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Like powder in a skill-lefs foldier's flask, is fet on fire by thine own ignorance,

And thou difmember'd with thine own defence.
What, roufe thee, man, thy Juliet is alive,.
For whofe dear fake thou waft but lately dead :
There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,
But thou flew'it Tybalt; there thou'rt happy too.
The law, that threatned death, became thy friend,
And turn'd it to exile; there art thou happy;
A pack of bleffings light upon thy back,
Happiness courts thee in her best array,
But, like a misbehav'd and sullen wench,
Thou pout'ft upon thy fortune and thy love.
Take heed, take heed, for fuch die miferable.
Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
Afcend her chamber, hence and comfort her:
But, look, thou ftay not till the watch be fet,
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua:
Where thou fhalt live, till we can find a time
To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of thy Prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy,
Than thou went'ft forth in lamentation.
Go before, nurfe; commend me to thy lady,
And bid her haften all the house to bed,
Which heavy forrow makes them apt unto.
Romeo is coming.

Nurfe. O Lord, I could have ftaid here all night long, To hear good counfel: oh, what learning is!

My Lord, I'll tell my Lady you will come.

Ron. Do fo, and bid my fweet prepare to chide.
Nufe. Here, ir, a ring fhe bid me give you, Sir:
Hie
you, make hafte, for it grows very late.

Rom. How well my comfort is reviv'd by this!
Fri. Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,
And he fhall fignify from time to time
Every good hap to you, that chances here:
Give me thy hand, 'tis late, farewel, good-night.
Rom. But that a joy, paft joy, calls out on me,
It were a grief, fo brief to part with thee.

[Exeunt,

Cat.

SCENE changes to Capulet's Houfe.

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Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Paris. HINGS have fal'n out, Sir, fo unluckily, That we have had no time to move our daughter: Look you, fhe lov'd her kinfman Tybalt dearly, And fo did I.-Well, we were born to die.'Tis very late, fhe'll not come down to-night. I promife you, but for your company,

I would have been a-bed an hour ago.

Par. Thefe times of woe afford no time to wode: Madam, good night; commend me to your daughter. La. Cap. I will, and know her mind early to-morrow :To-night he's mew'd up to her heavinefs.

Cap. Sir Paris, I will make a defperate tender
Of my child's love: I think, fhe will be rul'd
In all refpects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.
Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;
Acquaint her here with my fon Paris' love,
And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next,-
But, foft; what day is this?

Par. Monday, my Lord.

Cap. Monday? Ha! ha! well, Wednesday is too foon, On Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,

She fhall be married to this noble Earl.
Will you be ready? do you like this hafte?
We'll keep no great a-do-a friend or two-
For, hark you, Tybalt being flain fo late,
It may be thought we held him carelesly,
Being our kinfman, if we revel much :
Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,
And there's an end. But what say you to Thursday?.
Par. My Lord, I would that Thurfday were to-morrow.
Cap. Well, get you gone-on Thursday be it then :
Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed, [To Lady Cap.
Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.
Farewel, my Lord-light to my chamber, hoa!

'Fore

'Fore me, it is fo very late, that we

May call it early by and by. Good night.

[Exeunt.

SCENE, Juliet's Chamber looking to the Garden.

Enter Romeo and Juliet, above at a window; a ladder

Jul. W

of ropes fet.

ILT thou be gone? it is not yet near day:

It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly the fings on yon pomgranate tree :
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

Rom. It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale. Look, love, what envious ftreaks
Do lace the fevering clouds in yonder east :
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountains' tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

ful. Yon light is not day-light, I know it well:
It is fome meteor that the Sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua;
Then stay a while, thou shalt not go so soon.
Rom. Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death,
I am content, if thou wilt have it fo.

I'll fay, yon gray is not the morning's eye,
Iis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;
Nor that is not the lark, whofe notes do beat
The vaulty heav'ns fo high above our heads.
I have more care to ftay, than will to go.
Come death, and welcome: Juliet wills it fo.
How is't, my foul? let's talk, it is not day.
Jul. It is, it is; hie hence, begone, away:
It is the lark that fings fo out of tune,
Straining harsh difcords, and unpleafing sharps.
Some fay, the lark makes sweet division;
This doth not fo: for fhe divideth us.

Some fay, the lark and loathed toad change eyes;
O, now I would they had chang'd voices too!

O now be gone, more light and light it grows.

Rom. More light and light?-More dark and dark

our woes.

Nurfe. Madam,

Jul. Nurfe?

Enter Nurse.

Nurfe. Your lady mother's coming to your chamber:
The day is broke, be wary, look about. [Exit Nurfe.
Jul. Then, window, let day in, and let life out.
Rom. Farewel, farewel; one kifs, and I'll defcend.
[Romeo defcends.
Ful. Art thou gone fo? love! lord! ah husband! friend!
I must hear from thee ev'ry day in th' hour,
For in a minute there are many days.

O, by this count I fhall be much in years,
Ere I again behold my Romeo.

Rom. Farewel: I will omit no opportunity,

That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
Jul. O think't thou, we fhall ever meet again?
Rom. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve (25)
For fweet difcourfes, in our time to come.

Jul. O God! I have an ill-divining foul.
Methinks, I fee thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb :
Either my eye-fight fails, or thou look'ft pale.
Rom. And trust me, love, in mine
Dry forrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu.

eye

fo do you:

[Exit Romeo'. ful. Oh Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle :

If thou art fickle, what doft thou with him
That is renown'd for faith? be fickle, Fortune :
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But fend him back.

(25)

-And all these woes shall ferve

For feet difcourfes in our time to come.] This very thought is exprefs'd by Virgil on a like occasion;

Forfan & hæc olìm meminisse juvabit.

Eneid. I. v. 203.

The learned Taubman, in his note on this paffage, has amafs'd feveral

fmilar quotations.

Enter

Enter Lady Capulet.

La. Cap. Ho, daughter, are you up

?

ful. Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother? What unaccustom'd caufe procures her hither? La. Cap. Why, how now, Juliet ?

Jul. Madam, I am not well.

La. Cap. Evermore weeping for your coufin's death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? An' if thou could'ft, thou could'st not make him live; Therefore, have done, Some grief fhews much of love; But much of grief shews still some want of wit.

Jul. Yet let me weep for fuch a feeling lofs.

La. Cap. So fhall you feel the lofs, but not the friend Which you do weep for.

Jul. Feeling fo the lofs,

I cannot chufe but ever weep the friend.

[death,

La. Cap. Well, girl, thou weep'ft not fo much for his As that the villain lives which flaughter'd him, Jul. What villain, Madam?

La. Cap. That fame villain, Romeo.

Jul. Villain and he are many miles afunder, God pardon him! I do, with all my heart: And, yet, no man like he doth grieve my heart. La. Cap. That is, because the traitor lives. Jul. I, Madam, from the reach of these my hands: Would, none but I might venge my cousin's death! La. Cap. We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not: Then weep no more. I'll fend to one in Mantua, Where that fame banish'd runagate doth live, Shall give him fuch an unaccustom'd dram, That he fhall foon keep Tybalt company, And then, I hope, thou wilt be fatisfy'd. Jul. Indeed, I never fhall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him— -deadIs my poor heart fo for a kinfman vext? Madam, if you could find out but a man To bear a poifon, I would temper it; That Romeo fhould upon receipt thereof Soon fleep in quiet.—O, how my heart abhors

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