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Come, bitter conduct, come, unfavoury guide!

Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dafhing rocks thy fea-fick weary bark!

Here's to my love!-[drinks.] O, true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

[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.

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My master knows not, but I am gone hence
And fearfully did menace me with death,

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

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The ftony entrance of this fepulchre ?—
What mean these masterlefs and gory fwords
To lie difcolour'd by this place of peace?

[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:
Thy husband in thy bofom there lies dead;
And Paris too; come, I'll dispose of thee
Among a fifterhood of holy nuns :

Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;
Come, go, good Juliet,-[Noife again ] I dare stay no longer.

Jul. Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.-
What's here? a cup, clos'd in my true love's hand?
Poifon, I fee, hath been his timeless end :-
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop,
To help me after ?—I will kifs thy lips;
Haply, fome poison yet doth hang on them,
To make me di with a restorative.

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.

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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.
Pitiful fight! here lies the county flain ;-
And Juliet bleeding; warm, and newly dead,
Who here hath lain these two days buried.-
Go, tell the prince,-run to the Capulets,-
Raise up the Montagues,-fome others fearch ;-

[Exeunt other watchmen.

We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;
But the true ground of all these piteous woes,
We cannot without circumstance defcry.

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.

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