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Romeo and Juliet (Folio 1, 1623)
The Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet.73
2584I must needs wake her: Madam, Madam, Madam,
2585I, let the Countie take you in your bed,
2586Heele fright you vp yfaith. Will it not be?
2587What drest, and in your clothes, and downe againe?
2588I must needs wake you: Lady, Lady, Lady?
2589Alas, alas, helpe, helpe, my Ladyes dead,
2590Oh weladay, that euer I was borne,
2591Some Aqua-vitae ho, my Lord, my Lady?
2593Nur. O lamentable day.
2594Mo. What is the matter?
2595Nur. Looke, looke, oh heauie day.
2596Mo. O me, O me, my Child, my onely life:
2597Reuiue, looke vp, or I will die with thee:
2598Helpe, helpe, call helpe.
2599Enter Father.
2606Death lies on her like an vntimely frost
2608Nur. O Lamentable day!
2609Mo. O wofull time.
2610Fa. Death that hath tane her hence to make me waile,
2611Ties vp my tongue, and will not let me speake.
2612Enter Frier and the Countie.
2613Fri. Come, is the Bride ready to go to Church?
2614Fa. Ready to go, but neuer to returne.
2615O Sonne, the night before thy wedding day,
2616Hath death laine with thy wife: there she lies,
2618Death is my Sonne in law, death is my Heire,
2619My Daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
2620And leaue him all life liuing, all is deaths.
2625In lasting labour of his Pilgrimage.
2626But one, poore one, one poore and louing Child,
2627But one thing to reioyce and solace in,
2628And cruell death hath catcht it from my sight.
2629Nur. O wo, O wofull, wofull, wofull day,
2631That euer, euer, I did yet behold.
2632O day, O day, O day, O hatefull day,
2634O wofull day, O wofull day.
2637By cruell, cruell thee, quite ouerthrowne:
2638O loue, O life; not life, but loue in death.
2640Vncomfortable time, why cam'st thou now
2641To murther, murther our solemnitie?
2642O Child, O Child; my soule, and not my Child,
2643Dead art thou, alacke my Child is dead,
2644And with my Child, my ioyes are buried.
2647Had part in this faire Maid, now heauen hath all,
2648And all the better is it for the Maid:
2649Your part in her, you could not keepe from death,
2650But heauen keepes his part in eternall life:
2654Aboue the Cloudes, as high as Heauen it selfe?
2655O in this loue, you loue your Child so ill,
2657Shee's not well married, that liues married long,
2661And in her best array beare her to Church:
2662For though some Nature bids all vs lament,
2663Yet Natures teares are Reasons merriment.
2665Turne from their office to blacke Funerall:
2666Our instruments to melancholy Bells,
2670And all things change them to the contrarie.
2671Fri. Sir go you in; and Madam, go with him,
2672And go sir Paris, euery one prepare
2673To follow this faire Coarse vnto her graue:
2674The heauens do lowre vpon you, for some ill:
2676Mu. Faith we may put vp our Pipes and be gone.
2678For well you know, this is a pitifull case.
2680Enter Peter.
2683O, and you will haue me liue, play hearts ease.
2687Mu. Not a dump we, 'tis no time to play now.
2688Pet. You will not then?
2689Mu. No.
2691Mu. What will you giue vs?
2692Pet. No money on my faith, but the gleeke.
2693I will giue you the Minstrell.
2694Mu. Then will I giue you the Seruing creature.
2696on your pate. I will carie no Crochets, Ile Re you, Ile Fa
2697you, do you note me?
2698Mu. And you Re vs, and Fa vs, you Note vs.
26992. M. Pray you put vp your Dagger,
2700And put out your wit.
2701Then haue at you with my wit.
2702Peter. I will drie-beate you with an yron wit,
2703And put vp my yron Dagger.
2704Answere me like men:
2705When griping griefes the heart doth wound, then Mu-
2708what say you Simon Catling?
2714Pet. O I cry you mercy, you are the Singer.
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