROMEO2ut of her favour where I am in love.

"ENVOLIO Alas that love so gentle in his view,/hould be so tyrannous and rough in #roof.

ROMEO Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,/hould without eyes, see #athways to his will:here shall we dine% 2 me: hat fray was here%0et tell me not, for I have heard it all:*ere's much to do with hate, but more with love:hy then, 2 brawling love, 2 loving hate,2 any thing, of nothing first created:

2 heavy lightness, serious vanity,!issha#en 3haos of wellseeming forms,+eather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,/till&waking slee#, that is not what it is:his love feel I, that feel no love in this.(ost thou not laugh%



"ENVOLIOo 3o;, I rather wee#.

ROMEOGood heart, at what%

"ENVOLIO At thy good heart's o##ression.

ROMEOhy such is love's transgression.Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,

hich thou wilt #ro#agate to have it #restith more of thine, this love that thou hast shown,(oth add more grief, to too much of mine own.-ove, is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,Being #urged, a fire s#arkling in -overs' eyes,Being ve<'d, a /ea nourish'd with lovers' tears,hat is it else% a madness, most discreet,

A choking gall, and a #reserving sweet:

+arewell my 3o;."ENVOLIO

/oft I will go along. An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.

ROMEOut I have lost myself, I am not here,his is not +omeo, he's some other where.

"ENVOLIOell me in sadness, who is that you love%

ROMEOhat shall I groan and tell thee%



"ENVOLIOGroan, why, no: but sadly tell me who.ROMEO

A sick man in sadness make his will:

A word ill urged to one that is so ill:In sadness 3ousin, I do love a woman.

"ENVOLIOI aim'd so near, when I su##osed you loved.

ROMEO A right good mark&man, and she's fair I love.

"ENVOLIO A right fair mark, fair 3o;, is soonest hit.

ROMEOell in that hit you miss, she'll not be hitith 3u#id's arrow, she hath -ian/s wit:

And in strong #roof of chastity well arm'd:+rom love's weak childish Bow, she lives uncharm'd.2 she is rich in beauty, only #oor,

hat when she dies, with beauty dies her store.

"ENVOLIOhen she hath sworn, that she will still live chaste%

ROMEO/he hath, and in that s#aring makes huge waste.+or beauty, starved with her severity,3uts beauty off from all #osterity.

/he is too fair, too wise: wisely too fair,o merit bliss by making me des#air:/he hath forsworn to love, and in that vow(o I live dead, that live to tell it now.

"ENVOLIO



Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.

ROMEO2 teach me how I should forget to think.

"ENVOLIOBy giving liberty unto thine eyes,6<amine other beauties,

ROMEO'is the way

o call hers 7e<quisite8 in question more.*e that is strucken blind, cannot forgethe #recious treasure of his eyesight lost:/how me a !istress that is #assing fair,hat doth her beauty serve but as a note,here I may read who #ass'd that #assing fair.+arewell thou canst not teach me to forget.

"ENVOLIOI'll #ay that doctrine, or else die in debt.

'7eunt

SCENE ). T'e street'nter &A!51'T" !A+3(" and !'T'+

CAPULET#ontague is bound as well as I,In #enalty alike, and 'tis not hard I think,+or men so old as we, to kee# the #eace.

PARIS2f honourable reckoning are you both,

And #ity 'tis you lived at odds so long:But now my -ord, what say you to my suit%

CAPULET



But saying o'er what I have said before,!y 3hild is yet a stranger in the world,/he hath not seen the change of si<teen years,-et two more /ummers wither in their #ride,

6re we may think her ri#e to be a Bride.

PARIS0ounger than she, are ha##y mothers made.

CAPULET And too soon marr'd are those so early made:6arth hath swallowed all my ho#es but she,/he9s the ho#eful -ady of my earth:

But woo her gentle !aris, get her heart:his night I hold an old accustom'd +east,hereto I have invited many a Guest,/uch as I love, and you among the store,2ne more, most welcome makes my number more:3ome, go with me:To !eter" giving a paper

Go sirrah trudge about,

hrough fair 2erona, find those #ersons out,hose names are written there, and to them say,!y house and welcome, on their #leasure stay.'7eunt &A!51'T and !A+3(

PETER+ind them out whose names are written.But I am sent to find those #ersons whose names arewrit, and can never find what names the writing

#erson hath here writ 7I must to the learned8 in good time.'nter %'$2)13) and +)#')

"ENVOLIOut man, one fire burns out another's burning,2ne #ain is lessen'd by another's anguish:



ake thou some new infection to the eye, And the rank #oison of the old will die.

ROMEO

God&den, good fellow.

PETERGod gi' god&den, I #ray sir can you read%

ROMEO Ay mine own fortune in my misery.

PETER1erha#s you have learned it without book: but I#ray can you read any thing you see%

ROMEO Ay, if I know the letters and the language.

PETER0e say honestly, rest you merry.

ROMEO

/tay fellow, I can read.+eads the 1etter.'/ignior !artino, and his wife and daughter:3ounty Anselme and his beauteous sisters: the -adywidow of "itruvio, /ignior 1lacentio, and his lovelyieces: !ercutio and his brother "alentine: mineuncle 3a#ulet his wife and daughters: my fair iece4osaline, -ivia, /ignior "alentio, and his 3ousin

ybalt: -ucio and the lively *elena. A fair assembly, whither should they come%

PETER#.

ROMEO



hither% o su##er%

PETERo our house.

ROMEOhose house%

PETER!y !aster's.

ROMEOIndeed I should have ask'd you that before.

PETERow I'll tell you without asking. !y master is thegreat rich &apulet , and if you be not of the houseof #ontagues I #ray come and crush a cu# of wine.4est you merry.'7it

"ENVOLIO

At this same ancient +east of &apulet/s/u#s the fair +osaline, whom thou so loves:ith all the admired beauties of 2erona,Go thither and with unattainted eye,3om#are her face with some that I shall show,

And I will make thee think thy /wan a 3row.

ROMEO2ne fairer than my love: the all&seeing /un

e'er saw her match, since first the world begun.

"ENVOLIOut, you saw her fair, none else being by,*erself #oised with herself in either eye:But in that 3rystal scales, let there be weigh'd,



0our -ady's love against some other !aidhat I will show you, shining at this +east,

And she shall scant show, well, that now shows best.

ROMEOI'll go along, no such sight to be shown,But to re5oice in s#lendor of mine own.'7eunt

SCENE *. Ca+ulet,s 'ouse.'nter 1A-, &A!51'T and $urse

LAD! CAPULET

urse where's my daughter% call her forth to me.Nurseow by my !aidenhead at twelve year old I bade her come, what-amb: what -adybird, God forbid, where's this Girl% what Juliet )'nter J513'T

JULIET*ow now, who calls%

NURSE0our !other.

JULIET!adam I am here, what is your will%

LAD! CAPULEThis is the matter: urse give me leave awhile, we must talk insecret. urse come back again, I have remember'd me, thou's

hear our counsel.hou know'st my daughter's of a #retty age.

NURSE+aith I can tell her age unto an hour.



LAD! CAPULET/he's not si<teen.

NURSE

I'll lay si<teen of my teeth, and yet to my teeth be it s#oken, I havebut si<, she9s not si<teen. *ow long is it now to 1ammas tide%

LAD! CAPULET A fortnight and odd days.

NURSE6ven or odd, of all days in the year come 1ammas 6ve at nightshall she be si<teen. (usan = she, God rest all 3hristian souls,

were of an age. ell (usan is with God, she was too good for me.But as I said, on 1ammas 6ve at night shall she be si<teen, thatshall she marry, I remember it well. 'is since the 6arthquake nowthirteen years, and she was wean'd I never shall forget it, of allthe days of the year, u#on that day: my lord and you were then at#antua, nay I do bear a brain. But as I said, since that time it isthirteen years, for then she could stand alone, nay b9 th9 rood shecould have run, and waddled all about: for even the day beforeshe broke her brow, and then my *usband God be with his soul,'e was a merry man, took u# the 3hild, 'yea,' quoth he, 'dost thoufall u#on thy face% hou wilt fall backward when thou hast morewit, wilt thou not, Jule%' And by my holy&dame, the #retty wretchleft crying, and said 'Ay:' to see now how a >est shall come about.I warrant, and I shall live a thousand years, I never should forgetit: 'ilt thou not Jule%' quoth he, and #retty fool it stinted, and said'Ay.'

LAD! CAPULET6nough of this, I #ray thee hold thy #eace.

NURSE0es !adam, yet I cannot choose but laugh, to think it shouldleave crying, and say 'Ay:' and yet I warrant it had u#on its brow,a bum# as big as a young 3ockerel's stone% A #arlous knock,



and it cried bitterly. '0ea,' quoth my husband, 'fall'st u#on thy face,thou wilt fall backwardwhen thou comest to age: wilt thou not Jule%' It stinted: and said'Ay.'

JULIET And stint thou too, I #ray thee $urse, say I.

NURSE1eace I have done: God mark thee to his grace thou wast the#rettiest Babe that e'er I nursed, and I might live to see theemarried once, I have my wish.

LAD! CAPULET!arry that marry is the very themeI came to talk of, tell me daughter Juliet ,*ow stands your dis#osition to be !arried%

JULIETIt is an honour that I dream not of.

NURSE

An honour, were not I thine only urse, I wouldsay thou hadst sucked wisdom from my teat.

LAD! CAPULETell think of marriage now, younger than you,*ere in 2erona, -adies of esteem,

Are made already !others. By my countI was your !other, much u#on these yearshat you are now a !aid, thus then in brief:

he valiant !aris seeks you for his love.

NURSE A man young -ady, -ady, such a man as all the world. hy he's aman of wa<.

LAD! CAPULET



2erona/s /ummer hath not such a flower.

NURSEay he's a flower, in faith a very flower.

LAD! CAPULEThat say you, can you love the Gentleman%his night you shall behold him at our +east,4ead o'er the volume of young !aris' face,

And find delight, writ there with Beauty's #en:his #recious Book of -ove, this unbound -over,o Beautify him, only lacks a 3over.hat Book in many's eyes doth share the glory,

hat in Gold clas#s, -ocks in the Golden story:/o shall you share all that he doth #ossess,By having him, making yourself no less.

NURSEo less, nay, bigger: women grow by men.

LAD! CAPULET/#eak briefly, can you like of !aris' love%

JULIETI'll look to like, if looking liking move.But no more dee# will I endart mine eye,han your consent gives strength to make it fly.'nter !'T'+

PETER!adam, the guests are come, su##er served u#, you

called, my young -ady asked for, the urse cursed in the 1antry,and every thing in e<tremity: I must hence to wait, Ibeseech you follow straight. '7it

LAD! CAPULETe follow thee, >uliet, the 3ounty stays.



NURSEGo Girl, seek ha##y nights to ha##y days.'7eunt

SCENE -. A street.'nter +)#')" #'+&5T3)" %'$2)13)" %A1T0A(A+

ROMEOhat, shall this s#eech be s#oke for our e<cuse%2r shall we on without A#ology%

"ENVOLIOhe date is out of such #roli<ity.But let them measure us by what they will,e'll measure them a !easure, and be gone.

ROMEOGive me a orch, I am not for this ambling.Being but heavy I will bear the light.

MERCUTIO

ay gentle +omeo, we must have you dance.

ROMEOot I believe me, you have dancing shoesith nimble soles, I have a soul of -ead/o stakes me to the ground, I cannot move.

MERCUTIO0ou are a -over, borrow &upid/s wings,

And soar with them above a common bound.

ROMEOI am too sore en#ierced with his shaft,o soar with his light feathers, and so bound:I cannot bound a #itch above dull woe,



nder love's heavy burden do I sink.

MERCUTIO And to sink in it should you burden love,

oo great o##ression for a tender thing.

ROMEOIs love a tender thing% it is too rough,oo rude, too boisterous, and it #ricks like thorn.

MERCUTIOIf love be rough with you, be rough with love,1rick love for #ricking, and you beat love down,

3ome we burn daylight ho.ROMEOay that's not so.

MERCUTIOI mean sir in delay

e waste our lights in vain, lights, lights, by day.

ROMEO

And we mean well in going to this !ask,But 'tis no wit to go.

MERCUTIOhy may one ask%

ROMEOI dream'd a dream to&night.

MERCUTIO And so did I.

ROMEOell what was yours%

MERCUTIO



hat dreamers often lie.

ROMEOIn bed aslee# while they do dream things true.

MERCUTIO2 then I see $ueen !ab hath been with you: /he is the +airies'!idwife, and she comes in sha#e no bigger than an Agate&stone,on the fore&finger of an Alderman, drawn with a team of little

Atomies, over men's noses as they lie aslee#: her agon /#okesmade of long /#inners' legs: the 3over of the wings ofGrassho##ers, her races of the smallest /#ider's web, hercollars of the !oonshine's watery Beams, her hi# of 3ricket's

bone, the -ash of +ilm, her agoner, a small grey&coated Gnat,not half so big as a round little orm, #rick'd from the -a;y fingerof a man. *er 3hariot is an em#ty *a;elnut, made by the >oiner/quirrel or old Grub, time out o' mind, the +airies' 3oach&makers:and in this state she gallo#s night by night, through -overs'brains: and then they dream of -ove. 2n 3ourtiers' knees, thatdream on 3urtsies straight: o'er -awyers' fingers, who straightdream on +ees, o'er -adies ' li#s, who straight on kisses dream,

which oft the angry !ab with blisters #lagues, because theirbreath with /weet meats tainted are. /ometime she gallo#s o'er a3ourtier's nose, and then dreams he of smelling out a suit andsometime comes she with a ithe&#ig's tail, tickling a 1arson'snose as a' lies aslee#, then he dreams of another Benefice./ometime she driveth o'er a /oldier's neck, and then dreams heof cutting +oreign throats, of Breaches, Ambuscadoes, /#anishBlades: 2f *ealths five +athom dee#, and then anon drums in his

ears, at which he starts and wakes and being thus frighted,swears a #rayer or two and slee#s again: this is that very !abthat #lats the manes of *orses in the night: and bakes the 6lf&locks in foul sluttish hairs, which once untangled, much misfortunebodes,his is the hag, when !aids lie on their backs,



hat #resses them, and learns them first to bear,!aking them women of good carriage:his is she.

ROMEO1eace, #eace, #ercutio #eace,hou talk'st of nothing.

MERCUTIOrue, I talk of dreams:

hich are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing, but vain fantasy,hich is as thin of substance as the air,

And more inconstant than the wind, who woos6ven now the fro;en bosom of the orth:

And being anger'd, #uffs away from thence,urning his side to the dew&dro##ing /outh.

"ENVOLIOhis wind you talk of blows us from our selves,/u##er is done, and we shall come too late.

ROMEOI fear, too early, for my mind misgives/ome consequence yet hanging in the stars.But he that hath the steerage of my course,(irect my sail: 2n lusty Gentlemen.'7eunt

SCENE . Ca+ulet,s 'ouse.'nter !'T'+" looking for !)T!A$. !)T!A$ enters fromanother way" unseen

PETERhere's !otpan, that he hel#s not to take away% *eshift a trencher% he scra#e a trencher%



And quench the fire, the 4oom is grown too hot.ay sit, nay sit, good 3ousin &apulet ,+or you and I are #ast our dancing days:*ow long is't now since last yourself and I

ere in a !ask%

Se&ond Ca+uletBy'r lady thirty years.

CAPULEThat man: 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much,'is since the u#tials of 1ucentio,/ome five and twenty years, and then we !ask'd.

Se&ond Ca+ulet'is more, 'tis more, his /on is elder sir*is /on is thirty.

CAPULETill you tell me that%*is /on was but a ard two years ago.

ROMEOhat -ady9s that which doth enrich the hand2f yonder knight%

"ALT#A/ARI know not sir.

ROMEO2 she doth teach the orches to burn bright:

It seems she hangs u#on the cheek of night,-ike a rich 5ewel in an 6thio#e's ear:Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear:/o shows a /nowy (ove troo#ing with 3rows,

As yonder -ady o'er her fellows showshe measure done, I'll watch her #lace of stand,



And touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.(id my heart love till now, forswear it sight,+or I ne'er saw true Beauty till this night.

T!"ALThis by his voice, should be a #ontague.+etch me my 4a#ier boy, what dares the slave3ome hither cover'd with an antic face,o fleer and scorn at our /olemnity%ow by the stock and *onour of my kin,o strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

CAPULET

hy how now kinsman, wherefore storm you so%

T!"ALTncle this is a #ontague, our foe:

A "illain that is hither come in s#ite,o scorn at our /olemnity this night.

CAPULET0oung +omeo is it%

T!"ALT'is he, that "illain +omeo.

CAPULET3ontent thee gentle 3o;, let him alone,*e bears him like a #ortly Gentleman:

And to say truth, 2erona brags of him,o be a virtuous and well&govern'd youth:

I would not for the wealth of all the town,*ere in my house do him dis#aragement:herefore be #atient, take no note of him,It is my will, the which if thou res#ect,/how a fair #resence, and #ut off these frowns,

And ill&beseeming semblance for a +east.



T!"ALTIt fits when such a "illain is a guest,

I'll not endure him.

CAPULET*e shall be endured.

hat goodman boy, I say he shall, go to, Am I the !aster here or you% go to,0ou'll not endure him, God shall mend my soul,0ou'll make a !utiny among the Guests.!0)T)*+A!0'+ approaches to take a picture of &A!51'Tand T,%A1T. They stop their fight to pose. The!0)T)*+A!0'+ takes the photo and moves away.

T!"ALThy ncle, 'tis a shame.

CAPULETGo to, go to,

0ou are a saucy Boy, is't so indeed%

his trick may chance to scathe you, I know what,0ou must contrary me, marry 'tis time.ell said my hearts, you are a 1rinco<, go,Be quiet, or&&more light, more light&&for shame,I'll make you quiet. hat, cheerly my hearts.

T!"ALT1atience #erforce, with willful choler meeting,

!akes my flesh tremble in their different greeting:I will withdraw, but this intrusion shallow seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.'7it. +)#') catches J513'T9s hand and pulls her downstageaway from the rest of the party.

ROMEO



If I #rofane with my unworthiest hand,his holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,!y li#s two blushing 1ilgrims ready stando smooth that rough touch, with a tender kiss.

JULIETGood 1ilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,hich mannerly devotion shows in this,+or /aints have hands, that 1ilgrims' hands do touch,

And #alm to #alm, is holy 1almers' kiss.

ROMEO*ave not /aints li#s, and holy 1almers too%

JULIET Ay 1ilgrim, li#s that they must use in #rayer.

ROMEO2 then dear /aint, let li#s do what hands do,hey #ray 7grant thou8 lest faith turn to des#air.

JULIET

/aints do not move, though grant for #rayers' sake.ROMEOhen move not while my #rayer's effect I take:hus from my li#s, by thine my sin is #urged.

JULIEThen have my li#s the sin that they have took.

ROMEO

/in from thy li#s% 2 tres#ass sweetly urged:Give me my sin again.

JULIET0ou kiss by the book.



he /on and *eir of old Tiberio.

JULIEThat's he that now is going out of door%

NURSE!arry that I think be young !etruchio.

JULIEThat's he that follows here that would not dance%

NURSEI know not.

JULIETGo ask his name: if he be married,!y grave is like to be my wedding bed.

NURSE*is name is +omeo, and a #ontague,he only /on of your great 6nemy.

JULIET!y only -ove s#rung from my only hate,oo early seen, unknown, and known too late,1rodigious birth of -ove it is to me,hat I must love a loathed 6nemy.

NURSEhat's this% what's this%

JULIET A rhyme, I learn'd even now2f one I danced withal.

LAD! CAPULET 7within8>uliet)



NURSE Anon, anon:3ome let's away, the strangers all are gone.'7eunt. !'T'+ pays each of the musicians a penny and takes

their fancy coats off them—they are the street musicians. !'T'+hustles them out of the house. 'nter #)$TA*5'" &A!51'T"and 1A-, &A!51'T

CAPULETow old desire doth in his death&bed lie,

LAD! CAPULET And young affection ga#es to be his *eir,

hat fair,

MONTAUEfor which -ove groan'd for and would die,

LAD! CAPULETith tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

MONTAUE

ow +omeo is beloved, and -oves again, Alike betwitched by the charm of looks:

CAPULETBut to his foe su##osed he must com#lain,

LAD! CAPULET And she steal -ove's sweet bait from fearful hooks:

MONTAUE

Being held a foe, he may not have accesso breathe such vows as -overs use to swear,

LAD! CAPULET And she as much in -ove,



CAPULETher means much less,

LAD! CAPULET(CAPULETo meet her new Beloved any where:

MONTAUEBut #assion lends them 1ower, time, means to meet,

MONTAUE(CAPULET(LAD! CAPULETem#ering e<tremities with e<treme sweet.'7it

SCENE 0. Ca+ulets or&'ard'nter +)#') outside &apulet9s gate.

ROMEO3an I go forward when my heart is here%urn back dull earth, and find thy 3entre out.0e climbs the gate" and leaps down within it 'nter %'$2)13) and #'+&5T3) outside the gate.

"ENVOLIO+omeo, my 3ousin +omeo.

MERCUTIO*e is wise,

And on my lie hath stol'n him home to bed.

"ENVOLIO*e ran this way and lea#t this 2rchard wall.

3all good #ercutio.

MERCUTIOay, I'll con5ure too.

+omeo, *umours, !adman, 1assion, -over, A##ear thou in the likeness of a sigh,



/#eak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied:3ry but 'Ay me)' 1ronounce but '-ove' and 'dove,'*e heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not,he A#e is dead, and I must con5ure him,

I con5ure thee by +osaline/s bright eyes,By her *igh forehead, and her /carlet li#,By her +ine foot, /traight leg, and $uivering thigh,

And the (emesnes, that there Ad5acent lie,hat in thy likeness thou a##ear to us.

"ENVOLIO And if he hear thee thou wilt anger him.

MERCUTIOhis cannot anger him, my invocationIs fair and honest, = in his !istress' name,I con5ure only but to raise u# him.

"ENVOLIO3ome, he hath hid himself among these reeso be consorted with the *umorous night:Blind is his -ove, and best befits the dark.

MERCUTIOIf -ove be blind, -ove cannot hit the mark.+omeo good night, I'll to my ruckle bed,his +ield&bed is too cold for me to slee#,3ome shall we go%

"ENVOLIOGo then, for 'tis in vain

o seek him here that means not to be found.'7eunt

ROMEO*e 5ests at /cars that never felt a wound,

A light above



But soft, what light through yonder window breaks%J513'T enters aboveIt is the 6ast, and Juliet is the /un,

Arise fair /un and kill the envious !oon,

ho is already sick and #ale with grief,hat thou her !aid art far more fair than she:Be not her maid, since she is enviousIt is my -ady, 2 it is my -ove,2 that she knew she were,wo of the fairest stars in all the *eaven,*aving some business do entreat her eyes,o twinkle in their /#heres till they return.

hat if her eyes were there, they in her head,he brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,

As daylight doth a -am#, her eyes in heaven,ould through the airy 4egion stream so bright,hat Birds would sing, and think it were not night:/ee how she leans her cheek u#on her hand.2 that I were a Glove u#on that hand,hat I might touch that cheek.

JULIET Ay me.

ROMEO/he s#eaks.

2h s#eak again bright Angel.

JULIET2 +omeo, +omeo, wherefore art thou +omeo%

(eny thy +ather and refuse thy name:2r if thou wilt not, be but sworn my -ove, And I'll no longer be a &apulet .

ROMEO/hall I hear more, or shall I s#eak at this%



JULIET'is but thy name that is my 6nemy:hou are thy self, though not a #ontague,hat's #ontague% it is nor hand nor foot,

or arm, nor face, nor any other #artBelonging to a man. 2 be some other name,hat's in a name% that which we call a 4ose,By any other word would smell as sweet,/o +omeo would, were he not +omeo call'd,4etain that dear #erfection which he owes,ithout that title, +omeo, doff thy name,

And for thy name which is no #art of thee,

ake all my self.

ROMEOI take thee at thy word:

3all me but -ove, and I'll be new ba#ti;ed,*enceforth I never will be +omeo.

JULIEThat man art thou, that thus bescreen'd in night

/o stumblest on my counsel%

ROMEOBy a name,

I know not how to tell thee who I am:!y name dear /aint, is hateful to myself,Because it is an 6nemy to thee,*ad I it written, I would tear the word.

JULIET!y ears have yet not drunk a hundred words2f thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound.

Art thou not +omeo, and a #ontague%

ROMEOeither fair !aid, if either thee dislike.



JULIET*ow camest thou hither. ell me, and wherefore%he 2rchard walls are high, and hard to climb,

And the #lace death, considering who thou art,If any of my kinsmen find thee here.

ROMEOith -ove's light wings did I o'er&#erch these alls,+or stony limits cannot hold -ove out,

And what -ove can do, that dares -ove attem#t:herefore thy kinsmen are no sto# to me.

JULIETIf they do see thee, they will murder thee.

ROMEO Alack there lies more #eril in thine eye,han twenty of their /words, look thou but sweet,

And I am #roof against their enmity.

JULIET

I would not for the world they saw thee here.ROMEOI have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes

And but thou love me, let them find me here,!y life were better ended by their hate,han death #rorogued wanting of thy -ove.

JULIET

By whose direction found'st thou out this #lace%ROMEOBy -ove that first did #rom#t me to inquire,*e lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes,I am no 1ilot, yet wert thou as far

As that vast shore&&wash'd with the farthest /ea,



I would adventure for such !erchandise.

JULIEThou know'st the mask of night is on my face,

6lse would a !aiden blush be#aint my cheek,+or that which thou hast heard me s#eak tonight,+ain would I dwell on form, fain, fain, denyhat I have s#oke, but farewell 3om#liment,(ost thou -ove me% I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'

And I will take thy word, yet if thou swear'st,hou mayst #rove false: at -overs' #er5urieshen say Jove laughed, oh gentle +omeo,If thou dost -ove, #ronounce it faithfully:2r if thou think'st I am too quickly won,I'll frown and be #erverse, and say thee nay,/o thou wilt woo: but else not for the world.In truth fair #ontague I am too fond:

And therefore thou mayst think my behavior light,But trust me Gentleman, I'll #rove more true,han those that have more cunning to be strange.I should have been more strange, I must confess,

But that thou overheard'st ere I was ware!y true -ove's #assion, therefore #ardon me,

And not im#ute this yielding to light -ove,hich the dark night hath so discovered.

ROMEO-ady, by yonder blessed !oon I vowhat ti#s with silver all these +ruit tree to#s,

JULIET2 swear not by the !oon, the inconstant !oon,hat monthly changes in her circled 2rb,-est that thy -ove #rove likewise variable.

ROMEO



hat shall I swear by%

JULIET(o not swear at all:

2r if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,hich is the God of my Idolatry,

And I'll believe thee.

ROMEOIf my heart's dear love,

JULIETell do not swear, although I 5oy in thee:

I have no 5oy of this contract tonight,It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,oo like the lightning which doth cease to be6re, one can say, 'It lightens,' /weet good night:his bud of -ove by /ummer's ri#ening breath,!ay #rove a beauteous +lower when ne<t we meet:Goodnight, goodnight, as sweet re#ose and rest,3ome to thy heart, as that within my breast.

ROMEO2 wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied%

JULIEThat satisfaction canst thou have tonight%

ROMEOhe e<change of thy -ove's faithful vow for mine.

JULIETI gave thee mine before thou didst request it: And yet I would it were to give again.

ROMEOouldst thou withdraw it, for what #ur#ose -ove%



JULIETBut to be frank and give it thee again,

And yet I wish but for the thing I have,!y bounty is as boundless as the /ea,

!y -ove as dee#, the more I give to theehe more I have, for both are Infinite:

NURSE?ithin@ >uliet.

JULIET Anon good urse, sweet !ontague be true:/tay but a little, I will come again.

'7it" above

ROMEO2 blessed blessed night, I am afeardBeing in night, all this is but a dream,oo flattering sweet to be substantial.+e8enter J513'T" above

JULIET

hree words dear +omeo, and goodnight indeed,If that thy bent of -ove be *onourable,hy #ur#ose marriage, send me word tomorrow,By one that I'll #rocure to come to thee,here and what time thou wilt #erform the rite,

And all my +ortunes at thy foot I'll lay, And follow thee my -ord throughout the world.

NURSE?ithin@ !adam.

JULIETI come, anon: but if thou mean'st not well,I do beseech thee



NURSE?ithin@ !adam.

JULIET

7By and by, I come8o cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief,o&morrow will I send.

ROMEO/o thrive my soul.

JULIET A thousand times good night.

'7it" aboveROMEO

A thousand times the worse to want thy light,-ove goes toward -ove as schoolboys from their books,But -ove from -ove, toward school with heavy looks.+etiring . 'nter J513'T again.

JULIET

*ist +omeo hist: 2 for a +alconer's voice,o lure this assel gentle back again,Bondage is hoarse, and may not s#eak aloud,6lse would I tear the 3ave where 6cho lies,

And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,ith re#etition of my +omeo.

ROMEOIt is my soul that calls u#on my name.

*ow silver sweet, sound -overs' tongues by night,-ike softest !usic to attending ears.

JULIET4omeo.

ROMEO



!y dear.

JULIEThat a clock tomorrow shall I send to thee%

ROMEO At the hour of nine.

JULIETI will not fail, 'tis twenty years till then,I have forgot why I did call thee back.

ROMEO-et me stand here till thou remember it.

JULIETI shall forget, to have thee still stand there,4emembering how I -ove thy com#any.

ROMEO And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,+orgetting any other home but this.

JULIET'is almost morning, I would have thee gone,

And yet no further than a wanton's Bird,hat lets it ho# a little from her hand,

And with a silk thread #lucks it back again,/o loving 5ealous of his liberty.

ROMEOI would I were thy Bird.

JULIET/weet so would I,

0et I should kill thee with much cherishing:Good night, good night. 1arting is such sweet sorrow,hat I shall say goodnight, till it be morrow.



ROMEO/lee# dwell u#on thine eyes, #eace in thy breast.ould I were slee# and #eace, so sweet to rest.

J513'T e7its.*ence will I to my ghostly +riar9s 3ell,*is hel# to crave, and my dear ha# to tell.'7it

SCENE 2. $riar Lauren&e,s &ell.'nter F+3A+ 1A5+'$&'" with a basket

$RIAR LAURENCE

he grey eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,3hequering the 6astern 3louds with streaks of light: And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels,+rom forth day's #ath and Titan/s burning wheels:ow, ere the /un advance his burning eye,he day to cheer, and night's dank dew to dry,I must u#&fill this 2sier 3age of ours,ith baleful weeds, and #recious 5uiced flowers.2 mickle is the #owerful grace that liesIn 1lants, *erbs, stones, and their true qualities:+or nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,But to the earth some s#ecial good doth give.or aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use,4evolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.'nter +)#')ithin the infant rind of this weak flower,1oison hath residence, and medicine #ower:

+or this being smelt, with that #art cheers each #art,Being tasted slays all senses with the heart.wo such o##osed ings encam# them still,In man as well as *erbs, grace and rude will:

And where the worser is #redominant,+ull soon the 3anker death eats u# that 1lant.



ROMEOGood morrow +ather.

$RIAR LAURENCEBenedicite.

hat early tongue so sweet saluteth me%0oung /on, it argues a distem#er'd head,/o soon to bid goodmorrow to thy bed2r if not so, then here I hit it right,2ur +omeo hath not been in bed tonight.

ROMEOhat last is true, the sweeter rest was mine.

$RIAR LAURENCEGod #ardon sin: wast thou with +osaline%

ROMEOith +osaline, my ghostly +ather% o,I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.

$RIAR LAURENCEhat's my good /on, but where hast thou been then%

ROMEOI'll tell thee ere thou ask it me again:I have been feasting with mine enemy,here on a sudden one hath wounded me,hat's by me wounded: both our remedies

ithin thy hel# and holy #hysic lies:

$RIAR LAURENCEBe #lain good /on, and homely in thy drift,4iddling confession, finds but riddling shrift.

ROMEO



hen #lainly know my heart's dear -ove is set2n the fair daughter of rich &apulet :

As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine And all combined, save what thou must combine

By holy marriage: when and where, and how,e met, we woo'd, and made e<change of vow:I'll tell thee as we #ass, but this I #ray,hat thou consent to marry us today.

$RIAR LAURENCE*oly /aint Francis, what a change is here%Is +osaline whom thou didst -ove so dear /o soon forsaken% young men's -ove then liesot truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.>esu #aria, what a deal of brine*ath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for +osaline%

And art thou changed% #ronounce this sentence then,omen may fall, when there's no strength in men.

ROMEOhou chid'st me oft for loving +osaline.

$RIAR LAURENCE+or doting, not for loving #u#il mine.

ROMEO And bad'st me bury -ove.

$RIAR LAURENCEot in a grave,

o lay one in, another out to have.

ROMEOI #ray thee, chide me not, her I love now(oth grace for grace, and -ove for -ove allow:he other did not so.



MERCUTIO Any man that can write, may answer a -etter.

"ENVOLIOay, he will answer the -etter's !aster how he dares, beingdared.

MERCUTIO Alas #oor +omeo, he is already dead, stabbed with awhitewench's black eye, shot through the ear with a -ove&song, thevery #in of his heart, cleft with the blind Bow&boy's butt&shaft, andis he a man to encounter Tybalt %

"ENVOLIOhy what is Tybalt %

MERCUTIO!ore than 1rince of 3ats. 2h he9s the 3ourageous 3a#tain of3om#liments: he fights as you sing #ricksong, kee#s time,distance, and #ro#ortion, he rests his minim rest, one, two, andthe third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a

(uelist, a (uelist: a Gentleman of the very first house of the firstand second cause: ah the immortal 1assado, the 1unto reverso,the *ay.

"ENVOLIOhe what%

MERCUTIOhe 1o< of such antique lis#ing affecting fantasies, these new

tuners of accents: By >esu, a very good blade, a very tall man, avery good whore. 'nter +)#')

"ENVOLIO*ere comes +omeo, here comes +omeo.

MERCUTIO



ithout his 4oe, like a dried *erring. 2 flesh, flesh, how art thoufishified% /ignior +omeo, %on 4our , there's a +rench salutation toyour +rench slo#: 0ou gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.ROMEO

Good morrow to you both, what counterfeit did I give you%

MERCUTIOhe sli# sir, the sli#, can you not conceive%

ROMEO1ardon good #ercutio, my business was great, and in such acase as mine, a man may strain courtesy.

MERCUTIOhat's as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a manto bow in the hams.

ROMEO!eaning to curtsy.

MERCUTIOhou hast most kindly hit it.

ROMEO A most courteous e<#osition.

MERCUTIOay, I am the very #ink of courtesy.

ROMEO1ink for flower.

MERCUTIO4ight.

ROMEOhy then is my 1um# well flowered.MERCUTIO



/ure wit, follow me this 5est, now till thou hast worn out thy 1um#,that when the single sole of it is worn, the 5est may remain afterthe wearing, sole singular.

ROMEO2 single&soled 5est, solely singular for the singleness.

MERCUTIO3ome between us good %envolio, my wits faint.

ROMEO/witch and s#urs, switch and s#urs, or I'll cry a match.

MERCUTIOhy is not this better now, than groaning for -ove, now art thousociable, now art thou +omeo: now art thou what thou art, by artas well as by nature.'nter $urse and !'T'+

NURSE1eter%

PETER

Anon.

NURSE!y +an 1eter%

MERCUTIOGood !eter to hide her face% +or her +an's the fairer face%

NURSE

God ye good morrow Gentlemen.

MERCUTIOGod ye good den fair Gentlewoman.

NURSEIs it good den%



MERCUTIO'is no less I tell you: for the bawdy hand of the (ial is now u#onthe #rick of oon.

NURSE2ut u#on you: what a man are you%

ROMEO2ne Gentlewoman, that God hath made, for herself to mar.

NURSEBy my troth it is well said: Gentlemen, can any of you tell mewhere I may find the young +omeo%

ROMEOI am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.

NURSE0ou say well.

MERCUTIO0ea, is the worst well, very well took: i' faith, wisely, wisely.

NURSEIf you be he sir, I desire some confidence with you%

"ENVOLIO/he will indite him to some /u##er.

MERCUTIO A bawd, a bawd, a bawd. /o ho.

ROMEOhat hast thou found%

MERCUTIOo hare sir, unless a *are sir in a -enten #ie, that is somethingstale and hoar ere it be s#ent.



An old *are hoar, and an old hare hoar is very good meat in-ent.

But a *are that is hoar is too much for a score, when it hoarsere it be s#ent.

+omeo will you come to your +ather's% e'll to dinner thither.

ROMEOI will follow you.

MERCUTIO+arewell ancient -ady: +arewell -ady, -ady, -ady.'7eunt #'+&5T3) and %'$2)13)

NURSEI #ray you sir, what saucy !erchant was this that was so full of hisro#ery%

ROMEO A Gentleman urse, that loves to hear herself talk, and will s#eakmore in a minute, than she will stand to in a !onth.

NURSE

An a' s#eak any thing against me, I'll take him down, an a' werelustier than he is, and twenty such >acks: and if I cannot, I'll findthose that shall: scurvy knave, I am none of his flirt&gills, I amnone of his skains mates, and thou must stand by too and sufferevery knave to use me at his #leasure.

PETERI saw no man use you a #leasure: if I had, my wea#on shouldquickly have been out, I warrant you, I dare draw as soon as

another man, if I see occasion in a good quarrel, and the law onmy side.

NURSEow afore God, I am so ve<ed, that every #art about me quivers,scurvy knave: #ray you sir a word: and as I told you, my young



-ady bid me inquire you out, what she bid me say, I will kee# tomyself: but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her in a fool's#aradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, asthey say: for the Gentlewoman is young and therefore, if you

should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offeredto any Gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.

ROMEOurse commend me to thy -ady and !istress, I #rotest unto thee,

NURSEGood heart, and i' faith, I will tell her as much: -ord, -ord she willbe a 5oyful woman.

ROMEOhat wilt thou tell her urse% thou dost not mark me%

NurseI will tell her sir, that you do #rotest, which as I take it, is aGentlemanlike offer.

ROMEO

Bid her devise some means to come to shrift this afternoon, And there she shall at +riar 1aurence' 3ellBe shrived and married: here is for thy #ains.

NURSEo truly sir not a #enny.

ROMEOGo to, I say you shall.

NURSEhis afternoon sir% well she shall be there.

ROMEO+arewell, commend me to thy !istress.



NURSEow God in heaven bless thee: hark you sir.

ROMEO

hat say'st thou my dear urse%NURSEell sir, my !istress is the sweetest -ady, -ord, -ord, when 'twasa little #rating thing. 2 there is a nobleman in own one !aris,that would fain lay knife aboard: but she good soul had as lief seea oad, a very oad as see him.

ROMEO3ommend me to thy lady.

NURSE Ay a thousand times.'7it +omeo!eter %

PETER Anon.$5+(' hands !'T'+ her fan.

NURSEBefore and a#ace.'7eunt

SCENE 4. Ca+ulet,s 'ouse.'nter J513'T

JULIET

he clock struck nine when I did send the urse,In half an hour she #romised to return,1erchance she cannot meet him: that's not so:2h she is lame, -ove's *erald should be thoughts,hich ten times faster glides than the /un's beams,(riving back shadows over lowring hills.



ow is the /un u#on the highmost hill2f this day's 5ourney, and from nine till twelve,Is three long hours, yet she is not come.*ad she affections and warm youthful blood,

/he would be as swift in motion as a ball,!y words would bandy her to my sweet -ove,

And his to me,But old folks, many feign as they were dead,nwieldy, slow, heavy and #ale as lead.'nter $urse and !'T'+ 2 God, she comes, 2 honey urse what news%*ast thou met with him% send thy man away.

NURSE!eter stay at the gate.'7it !'T'+

JULIETow, good sweet urse: 2 -ord, why look'st thou sad%hough news, be sad, yet tell them merrily.If good thou shamest the music of sweet news,

By #laying it to me, with so sour a face.

NURSEI am a weary, give me leave awhile,+ie how my bones ache, what a 5aunt have I had%

JULIETI would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:ay come I #ray thee s#eak, good good urse s#eak.

NURSE>esu what haste% can you not stay awhile%(o you not see that I am out of breath%

JULIET*ow art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath



here is my !other% hy, she is within,here should she be% *ow oddly thou re#liest:'0our -ove says like an honest Gentleman:here is your !other%'

NURSE2 God's lady dear)

Are you so hot% marry come u# I trow,Is this the 1oultice for my aching bones%*enceforward do your messages yourself.

JULIET*ere's such a coil, come what says +omeo%

NURSE*ave you got leave to go to shrift today%

JULIETI have.

NURSEhen hie you hence to +riar 1aurence' 3ell,

here stays a *usband to make you a wife:ow comes the wanton blood u# in your cheeks,hey'll be in /carlet straight at any news:*ie you to 3hurch, I must another way,I am the drudge, and toil in your delight:But you shall bear the burden soon at night.Go I'll to dinner, hie you to the 3ell.

JULIET

*ie to high +ortune, honest urse, farewell.'7eunt

SCENE 15. $riar Lauren&e,s &ell.'nter F+3A+ 1A5+'$&' and +)#')

$RIAR LAURENCE



/o smile the heavens u#on this holy act,hat after hours, with sorrow chide us not.

ROMEO

Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,It cannot countervail the e<change of 5oyhat one short minute gives me in her sight:(o thou but close our hands with holy words,hen -ove&devouring death do what he dareIt is enough, I may but call her mine.

$RIAR LAURENCEhese violent delights have violent ends,

And in their trium#h: die like fire and #owderhich as they kiss consume. he sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousness,

And in the taste confounds the a##etite.herefore -ove moderately, long -ove doth so,oo swift arrives as tardy as too slow.'nter J513'T *ere comes the -ady.

JULIETGood even to my ghostly 3onfessor.

$RIAR LAURENCE4omeo shall thank thee (aughter for us both.

JULIET As much to him, else is his thanks too much.

$RIAR LAURENCE3ome, come with me, and we will make short work,+or by your leaves you shall not stay alone,ill holy 3hurch incor#orate two in one.



'7eunt. A muttering street person walks up to a &apulet posterand tears it down" then walks over to a #ontague poster andtears it down.

SCENE 11. T'e street'nter #'+&5T3)" %'$2)13)" %A1T0A(A+

"ENVOLIOI #ray thee good #ercutio let's retire,he day is hot, the &apulets abroad:

And if we meet we shall not sca#e a brawl,+or now these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

MERCUTIOhou art like one of these fellows, that when heenters the confines of a avern, cla#s me his /word u#onthe able, and says 'God send me no need of thee:' and bythe o#eration of the second cu#, draws it on the (rawer,when indeed there is no need.

"ENVOLIO Am I like such a +ellow%

MERCUTIO3ome, come, thou art as hot a >ack in thy moodas any in 3taly : and as soon moved to be moody, and as soonmoody to be moved.

"ENVOLIO And what to%

MERCUTIOay, an there were two such, we should have none shortly, forone would kill the other: thou, why thou wilt quarrel with a manthat hath a hair more, or a hair less in his beard, than thou hast:thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking uts, having no otherreason, but because thou hast ha;el eyes: what eye but such an



eye would s#y out such a quarrel% thou hast quarrelled with aman for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy (ogthat hath lain aslee# in the /un, and yet thou wilt tutor me fromquarrelling%

"ENVOLIOBy my head here comes the &apulets.MERCUTIOBy my tail I care not.'nter T,%A1T and others

T!"ALT+ollow me close, for I will s#eak to them.

Gentlemen, Good9n, a word with one of you.

MERCUTIO And but one word with one of us% cou#le it with something, makeit a word and a blow.

T!"ALT0ou shall find me a#t enough to that sir, an you will give meoccasion.

MERCUTIO3ould you not take some occasion without giving%

T!"ALT#ercutio thou consort'st with +omeo.

MERCUTIO3onsort% what dost thou make us !instrels% an

thou make !instrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords:here's my fiddlestick, here's that shall make youdance. 3ome consort.

"ENVOLIOe talk here in the #ublic haunt of men,6ither withdraw unto some #rivate #lace,



And reason coldly of your grievances:2r else de#art, here all eyes ga;e on us.

MERCUTIO

!en's eyes were made to look, and let them ga;e.I will not budge for no man's #leasure I.'nter +)#')T!"ALTell #eace be with you sir, here comes my man.

MERCUTIO!arry go before to field, he'll be your follower,0our worshi# in that sense, may call him man.

T!"ALT+omeo, the hate I bear thee, can affordo better term than this: thou art a "illain.

ROMEOTybalt , the reason that I have to love thee,(oth much e<cuse the a##ertaining rageo such a greeting: "illain am I none

herefore farewell, I see thou know'st me not.

T!"ALTBoy, this shall not e<cuse the in5urieshat thou hast done me, therefore turn and draw.

ROMEOI do #rotest I never in5ured thee,But love thee better than thou canst devise:

ill thou shalt know the reason of my love, And so good &apulet , which name I tender As dearly as my own, be satisfied.

MERCUTIO2 calm, dishonourable, vile submission:



Alla stoccata carries it away.Tybalt , you 4at&catcher, will you walk%

T!"ALT

hat wouldst thou have with me%

MERCUTIOGood ing of 3ats, nothing but one of your ninelives that I mean to make bold withal, and as youshall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of theeight. ill you #luck your sword out of his #itcher by the ears% make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.

T!"ALTI am for you.-rawing

ROMEOGentle #ercutio, #ut thy 4a#ier u#.

MERCUTIO

3ome sir, your 1assado.They fight

ROMEO(raw %envolio, beat down their wea#ons:!ercutio, for shame forbear this outrage,Tybalt , #ercutio, the 1rince e<#ressly hath+orbidden bandying in 2erona streets.*old Tybalt , good #ercutio.

+)#') rushes between them. T,%A1T goes to stab +)#')but wounds #'+&5T3) under +)#')/s arm and e7its

MERCUTIOI am hurt.

A #lague o' both your *ouses, I am s#ed:



Is he gone and hath nothing%

"ENVOLIOhat art thou hurt%

MERCUTIO Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch, marry 'tis enough,here is thy 1age% Go "illain fetch a /urgeon.'7it %A1T0A(A+

ROMEO3ourage, the hurt cannot be much.

MERCUTIOo: 'tis not so dee# as a well, nor so wide as a 3hurch door, but'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall findme a grave man. I am #e##ered I warrant, for this world: A #lagueo' both your houses. hat, a (og, a 4at, a !ouse, a 3at toscratch a man to death: a Braggart, a 4ogue, a "illain, that fightsby the book of Arithmetic, why the devil came you between us% Iwas hurt under your arm.

ROMEOI thought all for the best.

MERCUTIO*el# me into some house %envolio,2r I shall faint: a #lague o' both your houses.hey have made worms' meat of me,I have it, and soundly too: your *ouses)'7eunt #'+&5T3) and %'$2)13)

ROMEOhis !ercutio, the 1rince's near Ally,!y very +riend hath got this mortal hurtIn my behalf, my re#utation stain'dith Tybalt/s slander, Tybalt that an hour



*ath been my 3ousin: 2 /weet Juliet ,hy Beauty hath made me 6ffeminate,

And in my tem#er soften'd "alour's steel.+e8enter %'$2)13)

"ENVOLIO2 +omeo, +omeo, brave #ercutio/s dead,hat Gallant s#irit hath as#ired the 3louds,hich too untimely here did scorn the earth.

ROMEOhis day's black +ate, on more days doth de#end,his but begins, the woe others must end.

'nter Tyblat

"ENVOLIO*ere comes the +urious Tybalt back again.

ROMEO Away to heaven res#ective -enity, And +ire and +ury, be my conduct now.ow Tybalt take the "illain back again

hat late thou gavest me, for #ercutio/s soulIs but a little way above our heads,/taying for thine to kee# her com#any:6ither thou or I, or both, must go with her.

T!"ALThou wretched Boy that didst consort him here,/halt with him hence.

ROMEOhis shall determine that.They fight. T,%A1T falls

"ENVOLIO+omeo, away, be gone:



he citi;ens are u#, and Tybalt slain,/tand not ama;ed, the 1rince will (oom thee deathIf thou art taken: hence, be gone, away.

ROMEO2) I am +ortune's fool.

"ENVOLIOhy dost thou stay%'7it +)#'). 'nter !rince carrying #ercutio9s body" enter#)$TA*5'" &A!51'T" 1A-, &A!51'T

PRINCE

here are the vile beginners of this +ray%"ENVOLIO2 oble 1rince, I can discover allhe unlucky !anage of this fatal brawl:here lies the man slain by young +omeo,hat slew thy kinsman brave #ercutio.

LAD! CAPULET

Tybalt , my cousin% 2 my Brother9s 3hild,2 1rince, 2 3ousin, *usband, 2 the blood is s#illed2 my dear kinsman. 1rince as thou art true,+or blood of ours, shed blood of #ontague.2 3ousin, cousin.

PRINCE%envolio, who began this bloody +ray%

"ENVOLIOTybalt , here slain, whom +omeo9s hand did slay,+omeo that s#oke him fair, and urged withalyour high dis#leasure,3ould not take truce with the unruly s#leen2f Tybalt deaf to #eace, but that he ilts



ith 1iercing steel at bold #ercutio9s breast:+omeo he cries aloud,*old +riends, +riends #art,9 and swifter than his tongue,*is agile arm, beats down their fatal #oints,

And twi<t them rushes, underneath whose arm, An envious thrust from Tybalt , hit the life2f good #ercutio, and then Tybalt fled.But by and by comes back to +omeo,ho had but newly entertain9d 4evenge,

And to t they go like lightning, for ere I3ould draw to #art them, was stout Tybalt slain:

And as he fell, did +omeo turn and fly:

his is the truth, or let %envolio die.

LAD! CAPULET*e is a kinsman to the #ontague,

Affection makes him false, he s#eaks not true:/ome twenty of them fought in this black strife,

And all those twenty could but kill one life.I beg for >ustice, which thou #rince must give:+omeo slew Tybalt , +omeo must not live.

PRINCE+omeo slew him, he slew #ercutio,ho now the #rice of her dear blood doth owe%

MONTAUEot +omeo 1rince, he was #ercutio9s +riend,*is fault concludes, but what the law should end,he life of Tybalt .

PRINCE And for that offence,Immediately we do e<ile him hence:I have an interest in your hearts9 #roceeding:!y blood for your rude brawls doth lie a&bleeding



I will be deaf to #leading and e<cuses,or tears, nor #rayers shall #urchase out abuses.herefore use none, let +omeo hence in haste,6lse when he9s found, that hour is his last.

Bear hence this body, and attend our will:!ercy but !urders, #ardoning those that kill.'7eunt

INTERMISSIONCduring intermission" street people make

subtle changes to the set" revealing its dingy interior

A3 2SCENE 1. Ca+ulet,s 'ouse.'nter J513'T

JULIETGallo# a#ace, you fiery&footed steeds,owards !hoebus' lodging, such a agoner

As !haethon would whi# you to the west, And bring in 3loudy night immediately./#read thy close 3urtain -ove&#erforming night,hat runaway's eyes may wink, and +omeo

-ea# to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen,-overs can see to do their Amorous rites,By their own Beauties or if -ove be blind,It best agrees with night: come civil night,hou sober suited !atron all in black,

And learn me how to lose a winning match,1lay'd for a #air of stainless !aidenhoods,*ood my unmann'd blood bating in my 3heeks,ith thy Black mantle, till strange -ove grow bold,

hink true -ove acted sim#le modesty:3ome night, come +omeo, come thou day in night,+or thou wilt lie u#on the wings of nighthiter than new /now on a 4aven's back:3ome gentle night, come loving black&brow'd night.Give me my +omeo, and when I shall die,



ake him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the +ace of heaven so fine,hat all the world will be in -ove with night,

And #ay no worshi# to the Garish /un.

2 I have bought the !ansion of a -ove,But not #ossess'd it, and, though I am sold,ot yet en5oy'd, so tedious is this day,

As is the night before some +estival,o an im#atient child that hath new robes

And may not wear them. 2 here comes my urse:'nter $urse

And she brings news and every tongue that s#eaks

But +omeo/s name, s#eaks heavenly eloquence:ow urse, what news% hy dost thou wring thy hands%

NURSE Ah, well&a&day, he's dead, he's dead, he9s dead,e are undone -ady, we are undone.

Alack the day, he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead.

JULIET

3an heaven be so envious%

NURSE+omeo can,

hough heaven cannot. 2 +omeo, +omeo.ho ever would have thought it, +omeo%

JULIEThat devil art thou, that dost torment me thus%

his torture should be roar'd in dismal hell,*ath +omeo slain himself% say thou but 'I,'

And that bare vowel 'I' shall #oison morehan the death&darting eye of 3ockatrice,I am not I, if there be such an I.

NURSE



I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,God save the mark, here on his manly breast,

A #iteous 3orse, a bloody #iteous 3orse:1ale, #ale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,

All in gore blood I sounded at the sight.

JULIET2, break, my heart, #oor Bankru#t break at once,o #rison eyes, ne'er look on liberty."ile earth to earth resign, end motion here,

And thou and +omeo #ress on heavy bier.

NURSE

2 Tybalt , Tybalt , the best +riend I had:2 courteous Tybalt honest Gentleman,hat ever I should live to see thee dead.

JULIEThat storm is this that blows so contrary%Is +omeo slaughter'd% and is Tybalt dead%!y dearest 3ousin, and my dearer -ord:hen dreadful rum#et sound the general doom,+or who is living, if those two are gone%

NURSETybalt is gone, and +omeo banished,+omeo that kill'd him, he is banished.

JULIET2 God) (id +omeo/s hand shed Tybalt/s blood%

NURSEIt did, it did, alas the day, it did.

JULIET2 /er#ent heart hid with a flowering face.(id ever (ragon kee# so fair a 3ave%



Beautiful yrant, fiend Angelical:4avenous dove&feather'd 4aven, wolvish&ravening -amb,(es#ised substance of (ivinest show:>ust o##osite to what thou 5ustly seem'st,

A damned /aint, an *onourable "illain:2 ature) what hadst thou to do in hell,hen thou didst bower the s#irit of a fiendIn moral #aradise of such sweet flesh%as ever book containing such vile matter /o fairly bound% 2 that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous 1alace.

NURSEhere's no trust,

o faith, no honesty in men, all #er5ured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers, Ah, where's my man% give me some Aqua vitae%hese griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old:/hame come to +omeo.

JULIET

Blister'd be thy tongue+or such a wish, he was not born to shame:#on his brow shame is ashamed to sit+or 'tis a throne where *onour may be 3rown'd/ole !onarch of the universal earth:2 what a beast was I to chide at him.

NURSEill you s#eak well of him that kill'd your 3ousin%

JULIET/hall I s#eak ill of him that is my husband%

Ah #oor my -ord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,hen I thy three&hours wife have mangled it%But wherefore "illain didst thou kill my 3ousin%



hat "illain 3ousin would have kill'd my husband:Back foolish tears, back to your native s#ring,0our tributary dro#s belong to woe,hich you mistaking offer u# to 5oy:

!y husband lives that Tybalt would have slain, And Tybalt dead that would have slain my husband: All this is comfort, wherefore wee# I then%/ome word there was worser than Tybalt/s deathhat murder'd me, I would forget it fain,But oh, it #resses to my memory,-ike damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds,'Tybalt is dead and +omeo banished:'

hat 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'*ath slain ten thousand Tybalts: Tybalt/s deathas woe enough if it had ended there:But with a rear&ward following Tybalt/s death'+omeo is banished' to s#eak that word,Is Father , #other , Tybalt , +omeo, Juliet ,

All slain, all dead: '+omeo is banished,'here is no end, no limit, measure, bound,

In that word's death, no words can that woe sound.here is my +ather and my !other, urse%

NURSEee#ing and wailing over Tybalt/s 3orse:ill you go to them% I will bring you thither.

JULIETash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be s#ent

hen theirs are dry for +omeo/s banishment.3ome now, come urse, I'll to my wedding&bed And death not 4omeo, take my !aidenhead.

NURSE*ie to your 3hamber, I'll find +omeoo comfort you, I wot well where he is:



*ark ye your +omeo will be here at night,I'll to him, he is hid at 1aurence' cell.

JULIET

2 find him, give this 4ing to my true night, And bid him come, to take his last farewell.'7eunt

SCENE ). $riar Lauren&e,s &ell.'nter F+3A+ 1A5+'$&' $RIAR LAURENCE+omeo come forth, come forth thou fearful man,

Affliction is enamour'd of thy #arts,

And thou art wedded to calamity.'nter +)#')

ROMEO+ather what news% hat is the 1rince's (oom%hat sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,hat I yet know not%

$RIAR LAURENCE

oo familiar Is my dear /on with such sour 3om#anyI bring thee tidings of the 1rince's doom.

ROMEOhat less than (oomsday is the 1rince's (oom%

$RIAR LAURENCE A gentler 5udgment vanish'd from his li#s,

ot body's death, but body's banishment.

ROMEO*a, banishment% be merciful, say 'death':+or e<ile hath more terror in his look,!uch more than death: do not say 'banishment.'



$RIAR LAURENCE*ence from 2erona art thou banished:Be #atient, for the world is broad and wide.

ROMEOhere is no world without 2erona walls,But 1urgatory, orture, hell itself:*ence banished, is banish'd from the world,

And world's e<ile is death. hen banished,Is death, mis&term'd, calling death banished,hou cutt'st my head off with a golden A<e,

And smilest u#on the stroke that murders me.

$RIAR LAURENCE2 deadly sin, 2 rude unthankfulness)hy fault our -aw calls death, but the kind 1rinceaking thy #art, hath rush'd aside the -aw,

And turn'd that black word death, to banishment.his is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.

ROMEO'is orture and not mercy, heaven is herehere Juliet lives, and every 3at and (og,

And little !ouse, every unworthy thing-ive here in *eaven and may look on her,But +omeo may not. !ore "alidity,!ore *onourable state, more 3ourtshi# livesIn carrion +lies, than +omeo: they my sei;e2n the white wonder of dear Juliet/s hand,

And steal immortal blessing from her li#s,

But +omeo may not, he is banished.+lies may do this, but I from this must fly,

And say'st thou yet, that e<ile is not death%*adst thou no #oison mi<'d, no shar#&ground knife,o sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,But 'banished' to kill me% Banished'%



2 +riar, the damned use that word in hell*owlings attend it, how hast thou the heartBeing a (ivine, a Ghostly 3onfessor,

A /in&Absolver, and my +riend #rofess'd:

o mangle me with that word. 'banished'%

$RIAR LAURENCEhou fond !ad man, hear me a little s#eak.

ROMEO2 thou wilt s#eak again of banishment.

$RIAR LAURENCE

I'll give thee Armour to kee# off that word, Adversity's sweet milk, 1hiloso#hy,o comfort thee, though thou art banished.

ROMEO0et 'banished'% hang u# 1hiloso#hy:nless 1hiloso#hy can make a Juliet ,(is#lant a own, reverse a 1rince's (oom,It hel#s not, it #revails not, talk no more.

$RIAR LAURENCE2 then I see, that !ad men have no ears.

ROMEO*ow should they, when that wise men have no eyes%

$RIAR LAURENCE-et me dis#ute with thee of thy estate.

ROMEOhou canst not s#eak of that thou dost not feel,ert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love:

An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,(oting like me, and like me banished,hen mightst thou s#eak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,



And fall u#on the ground as I do now,aking the measure of an unmade grave.nocking within

$RIAR LAURENCE Arise one knocks, good +omeo hide thyself.

ROMEOot I, unless the breath of *eartsick groans!ist&like infold me from the search of eyes.nocking

$RIAR LAURENCE

*ark how they knock. 7ho's there%8 +omeo arise,hou wilt be taken, stay awhile, stand u#nocking 4un to my study: By and by, God's willhat sim#leness is this: I come, I come.nocking ho knocks so hard% hence come you% what's your will%

NURSE

-et me come in, and you shall know my errand:I come from -ady Juliet .

$RIAR LAURENCEelcome, then.

'nter $urseurse2 holy +riar, 2 tell me holy +riar,here is my -ady's -ord% where's +omeo%

$RIAR LAURENCEhere on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.

NURSE2 he is even in my !istress' case,



>ust in her case. 2 woful sym#athy:1iteous #redicament, even so lies she,Blubbering and wee#ing, wee#ing and blubbering,/tand u#, stand u#, stand and you be a man,

+or Juliet/s sake, for her sake rise and stand:hy should you fall into so dee# an 2%

ROMEOurse.

NURSE Ah sir, ah sir, death's the end of all.

ROMEO/#akest thou of Juliet % how is it with her%here is she% and how doth she% and what says!y conceal'd -ady to our cancell'd -ove%

NURSE2h she says nothing sir, but wee#s and wee#s,

And now falls on her bed, and then starts u#, And Tybalt calls, and then on +omeo cries,

And then down falls again.

ROMEO As if that name

/hot from the deadly level of a Gun,(id murder her, as that name's cursed hand!urder'd her kinsman. 2h tell me +riar, tell me,In what vile #art of this Anatomy(oth my name lodge% ell me that I may sackhe hateful !ansion.-rawing his sword

$RIAR LAURENCE*old thy des#erate hand:

Art thou a man% thy form cries out thou art:



hy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denotehe unreasonable +ury of a beast.nseemly woman, in a seeming man,

And ill&beseeming beast in seeming both,

hou hast ama;ed me. By my holy order,I thought thy dis#osition better tem#er'd.*ast thou slain Tybalt % wilt thou slay thyself%

And slay thy -ady, that in thy life lives,By doing damned hate u#on thyself%hat, rouse thee man, thy Juliet is alive,+or whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead.here art thou ha##y. Tybalt would kill thee,

But thou slew'st Tybalt , there art thou ha##y.he law that threaten'd death becomes thy +riend,

And turns it to e<ile, there art thou ha##y. A #ack of blessings lights u# u#on thy back,*a##iness 3ourts thee in her best array,But like a misha#ed and sullen wench,hou #uts u# thy +ortune and thy -ove:ake heed, take heed, for such die miserable.

Go get thee to thy -ove as was decreed, Ascend her 3hamber, hence and comfort her:But look thou stay not till the watch be set,+or then thou canst not #ass to #antua,here thou shalt live till we can find a timeo bla;e your marriage, reconcile your +riends,Beg #ardon of the 1rince, and call thee back,ith twenty hundred thousand times more 5oyhan thou went'st forth in lamentation.

Go before urse, commend me to thy -ady, And bid her hasten all the house to bed,hich heavy sorrow makes them a#t unto.+omeo is coming.

NURSE



hat #ierced the fearful hollow of thine earightly she sings on yon 1omegranate tree,Believe me -ove, it was the ightingale.

ROMEOIt was the -ark the *erald of the !orn:o ightingale: look -ove what envious streaks(o lace the severing 3louds in yonder 6ast:ight's 3andles are burnt out, and 5ocund day/tands ti#toe on the misty !ountain to#s,I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

JULIET

0on light is not daylight, I know it I:It is some !eteor that the /un e<hales,o be to thee this night a orch&bearer,

And light thee on thy way to #antua.herefore stay yet, thou need'st not to be gone.

ROMEO-et me be ta'en, let me be #ut to death,I am content, so thou wilt have it so.I have more care to stay, than will to go:3ome death and welcome, Juliet wills it so.*ow is't my soul, let's talk, it is not day.

JULIETIt is, it is, hie hence be gone away:It is the -ark that sings so out of tune,/training harsh (iscords and un#leasing /har#s.

/ome say the -ark makes sweet (ivisionhis doth not so: for she divideth us.2 now be gone, more light and light it grows.

ROMEO!ore light = light, more dark = dark our woes.'nter $urse



NURSE!adam.

JULIETurse.

NURSE0our -ady !other is coming to your chamber,he day is broke, be wary, look about. '7it

JULIEThen window let day in, and let life out.

ROMEO+arewell, farewell, one kiss and I'll descend.

JULIET Art thou gone so% -ove, -ord, ay *usband, +riend,I must hear from thee every day in the hour,+or in a minute there are many days,2 by this count I shall be much in years,6re I again behold my +omeo.

ROMEO+arewell: I will omit no o##ortunity,hat may convey my greetings -ove, to thee.

JULIET2 think'st thou we shall ever meet again%

ROMEO

I doubt it not, and all these woes shall serve+or sweet discourses in our time to come.

JULIET2 God) I have an ill&divining soul,!ethinks I see thee now, thou art so low,



As one dead in the bottom of a omb,6ither my eyesight fails, or thou look'st #ale.

ROMEO

And trust me -ove, in my eye so do you:(ry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu.'7it

JULIET2 +ortune, +ortune, all men call thee fickle,If thou art fickle, what dost thou with himhat is renown'd for faith% be fickle +ortune:+or then I ho#e thou wilt not kee# him long,

But send him back.

SCENE *6. T'e sameLAD! CAPULET?ithin@ *o (aughter, are you u#%'nter 1A-, &A!51'T

hy how now Juliet %

JULIET !adam I am not well.

LAD! CAPULET6vermore wee#ing for your 3ousin's death%hat wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears%

An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live:herefore have done, some grief shows much of -ove,But much of grief, shows still some want of wit.

JULIET0et let me wee#, for such a feeling loss.

LAD! CAPULET/o shall you feel the loss, but not the friendhich you wee# for.



JULIET+eeling so the loss,I cannot choose but ever wee# the +riend.

LAD! CAPULETell Girl, thou wee#'st not so much for his death,

As that the "illain lives which slaughter'd him.

JULIEThat "illain, !adam%LAD! CAPULEThat same "illain +omeo.

JULIET?Aside@ "illain and he, be many miles asunder:God #ardon him, I do with all my heart:

And yet no man like he, doth grieve my heart.

LAD! CAPULEThat is because the raitor murderer lives.

JULIET

Ay !adam from the reach of these my hands:ould none but I might venge my 3ousin's death.

LAD! CAPULETe will have vengeance for it, fear thou not.hen wee# no more, I'll send to one in #antua,here that same banish'd runagate doth live,/hall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,

hat he shall soon kee# Tybalt com#any: And then I ho#e thou wilt be satisfied.

JULIETIndeed I never shall be satisfiedith +omeo till I behold him. (eadIs my #oor heart for a kinsman ve<'d:



!adam, if you could find out but a mano bear a #oison, I would tem#er ithat +omeo should u#on recei#t thereof,/oon slee# in quiet. 2 how my heart abhors

o hear him named, and cannot come to him.o wreak the -ove I bore my 3ousin#on his body that slaughter'd him)

LAD! CAPULET+ind thou the means, and I'll find such a man.But now I'll tell thee 5oyful tidings, girl.

JULIET

And 5oy comes well in such a needy time:hat are they, I beseech your ladyshi#%

LAD! CAPULETell, well, thou hast a careful +ather 3hild.2ne who to #ut thee from thy heaviness,*ath sorted out a sudden day of 5oy,hat thou e<#ect'st not, nor I look'd not for.

JULIET!adam in ha##y time, what day is that%

LAD! CAPULET!arry my 3hild, early ne<t hursday morn,he gallant, young, and oble Gentleman,he 3ounty !aris at /aint 1eter's 3hurch,/hall ha##ily make thee there a 5oyful Bride.

JULIETow by /aint 1eter's 3hurch, and !eter too,*e shall not make me there a 5oyful Bride.I wonder at this haste, that I must wed6re he that should be *usband comes to woo:I #ray you tell my -ord and +ather !adam,



I will not marry yet, and, when I do, I swear,It shall be +omeo, whom you know I hate4ather than !aris. hese are news indeed.

LAD! CAPULET*ere comes your +ather, tell him so yourself,

And see how he will take it at your hands.'nter &A!51'T and $urse

CAPULEThen the /un sets, the air doth dri;;le dewBut for the /unset of my Brother's /on,It rains downright.*ow now% a 3onduit Girl, what still in tears%6vermore showering% But how now wife%*ave you deliver'd to her our decree%

LAD! CAPULET Ay sir but she will none, she gives you thanks,I would the fool were married to her grave.

CAPULET/oft, take me with you, take me with you wife,*ow, will she none% doth she not give us thanks%Is she not #roud% doth she not count her blest,nworthy as she is, that we have wrought/o worthy a Gentleman to be her Bridegroom%

JULIET

ot #roud you have, but thankful that you have:1roud can I never be of what I hate,But thankful even for hate, that is meant -ove.

CAPULET*ow now% how now% 3ho##ed&logic% what is this%'1roud,' and 'I thank you': and 'I thank you not'



And yet 'not #roud' mistress minion you.hank me no thankings, nor #roud me no #rouds,But fettle your fine 5oints 'gainst hursday ne<t,o go with !aris to /aint 1eter's 3hurch:

2r I will drag thee, on a hurdle thither.2ut you green&sickness carrion, out you baggage,0ou tallow&face.

LAD! CAPULET+ie, fie, what are you mad%JULIETGood +ather, I beseech you on my knees*ear me with #atience, but to s#eak a word.

CAPULET*ang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch,I tell thee what, get thee to 3hurch a' hursday,2r never after look me in the face./#eak not, re#ly not, do not answer me.!y fingers itch, wife: we scarce thought us blesthat God had lent us but this only 3hild,

But now I see this one is one too much, And that we have a curse in having her:2ut on her *ilding.

NURSEGod in heaven bless her,

0ou are to blame my -ord to rate her so.

CAPULET

And why my -ady wisdom% hold your tongue,Good 1rudence, smatter with your gossi#s, go.

NURSEI s#eak no treason, +ather, 2 Godigoden,!ay not one s#eak%



CAPULET2 1eace you mumbling fool,

tter your gravity o'er a Gossi#'s bowl+or here we need it not.

NURSE0ou are too hot.

CAPULETGod's bread, it makes me mad:(ay, night, hour, tide, time, work, #lay,

Alone in com#any, still my care hath beeno have her match'd, and having now #rovided

A Gentleman of oble 1arentage,2f fair (emesnes, 0outhful, and obly Allied,/tuff'd as they say with *onourable #arts,1ro#ortion'd as one's thought would wish a man,

And then to have a wretched #uling fool, A whining mammet, in her +ortune's tender,o answer, 'I'll not wed, I cannot -ove:I am too young, I #ray you #ardon me.'

But, as you will not wed, I'll #ardon you.Gra;e where you will, you shall not house with me:-ook to't, think on't, I do not use to 5est.hursday is near, lay hand on heart, advise,

An you be mine, I'll give you to my +riend: And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,+or, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,or what is mine shall never do thee good:

rust to't, bethink you I'll not be forsworn.'7it

JULIETIs there no #ity sitting in the 3louds,hat sees into the bottom of my grief%2 sweet my !other cast me not away,



(elay this marriage for a month, a week,2r if you do not, make the Bridal bedIn that dim !onument where Tybalt lies.

LAD! CAPULETalk not to me, for I'll not s#eak a word,(o as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. '7it

JULIET2 God) 2 urse, how shall this be #revented%2 good, good urse comfort me, counsel me.hat say'st thou% hast thou not a word of 5oy%/ome comfort urse.

NURSE+aith here it is,

+omeo is banish'd, and all the world to nothing,hat he dares ne'er come back to challenge you:2r if he do, it needs must be by stealth.hen since the case so stands as now it doth,I think it best you married with the 3ounty,2 he's a -ovely Gentleman:+omeo/s a dishclout to him: an 6agle !adam*ath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye

As !aris hath, beshrew my very heart,I think you are ha##y in this second match,+or it e<cels your first: or if it did not,0our first is dead, or 'twere as good he were,

As living here and you no use of him.

JULIET/#eakest thou from thy heart%

NURSE And from my soul too,

2r else beshrew them both.



JULIET Amen.

NURSE

hat%

JULIETell, thou hast comforted me marvelous much,Go in, and tell my -ady I am gone,*aving dis#leased my +ather, to 1aurence' 3ell,o make confession, and to be absolved.

NURSE

!arry I will, and this is wisely done.'7it

JULIET Ancient damnation, 2 most wicked fiend)Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,2r to dis#raise my -ord with that same tonguehich she hath #raised him with above com#are,/o many thousand times% Go 3ounsellor,

hou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain:I'll to the +riar to know his remedy,If all else fail, my self have #ower to die.'7eunt. (treet musicians play as Juliet rushes out.

SCENE -. $riar Lauren&e,s &ell.F+3A+ 1A5+'$&' and !A+3( are in conversation as the lightscome up.PARISow do you know the reason of this haste.

$RIAR LAURENCE?Aside@ I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.'nter J513'T -ook sir, here comes the -ady towards my 3ell.



PARIS*a##ily met, my -ady and my wife.

JULIEThat may be sir, when I may be a wife.

PARIShat may be, must be -ove, on hursday ne<t.

JULIEThat must be shall be.

$RIAR LAURENCE hat's a certain te<t.

PARIS3ome you to make confession to this +ather%

JULIETo answer that, I should confess to you.

PARIS

(o not deny to him, that you -ove me.

JULIETI will confess to you that I -ove him.

PARIS/o will ye, I am sure that you -ove me.

JULIET

Are you at leisure, *oly +ather now,2r shall I come to you at evening !ass%

$RIAR LAURENCE!y leisure serves me #ensive daughter now.!y -ord we must entreat the time alone.



PARISGodshield: I should disturb (evotion,Juliet , on hursday early will I rouse ye,ill then adieu, and kee# this holy kiss.

'7it

JULIET2 shut the door, and when thou hast done so,3ome wee# with me, #ast ho#e, #ast cure, #ast hel#.$RIAR LAURENCE2 Juliet , I already know thy grief,It strains me #ast the com#ass of my wits:I hear thou must and nothing may #rorogue it,2n hursday ne<t be married to this 3ounty.

JULIETell me not +riar that thou hear'st of this,nless thou tell me how I may #revent it:If in thy wisdom, thou canst give no hel#,(o thou but call my resolution wise,

And with this knife, I'll hel# it #resently.

God 5oin'd my heart and +omeo/s, thou our hands, And ere this hand by thee to +omeo seal'd:/hall be the -abel to another (eed,2r my true heart with treacherous revolturn to another, this shall slay them both:Be not so long to s#eak, I long to die,If what thou s#eak'st, s#eak not of remedy.

$RIAR LAURENCE

*old (aughter, I do s#y a kind of ho#e,hich craves as des#erate an e<ecution,

As that is des#erate which we would #revent.If rather than to marry 3ounty !arishou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,hen is it likely thou wilt undertake



A thing like death to chide away this shame: And if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.

JULIET

2h bid me lea#, rather than marry !aris,+rom off the Battlements of any ower,2r walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurkhere /er#ents are: chain me with roaring Bears,2r bid me go into a new made grave,

And hide me with a dead man in his shroud, And I will do it without fear or doubt,o live an unstain'd wife to my sweet -ove.

$RIAR LAURENCE*old then: go home, be merry, give consento marry !aris: ednesday is tomorrow,omorrow night look that thou lie alone,-et not thy urse lie with thee in thy 3hamber:ake thou this "ial being then in bed,

And this distilled liquor drink thou off,hen #resently through all thy veins shall run

A cold and drowsy humour: for no #ulseo warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest,he 4oses in thy li#s and cheeks shall fade-ike death when he shuts u# the day of life:

And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk deathhou shalt continue two and forty hours,

And then awake, as from a #leasant slee#.ow when the Bridegroom in the morning comes,

o rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:hen as the manner of our country is,hou shalt be borne to that same ancient vaulthere all the kindred of the &apulets lie.In the mean time against thou shalt awake,/hall +omeo by my -etters know our drift,



And hither shall he come, and that very night/hall +omeo bear thee hence to #antua.

And this shall free thee from this #resent shame,If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear,

Abate thy valour in the acting it.

JULIETGive me, give me, 2 tell not me of fear.

$RIAR LAURENCE*old get you gone, be strong and #ros#erousIn this resolve: I'll send a friar with s#eed

o #antua with my letters to thy -ord.JULIET-ove give me strength, and strength shall hel# afford:+arewell dear father.'7eunt. (treet musicians play.

SCENE . Ca+ulet,s 'ouse.'nter &A!51'T" 1A-, &A!51'T" $5+('" and !'T'+

CAPULET/o many guests invite as here are writ.0e gives the list to !'T'+" who looks concerned. '7it !'T'+.

e shall be much unfurnished for this time:hat is my (aughter gone to +riar 1aurence%

NURSE Ay forsooth.

CAPULETell he may chance to do some good on her,

A #eevish self&will'd harlotry it is.'nter J513'T



NURSE/ee where she comes from shrift with merry look.

CAPULET

*ow now my headstrong, where have you been gadding%

JULIEThere I have learn'd me to re#ent the sin2f disobedient o##osition:o you and your behests, and am en5oin'dBy holy 1aurence, to fall #rostrate here,

And beg your #ardon: #ardon I beseech you,*enceforward I am ever ruled by you.

CAPULET/end for the 3ounty, go tell him of this,I'll have this knot knit u# tomorrow morning.

JULIETI met the youthful -ord at 1aurence' 3ell,

And gave him what becomed -ove I might,ot ste# o'er the bounds of modesty.

CAPULEThy I am glad on't, this is well, stand u#,his is as't should be, let me see the 3ounty:

Ay marry go I say, and fetch him hither.1ooks for !'T'+ but he is gone.ow afore God, this reverend holy +riar,2ur whole 3ity is much bound to him.

JULIETurse will you go with me into my 3loset,o hel# me sort such needful ornaments

As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow%

LAD! CAPULET



o not till hursday, there is time enough.

CAPULETGo urse, go with her: we'll to 3hurch tomorrow.

'7eunt J513'T and $urse

LAD! CAPULETe shall be short in our #rovision,'is now near night.

CAPULETush, I will stir about,

And all things shall be well, I warrant thee wife:Go thou to Juliet , hel# to deck u# her,I'll not to bed tonight, let me aloneI'll #lay the housewife for this once. hat ho%hey are all forth, well I will walk myself o 3ounty !aris, to #re#are him u#

Against tomorrow, my heart is wondrous light,/ince this same wayward Girl is so reclaim'd.'7eunt

SCENE 0. Juliet,s &'am6er.'nter J513'T and $urse

JULIET Ay those attires are best, but gentle urseI #ray thee leave me to my self to&night:+or I have need of many 2risons,o move the heavens to smile u#on my state,

hich well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.'nter 1A-, &A!51'T

LAD! CAPULEThat are you busy ho% need you my hel#%

JULIET



o !adam, we have cull'd such necessaries As are behoveful for our state to&morrow:/o #lease you, let me now be left alone

And let the urse this night sit u# with you,

+or I am sure, you have your hands full all,In this so sudden business.

LAD! CAPULETGoodnight.

Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.'7eunt 1A-, &A!51'T and $urse

JULIET

+arewell: God knows when we shall meet again.I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,hat almost free;es u# the heat of life:I'll call them back again to comfort me.urse) hat should she do here%!y dismal /cene, I needs must act alone:3ome "ial.hat if this mi<ture do not work at all%

/hall I be married then tomorrow morning%o, no, this shall forbid it. -ie thou there,hat if it be a #oison which the +riar /ubtly hath minister'd to have me dead,-est in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,Because he married me before to +omeo%I fear it is, and yet me thinks it should not,+or he hath still been tried a holy man.

*ow, if when I am laid into the omb,I wake before the time that +omeo3ome to redeem me% here's a fearful #oint:/hall I not then be stifled in the "ault%o whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,

And there die strangled ere my +omeo comes%



2r if I live, is it not very like,he horrible conceit of death and night,ogether with the terror of the #lace,

As in a "ault, an ancient rece#tacle,

here for these many hundred years the bones2f all my buried ancestors are #acked,here bloody Tybalt , yet but green in earth,-ies festering in his shroud, where as they say,

At some hours in the night, /#irits resort: Alack, alack, is it not like that I/o early waking, what with loathsome smells,

And shrieks like !andrakes' torn out of the earth,

hat living mortals hearing them, run mad.2 if I wake, shall I not be distraught,6nvironed with all these hideous fears,

And madly #lay with my forefather's 5oints% And #luck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud% And in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone, As 7with a club8 dash out my des#erate brains%2 look, me thinks I see my 3ousin's Ghost,

/eeking out +omeo that did s#it his body#on a 4a#ier's #oint: stay Tybalt , stay+omeo, +omeo, I come, I drink to thee.(he falls upon her bed. As her movements slow" then cease" thestreet musicians play an interlude and continue to play during thefollowing scene.

SCENE 2. Juliet,s &'am6er.'nter $urse

Nurse!istress, what !istress% Juliet % fast, I warrant her she.hy -amb, why -ady% fie you slugabed,hy -ove I say% !adam, sweet&heart: why Bride%hat not a word% 0ou take your #ennyworths now.



/lee# for a week, for the ne<t night I warranthe 3ounty !aris hath set u# his rest,hat you shall rest but little, God forgive me:!arry and amen: how sound is she aslee#.

I must needs wake her. !adam, madam, madam, Ay, let the 3ounty take you in your bed,*e'll fright you u# i' faith. ill it not be%hat dress'd, and in your clothes, and down again%I must needs wake you: -ady, -ady, -ady%

Alas, alas, *el#, hel#, my -ady's dead,2h welladay, that ever I was born,/ome Aqua&vitae ho, !y -ord, my -ady)

'nter 1A-, &A!51'T

LAD! CAPULEThat noise is here%

NURSE2 lamentable day.

LAD! CAPULEThat is the matter%

NURSE-ook, look, 2 heavy day.

LAD! CAPULET2 me, 2 me, my child, my only life:4evive, look u#, or I will die with thee:*el#, hel#, call hel#.'nter &A!51'T

CAPULET+or shame bring Juliet forth, her -ord is come.

NURSE/he's dead: deceased, she's dead: alack the day.



LAD! CAPULET Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead.

CAPULET

*a% -et me see her: out alas she's cold,*er blood is settled and her 5oints are stiff:-ife and these li#s have long been se#arated:(eath lies on her like an untimely frost#on the sweetest flower of all the field.

NURSE2 lamentable day)

LAD! CAPULET 2 woful time.

CAPULET(eath that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,ies u# my tongue, and will not let me s#eak.'nter F+3A+ 1A5+'$&' and !A+3(

$RIAR LAURENCE

3ome, is the Bride ready to go to 3hurch%CAPULET4eady to go, but never to return.2 /on, the night before thy wedding day,*ath death lain with thy wife: there she lies,+lower as she was, deflowered by him.(eath is my /on&in&law, death is my *eir,!y (aughter he hath wedded. I will die,

And leave him all, life, living, all is death's.

LAD! CAPULET 7with urse8 Accursed" unhappy" wretched" hateful da7,

NURSE 7with -ady 3a#ulet8) woe" ) woful" woful" woful da7)



NURSE!ost lamentable day,

LAD! CAPULET !ost miserable hour, that e/er time saw.

NURSE 7with end of -ady 3a#ulet8most woful day.

PARIS 7in turn with 3a#ulet8Beguiled, divorced, wronged, s#ited, slain,

CAPULET 7in turn with 1aris8(es#ised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd,

PARIS!ost detestable death,

CAPULETncomfortable ime, why camest thou now

PARIS 7with end of 3a#ulet8

by thee beguil9d"

CAPULET 7with 1aris8To murder" murder our solemnity;

PARIS 7with 3a#ulet8%y cruel" cruel thee" <uite overthrown:

LAD! CAPULET

But one,

NURSE2 day,

PARIS2 love,



CAPULET2 3hild,

LAD! CAPULET#oor one,

NURSE2 day,

PARIS2 life

CAPULET

2 3hild

NURSE 7with 1aris8) day" ) hateful day"

PARIS 7with urse8not life" but love in death.

CAPULET 7with -ady 3a#ulet8

my soul" and not my &hild"LAD! CAPULET 89it' Ca+ulet:

one poor and loving &hild"

LAD! CAPULET 7all four together8%ut one thing to re4oice and solace in"

And cruel death hath catched it from my sight.

NURSE 7all four together8

$ever was seen so black a day as this:) woeful day" ) woeful day.

PARIS 7all four together80ave 3 thought long to see this morning/s face"

And doth it give me such a sight as this;



CAPULET 7all four together8-ead art thou" alack my &hild is dead"

And with my &hild" my 4oys are buried.

$RIAR LAURENCE1eace ho for shame: confusion's 3are lives notIn these confusions, heaven and yourself *ad #art in this fair !aid, now heaven hath all,

And all the better is it for the !aid:0our #art in her, you could not kee# from death,But heaven kee#s his #art in eternal life:he most you sought was her #romotion,+or 'twas your heaven, she should be advanced,

And wee# ye now, seeing she is advanced Above the 3louds, as high as *eaven itself%2 in this love, you love your 3hild so ill,hat you run mad, seeing that she is well:(ry u# your tears, and as the custom is,In all her best array bear her to 3hurch:+or though some ature bids us all lament,0et ature's tears are 4eason's merriment.

CAPULET All things that we ordained +estival,urn from their office to black +uneral:2ur instruments to melancholy Bells,2ur wedding cheer, to a sad burial +east:2ur solemn *ymns, to sullen (irges change:2ur Bridal flowers serve for a buried 3orse:

And all things change them to the contrary.$RIAR LAURENCE/ir go you in and !adam, go with him,

And go sir !aris, every one #re#areo follow this fair 3orse unto her grave:he heavens do lour u#on you, for some ill:



!ove them no more, by crossing their high will.'7eunt. (treet musicians stop playing and come forward.

$irst Musi&ian

+aith we may #ut u# our 1i#es and be gone.

Se&ond Musi&ian Ay by my troth, 'tis no time to #lay now.The street musicians put down their instruments and fade backinto the darkness.

SCENE 3. Mantua. A street.'nter +)#')

ROMEOIf I may trust the flattering truth of slee#,!y dreams #resage some 5oyful news at hand:I dreamt my -ady came and found me dead,7/trange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think,8

And breathed such life with kisses in my li#s,hat I revived and was an 6m#eror.

Ah me, how sweet is love itself #ossess'd,hen but love's shadows are so rich in 5oy)'nter %A1T0A(A+ ews from 2erona, how now %althasar %(ost thou not bring me -etters from the +riar%*ow doth my -ady% Is my +ather well%*ow doth my Juliet % that I ask again,+or nothing can be ill, if she be well.

"ALT#ASARhen she is well, and nothing can be ill.*er body slee#s in &apel/s !onument,

And her immortal #art with Angels lives,I saw her laid low in her kindred's "ault,

And #resently took 1ost to tell it you:



2 #ardon me for bringing these ill news,/ince you did leave it for my office /ir.

ROMEO

Is it even so% then I deny you /tars.hou know'st my lodging, get me ink and #a#er,

And hire 1ost&*orses, I will hence tonight.

"ALT#ASARI do beseech you sir, have #atience:0our looks are #ale and wild, and do im#ort/ome misadventure.

ROMEO ush, thou art deceived,-eave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.*ast thou no -etters to me from the +riar%

"ALT#ASARo my good -ord.

ROMEO

o matter: Get thee gone, And hire those *orses, I'll be with thee straight.'7it %A1T0A(A+ ell Juliet , I will lie with thee tonight:-et's see for means, 2 mischief thou art swift,o enter in the thoughts of des#erate men:I do remember an A#othecary,

And hereabouts he dwells, meagre were his looks,/har# misery had worn him to the bones:

And in his needy sho# about his shelves A beggarly account of em#ty bo<es,Green earthen #ots, Bladders, and musty seeds.oting this #enury, to myself I said,'An if a man did need a #oison now,hose sale is #resent death in #antua,



I #ay thy #overty, and not thy will.

A+ot'e&ar71ut this in any liquid thing you will

And drink it off, and if you had the strength2f twenty men, it would dis#atch you straight.

ROMEOhere is thy Gold, worse #oison to men's souls,(oing more murders in this loathsome world,han these #oor com#ounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee #oison, thou hast sold me none,+arewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh.

3ome 3ordial, and not #oison, go with meo Juliet/s grave, for there must I use thee.'7eunt

SCENE 4. $riar Lauren&e,s &ell.'nter F+3A+ J)0$

$RIAR JO#N*oly +ranciscan +riar, Brother, ho%

'nter F+3A+ 1A5+'$&'

$RIAR LAURENCEhis same should be the voice of +riar John.elcome from #antua, what says +omeo%2r if his mind be writ, give me his -etter.

$RIAR JO#NGoing to find a bare&foot Brother out,

2ne of our order to associate me,*ere in this 3ity visiting the sick,

And finding him, the /earchers of the own/us#ecting that we both were in a househere the infectious #estilence did reign,/eal'd u# the doors, and would not let us forth,



/o that my s#eed to #antua there was stay'd.

$RIAR LAURENCEho bare my -etter then to 4omeo%

$RIAR JO#NI could not send it, here it is again,or get a messenger to bring it thee,/o fearful were they of infection.

$RIAR LAURENCEnha##y +ortune, by my Brotherhoodhe -etter was not nice, but full of charge,

2f dear im#ort, and the neglecting it!ay do much danger: +riar John go hence,Get me an Iron 3row, and bring it straightnto my 3ell.

$RIAR JO#NBrother I'll go and bring it thee.

'7it

$RIAR LAURENCEow must I to the !onument alone,ithin this three hours will fair Juliet wake,/he will beshrew me much that +omeo*ath had no notice of these accidents:But I will write again to #antua,

And kee# her at my 3ell till +omeo come,1oor living 3orse, closed in a dead man's omb.'7it

SCENE 15. A &'ur&'7ard'nter !A+3( and his !age" outside gate

PARISGive me thy orch Boy, hence and stand aloof,



0et #ut it out, for I would not be seen:nder yond young rees lay thee all along,

And signal if thou hear'st something a##roach,Give me those flowers. (o as I bid thee, go.

PAEI am almost afraid to stand alone*ere in the 3hurchyard, yet I will adventure.

PARIS/weet +lower with flowers thy Bridal bed I strew:2 woe, thy 3ano#y is dust and stones,he obsequies that I for thee will kee#

ightly shall be to strew thy grave and wee#.The !age whistleshe Boy gives warning, something doth a##roach,hat cursed foot wanders this way tonight,o cross my obsequies, and true love's rite%hat with a orch% muffle me night awhile.'nter +)#') and %A1T0A(A+" outside gate

ROMEO*old take this -etter, early in the morning/ee thou deliver it to my -ord and +ather,Give me the light u#on thy life I charge thee,hat e'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,

And do not interru#t me in my course.But if thou 5ealous dost return to #ryIn what I further shall intend to do,By heaven I will tear thee 5oint by 5oint,

And strew this hungry 3hurchyard with thy limbs:he time and my intents are savage wild:!ore fierce and more ine<orable far,han em#ty tigers, or the roaring sea.

"ALT#ASAR



I will be gone sir, and not trouble you.

ROMEO/o shalt thou show me friendshi#: ake thou that,

-ive and be #ros#erous, and farewell good fellow.'7it %althasar hou detestable maw, thou womb of death,Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth:hus I enforce thy rotten 5aws to o#en,

And in des#ite, I'll cram thee with more food.)pens the gate

PARIS

/to# thy unhallow'd toil, vile #ontague:3an vengeance be #ursued further than death%3ondemned villain, I do a##rehend thee.2bey and go with me, for thou must die.

ROMEOI must indeed, and therefore came I hither:Good gentle youth, tem#t not a des#erate man,1ut not another sin u#on my head,By urging me to fury. 2 be gone,By heaven I love thee better than myself,+or I come hither arm'd against myself:/tay not, be gone, live, and hereafter say,

A madman's mercy bid thee run away.

PARISI do defy thy commiseration,

And a##rehend thee for a +elon here.

ROMEOilt thou #rovoke me% hen have at thee Boy.They fight

PAE



2 -ord they fight, I will go call the atch.'7it

PARIS

2 I am slain, if thou be merciful,2#en the omb, lay me with Juliet .

ROMEOIn good faith I will, 2 give me thy hand,2ne writ with me in sour misfortune's book.I'll bury thee in a trium#hant grave.

A Grave, 2 no, a -antern, slaughter'd 0outh,+or here lies >uliet, and her beauty makes

his "ault a feasting #resence full of light.2 my -ove, my ife.(eath that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,*ath had no #ower yet u#on thy Beauty:hou art not conquer'd: Beauty's ensign yetIs 3rimson in thy li#s, and in thy cheeks,

And (eath's #ale flag is not advanced there. Ah, dear Juliet :

hy art thou yet so fair% shall I believehat unsubstantial death is amorous%

And that the lean abhorred !onster kee#shee here in dark to be his 1aramour%+or fear of that, I still will stay with thee,

And never from this 1alace of dim night(e#art again: here, here will I remainith orms that are thy 3hambermaids: 2 here

ill I set u# my everlasting rest: And shake the yoke of inaus#icious stars+rom this world&wearied flesh: 6yes look your last:

Arms take your last embrace: and li#s, 2 youhe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss

A dateless bargain to engrossing death:



*ere's to my -ove. 2 true A#othecary:hy drugs are quick. hus with a kiss I die.

SCENE 156. A &'ur&'7ard'nter F+3A+ 1A5+'$&'

$RIAR LAURENCE/aint +rancis be my s#eed, fear comes u#on me.2 much I fear some ill unlucky thing.4omeo)

Alack, alack, what blood is this which stainshe stony entrance of this /e#ulchre%

+omeo, oh #ale: who else% what !aris too% And stee#'d in blood% Ah what an unkind hour Is guilty of this lamentable chance%he -ady stirs.

JULIET2 comfortable +riar, where is my -ord%I do remember well where I should be:

And there I am, where is my +omeo%

$RIAR LAURENCEI hear some noise -ady, come from that nest2f death, contagion, and unnatural slee#,

A greater #ower than we can contradict*ath thwarted our intents, 3ome, come away,hy husband in thy bosom there lies dead:/tay not to question, for the watch is coming.

3ome, go good Juliet , I dare no longer stay.

JULIETGo get thee hence, for I will not away. '7it F+3A+ 1A5+'$&' hat's here% A cu# closed in my true love's hand%1oison I see hath been his timeless end:2 churl, drunk all% and left no friendly dro#



o hel# me after, I will kiss thy li#s*a#ly some #oison yet doth hang on them.hy li#s are warm.

$irst ;at&'man-ead Boy, which way%

JULIET0ea, noise% then I'll be brief. 2 ha##y (agger.his is thy sheath, there rust and let me die.ills herself. 'nter Watch and !age.

SCENE 15&. A &'ur&'7ard

PAEhis is the #lace.

$irst ;at&'manhe ground is bloody, search about the 3hurchyard.Go some of you, whoe'er you find attach.'7it some of the Watch. 'nter the !+3$&'

PRINCE

hat misadventure is so early u#,hat calls our #erson from our morning's rest%

$irst ;at&'manGood 1rince, here lies the 3ounty !aris slain,

And +omeo dead, and Juliet dead before,arm and new kill'd.+e8enter some of the Watch" with %A1T0A(A+ and F+3A+

Se&ond ;at&'man*ere's +omeo/s man, we found him in the 3hurchyard.

T'ird ;at&'man*ere is a +riar that trembles, sighs and wee#s:e took him coming from this churchyard side.'nter &A!51'T and 1A-, &A!51'T



CAPULET2 heaven) 2 wife look how our (aughter bleeds)

LAD! CAPULET2 me)'nter #)$TA*5'PRINCE3ome #ontague, for thou art early u#o see thy /on and *eir, now early down.

MONTAUE2 thou untaught, what manners is in this,

o #ress before thy +ather to a grave%PRINCE/eal u# the mouth of outrage for a while,ill we can clear these ambiguities,

And know their s#ring, their head, their true descent, And then will I be general of your woes,Bring forth the #arties of sus#icion.The F+3A+" %A1T0A(A+" and the !A*' are lit separate

$RIAR LAURENCEI am the greatest, able to do least.+omeo there dead, was husband to that Juliet ,

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

"ALT#ASARI brought my master news of >uliet's death

And then in #ost he came from !antua

o this same #lace, to this same monument.

$RIAR LAURENCEI married them and their stol'n marriage&dayas Tybalt/s (oomsday: whose untimely deathBanish'd the new&made Bridegroom from this 3ity:



+or whom 7and not for Tybalt 8 Juliet #ined.0ou, to remove that siege of Grief from her,Betroth'd and would have married her #erforceo 3ounty !aris.

PAE*e came with flowers to strew his -ady's grave,

And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:

$RIAR LAURENCEhen comes she to me,

And 7with wild looks8 bid me devise some meanso rid her from this second !arriage,

2r in my 3ell there would she kill herself.hen gave I her 7so tutor'd by my Art8

A slee#ing 1otion, which so wrought on her he form of death. !eantime, I writ to +omeo,hat he should hither come, as this dire night,o hel# to take her from her borrow'd grave.But he which bore my -etter, +riar John,as stay'd by accident, and yesternight

4eturn'd my -etter back. hen all alone, At the #refi<ed hour of her waking,3ame I to take her from her indred's vault,But when I came 7some minute ere the time2f her awaking8 here untimely layhe oble !aris, and true +omeo dead.

"ALT#ASARhis letter he early bid me give his father,

And threatened me with death, going in the vault,I de#arted not and left him there.

PAE Anon comes one with light to o#e the tomb And by and by my master drew on him



And then I ran away to call the watch.

$RIAR LAURENCEJuliet wakes, I entreated her come forth,

But then, a noise did scare me from the omb, And she 7too des#erate8 would not go with me,But 7as it seems8 did violence on herself.

PRINCEhere be these 6nemies% &apulet , #ontague,/ee what a scourge is laid u#on your hate,hat *eaven finds means to kill your 5oys with -ove

And I, for winking at your discords too,

*ave lost a brace of insmen: All are #unish'd.

CAPULET2 brother #ontague, give me thy hand,his is my (aughter's dowry, for no more3an I offer.

MONTAUEBut I can give thee more:

+or I will raise her /tatue in #ure Gold,hat while 2erona by that name is known,here shall no figure at such 4ate be set,

As that of rue and +aithful Juliet .

CAPULET As rich shall +omeo by his -ady lie1oor sacrifices of our enmity.

The street musicians have picked up their instruments and beginto play.

PRINCE A glooming #eace this morning with it brings,

CAPULET(MONTAUE

romeo&juliet summer 2011b

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