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Romeo and Juliet

Act III, Scene 2

Capulet's orchard.
 
[Enter JULIET]
 
JULIET
       ,          ,         ,       ,        ,
      Gallop | apace,| you fie|ry-foot|ed steeds,
                ,        ,          ,       ,    ,
      Towards^Phoe|bus' lod|ging, such | a wag|oner
          ,     ,            ,         ,         ,
      As Pha|ethon | would whip | you to | the west,
            ,          ,       ,        ,   2   ,
      And bring | in clou|dy night | immed|iately.
         T    .     T    T         ,       ,         ,
      Spread thy* close curt|ain love-|perfor|ming night,
            ,     ,       ,          ,          , 2
      That run|away's | eyes may | wink, and | Romeo
        T   .   T     T         ,               ,  ,
      Leap to these arms,| untalked | of and / unseen,
       ,            ,        ,          ,   2     ,
      Lovers | can see | to do | their am|orous rites,
                  ,    ,         ,        ,         ,
      By their / own beaut|ies: or | if love | be blind,
           ,       ,            ,       T    Tx    T
      It best | agrees | with night:| Come civil night,
            ,       ,      ,       ,         ,
      Thou sob|er-suit|ed mat|ron all | in black,
            ,         ,         ,       ,         ,
      And learn | me how | to lose | a win|ning match,
         ,             ,         ,         ,       ,
      Played for | a pair | of stain|less maid|enhoods,
        ,            ,       ,    ,                 ,
      Hood my | unmanned | blood bat/ing in | my cheeks,
                   ,    ,                 ,      ,            ,
      With thy / black mant|le, till / strange love | grow* bold,
               ,          ,      ,       ,     ,
      Think* true | love^act|ed simp|le mod|esty:
             ,           ,   2    ,          ,         ,
      Come^night,| come^Rom|eo, come | thou day | in night,
            ,          ,      ,          ,          ,
      For thou | wilt^lie | upon | the wings | of night;
       ,             ,      ,          ,         ,
      Whiter | than new | snow on | a rav|en's back:
        T    Tx     T             x       T      T     T
      Come gentle night,| come^loving | black-browed night.
        ,           ,   2   ,          ,          ,
      Give me | my Rom|eo, and | when he | shall die,
        ,             ,         ,        ,        ,
      Take him | and cut | him out | in lit|tle stars,
           ,          ,          ,          x          ,
      And he | will make | the face | of heaven | so fine,
            ,          ,           ,        ,           ,
      That all | the world | will be | in love | with night,
           ,         ,       ,        ,       ,
      And pay | no worsh|ip to | the gar|ish sun.
        ,           ,          ,        ,       ,
      O^I | have bought | the man|sion of | a love,
           ,         ,           ,           ,        ,
      But not | possessed | it, and | though I | am sold,
           ,        ,         ,   2    ,         ,
      Not^yet | enjoyed,| so ted|ious is | this day,
          ,         ,         ,           ,    ,
      As is | the night | before | some fest|ival,
       ,   2    ,          ,            T   T    T
      To an im|patient | child that | hath new robes
           ,          ,          ,          ,          ,
      And may | not wear | them, O | here comes | my nurse:
       .   T     T     T         ,        ,             ,
      And she brings news | and eve|ry tongue | that speaks
           ,   2     ,              x       ,     ,
      But Rom|eo's name,| speaks heaven|ly el|oquence:
            ,            ,           ,           ,
      Now nurse,| what news?| What hast | thou there?
            ,           ,      ,           ,
      The cords | that Rom|eo bid | thee fetch?
 
NURSE
       T    T    .    T
      Aye, aye, the cords.
 
JULIET
                                ,          ,
                           Aye me,| what news?  (tetra with prev two)
            ,           ,           ,
      Why dost | thou wring | thy hands?  \\
 
NURSE
           ,      ,           ,           ,    oo
      Ah well-|a-day,| he's dead,| he's dead,|
       ,           ,     ,         ,        ,
      We are | undone | lady,| we are | undone.
         ,         ,           ,            ,            ,
      Alack | the day,| he's gone,| he's killed,| he's dead.
 
JULIET
           ,       ,       ,   2
      Can heav|en be | so en|vious?
 
NURSE
                                     ,  2   ,
                                    Rom|eo can,
                x         ,       ,  2    ,   ,
      Though heaven | cannot.| O Rom|eo, Rom|eo,
           ,      ,             ,          ,   ,
      Who ev|er would | have thought | it Rom|eo.
 
JULIET
             x      ,
      What devil | art thou,
                                    ,         ,         ,
                             That dost | torment | me thus?
            ,          ,           ,         ,        ,
      This tor|ture should | be roared | in dis|mal hell,
            ,  2    ,          ,           ,         ,
      Hath Rom|eo slain | himself?| Say* thou | but aye,
                   ,   ,     ,          ,        ,
      And that / bare vow|el I | shall pois|on more
                   ,     ,       ,         ,     ,
      Than the / death-dart|ing eye | of cock|atrice,
      ,          ,        ,          ,        ,
      I am | not^I,| if there | be such | an aye.
       .   T     T    T           ,          ,       ,
      Or those eyes shut,| that make | thee ans|wer aye:
          ,        ,          ,             ,    ,
      If he | be slain | say^aye,| or if / not, no.
        T       T     . T        ,        ,        ,
      Brief, sounds, deter|mine of | my weal | or woe.
 
NURSE
         ,          ,        ,         ,           ,
      I saw | the wound,| I saw | it with | mine^eyes,
       T    T   .    T      ,            ,        ,
      God save the mark,| here on | his man|ly breast,
         ,   2     ,         ,      ,    2    ,
      A pit|eous corse,| a bloo|dy pit|eous corse:
        T     T   .  T       ,         ,          ,
      Pale, pale as ash|es, all | bedaubed | in blood,
                 ,    ,         ,       ,         ,
      All in / gore-blood,| I swoon|ed at | the sight.
 
JULIET
          ,          ,
      O break | my heart,
                                 ,         ,          ,
                         Poor* bank|rupt break | at once,
           ,       ,            ,        ,     ,
      To pris|on eyes,| nere* look | on lib|erty.
        T    T    .   T      .  T    T   T        ,
      Vile earth to earth | resign, end mo|tion here;
            ,         ,  2    ,          ,       ,
      And thou | and Rom|eo press | one hea|vy bier.
 
NURSE
         ,        ,               ,     ,        ,
      O Ty|balt, Ty|balt, the / best friend | I had:
          ,    2    ,       ,       ,      ,
      O court|eous Ty|balt hon|est gent|leman,
           ,     ,            ,        ,           ,
      That ev|er I | should live | to see | thee dead.
 
JULIET
             ,          ,           ,      ,      ,
      What storm | is this | that blows | so con|trary?
          ,  2     ,           ,        ,        ,
      Is Rom|eo slaught|ered? And | is Ty|balt dead?
           ,     ,    ,                  ,       ,
      My dear-|loved cous/in, and | my dear|er lord:
             ,         ,        ,           ,        ,
      Then dread|ful trump|et sound | the gene|ral doom,
           ,        ,        ,          ,          ,
      For who | is liv|ing, if | those two | are gone?
 
NURSE
       ,            ,         ,  2   ,      ,
      Tybalt | is gone,| and Rom|eo ban|ished,
       , 2            ,           ,       ,      ,
      Romeo | that killed | him, he | is ban|ished.
 
JULIET
         ,
      O God!
                   ,  2     ,          ,          ,
             Did Rom|eo's hand | shed Ty|balt's blood
          ,        ,      ,         ,        ,
      It did,| it did,| alas | the day,| it did.
 
JULIET
         ,         ,      ,             x          ,
      O serp|ent heart,| hid with | a flower|ing face.
           ,      ,       ,         ,        ,
      Did ev|er drag|on keep | so fair | a cave?
        ,         ,         ,        ,    ,
      Beauti|ful tyr|ant, fiend | angel|ical:
       ,          ,     ,          ,      oo
      Raven|ous dove-|feathered | raven,|
       ,         ,          ,
      Wolvish | raven|ing lamb,  \\
          ,      ,          ,      ,        ,
      Despis|ed sub|stance of | divin|est show:
            ,     ,         ,           ,        ,
      Just^op|posite | to what | thou just|ly seemst,
           ,       ,          ,    ,       ,
      A damned | saint, an | hono|rable | villain:
         ,         ,            ,        ,        ,
      O na|ture! What | hadst thou | to do | in hell,
             ,            x          ,       ,       ,
      When thou | didst bower | the spir|it of | a fiend
          ,      ,     ,     .   T    T     T
      In mo|ral par|adise | of such sweet flesh?
           ,      ,        ,                ,     x
      Was ev|er book | contain|ing such / vile matter
           ,       ,     ,            ,             ,
      So fair|ly bound?| O that | deceit | should dwell
           ,       ,         ,
      In such | a gor|geous pal|ace.  \\
 
NURSE
         T     T   T          ,         ,   3  3    ,
      There's no trust,| no faith,| no hon|esty in men,  ??
           ,         ,       ,     ,     ,     ,      ,
      All perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers,  ????
            ,          ,      ,            ,    2   ,
      Ah where's | my man?| Give me | some a|qua vitae?
               ,             ,           ,         ,        ,
      These griefs,| these woes,| these sor|rows make | me old:
        T     T   .  T  2
      Shame come to Rom|eo.
 
JULIET
                                ,         ,          ,
                              blist|ered be | thy tongue
            ,        ,              ,    ,         ,
      For such | a wish,| he was / not born | to shame:
        ,          ,      ,            ,         ,
      Upon | his brow | shame is | ashamed | to sit;
            ,         ,            ,      ,          ,
      For 'tis | a throne | where hon|or may | be crowned
        ,   ,                 ,    ,       ,
      Sole mon/arch of | the un|ivers|al earth:
          ,        ,         ,        ,      ,
      O what | a beast | was I | to chide | him?
 
NURSE
            ,            ,        ,
      Will you | speak^well | of him,
                                              ,             x
                                      That killed | your cousin?
 
JULIET
        ,    2         ,        ,          ,       ,
      Shall I speak | ill of | him that | is my | husband?
           ,         ,            ,              ,           ,
      Ah poor | my lord,| what tongue | shall smooth | thy name,
           ,         ,            ,          ,        ,
      When I | thy three-|hours^wife | have mang|led it.
            ,         ,         ,            ,          x
      But where|fore vil|lain didst | thou kill | my cousin?
            ,          x       ,             ,         ,
      That vil|lain cousin | would have | killed my | husband:
        T     Tx     T       ,             ,         ,
      Back foolish tears,| back to | your nat|ive spring,
             ,    ,      ,         ,        ,
      Your trib|uta|ry drops | belong | to woe,
             ,        ,       ,      ,       ,
      Which you | mistak|ing of|fer up | to joy:
          ,         ,           ,        ,            ,
      My hus|band lives | that Ty|balt would | have slain,
           ,        ,           ,            ,         ,        ->
      And Ty|balt dead | that would | have slain | my hus||band:
       ,        2    ,          ,          ,        ,
      All | this is com|fort, where|fore weep | I then?
             ,           ,     ,             ,          ,
      Some word | there was | worser | than Ty|balt's death
            ,         ,       ,         ,         ,
      That murd|ered me,| I would | forget | it fain,
           ,        ,       ,       ,    ,
      But oh,| it pres|ses to | my mem|ory,
             ,       ,       ,         ,          ,
      Like damn|ed guil|ty deeds | to sin|ners' minds,
       ,            ,         ,   ,    ,
      Tybalt | is dead | and Rom|eo | banished:
            ,                 ,    ,     ,     __
      That ban|ished, that / one word | banish|ed,
             ,           ,        ,         ,          ,
      Hath slain | ten^thous|and Ty|balts: Ty|balt's death
           ,       ,         ,        ,       ,
      Was woe | enough | if it | had end|ed there:
                ,   ,         ,         ,       ,
      Or if / sour woe | delights | in fel|lowship,
            ,       ,          ,          ,         ,
      And need|ly will | be ranked | with oth|er griefs,
           ,         ,          ,          ,          ,
      Why fol|lowed not | when she | said Ty|balt's dead,
           ,       ,        ,        ,         ,
      Thy fath|er or | thy moth|er, nay | or both,
             ,       ,     ,         ,            ,
      Which mod|ern lam|enta|tions might | have moved.
            ,        ,        ,    2     ,          ,
      But with | a rear|ward fol|lowing Ty|balt's death
       , 2        ,      ,        ,            ,
      Romeo | is ban|ished | to speak | that word,
           ,        ,       ,        ,  2    ,    , ->
      Is fath|er, moth|er, Ty|balt, Rom|eo, Jul||iet,
            ,           ,     , 3 3      ,
      All slain,| all dead:| Romeo is | banished,
             ,       ,        ,       ,          ,
      There is | no end,| no lim|it, meas|ure, bound,
       .   T     T     T          ,           ,           ,
      In that word's death,| no words | can that | woe* sound.
             ,       ,       ,        ,        ,
      Where^is | my fath|er and | my moth|er nurse?
 
NURSE
       ,              ,       ,     ,          ,
      Weeping | and wail|ing ov|er Ty|balt's corse,
        ,         ,   2       ,          ,          ,
      Will you | go to them?| I will | bring you | thither.
 
JULIET
        ,               ,             ,       ,               ,
      Wash they | his wounds | with tears:| mine shall | be spent
              ,          ,         ,  2     ,       ,
      When theirs | are dry | for Rom|eo's ban|ishment.
            ,           ,            ,          ,         ,
      Take^up | those^cords,| poor^ropes,| you are | beguiled,
        T   T   .  T        ,   2       ,  ,
      Both you and I | for Rom|eo is / exiled:
           ,         ,        ,       ,       ,
      He made | you for | a high|way to | my bed,
          ,   .   T    T    T       ,
      But I | a maid, die maid|en-wid|owed.
      <-  ,       T      T    T       ,           ,        ,
        Come || cords, come nurse,| I'll to | my wed|ding-bed,
            ,          ,  2     ,        ,       ,
      And death | not Rom|eo, take | my maid|enhead.
 
NURSE
       ,              ,         ,      ,   ,
      Hie to | your chamb|er, I'll | find Rom/eo
          ,        ,       ,      ,              ,
      To com|fort you,| I wot | well where | he is:
        ,             ,  2    ,         ,         ,
      Hark ye | your Rom|eo will | be here | at night,
            ,         ,       ,         ,          ,
      I'll to | him, he | is hid | at Laur|ence' cell.
 
JULIET
          ,           ,           ,              ,     ,
      O find | him, give | this ring | to my / true knight,
           ,          ,         ,          ,          ,
      And bid | him come,| to take | his last | farewell.
 
[Exeunt]

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