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import Foundation
import CoreFoundation

let romeoAndJuliet = [
"Romeo   and   Juliet   ",
"Shakespeare   homepage   |   Romeo   and   Juliet   |   Entire   play   ",
"ACT   I",
"PROLOGUE",
"Two   households,   both   alike   in   dignity,",
"In   fair   Verona,   where   we   lay   our   scene,",
"From   ancient   grudge   break   to   new   mutiny,",
"Where   civil   blood   makes   civil   hands   unclean.",
"From   forth   the   fatal   loins   of   these   two   foes",
"A   pair   of   star-cross'd   lovers   take   their   life;",
"Whose   misadventured   piteous   overthrows",
"Do   with   their   death   bury   their   parents'   strife.",
"The   fearful   passage   of   their   death-mark'd   love,",
"And   the   continuance   of   their   parents'   rage,",
"Which,   but   their   children's   end,   nought   could   remove,",
"Is   now   the   two   hours'   traffic   of   our   stage;",
"The   which   if   you   with   patient   ears   attend,",
"What   here   shall   miss,   our   toil   shall   strive   to   mend.",
"SCENE   I.   Verona.   A   public   place.",
"",
"Enter   SAMPSON   and   GREGORY,   of   the   house   of   Capulet,   armed   with   swords   and   bucklers   ",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Gregory,   o'   my   word,   we'll   not   carry   coals.",
"GREGORY   ",
"No,   for   then   we   should   be   colliers.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"I   mean,   an   we   be   in   choler,   we'll   draw.",
"GREGORY   ",
"Ay,   while   you   live,   draw   your   neck   out   o'   the   collar.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"I   strike   quickly,   being   moved.",
"GREGORY   ",
"But   thou   art   not   quickly   moved   to   strike.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"A   dog   of   the   house   of   Montague   moves   me.",
"GREGORY   ",
"To   move   is   to   stir;   and   to   be   valiant   is   to   stand:",
"therefore,   if   thou   art   moved,   thou   runn'st   away.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"A   dog   of   that   house   shall   move   me   to   stand:   I   will",
"take   the   wall   of   any   man   or   maid   of   Montague's.",
"GREGORY   ",
"That   shows   thee   a   weak   slave;   for   the   weakest   goes",
"to   the   wall.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"True;   and   therefore   women,   being   the   weaker   vessels,",
"are   ever   thrust   to   the   wall:   therefore   I   will   push",
"Montague's   men   from   the   wall,   and   thrust   his   maids",
"to   the   wall.",
"GREGORY   ",
"The   quarrel   is   between   our   masters   and   us   their   men.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"'Tis   all   one,   I   will   show   myself   a   tyrant:   when   I",
"have   fought   with   the   men,   I   will   be   cruel   with   the",
"maids,   and   cut   off   their   heads.",
"GREGORY   ",
"The   heads   of   the   maids?",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Ay,   the   heads   of   the   maids,   or   their   maidenheads;",
"take   it   in   what   sense   thou   wilt.",
"GREGORY   ",
"They   must   take   it   in   sense   that   feel   it.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Me   they   shall   feel   while   I   am   able   to   stand:   and",
"'tis   known   I   am   a   pretty   piece   of   flesh.",
"GREGORY   ",
"'Tis   well   thou   art   not   fish;   if   thou   hadst,   thou",
"hadst   been   poor   John.   Draw   thy   tool!   here   comes",
"two   of   the   house   of   the   Montagues.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"My   naked   weapon   is   out:   quarrel,   I   will   back   thee.",
"GREGORY   ",
"How!   turn   thy   back   and   run?",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Fear   me   not.",
"GREGORY   ",
"No,   marry;   I   fear   thee!",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Let   us   take   the   law   of   our   sides;   let   them   begin.",
"GREGORY   ",
"I   will   frown   as   I   pass   by,   and   let   them   take   it   as",
"they   list.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Nay,   as   they   dare.   I   will   bite   my   thumb   at   them;",
"which   is   a   disgrace   to   them,   if   they   bear   it.",
"Enter   ABRAHAM   and   BALTHASAR",
"ABRAHAM   ",
"Do   you   bite   your   thumb   at   us,   sir?",
"SAMPSON   ",
"I   do   bite   my   thumb,   sir.",
"ABRAHAM   ",
"Do   you   bite   your   thumb   at   us,   sir?",
"SAMPSON   ",
"[Aside   to   GREGORY]   Is   the   law   of   our   side,   if   I   say",
"ay?",
"GREGORY   ",
"No.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"No,   sir,   I   do   not   bite   my   thumb   at   you,   sir,   but   I",
"bite   my   thumb,   sir.",
"GREGORY   ",
"Do   you   quarrel,   sir?",
"ABRAHAM   ",
"Quarrel   sir!   no,   sir.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"If   you   do,   sir,   I   am   for   you:   I   serve   as   good   a   man   as   you.",
"ABRAHAM   ",
"No   better.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Well,   sir.",
"GREGORY   ",
"Say   'better:'   here   comes   one   of   my   master's   kinsmen.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Yes,   better,   sir.",
"ABRAHAM   ",
"You   lie.",
"SAMPSON   ",
"Draw,   if   you   be   men.   Gregory,   remember   thy   swashing   blow.",
"They   fight",
"Enter   BENVOLIO",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Part,   fools!",
"Put   up   your   swords;   you   know   not   what   you   do.",
"Beats   down   their   swords",
"Enter   TYBALT",
"TYBALT   ",
"What,   art   thou   drawn   among   these   heartless   hinds?",
"Turn   thee,   Benvolio,   look   upon   thy   death.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"I   do   but   keep   the   peace:   put   up   thy   sword,",
"Or   manage   it   to   part   these   men   with   me.",
"TYBALT   ",
"What,   drawn,   and   talk   of   peace!   I   hate   the   word,",
"As   I   hate   hell,   all   Montagues,   and   thee:",
"Have   at   thee,   coward!",
"They   fight",
"Enter,   several   of   both   houses,   who   join   the   fray;   then   enter   Citizens,   with   clubs",
"First   Citizen   ",
"Clubs,   bills,   and   partisans!   strike!   beat   them   down!",
"Down   with   the   Capulets!   down   with   the   Montagues!",
"Enter   CAPULET   in   his   gown,   and   LADY   CAPULET",
"CAPULET   ",
"What   noise   is   this?   Give   me   my   long   sword,   ho!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"A   crutch,   a   crutch!   why   call   you   for   a   sword?",
"CAPULET   ",
"My   sword,   I   say!   Old   Montague   is   come,",
"And   flourishes   his   blade   in   spite   of   me.",
"Enter   MONTAGUE   and   LADY   MONTAGUE",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"Thou   villain   Capulet,--Hold   me   not,   let   me   go.",
"LADY   MONTAGUE   ",
"Thou   shalt   not   stir   a   foot   to   seek   a   foe.",
"Enter   PRINCE,   with   Attendants",
"PRINCE   ",
"Rebellious   subjects,   enemies   to   peace,",
"Profaners   of   this   neighbour-stained   steel,--",
"Will   they   not   hear?   What,   ho!   you   men,   you   beasts,",
"That   quench   the   fire   of   your   pernicious   rage",
"With   purple   fountains   issuing   from   your   veins,",
"On   pain   of   torture,   from   those   bloody   hands",
"Throw   your   mistemper'd   weapons   to   the   ground,",
"And   hear   the   sentence   of   your   moved   prince.",
"Three   civil   brawls,   bred   of   an   airy   word,",
"By   thee,   old   Capulet,   and   Montague,",
"Have   thrice   disturb'd   the   quiet   of   our   streets,",
"And   made   Verona's   ancient   citizens",
"Cast   by   their   grave   beseeming   ornaments,",
"To   wield   old   partisans,   in   hands   as   old,",
"Canker'd   with   peace,   to   part   your   canker'd   hate:",
"If   ever   you   disturb   our   streets   again,",
"Your   lives   shall   pay   the   forfeit   of   the   peace.",
"For   this   time,   all   the   rest   depart   away:",
"You   Capulet;   shall   go   along   with   me:",
"And,   Montague,   come   you   this   afternoon,",
"To   know   our   further   pleasure   in   this   case,",
"To   old   Free-town,   our   common   judgment-place.",
"Once   more,   on   pain   of   death,   all   men   depart.",
"Exeunt   all   but   MONTAGUE,   LADY   MONTAGUE,   and   BENVOLIO",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"Who   set   this   ancient   quarrel   new   abroach?",
"Speak,   nephew,   were   you   by   when   it   began?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Here   were   the   servants   of   your   adversary,",
"And   yours,   close   fighting   ere   I   did   approach:",
"I   drew   to   part   them:   in   the   instant   came",
"The   fiery   Tybalt,   with   his   sword   prepared,",
"Which,   as   he   breathed   defiance   to   my   ears,",
"He   swung   about   his   head   and   cut   the   winds,",
"Who   nothing   hurt   withal   hiss'd   him   in   scorn:",
"While   we   were   interchanging   thrusts   and   blows,",
"Came   more   and   more   and   fought   on   part   and   part,",
"Till   the   prince   came,   who   parted   either   part.",
"LADY   MONTAGUE   ",
"O,   where   is   Romeo?   saw   you   him   to-day?",
"Right   glad   I   am   he   was   not   at   this   fray.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Madam,   an   hour   before   the   worshipp'd   sun",
"Peer'd   forth   the   golden   window   of   the   east,",
"A   troubled   mind   drave   me   to   walk   abroad;",
"Where,   underneath   the   grove   of   sycamore",
"That   westward   rooteth   from   the   city's   side,",
"So   early   walking   did   I   see   your   son:",
"Towards   him   I   made,   but   he   was   ware   of   me",
"And   stole   into   the   covert   of   the   wood:",
"I,   measuring   his   affections   by   my   own,",
"That   most   are   busied   when   they're   most   alone,",
"Pursued   my   humour   not   pursuing   his,",
"And   gladly   shunn'd   who   gladly   fled   from   me.",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"Many   a   morning   hath   he   there   been   seen,",
"With   tears   augmenting   the   fresh   morning   dew.",
"Adding   to   clouds   more   clouds   with   his   deep   sighs;",
"But   all   so   soon   as   the   all-cheering   sun",
"Should   in   the   furthest   east   begin   to   draw",
"The   shady   curtains   from   Aurora's   bed,",
"Away   from   the   light   steals   home   my   heavy   son,",
"And   private   in   his   chamber   pens   himself,",
"Shuts   up   his   windows,   locks   far   daylight   out",
"And   makes   himself   an   artificial   night:",
"Black   and   portentous   must   this   humour   prove,",
"Unless   good   counsel   may   the   cause   remove.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"My   noble   uncle,   do   you   know   the   cause?",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"I   neither   know   it   nor   can   learn   of   him.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Have   you   importuned   him   by   any   means?",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"Both   by   myself   and   many   other   friends:",
"But   he,   his   own   affections'   counsellor,",
"Is   to   himself--I   will   not   say   how   true--",
"But   to   himself   so   secret   and   so   close,",
"So   far   from   sounding   and   discovery,",
"As   is   the   bud   bit   with   an   envious   worm,",
"Ere   he   can   spread   his   sweet   leaves   to   the   air,",
"Or   dedicate   his   beauty   to   the   sun.",
"Could   we   but   learn   from   whence   his   sorrows   grow.",
"We   would   as   willingly   give   cure   as   know.",
"Enter   ROMEO",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"See,   where   he   comes:   so   please   you,   step   aside;",
"I'll   know   his   grievance,   or   be   much   denied.",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"I   would   thou   wert   so   happy   by   thy   stay,",
"To   hear   true   shrift.   Come,   madam,   let's   away.",
"Exeunt   MONTAGUE   and   LADY   MONTAGUE",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Good-morrow,   cousin.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Is   the   day   so   young?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"But   new   struck   nine.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Ay   me!   sad   hours   seem   long.",
"Was   that   my   father   that   went   hence   so   fast?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"It   was.   What   sadness   lengthens   Romeo's   hours?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Not   having   that,   which,   having,   makes   them   short.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"In   love?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Out--",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Of   love?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Out   of   her   favour,   where   I   am   in   love.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Alas,   that   love,   so   gentle   in   his   view,",
"Should   be   so   tyrannous   and   rough   in   proof!",
"ROMEO   ",
"Alas,   that   love,   whose   view   is   muffled   still,",
"Should,   without   eyes,   see   pathways   to   his   will!",
"Where   shall   we   dine?   O   me!   What   fray   was   here?",
"Yet   tell   me   not,   for   I   have   heard   it   all.",
"Here's   much   to   do   with   hate,   but   more   with   love.",
"Why,   then,   O   brawling   love!   O   loving   hate!",
"O   any   thing,   of   nothing   first   create!",
"O   heavy   lightness!   serious   vanity!",
"Mis-shapen   chaos   of   well-seeming   forms!",
"Feather   of   lead,   bright   smoke,   cold   fire,",
"sick   health!",
"Still-waking   sleep,   that   is   not   what   it   is!",
"This   love   feel   I,   that   feel   no   love   in   this.",
"Dost   thou   not   laugh?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"No,   coz,   I   rather   weep.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Good   heart,   at   what?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"At   thy   good   heart's   oppression.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Why,   such   is   love's   transgression.",
"Griefs   of   mine   own   lie   heavy   in   my   breast,",
"Which   thou   wilt   propagate,   to   have   it   prest",
"With   more   of   thine:   this   love   that   thou   hast   shown",
"Doth   add   more   grief   to   too   much   of   mine   own.",
"Love   is   a   smoke   raised   with   the   fume   of   sighs;",
"Being   purged,   a   fire   sparkling   in   lovers'   eyes;",
"Being   vex'd   a   sea   nourish'd   with   lovers'   tears:",
"What   is   it   else?   a   madness   most   discreet,",
"A   choking   gall   and   a   preserving   sweet.",
"Farewell,   my   coz.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Soft!   I   will   go   along;",
"An   if   you   leave   me   so,   you   do   me   wrong.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Tut,   I   have   lost   myself;   I   am   not   here;",
"This   is   not   Romeo,   he's   some   other   where.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Tell   me   in   sadness,   who   is   that   you   love.",
"ROMEO   ",
"What,   shall   I   groan   and   tell   thee?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Groan!   why,   no.",
"But   sadly   tell   me   who.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Bid   a   sick   man   in   sadness   make   his   will:",
"Ah,   word   ill   urged   to   one   that   is   so   ill!",
"In   sadness,   cousin,   I   do   love   a   woman.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"I   aim'd   so   near,   when   I   supposed   you   loved.",
"ROMEO   ",
"A   right   good   mark-man!   And   she's   fair   I   love.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"A   right   fair   mark,   fair   coz,   is   soonest   hit.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Well,   in   that   hit   you   miss:   she'll   not   be   hit",
"With   Cupid's   arrow;   she   hath   Dian's   wit;",
"And,   in   strong   proof   of   chastity   well   arm'd,",
"From   love's   weak   childish   bow   she   lives   unharm'd.",
"She   will   not   stay   the   siege   of   loving   terms,",
"Nor   bide   the   encounter   of   assailing   eyes,",
"Nor   ope   her   lap   to   saint-seducing   gold:",
"O,   she   is   rich   in   beauty,   only   poor,",
"That   when   she   dies   with   beauty   dies   her   store.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Then   she   hath   sworn   that   she   will   still   live   chaste?",
"ROMEO   ",
"She   hath,   and   in   that   sparing   makes   huge   waste,",
"For   beauty   starved   with   her   severity",
"Cuts   beauty   off   from   all   posterity.",
"She   is   too   fair,   too   wise,   wisely   too   fair,",
"To   merit   bliss   by   making   me   despair:",
"She   hath   forsworn   to   love,   and   in   that   vow",
"Do   I   live   dead   that   live   to   tell   it   now.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Be   ruled   by   me,   forget   to   think   of   her.",
"ROMEO   ",
"O,   teach   me   how   I   should   forget   to   think.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"By   giving   liberty   unto   thine   eyes;",
"Examine   other   beauties.",
"ROMEO   ",
"'Tis   the   way",
"To   call   hers   exquisite,   in   question   more:",
"These   happy   masks   that   kiss   fair   ladies'   brows",
"Being   black   put   us   in   mind   they   hide   the   fair;",
"He   that   is   strucken   blind   cannot   forget",
"The   precious   treasure   of   his   eyesight   lost:",
"Show   me   a   mistress   that   is   passing   fair,",
"What   doth   her   beauty   serve,   but   as   a   note",
"Where   I   may   read   who   pass'd   that   passing   fair?",
"Farewell:   thou   canst   not   teach   me   to   forget.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"I'll   pay   that   doctrine,   or   else   die   in   debt.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   II.   A   street.",
"",
"Enter   CAPULET,   PARIS,   and   Servant   ",
"CAPULET   ",
"But   Montague   is   bound   as   well   as   I,",
"In   penalty   alike;   and   'tis   not   hard,   I   think,",
"For   men   so   old   as   we   to   keep   the   peace.",
"PARIS   ",
"Of   honourable   reckoning   are   you   both;",
"And   pity   'tis   you   lived   at   odds   so   long.",
"But   now,   my   lord,   what   say   you   to   my   suit?",
"CAPULET   ",
"But   saying   o'er   what   I   have   said   before:",
"My   child   is   yet   a   stranger   in   the   world;",
"She   hath   not   seen   the   change   of   fourteen   years,",
"Let   two   more   summers   wither   in   their   pride,",
"Ere   we   may   think   her   ripe   to   be   a   bride.",
"PARIS   ",
"Younger   than   she   are   happy   mothers   made.",
"CAPULET   ",
"And   too   soon   marr'd   are   those   so   early   made.",
"The   earth   hath   swallow'd   all   my   hopes   but   she,",
"She   is   the   hopeful   lady   of   my   earth:",
"But   woo   her,   gentle   Paris,   get   her   heart,",
"My   will   to   her   consent   is   but   a   part;",
"An   she   agree,   within   her   scope   of   choice",
"Lies   my   consent   and   fair   according   voice.",
"This   night   I   hold   an   old   accustom'd   feast,",
"Whereto   I   have   invited   many   a   guest,",
"Such   as   I   love;   and   you,   among   the   store,",
"One   more,   most   welcome,   makes   my   number   more.",
"At   my   poor   house   look   to   behold   this   night",
"Earth-treading   stars   that   make   dark   heaven   light:",
"Such   comfort   as   do   lusty   young   men   feel",
"When   well-apparell'd   April   on   the   heel",
"Of   limping   winter   treads,   even   such   delight",
"Among   fresh   female   buds   shall   you   this   night",
"Inherit   at   my   house;   hear   all,   all   see,",
"And   like   her   most   whose   merit   most   shall   be:",
"Which   on   more   view,   of   many   mine   being   one",
"May   stand   in   number,   though   in   reckoning   none,",
"Come,   go   with   me.",
"To   Servant,   giving   a   paper",
"Go,   sirrah,   trudge   about",
"Through   fair   Verona;   find   those   persons   out",
"Whose   names   are   written   there,   and   to   them   say,",
"My   house   and   welcome   on   their   pleasure   stay.",
"Exeunt   CAPULET   and   PARIS",
"Servant   ",
"Find   them   out   whose   names   are   written   here!   It   is",
"written,   that   the   shoemaker   should   meddle   with   his",
"yard,   and   the   tailor   with   his   last,   the   fisher   with",
"his   pencil,   and   the   painter   with   his   nets;   but   I   am",
"sent   to   find   those   persons   whose   names   are   here",
"writ,   and   can   never   find   what   names   the   writing",
"person   hath   here   writ.   I   must   to   the   learned.--In   good   time.",
"Enter   BENVOLIO   and   ROMEO",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Tut,   man,   one   fire   burns   out   another's   burning,",
"One   pain   is   lessen'd   by   another's   anguish;",
"Turn   giddy,   and   be   holp   by   backward   turning;",
"One   desperate   grief   cures   with   another's   languish:",
"Take   thou   some   new   infection   to   thy   eye,",
"And   the   rank   poison   of   the   old   will   die.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Your   plaintain-leaf   is   excellent   for   that.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"For   what,   I   pray   thee?",
"ROMEO   ",
"For   your   broken   shin.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Why,   Romeo,   art   thou   mad?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Not   mad,   but   bound   more   than   a   mad-man   is;",
"Shut   up   in   prison,   kept   without   my   food,",
"Whipp'd   and   tormented   and--God-den,   good   fellow.",
"Servant   ",
"God   gi'   god-den.   I   pray,   sir,   can   you   read?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Ay,   mine   own   fortune   in   my   misery.",
"Servant   ",
"Perhaps   you   have   learned   it   without   book:   but,   I",
"pray,   can   you   read   any   thing   you   see?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Ay,   if   I   know   the   letters   and   the   language.",
"Servant   ",
"Ye   say   honestly:   rest   you   merry!",
"ROMEO   ",
"Stay,   fellow;   I   can   read.",
"Reads",
"'Signior   Martino   and   his   wife   and   daughters;",
"County   Anselme   and   his   beauteous   sisters;   the   lady",
"widow   of   Vitravio;   Signior   Placentio   and   his   lovely",
"nieces;   Mercutio   and   his   brother   Valentine;   mine",
"uncle   Capulet,   his   wife   and   daughters;   my   fair   niece",
"Rosaline;   Livia;   Signior   Valentio   and   his   cousin",
"Tybalt,   Lucio   and   the   lively   Helena.'   A   fair",
"assembly:   whither   should   they   come?",
"Servant   ",
"Up.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Whither?",
"Servant   ",
"To   supper;   to   our   house.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Whose   house?",
"Servant   ",
"My   master's.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Indeed,   I   should   have   ask'd   you   that   before.",
"Servant   ",
"Now   I'll   tell   you   without   asking:   my   master   is   the",
"great   rich   Capulet;   and   if   you   be   not   of   the   house",
"of   Montagues,   I   pray,   come   and   crush   a   cup   of   wine.",
"Rest   you   merry!",
"Exit",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"At   this   same   ancient   feast   of   Capulet's",
"Sups   the   fair   Rosaline   whom   thou   so   lovest,",
"With   all   the   admired   beauties   of   Verona:",
"Go   thither;   and,   with   unattainted   eye,",
"Compare   her   face   with   some   that   I   shall   show,",
"And   I   will   make   thee   think   thy   swan   a   crow.",
"ROMEO   ",
"When   the   devout   religion   of   mine   eye",
"Maintains   such   falsehood,   then   turn   tears   to   fires;",
"And   these,   who   often   drown'd   could   never   die,",
"Transparent   heretics,   be   burnt   for   liars!",
"One   fairer   than   my   love!   the   all-seeing   sun",
"Ne'er   saw   her   match   since   first   the   world   begun.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Tut,   you   saw   her   fair,   none   else   being   by,",
"Herself   poised   with   herself   in   either   eye:",
"But   in   that   crystal   scales   let   there   be   weigh'd",
"Your   lady's   love   against   some   other   maid",
"That   I   will   show   you   shining   at   this   feast,",
"And   she   shall   scant   show   well   that   now   shows   best.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I'll   go   along,   no   such   sight   to   be   shown,",
"But   to   rejoice   in   splendor   of   mine   own.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   III.   A   room   in   Capulet's   house.",
"",
"Enter   LADY   CAPULET   and   Nurse   ",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Nurse,   where's   my   daughter?   call   her   forth   to   me.",
"Nurse   ",
"Now,   by   my   maidenhead,   at   twelve   year   old,",
"I   bade   her   come.   What,   lamb!   what,   ladybird!",
"God   forbid!   Where's   this   girl?   What,   Juliet!",
"Enter   JULIET",
"JULIET   ",
"How   now!   who   calls?",
"Nurse   ",
"Your   mother.",
"JULIET   ",
"Madam,   I   am   here.",
"What   is   your   will?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"This   is   the   matter:--Nurse,   give   leave   awhile,",
"We   must   talk   in   secret:--nurse,   come   back   again;",
"I   have   remember'd   me,   thou's   hear   our   counsel.",
"Thou   know'st   my   daughter's   of   a   pretty   age.",
"Nurse   ",
"Faith,   I   can   tell   her   age   unto   an   hour.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"She's   not   fourteen.",
"Nurse   ",
"I'll   lay   fourteen   of   my   teeth,--",
"And   yet,   to   my   teeth   be   it   spoken,   I   have   but   four--",
"She   is   not   fourteen.   How   long   is   it   now",
"To   Lammas-tide?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"A   fortnight   and   odd   days.",
"Nurse   ",
"Even   or   odd,   of   all   days   in   the   year,",
"Come   Lammas-eve   at   night   shall   she   be   fourteen.",
"Susan   and   she--God   rest   all   Christian   souls!--",
"Were   of   an   age:   well,   Susan   is   with   God;",
"She   was   too   good   for   me:   but,   as   I   said,",
"On   Lammas-eve   at   night   shall   she   be   fourteen;",
"That   shall   she,   marry;   I   remember   it   well.",
"'Tis   since   the   earthquake   now   eleven   years;",
"And   she   was   wean'd,--I   never   shall   forget   it,--",
"Of   all   the   days   of   the   year,   upon   that   day:",
"For   I   had   then   laid   wormwood   to   my   dug,",
"Sitting   in   the   sun   under   the   dove-house   wall;",
"My   lord   and   you   were   then   at   Mantua:--",
"Nay,   I   do   bear   a   brain:--but,   as   I   said,",
"When   it   did   taste   the   wormwood   on   the   nipple",
"Of   my   dug   and   felt   it   bitter,   pretty   fool,",
"To   see   it   tetchy   and   fall   out   with   the   dug!",
"Shake   quoth   the   dove-house:   'twas   no   need,   I   trow,",
"To   bid   me   trudge:",
"And   since   that   time   it   is   eleven   years;",
"For   then   she   could   stand   alone;   nay,   by   the   rood,",
"She   could   have   run   and   waddled   all   about;",
"For   even   the   day   before,   she   broke   her   brow:",
"And   then   my   husband--God   be   with   his   soul!",
"A'   was   a   merry   man--took   up   the   child:",
"'Yea,'   quoth   he,   'dost   thou   fall   upon   thy   face?",
"Thou   wilt   fall   backward   when   thou   hast   more   wit;",
"Wilt   thou   not,   Jule?'   and,   by   my   holidame,",
"The   pretty   wretch   left   crying   and   said   'Ay.'",
"To   see,   now,   how   a   jest   shall   come   about!",
"I   warrant,   an   I   should   live   a   thousand   years,",
"I   never   should   forget   it:   'Wilt   thou   not,   Jule?'   quoth   he;",
"And,   pretty   fool,   it   stinted   and   said   'Ay.'",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Enough   of   this;   I   pray   thee,   hold   thy   peace.",
"Nurse   ",
"Yes,   madam:   yet   I   cannot   choose   but   laugh,",
"To   think   it   should   leave   crying   and   say   'Ay.'",
"And   yet,   I   warrant,   it   had   upon   its   brow",
"A   bump   as   big   as   a   young   cockerel's   stone;",
"A   parlous   knock;   and   it   cried   bitterly:",
"'Yea,'   quoth   my   husband,'fall'st   upon   thy   face?",
"Thou   wilt   fall   backward   when   thou   comest   to   age;",
"Wilt   thou   not,   Jule?'   it   stinted   and   said   'Ay.'",
"JULIET   ",
"And   stint   thou   too,   I   pray   thee,   nurse,   say   I.",
"Nurse   ",
"Peace,   I   have   done.   God   mark   thee   to   his   grace!",
"Thou   wast   the   prettiest   babe   that   e'er   I   nursed:",
"An   I   might   live   to   see   thee   married   once,",
"I   have   my   wish.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Marry,   that   'marry'   is   the   very   theme",
"I   came   to   talk   of.   Tell   me,   daughter   Juliet,",
"How   stands   your   disposition   to   be   married?",
"JULIET   ",
"It   is   an   honour   that   I   dream   not   of.",
"Nurse   ",
"An   honour!   were   not   I   thine   only   nurse,",
"I   would   say   thou   hadst   suck'd   wisdom   from   thy   teat.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Well,   think   of   marriage   now;   younger   than   you,",
"Here   in   Verona,   ladies   of   esteem,",
"Are   made   already   mothers:   by   my   count,",
"I   was   your   mother   much   upon   these   years",
"That   you   are   now   a   maid.   Thus   then   in   brief:",
"The   valiant   Paris   seeks   you   for   his   love.",
"Nurse   ",
"A   man,   young   lady!   lady,   such   a   man",
"As   all   the   world--why,   he's   a   man   of   wax.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Verona's   summer   hath   not   such   a   flower.",
"Nurse   ",
"Nay,   he's   a   flower;   in   faith,   a   very   flower.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"What   say   you?   can   you   love   the   gentleman?",
"This   night   you   shall   behold   him   at   our   feast;",
"Read   o'er   the   volume   of   young   Paris'   face,",
"And   find   delight   writ   there   with   beauty's   pen;",
"Examine   every   married   lineament,",
"And   see   how   one   another   lends   content",
"And   what   obscured   in   this   fair   volume   lies",
"Find   written   in   the   margent   of   his   eyes.",
"This   precious   book   of   love,   this   unbound   lover,",
"To   beautify   him,   only   lacks   a   cover:",
"The   fish   lives   in   the   sea,   and   'tis   much   pride",
"For   fair   without   the   fair   within   to   hide:",
"That   book   in   many's   eyes   doth   share   the   glory,",
"That   in   gold   clasps   locks   in   the   golden   story;",
"So   shall   you   share   all   that   he   doth   possess,",
"By   having   him,   making   yourself   no   less.",
"Nurse   ",
"No   less!   nay,   bigger;   women   grow   by   men.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Speak   briefly,   can   you   like   of   Paris'   love?",
"JULIET   ",
"I'll   look   to   like,   if   looking   liking   move:",
"But   no   more   deep   will   I   endart   mine   eye",
"Than   your   consent   gives   strength   to   make   it   fly.",
"Enter   a   Servant",
"Servant   ",
"Madam,   the   guests   are   come,   supper   served   up,   you",
"called,   my   young   lady   asked   for,   the   nurse   cursed   in",
"the   pantry,   and   every   thing   in   extremity.   I   must",
"hence   to   wait;   I   beseech   you,   follow   straight.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"We   follow   thee.",
"Exit   Servant",
"Juliet,   the   county   stays.",
"Nurse   ",
"Go,   girl,   seek   happy   nights   to   happy   days.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   IV.   A   street.",
"",
"Enter   ROMEO,   MERCUTIO,   BENVOLIO,   with   five   or   six   Maskers,   Torch-bearers,   and   others   ",
"ROMEO   ",
"What,   shall   this   speech   be   spoke   for   our   excuse?",
"Or   shall   we   on   without   a   apology?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"The   date   is   out   of   such   prolixity:",
"We'll   have   no   Cupid   hoodwink'd   with   a   scarf,",
"Bearing   a   Tartar's   painted   bow   of   lath,",
"Scaring   the   ladies   like   a   crow-keeper;",
"Nor   no   without-book   prologue,   faintly   spoke",
"After   the   prompter,   for   our   entrance:",
"But   let   them   measure   us   by   what   they   will;",
"We'll   measure   them   a   measure,   and   be   gone.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Give   me   a   torch:   I   am   not   for   this   ambling;",
"Being   but   heavy,   I   will   bear   the   light.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Nay,   gentle   Romeo,   we   must   have   you   dance.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Not   I,   believe   me:   you   have   dancing   shoes",
"With   nimble   soles:   I   have   a   soul   of   lead",
"So   stakes   me   to   the   ground   I   cannot   move.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"You   are   a   lover;   borrow   Cupid's   wings,",
"And   soar   with   them   above   a   common   bound.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   am   too   sore   enpierced   with   his   shaft",
"To   soar   with   his   light   feathers,   and   so   bound,",
"I   cannot   bound   a   pitch   above   dull   woe:",
"Under   love's   heavy   burden   do   I   sink.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"And,   to   sink   in   it,   should   you   burden   love;",
"Too   great   oppression   for   a   tender   thing.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Is   love   a   tender   thing?   it   is   too   rough,",
"Too   rude,   too   boisterous,   and   it   pricks   like   thorn.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"If   love   be   rough   with   you,   be   rough   with   love;",
"Prick   love   for   pricking,   and   you   beat   love   down.",
"Give   me   a   case   to   put   my   visage   in:",
"A   visor   for   a   visor!   what   care   I",
"What   curious   eye   doth   quote   deformities?",
"Here   are   the   beetle   brows   shall   blush   for   me.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Come,   knock   and   enter;   and   no   sooner   in,",
"But   every   man   betake   him   to   his   legs.",
"ROMEO   ",
"A   torch   for   me:   let   wantons   light   of   heart",
"Tickle   the   senseless   rushes   with   their   heels,",
"For   I   am   proverb'd   with   a   grandsire   phrase;",
"I'll   be   a   candle-holder,   and   look   on.",
"The   game   was   ne'er   so   fair,   and   I   am   done.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Tut,   dun's   the   mouse,   the   constable's   own   word:",
"If   thou   art   dun,   we'll   draw   thee   from   the   mire",
"Of   this   sir-reverence   love,   wherein   thou   stick'st",
"Up   to   the   ears.   Come,   we   burn   daylight,   ho!",
"ROMEO   ",
"Nay,   that's   not   so.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"I   mean,   sir,   in   delay",
"We   waste   our   lights   in   vain,   like   lamps   by   day.",
"Take   our   good   meaning,   for   our   judgment   sits",
"Five   times   in   that   ere   once   in   our   five   wits.",
"ROMEO   ",
"And   we   mean   well   in   going   to   this   mask;",
"But   'tis   no   wit   to   go.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Why,   may   one   ask?",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   dream'd   a   dream   to-night.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"And   so   did   I.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Well,   what   was   yours?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"That   dreamers   often   lie.",
"ROMEO   ",
"In   bed   asleep,   while   they   do   dream   things   true.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"O,   then,   I   see   Queen   Mab   hath   been   with   you.",
"She   is   the   fairies'   midwife,   and   she   comes",
"In   shape   no   bigger   than   an   agate-stone",
"On   the   fore-finger   of   an   alderman,",
"Drawn   with   a   team   of   little   atomies",
"Athwart   men's   noses   as   they   lie   asleep;",
"Her   wagon-spokes   made   of   long   spiders'   legs,",
"The   cover   of   the   wings   of   grasshoppers,",
"The   traces   of   the   smallest   spider's   web,",
"The   collars   of   the   moonshine's   watery   beams,",
"Her   whip   of   cricket's   bone,   the   lash   of   film,",
"Her   wagoner   a   small   grey-coated   gnat,",
"Not   so   big   as   a   round   little   worm",
"Prick'd   from   the   lazy   finger   of   a   maid;",
"Her   chariot   is   an   empty   hazel-nut",
"Made   by   the   joiner   squirrel   or   old   grub,",
"Time   out   o'   mind   the   fairies'   coachmakers.",
"And   in   this   state   she   gallops   night   by   night",
"Through   lovers'   brains,   and   then   they   dream   of   love;",
"O'er   courtiers'   knees,   that   dream   on   court'sies   straight,",
"O'er   lawyers'   fingers,   who   straight   dream   on   fees,",
"O'er   ladies   '   lips,   who   straight   on   kisses   dream,",
"Which   oft   the   angry   Mab   with   blisters   plagues,",
"Because   their   breaths   with   sweetmeats   tainted   are:",
"Sometime   she   gallops   o'er   a   courtier's   nose,",
"And   then   dreams   he   of   smelling   out   a   suit;",
"And   sometime   comes   she   with   a   tithe-pig's   tail",
"Tickling   a   parson's   nose   as   a'   lies   asleep,",
"Then   dreams,   he   of   another   benefice:",
"Sometime   she   driveth   o'er   a   soldier's   neck,",
"And   then   dreams   he   of   cutting   foreign   throats,",
"Of   breaches,   ambuscadoes,   Spanish   blades,",
"Of   healths   five-fathom   deep;   and   then   anon",
"Drums   in   his   ear,   at   which   he   starts   and   wakes,",
"And   being   thus   frighted   swears   a   prayer   or   two",
"And   sleeps   again.   This   is   that   very   Mab",
"That   plats   the   manes   of   horses   in   the   night,",
"And   bakes   the   elflocks   in   foul   sluttish   hairs,",
"Which   once   untangled,   much   misfortune   bodes:",
"This   is   the   hag,   when   maids   lie   on   their   backs,",
"That   presses   them   and   learns   them   first   to   bear,",
"Making   them   women   of   good   carriage:",
"This   is   she--",
"ROMEO   ",
"Peace,   peace,   Mercutio,   peace!",
"Thou   talk'st   of   nothing.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"True,   I   talk   of   dreams,",
"Which   are   the   children   of   an   idle   brain,",
"Begot   of   nothing   but   vain   fantasy,",
"Which   is   as   thin   of   substance   as   the   air",
"And   more   inconstant   than   the   wind,   who   wooes",
"Even   now   the   frozen   bosom   of   the   north,",
"And,   being   anger'd,   puffs   away   from   thence,",
"Turning   his   face   to   the   dew-dropping   south.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"This   wind,   you   talk   of,   blows   us   from   ourselves;",
"Supper   is   done,   and   we   shall   come   too   late.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   fear,   too   early:   for   my   mind   misgives",
"Some   consequence   yet   hanging   in   the   stars",
"Shall   bitterly   begin   his   fearful   date",
"With   this   night's   revels   and   expire   the   term",
"Of   a   despised   life   closed   in   my   breast",
"By   some   vile   forfeit   of   untimely   death.",
"But   He,   that   hath   the   steerage   of   my   course,",
"Direct   my   sail!   On,   lusty   gentlemen.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Strike,   drum.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   V.   A   hall   in   Capulet's   house.",
"",
"Musicians   waiting.   Enter   Servingmen   with   napkins   ",
"First   Servant   ",
"Where's   Potpan,   that   he   helps   not   to   take   away?   He",
"shift   a   trencher?   he   scrape   a   trencher!",
"Second   Servant   ",
"When   good   manners   shall   lie   all   in   one   or   two   men's",
"hands   and   they   unwashed   too,   'tis   a   foul   thing.",
"First   Servant   ",
"Away   with   the   joint-stools,   remove   the",
"court-cupboard,   look   to   the   plate.   Good   thou,   save",
"me   a   piece   of   marchpane;   and,   as   thou   lovest   me,   let",
"the   porter   let   in   Susan   Grindstone   and   Nell.",
"Antony,   and   Potpan!",
"Second   Servant   ",
"Ay,   boy,   ready.",
"First   Servant   ",
"You   are   looked   for   and   called   for,   asked   for   and",
"sought   for,   in   the   great   chamber.",
"Second   Servant   ",
"We   cannot   be   here   and   there   too.   Cheerly,   boys;   be",
"brisk   awhile,   and   the   longer   liver   take   all.",
"Enter   CAPULET,   with   JULIET   and   others   of   his   house,   meeting   the   Guests   and   Maskers",
"CAPULET   ",
"Welcome,   gentlemen!   ladies   that   have   their   toes",
"Unplagued   with   corns   will   have   a   bout   with   you.",
"Ah   ha,   my   mistresses!   which   of   you   all",
"Will   now   deny   to   dance?   she   that   makes   dainty,",
"She,   I'll   swear,   hath   corns;   am   I   come   near   ye   now?",
"Welcome,   gentlemen!   I   have   seen   the   day",
"That   I   have   worn   a   visor   and   could   tell",
"A   whispering   tale   in   a   fair   lady's   ear,",
"Such   as   would   please:   'tis   gone,   'tis   gone,   'tis   gone:",
"You   are   welcome,   gentlemen!   come,   musicians,   play.",
"A   hall,   a   hall!   give   room!   and   foot   it,   girls.",
"Music   plays,   and   they   dance",
"More   light,   you   knaves;   and   turn   the   tables   up,",
"And   quench   the   fire,   the   room   is   grown   too   hot.",
"Ah,   sirrah,   this   unlook'd-for   sport   comes   well.",
"Nay,   sit,   nay,   sit,   good   cousin   Capulet;",
"For   you   and   I   are   past   our   dancing   days:",
"How   long   is't   now   since   last   yourself   and   I",
"Were   in   a   mask?",
"Second   Capulet   ",
"By'r   lady,   thirty   years.",
"CAPULET   ",
"What,   man!   'tis   not   so   much,   'tis   not   so   much:",
"'Tis   since   the   nuptials   of   Lucentio,",
"Come   pentecost   as   quickly   as   it   will,",
"Some   five   and   twenty   years;   and   then   we   mask'd.",
"Second   Capulet   ",
"'Tis   more,   'tis   more,   his   son   is   elder,   sir;",
"His   son   is   thirty.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Will   you   tell   me   that?",
"His   son   was   but   a   ward   two   years   ago.",
"ROMEO   ",
"[To   a   Servingman]   What   lady   is   that,   which   doth",
"enrich   the   hand",
"Of   yonder   knight?",
"Servant   ",
"I   know   not,   sir.",
"ROMEO   ",
"O,   she   doth   teach   the   torches   to   burn   bright!",
"It   seems   she   hangs   upon   the   cheek   of   night",
"Like   a   rich   jewel   in   an   Ethiope's   ear;",
"Beauty   too   rich   for   use,   for   earth   too   dear!",
"So   shows   a   snowy   dove   trooping   with   crows,",
"As   yonder   lady   o'er   her   fellows   shows.",
"The   measure   done,   I'll   watch   her   place   of   stand,",
"And,   touching   hers,   make   blessed   my   rude   hand.",
"Did   my   heart   love   till   now?   forswear   it,   sight!",
"For   I   ne'er   saw   true   beauty   till   this   night.",
"TYBALT   ",
"This,   by   his   voice,   should   be   a   Montague.",
"Fetch   me   my   rapier,   boy.   What   dares   the   slave",
"Come   hither,   cover'd   with   an   antic   face,",
"To   fleer   and   scorn   at   our   solemnity?",
"Now,   by   the   stock   and   honour   of   my   kin,",
"To   strike   him   dead,   I   hold   it   not   a   sin.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Why,   how   now,   kinsman!   wherefore   storm   you   so?",
"TYBALT   ",
"Uncle,   this   is   a   Montague,   our   foe,",
"A   villain   that   is   hither   come   in   spite,",
"To   scorn   at   our   solemnity   this   night.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Young   Romeo   is   it?",
"TYBALT   ",
"'Tis   he,   that   villain   Romeo.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Content   thee,   gentle   coz,   let   him   alone;",
"He   bears   him   like   a   portly   gentleman;",
"And,   to   say   truth,   Verona   brags   of   him",
"To   be   a   virtuous   and   well-govern'd   youth:",
"I   would   not   for   the   wealth   of   all   the   town",
"Here   in   my   house   do   him   disparagement:",
"Therefore   be   patient,   take   no   note   of   him:",
"It   is   my   will,   the   which   if   thou   respect,",
"Show   a   fair   presence   and   put   off   these   frowns,",
"And   ill-beseeming   semblance   for   a   feast.",
"TYBALT   ",
"It   fits,   when   such   a   villain   is   a   guest:",
"I'll   not   endure   him.",
"CAPULET   ",
"He   shall   be   endured:",
"What,   goodman   boy!   I   say,   he   shall:   go   to;",
"Am   I   the   master   here,   or   you?   go   to.",
"You'll   not   endure   him!   God   shall   mend   my   soul!",
"You'll   make   a   mutiny   among   my   guests!",
"You   will   set   cock-a-hoop!   you'll   be   the   man!",
"TYBALT   ",
"Why,   uncle,   'tis   a   shame.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Go   to,   go   to;",
"You   are   a   saucy   boy:   is't   so,   indeed?",
"This   trick   may   chance   to   scathe   you,   I   know   what:",
"You   must   contrary   me!   marry,   'tis   time.",
"Well   said,   my   hearts!   You   are   a   princox;   go:",
"Be   quiet,   or--More   light,   more   light!   For   shame!",
"I'll   make   you   quiet.   What,   cheerly,   my   hearts!",
"TYBALT   ",
"Patience   perforce   with   wilful   choler   meeting",
"Makes   my   flesh   tremble   in   their   different   greeting.",
"I   will   withdraw:   but   this   intrusion   shall",
"Now   seeming   sweet   convert   to   bitter   gall.",
"Exit",
"ROMEO   ",
"[To   JULIET]   If   I   profane   with   my   unworthiest   hand",
"This   holy   shrine,   the   gentle   fine   is   this:",
"My   lips,   two   blushing   pilgrims,   ready   stand",
"To   smooth   that   rough   touch   with   a   tender   kiss.",
"JULIET   ",
"Good   pilgrim,   you   do   wrong   your   hand   too   much,",
"Which   mannerly   devotion   shows   in   this;",
"For   saints   have   hands   that   pilgrims'   hands   do   touch,",
"And   palm   to   palm   is   holy   palmers'   kiss.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Have   not   saints   lips,   and   holy   palmers   too?",
"JULIET   ",
"Ay,   pilgrim,   lips   that   they   must   use   in   prayer.",
"ROMEO   ",
"O,   then,   dear   saint,   let   lips   do   what   hands   do;",
"They   pray,   grant   thou,   lest   faith   turn   to   despair.",
"JULIET   ",
"Saints   do   not   move,   though   grant   for   prayers'   sake.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Then   move   not,   while   my   prayer's   effect   I   take.",
"Thus   from   my   lips,   by   yours,   my   sin   is   purged.",
"JULIET   ",
"Then   have   my   lips   the   sin   that   they   have   took.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Sin   from   thy   lips?   O   trespass   sweetly   urged!",
"Give   me   my   sin   again.",
"JULIET   ",
"You   kiss   by   the   book.",
"Nurse   ",
"Madam,   your   mother   craves   a   word   with   you.",
"ROMEO   ",
"What   is   her   mother?",
"Nurse   ",
"Marry,   bachelor,",
"Her   mother   is   the   lady   of   the   house,",
"And   a   good   lady,   and   a   wise   and   virtuous",
"I   nursed   her   daughter,   that   you   talk'd   withal;",
"I   tell   you,   he   that   can   lay   hold   of   her",
"Shall   have   the   chinks.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Is   she   a   Capulet?",
"O   dear   account!   my   life   is   my   foe's   debt.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Away,   begone;   the   sport   is   at   the   best.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Ay,   so   I   fear;   the   more   is   my   unrest.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Nay,   gentlemen,   prepare   not   to   be   gone;",
"We   have   a   trifling   foolish   banquet   towards.",
"Is   it   e'en   so?   why,   then,   I   thank   you   all",
"I   thank   you,   honest   gentlemen;   good   night.",
"More   torches   here!   Come   on   then,   let's   to   bed.",
"Ah,   sirrah,   by   my   fay,   it   waxes   late:",
"I'll   to   my   rest.",
"Exeunt   all   but   JULIET   and   Nurse",
"JULIET   ",
"Come   hither,   nurse.   What   is   yond   gentleman?",
"Nurse   ",
"The   son   and   heir   of   old   Tiberio.",
"JULIET   ",
"What's   he   that   now   is   going   out   of   door?",
"Nurse   ",
"Marry,   that,   I   think,   be   young   Petrucio.",
"JULIET   ",
"What's   he   that   follows   there,   that   would   not   dance?",
"Nurse   ",
"I   know   not.",
"JULIET   ",
"Go   ask   his   name:   if   he   be   married.",
"My   grave   is   like   to   be   my   wedding   bed.",
"Nurse   ",
"His   name   is   Romeo,   and   a   Montague;",
"The   only   son   of   your   great   enemy.",
"JULIET   ",
"My   only   love   sprung   from   my   only   hate!",
"Too   early   seen   unknown,   and   known   too   late!",
"Prodigious   birth   of   love   it   is   to   me,",
"That   I   must   love   a   loathed   enemy.",
"Nurse   ",
"What's   this?   what's   this?",
"JULIET   ",
"A   rhyme   I   learn'd   even   now",
"Of   one   I   danced   withal.",
"One   calls   within   'Juliet.'",
"Nurse   ",
"Anon,   anon!",
"Come,   let's   away;   the   strangers   all   are   gone.",
"Exeunt",
"",
"ACT   II",
"PROLOGUE",
"",
"Enter   Chorus   ",
"Chorus   ",
"Now   old   desire   doth   in   his   death-bed   lie,",
"And   young   affection   gapes   to   be   his   heir;",
"That   fair   for   which   love   groan'd   for   and   would   die,",
"With   tender   Juliet   match'd,   is   now   not   fair.",
"Now   Romeo   is   beloved   and   loves   again,",
"Alike   betwitched   by   the   charm   of   looks,",
"But   to   his   foe   supposed   he   must   complain,",
"And   she   steal   love's   sweet   bait   from   fearful   hooks:",
"Being   held   a   foe,   he   may   not   have   access",
"To   breathe   such   vows   as   lovers   use   to   swear;",
"And   she   as   much   in   love,   her   means   much   less",
"To   meet   her   new-beloved   any   where:",
"But   passion   lends   them   power,   time   means,   to   meet",
"Tempering   extremities   with   extreme   sweet.",
"Exit",
"SCENE   I.   A   lane   by   the   wall   of   Capulet's   orchard.",
"",
"Enter   ROMEO   ",
"ROMEO   ",
"Can   I   go   forward   when   my   heart   is   here?",
"Turn   back,   dull   earth,   and   find   thy   centre   out.",
"He   climbs   the   wall,   and   leaps   down   within   it",
"Enter   BENVOLIO   and   MERCUTIO",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Romeo!   my   cousin   Romeo!",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"He   is   wise;",
"And,   on   my   lie,   hath   stol'n   him   home   to   bed.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"He   ran   this   way,   and   leap'd   this   orchard   wall:",
"Call,   good   Mercutio.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Nay,   I'll   conjure   too.",
"Romeo!   humours!   madman!   passion!   lover!",
"Appear   thou   in   the   likeness   of   a   sigh:",
"Speak   but   one   rhyme,   and   I   am   satisfied;",
"Cry   but   'Ay   me!'   pronounce   but   'love'   and   'dove;'",
"Speak   to   my   gossip   Venus   one   fair   word,",
"One   nick-name   for   her   purblind   son   and   heir,",
"Young   Adam   Cupid,   he   that   shot   so   trim,",
"When   King   Cophetua   loved   the   beggar-maid!",
"He   heareth   not,   he   stirreth   not,   he   moveth   not;",
"The   ape   is   dead,   and   I   must   conjure   him.",
"I   conjure   thee   by   Rosaline's   bright   eyes,",
"By   her   high   forehead   and   her   scarlet   lip,",
"By   her   fine   foot,   straight   leg   and   quivering   thigh",
"And   the   demesnes   that   there   adjacent   lie,",
"That   in   thy   likeness   thou   appear   to   us!",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"And   if   he   hear   thee,   thou   wilt   anger   him.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"This   cannot   anger   him:   'twould   anger   him",
"To   raise   a   spirit   in   his   mistress'   circle",
"Of   some   strange   nature,   letting   it   there   stand",
"Till   she   had   laid   it   and   conjured   it   down;",
"That   were   some   spite:   my   invocation",
"Is   fair   and   honest,   and   in   his   mistres   s'   name",
"I   conjure   only   but   to   raise   up   him.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Come,   he   hath   hid   himself   among   these   trees,",
"To   be   consorted   with   the   humorous   night:",
"Blind   is   his   love   and   best   befits   the   dark.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"If   love   be   blind,   love   cannot   hit   the   mark.",
"Now   will   he   sit   under   a   medlar   tree,",
"And   wish   his   mistress   were   that   kind   of   fruit",
"As   maids   call   medlars,   when   they   laugh   alone.",
"Romeo,   that   she   were,   O,   that   she   were",
"An   open   et   caetera,   thou   a   poperin   pear!",
"Romeo,   good   night:   I'll   to   my   truckle-bed;",
"This   field-bed   is   too   cold   for   me   to   sleep:",
"Come,   shall   we   go?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Go,   then;   for   'tis   in   vain",
"To   seek   him   here   that   means   not   to   be   found.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   II.   Capulet's   orchard.",
"",
"Enter   ROMEO   ",
"ROMEO   ",
"He   jests   at   scars   that   never   felt   a   wound.",
"JULIET   appears   above   at   a   window",
"But,   soft!   what   light   through   yonder   window   breaks?",
"It   is   the   east,   and   Juliet   is   the   sun.",
"Arise,   fair   sun,   and   kill   the   envious   moon,",
"Who   is   already   sick   and   pale   with   grief,",
"That   thou   her   maid   art   far   more   fair   than   she:",
"Be   not   her   maid,   since   she   is   envious;",
"Her   vestal   livery   is   but   sick   and   green",
"And   none   but   fools   do   wear   it;   cast   it   off.",
"It   is   my   lady,   O,   it   is   my   love!",
"O,   that   she   knew   she   were!",
"She   speaks   yet   she   says   nothing:   what   of   that?",
"Her   eye   discourses;   I   will   answer   it.",
"I   am   too   bold,   'tis   not   to   me   she   speaks:",
"Two   of   the   fairest   stars   in   all   the   heaven,",
"Having   some   business,   do   entreat   her   eyes",
"To   twinkle   in   their   spheres   till   they   return.",
"What   if   her   eyes   were   there,   they   in   her   head?",
"The   brightness   of   her   cheek   would   shame   those   stars,",
"As   daylight   doth   a   lamp;   her   eyes   in   heaven",
"Would   through   the   airy   region   stream   so   bright",
"That   birds   would   sing   and   think   it   were   not   night.",
"See,   how   she   leans   her   cheek   upon   her   hand!",
"O,   that   I   were   a   glove   upon   that   hand,",
"That   I   might   touch   that   cheek!",
"JULIET   ",
"Ay   me!",
"ROMEO   ",
"She   speaks:",
"O,   speak   again,   bright   angel!   for   thou   art",
"As   glorious   to   this   night,   being   o'er   my   head",
"As   is   a   winged   messenger   of   heaven",
"Unto   the   white-upturned   wondering   eyes",
"Of   mortals   that   fall   back   to   gaze   on   him",
"When   he   bestrides   the   lazy-pacing   clouds",
"And   sails   upon   the   bosom   of   the   air.",
"JULIET   ",
"O   Romeo,   Romeo!   wherefore   art   thou   Romeo?",
"Deny   thy   father   and   refuse   thy   name;",
"Or,   if   thou   wilt   not,   be   but   sworn   my   love,",
"And   I'll   no   longer   be   a   Capulet.",
"ROMEO   ",
"[Aside]   Shall   I   hear   more,   or   shall   I   speak   at   this?",
"JULIET   ",
"'Tis   but   thy   name   that   is   my   enemy;",
"Thou   art   thyself,   though   not   a   Montague.",
"What's   Montague?   it   is   nor   hand,   nor   foot,",
"Nor   arm,   nor   face,   nor   any   other   part",
"Belonging   to   a   man.   O,   be   some   other   name!",
"What's   in   a   name?   that   which   we   call   a   rose",
"By   any   other   name   would   smell   as   sweet;",
"So   Romeo   would,   were   he   not   Romeo   call'd,",
"Retain   that   dear   perfection   which   he   owes",
"Without   that   title.   Romeo,   doff   thy   name,",
"And   for   that   name   which   is   no   part   of   thee",
"Take   all   myself.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   take   thee   at   thy   word:",
"Call   me   but   love,   and   I'll   be   new   baptized;",
"Henceforth   I   never   will   be   Romeo.",
"JULIET   ",
"What   man   art   thou   that   thus   bescreen'd   in   night",
"So   stumblest   on   my   counsel?",
"ROMEO   ",
"By   a   name",
"I   know   not   how   to   tell   thee   who   I   am:",
"My   name,   dear   saint,   is   hateful   to   myself,",
"Because   it   is   an   enemy   to   thee;",
"Had   I   it   written,   I   would   tear   the   word.",
"JULIET   ",
"My   ears   have   not   yet   drunk   a   hundred   words",
"Of   that   tongue's   utterance,   yet   I   know   the   sound:",
"Art   thou   not   Romeo   and   a   Montague?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Neither,   fair   saint,   if   either   thee   dislike.",
"JULIET   ",
"How   camest   thou   hither,   tell   me,   and   wherefore?",
"The   orchard   walls   are   high   and   hard   to   climb,",
"And   the   place   death,   considering   who   thou   art,",
"If   any   of   my   kinsmen   find   thee   here.",
"ROMEO   ",
"With   love's   light   wings   did   I   o'er-perch   these   walls;",
"For   stony   limits   cannot   hold   love   out,",
"And   what   love   can   do   that   dares   love   attempt;",
"Therefore   thy   kinsmen   are   no   let   to   me.",
"JULIET   ",
"If   they   do   see   thee,   they   will   murder   thee.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Alack,   there   lies   more   peril   in   thine   eye",
"Than   twenty   of   their   swords:   look   thou   but   sweet,",
"And   I   am   proof   against   their   enmity.",
"JULIET   ",
"I   would   not   for   the   world   they   saw   thee   here.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   have   night's   cloak   to   hide   me   from   their   sight;",
"And   but   thou   love   me,   let   them   find   me   here:",
"My   life   were   better   ended   by   their   hate,",
"Than   death   prorogued,   wanting   of   thy   love.",
"JULIET   ",
"By   whose   direction   found'st   thou   out   this   place?",
"ROMEO   ",
"By   love,   who   first   did   prompt   me   to   inquire;",
"He   lent   me   counsel   and   I   lent   him   eyes.",
"I   am   no   pilot;   yet,   wert   thou   as   far",
"As   that   vast   shore   wash'd   with   the   farthest   sea,",
"I   would   adventure   for   such   merchandise.",
"JULIET   ",
"Thou   know'st   the   mask   of   night   is   on   my   face,",
"Else   would   a   maiden   blush   bepaint   my   cheek",
"For   that   which   thou   hast   heard   me   speak   to-night",
"Fain   would   I   dwell   on   form,   fain,   fain   deny",
"What   I   have   spoke:   but   farewell   compliment!",
"Dost   thou   love   me?   I   know   thou   wilt   say   'Ay,'",
"And   I   will   take   thy   word:   yet   if   thou   swear'st,",
"Thou   mayst   prove   false;   at   lovers'   perjuries",
"Then   say,   Jove   laughs.   O   gentle   Romeo,",
"If   thou   dost   love,   pronounce   it   faithfully:",
"Or   if   thou   think'st   I   am   too   quickly   won,",
"I'll   frown   and   be   perverse   an   say   thee   nay,",
"So   thou   wilt   woo;   but   else,   not   for   the   world.",
"In   truth,   fair   Montague,   I   am   too   fond,",
"And   therefore   thou   mayst   think   my   'havior   light:",
"But   trust   me,   gentleman,   I'll   prove   more   true",
"Than   those   that   have   more   cunning   to   be   strange.",
"I   should   have   been   more   strange,   I   must   confess,",
"But   that   thou   overheard'st,   ere   I   was   ware,",
"My   true   love's   passion:   therefore   pardon   me,",
"And   not   impute   this   yielding   to   light   love,",
"Which   the   dark   night   hath   so   discovered.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Lady,   by   yonder   blessed   moon   I   swear",
"That   tips   with   silver   all   these   fruit-tree   tops--",
"JULIET   ",
"O,   swear   not   by   the   moon,   the   inconstant   moon,",
"That   monthly   changes   in   her   circled   orb,",
"Lest   that   thy   love   prove   likewise   variable.",
"ROMEO   ",
"What   shall   I   swear   by?",
"JULIET   ",
"Do   not   swear   at   all;",
"Or,   if   thou   wilt,   swear   by   thy   gracious   self,",
"Which   is   the   god   of   my   idolatry,",
"And   I'll   believe   thee.",
"ROMEO   ",
"If   my   heart's   dear   love--",
"JULIET   ",
"Well,   do   not   swear:   although   I   joy   in   thee,",
"I   have   no   joy   of   this   contract   to-night:",
"It   is   too   rash,   too   unadvised,   too   sudden;",
"Too   like   the   lightning,   which   doth   cease   to   be",
"Ere   one   can   say   'It   lightens.'   Sweet,   good   night!",
"This   bud   of   love,   by   summer's   ripening   breath,",
"May   prove   a   beauteous   flower   when   next   we   meet.",
"Good   night,   good   night!   as   sweet   repose   and   rest",
"Come   to   thy   heart   as   that   within   my   breast!",
"ROMEO   ",
"O,   wilt   thou   leave   me   so   unsatisfied?",
"JULIET   ",
"What   satisfaction   canst   thou   have   to-night?",
"ROMEO   ",
"The   exchange   of   thy   love's   faithful   vow   for   mine.",
"JULIET   ",
"I   gave   thee   mine   before   thou   didst   request   it:",
"And   yet   I   would   it   were   to   give   again.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Wouldst   thou   withdraw   it?   for   what   purpose,   love?",
"JULIET   ",
"But   to   be   frank,   and   give   it   thee   again.",
"And   yet   I   wish   but   for   the   thing   I   have:",
"My   bounty   is   as   boundless   as   the   sea,",
"My   love   as   deep;   the   more   I   give   to   thee,",
"The   more   I   have,   for   both   are   infinite.",
"Nurse   calls   within",
"I   hear   some   noise   within;   dear   love,   adieu!",
"Anon,   good   nurse!   Sweet   Montague,   be   true.",
"Stay   but   a   little,   I   will   come   again.",
"Exit,   above",
"ROMEO   ",
"O   blessed,   blessed   night!   I   am   afeard.",
"Being   in   night,   all   this   is   but   a   dream,",
"Too   flattering-sweet   to   be   substantial.",
"Re-enter   JULIET,   above",
"JULIET   ",
"Three   words,   dear   Romeo,   and   good   night   indeed.",
"If   that   thy   bent   of   love   be   honourable,",
"Thy   purpose   marriage,   send   me   word   to-morrow,",
"By   one   that   I'll   procure   to   come   to   thee,",
"Where   and   what   time   thou   wilt   perform   the   rite;",
"And   all   my   fortunes   at   thy   foot   I'll   lay",
"And   follow   thee   my   lord   throughout   the   world.",
"Nurse   ",
"[Within]   Madam!",
"JULIET   ",
"I   come,   anon.--But   if   thou   mean'st   not   well,",
"I   do   beseech   thee--",
"Nurse   ",
"[Within]   Madam!",
"JULIET   ",
"By   and   by,   I   come:--",
"To   cease   thy   suit,   and   leave   me   to   my   grief:",
"To-morrow   will   I   send.",
"ROMEO   ",
"So   thrive   my   soul--",
"JULIET   ",
"A   thousand   times   good   night!",
"Exit,   above",
"ROMEO   ",
"A   thousand   times   the   worse,   to   want   thy   light.",
"Love   goes   toward   love,   as   schoolboys   from",
"their   books,",
"But   love   from   love,   toward   school   with   heavy   looks.",
"Retiring",
"Re-enter   JULIET,   above",
"JULIET   ",
"Hist!   Romeo,   hist!   O,   for   a   falconer's   voice,",
"To   lure   this   tassel-gentle   back   again!",
"Bondage   is   hoarse,   and   may   not   speak   aloud;",
"Else   would   I   tear   the   cave   where   Echo   lies,",
"And   make   her   airy   tongue   more   hoarse   than   mine,",
"With   repetition   of   my   Romeo's   name.",
"ROMEO   ",
"It   is   my   soul   that   calls   upon   my   name:",
"How   silver-sweet   sound   lovers'   tongues   by   night,",
"Like   softest   music   to   attending   ears!",
"JULIET   ",
"Romeo!",
"ROMEO   ",
"My   dear?",
"JULIET   ",
"At   what   o'clock   to-morrow",
"Shall   I   send   to   thee?",
"ROMEO   ",
"At   the   hour   of   nine.",
"JULIET   ",
"I   will   not   fail:   'tis   twenty   years   till   then.",
"I   have   forgot   why   I   did   call   thee   back.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Let   me   stand   here   till   thou   remember   it.",
"JULIET   ",
"I   shall   forget,   to   have   thee   still   stand   there,",
"Remembering   how   I   love   thy   company.",
"ROMEO   ",
"And   I'll   still   stay,   to   have   thee   still   forget,",
"Forgetting   any   other   home   but   this.",
"JULIET   ",
"'Tis   almost   morning;   I   would   have   thee   gone:",
"And   yet   no   further   than   a   wanton's   bird;",
"Who   lets   it   hop   a   little   from   her   hand,",
"Like   a   poor   prisoner   in   his   twisted   gyves,",
"And   with   a   silk   thread   plucks   it   back   again,",
"So   loving-jealous   of   his   liberty.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   would   I   were   thy   bird.",
"JULIET   ",
"Sweet,   so   would   I:",
"Yet   I   should   kill   thee   with   much   cherishing.",
"Good   night,   good   night!   parting   is   such",
"sweet   sorrow,",
"That   I   shall   say   good   night   till   it   be   morrow.",
"Exit   above",
"ROMEO   ",
"Sleep   dwell   upon   thine   eyes,   peace   in   thy   breast!",
"Would   I   were   sleep   and   peace,   so   sweet   to   rest!",
"Hence   will   I   to   my   ghostly   father's   cell,",
"His   help   to   crave,   and   my   dear   hap   to   tell.",
"Exit",
"SCENE   III.   Friar   Laurence's   cell.",
"",
"Enter   FRIAR   LAURENCE,   with   a   basket   ",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"The   grey-eyed   morn   smiles   on   the   frowning   night,",
"Chequering   the   eastern   clouds   with   streaks   of   light,",
"And   flecked   darkness   like   a   drunkard   reels",
"From   forth   day's   path   and   Titan's   fiery   wheels:",
"Now,   ere   the   sun   advance   his   burning   eye,",
"The   day   to   cheer   and   night's   dank   dew   to   dry,",
"I   must   up-fill   this   osier   cage   of   ours",
"With   baleful   weeds   and   precious-juiced   flowers.",
"The   earth   that's   nature's   mother   is   her   tomb;",
"What   is   her   burying   grave   that   is   her   womb,",
"And   from   her   womb   children   of   divers   kind",
"We   sucking   on   her   natural   bosom   find,",
"Many   for   many   virtues   excellent,",
"None   but   for   some   and   yet   all   different.",
"O,   mickle   is   the   powerful   grace   that   lies",
"In   herbs,   plants,   stones,   and   their   true   qualities:",
"For   nought   so   vile   that   on   the   earth   doth   live",
"But   to   the   earth   some   special   good   doth   give,",
"Nor   aught   so   good   but   strain'd   from   that   fair   use",
"Revolts   from   true   birth,   stumbling   on   abuse:",
"Virtue   itself   turns   vice,   being   misapplied;",
"And   vice   sometimes   by   action   dignified.",
"Within   the   infant   rind   of   this   small   flower",
"Poison   hath   residence   and   medicine   power:",
"For   this,   being   smelt,   with   that   part   cheers   each   part;",
"Being   tasted,   slays   all   senses   with   the   heart.",
"Two   such   opposed   kings   encamp   them   still",
"In   man   as   well   as   herbs,   grace   and   rude   will;",
"And   where   the   worser   is   predominant,",
"Full   soon   the   canker   death   eats   up   that   plant.",
"Enter   ROMEO",
"ROMEO   ",
"Good   morrow,   father.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Benedicite!",
"What   early   tongue   so   sweet   saluteth   me?",
"Young   son,   it   argues   a   distemper'd   head",
"So   soon   to   bid   good   morrow   to   thy   bed:",
"Care   keeps   his   watch   in   every   old   man's   eye,",
"And   where   care   lodges,   sleep   will   never   lie;",
"But   where   unbruised   youth   with   unstuff'd   brain",
"Doth   couch   his   limbs,   there   golden   sleep   doth   reign:",
"Therefore   thy   earliness   doth   me   assure",
"Thou   art   up-roused   by   some   distemperature;",
"Or   if   not   so,   then   here   I   hit   it   right,",
"Our   Romeo   hath   not   been   in   bed   to-night.",
"ROMEO   ",
"That   last   is   true;   the   sweeter   rest   was   mine.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"God   pardon   sin!   wast   thou   with   Rosaline?",
"ROMEO   ",
"With   Rosaline,   my   ghostly   father?   no;",
"I   have   forgot   that   name,   and   that   name's   woe.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"That's   my   good   son:   but   where   hast   thou   been,   then?",
"ROMEO   ",
"I'll   tell   thee,   ere   thou   ask   it   me   again.",
"I   have   been   feasting   with   mine   enemy,",
"Where   on   a   sudden   one   hath   wounded   me,",
"That's   by   me   wounded:   both   our   remedies",
"Within   thy   help   and   holy   physic   lies:",
"I   bear   no   hatred,   blessed   man,   for,   lo,",
"My   intercession   likewise   steads   my   foe.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Be   plain,   good   son,   and   homely   in   thy   drift;",
"Riddling   confession   finds   but   riddling   shrift.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Then   plainly   know   my   heart's   dear   love   is   set",
"On   the   fair   daughter   of   rich   Capulet:",
"As   mine   on   hers,   so   hers   is   set   on   mine;",
"And   all   combined,   save   what   thou   must   combine",
"By   holy   marriage:   when   and   where   and   how",
"We   met,   we   woo'd   and   made   exchange   of   vow,",
"I'll   tell   thee   as   we   pass;   but   this   I   pray,",
"That   thou   consent   to   marry   us   to-day.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Holy   Saint   Francis,   what   a   change   is   here!",
"Is   Rosaline,   whom   thou   didst   love   so   dear,",
"So   soon   forsaken?   young   men's   love   then   lies",
"Not   truly   in   their   hearts,   but   in   their   eyes.",
"Jesu   Maria,   what   a   deal   of   brine",
"Hath   wash'd   thy   sallow   cheeks   for   Rosaline!",
"How   much   salt   water   thrown   away   in   waste,",
"To   season   love,   that   of   it   doth   not   taste!",
"The   sun   not   yet   thy   sighs   from   heaven   clears,",
"Thy   old   groans   ring   yet   in   my   ancient   ears;",
"Lo,   here   upon   thy   cheek   the   stain   doth   sit",
"Of   an   old   tear   that   is   not   wash'd   off   yet:",
"If   e'er   thou   wast   thyself   and   these   woes   thine,",
"Thou   and   these   woes   were   all   for   Rosaline:",
"And   art   thou   changed?   pronounce   this   sentence   then,",
"Women   may   fall,   when   there's   no   strength   in   men.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Thou   chid'st   me   oft   for   loving   Rosaline.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"For   doting,   not   for   loving,   pupil   mine.",
"ROMEO   ",
"And   bad'st   me   bury   love.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Not   in   a   grave,",
"To   lay   one   in,   another   out   to   have.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   pray   thee,   chide   not;   she   whom   I   love   now",
"Doth   grace   for   grace   and   love   for   love   allow;",
"The   other   did   not   so.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"O,   she   knew   well",
"Thy   love   did   read   by   rote   and   could   not   spell.",
"But   come,   young   waverer,   come,   go   with   me,",
"In   one   respect   I'll   thy   assistant   be;",
"For   this   alliance   may   so   happy   prove,",
"To   turn   your   households'   rancour   to   pure   love.",
"ROMEO   ",
"O,   let   us   hence;   I   stand   on   sudden   haste.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Wisely   and   slow;   they   stumble   that   run   fast.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   IV.   A   street.",
"",
"Enter   BENVOLIO   and   MERCUTIO   ",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Where   the   devil   should   this   Romeo   be?",
"Came   he   not   home   to-night?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Not   to   his   father's;   I   spoke   with   his   man.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Ah,   that   same   pale   hard-hearted   wench,   that   Rosaline.",
"Torments   him   so,   that   he   will   sure   run   mad.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Tybalt,   the   kinsman   of   old   Capulet,",
"Hath   sent   a   letter   to   his   father's   house.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"A   challenge,   on   my   life.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Romeo   will   answer   it.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Any   man   that   can   write   may   answer   a   letter.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Nay,   he   will   answer   the   letter's   master,   how   he",
"dares,   being   dared.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Alas   poor   Romeo!   he   is   already   dead;   stabbed   with   a",
"white   wench's   black   eye;   shot   through   the   ear   with   a",
"love-song;   the   very   pin   of   his   heart   cleft   with   the",
"blind   bow-boy's   butt-shaft:   and   is   he   a   man   to",
"encounter   Tybalt?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Why,   what   is   Tybalt?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"More   than   prince   of   cats,   I   can   tell   you.   O,   he   is",
"the   courageous   captain   of   compliments.   He   fights   as",
"you   sing   prick-song,   keeps   time,   distance,   and",
"proportion;   rests   me   his   minim   rest,   one,   two,   and",
"the   third   in   your   bosom:   the   very   butcher   of   a   silk",
"button,   a   duellist,   a   duellist;   a   gentleman   of   the",
"very   first   house,   of   the   first   and   second   cause:",
"ah,   the   immortal   passado!   the   punto   reverso!   the",
"hai!",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"The   what?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"The   pox   of   such   antic,   lisping,   affecting",
"fantasticoes;   these   new   tuners   of   accents!   'By   Jesu,",
"a   very   good   blade!   a   very   tall   man!   a   very   good",
"whore!'   Why,   is   not   this   a   lamentable   thing,",
"grandsire,   that   we   should   be   thus   afflicted   with",
"these   strange   flies,   these   fashion-mongers,   these",
"perdona-mi's,   who   stand   so   much   on   the   new   form,",
"that   they   cannot   at   ease   on   the   old   bench?   O,   their",
"bones,   their   bones!",
"Enter   ROMEO",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Here   comes   Romeo,   here   comes   Romeo.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Without   his   roe,   like   a   dried   herring:   flesh,   flesh,",
"how   art   thou   fishified!   Now   is   he   for   the   numbers",
"that   Petrarch   flowed   in:   Laura   to   his   lady   was   but   a",
"kitchen-wench;   marry,   she   had   a   better   love   to",
"be-rhyme   her;   Dido   a   dowdy;   Cleopatra   a   gipsy;",
"Helen   and   Hero   hildings   and   harlots;   Thisbe   a   grey",
"eye   or   so,   but   not   to   the   purpose.   Signior",
"Romeo,   bon   jour!   there's   a   French   salutation",
"to   your   French   slop.   You   gave   us   the   counterfeit",
"fairly   last   night.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Good   morrow   to   you   both.   What   counterfeit   did   I   give   you?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"The   ship,   sir,   the   slip;   can   you   not   conceive?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Pardon,   good   Mercutio,   my   business   was   great;   and   in",
"such   a   case   as   mine   a   man   may   strain   courtesy.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"That's   as   much   as   to   say,   such   a   case   as   yours",
"constrains   a   man   to   bow   in   the   hams.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Meaning,   to   court'sy.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Thou   hast   most   kindly   hit   it.",
"ROMEO   ",
"A   most   courteous   exposition.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Nay,   I   am   the   very   pink   of   courtesy.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Pink   for   flower.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Right.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Why,   then   is   my   pump   well   flowered.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Well   said:   follow   me   this   jest   now   till   thou   hast",
"worn   out   thy   pump,   that   when   the   single   sole   of   it",
"is   worn,   the   jest   may   remain   after   the   wearing   sole   singular.",
"ROMEO   ",
"O   single-soled   jest,   solely   singular   for   the",
"singleness.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Come   between   us,   good   Benvolio;   my   wits   faint.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Switch   and   spurs,   switch   and   spurs;   or   I'll   cry   a   match.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Nay,   if   thy   wits   run   the   wild-goose   chase,   I   have",
"done,   for   thou   hast   more   of   the   wild-goose   in   one   of",
"thy   wits   than,   I   am   sure,   I   have   in   my   whole   five:",
"was   I   with   you   there   for   the   goose?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Thou   wast   never   with   me   for   any   thing   when   thou   wast",
"not   there   for   the   goose.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"I   will   bite   thee   by   the   ear   for   that   jest.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Nay,   good   goose,   bite   not.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Thy   wit   is   a   very   bitter   sweeting;   it   is   a   most",
"sharp   sauce.",
"ROMEO   ",
"And   is   it   not   well   served   in   to   a   sweet   goose?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"O   here's   a   wit   of   cheveril,   that   stretches   from   an",
"inch   narrow   to   an   ell   broad!",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   stretch   it   out   for   that   word   'broad;'   which   added",
"to   the   goose,   proves   thee   far   and   wide   a   broad   goose.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Why,   is   not   this   better   now   than   groaning   for   love?",
"now   art   thou   sociable,   now   art   thou   Romeo;   now   art",
"thou   what   thou   art,   by   art   as   well   as   by   nature:",
"for   this   drivelling   love   is   like   a   great   natural,",
"that   runs   lolling   up   and   down   to   hide   his   bauble   in   a   hole.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Stop   there,   stop   there.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Thou   desirest   me   to   stop   in   my   tale   against   the   hair.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Thou   wouldst   else   have   made   thy   tale   large.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"O,   thou   art   deceived;   I   would   have   made   it   short:",
"for   I   was   come   to   the   whole   depth   of   my   tale;   and",
"meant,   indeed,   to   occupy   the   argument   no   longer.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Here's   goodly   gear!",
"Enter   Nurse   and   PETER",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"A   sail,   a   sail!",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Two,   two;   a   shirt   and   a   smock.",
"Nurse   ",
"Peter!",
"PETER   ",
"Anon!",
"Nurse   ",
"My   fan,   Peter.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Good   Peter,   to   hide   her   face;   for   her   fan's   the",
"fairer   face.",
"Nurse   ",
"God   ye   good   morrow,   gentlemen.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"God   ye   good   den,   fair   gentlewoman.",
"Nurse   ",
"Is   it   good   den?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"'Tis   no   less,   I   tell   you,   for   the   bawdy   hand   of   the",
"dial   is   now   upon   the   prick   of   noon.",
"Nurse   ",
"Out   upon   you!   what   a   man   are   you!",
"ROMEO   ",
"One,   gentlewoman,   that   God   hath   made   for   himself   to",
"mar.",
"Nurse   ",
"By   my   troth,   it   is   well   said;   'for   himself   to   mar,'",
"quoth   a'?   Gentlemen,   can   any   of   you   tell   me   where   I",
"may   find   the   young   Romeo?",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   can   tell   you;   but   young   Romeo   will   be   older   when",
"you   have   found   him   than   he   was   when   you   sought   him:",
"I   am   the   youngest   of   that   name,   for   fault   of   a   worse.",
"Nurse   ",
"You   say   well.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Yea,   is   the   worst   well?   very   well   took,   i'   faith;",
"wisely,   wisely.",
"Nurse   ",
"if   you   be   he,   sir,   I   desire   some   confidence   with",
"you.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"She   will   indite   him   to   some   supper.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"A   bawd,   a   bawd,   a   bawd!   so   ho!",
"ROMEO   ",
"What   hast   thou   found?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"No   hare,   sir;   unless   a   hare,   sir,   in   a   lenten   pie,",
"that   is   something   stale   and   hoar   ere   it   be   spent.",
"Sings",
"An   old   hare   hoar,",
"And   an   old   hare   hoar,",
"Is   very   good   meat   in   lent",
"But   a   hare   that   is   hoar",
"Is   too   much   for   a   score,",
"When   it   hoars   ere   it   be   spent.",
"Romeo,   will   you   come   to   your   father's?   we'll",
"to   dinner,   thither.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   will   follow   you.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Farewell,   ancient   lady;   farewell,",
"Singing",
"'lady,   lady,   lady.'",
"Exeunt   MERCUTIO   and   BENVOLIO",
"Nurse   ",
"Marry,   farewell!   I   pray   you,   sir,   what   saucy",
"merchant   was   this,   that   was   so   full   of   his   ropery?",
"ROMEO   ",
"A   gentleman,   nurse,   that   loves   to   hear   himself   talk,",
"and   will   speak   more   in   a   minute   than   he   will   stand",
"to   in   a   month.",
"Nurse   ",
"An   a'   speak   any   thing   against   me,   I'll   take   him",
"down,   an   a'   were   lustier   than   he   is,   and   twenty   such",
"Jacks;   and   if   I   cannot,   I'll   find   those   that   shall.",
"Scurvy   knave!   I   am   none   of   his   flirt-gills;   I   am",
"none   of   his   skains-mates.   And   thou   must   stand   by",
"too,   and   suffer   every   knave   to   use   me   at   his   pleasure?",
"PETER   ",
"I   saw   no   man   use   you   a   pleasure;   if   I   had,   my   weapon",
"should   quickly   have   been   out,   I   warrant   you:   I   dare",
"draw   as   soon   as   another   man,   if   I   see   occasion   in   a",
"good   quarrel,   and   the   law   on   my   side.",
"Nurse   ",
"Now,   afore   God,   I   am   so   vexed,   that   every   part   about",
"me   quivers.   Scurvy   knave!   Pray   you,   sir,   a   word:",
"and   as   I   told   you,   my   young   lady   bade   me   inquire   you",
"out;   what   she   bade   me   say,   I   will   keep   to   myself:",
"but   first   let   me   tell   ye,   if   ye   should   lead   her   into",
"a   fool's   paradise,   as   they   say,   it   were   a   very   gross",
"kind   of   behavior,   as   they   say:   for   the   gentlewoman",
"is   young;   and,   therefore,   if   you   should   deal   double",
"with   her,   truly   it   were   an   ill   thing   to   be   offered",
"to   any   gentlewoman,   and   very   weak   dealing.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Nurse,   commend   me   to   thy   lady   and   mistress.   I",
"protest   unto   thee--",
"Nurse   ",
"Good   heart,   and,   i'   faith,   I   will   tell   her   as   much:",
"Lord,   Lord,   she   will   be   a   joyful   woman.",
"ROMEO   ",
"What   wilt   thou   tell   her,   nurse?   thou   dost   not   mark   me.",
"Nurse   ",
"I   will   tell   her,   sir,   that   you   do   protest;   which,   as",
"I   take   it,   is   a   gentlemanlike   offer.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Bid   her   devise",
"Some   means   to   come   to   shrift   this   afternoon;",
"And   there   she   shall   at   Friar   Laurence'   cell",
"Be   shrived   and   married.   Here   is   for   thy   pains.",
"Nurse   ",
"No   truly   sir;   not   a   penny.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Go   to;   I   say   you   shall.",
"Nurse   ",
"This   afternoon,   sir?   well,   she   shall   be   there.",
"ROMEO   ",
"And   stay,   good   nurse,   behind   the   abbey   wall:",
"Within   this   hour   my   man   shall   be   with   thee",
"And   bring   thee   cords   made   like   a   tackled   stair;",
"Which   to   the   high   top-gallant   of   my   joy",
"Must   be   my   convoy   in   the   secret   night.",
"Farewell;   be   trusty,   and   I'll   quit   thy   pains:",
"Farewell;   commend   me   to   thy   mistress.",
"Nurse   ",
"Now   God   in   heaven   bless   thee!   Hark   you,   sir.",
"ROMEO   ",
"What   say'st   thou,   my   dear   nurse?",
"Nurse   ",
"Is   your   man   secret?   Did   you   ne'er   hear   say,",
"Two   may   keep   counsel,   putting   one   away?",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   warrant   thee,   my   man's   as   true   as   steel.",
"NURSE   ",
"Well,   sir;   my   mistress   is   the   sweetest   lady--Lord,",
"Lord!   when   'twas   a   little   prating   thing:--O,   there",
"is   a   nobleman   in   town,   one   Paris,   that   would   fain",
"lay   knife   aboard;   but   she,   good   soul,   had   as   lief",
"see   a   toad,   a   very   toad,   as   see   him.   I   anger   her",
"sometimes   and   tell   her   that   Paris   is   the   properer",
"man;   but,   I'll   warrant   you,   when   I   say   so,   she   looks",
"as   pale   as   any   clout   in   the   versal   world.   Doth   not",
"rosemary   and   Romeo   begin   both   with   a   letter?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Ay,   nurse;   what   of   that?   both   with   an   R.",
"Nurse   ",
"Ah.   mocker!   that's   the   dog's   name;   R   is   for",
"the--No;   I   know   it   begins   with   some   other",
"letter:--and   she   hath   the   prettiest   sententious   of",
"it,   of   you   and   rosemary,   that   it   would   do   you   good",
"to   hear   it.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Commend   me   to   thy   lady.",
"Nurse   ",
"Ay,   a   thousand   times.",
"Exit   Romeo",
"Peter!",
"PETER   ",
"Anon!",
"Nurse   ",
"Peter,   take   my   fan,   and   go   before   and   apace.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   V.   Capulet's   orchard.",
"",
"Enter   JULIET   ",
"JULIET   ",
"The   clock   struck   nine   when   I   did   send   the   nurse;",
"In   half   an   hour   she   promised   to   return.",
"Perchance   she   cannot   meet   him:   that's   not   so.",
"O,   she   is   lame!   love's   heralds   should   be   thoughts,",
"Which   ten   times   faster   glide   than   the   sun's   beams,",
"Driving   back   shadows   over   louring   hills:",
"Therefore   do   nimble-pinion'd   doves   draw   love,",
"And   therefore   hath   the   wind-swift   Cupid   wings.",
"Now   is   the   sun   upon   the   highmost   hill",
"Of   this   day's   journey,   and   from   nine   till   twelve",
"Is   three   long   hours,   yet   she   is   not   come.",
"Had   she   affections   and   warm   youthful   blood,",
"She   would   be   as   swift   in   motion   as   a   ball;",
"My   words   would   bandy   her   to   my   sweet   love,",
"And   his   to   me:",
"But   old   folks,   many   feign   as   they   were   dead;",
"Unwieldy,   slow,   heavy   and   pale   as   lead.",
"O   God,   she   comes!",
"Enter   Nurse   and   PETER",
"O   honey   nurse,   what   news?",
"Hast   thou   met   with   him?   Send   thy   man   away.",
"Nurse   ",
"Peter,   stay   at   the   gate.",
"Exit   PETER",
"JULIET   ",
"Now,   good   sweet   nurse,--O   Lord,   why   look'st   thou   sad?",
"Though   news   be   sad,   yet   tell   them   merrily;",
"If   good,   thou   shamest   the   music   of   sweet   news",
"By   playing   it   to   me   with   so   sour   a   face.",
"Nurse   ",
"I   am   a-weary,   give   me   leave   awhile:",
"Fie,   how   my   bones   ache!   what   a   jaunt   have   I   had!",
"JULIET   ",
"I   would   thou   hadst   my   bones,   and   I   thy   news:",
"Nay,   come,   I   pray   thee,   speak;   good,   good   nurse,   speak.",
"Nurse   ",
"Jesu,   what   haste?   can   you   not   stay   awhile?",
"Do   you   not   see   that   I   am   out   of   breath?",
"JULIET   ",
"How   art   thou   out   of   breath,   when   thou   hast   breath",
"To   say   to   me   that   thou   art   out   of   breath?",
"The   excuse   that   thou   dost   make   in   this   delay",
"Is   longer   than   the   tale   thou   dost   excuse.",
"Is   thy   news   good,   or   bad?   answer   to   that;",
"Say   either,   and   I'll   stay   the   circumstance:",
"Let   me   be   satisfied,   is't   good   or   bad?",
"Nurse   ",
"Well,   you   have   made   a   simple   choice;   you   know   not",
"how   to   choose   a   man:   Romeo!   no,   not   he;   though   his",
"face   be   better   than   any   man's,   yet   his   leg   excels",
"all   men's;   and   for   a   hand,   and   a   foot,   and   a   body,",
"though   they   be   not   to   be   talked   on,   yet   they   are",
"past   compare:   he   is   not   the   flower   of   courtesy,",
"but,   I'll   warrant   him,   as   gentle   as   a   lamb.   Go   thy",
"ways,   wench;   serve   God.   What,   have   you   dined   at   home?",
"JULIET   ",
"No,   no:   but   all   this   did   I   know   before.",
"What   says   he   of   our   marriage?   what   of   that?",
"Nurse   ",
"Lord,   how   my   head   aches!   what   a   head   have   I!",
"It   beats   as   it   would   fall   in   twenty   pieces.",
"My   back   o'   t'   other   side,--O,   my   back,   my   back!",
"Beshrew   your   heart   for   sending   me   about,",
"To   catch   my   death   with   jaunting   up   and   down!",
"JULIET   ",
"I'   faith,   I   am   sorry   that   thou   art   not   well.",
"Sweet,   sweet,   sweet   nurse,   tell   me,   what   says   my   love?",
"Nurse   ",
"Your   love   says,   like   an   honest   gentleman,   and   a",
"courteous,   and   a   kind,   and   a   handsome,   and,   I",
"warrant,   a   virtuous,--Where   is   your   mother?",
"JULIET   ",
"Where   is   my   mother!   why,   she   is   within;",
"Where   should   she   be?   How   oddly   thou   repliest!",
"'Your   love   says,   like   an   honest   gentleman,",
"Where   is   your   mother?'",
"Nurse   ",
"O   God's   lady   dear!",
"Are   you   so   hot?   marry,   come   up,   I   trow;",
"Is   this   the   poultice   for   my   aching   bones?",
"Henceforward   do   your   messages   yourself.",
"JULIET   ",
"Here's   such   a   coil!   come,   what   says   Romeo?",
"Nurse   ",
"Have   you   got   leave   to   go   to   shrift   to-day?",
"JULIET   ",
"I   have.",
"Nurse   ",
"Then   hie   you   hence   to   Friar   Laurence'   cell;",
"There   stays   a   husband   to   make   you   a   wife:",
"Now   comes   the   wanton   blood   up   in   your   cheeks,",
"They'll   be   in   scarlet   straight   at   any   news.",
"Hie   you   to   church;   I   must   another   way,",
"To   fetch   a   ladder,   by   the   which   your   love",
"Must   climb   a   bird's   nest   soon   when   it   is   dark:",
"I   am   the   drudge   and   toil   in   your   delight,",
"But   you   shall   bear   the   burden   soon   at   night.",
"Go;   I'll   to   dinner:   hie   you   to   the   cell.",
"JULIET   ",
"Hie   to   high   fortune!   Honest   nurse,   farewell.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   VI.   Friar   Laurence's   cell.",
"",
"Enter   FRIAR   LAURENCE   and   ROMEO   ",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"So   smile   the   heavens   upon   this   holy   act,",
"That   after   hours   with   sorrow   chide   us   not!",
"ROMEO   ",
"Amen,   amen!   but   come   what   sorrow   can,",
"It   cannot   countervail   the   exchange   of   joy",
"That   one   short   minute   gives   me   in   her   sight:",
"Do   thou   but   close   our   hands   with   holy   words,",
"Then   love-devouring   death   do   what   he   dare;",
"It   is   enough   I   may   but   call   her   mine.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"These   violent   delights   have   violent   ends",
"And   in   their   triumph   die,   like   fire   and   powder,",
"Which   as   they   kiss   consume:   the   sweetest   honey",
"Is   loathsome   in   his   own   deliciousness",
"And   in   the   taste   confounds   the   appetite:",
"Therefore   love   moderately;   long   love   doth   so;",
"Too   swift   arrives   as   tardy   as   too   slow.",
"Enter   JULIET",
"Here   comes   the   lady:   O,   so   light   a   foot",
"Will   ne'er   wear   out   the   everlasting   flint:",
"A   lover   may   bestride   the   gossamer",
"That   idles   in   the   wanton   summer   air,",
"And   yet   not   fall;   so   light   is   vanity.",
"JULIET   ",
"Good   even   to   my   ghostly   confessor.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Romeo   shall   thank   thee,   daughter,   for   us   both.",
"JULIET   ",
"As   much   to   him,   else   is   his   thanks   too   much.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Ah,   Juliet,   if   the   measure   of   thy   joy",
"Be   heap'd   like   mine   and   that   thy   skill   be   more",
"To   blazon   it,   then   sweeten   with   thy   breath",
"This   neighbour   air,   and   let   rich   music's   tongue",
"Unfold   the   imagined   happiness   that   both",
"Receive   in   either   by   this   dear   encounter.",
"JULIET   ",
"Conceit,   more   rich   in   matter   than   in   words,",
"Brags   of   his   substance,   not   of   ornament:",
"They   are   but   beggars   that   can   count   their   worth;",
"But   my   true   love   is   grown   to   such   excess",
"I   cannot   sum   up   sum   of   half   my   wealth.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Come,   come   with   me,   and   we   will   make   short   work;",
"For,   by   your   leaves,   you   shall   not   stay   alone",
"Till   holy   church   incorporate   two   in   one.",
"Exeunt",
"",
"ACT   III",
"SCENE   I.   A   public   place.",
"",
"Enter   MERCUTIO,   BENVOLIO,   Page,   and   Servants   ",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"I   pray   thee,   good   Mercutio,   let's   retire:",
"The   day   is   hot,   the   Capulets   abroad,",
"And,   if   we   meet,   we   shall   not   scape   a   brawl;",
"For   now,   these   hot   days,   is   the   mad   blood   stirring.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Thou   art   like   one   of   those   fellows   that   when   he",
"enters   the   confines   of   a   tavern   claps   me   his   sword",
"upon   the   table   and   says   'God   send   me   no   need   of",
"thee!'   and   by   the   operation   of   the   second   cup   draws",
"it   on   the   drawer,   when   indeed   there   is   no   need.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Am   I   like   such   a   fellow?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Come,   come,   thou   art   as   hot   a   Jack   in   thy   mood   as",
"any   in   Italy,   and   as   soon   moved   to   be   moody,   and   as",
"soon   moody   to   be   moved.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"And   what   to?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Nay,   an   there   were   two   such,   we   should   have   none",
"shortly,   for   one   would   kill   the   other.   Thou!   why,",
"thou   wilt   quarrel   with   a   man   that   hath   a   hair   more,",
"or   a   hair   less,   in   his   beard,   than   thou   hast:   thou",
"wilt   quarrel   with   a   man   for   cracking   nuts,   having   no",
"other   reason   but   because   thou   hast   hazel   eyes:   what",
"eye   but   such   an   eye   would   spy   out   such   a   quarrel?",
"Thy   head   is   as   fun   of   quarrels   as   an   egg   is   full   of",
"meat,   and   yet   thy   head   hath   been   beaten   as   addle   as",
"an   egg   for   quarrelling:   thou   hast   quarrelled   with   a",
"man   for   coughing   in   the   street,   because   he   hath",
"wakened   thy   dog   that   hath   lain   asleep   in   the   sun:",
"didst   thou   not   fall   out   with   a   tailor   for   wearing",
"his   new   doublet   before   Easter?   with   another,   for",
"tying   his   new   shoes   with   old   riband?   and   yet   thou",
"wilt   tutor   me   from   quarrelling!",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"An   I   were   so   apt   to   quarrel   as   thou   art,   any   man",
"should   buy   the   fee-simple   of   my   life   for   an   hour   and   a   quarter.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"The   fee-simple!   O   simple!",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"By   my   head,   here   come   the   Capulets.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"By   my   heel,   I   care   not.",
"Enter   TYBALT   and   others",
"TYBALT   ",
"Follow   me   close,   for   I   will   speak   to   them.",
"Gentlemen,   good   den:   a   word   with   one   of   you.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"And   but   one   word   with   one   of   us?   couple   it   with",
"something;   make   it   a   word   and   a   blow.",
"TYBALT   ",
"You   shall   find   me   apt   enough   to   that,   sir,   an   you",
"will   give   me   occasion.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Could   you   not   take   some   occasion   without   giving?",
"TYBALT   ",
"Mercutio,   thou   consort'st   with   Romeo,--",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Consort!   what,   dost   thou   make   us   minstrels?   an",
"thou   make   minstrels   of   us,   look   to   hear   nothing   but",
"discords:   here's   my   fiddlestick;   here's   that   shall",
"make   you   dance.   'Zounds,   consort!",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"We   talk   here   in   the   public   haunt   of   men:",
"Either   withdraw   unto   some   private   place,",
"And   reason   coldly   of   your   grievances,",
"Or   else   depart;   here   all   eyes   gaze   on   us.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Men's   eyes   were   made   to   look,   and   let   them   gaze;",
"I   will   not   budge   for   no   man's   pleasure,   I.",
"Enter   ROMEO",
"TYBALT   ",
"Well,   peace   be   with   you,   sir:   here   comes   my   man.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"But   I'll   be   hanged,   sir,   if   he   wear   your   livery:",
"Marry,   go   before   to   field,   he'll   be   your   follower;",
"Your   worship   in   that   sense   may   call   him   'man.'",
"TYBALT   ",
"Romeo,   the   hate   I   bear   thee   can   afford",
"No   better   term   than   this,--thou   art   a   villain.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Tybalt,   the   reason   that   I   have   to   love   thee",
"Doth   much   excuse   the   appertaining   rage",
"To   such   a   greeting:   villain   am   I   none;",
"Therefore   farewell;   I   see   thou   know'st   me   not.",
"TYBALT   ",
"Boy,   this   shall   not   excuse   the   injuries",
"That   thou   hast   done   me;   therefore   turn   and   draw.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   do   protest,   I   never   injured   thee,",
"But   love   thee   better   than   thou   canst   devise,",
"Till   thou   shalt   know   the   reason   of   my   love:",
"And   so,   good   Capulet,--which   name   I   tender",
"As   dearly   as   my   own,--be   satisfied.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"O   calm,   dishonourable,   vile   submission!",
"Alla   stoccata   carries   it   away.",
"Draws",
"Tybalt,   you   rat-catcher,   will   you   walk?",
"TYBALT   ",
"What   wouldst   thou   have   with   me?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Good   king   of   cats,   nothing   but   one   of   your   nine",
"lives;   that   I   mean   to   make   bold   withal,   and   as   you",
"shall   use   me   hereafter,   drybeat   the   rest   of   the",
"eight.   Will   you   pluck   your   sword   out   of   his   pitcher",
"by   the   ears?   make   haste,   lest   mine   be   about   your",
"ears   ere   it   be   out.",
"TYBALT   ",
"I   am   for   you.",
"Drawing",
"ROMEO   ",
"Gentle   Mercutio,   put   thy   rapier   up.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Come,   sir,   your   passado.",
"They   fight",
"ROMEO   ",
"Draw,   Benvolio;   beat   down   their   weapons.",
"Gentlemen,   for   shame,   forbear   this   outrage!",
"Tybalt,   Mercutio,   the   prince   expressly   hath",
"Forbidden   bandying   in   Verona   streets:",
"Hold,   Tybalt!   good   Mercutio!",
"TYBALT   under   ROMEO's   arm   stabs   MERCUTIO,   and   flies   with   his   followers",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"I   am   hurt.",
"A   plague   o'   both   your   houses!   I   am   sped.",
"Is   he   gone,   and   hath   nothing?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"What,   art   thou   hurt?",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Ay,   ay,   a   scratch,   a   scratch;   marry,   'tis   enough.",
"Where   is   my   page?   Go,   villain,   fetch   a   surgeon.",
"Exit   Page",
"ROMEO   ",
"Courage,   man;   the   hurt   cannot   be   much.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"No,   'tis   not   so   deep   as   a   well,   nor   so   wide   as   a",
"church-door;   but   'tis   enough,'twill   serve:   ask   for",
"me   to-morrow,   and   you   shall   find   me   a   grave   man.   I",
"am   peppered,   I   warrant,   for   this   world.   A   plague   o'",
"both   your   houses!   'Zounds,   a   dog,   a   rat,   a   mouse,   a",
"cat,   to   scratch   a   man   to   death!   a   braggart,   a",
"rogue,   a   villain,   that   fights   by   the   book   of",
"arithmetic!   Why   the   devil   came   you   between   us?   I",
"was   hurt   under   your   arm.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   thought   all   for   the   best.",
"MERCUTIO   ",
"Help   me   into   some   house,   Benvolio,",
"Or   I   shall   faint.   A   plague   o'   both   your   houses!",
"They   have   made   worms'   meat   of   me:   I   have   it,",
"And   soundly   too:   your   houses!",
"Exeunt   MERCUTIO   and   BENVOLIO",
"ROMEO   ",
"This   gentleman,   the   prince's   near   ally,",
"My   very   friend,   hath   got   his   mortal   hurt",
"In   my   behalf;   my   reputation   stain'd",
"With   Tybalt's   slander,--Tybalt,   that   an   hour",
"Hath   been   my   kinsman!   O   sweet   Juliet,",
"Thy   beauty   hath   made   me   effeminate",
"And   in   my   temper   soften'd   valour's   steel!",
"Re-enter   BENVOLIO",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"O   Romeo,   Romeo,   brave   Mercutio's   dead!",
"That   gallant   spirit   hath   aspired   the   clouds,",
"Which   too   untimely   here   did   scorn   the   earth.",
"ROMEO   ",
"This   day's   black   fate   on   more   days   doth   depend;",
"This   but   begins   the   woe,   others   must   end.",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Here   comes   the   furious   Tybalt   back   again.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Alive,   in   triumph!   and   Mercutio   slain!",
"Away   to   heaven,   respective   lenity,",
"And   fire-eyed   fury   be   my   conduct   now!",
"Re-enter   TYBALT",
"Now,   Tybalt,   take   the   villain   back   again,",
"That   late   thou   gavest   me;   for   Mercutio's   soul",
"Is   but   a   little   way   above   our   heads,",
"Staying   for   thine   to   keep   him   company:",
"Either   thou,   or   I,   or   both,   must   go   with   him.",
"TYBALT   ",
"Thou,   wretched   boy,   that   didst   consort   him   here,",
"Shalt   with   him   hence.",
"ROMEO   ",
"This   shall   determine   that.",
"They   fight;   TYBALT   falls",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Romeo,   away,   be   gone!",
"The   citizens   are   up,   and   Tybalt   slain.",
"Stand   not   amazed:   the   prince   will   doom   thee   death,",
"If   thou   art   taken:   hence,   be   gone,   away!",
"ROMEO   ",
"O,   I   am   fortune's   fool!",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Why   dost   thou   stay?",
"Exit   ROMEO",
"Enter   Citizens,   &   c",
"First   Citizen   ",
"Which   way   ran   he   that   kill'd   Mercutio?",
"Tybalt,   that   murderer,   which   way   ran   he?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"There   lies   that   Tybalt.",
"First   Citizen   ",
"Up,   sir,   go   with   me;",
"I   charge   thee   in   the   princes   name,   obey.",
"Enter   Prince,   attended;   MONTAGUE,   CAPULET,   their   Wives,   and   others",
"PRINCE   ",
"Where   are   the   vile   beginners   of   this   fray?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"O   noble   prince,   I   can   discover   all",
"The   unlucky   manage   of   this   fatal   brawl:",
"There   lies   the   man,   slain   by   young   Romeo,",
"That   slew   thy   kinsman,   brave   Mercutio.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Tybalt,   my   cousin!   O   my   brother's   child!",
"O   prince!   O   cousin!   husband!   O,   the   blood   is   spilt",
"O   my   dear   kinsman!   Prince,   as   thou   art   true,",
"For   blood   of   ours,   shed   blood   of   Montague.",
"O   cousin,   cousin!",
"PRINCE   ",
"Benvolio,   who   began   this   bloody   fray?",
"BENVOLIO   ",
"Tybalt,   here   slain,   whom   Romeo's   hand   did   slay;",
"Romeo   that   spoke   him   fair,   bade   him   bethink",
"How   nice   the   quarrel   was,   and   urged   withal",
"Your   high   displeasure:   all   this   uttered",
"With   gentle   breath,   calm   look,   knees   humbly   bow'd,",
"Could   not   take   truce   with   the   unruly   spleen",
"Of   Tybalt   deaf   to   peace,   but   that   he   tilts",
"With   piercing   steel   at   bold   Mercutio's   breast,",
"Who   all   as   hot,   turns   deadly   point   to   point,",
"And,   with   a   martial   scorn,   with   one   hand   beats",
"Cold   death   aside,   and   with   the   other   sends",
"It   back   to   Tybalt,   whose   dexterity,",
"Retorts   it:   Romeo   he   cries   aloud,",
"'Hold,   friends!   friends,   part!'   and,   swifter   than",
"his   tongue,",
"His   agile   arm   beats   down   their   fatal   points,",
"And   'twixt   them   rushes;   underneath   whose   arm",
"An   envious   thrust   from   Tybalt   hit   the   life",
"Of   stout   Mercutio,   and   then   Tybalt   fled;",
"But   by   and   by   comes   back   to   Romeo,",
"Who   had   but   newly   entertain'd   revenge,",
"And   to   't   they   go   like   lightning,   for,   ere   I",
"Could   draw   to   part   them,   was   stout   Tybalt   slain.",
"And,   as   he   fell,   did   Romeo   turn   and   fly.",
"This   is   the   truth,   or   let   Benvolio   die.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"He   is   a   kinsman   to   the   Montague;",
"Affection   makes   him   false;   he   speaks   not   true:",
"Some   twenty   of   them   fought   in   this   black   strife,",
"And   all   those   twenty   could   but   kill   one   life.",
"I   beg   for   justice,   which   thou,   prince,   must   give;",
"Romeo   slew   Tybalt,   Romeo   must   not   live.",
"PRINCE   ",
"Romeo   slew   him,   he   slew   Mercutio;",
"Who   now   the   price   of   his   dear   blood   doth   owe?",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"Not   Romeo,   prince,   he   was   Mercutio's   friend;",
"His   fault   concludes   but   what   the   law   should   end,",
"The   life   of   Tybalt.",
"PRINCE   ",
"And   for   that   offence",
"Immediately   we   do   exile   him   hence:",
"I   have   an   interest   in   your   hate's   proceeding,",
"My   blood   for   your   rude   brawls   doth   lie   a-bleeding;",
"But   I'll   amerce   you   with   so   strong   a   fine",
"That   you   shall   all   repent   the   loss   of   mine:",
"I   will   be   deaf   to   pleading   and   excuses;",
"Nor   tears   nor   prayers   shall   purchase   out   abuses:",
"Therefore   use   none:   let   Romeo   hence   in   haste,",
"Else,   when   he's   found,   that   hour   is   his   last.",
"Bear   hence   this   body   and   attend   our   will:",
"Mercy   but   murders,   pardoning   those   that   kill.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   II.   Capulet's   orchard.",
"",
"Enter   JULIET   ",
"JULIET   ",
"Gallop   apace,   you   fiery-footed   steeds,",
"Towards   Phoebus'   lodging:   such   a   wagoner",
"As   Phaethon   would   whip   you   to   the   west,",
"And   bring   in   cloudy   night   immediately.",
"Spread   thy   close   curtain,   love-performing   night,",
"That   runaway's   eyes   may   wink   and   Romeo",
"Leap   to   these   arms,   untalk'd   of   and   unseen.",
"Lovers   can   see   to   do   their   amorous   rites",
"By   their   own   beauties;   or,   if   love   be   blind,",
"It   best   agrees   with   night.   Come,   civil   night,",
"Thou   sober-suited   matron,   all   in   black,",
"And   learn   me   how   to   lose   a   winning   match,",
"Play'd   for   a   pair   of   stainless   maidenhoods:",
"Hood   my   unmann'd   blood,   bating   in   my   cheeks,",
"With   thy   black   mantle;   till   strange   love,   grown   bold,",
"Think   true   love   acted   simple   modesty.",
"Come,   night;   come,   Romeo;   come,   thou   day   in   night;",
"For   thou   wilt   lie   upon   the   wings   of   night",
"Whiter   than   new   snow   on   a   raven's   back.",
"Come,   gentle   night,   come,   loving,   black-brow'd   night,",
"Give   me   my   Romeo;   and,   when   he   shall   die,",
"Take   him   and   cut   him   out   in   little   stars,",
"And   he   will   make   the   face   of   heaven   so   fine",
"That   all   the   world   will   be   in   love   with   night",
"And   pay   no   worship   to   the   garish   sun.",
"O,   I   have   bought   the   mansion   of   a   love,",
"But   not   possess'd   it,   and,   though   I   am   sold,",
"Not   yet   enjoy'd:   so   tedious   is   this   day",
"As   is   the   night   before   some   festival",
"To   an   impatient   child   that   hath   new   robes",
"And   may   not   wear   them.   O,   here   comes   my   nurse,",
"And   she   brings   news;   and   every   tongue   that   speaks",
"But   Romeo's   name   speaks   heavenly   eloquence.",
"Enter   Nurse,   with   cords",
"Now,   nurse,   what   news?   What   hast   thou   there?   the   cords",
"That   Romeo   bid   thee   fetch?",
"Nurse   ",
"Ay,   ay,   the   cords.",
"Throws   them   down",
"JULIET   ",
"Ay   me!   what   news?   why   dost   thou   wring   thy   hands?",
"Nurse   ",
"Ah,   well-a-day!   he's   dead,   he's   dead,   he's   dead!",
"We   are   undone,   lady,   we   are   undone!",
"Alack   the   day!   he's   gone,   he's   kill'd,   he's   dead!",
"JULIET   ",
"Can   heaven   be   so   envious?",
"Nurse   ",
"Romeo   can,",
"Though   heaven   cannot:   O   Romeo,   Romeo!",
"Who   ever   would   have   thought   it?   Romeo!",
"JULIET   ",
"What   devil   art   thou,   that   dost   torment   me   thus?",
"This   torture   should   be   roar'd   in   dismal   hell.",
"Hath   Romeo   slain   himself?   say   thou   but   'I,'",
"And   that   bare   vowel   'I'   shall   poison   more",
"Than   the   death-darting   eye   of   cockatrice:",
"I   am   not   I,   if   there   be   such   an   I;",
"Or   those   eyes   shut,   that   make   thee   answer   'I.'",
"If   he   be   slain,   say   'I';   or   if   not,   no:",
"Brief   sounds   determine   of   my   weal   or   woe.",
"Nurse   ",
"I   saw   the   wound,   I   saw   it   with   mine   eyes,--",
"God   save   the   mark!--here   on   his   manly   breast:",
"A   piteous   corse,   a   bloody   piteous   corse;",
"Pale,   pale   as   ashes,   all   bedaub'd   in   blood,",
"All   in   gore-blood;   I   swounded   at   the   sight.",
"JULIET   ",
"O,   break,   my   heart!   poor   bankrupt,   break   at   once!",
"To   prison,   eyes,   ne'er   look   on   liberty!",
"Vile   earth,   to   earth   resign;   end   motion   here;",
"And   thou   and   Romeo   press   one   heavy   bier!",
"Nurse   ",
"O   Tybalt,   Tybalt,   the   best   friend   I   had!",
"O   courteous   Tybalt!   honest   gentleman!",
"That   ever   I   should   live   to   see   thee   dead!",
"JULIET   ",
"What   storm   is   this   that   blows   so   contrary?",
"Is   Romeo   slaughter'd,   and   is   Tybalt   dead?",
"My   dear-loved   cousin,   and   my   dearer   lord?",
"Then,   dreadful   trumpet,   sound   the   general   doom!",
"For   who   is   living,   if   those   two   are   gone?",
"Nurse   ",
"Tybalt   is   gone,   and   Romeo   banished;",
"Romeo   that   kill'd   him,   he   is   banished.",
"JULIET   ",
"O   God!   did   Romeo's   hand   shed   Tybalt's   blood?",
"Nurse   ",
"It   did,   it   did;   alas   the   day,   it   did!",
"JULIET   ",
"O   serpent   heart,   hid   with   a   flowering   face!",
"Did   ever   dragon   keep   so   fair   a   cave?",
"Beautiful   tyrant!   fiend   angelical!",
"Dove-feather'd   raven!   wolvish-ravening   lamb!",
"Despised   substance   of   divinest   show!",
"Just   opposite   to   what   thou   justly   seem'st,",
"A   damned   saint,   an   honourable   villain!",
"O   nature,   what   hadst   thou   to   do   in   hell,",
"When   thou   didst   bower   the   spirit   of   a   fiend",
"In   moral   paradise   of   such   sweet   flesh?",
"Was   ever   book   containing   such   vile   matter",
"So   fairly   bound?   O   that   deceit   should   dwell",
"In   such   a   gorgeous   palace!",
"Nurse   ",
"There's   no   trust,",
"No   faith,   no   honesty   in   men;   all   perjured,",
"All   forsworn,   all   naught,   all   dissemblers.",
"Ah,   where's   my   man?   give   me   some   aqua   vitae:",
"These   griefs,   these   woes,   these   sorrows   make   me   old.",
"Shame   come   to   Romeo!",
"JULIET   ",
"Blister'd   be   thy   tongue",
"For   such   a   wish!   he   was   not   born   to   shame:",
"Upon   his   brow   shame   is   ashamed   to   sit;",
"For   'tis   a   throne   where   honour   may   be   crown'd",
"Sole   monarch   of   the   universal   earth.",
"O,   what   a   beast   was   I   to   chide   at   him!",
"Nurse   ",
"Will   you   speak   well   of   him   that   kill'd   your   cousin?",
"JULIET   ",
"Shall   I   speak   ill   of   him   that   is   my   husband?",
"Ah,   poor   my   lord,   what   tongue   shall   smooth   thy   name,",
"When   I,   thy   three-hours   wife,   have   mangled   it?",
"But,   wherefore,   villain,   didst   thou   kill   my   cousin?",
"That   villain   cousin   would   have   kill'd   my   husband:",
"Back,   foolish   tears,   back   to   your   native   spring;",
"Your   tributary   drops   belong   to   woe,",
"Which   you,   mistaking,   offer   up   to   joy.",
"My   husband   lives,   that   Tybalt   would   have   slain;",
"And   Tybalt's   dead,   that   would   have   slain   my   husband:",
"All   this   is   comfort;   wherefore   weep   I   then?",
"Some   word   there   was,   worser   than   Tybalt's   death,",
"That   murder'd   me:   I   would   forget   it   fain;",
"But,   O,   it   presses   to   my   memory,",
"Like   damned   guilty   deeds   to   sinners'   minds:",
"'Tybalt   is   dead,   and   Romeo--banished;'",
"That   'banished,'   that   one   word   'banished,'",
"Hath   slain   ten   thousand   Tybalts.   Tybalt's   death",
"Was   woe   enough,   if   it   had   ended   there:",
"Or,   if   sour   woe   delights   in   fellowship",
"And   needly   will   be   rank'd   with   other   griefs,",
"Why   follow'd   not,   when   she   said   'Tybalt's   dead,'",
"Thy   father,   or   thy   mother,   nay,   or   both,",
"Which   modern   lamentations   might   have   moved?",
"But   with   a   rear-ward   following   Tybalt's   death,",
"'Romeo   is   banished,'   to   speak   that   word,",
"Is   father,   mother,   Tybalt,   Romeo,   Juliet,",
"All   slain,   all   dead.   'Romeo   is   banished!'",
"There   is   no   end,   no   limit,   measure,   bound,",
"In   that   word's   death;   no   words   can   that   woe   sound.",
"Where   is   my   father,   and   my   mother,   nurse?",
"Nurse   ",
"Weeping   and   wailing   over   Tybalt's   corse:",
"Will   you   go   to   them?   I   will   bring   you   thither.",
"JULIET   ",
"Wash   they   his   wounds   with   tears:   mine   shall   be   spent,",
"When   theirs   are   dry,   for   Romeo's   banishment.",
"Take   up   those   cords:   poor   ropes,   you   are   beguiled,",
"Both   you   and   I;   for   Romeo   is   exiled:",
"He   made   you   for   a   highway   to   my   bed;",
"But   I,   a   maid,   die   maiden-widowed.",
"Come,   cords,   come,   nurse;   I'll   to   my   wedding-bed;",
"And   death,   not   Romeo,   take   my   maidenhead!",
"Nurse   ",
"Hie   to   your   chamber:   I'll   find   Romeo",
"To   comfort   you:   I   wot   well   where   he   is.",
"Hark   ye,   your   Romeo   will   be   here   at   night:",
"I'll   to   him;   he   is   hid   at   Laurence'   cell.",
"JULIET   ",
"O,   find   him!   give   this   ring   to   my   true   knight,",
"And   bid   him   come   to   take   his   last   farewell.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   III.   Friar   Laurence's   cell.",
"",
"Enter   FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Romeo,   come   forth;   come   forth,   thou   fearful   man:",
"Affliction   is   enamour'd   of   thy   parts,",
"And   thou   art   wedded   to   calamity.",
"Enter   ROMEO",
"ROMEO   ",
"Father,   what   news?   what   is   the   prince's   doom?",
"What   sorrow   craves   acquaintance   at   my   hand,",
"That   I   yet   know   not?",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Too   familiar",
"Is   my   dear   son   with   such   sour   company:",
"I   bring   thee   tidings   of   the   prince's   doom.",
"ROMEO   ",
"What   less   than   dooms-day   is   the   prince's   doom?",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"A   gentler   judgment   vanish'd   from   his   lips,",
"Not   body's   death,   but   body's   banishment.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Ha,   banishment!   be   merciful,   say   'death;'",
"For   exile   hath   more   terror   in   his   look,",
"Much   more   than   death:   do   not   say   'banishment.'",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Hence   from   Verona   art   thou   banished:",
"Be   patient,   for   the   world   is   broad   and   wide.",
"ROMEO   ",
"There   is   no   world   without   Verona   walls,",
"But   purgatory,   torture,   hell   itself.",
"Hence-banished   is   banish'd   from   the   world,",
"And   world's   exile   is   death:   then   banished,",
"Is   death   mis-term'd:   calling   death   banishment,",
"Thou   cutt'st   my   head   off   with   a   golden   axe,",
"And   smilest   upon   the   stroke   that   murders   me.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"O   deadly   sin!   O   rude   unthankfulness!",
"Thy   fault   our   law   calls   death;   but   the   kind   prince,",
"Taking   thy   part,   hath   rush'd   aside   the   law,",
"And   turn'd   that   black   word   death   to   banishment:",
"This   is   dear   mercy,   and   thou   seest   it   not.",
"ROMEO   ",
"'Tis   torture,   and   not   mercy:   heaven   is   here,",
"Where   Juliet   lives;   and   every   cat   and   dog",
"And   little   mouse,   every   unworthy   thing,",
"Live   here   in   heaven   and   may   look   on   her;",
"But   Romeo   may   not:   more   validity,",
"More   honourable   state,   more   courtship   lives",
"In   carrion-flies   than   Romeo:   they   my   seize",
"On   the   white   wonder   of   dear   Juliet's   hand",
"And   steal   immortal   blessing   from   her   lips,",
"Who   even   in   pure   and   vestal   modesty,",
"Still   blush,   as   thinking   their   own   kisses   sin;",
"But   Romeo   may   not;   he   is   banished:",
"Flies   may   do   this,   but   I   from   this   must   fly:",
"They   are   free   men,   but   I   am   banished.",
"And   say'st   thou   yet   that   exile   is   not   death?",
"Hadst   thou   no   poison   mix'd,   no   sharp-ground   knife,",
"No   sudden   mean   of   death,   though   ne'er   so   mean,",
"But   'banished'   to   kill   me?--'banished'?",
"O   friar,   the   damned   use   that   word   in   hell;",
"Howlings   attend   it:   how   hast   thou   the   heart,",
"Being   a   divine,   a   ghostly   confessor,",
"A   sin-absolver,   and   my   friend   profess'd,",
"To   mangle   me   with   that   word   'banished'?",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Thou   fond   mad   man,   hear   me   but   speak   a   word.",
"ROMEO   ",
"O,   thou   wilt   speak   again   of   banishment.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"I'll   give   thee   armour   to   keep   off   that   word:",
"Adversity's   sweet   milk,   philosophy,",
"To   comfort   thee,   though   thou   art   banished.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Yet   'banished'?   Hang   up   philosophy!",
"Unless   philosophy   can   make   a   Juliet,",
"Displant   a   town,   reverse   a   prince's   doom,",
"It   helps   not,   it   prevails   not:   talk   no   more.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"O,   then   I   see   that   madmen   have   no   ears.",
"ROMEO   ",
"How   should   they,   when   that   wise   men   have   no   eyes?",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Let   me   dispute   with   thee   of   thy   estate.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Thou   canst   not   speak   of   that   thou   dost   not   feel:",
"Wert   thou   as   young   as   I,   Juliet   thy   love,",
"An   hour   but   married,   Tybalt   murdered,",
"Doting   like   me   and   like   me   banished,",
"Then   mightst   thou   speak,   then   mightst   thou   tear   thy   hair,",
"And   fall   upon   the   ground,   as   I   do   now,",
"Taking   the   measure   of   an   unmade   grave.",
"Knocking   within",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Arise;   one   knocks;   good   Romeo,   hide   thyself.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Not   I;   unless   the   breath   of   heartsick   groans,",
"Mist-like,   infold   me   from   the   search   of   eyes.",
"Knocking",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Hark,   how   they   knock!   Who's   there?   Romeo,   arise;",
"Thou   wilt   be   taken.   Stay   awhile!   Stand   up;",
"Knocking",
"Run   to   my   study.   By   and   by!   God's   will,",
"What   simpleness   is   this!   I   come,   I   come!",
"Knocking",
"Who   knocks   so   hard?   whence   come   you?   what's   your   will?",
"Nurse   ",
"[Within]   Let   me   come   in,   and   you   shall   know",
"my   errand;",
"I   come   from   Lady   Juliet.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Welcome,   then.",
"Enter   Nurse",
"Nurse   ",
"O   holy   friar,   O,   tell   me,   holy   friar,",
"Where   is   my   lady's   lord,   where's   Romeo?",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"There   on   the   ground,   with   his   own   tears   made   drunk.",
"Nurse   ",
"O,   he   is   even   in   my   mistress'   case,",
"Just   in   her   case!   O   woful   sympathy!",
"Piteous   predicament!   Even   so   lies   she,",
"Blubbering   and   weeping,   weeping   and   blubbering.",
"Stand   up,   stand   up;   stand,   and   you   be   a   man:",
"For   Juliet's   sake,   for   her   sake,   rise   and   stand;",
"Why   should   you   fall   into   so   deep   an   O?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Nurse!",
"Nurse   ",
"Ah   sir!   ah   sir!   Well,   death's   the   end   of   all.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Spakest   thou   of   Juliet?   how   is   it   with   her?",
"Doth   she   not   think   me   an   old   murderer,",
"Now   I   have   stain'd   the   childhood   of   our   joy",
"With   blood   removed   but   little   from   her   own?",
"Where   is   she?   and   how   doth   she?   and   what   says",
"My   conceal'd   lady   to   our   cancell'd   love?",
"Nurse   ",
"O,   she   says   nothing,   sir,   but   weeps   and   weeps;",
"And   now   falls   on   her   bed;   and   then   starts   up,",
"And   Tybalt   calls;   and   then   on   Romeo   cries,",
"And   then   down   falls   again.",
"ROMEO   ",
"As   if   that   name,",
"Shot   from   the   deadly   level   of   a   gun,",
"Did   murder   her;   as   that   name's   cursed   hand",
"Murder'd   her   kinsman.   O,   tell   me,   friar,   tell   me,",
"In   what   vile   part   of   this   anatomy",
"Doth   my   name   lodge?   tell   me,   that   I   may   sack",
"The   hateful   mansion.",
"Drawing   his   sword",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Hold   thy   desperate   hand:",
"Art   thou   a   man?   thy   form   cries   out   thou   art:",
"Thy   tears   are   womanish;   thy   wild   acts   denote",
"The   unreasonable   fury   of   a   beast:",
"Unseemly   woman   in   a   seeming   man!",
"Or   ill-beseeming   beast   in   seeming   both!",
"Thou   hast   amazed   me:   by   my   holy   order,",
"I   thought   thy   disposition   better   temper'd.",
"Hast   thou   slain   Tybalt?   wilt   thou   slay   thyself?",
"And   stay   thy   lady   too   that   lives   in   thee,",
"By   doing   damned   hate   upon   thyself?",
"Why   rail'st   thou   on   thy   birth,   the   heaven,   and   earth?",
"Since   birth,   and   heaven,   and   earth,   all   three   do   meet",
"In   thee   at   once;   which   thou   at   once   wouldst   lose.",
"Fie,   fie,   thou   shamest   thy   shape,   thy   love,   thy   wit;",
"Which,   like   a   usurer,   abound'st   in   all,",
"And   usest   none   in   that   true   use   indeed",
"Which   should   bedeck   thy   shape,   thy   love,   thy   wit:",
"Thy   noble   shape   is   but   a   form   of   wax,",
"Digressing   from   the   valour   of   a   man;",
"Thy   dear   love   sworn   but   hollow   perjury,",
"Killing   that   love   which   thou   hast   vow'd   to   cherish;",
"Thy   wit,   that   ornament   to   shape   and   love,",
"Misshapen   in   the   conduct   of   them   both,",
"Like   powder   in   a   skitless   soldier's   flask,",
"Is   set   afire   by   thine   own   ignorance,",
"And   thou   dismember'd   with   thine   own   defence.",
"What,   rouse   thee,   man!   thy   Juliet   is   alive,",
"For   whose   dear   sake   thou   wast   but   lately   dead;",
"There   art   thou   happy:   Tybalt   would   kill   thee,",
"But   thou   slew'st   Tybalt;   there   are   thou   happy   too:",
"The   law   that   threaten'd   death   becomes   thy   friend",
"And   turns   it   to   exile;   there   art   thou   happy:",
"A   pack   of   blessings   lights   up   upon   thy   back;",
"Happiness   courts   thee   in   her   best   array;",
"But,   like   a   misbehaved   and   sullen   wench,",
"Thou   pout'st   upon   thy   fortune   and   thy   love:",
"Take   heed,   take   heed,   for   such   die   miserable.",
"Go,   get   thee   to   thy   love,   as   was   decreed,",
"Ascend   her   chamber,   hence   and   comfort   her:",
"But   look   thou   stay   not   till   the   watch   be   set,",
"For   then   thou   canst   not   pass   to   Mantua;",
"Where   thou   shalt   live,   till   we   can   find   a   time",
"To   blaze   your   marriage,   reconcile   your   friends,",
"Beg   pardon   of   the   prince,   and   call   thee   back",
"With   twenty   hundred   thousand   times   more   joy",
"Than   thou   went'st   forth   in   lamentation.",
"Go   before,   nurse:   commend   me   to   thy   lady;",
"And   bid   her   hasten   all   the   house   to   bed,",
"Which   heavy   sorrow   makes   them   apt   unto:",
"Romeo   is   coming.",
"Nurse   ",
"O   Lord,   I   could   have   stay'd   here   all   the   night",
"To   hear   good   counsel:   O,   what   learning   is!",
"My   lord,   I'll   tell   my   lady   you   will   come.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Do   so,   and   bid   my   sweet   prepare   to   chide.",
"Nurse   ",
"Here,   sir,   a   ring   she   bid   me   give   you,   sir:",
"Hie   you,   make   haste,   for   it   grows   very   late.",
"Exit",
"ROMEO   ",
"How   well   my   comfort   is   revived   by   this!",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Go   hence;   good   night;   and   here   stands   all   your   state:",
"Either   be   gone   before   the   watch   be   set,",
"Or   by   the   break   of   day   disguised   from   hence:",
"Sojourn   in   Mantua;   I'll   find   out   your   man,",
"And   he   shall   signify   from   time   to   time",
"Every   good   hap   to   you   that   chances   here:",
"Give   me   thy   hand;   'tis   late:   farewell;   good   night.",
"ROMEO   ",
"But   that   a   joy   past   joy   calls   out   on   me,",
"It   were   a   grief,   so   brief   to   part   with   thee:   Farewell.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   IV.   A   room   in   Capulet's   house.",
"",
"Enter   CAPULET,   LADY   CAPULET,   and   PARIS   ",
"CAPULET   ",
"Things   have   fall'n   out,   sir,   so   unluckily,",
"That   we   have   had   no   time   to   move   our   daughter:",
"Look   you,   she   loved   her   kinsman   Tybalt   dearly,",
"And   so   did   I:--Well,   we   were   born   to   die.",
"'Tis   very   late,   she'll   not   come   down   to-night:",
"I   promise   you,   but   for   your   company,",
"I   would   have   been   a-bed   an   hour   ago.",
"PARIS   ",
"These   times   of   woe   afford   no   time   to   woo.",
"Madam,   good   night:   commend   me   to   your   daughter.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"I   will,   and   know   her   mind   early   to-morrow;",
"To-night   she   is   mew'd   up   to   her   heaviness.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Sir   Paris,   I   will   make   a   desperate   tender",
"Of   my   child's   love:   I   think   she   will   be   ruled",
"In   all   respects   by   me;   nay,   more,   I   doubt   it   not.",
"Wife,   go   you   to   her   ere   you   go   to   bed;",
"Acquaint   her   here   of   my   son   Paris'   love;",
"And   bid   her,   mark   you   me,   on   Wednesday   next--",
"But,   soft!   what   day   is   this?",
"PARIS   ",
"Monday,   my   lord,",
"CAPULET   ",
"Monday!   ha,   ha!   Well,   Wednesday   is   too   soon,",
"O'   Thursday   let   it   be:   o'   Thursday,   tell   her,",
"She   shall   be   married   to   this   noble   earl.",
"Will   you   be   ready?   do   you   like   this   haste?",
"We'll   keep   no   great   ado,--a   friend   or   two;",
"For,   hark   you,   Tybalt   being   slain   so   late,",
"It   may   be   thought   we   held   him   carelessly,",
"Being   our   kinsman,   if   we   revel   much:",
"Therefore   we'll   have   some   half   a   dozen   friends,",
"And   there   an   end.   But   what   say   you   to   Thursday?",
"PARIS   ",
"My   lord,   I   would   that   Thursday   were   to-morrow.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Well   get   you   gone:   o'   Thursday   be   it,   then.",
"Go   you   to   Juliet   ere   you   go   to   bed,",
"Prepare   her,   wife,   against   this   wedding-day.",
"Farewell,   my   lord.   Light   to   my   chamber,   ho!",
"Afore   me!   it   is   so   very   very   late,",
"That   we   may   call   it   early   by   and   by.",
"Good   night.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   V.   Capulet's   orchard.",
"",
"Enter   ROMEO   and   JULIET   above,   at   the   window   ",
"JULIET   ",
"Wilt   thou   be   gone?   it   is   not   yet   near   day:",
"It   was   the   nightingale,   and   not   the   lark,",
"That   pierced   the   fearful   hollow   of   thine   ear;",
"Nightly   she   sings   on   yon   pomegranate-tree:",
"Believe   me,   love,   it   was   the   nightingale.",
"ROMEO   ",
"It   was   the   lark,   the   herald   of   the   morn,",
"No   nightingale:   look,   love,   what   envious   streaks",
"Do   lace   the   severing   clouds   in   yonder   east:",
"Night's   candles   are   burnt   out,   and   jocund   day",
"Stands   tiptoe   on   the   misty   mountain   tops.",
"I   must   be   gone   and   live,   or   stay   and   die.",
"JULIET   ",
"Yon   light   is   not   day-light,   I   know   it,   I:",
"It   is   some   meteor   that   the   sun   exhales,",
"To   be   to   thee   this   night   a   torch-bearer,",
"And   light   thee   on   thy   way   to   Mantua:",
"Therefore   stay   yet;   thou   need'st   not   to   be   gone.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Let   me   be   ta'en,   let   me   be   put   to   death;",
"I   am   content,   so   thou   wilt   have   it   so.",
"I'll   say   yon   grey   is   not   the   morning's   eye,",
"'Tis   but   the   pale   reflex   of   Cynthia's   brow;",
"Nor   that   is   not   the   lark,   whose   notes   do   beat",
"The   vaulty   heaven   so   high   above   our   heads:",
"I   have   more   care   to   stay   than   will   to   go:",
"Come,   death,   and   welcome!   Juliet   wills   it   so.",
"How   is't,   my   soul?   let's   talk;   it   is   not   day.",
"JULIET   ",
"It   is,   it   is:   hie   hence,   be   gone,   away!",
"It   is   the   lark   that   sings   so   out   of   tune,",
"Straining   harsh   discords   and   unpleasing   sharps.",
"Some   say   the   lark   makes   sweet   division;",
"This   doth   not   so,   for   she   divideth   us:",
"Some   say   the   lark   and   loathed   toad   change   eyes,",
"O,   now   I   would   they   had   changed   voices   too!",
"Since   arm   from   arm   that   voice   doth   us   affray,",
"Hunting   thee   hence   with   hunt's-up   to   the   day,",
"O,   now   be   gone;   more   light   and   light   it   grows.",
"ROMEO   ",
"More   light   and   light;   more   dark   and   dark   our   woes!",
"Enter   Nurse,   to   the   chamber",
"Nurse   ",
"Madam!",
"JULIET   ",
"Nurse?",
"Nurse   ",
"Your   lady   mother   is   coming   to   your   chamber:",
"The   day   is   broke;   be   wary,   look   about.",
"Exit",
"JULIET   ",
"Then,   window,   let   day   in,   and   let   life   out.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Farewell,   farewell!   one   kiss,   and   I'll   descend.",
"He   goeth   down",
"JULIET   ",
"Art   thou   gone   so?   love,   lord,   ay,   husband,   friend!",
"I   must   hear   from   thee   every   day   in   the   hour,",
"For   in   a   minute   there   are   many   days:",
"O,   by   this   count   I   shall   be   much   in   years",
"Ere   I   again   behold   my   Romeo!",
"ROMEO   ",
"Farewell!",
"I   will   omit   no   opportunity",
"That   may   convey   my   greetings,   love,   to   thee.",
"JULIET   ",
"O   think'st   thou   we   shall   ever   meet   again?",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   doubt   it   not;   and   all   these   woes   shall   serve",
"For   sweet   discourses   in   our   time   to   come.",
"JULIET   ",
"O   God,   I   have   an   ill-divining   soul!",
"Methinks   I   see   thee,   now   thou   art   below,",
"As   one   dead   in   the   bottom   of   a   tomb:",
"Either   my   eyesight   fails,   or   thou   look'st   pale.",
"ROMEO   ",
"And   trust   me,   love,   in   my   eye   so   do   you:",
"Dry   sorrow   drinks   our   blood.   Adieu,   adieu!",
"Exit",
"JULIET   ",
"O   fortune,   fortune!   all   men   call   thee   fickle:",
"If   thou   art   fickle,   what   dost   thou   with   him.",
"That   is   renown'd   for   faith?   Be   fickle,   fortune;",
"For   then,   I   hope,   thou   wilt   not   keep   him   long,",
"But   send   him   back.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"[Within]   Ho,   daughter!   are   you   up?",
"JULIET   ",
"Who   is't   that   calls?   is   it   my   lady   mother?",
"Is   she   not   down   so   late,   or   up   so   early?",
"What   unaccustom'd   cause   procures   her   hither?",
"Enter   LADY   CAPULET",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Why,   how   now,   Juliet!",
"JULIET   ",
"Madam,   I   am   not   well.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Evermore   weeping   for   your   cousin's   death?",
"What,   wilt   thou   wash   him   from   his   grave   with   tears?",
"An   if   thou   couldst,   thou   couldst   not   make   him   live;",
"Therefore,   have   done:   some   grief   shows   much   of   love;",
"But   much   of   grief   shows   still   some   want   of   wit.",
"JULIET   ",
"Yet   let   me   weep   for   such   a   feeling   loss.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"So   shall   you   feel   the   loss,   but   not   the   friend",
"Which   you   weep   for.",
"JULIET   ",
"Feeling   so   the   loss,",
"Cannot   choose   but   ever   weep   the   friend.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Well,   girl,   thou   weep'st   not   so   much   for   his   death,",
"As   that   the   villain   lives   which   slaughter'd   him.",
"JULIET   ",
"What   villain   madam?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"That   same   villain,   Romeo.",
"JULIET   ",
"[Aside]   Villain   and   he   be   many   miles   asunder.--",
"God   Pardon   him!   I   do,   with   all   my   heart;",
"And   yet   no   man   like   he   doth   grieve   my   heart.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"That   is,   because   the   traitor   murderer   lives.",
"JULIET   ",
"Ay,   madam,   from   the   reach   of   these   my   hands:",
"Would   none   but   I   might   venge   my   cousin's   death!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"We   will   have   vengeance   for   it,   fear   thou   not:",
"Then   weep   no   more.   I'll   send   to   one   in   Mantua,",
"Where   that   same   banish'd   runagate   doth   live,",
"Shall   give   him   such   an   unaccustom'd   dram,",
"That   he   shall   soon   keep   Tybalt   company:",
"And   then,   I   hope,   thou   wilt   be   satisfied.",
"JULIET   ",
"Indeed,   I   never   shall   be   satisfied",
"With   Romeo,   till   I   behold   him--dead--",
"Is   my   poor   heart   for   a   kinsman   vex'd.",
"Madam,   if   you   could   find   out   but   a   man",
"To   bear   a   poison,   I   would   temper   it;",
"That   Romeo   should,   upon   receipt   thereof,",
"Soon   sleep   in   quiet.   O,   how   my   heart   abhors",
"To   hear   him   named,   and   cannot   come   to   him.",
"To   wreak   the   love   I   bore   my   cousin",
"Upon   his   body   that   slaughter'd   him!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Find   thou   the   means,   and   I'll   find   such   a   man.",
"But   now   I'll   tell   thee   joyful   tidings,   girl.",
"JULIET   ",
"And   joy   comes   well   in   such   a   needy   time:",
"What   are   they,   I   beseech   your   ladyship?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Well,   well,   thou   hast   a   careful   father,   child;",
"One   who,   to   put   thee   from   thy   heaviness,",
"Hath   sorted   out   a   sudden   day   of   joy,",
"That   thou   expect'st   not   nor   I   look'd   not   for.",
"JULIET   ",
"Madam,   in   happy   time,   what   day   is   that?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Marry,   my   child,   early   next   Thursday   morn,",
"The   gallant,   young   and   noble   gentleman,",
"The   County   Paris,   at   Saint   Peter's   Church,",
"Shall   happily   make   thee   there   a   joyful   bride.",
"JULIET   ",
"Now,   by   Saint   Peter's   Church   and   Peter   too,",
"He   shall   not   make   me   there   a   joyful   bride.",
"I   wonder   at   this   haste;   that   I   must   wed",
"Ere   he,   that   should   be   husband,   comes   to   woo.",
"I   pray   you,   tell   my   lord   and   father,   madam,",
"I   will   not   marry   yet;   and,   when   I   do,   I   swear,",
"It   shall   be   Romeo,   whom   you   know   I   hate,",
"Rather   than   Paris.   These   are   news   indeed!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Here   comes   your   father;   tell   him   so   yourself,",
"And   see   how   he   will   take   it   at   your   hands.",
"Enter   CAPULET   and   Nurse",
"CAPULET   ",
"When   the   sun   sets,   the   air   doth   drizzle   dew;",
"But   for   the   sunset   of   my   brother's   son",
"It   rains   downright.",
"How   now!   a   conduit,   girl?   what,   still   in   tears?",
"Evermore   showering?   In   one   little   body",
"Thou   counterfeit'st   a   bark,   a   sea,   a   wind;",
"For   still   thy   eyes,   which   I   may   call   the   sea,",
"Do   ebb   and   flow   with   tears;   the   bark   thy   body   is,",
"Sailing   in   this   salt   flood;   the   winds,   thy   sighs;",
"Who,   raging   with   thy   tears,   and   they   with   them,",
"Without   a   sudden   calm,   will   overset",
"Thy   tempest-tossed   body.   How   now,   wife!",
"Have   you   deliver'd   to   her   our   decree?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Ay,   sir;   but   she   will   none,   she   gives   you   thanks.",
"I   would   the   fool   were   married   to   her   grave!",
"CAPULET   ",
"Soft!   take   me   with   you,   take   me   with   you,   wife.",
"How!   will   she   none?   doth   she   not   give   us   thanks?",
"Is   she   not   proud?   doth   she   not   count   her   blest,",
"Unworthy   as   she   is,   that   we   have   wrought",
"So   worthy   a   gentleman   to   be   her   bridegroom?",
"JULIET   ",
"Not   proud,   you   have;   but   thankful,   that   you   have:",
"Proud   can   I   never   be   of   what   I   hate;",
"But   thankful   even   for   hate,   that   is   meant   love.",
"CAPULET   ",
"How   now,   how   now,   chop-logic!   What   is   this?",
"'Proud,'   and   'I   thank   you,'   and   'I   thank   you   not;'",
"And   yet   'not   proud,'   mistress   minion,   you,",
"Thank   me   no   thankings,   nor,   proud   me   no   prouds,",
"But   fettle   your   fine   joints   'gainst   Thursday   next,",
"To   go   with   Paris   to   Saint   Peter's   Church,",
"Or   I   will   drag   thee   on   a   hurdle   thither.",
"Out,   you   green-sickness   carrion!   out,   you   baggage!",
"You   tallow-face!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Fie,   fie!   what,   are   you   mad?",
"JULIET   ",
"Good   father,   I   beseech   you   on   my   knees,",
"Hear   me   with   patience   but   to   speak   a   word.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Hang   thee,   young   baggage!   disobedient   wretch!",
"I   tell   thee   what:   get   thee   to   church   o'   Thursday,",
"Or   never   after   look   me   in   the   face:",
"Speak   not,   reply   not,   do   not   answer   me;",
"My   fingers   itch.   Wife,   we   scarce   thought   us   blest",
"That   God   had   lent   us   but   this   only   child;",
"But   now   I   see   this   one   is   one   too   much,",
"And   that   we   have   a   curse   in   having   her:",
"Out   on   her,   hilding!",
"Nurse   ",
"God   in   heaven   bless   her!",
"You   are   to   blame,   my   lord,   to   rate   her   so.",
"CAPULET   ",
"And   why,   my   lady   wisdom?   hold   your   tongue,",
"Good   prudence;   smatter   with   your   gossips,   go.",
"Nurse   ",
"I   speak   no   treason.",
"CAPULET   ",
"O,   God   ye   god-den.",
"Nurse   ",
"May   not   one   speak?",
"CAPULET   ",
"Peace,   you   mumbling   fool!",
"Utter   your   gravity   o'er   a   gossip's   bowl;",
"For   here   we   need   it   not.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"You   are   too   hot.",
"CAPULET   ",
"God's   bread!   it   makes   me   mad:",
"Day,   night,   hour,   tide,   time,   work,   play,",
"Alone,   in   company,   still   my   care   hath   been",
"To   have   her   match'd:   and   having   now   provided",
"A   gentleman   of   noble   parentage,",
"Of   fair   demesnes,   youthful,   and   nobly   train'd,",
"Stuff'd,   as   they   say,   with   honourable   parts,",
"Proportion'd   as   one's   thought   would   wish   a   man;",
"And   then   to   have   a   wretched   puling   fool,",
"A   whining   mammet,   in   her   fortune's   tender,",
"To   answer   'I'll   not   wed;   I   cannot   love,",
"I   am   too   young;   I   pray   you,   pardon   me.'",
"But,   as   you   will   not   wed,   I'll   pardon   you:",
"Graze   where   you   will   you   shall   not   house   with   me:",
"Look   to't,   think   on't,   I   do   not   use   to   jest.",
"Thursday   is   near;   lay   hand   on   heart,   advise:",
"An   you   be   mine,   I'll   give   you   to   my   friend;",
"And   you   be   not,   hang,   beg,   starve,   die   in",
"the   streets,",
"For,   by   my   soul,   I'll   ne'er   acknowledge   thee,",
"Nor   what   is   mine   shall   never   do   thee   good:",
"Trust   to't,   bethink   you;   I'll   not   be   forsworn.",
"Exit",
"JULIET   ",
"Is   there   no   pity   sitting   in   the   clouds,",
"That   sees   into   the   bottom   of   my   grief?",
"O,   sweet   my   mother,   cast   me   not   away!",
"Delay   this   marriage   for   a   month,   a   week;",
"Or,   if   you   do   not,   make   the   bridal   bed",
"In   that   dim   monument   where   Tybalt   lies.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Talk   not   to   me,   for   I'll   not   speak   a   word:",
"Do   as   thou   wilt,   for   I   have   done   with   thee.",
"Exit",
"JULIET   ",
"O   God!--O   nurse,   how   shall   this   be   prevented?",
"My   husband   is   on   earth,   my   faith   in   heaven;",
"How   shall   that   faith   return   again   to   earth,",
"Unless   that   husband   send   it   me   from   heaven",
"By   leaving   earth?   comfort   me,   counsel   me.",
"Alack,   alack,   that   heaven   should   practise   stratagems",
"Upon   so   soft   a   subject   as   myself!",
"What   say'st   thou?   hast   thou   not   a   word   of   joy?",
"Some   comfort,   nurse.",
"Nurse   ",
"Faith,   here   it   is.",
"Romeo   is   banish'd;   and   all   the   world   to   nothing,",
"That   he   dares   ne'er   come   back   to   challenge   you;",
"Or,   if   he   do,   it   needs   must   be   by   stealth.",
"Then,   since   the   case   so   stands   as   now   it   doth,",
"I   think   it   best   you   married   with   the   county.",
"O,   he's   a   lovely   gentleman!",
"Romeo's   a   dishclout   to   him:   an   eagle,   madam,",
"Hath   not   so   green,   so   quick,   so   fair   an   eye",
"As   Paris   hath.   Beshrew   my   very   heart,",
"I   think   you   are   happy   in   this   second   match,",
"For   it   excels   your   first:   or   if   it   did   not,",
"Your   first   is   dead;   or   'twere   as   good   he   were,",
"As   living   here   and   you   no   use   of   him.",
"JULIET   ",
"Speakest   thou   from   thy   heart?",
"Nurse   ",
"And   from   my   soul   too;",
"Or   else   beshrew   them   both.",
"JULIET   ",
"Amen!",
"Nurse   ",
"What?",
"JULIET   ",
"Well,   thou   hast   comforted   me   marvellous   much.",
"Go   in:   and   tell   my   lady   I   am   gone,",
"Having   displeased   my   father,   to   Laurence'   cell,",
"To   make   confession   and   to   be   absolved.",
"Nurse   ",
"Marry,   I   will;   and   this   is   wisely   done.",
"Exit",
"JULIET   ",
"Ancient   damnation!   O   most   wicked   fiend!",
"Is   it   more   sin   to   wish   me   thus   forsworn,",
"Or   to   dispraise   my   lord   with   that   same   tongue",
"Which   she   hath   praised   him   with   above   compare",
"So   many   thousand   times?   Go,   counsellor;",
"Thou   and   my   bosom   henceforth   shall   be   twain.",
"I'll   to   the   friar,   to   know   his   remedy:",
"If   all   else   fail,   myself   have   power   to   die.",
"Exit",
"",
"ACT   IV",
"SCENE   I.   Friar   Laurence's   cell.",
"",
"Enter   FRIAR   LAURENCE   and   PARIS   ",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"On   Thursday,   sir?   the   time   is   very   short.",
"PARIS   ",
"My   father   Capulet   will   have   it   so;",
"And   I   am   nothing   slow   to   slack   his   haste.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"You   say   you   do   not   know   the   lady's   mind:",
"Uneven   is   the   course,   I   like   it   not.",
"PARIS   ",
"Immoderately   she   weeps   for   Tybalt's   death,",
"And   therefore   have   I   little   talk'd   of   love;",
"For   Venus   smiles   not   in   a   house   of   tears.",
"Now,   sir,   her   father   counts   it   dangerous",
"That   she   doth   give   her   sorrow   so   much   sway,",
"And   in   his   wisdom   hastes   our   marriage,",
"To   stop   the   inundation   of   her   tears;",
"Which,   too   much   minded   by   herself   alone,",
"May   be   put   from   her   by   society:",
"Now   do   you   know   the   reason   of   this   haste.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"[Aside]   I   would   I   knew   not   why   it   should   be   slow'd.",
"Look,   sir,   here   comes   the   lady   towards   my   cell.",
"Enter   JULIET",
"PARIS   ",
"Happily   met,   my   lady   and   my   wife!",
"JULIET   ",
"That   may   be,   sir,   when   I   may   be   a   wife.",
"PARIS   ",
"That   may   be   must   be,   love,   on   Thursday   next.",
"JULIET   ",
"What   must   be   shall   be.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"That's   a   certain   text.",
"PARIS   ",
"Come   you   to   make   confession   to   this   father?",
"JULIET   ",
"To   answer   that,   I   should   confess   to   you.",
"PARIS   ",
"Do   not   deny   to   him   that   you   love   me.",
"JULIET   ",
"I   will   confess   to   you   that   I   love   him.",
"PARIS   ",
"So   will   ye,   I   am   sure,   that   you   love   me.",
"JULIET   ",
"If   I   do   so,   it   will   be   of   more   price,",
"Being   spoke   behind   your   back,   than   to   your   face.",
"PARIS   ",
"Poor   soul,   thy   face   is   much   abused   with   tears.",
"JULIET   ",
"The   tears   have   got   small   victory   by   that;",
"For   it   was   bad   enough   before   their   spite.",
"PARIS   ",
"Thou   wrong'st   it,   more   than   tears,   with   that   report.",
"JULIET   ",
"That   is   no   slander,   sir,   which   is   a   truth;",
"And   what   I   spake,   I   spake   it   to   my   face.",
"PARIS   ",
"Thy   face   is   mine,   and   thou   hast   slander'd   it.",
"JULIET   ",
"It   may   be   so,   for   it   is   not   mine   own.",
"Are   you   at   leisure,   holy   father,   now;",
"Or   shall   I   come   to   you   at   evening   mass?",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"My   leisure   serves   me,   pensive   daughter,   now.",
"My   lord,   we   must   entreat   the   time   alone.",
"PARIS   ",
"God   shield   I   should   disturb   devotion!",
"Juliet,   on   Thursday   early   will   I   rouse   ye:",
"Till   then,   adieu;   and   keep   this   holy   kiss.",
"Exit",
"JULIET   ",
"O   shut   the   door!   and   when   thou   hast   done   so,",
"Come   weep   with   me;   past   hope,   past   cure,   past   help!",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Ah,   Juliet,   I   already   know   thy   grief;",
"It   strains   me   past   the   compass   of   my   wits:",
"I   hear   thou   must,   and   nothing   may   prorogue   it,",
"On   Thursday   next   be   married   to   this   county.",
"JULIET   ",
"Tell   me   not,   friar,   that   thou   hear'st   of   this,",
"Unless   thou   tell   me   how   I   may   prevent   it:",
"If,   in   thy   wisdom,   thou   canst   give   no   help,",
"Do   thou   but   call   my   resolution   wise,",
"And   with   this   knife   I'll   help   it   presently.",
"God   join'd   my   heart   and   Romeo's,   thou   our   hands;",
"And   ere   this   hand,   by   thee   to   Romeo   seal'd,",
"Shall   be   the   label   to   another   deed,",
"Or   my   true   heart   with   treacherous   revolt",
"Turn   to   another,   this   shall   slay   them   both:",
"Therefore,   out   of   thy   long-experienced   time,",
"Give   me   some   present   counsel,   or,   behold,",
"'Twixt   my   extremes   and   me   this   bloody   knife",
"Shall   play   the   umpire,   arbitrating   that",
"Which   the   commission   of   thy   years   and   art",
"Could   to   no   issue   of   true   honour   bring.",
"Be   not   so   long   to   speak;   I   long   to   die,",
"If   what   thou   speak'st   speak   not   of   remedy.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Hold,   daughter:   I   do   spy   a   kind   of   hope,",
"Which   craves   as   desperate   an   execution.",
"As   that   is   desperate   which   we   would   prevent.",
"If,   rather   than   to   marry   County   Paris,",
"Thou   hast   the   strength   of   will   to   slay   thyself,",
"Then   is   it   likely   thou   wilt   undertake",
"A   thing   like   death   to   chide   away   this   shame,",
"That   copest   with   death   himself   to   scape   from   it:",
"And,   if   thou   darest,   I'll   give   thee   remedy.",
"JULIET   ",
"O,   bid   me   leap,   rather   than   marry   Paris,",
"From   off   the   battlements   of   yonder   tower;",
"Or   walk   in   thievish   ways;   or   bid   me   lurk",
"Where   serpents   are;   chain   me   with   roaring   bears;",
"Or   shut   me   nightly   in   a   charnel-house,",
"O'er-cover'd   quite   with   dead   men's   rattling   bones,",
"With   reeky   shanks   and   yellow   chapless   skulls;",
"Or   bid   me   go   into   a   new-made   grave",
"And   hide   me   with   a   dead   man   in   his   shroud;",
"Things   that,   to   hear   them   told,   have   made   me   tremble;",
"And   I   will   do   it   without   fear   or   doubt,",
"To   live   an   unstain'd   wife   to   my   sweet   love.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Hold,   then;   go   home,   be   merry,   give   consent",
"To   marry   Paris:   Wednesday   is   to-morrow:",
"To-morrow   night   look   that   thou   lie   alone;",
"Let   not   thy   nurse   lie   with   thee   in   thy   chamber:",
"Take   thou   this   vial,   being   then   in   bed,",
"And   this   distilled   liquor   drink   thou   off;",
"When   presently   through   all   thy   veins   shall   run",
"A   cold   and   drowsy   humour,   for   no   pulse",
"Shall   keep   his   native   progress,   but   surcease:",
"No   warmth,   no   breath,   shall   testify   thou   livest;",
"The   roses   in   thy   lips   and   cheeks   shall   fade",
"To   paly   ashes,   thy   eyes'   windows   fall,",
"Like   death,   when   he   shuts   up   the   day   of   life;",
"Each   part,   deprived   of   supple   government,",
"Shall,   stiff   and   stark   and   cold,   appear   like   death:",
"And   in   this   borrow'd   likeness   of   shrunk   death",
"Thou   shalt   continue   two   and   forty   hours,",
"And   then   awake   as   from   a   pleasant   sleep.",
"Now,   when   the   bridegroom   in   the   morning   comes",
"To   rouse   thee   from   thy   bed,   there   art   thou   dead:",
"Then,   as   the   manner   of   our   country   is,",
"In   thy   best   robes   uncover'd   on   the   bier",
"Thou   shalt   be   borne   to   that   same   ancient   vault",
"Where   all   the   kindred   of   the   Capulets   lie.",
"In   the   mean   time,   against   thou   shalt   awake,",
"Shall   Romeo   by   my   letters   know   our   drift,",
"And   hither   shall   he   come:   and   he   and   I",
"Will   watch   thy   waking,   and   that   very   night",
"Shall   Romeo   bear   thee   hence   to   Mantua.",
"And   this   shall   free   thee   from   this   present   shame;",
"If   no   inconstant   toy,   nor   womanish   fear,",
"Abate   thy   valour   in   the   acting   it.",
"JULIET   ",
"Give   me,   give   me!   O,   tell   not   me   of   fear!",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Hold;   get   you   gone,   be   strong   and   prosperous",
"In   this   resolve:   I'll   send   a   friar   with   speed",
"To   Mantua,   with   my   letters   to   thy   lord.",
"JULIET   ",
"Love   give   me   strength!   and   strength   shall   help   afford.",
"Farewell,   dear   father!",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   II.   Hall   in   Capulet's   house.",
"",
"Enter   CAPULET,   LADY   CAPULET,   Nurse,   and   two   Servingmen   ",
"CAPULET   ",
"So   many   guests   invite   as   here   are   writ.",
"Exit   First   Servant",
"Sirrah,   go   hire   me   twenty   cunning   cooks.",
"Second   Servant   ",
"You   shall   have   none   ill,   sir;   for   I'll   try   if   they",
"can   lick   their   fingers.",
"CAPULET   ",
"How   canst   thou   try   them   so?",
"Second   Servant   ",
"Marry,   sir,   'tis   an   ill   cook   that   cannot   lick   his",
"own   fingers:   therefore   he   that   cannot   lick   his",
"fingers   goes   not   with   me.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Go,   be   gone.",
"Exit   Second   Servant",
"We   shall   be   much   unfurnished   for   this   time.",
"What,   is   my   daughter   gone   to   Friar   Laurence?",
"Nurse   ",
"Ay,   forsooth.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Well,   he   may   chance   to   do   some   good   on   her:",
"A   peevish   self-will'd   harlotry   it   is.",
"Nurse   ",
"See   where   she   comes   from   shrift   with   merry   look.",
"Enter   JULIET",
"CAPULET   ",
"How   now,   my   headstrong!   where   have   you   been   gadding?",
"JULIET   ",
"Where   I   have   learn'd   me   to   repent   the   sin",
"Of   disobedient   opposition",
"To   you   and   your   behests,   and   am   enjoin'd",
"By   holy   Laurence   to   fall   prostrate   here,",
"And   beg   your   pardon:   pardon,   I   beseech   you!",
"Henceforward   I   am   ever   ruled   by   you.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Send   for   the   county;   go   tell   him   of   this:",
"I'll   have   this   knot   knit   up   to-morrow   morning.",
"JULIET   ",
"I   met   the   youthful   lord   at   Laurence'   cell;",
"And   gave   him   what   becomed   love   I   might,",
"Not   step   o'er   the   bounds   of   modesty.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Why,   I   am   glad   on't;   this   is   well:   stand   up:",
"This   is   as't   should   be.   Let   me   see   the   county;",
"Ay,   marry,   go,   I   say,   and   fetch   him   hither.",
"Now,   afore   God!   this   reverend   holy   friar,",
"Our   whole   city   is   much   bound   to   him.",
"JULIET   ",
"Nurse,   will   you   go   with   me   into   my   closet,",
"To   help   me   sort   such   needful   ornaments",
"As   you   think   fit   to   furnish   me   to-morrow?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"No,   not   till   Thursday;   there   is   time   enough.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Go,   nurse,   go   with   her:   we'll   to   church   to-morrow.",
"Exeunt   JULIET   and   Nurse",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"We   shall   be   short   in   our   provision:",
"'Tis   now   near   night.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Tush,   I   will   stir   about,",
"And   all   things   shall   be   well,   I   warrant   thee,   wife:",
"Go   thou   to   Juliet,   help   to   deck   up   her;",
"I'll   not   to   bed   to-night;   let   me   alone;",
"I'll   play   the   housewife   for   this   once.   What,   ho!",
"They   are   all   forth.   Well,   I   will   walk   myself",
"To   County   Paris,   to   prepare   him   up",
"Against   to-morrow:   my   heart   is   wondrous   light,",
"Since   this   same   wayward   girl   is   so   reclaim'd.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   III.   Juliet's   chamber.",
"",
"Enter   JULIET   and   Nurse   ",
"JULIET   ",
"Ay,   those   attires   are   best:   but,   gentle   nurse,",
"I   pray   thee,   leave   me   to   my   self   to-night,",
"For   I   have   need   of   many   orisons",
"To   move   the   heavens   to   smile   upon   my   state,",
"Which,   well   thou   know'st,   is   cross,   and   full   of   sin.",
"Enter   LADY   CAPULET",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"What,   are   you   busy,   ho?   need   you   my   help?",
"JULIET   ",
"No,   madam;   we   have   cull'd   such   necessaries",
"As   are   behoveful   for   our   state   to-morrow:",
"So   please   you,   let   me   now   be   left   alone,",
"And   let   the   nurse   this   night   sit   up   with   you;",
"For,   I   am   sure,   you   have   your   hands   full   all,",
"In   this   so   sudden   business.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Good   night:",
"Get   thee   to   bed,   and   rest;   for   thou   hast   need.",
"Exeunt   LADY   CAPULET   and   Nurse",
"JULIET   ",
"Farewell!   God   knows   when   we   shall   meet   again.",
"I   have   a   faint   cold   fear   thrills   through   my   veins,",
"That   almost   freezes   up   the   heat   of   life:",
"I'll   call   them   back   again   to   comfort   me:",
"Nurse!   What   should   she   do   here?",
"My   dismal   scene   I   needs   must   act   alone.",
"Come,   vial.",
"What   if   this   mixture   do   not   work   at   all?",
"Shall   I   be   married   then   to-morrow   morning?",
"No,   no:   this   shall   forbid   it:   lie   thou   there.",
"Laying   down   her   dagger",
"What   if   it   be   a   poison,   which   the   friar",
"Subtly   hath   minister'd   to   have   me   dead,",
"Lest   in   this   marriage   he   should   be   dishonour'd,",
"Because   he   married   me   before   to   Romeo?",
"I   fear   it   is:   and   yet,   methinks,   it   should   not,",
"For   he   hath   still   been   tried   a   holy   man.",
"How   if,   when   I   am   laid   into   the   tomb,",
"I   wake   before   the   time   that   Romeo",
"Come   to   redeem   me?   there's   a   fearful   point!",
"Shall   I   not,   then,   be   stifled   in   the   vault,",
"To   whose   foul   mouth   no   healthsome   air   breathes   in,",
"And   there   die   strangled   ere   my   Romeo   comes?",
"Or,   if   I   live,   is   it   not   very   like,",
"The   horrible   conceit   of   death   and   night,",
"Together   with   the   terror   of   the   place,--",
"As   in   a   vault,   an   ancient   receptacle,",
"Where,   for   these   many   hundred   years,   the   bones",
"Of   all   my   buried   ancestors   are   packed:",
"Where   bloody   Tybalt,   yet   but   green   in   earth,",
"Lies   festering   in   his   shroud;   where,   as   they   say,",
"At   some   hours   in   the   night   spirits   resort;--",
"Alack,   alack,   is   it   not   like   that   I,",
"So   early   waking,   what   with   loathsome   smells,",
"And   shrieks   like   mandrakes'   torn   out   of   the   earth,",
"That   living   mortals,   hearing   them,   run   mad:--",
"O,   if   I   wake,   shall   I   not   be   distraught,",
"Environed   with   all   these   hideous   fears?",
"And   madly   play   with   my   forefather's   joints?",
"And   pluck   the   mangled   Tybalt   from   his   shroud?",
"And,   in   this   rage,   with   some   great   kinsman's   bone,",
"As   with   a   club,   dash   out   my   desperate   brains?",
"O,   look!   methinks   I   see   my   cousin's   ghost",
"Seeking   out   Romeo,   that   did   spit   his   body",
"Upon   a   rapier's   point:   stay,   Tybalt,   stay!",
"Romeo,   I   come!   this   do   I   drink   to   thee.",
"She   falls   upon   her   bed,   within   the   curtains",
"SCENE   IV.   Hall   in   Capulet's   house.",
"",
"Enter   LADY   CAPULET   and   Nurse   ",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Hold,   take   these   keys,   and   fetch   more   spices,   nurse.",
"Nurse   ",
"They   call   for   dates   and   quinces   in   the   pastry.",
"Enter   CAPULET",
"CAPULET   ",
"Come,   stir,   stir,   stir!   the   second   cock   hath   crow'd,",
"The   curfew-bell   hath   rung,   'tis   three   o'clock:",
"Look   to   the   baked   meats,   good   Angelica:",
"Spare   not   for   the   cost.",
"Nurse   ",
"Go,   you   cot-quean,   go,",
"Get   you   to   bed;   faith,   You'll   be   sick   to-morrow",
"For   this   night's   watching.",
"CAPULET   ",
"No,   not   a   whit:   what!   I   have   watch'd   ere   now",
"All   night   for   lesser   cause,   and   ne'er   been   sick.",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Ay,   you   have   been   a   mouse-hunt   in   your   time;",
"But   I   will   watch   you   from   such   watching   now.",
"Exeunt   LADY   CAPULET   and   Nurse",
"CAPULET   ",
"A   jealous   hood,   a   jealous   hood!",
"Enter   three   or   four   Servingmen,   with   spits,   logs,   and   baskets",
"Now,   fellow,",
"What's   there?",
"First   Servant   ",
"Things   for   the   cook,   sir;   but   I   know   not   what.",
"CAPULET   ",
"Make   haste,   make   haste.",
"Exit   First   Servant",
"Sirrah,   fetch   drier   logs:",
"Call   Peter,   he   will   show   thee   where   they   are.",
"Second   Servant   ",
"I   have   a   head,   sir,   that   will   find   out   logs,",
"And   never   trouble   Peter   for   the   matter.",
"Exit",
"CAPULET   ",
"Mass,   and   well   said;   a   merry   whoreson,   ha!",
"Thou   shalt   be   logger-head.   Good   faith,   'tis   day:",
"The   county   will   be   here   with   music   straight,",
"For   so   he   said   he   would:   I   hear   him   near.",
"Music   within",
"Nurse!   Wife!   What,   ho!   What,   nurse,   I   say!",
"Re-enter   Nurse",
"Go   waken   Juliet,   go   and   trim   her   up;",
"I'll   go   and   chat   with   Paris:   hie,   make   haste,",
"Make   haste;   the   bridegroom   he   is   come   already:",
"Make   haste,   I   say.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   V.   Juliet's   chamber.",
"",
"Enter   Nurse   ",
"Nurse   ",
"Mistress!   what,   mistress!   Juliet!   fast,   I   warrant   her,   she:",
"Why,   lamb!   why,   lady!   fie,   you   slug-a-bed!",
"Why,   love,   I   say!   madam!   sweet-heart!   why,   bride!",
"What,   not   a   word?   you   take   your   pennyworths   now;",
"Sleep   for   a   week;   for   the   next   night,   I   warrant,",
"The   County   Paris   hath   set   up   his   rest,",
"That   you   shall   rest   but   little.   God   forgive   me,",
"Marry,   and   amen,   how   sound   is   she   asleep!",
"I   must   needs   wake   her.   Madam,   madam,   madam!",
"Ay,   let   the   county   take   you   in   your   bed;",
"He'll   fright   you   up,   i'   faith.   Will   it   not   be?",
"Undraws   the   curtains",
"What,   dress'd!   and   in   your   clothes!   and   down   again!",
"I   must   needs   wake   you;   Lady!   lady!   lady!",
"Alas,   alas!   Help,   help!   my   lady's   dead!",
"O,   well-a-day,   that   ever   I   was   born!",
"Some   aqua   vitae,   ho!   My   lord!   my   lady!",
"Enter   LADY   CAPULET",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"What   noise   is   here?",
"Nurse   ",
"O   lamentable   day!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"What   is   the   matter?",
"Nurse   ",
"Look,   look!   O   heavy   day!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"O   me,   O   me!   My   child,   my   only   life,",
"Revive,   look   up,   or   I   will   die   with   thee!",
"Help,   help!   Call   help.",
"Enter   CAPULET",
"CAPULET   ",
"For   shame,   bring   Juliet   forth;   her   lord   is   come.",
"Nurse   ",
"She's   dead,   deceased,   she's   dead;   alack   the   day!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Alack   the   day,   she's   dead,   she's   dead,   she's   dead!",
"CAPULET   ",
"Ha!   let   me   see   her:   out,   alas!   she's   cold:",
"Her   blood   is   settled,   and   her   joints   are   stiff;",
"Life   and   these   lips   have   long   been   separated:",
"Death   lies   on   her   like   an   untimely   frost",
"Upon   the   sweetest   flower   of   all   the   field.",
"Nurse   ",
"O   lamentable   day!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"O   woful   time!",
"CAPULET   ",
"Death,   that   hath   ta'en   her   hence   to   make   me   wail,",
"Ties   up   my   tongue,   and   will   not   let   me   speak.",
"Enter   FRIAR   LAURENCE   and   PARIS,   with   Musicians",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Come,   is   the   bride   ready   to   go   to   church?",
"CAPULET   ",
"Ready   to   go,   but   never   to   return.",
"O   son!   the   night   before   thy   wedding-day",
"Hath   Death   lain   with   thy   wife.   There   she   lies,",
"Flower   as   she   was,   deflowered   by   him.",
"Death   is   my   son-in-law,   Death   is   my   heir;",
"My   daughter   he   hath   wedded:   I   will   die,",
"And   leave   him   all;   life,   living,   all   is   Death's.",
"PARIS   ",
"Have   I   thought   long   to   see   this   morning's   face,",
"And   doth   it   give   me   such   a   sight   as   this?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"Accursed,   unhappy,   wretched,   hateful   day!",
"Most   miserable   hour   that   e'er   time   saw",
"In   lasting   labour   of   his   pilgrimage!",
"But   one,   poor   one,   one   poor   and   loving   child,",
"But   one   thing   to   rejoice   and   solace   in,",
"And   cruel   death   hath   catch'd   it   from   my   sight!",
"Nurse   ",
"O   woe!   O   woful,   woful,   woful   day!",
"Most   lamentable   day,   most   woful   day,",
"That   ever,   ever,   I   did   yet   behold!",
"O   day!   O   day!   O   day!   O   hateful   day!",
"Never   was   seen   so   black   a   day   as   this:",
"O   woful   day,   O   woful   day!",
"PARIS   ",
"Beguiled,   divorced,   wronged,   spited,   slain!",
"Most   detestable   death,   by   thee   beguil'd,",
"By   cruel   cruel   thee   quite   overthrown!",
"O   love!   O   life!   not   life,   but   love   in   death!",
"CAPULET   ",
"Despised,   distressed,   hated,   martyr'd,   kill'd!",
"Uncomfortable   time,   why   camest   thou   now",
"To   murder,   murder   our   solemnity?",
"O   child!   O   child!   my   soul,   and   not   my   child!",
"Dead   art   thou!   Alack!   my   child   is   dead;",
"And   with   my   child   my   joys   are   buried.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Peace,   ho,   for   shame!   confusion's   cure   lives   not",
"In   these   confusions.   Heaven   and   yourself",
"Had   part   in   this   fair   maid;   now   heaven   hath   all,",
"And   all   the   better   is   it   for   the   maid:",
"Your   part   in   her   you   could   not   keep   from   death,",
"But   heaven   keeps   his   part   in   eternal   life.",
"The   most   you   sought   was   her   promotion;",
"For   'twas   your   heaven   she   should   be   advanced:",
"And   weep   ye   now,   seeing   she   is   advanced",
"Above   the   clouds,   as   high   as   heaven   itself?",
"O,   in   this   love,   you   love   your   child   so   ill,",
"That   you   run   mad,   seeing   that   she   is   well:",
"She's   not   well   married   that   lives   married   long;",
"But   she's   best   married   that   dies   married   young.",
"Dry   up   your   tears,   and   stick   your   rosemary",
"On   this   fair   corse;   and,   as   the   custom   is,",
"In   all   her   best   array   bear   her   to   church:",
"For   though   fond   nature   bids   us   an   lament,",
"Yet   nature's   tears   are   reason's   merriment.",
"CAPULET   ",
"All   things   that   we   ordained   festival,",
"Turn   from   their   office   to   black   funeral;",
"Our   instruments   to   melancholy   bells,",
"Our   wedding   cheer   to   a   sad   burial   feast,",
"Our   solemn   hymns   to   sullen   dirges   change,",
"Our   bridal   flowers   serve   for   a   buried   corse,",
"And   all   things   change   them   to   the   contrary.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Sir,   go   you   in;   and,   madam,   go   with   him;",
"And   go,   Sir   Paris;   every   one   prepare",
"To   follow   this   fair   corse   unto   her   grave:",
"The   heavens   do   lour   upon   you   for   some   ill;",
"Move   them   no   more   by   crossing   their   high   will.",
"Exeunt   CAPULET,   LADY   CAPULET,   PARIS,   and   FRIAR   LAURENCE",
"First   Musician   ",
"Faith,   we   may   put   up   our   pipes,   and   be   gone.",
"Nurse   ",
"Honest   goodfellows,   ah,   put   up,   put   up;",
"For,   well   you   know,   this   is   a   pitiful   case.",
"Exit",
"First   Musician   ",
"Ay,   by   my   troth,   the   case   may   be   amended.",
"Enter   PETER",
"PETER   ",
"Musicians,   O,   musicians,   'Heart's   ease,   Heart's",
"ease:'   O,   an   you   will   have   me   live,   play   'Heart's   ease.'",
"First   Musician   ",
"Why   'Heart's   ease?'",
"PETER   ",
"O,   musicians,   because   my   heart   itself   plays   'My",
"heart   is   full   of   woe:'   O,   play   me   some   merry   dump,",
"to   comfort   me.",
"First   Musician   ",
"Not   a   dump   we;   'tis   no   time   to   play   now.",
"PETER   ",
"You   will   not,   then?",
"First   Musician   ",
"No.",
"PETER   ",
"I   will   then   give   it   you   soundly.",
"First   Musician   ",
"What   will   you   give   us?",
"PETER   ",
"No   money,   on   my   faith,   but   the   gleek;",
"I   will   give   you   the   minstrel.",
"First   Musician   ",
"Then   I   will   give   you   the   serving-creature.",
"PETER   ",
"Then   will   I   lay   the   serving-creature's   dagger   on",
"your   pate.   I   will   carry   no   crotchets:   I'll   re   you,",
"I'll   fa   you;   do   you   note   me?",
"First   Musician   ",
"An   you   re   us   and   fa   us,   you   note   us.",
"Second   Musician   ",
"Pray   you,   put   up   your   dagger,   and   put   out   your   wit.",
"PETER   ",
"Then   have   at   you   with   my   wit!   I   will   dry-beat   you",
"with   an   iron   wit,   and   put   up   my   iron   dagger.   Answer",
"me   like   men:",
"'When   griping   grief   the   heart   doth   wound,",
"And   doleful   dumps   the   mind   oppress,",
"Then   music   with   her   silver   sound'--",
"why   'silver   sound'?   why   'music   with   her   silver",
"sound'?   What   say   you,   Simon   Catling?",
"Musician   ",
"Marry,   sir,   because   silver   hath   a   sweet   sound.",
"PETER   ",
"Pretty!   What   say   you,   Hugh   Rebeck?",
"Second   Musician   ",
"I   say   'silver   sound,'   because   musicians   sound   for   silver.",
"PETER   ",
"Pretty   too!   What   say   you,   James   Soundpost?",
"Third   Musician   ",
"Faith,   I   know   not   what   to   say.",
"PETER   ",
"O,   I   cry   you   mercy;   you   are   the   singer:   I   will   say",
"for   you.   It   is   'music   with   her   silver   sound,'",
"because   musicians   have   no   gold   for   sounding:",
"'Then   music   with   her   silver   sound",
"With   speedy   help   doth   lend   redress.'",
"Exit",
"First   Musician   ",
"What   a   pestilent   knave   is   this   same!",
"Second   Musician   ",
"Hang   him,   Jack!   Come,   we'll   in   here;   tarry   for   the",
"mourners,   and   stay   dinner.",
"Exeunt",
"",
"ACT   V",
"SCENE   I.   Mantua.   A   street.",
"",
"Enter   ROMEO   ",
"ROMEO   ",
"If   I   may   trust   the   flattering   truth   of   sleep,",
"My   dreams   presage   some   joyful   news   at   hand:",
"My   bosom's   lord   sits   lightly   in   his   throne;",
"And   all   this   day   an   unaccustom'd   spirit",
"Lifts   me   above   the   ground   with   cheerful   thoughts.",
"I   dreamt   my   lady   came   and   found   me   dead--",
"Strange   dream,   that   gives   a   dead   man   leave",
"to   think!--",
"And   breathed   such   life   with   kisses   in   my   lips,",
"That   I   revived,   and   was   an   emperor.",
"Ah   me!   how   sweet   is   love   itself   possess'd,",
"When   but   love's   shadows   are   so   rich   in   joy!",
"Enter   BALTHASAR,   booted",
"News   from   Verona!--How   now,   Balthasar!",
"Dost   thou   not   bring   me   letters   from   the   friar?",
"How   doth   my   lady?   Is   my   father   well?",
"How   fares   my   Juliet?   that   I   ask   again;",
"For   nothing   can   be   ill,   if   she   be   well.",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"Then   she   is   well,   and   nothing   can   be   ill:",
"Her   body   sleeps   in   Capel's   monument,",
"And   her   immortal   part   with   angels   lives.",
"I   saw   her   laid   low   in   her   kindred's   vault,",
"And   presently   took   post   to   tell   it   you:",
"O,   pardon   me   for   bringing   these   ill   news,",
"Since   you   did   leave   it   for   my   office,   sir.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Is   it   even   so?   then   I   defy   you,   stars!",
"Thou   know'st   my   lodging:   get   me   ink   and   paper,",
"And   hire   post-horses;   I   will   hence   to-night.",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"I   do   beseech   you,   sir,   have   patience:",
"Your   looks   are   pale   and   wild,   and   do   import",
"Some   misadventure.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Tush,   thou   art   deceived:",
"Leave   me,   and   do   the   thing   I   bid   thee   do.",
"Hast   thou   no   letters   to   me   from   the   friar?",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"No,   my   good   lord.",
"ROMEO   ",
"No   matter:   get   thee   gone,",
"And   hire   those   horses;   I'll   be   with   thee   straight.",
"Exit   BALTHASAR",
"Well,   Juliet,   I   will   lie   with   thee   to-night.",
"Let's   see   for   means:   O   mischief,   thou   art   swift",
"To   enter   in   the   thoughts   of   desperate   men!",
"I   do   remember   an   apothecary,--",
"And   hereabouts   he   dwells,--which   late   I   noted",
"In   tatter'd   weeds,   with   overwhelming   brows,",
"Culling   of   simples;   meagre   were   his   looks,",
"Sharp   misery   had   worn   him   to   the   bones:",
"And   in   his   needy   shop   a   tortoise   hung,",
"An   alligator   stuff'd,   and   other   skins",
"Of   ill-shaped   fishes;   and   about   his   shelves",
"A   beggarly   account   of   empty   boxes,",
"Green   earthen   pots,   bladders   and   musty   seeds,",
"Remnants   of   packthread   and   old   cakes   of   roses,",
"Were   thinly   scatter'd,   to   make   up   a   show.",
"Noting   this   penury,   to   myself   I   said",
"'An   if   a   man   did   need   a   poison   now,",
"Whose   sale   is   present   death   in   Mantua,",
"Here   lives   a   caitiff   wretch   would   sell   it   him.'",
"O,   this   same   thought   did   but   forerun   my   need;",
"And   this   same   needy   man   must   sell   it   me.",
"As   I   remember,   this   should   be   the   house.",
"Being   holiday,   the   beggar's   shop   is   shut.",
"What,   ho!   apothecary!",
"Enter   Apothecary",
"Apothecary   ",
"Who   calls   so   loud?",
"ROMEO   ",
"Come   hither,   man.   I   see   that   thou   art   poor:",
"Hold,   there   is   forty   ducats:   let   me   have",
"A   dram   of   poison,   such   soon-speeding   gear",
"As   will   disperse   itself   through   all   the   veins",
"That   the   life-weary   taker   may   fall   dead",
"And   that   the   trunk   may   be   discharged   of   breath",
"As   violently   as   hasty   powder   fired",
"Doth   hurry   from   the   fatal   cannon's   womb.",
"Apothecary   ",
"Such   mortal   drugs   I   have;   but   Mantua's   law",
"Is   death   to   any   he   that   utters   them.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Art   thou   so   bare   and   full   of   wretchedness,",
"And   fear'st   to   die?   famine   is   in   thy   cheeks,",
"Need   and   oppression   starveth   in   thine   eyes,",
"Contempt   and   beggary   hangs   upon   thy   back;",
"The   world   is   not   thy   friend   nor   the   world's   law;",
"The   world   affords   no   law   to   make   thee   rich;",
"Then   be   not   poor,   but   break   it,   and   take   this.",
"Apothecary   ",
"My   poverty,   but   not   my   will,   consents.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   pay   thy   poverty,   and   not   thy   will.",
"Apothecary   ",
"Put   this   in   any   liquid   thing   you   will,",
"And   drink   it   off;   and,   if   you   had   the   strength",
"Of   twenty   men,   it   would   dispatch   you   straight.",
"ROMEO   ",
"There   is   thy   gold,   worse   poison   to   men's   souls,",
"Doing   more   murders   in   this   loathsome   world,",
"Than   these   poor   compounds   that   thou   mayst   not   sell.",
"I   sell   thee   poison;   thou   hast   sold   me   none.",
"Farewell:   buy   food,   and   get   thyself   in   flesh.",
"Come,   cordial   and   not   poison,   go   with   me",
"To   Juliet's   grave;   for   there   must   I   use   thee.",
"Exeunt",
"SCENE   II.   Friar   Laurence's   cell.",
"",
"Enter   FRIAR   JOHN   ",
"FRIAR   JOHN   ",
"Holy   Franciscan   friar!   brother,   ho!",
"Enter   FRIAR   LAURENCE",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"This   same   should   be   the   voice   of   Friar   John.",
"Welcome   from   Mantua:   what   says   Romeo?",
"Or,   if   his   mind   be   writ,   give   me   his   letter.",
"FRIAR   JOHN   ",
"Going   to   find   a   bare-foot   brother   out",
"One   of   our   order,   to   associate   me,",
"Here   in   this   city   visiting   the   sick,",
"And   finding   him,   the   searchers   of   the   town,",
"Suspecting   that   we   both   were   in   a   house",
"Where   the   infectious   pestilence   did   reign,",
"Seal'd   up   the   doors,   and   would   not   let   us   forth;",
"So   that   my   speed   to   Mantua   there   was   stay'd.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Who   bare   my   letter,   then,   to   Romeo?",
"FRIAR   JOHN   ",
"I   could   not   send   it,--here   it   is   again,--",
"Nor   get   a   messenger   to   bring   it   thee,",
"So   fearful   were   they   of   infection.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Unhappy   fortune!   by   my   brotherhood,",
"The   letter   was   not   nice   but   full   of   charge",
"Of   dear   import,   and   the   neglecting   it",
"May   do   much   danger.   Friar   John,   go   hence;",
"Get   me   an   iron   crow,   and   bring   it   straight",
"Unto   my   cell.",
"FRIAR   JOHN   ",
"Brother,   I'll   go   and   bring   it   thee.",
"Exit",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Now   must   I   to   the   monument   alone;",
"Within   three   hours   will   fair   Juliet   wake:",
"She   will   beshrew   me   much   that   Romeo",
"Hath   had   no   notice   of   these   accidents;",
"But   I   will   write   again   to   Mantua,",
"And   keep   her   at   my   cell   till   Romeo   come;",
"Poor   living   corse,   closed   in   a   dead   man's   tomb!",
"Exit",
"SCENE   III.   A   churchyard;   in   it   a   tomb   belonging   to   the   Capulets.",
"",
"Enter   PARIS,   and   his   Page   bearing   flowers   and   a   torch   ",
"PARIS   ",
"Give   me   thy   torch,   boy:   hence,   and   stand   aloof:",
"Yet   put   it   out,   for   I   would   not   be   seen.",
"Under   yond   yew-trees   lay   thee   all   along,",
"Holding   thine   ear   close   to   the   hollow   ground;",
"So   shall   no   foot   upon   the   churchyard   tread,",
"Being   loose,   unfirm,   with   digging   up   of   graves,",
"But   thou   shalt   hear   it:   whistle   then   to   me,",
"As   signal   that   thou   hear'st   something   approach.",
"Give   me   those   flowers.   Do   as   I   bid   thee,   go.",
"PAGE   ",
"[Aside]   I   am   almost   afraid   to   stand   alone",
"Here   in   the   churchyard;   yet   I   will   adventure.",
"Retires",
"PARIS   ",
"Sweet   flower,   with   flowers   thy   bridal   bed   I   strew,--",
"O   woe!   thy   canopy   is   dust   and   stones;--",
"Which   with   sweet   water   nightly   I   will   dew,",
"Or,   wanting   that,   with   tears   distill'd   by   moans:",
"The   obsequies   that   I   for   thee   will   keep",
"Nightly   shall   be   to   strew   thy   grave   and   weep.",
"The   Page   whistles",
"The   boy   gives   warning   something   doth   approach.",
"What   cursed   foot   wanders   this   way   to-night,",
"To   cross   my   obsequies   and   true   love's   rite?",
"What   with   a   torch!   muffle   me,   night,   awhile.",
"Retires",
"Enter   ROMEO   and   BALTHASAR,   with   a   torch,   mattock,   &   c",
"ROMEO   ",
"Give   me   that   mattock   and   the   wrenching   iron.",
"Hold,   take   this   letter;   early   in   the   morning",
"See   thou   deliver   it   to   my   lord   and   father.",
"Give   me   the   light:   upon   thy   life,   I   charge   thee,",
"Whate'er   thou   hear'st   or   seest,   stand   all   aloof,",
"And   do   not   interrupt   me   in   my   course.",
"Why   I   descend   into   this   bed   of   death,",
"Is   partly   to   behold   my   lady's   face;",
"But   chiefly   to   take   thence   from   her   dead   finger",
"A   precious   ring,   a   ring   that   I   must   use",
"In   dear   employment:   therefore   hence,   be   gone:",
"But   if   thou,   jealous,   dost   return   to   pry",
"In   what   I   further   shall   intend   to   do,",
"By   heaven,   I   will   tear   thee   joint   by   joint",
"And   strew   this   hungry   churchyard   with   thy   limbs:",
"The   time   and   my   intents   are   savage-wild,",
"More   fierce   and   more   inexorable   far",
"Than   empty   tigers   or   the   roaring   sea.",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"I   will   be   gone,   sir,   and   not   trouble   you.",
"ROMEO   ",
"So   shalt   thou   show   me   friendship.   Take   thou   that:",
"Live,   and   be   prosperous:   and   farewell,   good   fellow.",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"[Aside]   For   all   this   same,   I'll   hide   me   hereabout:",
"His   looks   I   fear,   and   his   intents   I   doubt.",
"Retires",
"ROMEO   ",
"Thou   detestable   maw,   thou   womb   of   death,",
"Gorged   with   the   dearest   morsel   of   the   earth,",
"Thus   I   enforce   thy   rotten   jaws   to   open,",
"And,   in   despite,   I'll   cram   thee   with   more   food!",
"Opens   the   tomb",
"PARIS   ",
"This   is   that   banish'd   haughty   Montague,",
"That   murder'd   my   love's   cousin,   with   which   grief,",
"It   is   supposed,   the   fair   creature   died;",
"And   here   is   come   to   do   some   villanous   shame",
"To   the   dead   bodies:   I   will   apprehend   him.",
"Comes   forward",
"Stop   thy   unhallow'd   toil,   vile   Montague!",
"Can   vengeance   be   pursued   further   than   death?",
"Condemned   villain,   I   do   apprehend   thee:",
"Obey,   and   go   with   me;   for   thou   must   die.",
"ROMEO   ",
"I   must   indeed;   and   therefore   came   I   hither.",
"Good   gentle   youth,   tempt   not   a   desperate   man;",
"Fly   hence,   and   leave   me:   think   upon   these   gone;",
"Let   them   affright   thee.   I   beseech   thee,   youth,",
"Put   not   another   sin   upon   my   head,",
"By   urging   me   to   fury:   O,   be   gone!",
"By   heaven,   I   love   thee   better   than   myself;",
"For   I   come   hither   arm'd   against   myself:",
"Stay   not,   be   gone;   live,   and   hereafter   say,",
"A   madman's   mercy   bade   thee   run   away.",
"PARIS   ",
"I   do   defy   thy   conjurations,",
"And   apprehend   thee   for   a   felon   here.",
"ROMEO   ",
"Wilt   thou   provoke   me?   then   have   at   thee,   boy!",
"They   fight",
"PAGE   ",
"O   Lord,   they   fight!   I   will   go   call   the   watch.",
"Exit",
"PARIS   ",
"O,   I   am   slain!",
"Falls",
"If   thou   be   merciful,",
"Open   the   tomb,   lay   me   with   Juliet.",
"Dies",
"ROMEO   ",
"In   faith,   I   will.   Let   me   peruse   this   face.",
"Mercutio's   kinsman,   noble   County   Paris!",
"What   said   my   man,   when   my   betossed   soul",
"Did   not   attend   him   as   we   rode?   I   think",
"He   told   me   Paris   should   have   married   Juliet:",
"Said   he   not   so?   or   did   I   dream   it   so?",
"Or   am   I   mad,   hearing   him   talk   of   Juliet,",
"To   think   it   was   so?   O,   give   me   thy   hand,",
"One   writ   with   me   in   sour   misfortune's   book!",
"I'll   bury   thee   in   a   triumphant   grave;",
"A   grave?   O   no!   a   lantern,   slaughter'd   youth,",
"For   here   lies   Juliet,   and   her   beauty   makes",
"This   vault   a   feasting   presence   full   of   light.",
"Death,   lie   thou   there,   by   a   dead   man   interr'd.",
"Laying   PARIS   in   the   tomb",
"How   oft   when   men   are   at   the   point   of   death",
"Have   they   been   merry!   which   their   keepers   call",
"A   lightning   before   death:   O,   how   may   I",
"Call   this   a   lightning?   O   my   love!   my   wife!",
"Death,   that   hath   suck'd   the   honey   of   thy   breath,",
"Hath   had   no   power   yet   upon   thy   beauty:",
"Thou   art   not   conquer'd;   beauty's   ensign   yet",
"Is   crimson   in   thy   lips   and   in   thy   cheeks,",
"And   death's   pale   flag   is   not   advanced   there.",
"Tybalt,   liest   thou   there   in   thy   bloody   sheet?",
"O,   what   more   favour   can   I   do   to   thee,",
"Than   with   that   hand   that   cut   thy   youth   in   twain",
"To   sunder   his   that   was   thine   enemy?",
"Forgive   me,   cousin!   Ah,   dear   Juliet,",
"Why   art   thou   yet   so   fair?   shall   I   believe",
"That   unsubstantial   death   is   amorous,",
"And   that   the   lean   abhorred   monster   keeps",
"Thee   here   in   dark   to   be   his   paramour?",
"For   fear   of   that,   I   still   will   stay   with   thee;",
"And   never   from   this   palace   of   dim   night",
"Depart   again:   here,   here   will   I   remain",
"With   worms   that   are   thy   chamber-maids;   O,   here",
"Will   I   set   up   my   everlasting   rest,",
"And   shake   the   yoke   of   inauspicious   stars",
"From   this   world-wearied   flesh.   Eyes,   look   your   last!",
"Arms,   take   your   last   embrace!   and,   lips,   O   you",
"The   doors   of   breath,   seal   with   a   righteous   kiss",
"A   dateless   bargain   to   engrossing   death!",
"Come,   bitter   conduct,   come,   unsavoury   guide!",
"Thou   desperate   pilot,   now   at   once   run   on",
"The   dashing   rocks   thy   sea-sick   weary   bark!",
"Here's   to   my   love!",
"Drinks",
"O   true   apothecary!",
"Thy   drugs   are   quick.   Thus   with   a   kiss   I   die.",
"Dies",
"Enter,   at   the   other   end   of   the   churchyard,   FRIAR   LAURENCE,   with   a   lantern,   crow,   and   spade",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Saint   Francis   be   my   speed!   how   oft   to-night",
"Have   my   old   feet   stumbled   at   graves!   Who's   there?",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"Here's   one,   a   friend,   and   one   that   knows   you   well.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Bliss   be   upon   you!   Tell   me,   good   my   friend,",
"What   torch   is   yond,   that   vainly   lends   his   light",
"To   grubs   and   eyeless   skulls?   as   I   discern,",
"It   burneth   in   the   Capel's   monument.",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"It   doth   so,   holy   sir;   and   there's   my   master,",
"One   that   you   love.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Who   is   it?",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"Romeo.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"How   long   hath   he   been   there?",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"Full   half   an   hour.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Go   with   me   to   the   vault.",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"I   dare   not,   sir",
"My   master   knows   not   but   I   am   gone   hence;",
"And   fearfully   did   menace   me   with   death,",
"If   I   did   stay   to   look   on   his   intents.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Stay,   then;   I'll   go   alone.   Fear   comes   upon   me:",
"O,   much   I   fear   some   ill   unlucky   thing.",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"As   I   did   sleep   under   this   yew-tree   here,",
"I   dreamt   my   master   and   another   fought,",
"And   that   my   master   slew   him.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"Romeo!",
"Advances",
"Alack,   alack,   what   blood   is   this,   which   stains",
"The   stony   entrance   of   this   sepulchre?",
"What   mean   these   masterless   and   gory   swords",
"To   lie   discolour'd   by   this   place   of   peace?",
"Enters   the   tomb",
"Romeo!   O,   pale!   Who   else?   what,   Paris   too?",
"And   steep'd   in   blood?   Ah,   what   an   unkind   hour",
"Is   guilty   of   this   lamentable   chance!",
"The   lady   stirs.",
"JULIET   wakes",
"JULIET   ",
"O   comfortable   friar!   where   is   my   lord?",
"I   do   remember   well   where   I   should   be,",
"And   there   I   am.   Where   is   my   Romeo?",
"Noise   within",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"I   hear   some   noise.   Lady,   come   from   that   nest",
"Of   death,   contagion,   and   unnatural   sleep:",
"A   greater   power   than   we   can   contradict",
"Hath   thwarted   our   intents.   Come,   come   away.",
"Thy   husband   in   thy   bosom   there   lies   dead;",
"And   Paris   too.   Come,   I'll   dispose   of   thee",
"Among   a   sisterhood   of   holy   nuns:",
"Stay   not   to   question,   for   the   watch   is   coming;",
"Come,   go,   good   Juliet,",
"Noise   again",
"I   dare   no   longer   stay.",
"JULIET   ",
"Go,   get   thee   hence,   for   I   will   not   away.",
"Exit   FRIAR   LAURENCE",
"What's   here?   a   cup,   closed   in   my   true   love's   hand?",
"Poison,   I   see,   hath   been   his   timeless   end:",
"O   churl!   drunk   all,   and   left   no   friendly   drop",
"To   help   me   after?   I   will   kiss   thy   lips;",
"Haply   some   poison   yet   doth   hang   on   them,",
"To   make   die   with   a   restorative.",
"Kisses   him",
"Thy   lips   are   warm.",
"First   Watchman   ",
"[Within]   Lead,   boy:   which   way?",
"JULIET   ",
"Yea,   noise?   then   I'll   be   brief.   O   happy   dagger!",
"Snatching   ROMEO's   dagger",
"This   is   thy   sheath;",
"Stabs   herself",
"there   rust,   and   let   me   die.",
"Falls   on   ROMEO's   body,   and   dies",
"Enter   Watch,   with   the   Page   of   PARIS",
"PAGE   ",
"This   is   the   place;   there,   where   the   torch   doth   burn.",
"First   Watchman   ",
"The   ground   is   bloody;   search   about   the   churchyard:",
"Go,   some   of   you,   whoe'er   you   find   attach.",
"Pitiful   sight!   here   lies   the   county   slain,",
"And   Juliet   bleeding,   warm,   and   newly   dead,",
"Who   here   hath   lain   these   two   days   buried.",
"Go,   tell   the   prince:   run   to   the   Capulets:",
"Raise   up   the   Montagues:   some   others   search:",
"We   see   the   ground   whereon   these   woes   do   lie;",
"But   the   true   ground   of   all   these   piteous   woes",
"We   cannot   without   circumstance   descry.",
"Re-enter   some   of   the   Watch,   with   BALTHASAR",
"Second   Watchman   ",
"Here's   Romeo's   man;   we   found   him   in   the   churchyard.",
"First   Watchman   ",
"Hold   him   in   safety,   till   the   prince   come   hither.",
"Re-enter   others   of   the   Watch,   with   FRIAR   LAURENCE",
"Third   Watchman   ",
"Here   is   a   friar,   that   trembles,   sighs   and   weeps:",
"We   took   this   mattock   and   this   spade   from   him,",
"As   he   was   coming   from   this   churchyard   side.",
"First   Watchman   ",
"A   great   suspicion:   stay   the   friar   too.",
"Enter   the   PRINCE   and   Attendants",
"PRINCE   ",
"What   misadventure   is   so   early   up,",
"That   calls   our   person   from   our   morning's   rest?",
"Enter   CAPULET,   LADY   CAPULET,   and   others",
"CAPULET   ",
"What   should   it   be,   that   they   so   shriek   abroad?",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"The   people   in   the   street   cry   Romeo,",
"Some   Juliet,   and   some   Paris;   and   all   run,",
"With   open   outcry   toward   our   monument.",
"PRINCE   ",
"What   fear   is   this   which   startles   in   our   ears?",
"First   Watchman   ",
"Sovereign,   here   lies   the   County   Paris   slain;",
"And   Romeo   dead;   and   Juliet,   dead   before,",
"Warm   and   new   kill'd.",
"PRINCE   ",
"Search,   seek,   and   know   how   this   foul   murder   comes.",
"First   Watchman   ",
"Here   is   a   friar,   and   slaughter'd   Romeo's   man;",
"With   instruments   upon   them,   fit   to   open",
"These   dead   men's   tombs.",
"CAPULET   ",
"O   heavens!   O   wife,   look   how   our   daughter   bleeds!",
"This   dagger   hath   mista'en--for,   lo,   his   house",
"Is   empty   on   the   back   of   Montague,--",
"And   it   mis-sheathed   in   my   daughter's   bosom!",
"LADY   CAPULET   ",
"O   me!   this   sight   of   death   is   as   a   bell,",
"That   warns   my   old   age   to   a   sepulchre.",
"Enter   MONTAGUE   and   others",
"PRINCE   ",
"Come,   Montague;   for   thou   art   early   up,",
"To   see   thy   son   and   heir   more   early   down.",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"Alas,   my   liege,   my   wife   is   dead   to-night;",
"Grief   of   my   son's   exile   hath   stopp'd   her   breath:",
"What   further   woe   conspires   against   mine   age?",
"PRINCE   ",
"Look,   and   thou   shalt   see.",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"O   thou   untaught!   what   manners   is   in   this?",
"To   press   before   thy   father   to   a   grave?",
"PRINCE   ",
"Seal   up   the   mouth   of   outrage   for   a   while,",
"Till   we   can   clear   these   ambiguities,",
"And   know   their   spring,   their   head,   their",
"true   descent;",
"And   then   will   I   be   general   of   your   woes,",
"And   lead   you   even   to   death:   meantime   forbear,",
"And   let   mischance   be   slave   to   patience.",
"Bring   forth   the   parties   of   suspicion.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"I   am   the   greatest,   able   to   do   least,",
"Yet   most   suspected,   as   the   time   and   place",
"Doth   make   against   me   of   this   direful   murder;",
"And   here   I   stand,   both   to   impeach   and   purge",
"Myself   condemned   and   myself   excused.",
"PRINCE   ",
"Then   say   at   once   what   thou   dost   know   in   this.",
"FRIAR   LAURENCE   ",
"I   will   be   brief,   for   my   short   date   of   breath",
"Is   not   so   long   as   is   a   tedious   tale.",
"Romeo,   there   dead,   was   husband   to   that   Juliet;",
"And   she,   there   dead,   that   Romeo's   faithful   wife:",
"I   married   them;   and   their   stol'n   marriage-day",
"Was   Tybalt's   dooms-day,   whose   untimely   death",
"Banish'd   the   new-made   bridegroom   from   the   city,",
"For   whom,   and   not   for   Tybalt,   Juliet   pined.",
"You,   to   remove   that   siege   of   grief   from   her,",
"Betroth'd   and   would   have   married   her   perforce",
"To   County   Paris:   then   comes   she   to   me,",
"And,   with   wild   looks,   bid   me   devise   some   mean",
"To   rid   her   from   this   second   marriage,",
"Or   in   my   cell   there   would   she   kill   herself.",
"Then   gave   I   her,   so   tutor'd   by   my   art,",
"A   sleeping   potion;   which   so   took   effect",
"As   I   intended,   for   it   wrought   on   her",
"The   form   of   death:   meantime   I   writ   to   Romeo,",
"That   he   should   hither   come   as   this   dire   night,",
"To   help   to   take   her   from   her   borrow'd   grave,",
"Being   the   time   the   potion's   force   should   cease.",
"But   he   which   bore   my   letter,   Friar   John,",
"Was   stay'd   by   accident,   and   yesternight",
"Return'd   my   letter   back.   Then   all   alone",
"At   the   prefixed   hour   of   her   waking,",
"Came   I   to   take   her   from   her   kindred's   vault;",
"Meaning   to   keep   her   closely   at   my   cell,",
"Till   I   conveniently   could   send   to   Romeo:",
"But   when   I   came,   some   minute   ere   the   time",
"Of   her   awaking,   here   untimely   lay",
"The   noble   Paris   and   true   Romeo   dead.",
"She   wakes;   and   I   entreated   her   come   forth,",
"And   bear   this   work   of   heaven   with   patience:",
"But   then   a   noise   did   scare   me   from   the   tomb;",
"And   she,   too   desperate,   would   not   go   with   me,",
"But,   as   it   seems,   did   violence   on   herself.",
"All   this   I   know;   and   to   the   marriage",
"Her   nurse   is   privy:   and,   if   aught   in   this",
"Miscarried   by   my   fault,   let   my   old   life",
"Be   sacrificed,   some   hour   before   his   time,",
"Unto   the   rigour   of   severest   law.",
"PRINCE   ",
"We   still   have   known   thee   for   a   holy   man.",
"Where's   Romeo's   man?   what   can   he   say   in   this?",
"BALTHASAR   ",
"I   brought   my   master   news   of   Juliet's   death;",
"And   then   in   post   he   came   from   Mantua",
"To   this   same   place,   to   this   same   monument.",
"This   letter   he   early   bid   me   give   his   father,",
"And   threatened   me   with   death,   going   in   the   vault,",
"I   departed   not   and   left   him   there.",
"PRINCE   ",
"Give   me   the   letter;   I   will   look   on   it.",
"Where   is   the   county's   page,   that   raised   the   watch?",
"Sirrah,   what   made   your   master   in   this   place?",
"PAGE   ",
"He   came   with   flowers   to   strew   his   lady's   grave;",
"And   bid   me   stand   aloof,   and   so   I   did:",
"Anon   comes   one   with   light   to   ope   the   tomb;",
"And   by   and   by   my   master   drew   on   him;",
"And   then   I   ran   away   to   call   the   watch.",
"PRINCE   ",
"This   letter   doth   make   good   the   friar's   words,",
"Their   course   of   love,   the   tidings   of   her   death:",
"And   here   he   writes   that   he   did   buy   a   poison",
"Of   a   poor   'pothecary,   and   therewithal",
"Came   to   this   vault   to   die,   and   lie   with   Juliet.",
"Where   be   these   enemies?   Capulet!   Montague!",
"See,   what   a   scourge   is   laid   upon   your   hate,",
"That   heaven   finds   means   to   kill   your   joys   with   love.",
"And   I   for   winking   at   your   discords   too",
"Have   lost   a   brace   of   kinsmen:   all   are   punish'd.",
"CAPULET   ",
"O   brother   Montague,   give   me   thy   hand:",
"This   is   my   daughter's   jointure,   for   no   more",
"Can   I   demand.",
"MONTAGUE   ",
"But   I   can   give   thee   more:",
"For   I   will   raise   her   statue   in   pure   gold;",
"That   while   Verona   by   that   name   is   known,",
"There   shall   no   figure   at   such   rate   be   set",
"As   that   of   true   and   faithful   Juliet.",
"CAPULET   ",
"As   rich   shall   Romeo's   by   his   lady's   lie;",
"Poor   sacrifices   of   our   enmity!",
"PRINCE   ",
"A   glooming   peace   this   morning   with   it   brings;",
"The   sun,   for   sorrow,   will   not   show   his   head:",
"Go   hence,   to   have   more   talk   of   these   sad   things;",
"Some   shall   be   pardon'd,   and   some   punished:",
"For   never   was   a   story   of   more   woe",
"Than   this   of   Juliet   and   her   Romeo.",
"Exeunt"
]
let startTime:CFAbsoluteTime
var endTime:CFAbsoluteTime
startTime = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
for line in romeoAndJuliet {
    let _ = line.components(separatedBy: " ").filter { string -> Bool in return string.isEmpty == false }.joined(separator: " ")
}
endTime = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
print("Time to evaluate \(endTime - startTime) seconds")

let startTime2:CFAbsoluteTime
var endTime2:CFAbsoluteTime
startTime2 = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
for line in romeoAndJuliet {
    let _ = line.replacingOccurrences(of: "[ \t]+", with: " ", options: .regularExpression)
}
endTime2 = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()
print("Time to evaluate \(endTime2 - startTime2) seconds")

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