22941721Fr:On Thursday say ye: the time is very short,

22951722Par:My Father Capolet will haue it so,

22961723And I am nothing slacke to slow his hast.

22971724Fr:You say you doe not know the Ladies minde?

22981725Vneuen is the course, I like it not.

22991726Par:Immoderately she weepes for Tybalts death,

23001727And therefore haue I little talkt of loue.

23011728For Venus smiles not in a house of teares,

23021729Now Sir, her father thinkes it daungerous:

23031730That she doth giue her sorrow so much sway.

23041731And in his wisedome hasts our mariage,

23051732To stop the inundation of her teares.

23061733Which too much minded by her selfe alone

23071734May be put from her by societie.

23081735Now doe ye know the reason of this hast.

23091736Fr.I would I knew not why it should be slowd.

H2 Enter

23101738Here comes the Lady to my cell,

23121739Par:Welcome my loue, my Lady and my wife:

23131740Iu:That may be sir, when I may be a wife,

23141741Par:That may be, must be loue, on thursday next.

23151742Iu:What must be shalbe.

23161743Fr:Thats a certaine text.

23171744Par:What come ye to confession to this Fryer.

23181745Iu:To tell you that were to confesse to you.

23191746Par:Do not deny to him that you loue me.

23201747Iul:I will confesse to you that I loue him,

23211748Par:So I am sure you will that you loue me.

23221749Iu:And if I doe, it wilbe of more price,

23231750Being spoke behinde your backe, than to your face.

23241751Par:Poore soule thy face is much abus'd with teares.

23251752Iu:The teares haue got small victory by that,

23261753For it was bad enough before their spite.

23271754Par:Thou wrongst it more than teares by that report.

23281755Iu:That is no wrong sir, that is a truth:

23291756And what I spake I spake it to my face.

23301757Par:Thy face is mine and thou hast slaundred it.

23311758Iu:It may be so, for it is not mine owne.

23321759Are you at leasure holy Father now:

23331760Or shall I come to you at euening Masse?

23341761Fr:My leasure serues me pensiue daughter now.

23351762My Lord we must entreate the time alone.

23361763Par:God sheild I should disturbe deuotion,

23381764Iuliet farwell, and keep this holy kisse.

23391766Iu:Goe shut the doore and when thou hast done so,

23401767Come weepe with me that am past cure, past help,

23411768Fr:Ah Iuliet I already know thy griefe,

23431769I heare thou must and nothiug may proroge it,

23441770On Thursday next be married to the Countie.

23451771Iul:Tell me not Frier that thou hearst of it,

23461772Vnlesse thou tell me how we may preuent it.

23561773Giue me some sudden counsell: els behold

23571774Twixt my extreames and me, this bloodie Knife

23581775Shall play the Vmpeere, arbitrating that

23591776Which the Commission of thy yeares and arte

23601777Could to no issue of true honour bring.

23611778Speake not, be briefe: for I desire to die,

23621779If what thou speakst, speake not of remedie.

23631780Fr:Stay Iuliet, I doo spie a kinde of hope,

23641781Which craues as desperate an execution,

23651782As that is desperate we would preuent.

23661783If rather than to marrie Countie Paris

23671784Thou hast the strength or will to slay thy selfe,

23681785Tis not vnlike that thou wilt vndertake

23691786A thing like death to chyde away this shame,

23701787That coapst with death it selfe to flye from blame.

23711788And if thou doost, Ile giue thee remedie.

23721789Iul:Oh bid me leape (rather than marrie Paris)

23731790From off the battlements of yonder tower:

23751791Or chaine me to some steepie mountaines top,

2375.11792Where roaring Beares and sauage Lions are:

23761793Or shut me nightly in a Charnell-house,

23771794With reekie shankes, and yeolow chaples sculls:

23801795Or lay me in tombe with one new dead:

23811796Things that to heare them namde haue made me tremble;

23821797And I will doo it without feare or doubt,

23831798To keep my selfe a faithfull vnstaind Wife

1799To my deere Lord, my deerest Romeo.

23841800Fr:Hold Iuliet, hie thee home, get thee to bed,

23871801Let not thy Nurse lye with thee in thy Chamber:

23881802And when thou art alone, take thou this Violl,

23891803And this distilled Liquor drinke thou off:

23901804When presently through all thy veynes shall run

23911805A dull and heauie slumber, which shall seaze

H3 Each

1806Each vitall spirit: for no Pulse shall keepe

23921807His naturall progresse, but surcease to beate:

23931808No signe of breath shall testifie thou liust.

23991809And in this borrowed likenes of shrunke death,

24001810Thou shalt remaine full two and fortie houres.

24071811And when thou art laid in thy Kindreds Vault,

24191812Ile send in hast to Mantua to thy Lord,

24121813And he shall come and take thee from thy graue.

24221814Iul.Frier I goe, be sure thou send for my deare Romeo.