Romeo and Juliet (Modern, Quarto 2)

 [Scene 10/II.v]
6.0.113921371Enter Friar and Romeo.
6.313931372Friar Laurence
 So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
6.413941373That, after-hours, with sorrow chide us not.
6.513951374Romeo
 Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,
6.613961375It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
6.713971376That one short minute gives me in her sight.
6.813981377Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
6.913991378Then love-devouring death do what he dare.
6.1014001379It is enough I may but call her mine.
6.1114011380Friar Laurence
 These violent delights have violent ends
6.1214021381And in their triumph die like fire and powder,
6.1314031382Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey
6.1414041383Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
6.1514051384And in the taste confounds the appetite.
6.1614061385Therefore love moderately; long love doth so.
6.1714071386Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
6.17.114081387Enter Juliet.
6.1914091388Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot
6.2014101389Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.
6.2114111390A lover may bestride the gossamers
6.2214121391That idles in the wanton summer air
6.2314131392And yet not fall, so light is vanity.
6.2414141393Juliet
 Good even to my ghostly confessor.
6.2514151394Friar Laurence
 Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
6.2614161395Juliet
 As much to him, else is his thanks too much.
6.2714171396Romeo
 Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
6.2814181397Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
6.2914191398To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
6.3014201399This neighbor air, and let rich music's tongue
6.3114211400Unfold the imagined happiness that both
6.3214221401Receive in either by this dear encounter.
6.3314231402Juliet
 Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
6.3414241403Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
6.3514251404They are but beggars that can count their worth,
6.3614261405But my true love is grown to such excess,
6.3714271406I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
6.3814281407Friar Laurence
 Come, come with me, and we will make short work.
6.3914291408For by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
6.4014301409Till holy church incorporate two in one.
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Romeo and Juliet (Modern, Quarto 2)
