Scene

Balcony Scene    Act II Scene II

[Enter Romeo Enter Juliet above]

ROMEO

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

It is my lady. O, it is my love! 

O, that she knew she were!

JULIET

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? 

Deny thy father and refuse thy name, 

ROMEO

I take thee at thy word. 

Henceforth I never will be Romeo. 

JULIET

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, 

So stumblest on my counsel ?

How camest thou hither? 

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 

stony limits cannot hold love out, 

And what love can do, that dares love attempt . 

Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me. 

JULIET 

If they do see thee, they will murder thee. 

ROMEO

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

let them find me here. 

My life were better ended by their hate 

Than death proroguèd , wanting of thy love. 

JULIET

Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face,

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek 

But farewell compliment .

Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say “Ay,”

Or, if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, 

I’ll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, 

ROMEO

 Lady, by yonder blessèd moon I vow, 

That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—

JULIET

It is too rash, too unadvised , too sudden

May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. 

Good night, good night. 

ROMEO

 O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

JULIET

 What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?

ROMEO 

Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine. 

JULIET

 I gave thee mine before thou didst request it, 

ROMEO 

Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love? 

JULIET 

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 

My love as deep.

[ Nurse calls from within]

 I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu.—

ROMEO

 Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast.

Act IV Scene I

JULIET O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so, 

Come weep with me, past hope, past care , past help. 

FRIAR LAWRENCE 

O Juliet, I already know thy grief. 

I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it, 

On Thursday next be married to this County. 

JULIET Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this, 

Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. 

Do thou but call my resolution wise, 

And with this knife I’ll help it presently. 

< She shows him her knife. > 

FRIAR LAWRENCE 

Hold , daughter, I do spy a kind of hope,

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, 

JULIET

 O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, 

From off the battlements of any tower, 

FRIAR LAWRENCE 

Hold, then. 

Go home; give consent To marry Paris. 

Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone; 

< Holding out a vial. > 

Take thou this vial, being then in bed, 

And this distilling liquor drink thou off; 

When presently through all thy veins shall run 

A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse 

JULIET Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear! 

FRIAR LAWRENCE , 

< giving Juliet the vial > 

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. 

[FRIAR LAWRENCE exits]

JULIET 

< She takes out the vial. > 

What if this mixture do not work at all? 

Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? 

 < She takes out her knife and puts it down beside her. > 

No, no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there. 

 What if it be a poison which the Friar 

 Subtly hath ministered to have medead, 

 Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored 

 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? 

Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to 

thee.

 < She drinks and falls upon her bed within the curtains. >

Act III Scene III

FRIAR LAWRENCE

Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man

Affliction is enamored of thy parts

And thou art wedded to calamity

< Enter Romeo. >

ROMEO

Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom ?

FRIAR LAWRENCE

A gentler judgment vanished from his lips:

Not body’s death, but body’s banishment.

ROMEO

Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death,”

Much more than death. Do not say “banishment.”

FRIAR LAWRENCE

Here from Verona art thou banishèd.

Be patient , for the world is broad and wide.

ROMEO

There is no world without Verona walls

Calling death “banishèd,”

Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden ax

And smilest upon the stroke that murders me

FRIAR LAWRENCE

O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness!

ROMEO

’Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here

Where Juliet lives, every unworthy thing may look on her,

But Romeo may not. 

Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, 

It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more. 

FRIAR LAWRENCE

 O, then I see that have no ears. 

ROMEO 

How should they when that wise men have no eyes? 

Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel. 

Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, 

Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair 

And fall upon the ground as I do now, 

< Romeo throws himself down. > 

Taking the measure of an unmade grave. 

[Knock < within. > ]

FRIAR LAWRENCE 

Arise. One knocks. Good Romeo, hide thyself. 

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 LAWRENCE

 , < admitting the Nurse > 

Welcome, then. 

< Enter Nurse. >

 NURSE 

O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar, 

Where’s my lady’s lord? Where’s Romeo? 

FRIAR LAWRENCE 

There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk. 

NURSE 

O, he is even in my mistress’ case , 

Just in her case. 

Blubb’ring and weeping, weeping and blubb’ring.

 Stand up, stand up. Stand an you be a man. 

For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand. 

ROMEO , 

< rising up > 

Spakest thou of Juliet? How is it with her? 

Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack 

The hateful mansion. 

< He draws his dagger. > 

FRIAR LAWRENCE

 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, 

And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both ! 

What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive, 

For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead : 

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 

ROMEO

Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. 

NURSE

Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. 

< She exits. >

ROMEO

 How well my comfort is revived by this! 

FRIAR LAWRENCE

Go hence, good night Sojourn in Mantua. I’ll find out your man , 

Give me thy hand. ’Tis late. Farewell. 

ROMEO

But that a joy past joy calls out on me, 

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell. 

[They exit. ]

John 41

Wiebke 54

Taylor 48