Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)
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of Romeo and Iuliet.
¶On Thursday next be married to the Countie.
¶Twixt my extreames and me, this bloodie Knife
¶Shall play the Vmpeere, arbitrating that
¶Which the Commission of thy yeares and arte
¶Speake not, be briefe: for I desire to die,
¶VVhich craues as desperate an execution,
2365As that is desperate we would preuent.
¶If rather than to marrie Countie Paris
¶Tis not vnlike that thou wilt vndertake
¶A thing like death to chyde away this shame,
¶And if thou doost, Ile giue thee remedie.
¶Iul:Oh bid me leape (rather than marrie Paris)
¶From off the battlements of yonder tower:
2375.1VVhere roaring Beares and sauage Lions are:
2380Or lay me in tombe with one new dead:
¶Things that to heare them namde haue made me tremble;
¶And I will doo it without feare or doubt,
2383.1To my deere Lord, my deerest Romeo.
¶Fr:Hold Iuliet, hie thee home, get thee to bed,
¶Let not thy Nurse lye with thee in thy Chamber:
¶And when thou art alone, take thou this Violl,
¶And this distilled Liquor drinke thou off:
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