A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Ap. Enter Apothecary. need; Who calls so loud? Rom. Come hither, man.-I see, that thou art poor; Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have A dram of poison; such soon-speeding geer Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. Ap. Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law Is death, to any he that utters them. Rom. Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, Upon thy back hangs ragged misery, 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. 'An if a man, &c.] This phraseology which means simplyIf, was not unfrequent in Shakspeare's time and before. Ap. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Doing more murders in this loathsome world, SCENE II. Friar Laurence's Cell. Enter Friar JOHN. [Exeunt. John, Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho! Enter Friar LAURENCE. Lau. 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. John. Going to find a bare-foot brother out, One of our order, to associate me," Here in this city visiting the sick, And finding him, the searchers of the town, 2 One of our order, to associate me,] Each friar has always a companion assigned him by the superior when he asks leave to go out; and thus they are a check upon each other. So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd. 3 Lau. Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood, May do much danger: Friar John, go hence; John. Brother, I'll go and bring't thee. [Exit. And keep her at my cell till Romeo come; SCENE III. [Exit. A Church-Yard; in it, a Monument belonging to the Capulets. Enter PARIS, and his Page, bearing Flowers and a Torch. Par. Give me thy torch, boy: Hence, and stand aloof; - Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. 3. was not nice,] i. e. was not written on a trivial or idle subject. (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. I am almost afraid to stand alone Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure. [Retires. Par. Sweet flower, with flowers I strew thy bri dal bed: Sweet tomb, that in thy circuit dost contain Fair Juliet, that with angels dost remain, The Boy whistles. [Retires Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR with a Torch, Rom. Give me that mattock, and the wrenching iron. Hold, take this letter; early in the morning But, chiefly, to take thence from her dead finger 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, Than empty tigers, or the roaring sea. Bal. I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you. Rom. So shalt thou show me friendship.-Take thou that: Live, and be prosperous; and farewell, good fellow. [Breaking open the Door of the Monument. And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food! Par. 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 villainous shame To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.— [Advances. Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague; Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man, dear employment:] That is, action of importance. Gems were supposed to have great powers and virtues. |