Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. [Retires. PAR. Sweet flower, with flowers I strew thy bridal bed: Sweet tomb, that in thy circuit dost contain The perfect model of eternity; Fair Juliet, that with angels dost remain, That living honour'd thee, and, being dead, With funeral praises do adorn thy tomb! (The Boy whistles. [Retires. Enter ROMEO and BALTHAZAR, with a Torch, Mattock, &c. ROM. 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, But, chiefly, to take thence from her dead finger In dear employment: 3 therefore hence, be gone: - In what I further shall intend to do, 1) The yew, (in French if or yf; in German Eibe;) an evergreen tree of the genus of Taxus frequently found in British churchyards." 2) To muffle, to cover or conceal. Gems were supposed to have great powers and virtues. Johnson. 4) To pry, to peep narrowly; to inspect closely; as, to pry into the mysteries of nature. By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint, And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: Than empty tigers, or the roaring sea. BAL. I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you. that: Live, and be prosperous; and farewell, good fellow. [Retires. [Breaking 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 villainous shame 4 [Advances. ROM. I must, indeed; and therefore came I hither. By urging me to fury: O, be gone! 1) Man, from the German Magen, properly the stomach of brutes; figuratively and contemptuously for abyss, gulf. Detestable, which is now accented on the second, was once accented on the first. 2) To gorge, to fill up the throat, to satiate. 3) To cram, to stuff, to fill with more than can conveniently be held. 4) Paris conceived Romeo to have burst open the monument for no other purpuse than to exercise magic arts, such as witches and necromancers are reported to have practised. 5) Unholy, impious labour. 6) To seize, in order for trial or punishment. 7) Gone, departed from life, dead. Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say 1 ROM. Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy. [They fight. PAGE. O heaven, they fight, I will go call the watch. [Exit Page. PAR. O, I am slain! [Falls.] If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. soul [Dies. ROM. In faith, I will: Let me peruse3 this face; Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, 6 [Laying PARIS in the Monument. 1) I refuse to do as thou conjurest | Ophelia says, speaking of Hamlet me to do, i. e. to depart. Some (Act III, sc. 2): "- - He fell to such commentators attribute this expres- perusal of my face." sion to the power of magic which Romeo was suspected to possess, and was about to practise. 2) To attach, to arrest, to lay hold on; to apprehend. A felon originally signifies a vassal who failed in his fidelity or allegiance to his lord, and committed an offence by which he forfeited his feud, his lands or goods. But the idea of felony has been so generally connected with that of capital punishment, that law and usage now confirm that connection. Thus, if a statute makes any new offence a felony, it is understood to mean a crime punishable with transportation. 3) To peruse, to examine. So, 4) To betoss, to disturb, to agitate. 5) That is, Thou who art written or inscribed together with me, etc. 6) A lantern may not, in this instance, signify an enclosure for a lighted candle, but a louvre, or what in ancient records is styled lanternium, i. e. a spacious round or octagonal turret full of windows by means of which cathedrals, and sometimes halls, are illuminated. Steevens. 7) A presence is a public room, which is at times the presencechamber of the sovereign. 8) Romeo being now determined to put an end to his life, considers himself as already dead. Malone. By therefore is not, by the side of How oft when men are at the point of death, With worms that are thy chambermaids; O, here 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 [Drinks.] O, true apothecary! [Dies. manner of firing the harquebuss. This was so heavy a gun, that the soldiers were obliged to carry a supporter called a rest, which they fixed in the ground before they levelled to take aim. Steevens. undue quantities or degrees; engross4) To engross to take or assume in ing, greedy. 5) Conductor. Enter, at the other End of the Churchyard, Friar Laurence, with a Lantern, Crow, and Spade. FRI. Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night Have my old feet stumbled at graves? Who's there? Who is it that consorts, so late, the dead? BAL. Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well. FRI. Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend, What torch is yond', 2 that vainly lends his light To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern, It burneth in the Capels' monument. BAL. It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master, One that you love. FRI. BAL. Who is it? Romeo. Full half an hour. FRI. How long hath he been there? FRI. Go with me to the vault. I dare not, sir: Fear comes upon me: O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing. BAL. As I did sleep under this yew-tree here, I dreamt my master and another fought, And that my master slew him.3 Romeo? - FRI. [Advances. [Enters the Monument. Romeo! O, pale! -Who else? what, Paris, too? And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour 1) This accident was reckoned | pens to a person while he is under ominous. the manifest influence of fear, will 2) Yond', yonder, yond, yon, ad- from it, like a dream; for a man in seem to him, when he is recovered verbially. 3) This is one of the touches of nature that would have escaped the hand of any painter less attentive to it than Shakspeare. What hap such a condition, says Mr. Pope, awakes no further than to see confusedly what environs him, and to think it not a reality, but a vision. Steevens. |