The most lamentable Tragedie
19441906Digre
ssing from the valour of a man,
19451907Thy deare loue
sworne but hollow periurie,
19461908Killing that loue which thou ha
st vowd to cheri
sh,
19471909Thy wit, that ornament, to
shape and loue,
19481910Mi
shapen in the condu
ct of them both:
19491911Like powder in a skille
sse
souldiers
flaske,
19501912Is
set a
fier by thine owne ignorance,
19511913And thou di
smembred with thine owne defence.
19521914What row
se thee man, thy
Iuliet is aliue,
19531915For who
se deare
sake thou wa
st but lately dead.
19541916There art thou happie,
Tybalt would kill thee,
19551917But thou
slewe
st Tibalt, there art thou happie.
19561918The law that threatned death becomes thy friend,
19571919And turnes it to exile, there art thou happie.
19581920A packe of ble
ssings light vpon thy backe,
19591921Happines courts thee in her be
st array,
19601922But like a mi
shaued and
sullen wench,
19611923Thou puts vp thy fortune and thy loue:
19621924Take heede, take heede, for
such die mi
serable.
19631925Go get thee to thy loue as was decreed,
19641926A
scend her chamber, hence and comfort her:
19651927But looke thou
stay not till the watch be
set,
19661928For then thou can
st not pa
sse to
Mantua, 19671929Where thou
shalt liue till we can
find a time
19681930To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
19691931Beg pardon of the Prince and call thee backe,
19701932With twentie hundred thou
sand times more ioy
19711933Then thou went
st forth in lamentation.
19721934Go before Nur
se, commend me to thy Lady,
19731935And bid her ha
sten all the hou
se to bed,
19741936Which heauie
sorrow makes them apt vnto,
19761938Nur. O Lord, I could haue
staid here all the night,
19771939To heare good coun
sell, oh what learning is:
19781940My Lord, ile tell my Lady you will come.
19791941Ro. Do
so, and bid my
sweete prepare to chide.
Nur. Here