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Romeo and Juliet

Act IV, Scene 3

Juliet's chamber.
 
[Enter JULIET and Nurse]
 
JULIET
       ,             ,           ,         ,        ,
      Aye those^|attires | are best,| but gent|le nurse
          ,           ,         ,        ,        ,
      I pray | thee leave | me to | my self | tonight:
          ,          ,        ,     ,    ,
      For I | have need | of ma|ny or|isons,
           ,           x           ,       ,         ,
      To move | the heavens | to smile | upon | my state,
              ,            ,          ,           ,        ,
      Which well | thou knowst,| is cross | and full | of sin.
 
[Enter LADY CAPULET]
 
LADY CAPULET
        ,             ,     ,     ,             ,
      What are | you bu|sy ho?| Need you | my help?
 
JULIET
       ,  ,        2          ,           ,     ,
      No mad/am, we have | culled such | neces|saries
       ,    2     ,        ,          ,       ,
      As are be|hoveful | for our | state to|morrow:
            ,           ,        ,         ,       ,
      So please | you, let | me now | be left | alone;
           ,          ,            ,          ,         ,
      And let | the nurse | this night | sit up | with you,
          ,        ,          ,           ,           ,
      For I | am sure,| you have | your hands | full^all,
                 ,  ,       ,
      In this / so sud|den bus|iness.
 
LADY CAPULET
                                       ,     ___
                                     Good | night.
       ,             ,          ,          ,           ,
      Get thee | to bed | and rest,| for thou | hast need.
 
[Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse]
 
JULIET
            ,
      Farewell:
                     ,           ,           ,       ,
               God knows | when we | shall meet | again.
                    ,     ,    ,       ,                   ,
      I have a // faint cold fear | thrills through | my veins,
            ,        ,       ,         ,         ,
      That al|most freez|es up | the heat | of fire:
             ,           ,       ,        ,        ,
      I'll call | them back | again | to com|fort me.
       ___      ,            ,         ,    oo
      Nurse,| what should | she do | here?|
          ,        ,         ,           ,       ,
      My dis|mal scene,| I needs | must act | alone:
        ,    ,     ,           ,       ,       ,      ,
      Come vial, what if this mixture do not work at all?  ????
        ,    2      ,          ,      ,        ,
      Shall I be | married | then to|morrow | morning?
       T   T    T         2    ,         ,           ,
      No, no, this | shall forbid | it. Lie | thou there,
 
[Laying down her dagger]
        ,    2      ,      ,         ,          ,
      What if it | be a | poison | which the | friar
       ,             ,      ,          ,         ,
      Subtly | hath min|istered | to have | me dead,
        ,    2        ,          ,           ,      ,
      Lest in this | marriage | he should | be dis|honored,
          ,         ,        ,       ,        ,   2  ->
      Because | he mar|ried me | before | to Rom||eo?
            ,    x          ,         ,       2        ,
      I / fear it is,| and yet | methinks | it should not,
           ,          ,            ,        ,     ,
      For he | hath still | been tried | a ho|ly man.
       ,          ,           ,       ,         ,
      How, if | when I | am laid | into | the tomb,
          ,        ,          ,          ,   ,
      I wake | before | the time | that Rom|eo
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      Come to | redeem | me? There's | a fear|ful point:
        ,    2        ,        ,          2      ,
      Shall I not | then be | stifled | in the vault?
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        To whose || foul mouth no | healthsome | air breathes in,
            ,      ,     ,                 ,  2    ,
      And there | die strang/led ere | my Rom|eo comes.
          ,       ,        ,        ,      ,
      Or if | I live,| is it | not ve|ry like,
           ,     ,         ,         ,           ,
      The hor|rible | conceit | of death | and night,
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      Togeth|er with | the ter|ror of | the place,
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      As in | a vault,| an an|cient recep|tacle,
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      Where for | these* ma|ny hund|red years | the bones
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      Of all | my bur|ied an|cestors | are packed,
              ,      ,        ,          ,          ,
      Where blood|y Ty|balt, yet | but green | in earth,
        ,    ,            2       ,            ,         ,
      Lies fest/ering | in his shroud,| where^as | they say,
           ,      ,              ,       ,           ,
      At some | hours in | the night,| spirits | resort:
         ,       ,     .  T  T    T         ,
      Alack,| alack,| is it not like | that I
          ,      ,         ,           ,           ,
      So ear|ly wak|ing, what | with loath|some smells,
       .     T      T   T     ,     ,                   ,
      And shrieks like man|drakes torn / out of | the earth,
            ,        ,        ,        ,         ,
      That liv|ing mort|als hear|ing them,| run^mad.
         ,       ,          ,        ,         ,
      O if | I wake,| shall I | not be | distraught,
         ,     ,         ,           ,   2     ,
      Envir|oned | with all | these hid|eous fears,
           ,       ,                ,  ,           ,
      And mad|ly play | with my / forefath|er's joints?
            ,          ,        ,        ,           ,
      And pluck | the mang|led Ty|balt from | his shroud?
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      And in | this rage,| with some / great kins|man's bone,
            ,        ,          ,        ,            ,
      As (with | a club)| dash^out | my des|perate brains.
          ,         ,        ,        ,          ,
      O look,| methinks | I see | my cous|in's ghost,
        ,            ,  2    ,          ,         ,    2->
      Seeking | out Rom|eo that | did spit | his bod||y
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      Upon | a rap|ier's point:| stay Tybalt, stay;
       ,      ,      ,              ,        ,        ,
      Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here's^drink: I drink to thee.  ????
 
[She falls upon her bed, within the curtains]

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