III.

ROMEO and JULIET meet at FRIAR LAWRENCE's cell to be married.

"ROм. 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.

JUL. 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 half my sum of wealth."

ACT II. S. 6.

IV.

ROMEO parting TYBALT and MERCUTIO.

"ROм.

Draw, Benvolio;

Beat down their weapons: gentlemen, for shame.
Forbear this outrage:-Tybalt-Mercutio—
The prince expressly hath forbid this bandying

In Verona streets: hold, Tybalt; good Mercutio.
MER. I am hurt :-

-:

A plague o' both your houses! I am sped:

Why, the devil, came you between us? I was
Hurt under your arm."

ACT III. S. 1.

ROMEO AND JULIET.

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V.

ROMEO,after the death of MERCUTIO, meets TYBALT, fights with, and kills him.

"BEN.

Romeo, away! begone !

The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.

Stand not amazed:-the prince will doom thee death

If thou art taken :-hence !-begone!—away!

ROM. O! I am fortune's fool!

BEN.

Why dost thou stay?"

ACT III. S. 1.

In the back-ground, the citizens are bringing MERCUTIO out from the house he had been carried to, and are placing him upon a bier. The PRINCE, CAPULET, MONTAGUE, and their wives, coming up.

VI.

ROMEO, banished for killing TYBALT, takes leave of JULIET.

"ROM. Farewell, Farewell! one kiss, and I'll de

scend."

ACT III. S. 5.

VII.

JULIET takes a sleeping draught to avoid the marriage with the County PARIS, determined by her father and mother.

"JUL. 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 scenes I needs must act alone.—
Come, phial.-

What if this mixture do not work at all,
Must I of force be married to the county?
No, no;-this shall forbid it: lie thou there."

(Laying down a dagger.)

ACT IV. S. 3.

ROMEO AND JULIET.

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VIII.

JULIET discovered.

"NURSE. What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!

I needs must wake you: lady! lady! lady!
Alas! alas!-help! help! my lady's dead!
O! well aday that ever I was born!

Some aqua vitæ, ho!-my lord! my lady!

LADY C. Alack the day! she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!

CAP. Ha! let me see her.

PAR. Have I thought long to see this morning's face,

And doth it give me such a sight as this?"

ACT IV. S. 5.

IX.

ROMEO, having been told of JULIET's death, buys poison, and comes to her tomb to die. PARIS, who has come to strew the monument with flowers, attempts to prevent his breaking open the door.

"ROм. Thou detestable maw, thou womb of earth, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,

Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to ope.

(Breaks open the door of the monument.) And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food! PAR. 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.
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.

ROM. 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.

PAR. I do defy thy conjurations,

And do attach thee as a felon here.

ROM. Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy. PAGE. O Lord! they fight: I will go call the watch.”

ACT V. S. 3.