Betroth'd, and would have married her perforce, Or, in my cell, there would she kill herself. The form of death: mean time I writ to Romeo, 370 380 But then a noise did scare me from the tomb; Be Be sacrific'd, some hour before his time, Prince. We still have known thee for a holy man. Where's Romeo's man? what can he say to this ? 400 Balth. I brought my master news of Juliet's death; And then in past he came from Mantua, To this same place, to this same monument. This letter he early bid me give his father; And threaten'd me with death, going in the vault, If I departed not, and left him there. Prince. Give me the letter, I will look on it. Where is the county's page that rais'd 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; 410 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 : Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.- love! M 420 And And I, for winking at your discords too, Cap. O brother Montague, give me thy hand Mon. But I can give thee more: For I will raise her statue in pure gold; Cap. As rich shall Romeo by his lady lię; 430 Prince. A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not shew 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 omnes. THE END. BY SAM. JOHNSON & GEO. STEEVENS, AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS, UPON ROMEO and JULIET, WRITTEN BY WILL. SHAKSPERE. SIC ITUR AD ASTRA. VIRC. LONDON: Printed for, and under the Direction of, JOHN BELL, British-Library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the PRINCE OF WALES. M DCC LXXXVII. |