Romeo and Juliet (Modern, Quarto 2)

 [Scene 23/V.iii]
3.0.128512805Enter Paris and his Page [carrying a torch and flowers].
3.328522806Paris
 Give me thy torch, boy. Hence, and stand aloof,
3.428532807Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
3.528542808Under yond yew trees lay thee all along,
3.628552809Holding thy ear close to the hollow ground,
3.728562810So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
3.828572811Being loose, unfirm with digging up of graves,
3.928582812But thou shalt hear it. Whistle then to me
3.1028592813As signal that thou hear'st something approach.
3.1128602814Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee; go.
3.11.1[Paris takes flowers. Page moves aside, quenches torch.]
3.1328612815Page
 I am almost afraid to stand alone
3.1428622816Here in the churchyard, yet I will adventure.
3.1528632817Paris
 Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew--
3.15.1[Places flowers on tomb.]
3.1728642818O woe, thy canopy is dust and stones!--
3.1828652819Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
3.1928662820Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans.
3.2028672821The obsequies that I for thee will keep
3.2128682822Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
3.21.128692823Whistle Boy.
3.2328702824The boy gives warning; something doth approach.
3.2428712825What cursed foot wanders this way tonight
3.2528722826To cross my obsequies and true love's right?
3.2628732827What, with a torch? Muffle me, night, awhile.
3.26.1[Paris withdraws from sight.]
3.26.228742828Enter Romeo and Balthasar [with mattock, iron, and torch].
3.2928752829Romeo
 Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
3.3028762830Hold, take this letter. Early in the morning
3.30.1[Romeo takes mattock and iron, gives Balthasar the letter.]
3.3228772831See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
3.3328782832Give me the light; upon thy life I charge thee,
3.33.1[Balthasar gives Romeo a torch.]
3.3528792833Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof
3.3628802834And do not interrupt me in my course.
3.3728812835Why I descend into this bed of death
3.3828822836Is partly to behold my lady's face,
3.3928832837But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
3.4028842838A precious ring, a ring that I must use
3.4128852839In dear employment. Therefore, hence, be gone!
3.4228862840But if thou jealous dost return to pry
3.4328872841In what I farther shall intend to do,
3.4428882842By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint
3.4528892843And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs.
3.4628902844The time and my intents are savage wild,
3.4728912845More fierce and more inexorable far,
3.4828922846Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
3.4928932847Balthasar
 I will be gone, sir, and not trouble ye.
3.5028942848Romeo
 So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that;
3.5128952849live and be prosperous, and farewell, good fellow.
3.51.1[Gives Balthasar money.]
3.5328962850Balthasar
 [Aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout.
3.5428972851His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.[Hides]
3.5528982852Romeo
 Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
3.5628992853Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
3.5729002854Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open
3.5829012855And in despite I'll cram thee with more food.
3.5929022856Paris
 This is that banished haughty Montague
3.6029032857That murdered my love's cousin, with which grief
3.6129042858It is supposed the fair creature died,
3.6229052859And here is come to do some villainous shame
3.6329062860To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.
3.6429072861Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague.
3.6529082862Can vengeance be pursued further than death?
3.6629092863Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee.
3.6729102864Obey and go with me, for thou must die.
3.6829112865Romeo
 I must indeed, and therefore came I hither.
3.6929122866Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp'rate man.
3.7029132867Fly hence and leave me; think upon these gone.
3.7129142868Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
3.7229152869Put not another sin upon my head
3.7329162870By urging me to fury. O, be gone!
3.7429172871By heaven, I love thee better then myself,
3.7529182872For I come hither armed against myself.
3.7629192873Stay not, begone, live, and hereafter say, 
3.7729202874A madman's mercy bid thee run away.
3.7829212875Paris
 I do defy thy commiseration
3.7929222876And apprehend thee for a felon here.
3.8029232877Romeo
 Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy.
3.80.1[They fight.]
3.8229242878Balthasar
 O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
3.82.1Exit Balthasar.
3.8429252879Paris
 O, I am slain! If thou be merciful,
3.8529262880Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet.
3.85.1[Paris dies.]
3.8729272881Romeo
 In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
3.8829282882Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris,
3.8929292883What said my man, when my betossèd soul
3.9029302884Did not attend him as we rode? I think
3.9129312885He told me Paris should have married Juliet.
3.9229322886Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?
3.9329332887Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
3.9429342888To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
3.9529352889One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.
3.9629362890I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
3.9729372891A grave? O, no. A lantern, slaughtered youth.
3.97.1[Romeo opens the tomb and enters to find Juliet lying there, seemingly dead.]
3.9929382892For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
3.10029392893This vault a feasting presence full of light.
3.10129402894Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred.
3.10229412895How oft, when men are at the point of death,
3.10329422896Have they been merry, which their keepers call
3.10429432897A light'ning before death? O, how may I
3.10529442898Call this a light'ning? O, my love, my wife!
3.10629452899Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
3.10729462900Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
3.10829472901Thou art not conquered; beauty's ensign yet
3.10929482902Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
3.11029492903And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
3.11129502904Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
3.11229512905O, what more favor can I do to thee
3.11329522906Than, with that hand that cut thy youth in twain,
3.11429532907To sunder his that was thine enemy?
3.11529542908Forgive me, cousin. Ah, dear Juliet,
3.11629552909Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
3.11729562910That unsubstantial death is amorous,
3.11829572911And that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps
3.11929582912Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
3.12029592913For fear of that I still will stay with thee,
3.12129602914And never from this palace of dim night
3.12229612915Depart again. Here, here, will I remain
3.12329662920With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here
3.12429672921Will I set up my everlasting rest
3.12529682922And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
3.12629692923From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last.
3.12729702924Arms, take your last embrace. And lips, O you
3.12829712925The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
3.12929722926A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
3.129.1[Kisses Juliet.]
3.13129732927Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide,
3.13229742928Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
3.13329752929The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark.
3.13429762930Here's to my love! O true Apothecary!
3.134.1[Drinks poison.]
3.13629772931Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
3.136.1[Romeo dies.]
3.136.229782932[Outside the tomb] Enter Friar with lantern, crow, 2933and spade.
3.13929792934Friar Laurence
 Saint Francis be my speed! How oft tonight
3.14029802935Have my old feet stumbled at graves? Who's there?
3.14129812936Balthasar
 [Reveals himself]Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
3.14229822937Friar Laurence
 Bliss be upon you. Tell me, good my friend
3.14329832938What torch is yond that vainly lends his light
3.14429842939To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern,
3.14529852940It burneth in the Capels' monument.
3.14629862941Balthasar
 It doth so, holy sir, and there's my master, one that you love.
3.14729882942Friar Laurence
 Who is it?
3.14829892943Balthasar
 Romeo.
3.14929902944Friar Laurence
 How long hath he been there?
3.15029912945Balthasar
 Full half an hour.
3.15129922946Friar Laurence
 Go with me to the vault.
3.15229932947Balthasar
 I dare not, sir.
3.15329942948My master knows not but I am gone hence
3.15429952949And fearfully did menace me with death
3.15529962950If I did stay to look on his intents.
3.15629972951Friar Laurence
 Stay then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me.
3.15729982952O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing.
3.15829992953Balthasar
 As I did sleep under this yew tree here,
3.15930002954I dreamt my master and another fought
3.16030012955And that my master slew him.[Exit Balthasar]
3.16130022956Friar Laurence
 [Enters tomb]Romeo.
3.16230032957Alack, alack! What blood is this which stains
3.16330042958The stony entrance of the sepulchre?
3.16430052959What mean these masterless and gory swords
3.16530062960To lie discolored by this place of peace?
3.16630072961Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?
3.16730082962And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
3.16830092963Is guilty of this lamentable chance?
3.16930102964The lady stirs.[Juliet wakes up.]
3.17030112965Juliet
 O comfortable Friar, where is my lord?
3.17130122966I do remember well where I should be,
3.17230132967And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
3.17330142968Friar Laurence
 I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
3.17430152969Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.
3.17530162970A greater power than we can contradict
3.17630172971Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
3.17730182972Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead,
3.17830192973And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
3.17930202974Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.
3.18030212975Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.
3.18130222976Come, go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay.
3.181.12977Exit.
3.18330232978Juliet
 Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
3.18430242979What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand?
3.18530252980Poison I see hath been his timeless end.
3.18630262981O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop
3.18730272982To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
3.18830282983Haply some poison yet doth hang on them
3.18930292984To make me die with a restorative.
3.189.1[Kisses Romeo.]
3.19130302985Thy lips are warm.
3.191.130312986Enter Boy and Watch.
3.19330322987Chief Watchman
 [Outside tomb]Lead, boy. Which way?
3.19430332988Juliet
 Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger,
3.19530352989This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.
3.195.1[Juliet stabs herself and dies.]
3.19730362990Page
 [Outside tomb]This is the place there where the torch doth burn.
3.19830382991Chief Watchman
 The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard.
3.19930402992Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.
3.199.1[Exit one or two Watchmen.]
3.20130412993[Enters tomb]Pitiful sight! Here lies the County slain
3.20230422994And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
3.20330432995Who here hath lain this two days buried.
3.20430442996Go tell the Prince; run to the Capulets;
3.20530452997Raise up the Montagues; some others search.
3.205.1[Exit one or two Watchmen.]
3.20730462998We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,
3.20830472999But the true ground of all these piteous woes
3.20930483000We cannot without circumstance descry.
3.209.130493001Enter Romeo's man.[Watchman enters, with Balthasar in custody.]
3.211305030022 Watch
 Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.
3.21230523003Chief Watchman
 Hold him in safety till the Prince come hither.
3.212.130533004Enter Friar and another Watchman.
3.214305430053 Watchman
 Here is a friar that trembles, sighs, and weeps.
3.21530553006We took this mattock and this spade from him
3.21630563007As he was coming from this churchyard's side.
3.21730573008Chief Watchman
 A great suspicion. Stay the friar too.
3.217.130583009Enter the Prince.
3.21930593010Prince
 What misadventure is so early up
3.22030603011That calls our person from our morning rest?
3.220.130613012Enter Capels.
3.22230623013Capulet
 What should it be that is so shrieked abroad?
3.22330633014Capulet's Wife
 O, the people in the street cry "Romeo,"
3.22430643015Some "Juliet," and some "Paris," and all run
3.22530653016With open outcry toward our monument.
3.22630663017Prince
 What fear is this which startles in your ears?
3.22730673018Chief Watchman
 Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain,
3.22830683019And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before,
3.22930693020Warm and new killed.
3.23030703021Prince
 Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
3.23130723022Chief Watchman
 Here is a friar, and slaughtered Romeo's man,
3.23230733023With instruments upon them fit to open
3.23330743024These dead men's tombs.
3.23430763026Capulet
 [Looks inside tomb]O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
3.23530773027This dagger hath mista'en, for lo his house
3.23630783028Is empty on the back of Montague,
3.23730793029And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom.
3.23830803030Capulet's Wife
 O me, this sight of death is as a bell
3.23930813031That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
3.239.130823032Enter Montague.
3.24130833033Prince
 Come, Montague, for thou art early up
3.24230843034To see thy son and heir, now early down.
3.24330853035Montague
 Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight.
3.24430863036Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath.
3.24530873037What further woe conspires against mine age?
3.24630883038Prince
 Look and thou shalt see.
3.24730893039Montague
 [Looks inside tomb]O thou untaught, what manners is in this,
3.24830903040To press before thy father to a grave?
3.24930913041Prince
 Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
3.249.1[Watchman may seal up tomb.]
3.25130923042Till we can clear these ambiguities
3.25230933043And know their spring, their head, their true descent,
3.25330943044And then will I be general of your woes
3.25430953045And lead you even to death. Meantime, forbear,
3.25530963046And let mischance be slave to patience.
3.25630973047Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
3.25730983048Friar Laurence
 I am the greatest, able to do least,
3.25830993049Yet most suspected, as the time and place
3.25931003050Doth make against me, of this direful murder,
3.26031013051And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
3.26131023052Myself condemnèd and myself excused.
3.26231033053Prince
 Then say at once what thou dost know in this?
3.26331043054Friar Laurence
 I will be brief, for my short date of breath
3.26431053055Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
3.26531063056Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
3.26631073057And she, there dead, that's Romeo's faithful wife.
3.26731083058I married them, and their stol'n marriage day
3.26831093059Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death
3.26931103060Banished the new-made bridegroom from this city,
3.27031113061For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
3.27131123062You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
3.27231133063Betrothed and would have married her perforce
3.27331143064To County Paris. Then comes she to me
3.27431153065And with wild looks bid me devise some mean
3.27531163066To rid her from this second marriage
3.27631173067Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
3.27731183068Then gave I her (so tutored by my art)
3.27831193069A sleeping potion, which so took effect
3.27931203070As I intended, for it wrought on her
3.28031213071The form of death. Meantime I writ to Romeo
3.28131223072That he should hither come as this dire night
3.28231233073To help to take her from her borrowed grave,
3.28331243074Being the time the potion's force should cease.
3.28431253075But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
3.28531263076Was stayed by accident, and yesternight
3.28631273077Returned my letter back. Then, all alone
3.28731283078At the prefixèd hour of her waking,
3.28831293079Came I to take her from her kindred's vault,
3.28931303080Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,
3.29031313081Till I conveniently could send to Romeo.
3.29131323082But when I came, some minute ere the time
3.29231333083Of her awakening, here untimely lay
3.29331343084The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
3.29431353085She wakes, and I entreated her come forth
3.29531363086And bear this work of heaven with patience.
3.29631373087But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
3.29731383088And she too desperate would not go with me,
3.29831393089But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
3.29931403090All this I know, and to the marriage her Nurse is privy,
3.30031413091And if aught in this miscarried by my fault,
3.30131423092Let my old life be sacrificed some hour before his time,
3.30231433093Unto the rigor of severest law.
3.30331443094Prince
 We still have known thee for a holy man.--
3.30431453095Where's Romeo's man? What can he say to this?
3.30531463096Balthasar
 I brought my master news of Juliet's death,
3.30631473097And then in post he came from Mantua
3.30731483098To this same place, to this same monument.
3.30831493099This letter he early bid me give his father
3.308.1[Shows letter.]
3.31031503100And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
3.31131513101If I departed not and left him there.
3.31231523102Prince
 Give me the letter; I will look on it.
3.312.1[Takes letter.]
3.31431533103Where is the County's page that raised the watch?
3.314.1[Page comes forward.]
3.31631543104Sirrah, what made your master in this place?
3.31731553105Page
 He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave
3.31831563106And bid me stand aloof, and so I did.
3.31931573107Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb,
3.32031583108And by and by my master drew on him,
3.32131593109And then I ran away to call the watch.
3.321.1[Prince reads letter.]
3.32331603110Prince
 This letter doth make good the Friar's words,
3.32431613111Their course of love, the tidings of her death,
3.32531623112And here he writes that he did buy a poison
3.32631633113Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal,
3.32731643114Came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet.
3.32831653115Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague? 
 See 
3.32931663116See what a scourge is laid upon your hate?
3.33031673117That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love,
3.33131683118And I, for winking at your discords, too,
3.33231693119Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.
3.33331703120Capulet
 O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
3.333.1[Capulet and Montague shake hands.]
3.33531713121This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
3.33631723122Can I demand.
3.33731733123Montague
 But I can give thee more,
3.33831743124For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
3.33931753125That whiles Verona by that name is known,
3.34031763126There shall no figure at such rate be set,
3.34131773127As that of true and faithful Juliet.
3.34231783128Capulet
 As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie,
3.34331793129Poor sacrifices of our enmity.
3.34431803130Prince
 A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
3.34531813131The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
3.34631823132Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
3.34731833133Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.
3.34831843134For never was a story of more woe
3.34931853135Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
3.35031863136FINIS.
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