1006764Frier: The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning (night,

1007765Checkring the Easterne 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 must vp fill this oasier 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,

1023775But to the earth some speciall good doth giue:

1024776Nor nought so good,but straind from that faire vse,

1025777Reuolts to vice and stumbles on abuse:

1026778Vertue it selfe turnes vice being misapplied,

1027779And vice sometimes by action dignified.

1029780Within the infant rinde of this small flower,

1030781Poyson hath residence,and medecine power:

1031782For this being smelt too, with that part cheares ech hart,

1032783Being tafted slaies all sences with the hart.

1033784Two such opposed foes incampe them still,

1034785In man as well as herbes,grace and rude will,

1035786And where the worser is predominant,

1036787Full soone the canker death eats vp that plant.

1037788Rom: Good morrow to my Ghostly Confessor.

1039789Fri: Benedicite, what earlie tongue so soone saluteth (me?

1040790Yong sonne it argues a distempered 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 vnbrused youth with vnstuft braines

1045795Doth couch his limmes, there golden sleepe remaines:

1046796Therefore thy earlines doth me assure,

1047797Thou art vprows'd by some distemperature.

1048798Or if not so, then here I hit it righ

1049799Our Romeo hath not bin a bed to night.

1050800Ro: The last was true, the sweeter rest was mine.

1051801Fr: God pardon sin, wert thou with Rosaline?

1052802Ro: With Rosaline my Ghostly father no,

1053803I haue forgot that name,and that names woe.

1054804Fri: Thats my good sonne: but where hast thou bin(then?

1055805Ro: I tell thee ere thou aske it me againe,

1056806I haue bin feasting with mine enemie:

1057807Where on the sodaine one hath wounded mee

1058808Thats by me wounded, both our remedies

1059809With in thy help and holy phisicke lies,

1060810I beare no hatred blessed man : for loe

1061811My intercession likewise steades my foe.

1062812Frier: Be plaine my sonne and homely in thy drift,

1063813Ridling confession 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 likewise on mine,

1067817And all combind, saue what thou must 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 passe: But this I pray,

1071821That thou consent to marrie vs to day.

1072822Fri: Holy S.Francis, what a change is here?

1073823Is Rosaline whome thou didst loue so deare

1074824So soone forsooke, lo yong mens loue then lies

1075825Not truelie in their harts, but in their eyes.

1076826Iesu Maria, what a deale of brine

1077827Hath washt thy sallow cheekes for Rosaline?

1078828How much salt water cast away in waste,

1079829To season loue, that of loue doth not taste.

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 washt off yet.

1084834If euer thou wert thus, and these woes thine,

1085835Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline,

1086836And art thou changde, pronounce this sentence then

1087837Women may fal, when ther's no strength in men.

1088838Rom: Thou chidst me oft for louing Rosaline.

1089839Fr: For doating, not for louing, pupill mine.

1090840Rom: And badst me burie loue.

1091841Fr: Not in a graue,

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:

1095845The other did not so.

1096846Fr: Oh she knew well

1097847Thy loue did read by rote, and could not spell,

1098848But come yong Wauerer, come goe with mee,

1099849In one respect Ile thy assistant bee:

1100850For this alliaunce may so happie proue,

1101851To turne your Housholds rancour to pure loue. Exeunt.