How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point! Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, The horrible conceit of death and night, - Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, So early waking, what with loathsome smells; [Drinks, and throws herself on the bed. SCENE IV. The same. Hall in CAPULET's house. Enter Lady CAPULET and Nurse. La. Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Enter CAPULET. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock: Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica: Spare not for cost. Nurse. Go, you cot-quean, go, Get you to bed; faith, you'll be sick to-morrow Cap. No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood! Enter Servants, with spits, logs, and baskets. What's there? Now, fellow, First Serv. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit First Serv.]— Sirrah, fetch drier logs: Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. Sec. Serv. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs, And never trouble Peter for the matter. Cap. Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! The county will be here with music straight, Re-enter Nurse. Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up: [Exit. [Music within. I say! I'll [Exeunt. SCENE V. The same. JULIET's chamber; JULIET on the bed. Why, lamb! - why, lady! - fie, you slug-a-bed! - why, bride! What, not a word? - you take your pennyworths now; Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, The County Paris hath set up his rest, That you shall rest but little. God forgive me, - Madam, madam, madam! - Will it not be? What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again! Lady! lady! lady!— Alas, alas! — Help, help! my lady's dead! Some aqua-vitæ, ho! - My lord! my lady! Enter Lady Capulet. La. Cap. What noise is here? La. Cap. What is the matter? O me! O lamentable day! Look, look! O heavy day! La. Cap. O me, My child, my only life, Revive, look up, or I will die with thee! Help, help! call help. Enter CAPULET. Cap. For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. Nurse. She's dead, deceas'd, she's dead; alack the day! La. Cap. Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead! Cap. Ha! let me see her: - -out, alas! she's cold; Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost La. Cap. O woful time! Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. Enter Friar LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians. see there she lies, Par. Have I thought long to see this morning's face, And doth it give me such a sight as this? La. Cap. Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Most miserable hour that e'er time saw In lasting labour of his pilgrimage! But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, But one thing to rejoice and solace in, And cruel Death hath catch'd it from my sight! O woe! O woful, woful, woful day! Most lamentable day, most woful day, Par. Beguil'd, divorced, wrongèd, spited, slain! By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown! O love! O life! not life, but love in death! Cap. Despis'd, distressèd, hated, martyr'd, kill'd! Uncomfortable time, why cam'st thou now To murder, murder our solemnity? O child! O child! alack, my child is dead; And with my child my joys are burièd! Fri. L. Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not In these confusions. Heaven and yourself Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all, And all the better is it for the maid: Your part in her you could not keep from death; Cap. All things that we ordainèd festival Fri. L. Sir, go you in, — and, madam, go with him; And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare To follow this fair corse unto her grave: The heavens do lour upon you for some ill; Move them no more by crossing their high will. [Exeunt Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris, and Friar. First Mus. Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone. |