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[Laying down her dagger. ]

What if it be a poison, which the friar

Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,

Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,

Because he married me before to Romeo?

I fear it is: and yet methinks it should not,

For he hath still been tried a holy man: --

I will not entertain so bad a thought. --

How if, when I am laid into the tomb,

I wake before the time that Romeo

Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,

To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,

And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

Or, if I live, is it not very like

The horrible conceit of death and night,

Together with the terror of the place, --

As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,

Where, for this many hundred years, the bones

Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd;

Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,

Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,

At some hours in the night spirits resort; --

Alack, alack, is it not like that I,

So early waking, --what with loathsome smells,

And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,

That living mortals, hearing them, run mad; --

O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,

Environed with all these hideous fears?

And madly play with my forefathers' joints?

And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?

And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,

As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? --

O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost

Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body

Upon a rapier's point: --stay, Tybalt, stay! --

Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.

[Throws herself on the bed. ]

Scene IV. Hall in Capulet's House.

[Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse. ]

Lady Capulet.

Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, nurse.

Nurse.

They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

[Enter Capulet. ]

Capulet.

Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crow'd,

The curfew bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock: --

Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica;

Spare not for cost.

Nurse.

Go, you cot-quean, go,

Get you to bed; faith, you'll be sick to-morrow

For this night's watching.

Capulet.

No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now

All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.

Lady Capulet.

Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;

But I will watch you from such watching now.

[Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse. ]

Capulet.

A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood! --Now, fellow,

[Enter Servants, with spits, logs and baskets. ]

What's there?

1 Servant.

Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.

Capulet.

Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Servant. ]

--Sirrah, fetch drier logs:

Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.

2 Servant.

I have a head, sir, that will find out logs

And never trouble Peter for the matter.

[Exit. ]

Capulet.

Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!

Thou shalt be logger-head. --Good faith, 'tis day.

The county will be here with music straight,

For so he said he would: --I hear him near.

[Music within. ]

Nurse! --wife! --what, ho! --what, nurse, I say!

[Re-enter Nurse. ]

Go, waken Juliet; go and trim her up;

I'll go and chat with Paris: --hie, make haste,

Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:

Make haste, I say.

[Exeunt. ]

Scene V. Juliet's Chamber; Juliet on the bed.

[Enter Nurse. ]

Nurse.

Mistress! --what, mistress! --Juliet! --fast, I warrant her, she: --

Why, lamb! --why, lady! --fie, you slug-abed! --

Why, love, I say! --madam! sweetheart! --why, bride! --

What, not a word? --you take your pennyworths now;

Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,

The County Paris hath set up his rest

That you shall rest but little. --God forgive me!

Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!

I needs must wake her. --Madam, madam, madam! --

Ay, let the county take you in your bed;

He'll fright you up, i' faith. --Will it not be?

What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!

I must needs wake you. --lady! lady! lady! --

Alas, alas! --Help, help! My lady's dead! --

O, well-a-day that ever I was born! --

Some aqua-vitae, ho! --my lord! my lady!

[Enter Lady Capulet. ]

Lady Capulet

What noise is here?

Nurse.

O lamentable day!

Lady Capulet.

What is the matter?

Nurse.

Look, look! O heavy day!

Lady Capulet.

O me, O me! --my child, my only life!

Revive, look up, or I will die with thee! --

Help, help! --call help.

[Enter Capulet. ]

Capulet.

For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come.

Nurse.

She's dead, deceas'd, she's dead; alack the day!

Lady Capulet

Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!

Capulet.

Ha! let me see her: --out alas! she's cold;

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;

Life and these lips have long been separated:

Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Accursed time! unfortunate old man!

Nurse.

O lamentable day!

Lady Capulet.

O woful time!

Capulet.

Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,

Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.

[Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris, with Musicians. ]

Friar.

Come, is the bride ready to go to church?

Capulet.

Ready to go, but never to return: --

O son, the night before thy wedding day

Hath death lain with thy bride: --there she lies,

Flower as she was, deflowered by him.

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir;

My daughter he hath wedded: I will die.

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

Paris.

Have I thought long to see this morning's face,

And doth it give me such a sight as this?

Lady Capulet.

Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!

Most miserable hour that e'er time saw

In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!

But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,

But one thing to rejoice and solace in,

And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!

Nurse.

O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!

Most lamentable day, most woeful day

That ever, ever, I did yet behold!

O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!

Never was seen so black a day as this:

O woeful day! O woeful day!

Paris.

Beguil'd, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!

Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,

By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown! --

O love! O life! --not life, but love in death!

Capulet.

Despis'd, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd! --

Uncomfortable time, why cam'st thou now

To murder, murder our solemnity? --

O child! O child! --my soul, and not my child! --

Dead art thou, dead! --alack, my child is dead;

And with my child my joys are buried!

Friar.

Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not

In these confusions. Heaven and yourself

Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all,

And all the better is it for the maid:

Your part in her you could not keep from death;

But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.

The most you sought was her promotion;

For 'twas your heaven she should be advanc'd:

And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc'd

Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?

O, in this love, you love your child so ill

That you run mad, seeing that she is well:

She's not well married that lives married long:

But she's best married that dies married young.

Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary

On this fair corse; and, as the custom is,

In all her best array bear her to church;

For though fond nature bids us all lament,

Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.

Capulet.

All things that we ordained festival

Turn from their office to black funeral:

Our instruments to melancholy bells;

Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;

Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;

Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,

And all things change them to the contrary.

Friar.

Sir, go you in, --and, madam, go with him; --

And go, Sir Paris; --every one prepare

To follow this fair corse unto her grave:

The heavens do lower upon you for some ill;

Move them no more by crossing their high will.

[Exeunt Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris, and Friar. ]

1 Musician.

Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone.

Nurse.

Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up;

For well you know this is a pitiful case.

[Exit. ]

1 Musician.

Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.

[Enter Peter. ]

Peter.

Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, ' 'Heart's ease':

O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease. '

1 Musician.

Why 'Heart's ease'?

Peter.

O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My heart is

full of woe': O, play me some merry dump to comfort me.

1 Musician.

Not a dump we: 'tis no time to play now.

Peter.

You will not then?

1 Musician.

No.

Peter.

I will then give it you soundly.

1 Musician.

What will you give us?

Peter.

No money, on my faith; but the gleek, --I will give you the

minstrel.

1 Musician.

Then will I give you the serving-creature.

Peter.

Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on your pate.

I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you, I'll fa you: do you note

me?

1 Musician.

An you re us and fa us, you note us.

2 Musician.

Pray you put up your dagger, and put out your wit.

Peter.

Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you with an

iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. --Answer me like men:

'When griping grief the heart doth wound,

And doleful dumps the mind oppress,

Then music with her silver sound'--

why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver sound'? --

What say you, Simon Catling?

1 Musician.

Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.

Peter.

Pretty! --What say you, Hugh Rebeck?

2 Musician.

I say 'silver sound' because musicians sound for silver.

Peter.

Pretty too! --What say you, James Soundpost?

3 Musician.

Faith, I know not what to say.

Peter.

O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say for you.

It is 'music with her silver sound' because musicians have no

gold for sounding: --

'Then music with her silver sound

With speedy help doth lend redress. '

[Exit. ]

1 Musician.

What a pestilent knave is this same!

2 Musician.

Hang him, Jack! --Come, we'll in here; tarry for the

mourners, and stay dinner.

[Exeunt. ]

Act V.

Scene I. Mantua. A Street.

[Enter Romeo. ]

Romeo.

If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand;

My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;

And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit

Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead, --

Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think! --

And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips,

That I reviv'd, and was an emperor.

Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,

When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!

[Enter Balthasar. ]

News from Verona! --How now, Balthasar?

Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?

How doth my lady? Is my father well?

How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;

For nothing can be ill if she be well.

Balthasar.

Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:

Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,

And her immortal part with angels lives.

I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,

And presently took post to tell it you:

O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,

Since you did leave it for my office, sir.

Romeo.

Is it even so? then I defy you, stars! --

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

And hire post-horses. I will hence to-night.

Balthasar.

I do beseech you, sir, have patience:

Your looks are pale and wild, and do import

Some misadventure.

Romeo.

Tush, thou art deceiv'd:

Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.

Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?

Balthasar.

No, my good lord.

Romeo.

No matter: get thee gone,

And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.

[Exit Balthasar. ]

Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.

Let's see for means; --O mischief, thou art swift

To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

I do remember an apothecary, --

And hereabouts he dwells, --which late I noted

In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,

Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;

And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,

An alligator stuff'd, and other skins

Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves

A beggarly account of empty boxes,

Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,

Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses,

Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.

Noting this penury, to myself I said,

An if a man did need a poison now,

Whose sale is present death in Mantua,

Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.

O, this same thought did but forerun my need;

And this same needy man must sell it me.

As I remember, this should be the house:

Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. --

What, ho! apothecary!

[Enter Apothecary. ]

Apothecary.

Who calls so loud?

Romeo.

Come hither, man. --I see that thou art poor;

Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have

A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear

As will disperse itself through all the veins

That the life-weary taker mall fall dead;

And that the trunk may be discharg'd of breath

As violently as hasty powder fir'd

Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.

Apothecary.

Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law

Is death to any he that utters them.

Romeo.

Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness

And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,

Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,

Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back,

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law:

The world affords no law to make thee rich;

Then be not poor, but break it and take this.

Apothecary.

My poverty, but not my will consents.

Romeo.

I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

Apothecary.

Put this in any liquid thing you will,

And drink it off; and, if you had the strength

Of twenty men, it would despatch you straight.

Romeo.

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

Doing more murders in this loathsome world

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:

I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.

Farewell: buy food and get thyself in flesh. --

Come, cordial and not poison, go with me

To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

[Exeunt. ]

Scene II. Friar Lawrence's Cell.

[Enter Friar John. ]

Friar John.

Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!

[Enter Friar Lawrence. ]

Friar Lawrence.

This same should be the voice of Friar John.

Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?

Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.

Friar John.

Going to find a barefoot brother out,

One of our order, to associate me,

Here in this city visiting the sick,

And finding him, the searchers of the town,

Suspecting that we both were in a house

Where the infectious pestilence did reign,

Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;

So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.

Friar Lawrence.

Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?

Friar John.

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

Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,

So fearful were they of infection.

Friar Lawrence.

Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,

The letter was not nice, but full of charge

Of dear import; and the neglecting it

May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;

Get me an iron crow and bring it straight

Unto my cell.

Friar John.

Brother, I'll go and bring it thee.

[Exit. ]

Friar Lawrence.

Now must I to the monument alone;

Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake:

She will beshrew me much that Romeo

Hath had no notice of these accidents;

But I will write again to Mantua,

And keep her at my cell till Romeo come; --

Poor living corse, clos'd in a dead man's tomb!

[Exit. ]

Scene III. A churchyard; in it a Monument belonging to the

Capulets.

[Enter Paris, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch. ]

Paris.

Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof; --

Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.

Under yond yew tree lay thee all along,

Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;

So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread, --

Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves, --

But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,

As signal that thou hear'st something approach.

Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.

Page.

[Aside. ] I am almost afraid to stand alone

Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.

[Retires. ]

Paris.

Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew:

O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones!

Which with sweet water nightly I will dew;

Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:

The obsequies that I for thee will keep,

Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.

[The Page whistles. ]

The boy gives warning something doth approach.

What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,

To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?

What, with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.

[Retires. ]

[Enter Romeo and Balthasar with a torch, mattock, & c. ]

Romeo.

Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.

Hold, take this letter; early in the morning

See thou deliver it to my lord and father.

Give me the light; upon thy life I charge thee,

Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof

And do not interrupt me in my course.

Why I descend into this bed of death

Is partly to behold my lady's face,

But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger

A precious ring, --a ring that I must use

In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone: --

But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry

In what I further shall intend to do,

By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint,

And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:

The time and my intents are savage-wild;

More fierce and more inexorable far

Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

Balthasar.

I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.

Romeo.

So shalt thou show me friendship. --Take thou that:

Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.

Balthasar.

For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:

His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.

[Retires. ]

Romeo.

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,

Gorg'd with the dearest morsel of the earth,

Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,

[Breaking open the door of the monument. ]

And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!

Paris.

This is that banish'd haughty Montague

That murder'd my love's cousin, --with which grief,

It is supposed, the fair creature died, --

And here is come to do some villanous shame

To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him. --

[Advances. ]

Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!

Can vengeance be pursu'd further than death?

Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee;

Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.

Romeo.

I must indeed; and therefore came I hither. --

Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;

Fly hence and leave me: --think upon these gone;

Let them affright thee. --I beseech thee, youth,

Put not another sin upon my head

By urging me to fury: O, be gone!

By heaven, I love thee better than myself;

For I come hither arm'd against myself:

Stay not, be gone; --live, and hereafter say,

A madman's mercy bid thee run away.

Paris.

I do defy thy conjurations,

And apprehend thee for a felon here.

Romeo.

Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!

[They fight. ]

Page.

O lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

[Exit. ]

Paris.

O, I am slain! [Falls. ] If thou be merciful,

Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.

[Dies. ]

Romeo.

In faith, I will. --Let me peruse this face: --

Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris! --

What said my man, when my betossed soul

Did not attend him as we rode? I think

He told me Paris should have married Juliet:

Said he not so? or did I dream it so?

Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,

To think it was so? --O, give me thy hand,

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!

I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave; --

A grave? O, no, a lanthorn, slaught'red youth,

For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes

This vault a feasting presence full of light.

Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.

[Laying Paris in the monument. ]

How oft when men are at the point of death

Have they been merry! which their keepers call

A lightning before death: O, how may I

Call this a lightning? --O my love! my wife!

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,

Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:

Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet

Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,

And death's pale flag is not advanced there. --

Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?

O, what more favour can I do to thee

Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain

To sunder his that was thine enemy?

Forgive me, cousin! --Ah, dear Juliet,

Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe

That unsubstantial death is amorous;

And that the lean abhorred monster keeps

Thee here in dark to be his paramour?

For fear of that I still will stay with thee,

And never from this palace of dim night

Depart again: here, here will I remain

With worms that are thy chambermaids: O, here

Will I set up my everlasting rest;

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

From this world-wearied flesh. --Eyes, look your last!

Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you

The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss

A dateless bargain to engrossing death! --

Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!

Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on

The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!

Here's to my love! [Drinks. ]--O true apothecary!

Thy drugs are quick. --Thus with a kiss I die.

[Dies. ]

[Enter, at the other end of the Churchyard, Friar Lawrence, with

a lantern, crow, and spade. ]

Friar.

Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night

Have my old feet stumbled at graves! --Who's there?

Who is it that consorts, so late, the dead?

Balthasar.

Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.

Friar.

Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,

What torch is yond that vainly lends his light

To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,

It burneth in the Capels' monument.

Balthasar.

It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,

One that you love.

Friar.

Who is it?

Balthasar.

Romeo.

Friar.

How long hath he been there?

Balthasar.

Full half an hour.

Friar.

Go with me to the vault.

Balthasar.

I dare not, sir;

My master knows not but I am gone hence;

And fearfully did menace me with death

If I did stay to look on his intents.

Friar.

Stay then; I'll go alone: --fear comes upon me;

O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.

Balthasar.

As I did sleep under this yew tree here,

I dreamt my master and another fought,

And that my master slew him.

Friar.

Romeo! [Advances. ]

Alack, alack! what blood is this which stains

The stony entrance of this sepulchre? --

What mean these masterless and gory swords

To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?

[Enters the monument. ]

Romeo! O, pale! --Who else? what, Paris too?

And steep'd in blood? --Ah, what an unkind hour

Is guilty of this lamentable chance! --The lady stirs.

[Juliet wakes and stirs. ]

Juliet.

O comfortable friar! where is my lord? --

I do remember well where I should be,

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