Here lives a caitiff wretch would fell it him. Oh, this fame thought did but fore-run my need, Enter Apothecary. Ap. Who calls fo loud? Rom. Come hither, man; I fee that thou art poor: Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have A dram of poison, fuch foon-speeding geer, Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. Ap. Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them. Rom. Art thou fo bare and full of wretchedness, And fear'ft to die? Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and Oppreffion ftare within thine eyes, • Contempt and Beggary hang upon thy back. • The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law; The world affords no law to make thee rich, Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. Ap My poverty, but not my will, confents. Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. Ap. Put this in any liquid thing you will, And drink it off; and if you had the ftrength Of twenty men, it would difpatch you ftraight. Rom. There is thy gold, worse poison to mens' fouls, Doing more murthers in this lothfome world, Than thefe poor compounds that thou may'st not fell. I fell thee poifon, thou haft fold me none.Farewel, buy food, and get thee into flesh. Come, cordial, and not poifon; go with me To Juliet's grave, for there must I ufe thee. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Changes to the monaftery at Verona. Enter Friar John. John. Holy Francifcan Friar! brother! ho! Enter Enter Friar Lawrence to him. Law. This fame fhould be the voice of Friar John.Welcome from Mantua; what fays Romeo? Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. John. Going to find a bare-foot brother out, One of our order, to affociate me, Here in this city vifiting the fick; And finding him, the fearchers of the town, Law. Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood, John. Brother, I'll go and bring it thee. And keep her at my cell till Romeo come. [Exit Poor living corfe, clos'd in a dead man's tomb! [Exit: Changes to a church-yard: in it a monument belonging to the Capulets. Enter Paris, and his Page, with a light. Par. Give me thy torch, boy; hence, and ftand aloof, Yet put it out, for 1 would not be feen. Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along, nice, for of trifling imp rt. So fhall no foot upon the church-yard tread, As fignal that thou hear'st something approach. Page. I am almoft afraid to ftand alone ftrew. [Strewing flowers. Fair Juliet, that with angels doft remain, Accept this latest favour at my hand; That living honour'd thee, and, being dead, With fun'ral obfequies adorn thy tomb. [The boy whiftles. -The boy gives warning, fomething doth approach.What curfed foot wanders this way to-night, To cross my obfequies, and true love's rites? What? with a torch? muffle me, night, a while. Enter Romeo and Bathafar with a light. 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. But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger In dear employment; therefore hence, be gone. In what I further fhall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint, And ftrew this hungry church-yard with thy limbs ; The time and my intents are favage, wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tygers, or the roaring fea. Balth. I will be gone, Sir, and not trouble you. Rom Rom. So fhalt thou fhew me friendship.-Take Live and be proip'rous, and farewel, good fellow. Thus I inforce thy rotten jaws to open, [Breaking open the monument.. And here is come to do fome villanous fhame Rom. I muft, indeed, and therefore came I hither.Good gentle youth, tempt not a defp'rate man; Fly hence and leave me think upon those gone, And apprehend thee for a felon here Rom. Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy. [They fight, Paris falls. Page. Oh Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch. Par. Oh, I am flain; if thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. Rom. In faith, I will let me perufe this face G 3 [Dies. Said Said he not fo? or did I dream it fo? Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, A grave? O no; a lanthorn, flughter'd youth; [Laying Paris in the monument. How oft, when men are at the point of death, With worms that are thy chamber-maids; oh here And fhake the yoke of inaufpicious stars From this world-weary'd flesh. Eyes, look your last! Here's |