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  • Title: Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)
  • Editor: Roger Apfelbaum
  • ISBN: 1-55058-299-2

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    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Roger Apfelbaum
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    Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)

    of Romeo and Iuliet.

    I doo intreate sweete Prince thoult iustice giue,
    1625Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo may not liue.
    Prin: And for that offence
    Immediately we doo exile him hence.
    I have an interest in your hates proceeding,
    My blood for your rude braules doth lye a bleeding.
    1635But Ile amerce you with so large a fine,
    That you shall all repent the losse of mine.
    I will be deafe to pleading and excuses,
    Nor teares nor prayers shall purchase for abuses.
    1638.1Pittie shall dwell and gouerne with vs still:
    Mercie to all but murdrers, pardoning none that kill.
    Exeunt omnes.

    Enter Iuliet.

    1645Iul: Gallop apace you fierie footed steedes
    To Phoebus mansion, such a Waggoner
    As Phaeton, would quickly bring you thether,
    And send in cloudie night immediately.

    Enter Nurse wringing her hands, with the ladder
    of cordes in her lap.
    But how now Nurse: O Lord, why lookst thou sad?
    1680What hast thou there, the cordes?
    Nur: I, I, the cordes: alacke we are vndone,
    We are vndone, Ladie we are vndone.
    Iul: What diuell art thou that torments me thus?
    Nurs: Alack the day, hees dead, hees dead, hees dead.
    Iul: This torture should be roard in dismall hell.
    1693.1Can heauens be so enuious?
    1695Nur: Romeo can if heauens cannot.
    I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,
    God saue the sample, on his manly breast:
    A bloodie coarse, a piteous bloodie coarse,
    All pale as ashes, I swounded at the sight.
    F3 Iul: