Then might'st thou speak, then might'st thou tear thy

hair,

And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
Taking the measure of an unmade grave.

[Knocking within. Fri. Arise! one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself. Rom. Not I; unless the breath of heart-sick groans, Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.

[Knocking. Fri. Hark, how they knock!-Who's there?— Romeo, arise!

Thou wilt be taken.-Stay awhile-Stand up;

[Knocking.

Run to my study.-By and by.-God's will!
What wilfulness is this!-I come, I come.

[Knocking. Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?

Nurse. [Within.] Let me come in, and you shall know my errand;

I come from Lady Juliet.

Fri.

Welcome then.

Enter Nurse.

Nurse. O holy Friar, oh, tell me, holy Friar, Where is my lady's lord? where's Romeo?

Fri. There on the ground, with his own tears made

drunk.

Nurse. Oh! he is even in my mistress' case,

Just in her case!

Fri.

O woful sympathy!

Even so lies she,

Piteous predicament!

Nurse.

Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.—

Stand up, stand up, stand, an you be a man;

For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand.
Why should you fall into so deep an Oh?
Rom. Nurse!

Nurse. Ah sir! ah sir! death is the end of all.

Rom. Speak'st thou of Juliet? how is it with her? Doth she not think me an old murderer, Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy With blood remov'd but little from her own? Where is she? and how doth she? and what says My conceal'd lady to our cancell❜d love?

Nurse. Oh! she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;

And now falls on her bed; and then starts up,
And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,
And then down falls again.

Rom.

As if that name, Shot from the deadly level of a gun,

Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
Murder'd her kinsman.-Oh! tell me, Friar, tell me,
In what vile part of this anatomy

Doth my name lodge. Tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion.

[Drawing his sword.

Fri.
Hold thy desperate hand.
Art thou a man? thy form cries out, thou art;
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast.

Unseemly woman, in a seeming man!
Or ill beseeming beast, in seeming both!
Thou hast amaz'd me; by my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better temper'd.
Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?
And slay thy lady too that lives in thee,
By doing damned hate upon thyself?

Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven and earth?
Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet
In thee at once; which thou at once would'st lose.
Fye, fye! thou sham'st thy shape, thy love, thy wit
Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,

And usest none in that true use indeed
Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit.
Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,
Digressing from the valour of a man;
Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,

Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;
Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
Like powder in a skill-less soldier's flask,
Is set on fire by thine own ignorance,

And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.
What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,
For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;
There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,
But thou slew'st Tybalt; there art thou happy too:
The law, that threaten'd death, becomes thy friend,
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:
A pack of blessings lights upon thy back;
Happiness courts thee in her best array;
But, like a misbehav'd and sullen wench,
Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love.
Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.—
Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
Ascend her chamber; hence and comfort her.
But, look, thou stay not till the watch be set;
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua:
Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time
To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.-
Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady;
And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto;
Romeo is coming.

Nurse. O Lord! I could have staid here all the night,
To hear good counsel. Oh, what learning is!-
My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.

Rom. Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. Nurse. Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir. Hie you, make haste; for it grows very late. [Exit. Rom. How well my comfort is reviv'd by this! Fri. Go hence. Good night! and here stands all your state.

Either be gone before the watch be set,
Or by the break of day disguis'd from hence;
Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,
And he shall signify from time to time
Every good hap to you, that chances here.

Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.
Rom. But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
Farewell!

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV. A Room in Capulet's House.
Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS.

Capulet.

HINGS have fallen out, sir, so unluckily,

TH

That we have had no time to move our daughter. Look you, she lov'd her kinsman Tybalt dearly, And so did I.-Well, we were born to die.'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night; I promise you, but for your company,

I would have been a-bed an hour ago.

Par. These times of woe afford no time to woo. Madam, good-night; commend me to your daughter. La. Cap. I will, and know her mind early to-mor

row;

To-night she's mew'd up to her heaviness.

Cap. Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my child's love. I think, she will be rul'd
In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.
Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;

Acquaint her there 20 of my son Paris' love;

And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next... But, soft; what day is this?

Par.

Monday, my lord.

Cap. Monday? ha! ha! Well, Wednesday is too

soon,

O' Thursday let it be;-o' Thursday, tell her,

She shall be married to this noble earl.—
Will you be ready? do you like this haste?
We'll keep no great ado;-a friend, or two-
For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
It may be thought we held him carelessly,
Being our kinsman, if we revel much;

Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,
And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?
Par. My lord, I would that Thursday were to-

morrow.

Cap. Well, get you gone; o' Thursday be it then. -Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,

Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.—
Farewell, my lord.-Light to my chamber, ho!
Afore me! it is so very late, that we

May call it early by and by.-Good night. [Exeunt.

WIL

SCENE V. Juliet's Chamber.

Enter ROMEO and JULIET.

Juliet.

LT thou be gone? It is not yet near day: It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yond' pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

Rom. It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east;
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund Day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Jul. Yond' light is not daylight, I know it, I :
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua;
Therefore stay yet, thou need'st not to be gone.