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The Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet.
[1745]
What is the Princes Doome ? What sorrow craues acquaintance at my hand, That I yet know not?
Fri. Too familiar Is my deare Sonne with such sowre Company:
[1750]
I bring thee tydings of the Princes Doome.
Rom. What lesse then Doomesday, Is the Princes Doome? Fri. A gentler iudgement vanisht from his lips, Not bodies death, but bodies banishment. Rom.
[1755]
Ha, banishment? be mercifull, say death: For exile hath more terror in his looke, Much more then death: do not say banishment.
Fri. Here from Verona art thou banished: Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. Rom.
[1760]
There is no world without Verona walles, But Purgatorie, Torture, hell it selfe: Hence banished, is banisht from the world, And worlds exile is death. Then banished, Is death, mistearm'd, calling death banished,
[1765]
Thou cut'st my head off with a golden Axe, And smilest vpon the stroke that murders me.
Fri. O deadly sin, O rude vnthankefulnesse! Thy falt our Law calles death, but the kind Prince Taking thy part, hath rusht aside the Law,
[1770]
And turn'd that blacke word death, to banishment. This is deare mercy, and thou seest it not.
Rom. 'Tis Torture and not mercy, heauen is here Where Iuliet liues, and euery Cat and Dog, And little Mouse, euery vnworthy thing
[1775]
Liue here in Heauen and may looke on her, But Romeo may not. More Validitie, More Honourable state, more Courtship liues In carrion Flies, then Romeo: they may seaze On the white wonder of deare Iuliets hand,
[1780]
And steale immortall blessing from her lips, Who euen in pure and vestall modestie Still blush, as thinking their owne kisses sin. This may Flies doe, when I from this must flie, And saist thou yet, that exile is not death?
[1785]
But Romeo may not, hee is banished. Hadst thou no poyson mixt, no sharpe ground knife, No sudden meane of death, though nere so meane, But banished to kill me? Banished? O Frier, the damned vse that word in hell:
[1790]
Howlings attends it, how hast thou the hart Being a Diuine, a Ghostly Confessor, A Sin‑Absoluer, and my Friend profest: To mangle me with that word, banished?
Fri. Then fond Mad man, heare me speake. Rom.
[1795]
O thou wilt speake againe of banishment.
Fri. Ile giue thee Armour to keepe off that word, Aduersities sweete milke, Philosophie, To comfort thee, though thou art banished. Rom. Yet banished ? hang vp Philosophie:
[1800]
Vnlesse Philosohpie Philosophie can make a Iuliet, Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome, It helpes not, it preuailes not, talke no more.
Fri. O then I see, that Mad men haue no eares. Rom. How should they,
[1805]
When wisemen haue no eyes?
Fri. Let me dispaire with thee of thy estate, Rom. Thou can'st not speake of that y u dost not feele, Wert thou as young as Iuliet my Loue: An houre but married, Tybalt murdered,
[1810]
Doting like me, and like me banished,

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Then mightest thou speake, Then mightest thou teare thy hayre, And fall vpon the ground as I doe now, Taking the measure of an vnmade graue. Enter Nurse, and knockes. Frier.
[1815]
Arise one knockes, Good Romeo hide thy selfe.
Rom. Not I, Vnlesse the breath of Hartsicke groanes Mist‑like infold me from the search of eyes. Knocke Fri.
[1820]
Harke how they knocke: (Who's there) Romeo arise, Thou wilt be taken, stay a while, stand vp: Knocke. Run to my study: by and by, Gods will What simplenesse is this: I come, I come. Knocke.
[1825]
Who knocks so hard ? Whence come you? what's your will?
Enter Nurse. Nur. Let me come in, And you shall know my errand: I come from Lady Iuliet. Fri.
[1830]
Welcome then.
Nur. O holy Frier, O tell me holy Frier, Where's my Ladies Lord? where's Romeo? Fri. There on the ground, With his owne teares made drunke. Nur.
[1835]
O he is euen in my Mistresse case, Iust in her case. O wofull simpathy: Pittious predicament, euen so lies she, Blubbring and weeping, weeping and blubbring, Stand vp, stand vp, stand and you be a man,
[1840]
For Iuliets sake, for her sake rise and stand: Why should you fall into so deepe an O.
Rom. Nurse. Nur. Ah sir, ah sir, deaths the end of all. Rom. Speak'st thou of Iuliet? how is it with her?
[1845]
Doth not she thinke me an old Murtherer, Now I haue stain'd the Childhood of our ioy, With blood remoued, but little from her owne? Where is she? and how doth she? and what sayes My conceal'd Lady to our conceal'd Loue?
Nur.
[1850]
Oh she sayes nothing sir, but weeps and weeps, And now fals on her bed, and then starts vp, And Tybalt calls, and then on Romeo cries, And then downe falls againe.
Ro. As if that name shot from the dead leuell of a Gun,
[1855]
Did murder her, as that names cursed hand Murdred her kinsman. Oh tell me Frier, tell me, In what vile part of this Anatomie Doth my name lodge ? Tell me, that I may sacke The hatefull Mansion.
Fri.
[1860]
Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man? thy forme cries out thou art: Thy teares are womanish, thy wild acts denote The vnreasonable Furie of a beast. Vnseemely woman, in a seeming man,
[1865]
And ill beseeming beast in seeming both, Thou hast amaz'd me. By my holy order, I thought thy disposition better temper'd. Hast thou slaine Tybalt? wilt thou slay thy selfe? And slay thy Lady, that in thy life lies,
[1870]
By doing damned hate vpon thy selfe? Why rayl'st thou on thy birth? the heauen and earth? Since

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[Act 3, Scene 3] Enter Frier and Romeo. Fri.
[1740]
Romeo come forth, Come forth thou fearfull man, Affliction is enamor'd of thy parts: And thou art wedded to calamitie.
Rom. Father what newes?
[1745]
What is the Princes Doome ? What sorrow craues acquaintance at my hand, That I yet know not?
Fri. Too familiar Is my deare Sonne with such sowre Company:
[1750]
I bring thee tydings of the Princes Doome.
Rom. What lesse then Doomesday, Is the Princes Doome? Fri. A gentler iudgement vanisht from his lips, Not bodies death, but bodies banishment. Rom.
[1755]
Ha, banishment? be mercifull, say death: For exile hath more terror in his looke, Much more then death: do not say banishment.
Fri. Here from Verona art thou banished: Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. Rom.
[1760]
There is no world without Verona walles, But Purgatorie, Torture, hell it selfe: Hence banished, is banisht from the world, And worlds exile is death. Then banished, Is death, mistearm'd, calling death banished,
[1765]
Thou cut'st my head off with a golden Axe, And smilest vpon the stroke that murders me.
Fri. O deadly sin, O rude vnthankefulnesse! Thy falt our Law calles death, but the kind Prince Taking thy part, hath rusht aside the Law,
[1770]
And turn'd that blacke word death, to banishment. This is deare mercy, and thou seest it not.
Rom. 'Tis Torture and not mercy, heauen is here Where Iuliet liues, and euery Cat and Dog, And little Mouse, euery vnworthy thing
[1775]
Liue here in Heauen and may looke on her, But Romeo may not. More Validitie, More Honourable state, more Courtship liues In carrion Flies, then Romeo: they may seaze On the white wonder of deare Iuliets hand,
[1780]
And steale immortall blessing from her lips, Who euen in pure and vestall modestie Still blush, as thinking their owne kisses sin. This may Flies doe, when I from this must flie, And saist thou yet, that exile is not death?
[1785]
But Romeo may not, hee is banished. Hadst thou no poyson mixt, no sharpe ground knife, No sudden meane of death, though nere so meane, But banished to kill me? Banished? O Frier, the damned vse that word in hell:
[1790]
Howlings attends it, how hast thou the hart Being a Diuine, a Ghostly Confessor, A Sin‑Absoluer, and my Friend profest: To mangle me with that word, banished?
Fri. Then fond Mad man, heare me speake. Rom.
[1795]
O thou wilt speake againe of banishment.
Fri. Ile giue thee Armour to keepe off that word, Aduersities sweete milke, Philosophie, To comfort thee, though thou art banished. Rom. Yet banished ? hang vp Philosophie:
[1800]
Vnlesse Philosohpie Philosophie can make a Iuliet, Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome, It helpes not, it preuailes not, talke no more.
Fri. O then I see, that Mad men haue no eares. Rom. How should they,
[1805]
When wisemen haue no eyes?
Fri. Let me dispaire with thee of thy estate, Rom. Thou can'st not speake of that y u dost not feele, Wert thou as young as Iuliet my Loue: An houre but married, Tybalt murdered,
[1810]
Doting like me, and like me banished, Then mightest thou speake, Then mightest thou teare thy hayre, And fall vpon the ground as I doe now, Taking the measure of an vnmade graue.
Enter Nurse, and knockes. Frier.
[1815]
Arise one knockes, Good Romeo hide thy selfe.
Rom. Not I, Vnlesse the breath of Hartsicke groanes Mist‑like infold me from the search of eyes. Knocke Fri.
[1820]
Harke how they knocke: (Who's there) Romeo arise, Thou wilt be taken, stay a while, stand vp: Knocke. Run to my study: by and by, Gods will What simplenesse is this: I come, I come. Knocke.
[1825]
Who knocks so hard ? Whence come you? what's your will?
Enter Nurse. Nur. Let me come in, And you shall know my errand: I come from Lady Iuliet. Fri.
[1830]
Welcome then.
Nur. O holy Frier, O tell me holy Frier, Where's my Ladies Lord? where's Romeo? Fri. There on the ground, With his owne teares made drunke. Nur.
[1835]
O he is euen in my Mistresse case, Iust in her case. O wofull simpathy: Pittious predicament, euen so lies she, Blubbring and weeping, weeping and blubbring, Stand vp, stand vp, stand and you be a man,
[1840]
For Iuliets sake, for her sake rise and stand: Why should you fall into so deepe an O.
Rom. Nurse. Nur. Ah sir, ah sir, deaths the end of all. Rom. Speak'st thou of Iuliet? how is it with her?
[1845]
Doth not she thinke me an old Murtherer, Now I haue stain'd the Childhood of our ioy, With blood remoued, but little from her owne? Where is she? and how doth she? and what sayes My conceal'd Lady to our conceal'd Loue?
Nur.
[1850]
Oh she sayes nothing sir, but weeps and weeps, And now fals on her bed, and then starts vp, And Tybalt calls, and then on Romeo cries, And then downe falls againe.
Ro. As if that name shot from the dead leuell of a Gun,
[1855]
Did murder her, as that names cursed hand Murdred her kinsman. Oh tell me Frier, tell me, In what vile part of this Anatomie Doth my name lodge ? Tell me, that I may sacke The hatefull Mansion.
Fri.
[1860]
Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man? thy forme cries out thou art: Thy teares are womanish, thy wild acts denote The vnreasonable Furie of a beast. Vnseemely woman, in a seeming man,
[1865]
And ill beseeming beast in seeming both, Thou hast amaz'd me. By my holy order, I thought thy disposition better temper'd. Hast thou slaine Tybalt? wilt thou slay thy selfe? And slay thy Lady, that in thy life lies,
[1870]
By doing damned hate vpon thy selfe? Why rayl'st thou on thy birth? the heauen and earth? Since birth, and heauen and earth, all three do meete In thee at once, which thou at once would'st loose. Fie, fie, thou sham'st thy shape, thy loue, thy wit,
[1875]
Which like a Vsurer abound'st in all: And vsest none in that true vse indeed, Which should bedecke thy shape, thy loue, thy wit: Thy Noble shape, is but a forme of waxe, Digressing from the Valour of a man,
[1880]
Thy deare Loue sworne but hollow periurie, Killing that Loue which thou hast vow'd to cherish. Thy wit, that Ornament, to shape and Loue, Mishapen in the conduct of them both: Like powder in a skillesse Souldiers flaske,
[1885]
Is set a fire by thine owne ignorance, And thou dismembred with thine owne defence. What, rowse thee man, thy Iuliet is aliue, For whose deare sake thou wast but lately dead. There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,
[1890]
But thou slew'st Tybalt, there art thou happie. The law that threatned death became thy Friend, And turn'd it to exile, there art thou happy. A packe or blessing light vpon thy backe, Happinesse Courts thee in her best array,
[1895]
But like a mishaped and sullen wench, Thou puttest vp thy Fortune and thy Loue: Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. Goe get thee to thy Loue as was decreed, Ascend her Chamber, hence and comfort her:
[1900]
But looke thou stay not till the watch be set, For then thou canst not passe to Mantua, Where thou shalt liue till we can finde a time To blaze your marriage, reconcile your Friends, Beg pardon of thy Prince, and call thee backe,
[1905]
With twenty hundred thousand times more ioy Then thou went'st forth in lamentation. Goe before Nurse, commend me to thy Lady, And bid her hasten all the house to bed, Which heauy sorrow makes them apt vnto.
[1910]
Romeo is comming.
Nur. O Lord, I could haue staid here all night, To heare good counsell: oh what learning is! My Lord Ile tell my Lady you will come. Rom. Do so, and bid my Sweete prepare to chide. Nur.
[1915]
Heere sir, a Ring she bid me giue you sir: Hie you, make hast, for it growes very late.
Rom. How well my comfort is reuiu'd by this. Fri. Go hence, Goodnight, and here stands all your state:
[1920]
Either be gone before the watch be set, Or by the breake of day disguis'd from hence, Soiourne in Mantua, Ile find out your man, And he shall signifie from time to time, Euery good hap to you, that chaunces heere:
[1925]
Giue me thy hand, 'tis late, farewell, goodnight.
Rom. But that a ioy past ioy, calls out on me, It were a griefe, so briefe to part with thee: Farewell. Exeunt.
 

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      <l n="1758">Here from<hi rend="italic">Verona</hi>art thou banished:</l>
      <l n="1759">Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.</l>
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      <l n="1761">But Purgatorie, Torture, hell it selfe:</l>
      <l n="1762">Hence banished, is banisht from the world,</l>
      <l n="1763">And worlds exile is death. Then banished,</l>
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      <l n="1765">Thou cut'st my head off with a golden Axe,</l>
      <l n="1766">And smilest vpon the stroke that murders me.</l>
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      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1767">O deadly sin, O rude vnthankefulnesse!</l>
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      <l n="1769">Taking thy part, hath rusht aside the Law,</l>
      <l n="1770">And turn'd that blacke word death, to banishment.</l>
      <l n="1771">This is deare mercy, and thou seest it not.</l>
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      <l n="1776">But<hi rend="italic">Romeo</hi>may not. More Validitie,</l>
      <l n="1777">More Honourable state, more Courtship liues</l>
      <l n="1778">In carrion Flies, then<hi rend="italic">Romeo</hi>: they may seaze</l>
      <l n="1779">On the white wonder of deare<hi rend="italic">Iuliets</hi>hand,</l>
      <l n="1780">And steale immortall blessing from her lips,</l>
      <l n="1781">Who euen in pure and vestall modestie</l>
      <l n="1782">Still blush, as thinking their owne kisses sin.</l>
      <l n="1783">This may Flies doe, when I from this must flie,</l>
      <l n="1784">And saist thou yet, that exile is not death?</l>
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      <l n="1786">Hadst thou no poyson mixt, no sharpe ground knife,</l>
      <l n="1787">No sudden meane of death, though nere so meane,</l>
      <l n="1788">But banished to kill me? Banished?</l>
      <l n="1789">O Frier, the damned vse that word in hell:</l>
      <l n="1790">Howlings attends it, how hast thou the hart</l>
      <l n="1791">Being a Diuine, a Ghostly Confessor,</l>
      <l n="1792">A Sin‑Absoluer, and my Friend profest:</l>
      <l n="1793">To mangle me with that word, banished?</l>
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      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1794">Then fond Mad man, heare me speake.</l>
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      <l n="1795">O thou wilt speake againe of banishment.</l>
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   <sp who="#F-rom-fla">
      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1796">Ile giue thee Armour to keepe off that word,</l>
      <l n="1797">Aduersities sweete milke, Philosophie,</l>
      <l n="1798">To comfort thee, though thou art banished.</l>
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      <l n="1799">Yet banished<c rend="italic">?</c>hang vp Philosophie:</l>
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      <l n="1801">Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome,</l>
      <l n="1802">It helpes not, it preuailes not, talke no more.</l>
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      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1803">O then I see, that Mad men haue no eares.</l>
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      <l n="1805">When wisemen haue no eyes?</l>
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      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1806">Let me dispaire with thee of thy estate,</l>
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      <l n="1808">Wert thou as young as<hi rend="italic">Iuliet</hi>my Loue:</l>
      <l n="1809">An houre but married,<hi rend="italic">Tybalt</hi>murdered,</l>
      <l n="1810">Doting like me, and like me banished,</l>
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      <l n="1811">Then mightest thou speake,</l>
      <l n="1812">Then mightest thou teare thy hayre,</l>
      <l n="1813">And fall vpon the ground as I doe now,</l>
      <l n="1814">Taking the measure of an vnmade graue.</l>
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   <stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Nurse, and knockes.</stage>
   <sp who="#F-rom-fla">
      <speaker rend="italic">Frier.</speaker>
      <l n="1815">Arise one knockes,</l>
      <l n="1816">Good<hi rend="italic">Romeo</hi>hide thy selfe.</l>
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   <sp who="#F-rom-rom">
      <speaker rend="italic">Rom.</speaker>
      <l n="1817">Not I,</l>
      <l n="1818">Vnlesse the breath of Hartsicke groanes</l>
      <l n="1819">Mist‑like infold me from the search of eyes.</l>
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   <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="business">Knocke</stage>
   <sp who="#F-rom-fla">
      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1820">Harke how they knocke:</l>
      <l n="1821">(Who's there)<hi rend="italic">Romeo</hi>arise,</l>
      <l n="1822">Thou wilt be taken, stay a while, stand vp:</l>
      <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="business">Knocke.</stage>
      <l n="1823">Run to my study: by and by, Gods will</l>
      <l n="1824">What simplenesse is this: I come, I come.</l>
      <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="business">Knocke.</stage>
      <l n="1825">Who knocks so hard<c rend="italic">?</c>
      </l>
      <l n="1826">Whence come you? what's your will?</l>
   </sp>
   <stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Nurse.</stage>
   <sp who="#F-rom-nur">
      <speaker rend="italic">Nur.</speaker>
      <l n="1827">Let me come in,</l>
      <l n="1828">And you shall know my errand:</l>
      <l n="1829">I come from Lady<hi rend="italic">Iuliet</hi>.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-fla">
      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1830">Welcome then.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-nur">
      <speaker rend="italic">Nur.</speaker>
      <l n="1831">O holy Frier, O tell me holy Frier,</l>
      <l n="1832">Where's my Ladies Lord? where's<hi rend="italic">Romeo</hi>?</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-fla">
      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1833">There on the ground,</l>
      <l n="1834">With his owne teares made drunke.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-nur">
      <speaker rend="italic">Nur.</speaker>
      <l n="1835">O he is euen in my Mistresse case,</l>
      <l n="1836">Iust in her case. O wofull simpathy:</l>
      <l n="1837">Pittious predicament, euen so lies she,</l>
      <l n="1838">Blubbring and weeping, weeping and blubbring,</l>
      <l n="1839">Stand vp, stand vp, stand and you be a man,</l>
      <l n="1840">For<hi rend="italic">Iuliets</hi>sake, for her sake rise and stand:</l>
      <l n="1841">Why should you fall into so deepe an O.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-rom">
      <speaker rend="italic">Rom.</speaker>
      <l n="1842">Nurse.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-nur">
      <speaker rend="italic">Nur.</speaker>
      <l n="1843">Ah sir, ah sir, deaths the end of all.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-rom">
      <speaker rend="italic">Rom.</speaker>
      <l n="1844">Speak'st thou of<hi rend="italic">Iuliet</hi>? how is it with her?</l>
      <l n="1845">Doth not she thinke me an old Murtherer,</l>
      <l n="1846">Now I haue stain'd the Childhood of our ioy,</l>
      <l n="1847">With blood remoued, but little from her owne?</l>
      <l n="1848">Where is she? and how doth she? and what sayes</l>
      <l n="1849">My conceal'd Lady to our conceal'd Loue?</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-nur">
      <speaker rend="italic">Nur.</speaker>
      <l n="1850">Oh she sayes nothing sir, but weeps and weeps,</l>
      <l n="1851">And now fals on her bed, and then starts vp,</l>
      <l n="1852">And<hi rend="italic">Tybalt</hi>calls, and then on<hi rend="italic">Romeo</hi>cries,</l>
      <l n="1853">And then downe falls againe.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-rom">
      <speaker rend="italic">Ro.</speaker>
      <l n="1854">As if that name shot from the dead leuell of a Gun,</l>
      <l n="1855">Did murder her, as that names cursed hand</l>
      <l n="1856">Murdred her kinsman. Oh tell me Frier, tell me,</l>
      <l n="1857">In what vile part of this Anatomie</l>
      <l n="1858">Doth my name lodge<c rend="italic">?</c>Tell me, that I may sacke</l>
      <l n="1859">The hatefull Mansion.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-fla">
      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1860">Hold thy desperate hand:</l>
      <l n="1861">Art thou a man? thy forme cries out thou art:</l>
      <l n="1862">Thy teares are womanish, thy wild acts denote</l>
      <l n="1863">The vnreasonable Furie of a beast.</l>
      <l n="1864">Vnseemely woman, in a seeming man,</l>
      <l n="1865">And ill beseeming beast in seeming both,</l>
      <l n="1866">Thou hast amaz'd me. By my holy order,</l>
      <l n="1867">I thought thy disposition better temper'd.</l>
      <l n="1868">Hast thou slaine<hi rend="italic">Tybalt?</hi>wilt thou slay thy selfe?</l>
      <l n="1869">And slay thy Lady, that in thy life lies,</l>
      <l n="1870">By doing damned hate vpon thy selfe?</l>
      <l n="1871">Why rayl'st thou on thy birth? the heauen and earth?</l>
      <pb facs="FFimg:axc0686-0.jpg" n="68"/>
      <cb n="1"/>
      <l n="1872">Since birth, and heauen and earth, all three do meete</l>
      <l n="1873">In thee at once, which thou at once would'st loose.</l>
      <l n="1874">Fie, fie, thou sham'st thy shape, thy loue, thy wit,</l>
      <l n="1875">Which like a Vsurer abound'st in all:</l>
      <l n="1876">And vsest none in that true vse indeed,</l>
      <l n="1877">Which should bedecke thy shape, thy loue, thy wit:</l>
      <l n="1878">Thy Noble shape, is but a forme of waxe,</l>
      <l n="1879">Digressing from the Valour of a man,</l>
      <l n="1880">Thy deare Loue sworne but hollow periurie,</l>
      <l n="1881">Killing that Loue which thou hast vow'd to cherish.</l>
      <l n="1882">Thy wit, that Ornament, to shape and Loue,</l>
      <l n="1883">Mishapen in the conduct of them both:</l>
      <l n="1884">Like powder in a skillesse Souldiers flaske,</l>
      <l n="1885">Is set a fire by thine owne ignorance,</l>
      <l n="1886">And thou dismembred with thine owne defence.</l>
      <l n="1887">What, rowse thee man, thy<hi rend="italic">Iuliet</hi>is aliue,</l>
      <l n="1888">For whose deare sake thou wast but lately dead.</l>
      <l n="1889">There art thou happy.<hi rend="italic">Tybalt</hi>would kill thee,</l>
      <l n="1890">But thou slew'st<hi rend="italic">Tybalt</hi>, there art thou happie.</l>
      <l n="1891">The law that threatned death became thy Friend,</l>
      <l n="1892">And turn'd it to exile, there art thou happy.</l>
      <l n="1893">A packe or blessing light vpon thy backe,</l>
      <l n="1894">Happinesse Courts thee in her best array,</l>
      <l n="1895">But like a mishaped and sullen wench,</l>
      <l n="1896">Thou puttest vp thy Fortune and thy Loue:</l>
      <l n="1897">Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.</l>
      <l n="1898">Goe get thee to thy Loue as was decreed,</l>
      <l n="1899">Ascend her Chamber, hence and comfort her:</l>
      <l n="1900">But looke thou stay not till the watch be set,</l>
      <l n="1901">For then thou canst not passe to<hi rend="italic">Mantua</hi>,</l>
      <l n="1902">Where thou shalt liue till we can finde a time</l>
      <l n="1903">To blaze your marriage, reconcile your Friends,</l>
      <l n="1904">Beg pardon of thy Prince, and call thee backe,</l>
      <l n="1905">With twenty hundred thousand times more ioy</l>
      <l n="1906">Then thou went'st forth in lamentation.</l>
      <l n="1907">Goe before Nurse, commend me to thy Lady,</l>
      <l n="1908">And bid her hasten all the house to bed,</l>
      <l n="1909">Which heauy sorrow makes them apt vnto.</l>
      <l n="1910">
         <hi rend="italic">Romeo</hi>is comming.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-nur">
      <speaker rend="italic">Nur.</speaker>
      <l n="1911">O Lord, I could haue staid here all night,</l>
      <l n="1912">To heare good counsell: oh what learning is!</l>
      <l n="1913">My Lord Ile tell my Lady you will come.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-rom">
      <speaker rend="italic">Rom.</speaker>
      <l n="1914">Do so, and bid my Sweete prepare to chide.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-nur">
      <speaker rend="italic">Nur.</speaker>
      <l n="1915">Heere sir, a Ring she bid me giue you sir:</l>
      <l n="1916">Hie you, make hast, for it growes very late.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-rom">
      <speaker rend="italic">Rom.</speaker>
      <l n="1917">How well my comfort is reuiu'd by this.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-fla">
      <speaker rend="italic">Fri.</speaker>
      <l n="1918">Go hence,</l>
      <l n="1919">Goodnight, and here stands all your state:</l>
      <l n="1920">Either be gone before the watch be set,</l>
      <l n="1921">Or by the breake of day disguis'd from hence,</l>
      <l n="1922">Soiourne in<hi rend="italic">Mantua</hi>, Ile find out your man,</l>
      <l n="1923">And he shall signifie from time to time,</l>
      <l n="1924">Euery good hap to you, that chaunces heere:</l>
      <l n="1925">Giue me thy hand, 'tis late, farewell, goodnight.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-rom-rom">
      <speaker rend="italic">Rom.</speaker>
      <l n="1926">But that a ioy past ioy, calls out on me,</l>
      <l n="1927">It were a griefe, so briefe to part with thee:</l>
      <l n="1928">Farewell.</l>
   </sp>
   <stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
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