1006764Frier: The gray ey'd morne
smiles on the frowning (night,
1007765Checkring the Ea
sterne clouds with
streakes of light,
1008766And
flecked darkenes like a drunkard reeles,
1009767From forth daies path, and
Titans fierie wheeles:
1010768Now ere the Sunne aduance his burning eye,
1011769The world to cheare, and nights darke dew to drie
1012770We mu
st vp
fill this oa
sier Cage of ours,
1013771With balefull weeds, and precious iuyced
flowers.
1020772Oh mickle is the powerfull grace that lies
1021773In hearbes, plants,
stones, and their true qualities:
1022774For nought
so vile, that vile on earth doth liue,
But
of Romeo and Iuliet.
1023775But to the earth
some
speciall good doth giue:
1024776Nor nought
so good,but
straind from that faire v
se,
1025777Reuolts to vice and
stumbles on abu
se:
1026778Vertue it
selfe turnes vice being mi
sapplied,
1027779And vice
sometimes by a
ction digni
fied.
1029780Within the infant rinde of this
small
flower,
1030781Poy
son hath re
sidence,and medecine power:
1031782For this being
smelt too, with that part cheares ech hart,
1032783Being tafted
slaies all
sences with the hart.
1033784Two
such oppo
sed foes incampe them
still,
1034785In man as well as herbes,grace and rude will,
1035786And where the wor
ser is predominant,
1036787Full
soone the canker death eats vp that plant.
1037788Rom: Good morrow to my Gho
stly Confe
ssor.
1039789Fri: Benedicite, what earlie tongue
so
soone
saluteth (me?
1040790Yong
sonne it argues a di
stempered head,
1041791So
soone to bid good morrow to my bed.
1042792Care keepes his watch in euerie old mans eye,
1043793And where care lodgeth,
sleep can neuer lie:
1044794But where vnbru
sed youth with vn
stuft braines
1045795Doth couch his limmes, there golden
sleepe remaines:
1046796Therefore thy earlines doth me a
ssure,
1047797Thou art vprows'd by
some di
stemperature.
1048798Or if not
so, then here I hit it righ
1049799Our R
omeo hath not bin a bed to night.
1050800Ro: The la
st was true, the
sweeter re
st was mine.
1051801Fr: God pardon
sin, wert thou with R
osaline? 1052802Ro: With R
osaline my Gho
stly father no,
1053803I haue forgot that name,and that names woe.
1054804Fri: Thats my good
sonne: but where ha
st thou bin(then?
1055805Ro: I tell thee ere thou aske it me againe,
1056806I haue bin fea
sting with mine enemie:
Where
The most excellent Tragedie,
1057807Where on the
sodaine one hath wounded mee
1058808Thats by me wounded, both our remedies
1059809With in thy help and holy phi
sicke lies,
1060810I beare no hatred ble
ssed man : for loe
1061811My interce
ssion likewi
se
steades my foe.
1062812Frier: Be plaine my
sonne and homely in thy drift,
1063813Ridling confe
ssion
findes but ridling
shrift.
1064814Rom: Then plainely know my harts deare loue is
set
1065815On the faire daughter of rich
Capulet: 1066816As mine on hers,
so hers likewi
se on mine,
1067817And all combind,
saue what thou mu
st combine
1068818By holy marriage: where,and when,and how,
1069819We met, we woo'd,and made exchange of vowes,
1070820Il'e tell thee as I pa
sse: But this I pray,
1071821That thou con
sent to marrie vs to day.
1072822Fri: Holy
S.Francis, what a change is here?
1073823Is R
osaline whome thou did
st loue
so deare
1074824So
soone for
sooke, lo yong mens loue then lies
1075825Not truelie in their harts, but in their eyes.
1076826Iesu Maria, what a deale of brine
1077827Hath wa
sht thy
sallow cheekes for R
osaline? 1078828How much
salt water ca
st away in wa
ste,
1079829To
sea
son loue, that of loue doth not ta
ste.
1080830The
sunne not yet thy
sighes from heauen cleares,
1081831Thy old grones ring yet in my ancient eares,
1082832And loe vpon thy cheeke the
staine doth
sit,
1083833Of an old teare that is not wa
sht o
ff yet.
1084834If euer thou wert thus, and the
se woes thine,
1085835Thou and the
se woes were all for R
osaline, 1086836And art thou changde, pronounce this
sentence then
1087837Women may fal, when ther's no
strength in men.
1088838Rom: Thou chid
st me oft for louing R
osaline. Frier:
of Romeo and Iuliet.
1089839Fr: For doating, not for louing, pupill mine.
1090840Rom: And bad
st me burie loue.
1092842To lay one in another out to haue.
1093843Rom: I pree thee chide not,
she whom I loue now
1094844Doth grace for grace, and loue for loue allow:
1097847Thy loue did read by rote, and could not
spell,
1098848But come yong Wauerer, come goe with mee,
1099849In one re
spe
ct Ile thy a
ssi
stant bee:
1100850For this alliaunce may
so happie proue,
1101851To turne your Hou
sholds rancour to pure loue.
Exeunt.