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Romeo and Juliet (Folio 1, 1623)
2851Enter Paris and his Page.
2853Yet put it out, for I would not be seene:
2854Vnder yond young Trees lay thee all along,
2855Holding thy eare close to the hollow ground,
2856So shall no foot vpon the Churchyard tread,
2862Here in the Churchyard, yet I will aduenture.
2865Which with sweet water nightly I will dewe,
2866Or wanting that, with teares destil'd by mones;
2867The obsequies that I for thee will keepe,
2869 Whistle Boy.
2870The Boy giues warning, something doth approach,
2871What cursed foot wanders this wayes to night,
2873What with a Torch? Muffle me night a while.
2874Enter Romeo, and Peter.
2875Rom. Giue me that Mattocke, & the wrenching Iron,
2876Hold take this Letter, early in the morning
2877See thou deliuer it to my Lord and Father,
2878Giue me the light; vpon thy life I charge thee,
2880And do not interrupt me in my course.
2881Why I descend into this bed of death,
2882Is partly to behold my Ladies face:
2885In deare employment, therefore hence be gone:
2886But if thou iealous dost returne to prie
2887In what I further shall intend to do,
2888By heauen I will teare thee ioynt by ioynt,
2889And strew this hungry Churchyard with thy limbs:
2890The time, and my intents are sauage wilde:
2891More fierce and more inexorable farre,
2892Then emptie Tygers, or the roaring Sea.
2895Liue and be prosperous, and farewell good fellow.
2897His lookes I feare, and his intents I doubt.
2900Thus I enforce thy rotten Iawes to open,
2901And in despight, Ile cram thee with more food.
2903That murdred my Loues Cozin; with which griefe,
2906To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.
2907Stop thy vnhallowed toyle, vile Mountague:
2908Can vengeance be pursued further then death?
2909Condemned vallaine, I do apprehend thee.
2910Obey and go with me, for thou must die,
2912Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man,
2913Flie hence and leaue me, thinke vpon those gone,
2915Put not an other sin vpon my head,
2916By vrging me to furie. O be gone,
2917By heauen I loue thee better then my selfe,
2919Stay not, be gone, liue, and hereafter say,
2920A mad mans mercy bid thee run away.
2922And apprehend thee for a Fellon here.
2923Ro. Wilt thou prouoke me? Then haue at thee Boy.
2926Open the Tombe, lay me with Iuliet.
2928Mercutius kinsman, Noble Countie Paris,
2930Did not attend him as we rode? I thinke
2931He told me Paris should haue married Iuliet.
2933Or am I mad, hearing him talke of Iuliet,
2934To thinke it was so? O giue me thy hand,
2936Ile burie thee in a triumphant graue.
2937A Graue; O no, a Lanthorne; slaughtred Youth:
2938For here lies Iuliet, and her beautie makes
2940Death lie thou there, by a dead man inter'd.
2941How oft when men are at the point of death,
2942Haue they beene merrie? Which their Keepers call
2943A lightning before death? Oh how may I
2944Call this a lightning? O my Loue, my Wife,
2945Death that hath suckt the honey of thy breath,
2946Hath had no power yet vpon thy Beautie:
2947Thou are not conquer'd: Beauties ensigne yet
2948Is Crymson in thy lips, and in thy cheekes,
2949And Deaths pale flag is not aduanced there.
2951O what more fauour can I do to thee,
2952Then with that hand that cut thy youth in twaine,
2953To sunder his that was thy enemie?
2954Forgiue me Cozen. Ah deare Iuliet:
2955Why art thou yet so faire? I will beleeue,
2957And that the leane abhorred Monster keepes
2958Thee here in darke to be his Paramour?
2960And neuer from this Pallace of dym night
2961Depart againe: come lie thou in my armes,
2962Heere's to thy health, where ere thou tumblest in.
2963O true Appothecarie!
2964Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kisse I die.
2965Depart againe; here, here will I remaine,
2966With Wormes that are thy Chambermaides: O here
2970Armes take your last embrace: And lips, O you
2974Thou desperate Pilot, now at once run on
2976Heere's to my Loue. O true Appothecary:
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2977Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kisse I die.
2978Enter Frier with Lanthorne, Crow, and Spade.
2980Haue my old feet stumbled at graues? Who's there?
2981Man. Here's one, a Friend, & one that knowes you well.
2983What Torch is yond that vainely lends his light
2985It burneth in the Capels Monument.
2987And there's my Master, one that you loue.
2988Fri. Who is it?
2989Man. Romeo.
2990Fri. How long hath he bin there?
2991Man. Full halfe an houre.
2992Fri. Go with me to the Vault.
2993Man. I dare not Sir.
2994My Master knowes not but I am gone hence,
2995And fearefully did menace me with death,
2996If I did stay to looke on his entents.
2997Fri. Stay, then Ile go alone, feares comes vpon me.
2998O much I feare some ill vnluckie thing.
3000I dreamt my maister and another fought,
3002Fri. Romeo.
3003Alacke, alacke, what blood is this which staines
3004The stony entrance of this Sepulcher?
3006To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
3007Romeo, oh pale: who else? what Paris too?
3008And steept in blood? Ah what an vn knd houre
3009Is guiltie of this lamentable chance?
3010The Lady stirs.
3011Iul. O comfortable Frier, where's my Lord?
3012I do remember well where I should be:
3013And there I am, where is my Romeo?
3015Of death, contagion, and vnnaturall sleepe,
3016A greater power then we can contradict
3017Hath thwarted our entents, come, come away,
3020Among a Sisterhood of holy Nunnes:
3021Stay not to question, for the watch is comming.
3023Iul. Go get thee hence, for I will notuaway,
3024What's here? A cup clos'd in my true lo:es hand?
3026O churle, drinke all? and left no friendly drop,
3027To helpe me after, I will kisse thy lips,
3029To make me die wth a restoratiue.
3030Thy lips are warme.
3031Enter Boy and Watch.
3032Watch. Lead Boy, which way?
3034Then ile be briefe. O happy Dagger.
3036Boy. This is the place,
3037There where the Torch doth burne
3038Watch. The ground is bloody,
3039Search about the Churchyard.
3042And Iuliett bleeding, warme and newly dead
3043Who here hath laine these two dayes buried.
3044Go tell the Prince, runne to the Capulets,
3047But the true ground of all these piteous woes,
3049Enter Romeo's man.
3050Watch. Here's Romeo'r man,
3051We found him in the Churchyard.
3053Enter Frier, and another Watchman.
3055We tooke this Mattocke and this Spade from him,
3056As he was comming from this Church-yard side.
3058Enter the Prince.
3061Enter Capulet and his Wife.
3064Some Iuliet, and some Paris, and all runne
3065With open outcry toward out Monument.
3068And Romeo dead, and Iuliet dead before,
3069Warme and new kil'd.
3070Prin. Search,
3071Seeke, and know how, this foule murder comes.
3072Wat. Here is a Frier, and Slaughter'd Romeos man,
3074These dead mens Tombes.
3075Cap. O heauen!
3076O wife looke how our Daughter bleedes!
3078Is empty on the backe of Mountague,
3081That warnes my old age to a Sepulcher.
3082Enter Mountague.
3083Pri. Come Mountague, for thou art early vp
3084To see thy Sonne and Heire, now early downe.
3085Moun. Alas my liege, my wife is dead to night,
3086Griefe of my Sonnes exile hath stopt her breath:
3089Moun. O thou vntaught, what manners in is this,
3090To presse before thy Father to a graue?
3091Prin. Seale vp the mouth of outrage for a while,
3092Till we can cleare these ambiguities,
3094And then will I be generall of your woes,
3095And lead you euen to death? meane time forbeare,
3100Doth make against me of this direfull murther:
3101And heere I stand both to impeach and purge
3105Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
3106Romeo there dead, was husband to that Iuliet,
3107And she there dead, that's Romeos faithfull wife:
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3108I married them; and their stolne marriage day
3110Banish'd the new-made Bridegroome from this Citie:
3111For whom (and not for Tybalt) Iuliet pinde.
3112You, to remoue that siege of Greefe from her,
3113Betroth'd, and would haue married her perforce
3114To Countie Paris. Then comes she to me,
3116To rid her from this second Marriage,
3118Then gaue I her (so Tutor'd by my Art)
3120As I intended, for it wrought on her
3121The forme of death. Meane time, I writ to Romeo,
3122That he should hither come, as this dyre night,
3123To helpe to take her from her borrowed graue,
3125But he which bore my Letter, Frier Iohn,
3127Return'd my Letter backe. Then all alone,
3128At the prefixed houre of her waking,
3129Came I to take her from her Kindreds vault,
3130Meaning to keepe her closely at my Cell,
3131Till I conueniently could send to Romeo.
3132But when I came (some Minute ere the time
3133Of her awaking) heere vntimely lay
3134The Noble Paris, and true Romeo dead.
3135Shee wakes, and I intreated her come foorth,
3136And beare this worke of Heauen, with patience:
3140All this I know, and to the Marriage her Nurse is priuy:
3141And if ought in this miscarried by my fault,
3145Where's Romeo's man? What can he say to this?
3147And then in poste he came from Mantua
3149This Letter he early bid me giue his Father,
3150And threatned me with death, going in the Vault,
3151If I departed not, and left him there.
3152Prin. Giue me the Letter, I will look on it.
3153Where is the Counties Page that rais'd the Watch?
3154Sirra, what made your Master in this place?
3157Anon comes one with light to ope the Tombe,
3158And by and by my Maister drew on him,
3159And then I ran away to call the Watch.
3160Prin. This Letter doth make good the Friers words,
3161Their course of Loue, the tydings of her death:
3162And heere he writes, that he did buy a poyson
3163Of a poore Pothecarie, and therewithall
3164Came to this Vault to dye, and lye with Iuliet.
3165Where be these Enemies? Capulet, Mountague,
3166See what a scourge is laide vpon your hate,
3167That Heauen finds meanes to kill your ioyes with Loue;
3168And I, for winking at your discords too,
3170Cap. O Brother Mountague, giue me thy hand,
3171This is my Daughters ioynture, for no more
3172Can I demand.
3173Moun. But I can giue thee more:
3174For I will raise her Statue in pure Gold,
3175That whiles Verona by that name is knowne,
3177As that of True and Faithfull Iuliet.
3180Prin. A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
3184For neuer was a Storie of more Wo,
3185Then this of Iuliet, and her Romeo. Exeunt omnes
3186FINIS.
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