Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)
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The excellent Tragedie
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¶Be wakde from sleepe. I will hye
¶To free her from that Tombe of miserie.
Exit.
¶
Enter Countie Paris and his Page with flowers
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and sweete Water.
¶Par:Put out the torch, and lye thee all along
¶Vnder this Ew-tree, keeping thine eare close to the hollow
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¶And if thou heare one tread within the Churchyard,
¶Staight giue me notice.
¶Boy:I will my Lord.
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Paris strewes the Tomb with flowers.
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¶Sweete Tombe that in thy circuite dost containe,
¶The perfect modell of eternitie:
¶Faire Iuliet that with Angells dost remaine,
.5Accept this latest fauour at my hands,
¶That liuing honourd thee, and being dead
¶With funerall praises doo adorne thy Tombe.
¶Boy whistles and calls.My Lord.
¶
Enter Romeo and Balthasar, with a torch, a
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a mattocke, and a crow of yron.
Par:
