Come, bitter conduct, come, unfavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on Here's to my love!-[drinks.] O, true apothecary! [Dies Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, Friar LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade. Fri. Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night Have my old feet stumbled at graves ?-Who's there? Who is it that conforts, so late, the dead? Bal. Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well. Fri. Blifs be upon you! Tell me, good my friend, What torch is yond', that vainly lends his light To grubs and eyeless fculls? as I discern, It burneth in the Capels' monument. Bal. It doth fo, holy fir; and there's my master, One that you love. My master knows not, but I am gone hence If I did ftay to look on his intents. Fri. Stay then, I'll go alone :-Fear comes upon me; O, much I fear fome ill unlucky thing. Bal. As I did sleep under this yew-tree here, I dreamt my. mafter and another fought, And that my master flew him. Fri. Romeo? Alack, alack, what blood is this, which ftains {Advances. The The ftony entrance of this fepulchre ?— [Enters the monument. Romeo! O, pale!-Who elfe? what, Paris too? And steep'd in blood?-Ah, what an unkind hour Is guilty of this lamentable chance !— The lady ftirs. [JULIET wakes and firs. Jul. O, comfortable friar! where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, -Where is my Romeo? And there I am : [Noife within. Fri. I hear fome noife.-Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and unnatural fleep; A greater Power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents; come, come away: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; Jul. Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.- Thy lips are warm! [xit. [Kifles bim. -Which way? 1. Watch. [Within.] Lead, boy Jul. Yea, noife?-then I'll be brief. --O happy dagger! [Snatching ROMEO's dagger. This is thy fheath; [stabs herself.] these ruit, and let me die. [Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies. Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS. Page. This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn. 1. Watch. The ground is bloody; Search about the churchyard: Go, fome of you, who e'er you find, attach. [Exeunt some. [Exeunt other watchmen. We see the ground whereon these woes do lie; Enter fome of the Watch, with BALTHASAR. 2. Watch. Here's Romeo's man, we found him in the churchyard. 1. Watch. Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither. Enter another Watchman, with Friar LAURENCE. 3. Watch. Here is a friar, that trembles, fighs, and weeps: We took this mattock and this fpade from him, As he was coming from this churchyard fide. 1. Watch. A great fufpicion; Stay the friar too. Enter the Prince and Attendants. Prince. What mifadventure is so early up, That calls our person from our morning's rest? Enter CAPULET, Lady CAPULET, and Others. Cap. What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? La. Cap. |