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Tragic Love of Romeo and Juliet

this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by becky crackle canal Winchester Ohio this is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare persons represented Aeschylus Prince of Verona Paris a young nobleman kinsman to the Prince Montague and Capulet heads of two houses at variance with each other an old man uncle de Capulet Romeo son to Montague Mercutio kinsman to the Prince and friend to Romeo Benvolio nephew to Montague and friend to my Romeo Thibault nephew to Lady Capulet Friar Laurence a Franciscan friar John of the same order Balthasar servant to Romeo Sampson servant to Capulet Gregory servant to Capulet Peter servant to Juliet's nurse Abraham's servant to Montague an apothecary three musicians chorus page to Paris and another page an officer lady Montagu wife to Montague Lady Capulet wife to Capulet Juliet daughter to Capulet nurse to Juliet citizens of Verona several men and women relations to both houses maskers guards watchmen and attendants scene during the greater part of the play in Verona once in the fifth act at Mantua the prologue enter chorus chorus two households both alike in dignity in fair Verona where we lay our scene from ancient Grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean from forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents strife the fearful passage of their death marked love and the continuance of their parents rage which but their children's end nought could remove is now the two hours traffic of our stage the which if you with patient ears attend what here shall miss our toil shall strive to mend Act one Scene one a public place enter Sampson and Gregory armed with swords and buckler's Sampson Gregory on my word will not carry coals Gregory no for then we should be Colliers Sampson I mean and we be in collar will draw Gregory I while you live draw your neck out of the collar Sampson I strike quickly being moved Gregory but thou art not quickly moved to strike Sampson a dog of the house of Montague moves me Gregory to move is to stir and to be valiant is to stand therefore if thou art moved they'll run away Sampson a dog of that house shall move me to stand I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's Gregory that shows the a weak slave for the weakest goes to the wall Sampson true and therefore women being the weaker vessels are ever thrust to the wall therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall Gregory the quarrel is between our masters and us their men tis all one I will show myself a tyrant when I have fought with the men I will be cruel with the maids I will cut off their heads Gregory the heads of the maids Sampson I the heads of the maids or their maiden heads take it in what sense they'll wilt Gregory they must take it in sense that feel it Sampson me they shall feel while I am able to stand and tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh Gregory tis well thou art not fish if thou hatch thou has been poor John draw thy tool here comes to the house of Montague's Sampson my naked weapon is out quarrel I will back thee Gregory how turn thy back and run Sampson fear me not Gregory no Mary I fear thee Sampson let us take the law of our sides let them begin Gregory I will frown as I pass by and let them take it as they list Sampson nay as they dare I will bite my thumb at them which is disgrace to them if they bear it enter Abraham and Balthazar Abraham do you bite your thumb at us sir Sampson I do bite my thumb sir Abraham do you bite your thumb at us sir Sampson is the law of our side if I say I Gregory no Sampson no sir I do not bite my thumb at you sir but I bite my thumb sir Gregory do you quarrel sir Abraham quarrel sir no sir Sampson but if you do sir I am for you I serve as good a man as you Abraham no better Sampson well sir Gregory stay better here comes one of my Master's kinsmen Sampson yes better sir Abraham you lie Sampson draw if you be men Gregory remember thy swashing blow they fight enter Benvolio Benvolio part fools put up your swords you know not what you do beats down their swords enter Thibault Tibble what art thou drawn among these heartless Hinds turn thee Benvolio look upon thy death Benvolio I do but keep the peace put up thy sword or manage it to part these men with me Thibault what drawn and talk of peace I hate the word as I hate hell all Montague's and thee have at thee coward they fight enter several of both houses who join the fray then enter citizens with clubs one citizen clubs bills and partisans strike beat them down down with the Capulets down with the Montagues enter Capulet in his gown and Lady Capulet Capulet what noise is this give me my long sword ho Lady Capulet a crotch a crotch why call you for a sword Capulet my sword I say old Montague has come and flourishes his blade in spite of me injure Montague and his lady Montague Montague thou villain Capulet hold thee not let me go lady Montague thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe enter Prince with attendants Prince rebellious subjects enemies to peace profane errs of this neighbor stained steel will they not hear what how you man you beasts that quench the fire of your pernicious rage with purple fountains issuing from your veins on pain of torture from those bloody hands throw your mistempered weapons to the ground and hear the sentence of your moved Prince three civil brawls bred of an airy word by thee old Capulet and Montague have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets and made Verona's ancient citizens cast by their grave beseeming ornaments to wield old partisans in hands as old cankered with peace to part York anchored hate if ever you disturb our streets again your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace for this time all the rest depart away you Capulet shall go along with me and Montague come you this afternoon to know our further pleasure in this case two old freetown our common judgment place once more on pain of death all men depart exit Prince and attendants Capulet Lady Capulet Thibault citizens and servants Montague who set this ancient quarrel new abroach speaked nephew were you by when it began benvolio here were the servants of your adversary and yours close fighting air I did approach I drew to part them in the instant came the fiery Thibault with his sword prepared which as he breathed the defiance to my ears he swung about his head and cut the winds who nothing hurt with all hissed him in scorn while we were interchanging thrusts and blows came more and more and fought on part and part till the Prince came who parted either part lady Montague oh where is Romeo saw you him today right glad I am he was not at this fray Benvolio Madame an hour before the worshipped Sun peered forth the golden window of the East a troubled mind raved me to walk abroad where underneath the grove of sycamore that westward route ahthe from the city side so early walking did I see your son towards him I made but he was ware of me and stole into the covert of the wood i measuring his affections by my own that most are busied when their most alone pursued my humour not pursuing his and gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me Montague many a morning hath he there been seen with tears augmenting the fresh morning's Dew adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs but also soon as the all cheering Sun should in the farthest East begin to draw the shady curtains from aurora's bed away from light steals home my heavy son and private in his chamber pens himself shuts up his windows locks fair daylight out and makes himself an artificial night black and portentous must this humour prove unless good counsel may the cause remove Benvolio my noble uncle do you know the cause Montague I neither know it nor can learn of him Benvolio have you impro tuned him by any means Montague both by myself and many other friends but he his own affections counsellor is to himself I will not say how true but to himself so secret and so close so far from sounding and discovery as is the bud bit with an envious worm or he can spread his sweet leaves to the air or dedicate his beauty to the Sun could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow we would as willingly give cure as no Benvolio see here he comes so please you step aside I'll know the his grievance or be much denied Montague I would thou wert so happy by thy stay to hear true shrift come madam let's away exit Montague and lady enter Romeo Benvolio good morrow cousin Romeo is the day so young Benvolio but new struck nine Romeo by me sad hours seem long was that my father that went hence so fast Benvolio it was what sadness lengthens Romeo's hours Romeo not having that which having makes them short Benvolio in love Romeo out Benvolio of love Romeo out of her favor where I am in love Benvolio alas that love so gentle in his view should be so tyrannous and rough in proof Romeo alas that love whose view is muffled still should without eyes see pathways to his will where shall we dine o me what fray was here yet tell me not for I have heard at all here's much to do with hate but more with love why then o brawling love o loving hate Oh anything of nothing first create ohev e lightness serious vanity miss shape and chaos of well-seeming forms feather of lead bright smoke cold fire sick health still waking sleep that is not what it is this love fill that feel no love in this dust thou not laugh Benvolio no cause I rather weep Romeo good heart at what Benvolio at thy good hearts oppression Romeo why such as love's transgression griefs of mine own my heavy in my breast which thou wilt propagate to have it Prest with more of thine this love that thou has shown death add more grief to too much of mine own love is a smoke raised with the fume of Sighs being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes being vexed a see nursed with lovers tears what is it else a madness most discreet a choking gall and the preserving sweet farewell my coz going Benvolio soft I will go along and if you leave me so you do me wrong Romeo tut I have lost myself I am NOT here this is not Romeo he's some other where Benvolio tell me in sadness who is that you love Romeo what shall i groan and tell thee Benvolio groan why no but sadly tell me who Romeo bid a sick man and sadness make his will ah word ill urge to one that is so ill in sadness cousin I do love a woman Benvolio I aimed so near when I supposed you loved Romeo I write good Markman and she's fair I love Benvolio a right fair mark fair coz is soonest hit Romeo well in that hit you miss she'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow she hath Diane's wit and in strong proof of chastity well arm'd from love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed she will not stay the siege of loving terms nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes gnaw rope her lap to st. seducing gold oh she's rich in beauty only poor that when she dies with Beauty dies her store Benvolio then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste Romeo she hath and in that sparing makes huge waste for beauty starved with her severity cuts beauty off from all posterity she is too fair too wise wisely too fair to merit bliss by making me despair she hath forsworn to love and in that vow do I live dead that live to tell it now Benvolio be ruled by me forget to think of her Romeo o teach me how I should forget to think Benvolio by giving Liberty unto thine eyes examine other beauties Romeo tis the way to call hers exquisite in question more he's happy masks that kiss fair lady's brows being black puts us in mind they hide the fair he that is strucken blind cannot forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost show me a mistress that is passing fair what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair farewell thou canst not teach me to forget Benvolio I'll pay that doctrine or else die in debt exit end of scene one scene to a street enter Capulet Paris and servant Capulet but Montague is bound as well as I in penalty alike and tis not hard I think for men so old as we to keep the peace paris of honorable reckoning are you both and pity tis you lived at odds so long but now my lord what say you to my suit Capulet but saying or what I have said before my child is yet a stranger in the world she hath not seen the change of Fort eighteen years let two more summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride Parris younger than she are happy Mother's made Capulet and too soon marred are those so early made the earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she she is the hopeful Lady of my earth but woo her gentle Paris get her heart my will to her consent is but apart and she agree within her scope of choice lies my consent and fair according voice this night I hold an old accustomed feast whereto I have invited many a guest such as I love and you among the store one more most welcome makes my number more at my poor house look to behold this night earth treading stars that make dark heaven light such comfort as Dew lusty young men feel when well apparelled April on the heel of limping winter treads even such delight among fresh female buds shall you this night inherit at my house here all all see and like her most whose merit most shall be which among view of many mine being one may stand in number though in reckoning none come go with me go sir ah trudge about through fair Verona find those persons out whose names are written there gives a paper and to them say my house and welcome on their pleasure stay exit Capulet and Paris servant find them out whose names are written here it is written that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard and the tailor with his last the Fisher with his pencil and the painter with his nets but I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ I must do the learned in good time enter Benvolio and Romeo Benvolio taught man one fire burn another's burning one pain is lessened by another's anguish turn giddy and be helped by backward turning one desperate grief cures with another's languish take thou some new infection to the eye and the rank poison of the old will die Romeo your plantain leaf is excellent for that Benvolio for what I pray thee Romeo for your broken shin Benvolio why Romeo art thou mad Romeo not mad but bound more than a madman is shut up in prison kept without my food whipped and tormented in good n good fellow servant God get good and I pray sir can you read Romeo I mine own fortune in my misery servant perhaps you have learned it without book but I pray can you read anything you see Romeo I if I know the letters and the language servant ye say honestly rest you merry Romeo stay fellow I can read reads signor Martino and his wife and daughters County Anselmo and his beauteous sisters the lady widow of Vitruvius signor placentio and his lovely nieces Mercutio and his brother Valentine mine aanchal Capulet his wife and daughters My Fair niece Rosaline Livia Senor Valenti oh and his cousin tybalt Lucio and the lively Hellena a fair assembly give us back the paper whither should they come servant up Romeo whither servant to supper to our house Romeo whose house servant my Master's Romeo indeed I should have asked you that before servant now I'll tell you without asking my master is the great rich Capulet and if you be not of the house of Montague's I pray come and crush a cup of wine rest you merry exit Benvolio at this same ancient feast of Capulets sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest with all the admired beauties of Verona go thither and with unattained 'td I compare her face with some that i shall show and I will make thee think thy swan a crow Romeo when the devout religion of mine I maintained such falsehood then turned tears to fires and these who often drowned could never die transparent heretics be burnt for liars one fairer than my love the all-seeing Sun never saw her match since first the world begun benvolio tut you saw her fair none else being by herself poised with herself in either eye but in that crystal scales let there be weighed your lady's love against some other maid that I will show you shining at this feast and she shall scant show well that now shows best Romeo I'll go along no such sight to be shown but to rejoice in splendour of mine own exit scene 3 room in Capulets house enter Lady Capulet and nurse Lady Capulet nurse where's my daughter call her forth to me nurse by my Maidenhead at 12 year old I bade her come what lamb what ladybird god forbid where's this girl what Juliet enter Juliet Juliet how now who calls nurse your mother Juliet madam I am here what is your will Lady Capulet this is the matter nurse give leave awhile we must talk in secret nurse come back again I have remembered me those hear our counsel thou knowest my daughters of a pretty age nurse faith I can tell her age unto an hour Lady Capulet she's not 14 nurse I'll lay fourteen of my teeth and yet to my teen be it's spoken I have put four she is not 14 how long is it now - lamas tied lady capulet a fortnight and odd days nurse even or odd of all the days in the year come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen Susan and she God rest all Christian souls were of an age well Susan is with God she was too good for me but as I said on my math Eve at night shall she be fourteen that shall she marry I remember it well tis since the earthquake now eleven years and she was weaned I never shall forget it of all the days of the year upon that day for I had then laid wormwood to my dug sitting in the sun under the dove house wall my lord and you were then at Mantua nay I do bear a brain but as I said when it did taste the wormwood on the nipple of my dug and felt it bitter pretty fool to see it touchy and fall out with the dug shake quoth the dove house twas no need I trout tube in me trudged and since that time it is eleven years for then she could stand alone nay by the Rood she could have run and waddled all about for even the day before she broke her brow and then my husband God be with his soul he was a merry man took up the child yeh quoth he dust thou fall upon thy face thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit wilt thou not jule and by my holiday me the pretty wretch left crying and said I to see now how a just shall come about I warrant and I should live a thousand years and and never should forget it wilt thou not Jule quoth he and pretty fool it stinted and said I lady capulet enough of this I pray thee hold thy peace nurse yes madam yet I cannot choose but laugh to think it should leave crying and say I and yet i warrant it had upon its brow a bump as big as a young cockerels stone a parlous knock and it cried bitterly yeh quoth my husband faust upon thy face thou wilt fall backward when thou comes to age how not jule it stinted and said I Juliet and stint thou - I pray thee nurse say I nurse peace I have done God mark thee to His grace that was the prettiest babe that ere I nursed and I might live to see thee married once I have my wish Lady Capulet marry that marry is the very theme I came to talk of tell me daughter Juliet how stands your disposition to be married Juliet it is an honour that I dream not of nurse an honour were not i thine only nurse I would say thou hath suck'd wisdom from thy teat Lady Capulet well think of marriage now younger than you here in Verona ladies of esteem are made already mothers by my count I wish your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid thus then in brief the valiant Paris seeks you for his love nurse a man young lady lady such a man as all the world why he's a man of wax Lady Capulet Verona's summer hath not such a flower nurse nay he's a flower in faith a very flower Lady Capulet what say you can you love the gentleman this night you shall behold him at our feast read or the volume of young Paris's face and find delight writ there with beauty's pen examine every married liniment and see how one another lends content and what obscured in this fair volume lies find written in the margent of his eyes this precious book of love this unbound lover to beautify him only lacks a cover the fish lives in the sea and his much pride for fare without the fare within to hide that book and many's eyes doth share the glory that in gold clasps locks in the golden story so shall you share all that he doth possess by having him making yourself no less nurse no less they bigger women grow by men lady capulet speak briefly can you like of Paris's love Juliet I'll look to like if looking liking move but no more deep will i endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly enter a servant servant madam the guests are come supper served up you called my young lady asked for the nurse cursed in the pantry and everything in extremity I must hence to wait I beseech you follow straight Lady Capulet we follow the exit servant Julia the county stays nurse go girl seek happy nights to happy days exit scene for a street enter Romeo Mercutio Benvolio with five or six maskers torchbearers and others Romeo what shall this speech be spoke for our excuse or shall we on without apology Benvolio the date is out of such prolixity will have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf bearing a Tartars painted bow of laughs scaring the ladies like a crow keeper nor know without book prologue faintly spoke after the prompter for our entrance but let them measure us by what they will and will measure them a measure and be gone Romeo give me a torch I am NOT for this ambling being but heavy I'll bear the light Mercutio nay gentle Romeo we must have you dance Romeo not I believe me you have dancing shoes with nimble soles I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move Mercutio you are a lover borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound Romeo I am too sore and pierced with his shaft to soar with his light feathers and so bound I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe under loves heavy burden do I sink mercutio and to sink in it should you burden love to great oppression for a tender thing Romeo is love a tender thing it is too rough too rude too boisterous and it pricks like thorn Mercutio if love be rough with you be rough with love prick love for pricking and you beat love down give me a case to put my visage in putting on a mask a Visser defer a viscid what care I what curious eye doth quote deformities here are the beetle brows shall blush for me Benvolio come knock and enter and no sooner in but every man betake him to his legs Romeo a torch for me let wantons light of heart tickle the senseless rushes with their heels for I am proverb with a grandsire face I'll be a candle holder and look on the game was NER so fair and I am done Mercutio tut Duns the mouse the constables own word if thou art done will draw thee from the mire of this sir reverence love wherein thou stick'st a stop to the ears come we burn daylight ho Romeo nay that's not so Mercutio I mean sir in delay we waste our lights in vain like lamps by day take our good meaning for our judgments it's five times in that air once in our five widths Romeo and we mean well in going to this masque but tis no wit to go Mercutio why May one ask Romeo I dreamt a dream tonight nor she'll so did i Romeo well what was yours Mercutio that dreamers often lie Romeo in bed asleep while they do dream things true Mercutio o then I see Queen Mab hath been with you she is the fairies midwife and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman drawn with a team of little atomies athwart men's noses as they lie asleep her wagon spokes made of long spinners legs the cover of the wings of grasshoppers the traces of the smallest spider's web the collars of the moonshines watery beams her whip of cricket's bone the lash of film her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat not half so big as a round little worm prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid her chariot is an empty hazelnut made by the joiner squirrel or old grub time out of mind to the fairies coachmakers and in this state she gallops night by night through lovers brains and then they dream of love or couriers knees that dream on court see straight or lawyers fingers who straight dream on fees or ladies lips who straight on kisses dream which oft the angry mAb with blisters plagues because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are sometimes she gallops or a couriers nose and then dreams he of smelling out a suit and sometimes comes she with the tithe pig's tail tickling a parson's nose as he lies asleep then dreams he of another benefits sometimes she drive ahthe or a soldier's neck and then dreams he of cutting foreign throats of breaches Ambus godot's spanish blades of healths 5 fathom deep and then anon drums in his ear at which he starts and wakes and being thus frightened swears a prayer or two and sleeps again this is that very mab that plats the manes of horses in the night and bakes the elf locks in foul sluttish hairs which once untangled much misfortune bodes this is the hag when maids lie on their backs that presses them and learns them first to bear making them women of good carriage this is she Romeo peace peace Mercutio peace thou talk'st of nothing Mercutio true I talk of dreams which are the children of an idle brain begot of nothing but vain fantasy which is this thin of substance as the air and more inconstant than the wind who woos even now the frozen bosom of the north and being angered puffs away from thence turning his face to the dew-dropping south Benvolio this wind you talk of blows us from ourselves Supper is done and we shall come to late Romeo I fear too early for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the Stars shall bitterly begin this fearful date with this nights revels and expire the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death but he that hath the steerage of my course direct my sail on lusty gentlemen Benvolio strike drum exit end of scene for scene 5 a Hall in Capulets house musicians waiting enter servants servant 1 where's potpan that he helps not to take away he shift a trencher he scrape a trencher servant 2 when good manners shall lie all in one or two men's hands and they unwashed to tis a foul thing servant 1 away with the join stools remove the court cupboard look to the plate good thou save me a piece of marchpane and his foul loves me let the porter light in Susan grindstone and Nell Antony and potpan servant 2 i boy ready servant 1 you are looked for and called for asked for and sought for in the great chamber servant 2 we cannot be here and there too Cheerilee boys be brisk awhile and the longer liver take all they retire behind enter Capulet etc with the guests and maskers Capulet welcome gentlemen ladies that have their toes on plagued with corns will have about with you aha my mistress is which of you all will now deny to dance she that makes dainty she I'll swear hath corns and might come near you now welcome gentlemen I have seen the day that I have warned of Assad and could tell a whispering tale in a fair lady's ear such as would please tis gone tis gone tis gone you're welcome gentlemen come musicians play a hall a hall give room and foot it girls music plays and they dance more light you knaves and turn the tables up and quench the fire the room has grown too hot ah sir ah this unlooked-for sport comes well nay sit nay sit good cousin Capulet for you and I are past our dancing days how long is it now since last yourself and I were in a mask Capulet to buy your lady 30 years Capulet what man tis not so much tis not so much to since the nuptial of lucentio come pentecost as quickly as it will some five in twenty years and then we masked Capulet to tis more tis more his son is elder sir his son is thirty Capulet will you tell me that his son was but award two years ago Romeo what lady is that which doth enrich the hand of yonder Knight servant I know not sir Romeo o she doth teach the torches to burn bright it seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an ethiop's ear beauty too rich for use for earth too dear so shows a snowy dove trooping with crows as yonder lady or her fellow shows the measure done I'll watch her place of stand and touching hers make blessed my rude hand did my heart love till now forswear it sight for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night Thibault this by his voice should be a Montague fetch me my rapier boy what dares the slave come hither cover'd with an antic face to fleer and scorn at our solemnity now buy the stock in honor of my kin to strike him dead I hold it not a sin Capulet why how now kinsman where or storm you so Thibault uncle this is a Montague our foe a villain that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night Capulet young Romeo isn't Tibble tis he that villain Romeo Capulet content thee gentle coz let him alone he bears him like a portly gentleman and to say truth verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well governed youth i would not for the wealth of all the town here in my house do him disparagement therefore be patient take no note of him it is my will the which if thou respect show a fair presence and put off these frowns and it will be seeming semla J feast tabled it fits when such a villain is a guest I'll not endure him Capulet he shall be endured what Goodman boy I say he shall go - am I the master here or you go - you'll not endure him God shall mend my soul you'll make a mutiny among my guests you'll set a cock-a-hoop you'll be the man Thibault why uncle tis a shame Capulet go - go - you are a saucy boy is it so indeed this trick may chance - scathed you I know what you must contrary me marry tis time well said my heart's you are a prince go be quiet or more light more light for shame I'll make you quiet what Cheerilee my heart's Thibault patience perforce with wilful collar meeting makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting I will withdraw but this intrusion shall now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall exit Romeo to Juliet if I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine the gentle fine is this my lips two blushing pilgrims ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss Juliet good pilgrim you do wrong your hand too much which mannerly devotion shows in this for Saints have hands that pilgrims hands do touch and palm to Palm is holy Palmer's kiss Romeo have not Saints lips and holy Palmer's too Juliet I pilgrim lips that they must use in prayer Romeo o then dear Saint let lips do what hands do they pray grant thou lest faith turn to despair Juliet Saints do not move though grant for prayers sake Romeo then move not while my prayers effect I take thus from my lips by thine my sin is purged kisses her Juliet then have my lips the sin that they have took Romeo sin from my lips o trespass sweetly urged give me my sin again Juliet you kiss by the book nurse madam your mother craves a word with you Romeo what is her mother nurse marry bachelor her mother is the lady of the house and a good lady and a wise and virtuous I nursed her daughter that you talk'd withal I tell you he that can lay hold of her shall have the chinks Romeo is she a Capulet o dear account my life is my foes debt Benvolio away be gone the sport is at the best Romeo I so I fear the more is my unrest Capulet nay gentlemen prepare not to be gone we have a trifling foolish banquet towards is it even so why then I thank you all I thank you honest gentleman good night more torches here come on then let's to bed ah sir ah to 2nd Capulet by my Fay it waxes late I'll to my rest exit all but Juliet and nurse Juliet come hither nurse what is yon gentleman nurse the son and heir of old Tiberio Juliet what's he that now is going out of or nurse Mary that I think be young Petruchio Julia what's he that follows there that would not dance nurse I know not Juliet go ask his name if he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed nurse his name is Romeo and a Montague the only son of your great enemy Juliet my only love sprung from my only hate too early seen unknown and known too late prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy nurse what's this what's this Juliet a rhyme I learned even now for when I danced with all one calls within Juliet nurse anon anon come let's away the strangers all are gone exit enter chorus chorus now old desire doth in his death bed lie and young affection gapes to be his heir that fair for which love groan'd for and would die with tender juliet match'd is now not fair now Romeo is beloved and loves again alike bewitched by the charm of looks but to his foe suppose it he must complain and she still loves sweet bait from fearful hooks being held a foe he may not have access to breathe such vows as lovers used to swear and she as much in love her means much less to meet her new beloved anywhere but passion lends them power time means to meet tempering extremities with extreme sweet exit end of scene five end of act 1 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by becky crackle canal Winchester Ohio this is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - scene one an open place adjoining Capulets garden enter Romeo Romeo can I go forward when my heart is here turn back dull earth and find thy center out he climbs the wall and leaps down within it enter Benvolio and Mercutio Benvolio Romeo my cousin Romeo Mercutio he is wise and on my life hath stolen him home to bed Benvolio he ran this way and leapt this orchard wall call good Mercutio Mercutio nay I'll conjure - Romeo humours madman passion lover appear thou in the likeness of a sigh speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied cry but ah me pronounce but love and dove speak to my gossip Venus one fair word one nickname for her / blind son and heir Young Albarn Cupid he that shot so trim when King confessed well-loved the beggar maid he heareth not he stirreth not he moveth not the ape is dead and I must conjure him I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes by her high forehead and her scarlet lip by her fine foot straight leg and quivering thigh and the domains of their adjacent lie that in thy likeness thou appear to us Benvolio and if he hear thee thou wilt anger him Mercutio this cannot anger him to anger him to raise a spirit in his mistress's circle of some strange nature letting it there stand till she had laid it and conjured it down that were some spite my invocation is fair and honest and in his mistress's name I conjure only but to raise him up Benvolio come he hath hid himself among these trees to be consorted with the humorous night blind is his love and best befits the dark Mercutio if love be blind love cannot hit the mark now will he sit under a meddler and wish his mistress were that kind of fruit as maids call meddlers when they laugh alone Romeo good night I'll to my truckle-bed this field-bed is too cold for me to sleep come shall we go Benvolio go then for tis in vain to seek him here that means not to be found exit scene two Capulets garden enter Romeo Romeo he jests at scars that never felt a wound Juliet appears above at a window but soft what light through yonder window breaks it is the east and Juliet is the Sun arise fair Sun and kill the envious moon who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she be not her maid since she is envious her Vestal livery is but sick and green and none but fools do wear it cast it off it is my lady O it is my love o that she knew she were she speaks yet she says nothing what of that her eye discourses I will answer it I am too bold tis not to me she speaks two of the fairest stars in all the heaven having some business do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return what if her eyes were there they in her head the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night see how she leans her cheek upon her hand oh that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek Juliet o me Romeo she speak Oh speak again Bright Angel for thou art as glorious to this night being or my head as is a winged messenger of heaven unto the white upturned wandering eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on him when he beast rides the lazy pacing clouds and sails upon the bosom of the air Juliet oh Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo deny thy father and refuse thy name or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet Romeo aside shall I hear more or shall I speak at this Juliet tis but thy name that is my enemy thou art thyself though not a Montague what's Montague it is nor hand nor foot nor arm nor face nor any other part belonging to a man o be some other name what's in a name that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet so Romeo would were he not Romeo call'd retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title Romeo doff thy name and for that name which is no part of thee take all myself Romeo I take thee at thy word call me but love and I'll be new baptized henceforth I never will be Romeo Juliet what man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night so stumblest on my counsel Romeo by a name I know not how to tell thee Who I am my name dear Saint is hateful to myself because it is an enemy to thee had I had written I would tear the word Juliet my eyes have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongues utterance yet I know the sound art thou not Romeo and a Montague Romeo neither fair Saint if either thee dislike Juliet how canst thou hither tell me and wherefore the orchard walls are high and hard to climb and the place death considering who thou art if any of my kinsmen find thee here Romeo with love's light wings did i o'er-perch these walls for stony limits cannot hold love out and what love can do that dares love attempt therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me Juliet if they do see thee they will murder thee Romeo alack there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords look thou but sweet and I am proof against their enmity Juliet I would not for the world they saw thee here Romeo I have nights cloak to hide me from their sight and but thou love me let them find me here my life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued wanting of thy love Juliet by whose direction founds though out this place Romeo by love that first did prompt me to inquire he lent me counsel and I lent him eyes I am no pilot yet Wert thou as far as that vast Shore wash'd with the furthest sea I would venture for such merchandise Juliet thou knowest the mask of night is on my face else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek for that which thou hast heard me speak tonight fain would I dwell on form fain fain deny what I have spoke but farewell compliment dust thou love me I know thou wilt say aye and I will take thy word yet if thou swearest thou mayst prove false at lovers perjuries they say Jove laughs oh gentle Romeo if thou dost love pronounce it faithfully or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay so thou wilt woo but else not for the world in truth fair Montague I am too fond and therefore thou mayst think my heavier light but trust me gentlemen I'll prove more true than those that have more cunning to be strange I should have been more strange I must confess but that thou over hurts ere i was ware my true love passion therefore pardon me and not impute this yielding to light love which the dark night hath so discovered romeo lady by yonder blessed moon I swear that tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops Juliet o swear not by the moon the inconstant moon that monthly changes in her circled orb lest that thy love prove likewise variable Romeo what shall I swear by Juliet do not swear at all or if thou wilt swear by thy gracious self which is the god of my idolatry and I'll believe thee Romeo if my heart's dear love Juliet well do not swear although I joy in thee I have no joy of this contract tonight it is too rash too unadvised too sudden too like the lightning which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens sweet goodnight this bud of love by summers ripening breath may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet good night good night a sweet repose and rest come to thy heart as that within my breast Romeo o wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied Juliet what satisfaction canst thou have tonight Romeo the exchange of thy loves faithful vow for mine Juliet I gave thee mine before thou didst request it and yet I would it were to give again Romeo wouldst thou withdraw it for what purpose love Juliet but to be frank and give it thee again and yet I wish but for the thing I have my bounty is as boundless as the sea my love as deep the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite I hear some noise within dear love I do nurse calls within Juliet anon good nurse sweet Montague be true stay but a little they will come again exit Romeo o blessed blessed night I am afeard being in night all this is but a dream too flattering sweet to be substantial enter Juliet above Juliet three words dear Romeo and good night indeed if that thy bent of love be honorable thy purpose marriage send me word tomorrow by one that I'll procure to come to thee where and what time thou wilt perform the rite and all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay and follow thee my lord throughout the world nurse within madam Juliet I come anon but if thou mean it's not well I do beseech thee nurse within madam Juliet by-and-by I come to cease thy suit and leave me to my grief tomorrow I will send Romeo so thrive my soul Juliet a thousand times good night exit Romeo a thousand times the worse to want thy light love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books but love from love toward school with heavy looks retiring slowly reenter Julia above Juliet yes Romeo hist Oh for a falconers voice to lure this tassel gentle back again bonded his horse and may not speak aloud else would I tear the cave where echo lies and make her Airy tongue more hoarse than mine with repetition of my Romeo's name Romeo it is my soul that calls upon my name how silver-sweet sound lovers tongues by night like softest music to attending ears Juliet Romeo Romeo my dear Juliet at what o'clock tomorrow shall I send to thee Romeo at the hour of nine Juliet I will not fail tis twenty years till then I have forgot why I did call thee back Romeo let me stand here till thou remember it Juliet I shall forget to have thee still stand there remembering how I love thy company Romeo and I'll still stay to have thee still forget forgetting any other home but this Juliet tis almost morning I would have thee gone and yet no farther than a wantons bird that lets it hop a little from her hand like a poor prisoner in his twisted jives and with a silk thread plucks it back again so loving jealous of his liberty Romeo I would I were thy bird Juliet sweet so would I yet I should kill thee with much cherishing good night good night parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow exit Romeo sleep dwell upon thine eyes peace in thy breast would I were sleep in peace so sweet to rest hence will I to my ghostly father's cell his help to crave and my dear HAP to tell exit end of scene to Act two scene three friar Lawrence's cell enter Friar Laurence with a basket friar the grey eyed morn smiles on the frowning night checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light and flecks darkness like a drunkard reels from forth day's paths and tightens fiery wheels non ere the Sun advance his burning eye the day to cheer and nights dank due to dry I must fill up this owes your cage of ours with baleful weeds and precious juice hours the earth that's nature's mother is her tomb what is her burying grave that is her womb and from her womb children of diverse kind we sucking on her natural bosom find many for the virtues excellent none but for some and yet all different Oh Mikkel is the powerful grace that lies in plants herbs stones and their two qualities for not so vile that on the earth doth live but to the earth some special good doth give nor aught so good but strained from that fair use revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse virtue itself turns vice being misapplied and vice sometimes by action dignified within the infant rind of this small flower poison hath residence and medicine power for this being smelt with that part cheers each part being tasted slays all senses with the heart to such opposed Kings and kept them still in man as well as herbs grace and rude will and where the worser is predominant full soon the canker death eats up that plant and to Romeo Romeo good morrow father fire benedi city what early tongue so sweet saluteth me young son it argues a distemper'd head so soon to bid good morrow to thy bed care keeps his watch in every old man's eye and wear care lodges sleep will never lie but wear unbruised youth with unstuffed brain death couches limbs their golden sleep doth reign therefore thy earliness doth me assure the art a browsed with some distemper ature or if not so then here I hit it right Romeo hath not been in bed tonight Romeo that last is true the sweeter rest was mine friar God pardon sin wast thou with Rosaline Romeo with Rosaline my ghostly father no I have forgot that name and that names woe fire that's my good son but whereas thou been then Romeo I'll tell thee ere thou ask it me again I have been feasting with mine enemy where on a sudden one hath wounded me that's by me wounded both our remedies within thy help and my holy physic lies I bear no hatred blessed man for lo my intercession likewise Stead's my foe friar be plain good son and homely in thy drift riddling confession finds but riddling shrift romeo then plainly know my heart's dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet as mine on hers so hers is set on mine and all combined save what thou must combine by holy marriage when and where and how we met we wood and made exchange of vow I'll tell thee as we pass but this I pray that thou consent to marry us today friar holy st. Francis what a changes here is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear so soon forsaken young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes Jesu Maria what a deal of brine hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline how much salt water thrown away in waste to season love that of it doth not taste the Sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears they old groans ring yet in mine ancient ears lo here upon thy cheek the stained Duff sit of an old tear that is not washed off yet if ere thou wast thyself and these woes thine thou and these woes were all for Rosaline and art thou changed pronounce this sentence then women may fall when there's no strength in men Romeo thou eatest me oft for loving rosaline fryer for doting not for loving pupil mine Romeo and bats me bury love friar not in a grave to lay one in another out to have Romeo I pray thee chide not she whom I love now doth grace for grace and love for love allow the other did not so friar oh she knew well thy love did read by rote so that could not bell but come young waverer come go with me in one respect I'll thy assistant be for this alliance May so happy prove to turn your households rancour to pure love Romeo o let us hence I stand on sudden haste friar wisely and slow they stumble that run fast exit scene for a street enter Benvolio and Mercutio Mercutio where the devil should this Romeo be came he not home tonight Benvolio not to his father's I spoke with his man Mercutio ah that same pale hard-hearted wench that Rosaline torments him so that he will sure run mad Benvolio Tybalt the kinsman to old Capulet hath sent a letter to his father's house Mercutio a challenge on my life Benvolio Romeo will answer it Mercutio any man that can write may answer a letter Benvolio nay he will answer the letters master how he dares being dared Mercutio alas poor Romeo he's already dead stabbed with a white wench's black eye shot through the ear with a love song the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow boys but shaft and is he a man to encounter Tybalt Benvolio why what is Tybalt Mercutio more than Prince of cats I can tell you oh he's the courageous captain of compliments he fights as you sing prick song keeps time distance and proportion rests me his minim rest one two and a third in your bosom the very butcher of a silk button a duelist a duelist a gentleman of the very first house of the first and second cause ah the immortal passado the punto reverso the hey Benvolio the what Mercutio the pox of such antic lisping affecting fantastic owes these new tuners of accents by yaesu a very good blade a very tall man a very good why is not this lamentable thing grandsire that we should be thus afflicted with these strange flies these fashion mongers cease pardon them was who stand so much on the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench Oh their bonds their bonds Benvolio here comes Romeo here comes Romeo Mercutio without his row like a dried herring o flesh flesh how art thou fish a fide now he is for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in Laura to his lady was but a kitchen wench Mary she had a better love to be rhyme her Dido a dowdy Cleopatra a gypsy Helen and hero Hill dings and harlots Thisby a grey eye or so but not to the purpose and to Romeo signor Romeo Bonjour there's a French salutation to your French slop you gave us the counterfeit fairly last night Romeo good morrow to you both what counterfeit did I give you Mercutio the slip sir the slip can you not conceive Romeo pardon good Mercutio my business was great and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy Mercutio that's as much as to say such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams Romeo meaning to curtsy Mercutio thou hast most kindly hit it Romeo a most courteous exposition Mercutio nay I am the very pink of courtesy Romeo pink for flower Mercutio right Romeo why then is my pump well flowered Mercutio well said follow me this jest now till thou hast worn out by pomp that when the single sole of it is worn the jest may remain after the Waring's sole singular Romeo o single sold jest solely singular for the singleness Mercutio come between us good Benvolio my wits faint Romeo switz ins first wits and spurs or I'll cry a match Mercutio nay if thy wits run the wild-goose chase I have done for thou hast more of the wild goose and one of thy wits than I am sure I have in my whole five was i with you there for the goose Romeo that was never with me for anything when thou was not there for the goose Mercutio I will bite thee by the ear for that jest Romeo nay good goose bite not Mercutio thy wit is a very bitter Sweeting it is a most sharp sauce Romeo and is it not then well served into a sweet goose Mercutio oh here's a wit of several that stretches from an inch narrow to an L broad Romeo I stretch it out for that word broad which added to the goose proves the far and wide a broad goose Mercutio why is not this better now than groaning for love now art thou sociable now art thou Romeo now artha what thou art by art as well as by nature for this driveling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole Benvolio stop there stop there Mercutio thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair Benvolio thou wouldst else have made thy tale large Mercutio o thou art deceived I would have made it short for I was come to the whole depth of my tale and meant indeed to occupy the argument no longer Romeo here's goodly gear enter nurse and Peter Mercutio a sail a sail a sail Benvolio to to a shirt and a smock nurse Peter Peter anon nurse my fan Peter Mercutio good Peter to hide her face for her fans the fairer face nurse God ye good morrow gentlemen Mercutio God ye good den fair gentlewoman nurse is it good den Mercutio tis no less I tell you for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon nurse out upon you what a man are you Romeo one gentlewoman that God hath made for himself too our nurse by Mitro that is well said for himself to Mar quoth a gentleman can any of you tell me where I might find the young Romeo Romeo I can tell you but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him I am the youngest of that name for fault of ours nurse you say well Mercutio yae is the worst well very well took in faith wisely wisely nurse if you be he sir I desire some confidence with you Benvolio she will invite him to some supper Mercutio a bawd a bawd a bawd so romeo what hast thou found Mercutio no hair sir unless a hair sir in a Lenten pie that is something stale and ere it be spent he sings an old hare hoar an old hare hoar is very good meat in Lent but a hair that is is too much for a score when it ere it be spent Romeo will you come to your father's will to dinner thither Romeo I will follow you Mercutio farewell ancient lady farewell lady lady lady exit Mercutio and Benvolio nurse Mary farewell I pray you sir what saucy merchant was this that was so full of his robbery Romeo a gentleman nurse that loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month nurse and he speak anything against me I'll take him down and I were lustier than he is and twenty such jacks and if I cannot I'll find those that shall scurvy knave I am none of his flirt gills I have none of his skeins mates and thou was standby to and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure Peter I saw no man you shoo at his pleasure if I had my weapon should quickly have been out I warrant you I dare draw as soon as any other man if I see occasion in a good quarrel and the law is on my side nurse now a for God I am so vexed at every part about quivers scurvy knave pray you sir a word and as I told you my young lady bid me inquire you out what she bade me say I will keep to myself but first let me tell you if he should lead her into a fool's paradise as they say it were a very gross kind of behavior as they say for the gentlewoman is young and therefore if you should deal double with her truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman and very weak dealing Romeo nurse commend me to thy lady and Mistress I protest unto thee nurse good heart and the faith I will tell her as much Lord Lord she will be a joyful woman Romeo what wilt thou tell her nurse thou does not mark me nurse I will tell her sir that you do protest which as I take it is a gentlemanlike offer Romeo bid her devise some means to come to shrift this afternoon and there she shall at friar Lawrence's cell be shrived and married here is for thy pains nurse no truly sir not a penny Romeo go to I say you shall nurse this afternoon sir well she shall be there Romeo and stay good nurse behind the Abbey wall within this hour my man shall be with thee and bring thee cords made like a tackled stair which the high topgallant of my joy might be my convoy in the secret night farewell be trusty and I'll quit thy pains farewell commend me to thy mistress nurse now God in heaven bless thee hark you sir Romeo what sayest thou my dear nurse nurse is your man secret did you never hear say too may keep counsel putting one away Romeo I warrant thee my man's as true as steel nurse well sir my mistress is the sweetest lady Lord Lord wouldn't was a little prating thing oh there's a nobleman in town one Paris that would fain lay knife aboard but she soeul hattis leaf see a toad a very toad as see him I anger her sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer man but I'll warned you when I say so she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world deaths Mount rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter Romeo I nurse what of that both with an R nurse ah mocker that's the dog's name r is for the dog no I know it begins with some other letter and she hath the prettiest Sencha sness of it of you and rosemary that it would do you good to hear it Romeo commend me to thy lady nurse a thousand times exit Romeo Peter Peter a non nurse Peter take my fan and go before exit end of scene for Act two scene five Capulets garden enter Juliet Juliet the clock struck nine when I did send the nurse in half an hour she promised to return perchance she cannot meet him that's not so oh she is lame loves heralds should be thoughts which 10 times faster glide than the sun's beans driving back shadows / lowering Hills therefore do nimble pinion doves draw love and therefore hath the wind Swift Cupid wings now is the Sun upon the highmost hill of this day's journey and from nine till twelve is three long hours yet she has not come had she affections and warm youthful blood she'd be as Swift in motion as a ball my words would bandy her to my sweet love and his to me but old folks many feign as they were dead unwieldy slow heavy and pale as lead oh god she comes enter nurse and Peter o honey nurse what news hast thou met with him send thy man away nurse Peter stay at the gate exit Peter Juliet now good sweet nurse Lord why Lucas the sad though news be sad yet tell them merrily if good thou Seamus the music of sweet news by playing it to me with so sour a face nurse I am a weary give me leave awhile fie how my bones ache what a jaunt have I had Juliet I would thou hadst my bones and I thy news nay come I pray thee speak good good nurse speak nurse yes ooh what haste can you not stay awhile do you not see that I am out of breath Juliet how art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath the excuse that thou dost make in this delay is longer than the tale thou dust excuse is thy news good or bad answer to that say either and I'll stay the circumstance let me be satisfied is a good or bad nurse well you've made a simple choice you know not how to choose a man Romeo no not he though his face be better than any man's yet his leg excels all men's and for a hand and a foot and a body though he be not to be talked on yet they are past compare he is not the flower of courtesy but I'll warrant him as gentle as a lamb go thy ways wench serve God what have you dined at home Juliet no no but all this did I know before what says he of our marriage what of that nurse Lord how my head aches what a head have I it beats as it would fall in 20 pieces my back on the other side oh my back my back be sure your heart for sending me about to catch my death with Jonson up and down Juliet in faith I am sorry that thou art not well sweet sweet sweet nurse tell me what says my love nurse your love says like an honest gentleman and the courteous and the kind and the handsome and I warrant a virtuous where's your mother Juliet where is my mother why she is within where should she be how oddly thou repliest your love says like an honest gentleman where is your mother nurse o God's lady dear are you so hot Mary come up by TRO is this the poultice for my aching bones henceforward do your messages yourself Juliet here's such a coil come what says Romeo nurse have you got leave to go to shrift today Juliet I have nurse then hi you hence to Friar Lawrence a cell there stays a husband to make you a wife now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks they'll be in scarlet straight at any news hi you to church I must another way to fetch a ladder by the witch your love must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark I am The Drudge and toil in your delight but you shall bear the burden soon at night go I'll to dinner hi you to the cell Juliet hi - hi fortune honest nurse farewell exit scene 6 friar Lawrence's cell enter Friar Laurence and Romeo friar so smile the heavens upon this holy act that after-hours with sorrow chide us not Romeo amen amen but come what sorrow can it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight do thou but close our hands with holy words then love-devouring death do what he dare it is enough that I make but call her mine friar these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die like fire and powder which as they kiss consume the sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite therefore love moderately long love doth so to Swift arrives as tardy as too slow here comes the lady oh so light a foot will never wear out the everlasting Flint a lover may bestride the gossamer that idles in the wanton summer air and yet not fall so light is vanity enter Juliet Juliet good even to my ghostly confessor friar Romeo shall thank the daughter for us both Juliet as much to him Elsie's whose thanks too much Romeo Oh Juliet if the measure of thy joy be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more to blazon it then sweeten with thy breath this neighbour air and let rich musics tongue unfold the imagined happiness that both receive in either by this dear encounter Juliet conceit more rich in matter than in words brags of his substance not of ornament they are but beggars that can count their worth but my true love has grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth friar come come with me and we'll make short work for by your leaves you shall not stay alone till Holy Church incorporate two in one exit end of scene six end of Act two this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by becky crackle canal Winchester Ohio this is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare act 3 scene 1 a public place enter Mercutio Benvolio page and servants Benvolio I pray thee good Mercutio let's tire the day is hot the Capulets abroad and if we meet we shall not scape a brawl for now these hot days is the mad blood stirring Mercutio that worked like one of these fellows that when he enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword upon the table and says God send me no need of thee and by the operation of the Second Cup draws him on the drawer when indeed there is no need Benvolio a mice like such a fellow Mercutio come come thou art as hot a jack in thy mood as any in Italy and as soon moved to be Moody and as soon moody to be moved Benvolio and what to Mercutio nay and there were two such we should have none shortly for one would kill the other thou why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less and his beard than thou hast thou will quarrel with a man for cracking nuts having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes what eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling thou hast quarrelled with the man for coughing in the street because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the Sun didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter with another for tying his new shoes with an old ribbond and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling Benvolio and I were so apt to quarrel as thou art any man should buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter Mercutio the fee simple Oh simple Benvolio by my head here come the Capulets Mercutio by my heel I care not enter Thibault and others to bolt follow me close for I will speak to them gentleman good then a word with one of you Mercutio and but one word with one of us couple it with something make it a word and a blow Thibault you shall find me apt enough to that sir and you will give me occasion mercutio could you not take some occasion without giving Thibault Mercutio Falcon sort us with Romeo Mercutio consort what does foul make us minstrels and thou make minstrels of us look to hear nothing but discords here's my fiddlestick here's that shall make you dance zounds consort Benvolio we talk here in the public haunt of men either withdraw unto some private place and reason coldly of your grievances or else depart here all eyes gaze on us Mercutio men's eyes were made to look let them gaze I will not budge for no man's pleasure I tilt well peace be with you sir here comes my man enter Romeo Mercutio but I'll be hanged sir if he wear your livery Mary go before to field he'll be your follower your worship in that sense may call him man Thibault Romeo the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this thou art a villain Romeo Tybalt the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting villain am i none therefore farewell I see thou knowest me not to old boy this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me therefore turn and draw Romeo I do protest I never injured thee but love thee better than thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love and so good Capulet which name I tender as dearly as mine own be satisfied Mercutio o calm dishonourable vile submission Alice Takada carries it away he draws Tibble you ratcatcher will you walk Thibault what wouldst thou have with me Mercutio good king of cats nothing but one of your nine lives that I mean to make bold withal and as you shall use me hereafter dry-beat the rest of the eight will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher by the ears make haste lest mine be about your ears ere it be out Thibault I am for you drawing Romeo gentle Mercutio put thy rapier up Mercutio come sir your passado they fight Romeo draw Benvolio beat down their weapons gentlemen for shame forbear this outrage Tibble Mercutio the Prince expressly hath forbid this bandying in Verona streets hold Tybalt good Mercutio exit to bolt with his partisans Mercutio I am hurt a plague o both your houses I am sped is he gone and hath nothing Benvolio what art thou hurt Mercutio I I a scratch a scratch marry tis enough where is my page go villain fetch a surgeon exit page Romeo courage man the hurt cannot be much Mercutio no tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door but just enough to a serf ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man I am peppered I warrant for this world a plague or both your houses sounds a dog of rat a mouse a cat to scratch a man to death a braggart a rogue a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic why the devil came you between us I was hurt under your arm Romeo I thought off for the best Mercutio help me into some house Benvolio or I shall faint a plague or both your houses they have made worms meat of me I have it and soundly to your houses exit Mercutio and Benvolio Romeo this gentleman the prince's near ally my very friend hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf my reputation stained with Tibble slander doubled that an hour hath been my kinsman o sweet juliet thy beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper soften'd valour's steel reenter been Benvolio o Romeo Romeo brave Mercutio's dead that gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth Romeo this day's black fate on more days doth depend this but begins the woe others must end Benvolio here comes the Furious table back again Romeo alive in triumph and Mercutio slain away to heaven respective lenity and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now reenter Tibbals now ii will take the villain back again that late thou gavest me for Mercutio's soul is but a little way above our heads staying for thine to keep him company either thou or I or both must go with him Thibault thou wretched boy that didst consort him here shalt with him hence Romeo this shall determine that they fight Thibault Falls Benvolio Romeo away be gone the citizens are up and Tybalt slain stand not amaz'd the prince will doom thee death if thou art taken hence be gone away Romeo o fortunes fool Benvolio why just ah stay exit Romeo enter citizens etc citizen one which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio Thibault that murderer which way ran he Benvolio there lies that Tybalt citizen one up sir go with me I charge thee in the Prince's name obey enter Prince attended Montague Capulet their wives and others Prince where are the vile beginners of this fray Benvolio o noble Prince I can discover all the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl there lies the man slain by young Romeo that slew thy kinsman brave Mercutio Lady Capulet Tybalt my cousin o my brother's child Oh Prince o husband oh the blood is old of my dear kinsman Prince as thou art true for blood of ours shed blood of Montague Oh cousin cousin Prince Benvolio who began this bloody fray Benvolio Tybalt here slain whom Romeo's hand did slay Romeo that spoke him fair bid him bethink how nice the quarrel was and urged withal your high displeasure all this uttered with gentle breath calm look knees humbly bowed could not take truce with the unruly spleen of Tybalt deaf to peace but that he tilts with piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast who all's hot turns deadly point to point and with a martial scorn with one hand beats cold death aside and what the other sends it back to Thibault whose dexterity retorts it Romeo he cries aloud hold friends friends part and swifter than his tongue his agile arm beats down their fatal points and twixt them rushes underneath who's armed and envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life of stout Mercutio and then table fled but by-and-by comes back to romeo who had but newly entertain'd revenge and to it they go like lightning for ere I could draw to part them was stout tybalt slain and as he fell did Romeo turn and fly this is the truth or let Benvolio die Lady Capulet he is a kinsman to the Montague affection makes him false he speaks not true some twenty of them fought in this black strife and all those twenty could but kill one life I beg for justice which thou Prince must give Romeo slew Tybalt Romeo Must Not live Prince Romeo slew him he slew Mercutio who now the price of his dear blood doth owe Montague not Romeo Prince he was Mercutio's friend his fault concludes but what the law should end the life of two old prince and for that offense immediately we do exile him hence I have an interest in your hates proceeding my blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding but I'll immerse you with so strong a fine that you shall all repent the of mine I will be deaf to pleading and excuses nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses therefore use none that Romeo hence in haste else when he is found that hour is his last bear hence this body and attend our will mercy but murders pardoning those that kill exit end of scene one scene to a room in Capulets house enter Juliet Juliet gallop apace you fiery-footed steeds toward phoebus's lodging such a Wagoner as Phaeton would whip you to the west and bring in cloudy night immediately spread thy close curtain loved performing night that rude eyes may wink and romeo leap to these arms untalked of an unseen lovers can see to do their amorous rites by their own beauties or if love be blind at best agrees with night come civil night thou sober suited matron all in black and learned me how to lose a winning match played for a pair of unstained maiden hoods hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks with thy black mantle till strange love grown bold think true love acted simple modesty come night come Romeo come thou day and night for that woods lie upon the wings of night whiter the new snow upon a Ravens back come gentle night come loving black-brow'd night give me my romeo and when he shall die take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish Sun oh I have bought the mansion of a love but not possess'd it and though I am sold not yet enjoyed so tedious is this day as is the night before some festival to an impatient child that hath new robes and may not wear them oh here comes my nurse and she brings news and every tongue that speaks but Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence enter nurse with cords now nurse what news what hath saw there the chords that Romeo bid thee fetch nurse i-ight the cords throws them down Juliet o me what news why does suffering thy hands nurse o well-a-day he's dead he's dead he's dead we're undone lady we are undone alack the day he's gone he's kill'd he's dead Juliet can heaven be so envious nurse Romeo can though heaven cannot oh Romeo Romeo who ever would have thought it Romeo Juliet what devil art thou the dust torment me thus this torture should be roar'd in dismal hell hath Romeo slain himself say thou but I and that bear vowel I shall poison more than the death darting eye of a cockatrice I am NOT I if there be such an eye or those eyes shut that makes the answer i if he be slain say I or if not no brief sounds determine of my weal or woe nurse I saw the wound I saw it with mine eyes God saved the mark here on his manly breast a piteous Corse a bloody piteous Corse pale pale as ashes all be dobbed in blood all in gore blood I swooned it at the sight Juliet oh break my heart poor bankrupt break it once to prison eyes never look on Liberty vile earth to earth resign end motion here and thou and Romeo press one heavy bier nurse Oh table table the best friend I had o courteous Tybalt honest gentleman that ever I should live to see thee dead Juliet what storm is this that blows so contrary is romeo slaughter'd and his Tibble dead my dear loved cousin and my dearer Lord then dreadful trumpet sound the general doom for who is living if those two are gone nurse tibalt is gone and Romeo banished Romeo that kill'd him he is banished Juliet Oh God did Romeo's hand she'd Tybalt's blood nurse it did it did alas the day it did Juliet o serpent heart hid with a flowering face did ever Dragon keep so fair a cave beautiful tyrant fiend angelical dove feathered Raven wolfish ravening lamb despises substance of divinest show just opposite to what thou justly seem'st a damned Saint an honourable villain o nature what hadst thou to do in Hell without its Bower the spirit of a fiend in mortal paradise of such sweet flesh was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound o that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace nurse there is no trust no faith no honesty and men all perjured all forsworn all naught all dissemblers oh where's my man give me some aqua vitae these griefs these woes these sorrows make me old shame come to Romeo Juliet blistered be thy tongue for such a wish he was not born to shame upon his brow shame is a shame to set which is a throne where honour may be crown'd sole monarch of the universal earth oh what a beast was I too chided him nurse will you speak well of him that killed your cousin Juliet shall I speak ill of him that is my husband poor my lord what tongue shall smooth thy name when i thy three-hours wife have mangled it but wherefore villain didst thou kill my cousin that villain cousin would have kill'd my husband back foolish tears back to your native spring your tributary drops belong to woe which you mistaking offer up to joy my husband lives that TIMIT would have slain and tilts dead that would have slain my husband all this is Comfort wherefore we buy them some word there was wear to than Tibbals death that murderd me I would forget it fain but oh it presses to my memory like damned guilty deeds to sinners minds tibalt is dead and Romeo banished that banished that one word banished hath slain ten thousand Tibbits Tibbits death was woe enough if it had ended there or ifs our woe delights in fellowship and needly will be rank'd with other griefs why followed not when she said Tibbles dead thy father or thy mother nay which modern lamentation might have moved but with a rearward following two bolts death Romeo is banished to speak that word is father mother table romeo juliet all slain all dead Romeo is banished there is no end No Limit measure bound in that words death no words can that woes sound where is my father and my mother nurse nurse weeping and wailing over temples course will you go to them I will bring you thither Juliet wash they his wounds with tears mine shall be spent when theirs are dry for Romeo's banishment take up those cords poor ropes you were beguiled both you and I for Romeo is exiled he made you for a highway to my bed but I am a dime Aidan widowed Conchords come nurse I'll to my wedding bed and death Romeo take my Maidenhead nurse high to your chamber I'll find Romeo to comfort you i wot well where he is Harkey yo Romeo will be here at night out to him he is hid at Laurence a cell Juliet Oh find him give this ring to my true knight and bid him come to take his last farewell exit end of scene to scene three friar Laurence's cell enter Friar Laurence friar Romeo come forth fourth official man affliction is enamour'd of thy parts and thou art wedded to calamity and to Romeo Romeo father what news what is the Prince's doom what sorrow craves acquaintance at my hands that I yet know not friar too familiar is my dear son with such sour company I bring thee tidings of the princes doom Romeo what less than doomsday is the prince's doom friar a gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips not body's death but body's banishment Romeo ha banishment be merciful say death for exile hath more terror in his look what's more than death do not say banishment friar hence from Verona art thou banished be patient for the world is broad and wide Romeo there is no world without Verona walls but purgatory torture Hell itself hence banished is banished from the world and world's exile is death then banished is death Mis term calling death banishment thou cuttest my head off with a golden axe and smilest upon the stroke that murders me friar o deadly sin o rude unthankfulness thy fault our law calls death but the kind prince taking thy part hath brushed aside the law and turned that black word death to banishment this is dear mercy and thou seest it not Romeo tis torture and not mercy heaven is here where Juliet lives and every cat and dog and little mouse every unworthy thing live here in heaven and may look on her but Romeo may not more validity more honourable state more courtship lives in carrion flies than Romeo they may seize on the white wonder of Juliet's hand and steal immortal blessing from her lips who even in pure and Vestal modesty still blush as thinking their own kisses sin but Romeo may not he is banished this mayflies to when i from this must lie and say us thou that exile is not death has thou no poison mix no sharp ground knife no sudden mean of death though ne'er so mean but banished to kill me banished o friar the damned use that word in Hell howlings attended how hast thou the heart being a divine a ghostly confessor a sin absolve er and my friend profess'd to mangle me with that word banishment friar the Fond madman hear me speak a little Romeo o that will speak again of banishment friar I'll give the armour to keep off that word adversity's sweet milk philosophy to comfort thee though thou art banished Romeo yet banished hang up philosophy unless philosophy can make a juliet just plant a town reverse a prince's doom it helps not it prevails not talk no more friar o then I see that madmen have no ears Romeo how should they when that wise men have no eyes friar let me dispute of the of thy estate Romeo thou canst not speak of that thou does not feel worth thou as young as I Juliet thy love an hour but married Tybalt murdered doting like me and like me banished then mightst I'll speak then mightst thou tear thy hair and fall upon the ground as I do now taking the measure of an unmade grave knocking within friar arise when knocks good Romeo hide thyself Romeo not I unless the breath of heartsick groans mist-like infold me from the search of eyes knocking friar hark how they knock who's there Romeo arise I won't be taken stay awhile stand up knocking Brenda my study by-and-by God's will what simple this is this I come I come knocking who knocks so hard whence come you what's your will nurse within let me come in and you shall know my errand I come from Lady Juliet friar welcome then enter nurse nurse o holy friar o tell me holy fire where is my lady's Lord where's Romeo friar there on the ground with his own tears made drunk nurse o he is even in my mistress case just in her case friar o woeful sympathy piteous predicament nurse even so lies she blubbering and weeping weeping and blubbering stand up stand up stand and you be a man for Juliet's sake for her sake rise and stand why should you fall into so deep an o Romeo nurse nurse ah sir Oh sir well deaths and of all Romeo spakest I love Juliet how is it with her doth not she think me an old murderer now I have stained the childhood of our joy with blood removed but little from her own where is she and how does she and what says my conceal'd lady to our canceled love nurse oh she says nothing sir but weeps and weeps and now falls on her bed and then starts up and Tybalt calls and then on Romeo cries and then down falls again Romeo as if that name shot from the deadly level of a gun did murder her as that names cursed hand murderd her kinsman Oh tell me friar tell me in what vile part of this Anatomy doth my name Lodge tell me that I may sack the hateful mansion drawing his sword friar hold thy desperate hand art thou a man thy form cries out thou art thy tears are womanish thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast unseemly woman in a seeming man or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both thou hast amazed me by my holy order I thought thy disposition better temper'd hast thou slain tilt wilt thou slay thyself and slay thy lady to that lives in thee by doing damned hate upon thyself why rayless talon thy birth the heaven and earth since birth and heaven and earth all three do meet in D at once which thou at once would sloughs fie fie sheamus thighs shape thy love thy wit which like a usurer abounded in all and uses none in that true use indeed which should be deck thy shape thy love thy wit thy noble shape is but a form of wax digressing from the valour of a man the eye dear love sworn but hollow perjury killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish thy wit that ornament to shape and love misshapen in the conduct of them both like powder in a skill list soldier's flask is set afire by thine own ignorance and thou dismembered with thine own defence what rouse thee man thy Juliet is alive for whose dear sake that was but lately dead there thou art happy tilt would kill thee but thou Lewis tabled there thou art happy to the law that threatens death becomes thy friend and turns it to exile there art thou happy a pack of blessings lights upon thy back happiness courts thee in her best array but like a misbehavin and sullen wench thou pow dust upon thy fortune and thy love take heed take heed for such die miserable go get thee to thy love as was decreed ascend her chamber hence and comfort her but look thou stay not till the watch be set for then thou canst not pass to Mantua where thou shalt live till we can find a time to blaze your marriage reconcile your friends beg pardon of the prince and call thee back with twenty hundred thousand times more joy than thou went'st forth in lamentation go before nurse commend me to thy lady and bid her hasten all the house to bed which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto Romeo is coming nurse o Lord I could have stayed here all the night to hear Good Counsel o what learning is my lord I'll tell my lady you will come Romeo do so and did my sweet prepare to chide nurse here sir a ring she bid me give you sir high you make haste for it grows very late exit Romeo how well my comfort is revived by this friar go hence goodnight and here stands all your state either be gone before the watch be set or by the break of day disguised from hence sojourn in Mantua I'll find out your man and he shall signify from time to time every good HAP to you that chance this year give me thy hand tis late farewell good night Romeo but that a joy past joy calls out on me it were a grief so brief to part with the farewell exit end of scene 3 scene 4 a room in Capulets house enter Capulet Lady Capulet in Paris Capulet things have fallen out sir so unluckily that we have had no time to move our daughter lookyou she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly and so did I well we were born to die tis very late she'll not come down tonight I promise you but for your company I would have been Abed an hour ago Paris these times of woe afford no tune to woo madam good night commend me to your daughter Lady Capulet I will and know her mind early tomorrow tonight she's mute up to her heaviness Capulet sir Paris I will make a desperate tender of my child's love I think she will be ruled in all respects by me nay more I doubt it not wife go you to her ere you go to bed acquaint her here of my son Paris's love and bid her mark you me on Wednesday next but soft what day is this Paris Monday my lord Capulet Monday ah well Wednesday is too soon Thursday let it be a Thursday tell her she shall be married to this noble Earl will you be ready do you like this haste will keep no great ado a friend or two for her q-tip being slain so late it may be thought we held him carelessly being our kinsman if we revel much therefore will have some half-a-dozen friends they're an end but what say you to Thursday Paris my lord I would that Thursday were tomorrow Capulet well get you gone a Thursday be it then go you to Juliet ere you go to bed prepare her wife against this wedding-day farewell my lord light to my chamber ho a for me it is so very very late that we may call it early by-and-by good night exit scene 5 an open gallery 2 Juliet's chamber overlooking the garden enter Romeo and Juliet Juliet wilt thou be gone it is not yet near day it was the nightingale and not the Lark that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree believe me love it was the nightingale Romeo it was the Lark The Herald of the morn no nightingale look love what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder East nights candles are burnt out and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops I must be gone and live or stay and die Juliet John's light is not daylight I know it I it is some meteor that the sun exhales to be to thee this night a torchbearer and light thee on the way to Mantua therefore stay yet thou needst not to be gone Romeo let me be taken let me be put to death I am content so thou wilt have it so I'll say yon gray is not the mornings eye tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow nor that is not the Lark whose notes do beat the vaulty heaven so high above our heads I have more care to stay than will to go come death and welcome Juliet wills it so how is it my soul let's talk it is not day Juliet it is it is high hence be gone away it is a Lark that sings so out of tune straining the harsh discords and unpleasing sharps some say the Lark makes sweet division this stuff not so for she divideth us some say the Lark and loathe toad change eyes oh now I would they had changed voices - since arm from arm that voice death aasif ray hunting the hens with hunts up to the day oh now be gone more light and light it grows romeo more light and light more dark and dark our woes enter nurse nurse madam julia nurse nurse your lady mother is coming to your chamber the dais broke be wary look about exit Juliet then window let day in and that life out Romeo farewell farewell one kiss and I'll descend descends Juliet art thou gone so my lord my love my friend I must hear from the everyday in the hour for in a minute there are many days o by this count I shall be much in years ere I again behold my Romeo Romeo farewell I will omit note opportunity that may convey my greetings love to thee Juliet o thinkest thou we shall ever meet again Romeo I doubt it not and all these woes shall serve for sweet discourses in our time to come Juliet oh god i have an ill-divining soul methinks I see thee now thou art below is one dead in the bottom of a tomb either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale Romeo and trust me love in my eye so do you dry sorrow drinks our blood adieu adieu exit below Juliet Oh fortune fortune all men call thee fickle if thou art fickle what dost thou with him that is renowned for faith be fickle fortune for them I hope that will not keep him long but send him back Lady Capulet within Oh daughter are you up Juliet who is it that calls is it my lady mother is she not down so late or up so early what unaccustom'd cause procures her hither enter Lady Capulet Lady Capulet why how now Juliet Juliet madam I am NOT well lady capulet evermore weeping for your cousin's death what wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears and if thou couldst I'll Cris not make him live therefore hath done some grief shows much of love but much of Greece shows still someone to whet Juliet yet let me wait for such a feeling loss Lady Capulet so shall you feel the loss but not the friend which you weep for Juliet feeling so the loss I cannot choose but ever weep the friend Lady Capulet well girl that weepest not so much for his death as that the villain lives which slaughter'd him Juliet what villain madam Lady Capulet that same villain Romeo Juliet villain and he may be many miles asunder God pardon him I do with all my heart and yet no man like he doth grieve my heart Lady Capulet that is because the traitor murderer lives Juliet I Madam from the reach of these my hands would none but I might venge my cousin's death Lady Capulet we will have vengeance for it fear thou not then weep no more I'll send to one in Mantua where that same banish'd runagate doth live shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram that he shall soon keep tybalt company and then I hope that will be satisfied Juliet indeed I never shall be satisfied with Romeo till I behold him dead is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed madam if you could find out but a man to bear a poison I would temper it that Romeo should upon receipt thereof soon sleep and quiet oh how my heart abhors to hear him named and cannot come to him to wreak the love I bore my cousin Tybalt upon his body that has slaughtered him Lady Capulet find though the means and I'll find such a man but now I'll tell thee joyful tidings girl Juliet and joy comes well in such a needy time what are they I beseech your ladyship Lady Capulet well well thou hast a careful father child one who to put thee from thy heaviness hath sorted out a sudden day of joy that thou expect us not nor i look'd not for Juliet madam in happy time what day is that Lady Capulet marry my child early next Thursday morn the gallant young and Noble gentleman the county Paris at st. Peter's Church shall happily make thee there a joyful bride Juliet now by st. Peter's Church and Peter too he shall not make me there a joyful bride I wonder at this haste that I must Wed ere he that should be husband comes to woo I pray you tell my Lord and father madam I will not marry yet and when I do I swear it shall be Romeo whom you know I hate rather than Paris these are news indeed Lady Capulet here comes your father tell him so yourself and see how he will take it at your hands enter Capulet and nurse Capulet when the Sun sets the air doth drizzle do but for the sunset of my brother's son it rains down right how now a conduit girl what still in tears evermore showering in one little body thou counter fittest a bark a sea a wind for still thy eyes which I may call the sea to ebb and flow with tears the bark thy body is sailing in this salt flood the winds thy sighs who raging with thy tears and they with them without a sudden calm will overset thy tempest-tossed body how now wife have you delivered to her our decree Lady Capulet I sir but she will none she gives you thanks I would the fool were married to her grave Capulet soft take me with you take me with you wife how will she none does she not give us thanks is she not proud does she not count her blest unworthy as she is that we have wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom Juliet not proud you have but thankful that you have proud can I never be of what I hate but thankful even for hate that is meant love Capulet how now how now chopped logic what is this proud and I thank you and I thank you not and not proud mistress minion you thank me no thankings nor proud me no prouds but fettle your fine joints against Thursday next to go with Paris to st. Peter's Church or I will drag the unheard Allah there out you green sickness carrion out you baggage you tallow face lady capulet fie fie what are you mad Juliet good father I beseech you on my knees hear me with patience but to speak a word Capulet hang thee young baggage disobedient wretch I tell thee what got thee to church on Thursday or never after look me in the face speak not reply not do not answer me my fingers itch wife we scarce thought us blest that God had learned about this only child and now I see this one is one too much and that we have a curse in having her I would on her Hilding nurse God in heaven bless her you were to blame my lord to rate her so Capulet and why my lady wisdom holds your tongue good prudence s'matter with your gossips go nurse I speak no treason Capulet o God ye good den nurse may not one speak Capulet peace you mumbling fool utter your gravity or a gossips Bowl for here we need it not Lady Capulet you are too hot Capulet God's bread it makes me mad day night hour time tide work play alone and company still my care hath been to have her matched and having now provided a gentleman of noble parentage a fair domain youthful and nobly train'd stuff'd as they say with honourable parts proportioned as one's heart would wish a man and then to have a wretched puling fool a whining madman in her fortunes tender to answer I'll not wed i cannot love i am too young i pray you pardon me but then you will not wed I'll pardon you Bray's where you will you shall not house with me look to it think on it I do not use to jest Thursday is near lay hand on heart advice and you be mine I'll give you to my friend and you be not hang beg starve die in the streets for by my soul I'll ne'er acknowledge thee for what is mine shall narrow do thee good trust to it be thank you I'll not be forsworn exit Juliet is there no pity sitting in the clouds that see into the bottom of my grief oh sweet my mother cast me not away to lay this marriage for a month a week or if you do not make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies Lady Capulet talk not to me for I'll not speak a word do as thou wilt for I have done with me excite Juliet Oh God Oh nurse how shall this be prevented my husband is on earth my faith in heaven how shall that faith return again to earth unless that husband send me from heaven by leaving earth comfort me counsel me alack alack that heaven should practise stratagems upon so soft a subject as myself what sayest thou hast thou not a word of joy some comfort nurse nurse faith here tis Romeo is banished and all the world to nothing that he dares never come back to challenge you or if he do it needs must be myself then since the case so stands as now it doth I think it best you married with the county oh he's a lovely gentleman Romeo's a dish-clout to him an eagle madam hath not so green so quick so fair an eye as Paris hath bee shrew my very heart I think you are happy in this second match for it excels your first or if it did not your first is dead or twere as good he were as living here and you no use of him Juliet speakest thou this from my heart nurse and from my soul too or else be through them both Juliet amen nurse what Juliet well thou hast comforted me marvellous much go in and tell my lady I am gone having just please father to Lawrence's cell to make confession and to be absolved nurse Mary I will and this is wisely done exit Juliet ancient damnation almost wicked fiend is more sin to wish me thus forsworn or to dispraise My Lord with that same tongue which she hath praised him with above compare so many thousand times go counselor thou and my bosom henceforth shall be Twain out to the friar to know his remedy if all else fail myself have power to die exit end of scene five end of Act three this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by becky crackle canal Winchester Ohio this is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Act four scene one friar Laurence's cell enter Friar Laurence and Paris friar on Thursday sir the time is very short Paris my father Capulet will have it so and I am nothing slow to slack his haste friar you say you do not know the lady's mind uneven is the course I like it not Paris immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death and therefore have I little talk'd of love for Venus smiles not in a house of Tears now sir her father counts it dangerous that she do give her sorrow so much sway and in his wisdom Haste's our marriage to stop the inundation of her tears which too much minded by herself alone may be put from her by society now do you know the reason of this haste friar aside I would I knew not why it should be slowed look sir here comes the lady toward my cell enter Juliet Paris happily met my lady and my wife Julia that may be sir when I may be a wife Parris that may be must be love on Thursday Next Juliet what must be shall be friar that's a certain text Paris come you to make confession to this father Julia to answer that I should confess to you Paris do not deny to him that you love me Julia I will confess to you that I love him Paris so will ye I am sure that you love me Juliet if I do so it will be of more price being spoke behind your back than to your face Paris poor soul thy face is much abused with tears Juliet the tears have got small victory by that for it was bad enough before their spite Paris thou wrong'st did more than tears with that report Juliet that is no slander sir which is a truth and what I spake I spake it to my face Paris they face his mind and now has slandered it Juliet it may be so for it is not mine own are you at leisure Holy Father now or shall I come to you at evening Mass friar my leisure serves me pensive daughter now my lord we must entreat the time alone Paris God shield I should disturb devotion Juliet on Thursday early will I rouse you till then I do and keep this holy kiss exit Juliet oh shut the door and when thou hast done so come weep with me past hope past cure past help friar Oh Juliet I already know thy grief it strains me past the compass of my wits I hear thou must and nothing may prorogue it on Thursday Next be married to this County Juliet tell me not friar that thou hearest of this unless thou tell me how I may prevent it if in thy wisdom thou canst give no help do thou but call my resolution wise and with this knife I'll help it presently God joined my heart and romeo's our hands and air this hand by DT Romeo seald shall be the label to another deed or my true heart with treacherous revolt turned to another this shall slay them both therefore out of thy long experience time give me some present counsel or behold twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife shall play the empire arbitrating that which the commission of the years an art could to no issue of true honour bring be not so long to speak I long to die if what thou speakest speak not of remedy friar hold daughter I do spy a kind of Hope which craves us desperate and execution as that is desperate which we would prevent if rather than to marry county paris thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself then it is likely that would undertake a thing like death to chide away the shame that cops with death himself to scape from it and if thou darest I will give thee remedy Juliet oh bid me leap rather than marry Paris from off the battlements of yonder tower or walk in thievish ways or bid me lurk where serpents are chain me with roaring bears or shut me nightly in a charnel-house or covered quite with dead men's rattling bones with reeky shanks and yellow Chapel as skulls or bid me go into a new-made grave and hide me with a dead man in his shroud things that to hear them told have made me tremble and I will do it without fear or doubt to live an unstained wife to my sweet love friar hold then go home be merry give consent to marry Paris Wednesday is tomorrow tomorrow night look that thou lie alone let not thy nurse lie with thee in my chamber take thou this vial being then in bed and this distilled liquor drink thou off when presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour for no pulse shall keep his native progress but surcease no warmth no breath shall testify thou livest the roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade too Asha's my eyes windows fall like death when he shuts up the day of life each part deprived of supple government shall stiff and Stark and cold appear like death and in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death thou shalt continue two and forty hours and then awake as from a pleasant sleep now when the bridegroom in the morning comes to rouse thee from thy bed there art thou dead then as the matter of our country is in thy best robes uncovered on the bier thou shalt be born to that same ancient vault where all the kindred of the capulets lie in the meantime against thou shalt awake shall Romeo by my letters know our drift and hither shall he come and he and I will watch thy waking and that very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua and this shall free thee from this present shame if no inconstant toy nor womanish fear abate thy valour in the acting it Juliet give me give me Oh tell not me of fear friar hold get you gone be strong and prosperous in this resolve I'll send a friar with speed to Mantua with my letters to thy Lord Juliet love give me strength and strength shall help afford farewell dear father exit end of scene 1 scene 2 Hall in Capulets house enter Capulet Lady Capulet nurse and servants Capulet so many guests invite as here our writ exit first servant sir ah go hire me 20 cunning cooks second servant you shall have none ill sir for I'll try if they can lick their fingers Capulet how canst thou try them so second servant marry search is a nil cook that cannot lick his own fingers therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me Capulet go begone exit second servant we shall be much unfurnished for this time what is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence nurse I forsooth Capulet well be a chance to do some good on her a peevish self-willed harlotry it is nurse see where she comes from shrift with merry look enter Juliet Capulet how now my headstrong where have you been gadding Juliet where I have learned me to repent the sin of disobedient opposition to you and your behalf and I'm enjoined by holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here to beg your pardon pardon I beseech you henceforward I am ever ruled by you Capulet send for the County go tell him of this I'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning Juliet I met the youthful Lord at Lawrence's cell and gave him what becomes love I might not stepping or the bounds of modesty Capulet why I am glad on it this is well stand up this is as it should be let me see the county I am Mary go I say and fetch him hither now afford God this revered holy friar all our whole city is much bound to him Juliet nurse will you go with me into my closet to help me sort such needful ornaments as you think fit to furnish me tomorrow Lady Capulet no not till Thursday there's time enough Capulet go nurse go with her will to church tomorrow exit Juliet and nurse Lady Capulet we shall be short in our provision tis now near night Capulet tush I will stir about and all things shall be well I warrant thee wife go thou to Juliet help to deck up her I'll not to bed tonight let me alone I'll play the housewife for this once what how they're all forth well I will walk myself to county Paris to prepare him up against tomorrow my hardest wonder slight since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed exit end of scene to scene three Juliet's chamber enter Juliet and nurse Juliet I those attires our best but gentle nurse I pray thee leave me to myself tonight for I have need of many orisons to move to heavens to smile upon my state which well thou knowest cross and full of sin enter Lady Capulet Lady Capulet what are you busy ho need you my help Juliet no madam we have cull'd such necessaries as are be hopeful for our state tomorrow 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 sudden business Lady Capulet good night get thee to bed and rest for thou hast need exit Lady Capulet and nurse Juliet farewell God knows when we shall meet again I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins that almost freezes up the heat of life I'll call them back again to comfort me nurse Oh what should she do here my dismal scene I needs must act alone come vile what if this mixture do not work at all shall I be married then tomorrow morning no no this she'll forbid it lie thou there laying down her dagger what if it be a poison which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead list in this marriage he should be dishonoured because he married me before to Romeo I fear it is and yet methinks it should not for he hath still been tried a holy man I will not entertain so bad a thought how if when I am laid into the tomb I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me there's a fearful point shall I not then be stifled in the vault - whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in and there die strangled ere my Romeo comes or if I live is it not very like the horrible conceit of death and night together with the terror of the place as in a vault an ancient receptacle where for this many hundred years the bones of all my buried ancestors are packed we're bloody Tibble yet but Green and earth lies festering in his shroud where as they say at some hours in the night spirits resort alack alack is it not like that I so early waking what with loathsome smells and shrieks like Mandrake's torn out of the earth that living mortals hearing them run mad oh if I wake shall I not be distraught environed with all these hideous fears and madly play with my forefathers joints and pluck the mangled tilt from his shroud and in this rage with some great kinsman's bone as what the club - out my desperate brains oh look methinks I see my cousin's ghost seeking out Romeo that did spit his body upon a rapiers point stay Tibble stay Romeo I come this do I drink to thee throws herself on the bed end of scene 3 scene 4 Hall in Capulets house enter Lady Capulet and nurse Lady Capulet hold take these keys and fetch more spices nurse nurse they call for dates and quinces in the pantry enter Capulet Capulet come stir stir stir ii hath crowed the curfew Bell hath rung just three o'clock look to the baked meats good Angelica spare not for cost nurse go you queen go get you to bed faith you'll be sick tomorrow for this nights watching Capulet no not a whit what I have watched ere now how all night for lesser cause and there been sick Lady Capulet I you have been a mouse hunt in your time but I will watch you from such watching now exit Lady Capulet and nurse Capulet a jealous hood a jealous hood now fellow enter servants with Spitz logs and baskets what's there servant one thing's for the cook sir but I know not what Capulet make haste make haste exit servant one surah' fetched drier logs call Peter he will show thee where they are second servant I have a head sir that will find out logs and never trouble Peter for the matter exit Capulet Mass and well said a merry horse and ha thou shalt be loggerhead good faith Tuesday the county will be here with music straight for so he said he would I hear him near music within nurse wife what oh what nurse I say re-enter nurse go waken Juliet go and trim her up I'll go and chat with Paris hi make haste make haste the bridegroom he has come already make haste I say exit end of scene for scene 5 Juliet's chamber Juliet on the bed enter nurse mistress what mistress Juliet fast I warrant her she while my lady fie you Slugabed why love I say madam sweetheart why bride what not a word you take your penny Worth's now sleep for a week for the next night I warrant the County Paris hath set up his rest that you shall rest but little God forgive me Mary and all men how sound is she asleep I must needs wake her madam madam madam I let the county take you in your bed he'll Fright you up in faith will it not be what dressed and in your clothes and down again I must needs wake you lady lady lady alas alas help help my lady's dead oh what a day than ever I was born some aquavit a ho my lord my lady enter Lady Capulet Lady Capulet what noise is here nurse o lamentable day Lady Capulet what is the matter nurse look look o heavy day Lady Capulet o me o me my child my only life revive look up rival die with thee help help call help enter Capulet Capulet for shame bring love Juliet forth her Lord has come nurse she's dead deceased she's dead alack the day Lady Capulet alack the day she's dead she's dead she's dead Capulet ha let me see her out alas she's cold her blood is settled and her joints her stiff life and these lips have long been separated death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field a sometime unfortunate old man nurse o lamentable day Lady Capulet o woeful time Capulet death that hath taken her hands to make me wail ties up my tongue and will not let me speak enter Friar Laurence and Paris with musicians friar come miss the bride ready to go to church Capulet ready to go but never to return o son the night before thy wedding day hath death lain with thy bride there she lies flower as she was deflowered by him death is my son-in-law death is my heir my daughter he hath wedded I will die and leave him all life living all his deaths Paris have I thought long to see this morning's face and death they give me such a sight as this Lady Capulet a curse and unhappy wretched hateful day most miserable hour that air time saw in lasting labor of his pilgrimage but one poor one one poor and loving child and one thing to rejoice and solace in and cruel death hath catched it from my sight nurse o woeful woeful woeful day most lamentable day most woeful day that ever ever I did yet behold O'Day O'Day O'Day o hateful day never was seen so black a day as this o hopeful day o woeful day paris beguile divorced wronged spidered slain most detestable death by Li beguiled by cruel cruel the quite overthrown o love o life not life but love in death Capulet despised distressed hated martyred killed uncomfortable type I came stone now to murder murder our solemnity Oh child Oh child my soul and not my child dad Arthur dead a Mac my child is dead and with my child my joys are buried briar peace ho for shame confusions cure Leafs not in these confusions heaven and yourself had part in this fair maid now heaven hath all and all the better is that for the maid your part in her you could not keep from death but heaven keeps his part in eternal life the most you sought was her promotion for twas your heaven she should be advanced and weepy now seeing she is advanced above the clouds as high as heaven itself Oh in this love you love your child so ill that you run mad seeing that she as well she's not well married that lives married long but she's best married that dies married young dry up your tears and stick your rosemary on this fair course and as the custom is in all her best array bare her to church for though font nature bids us all lament yet nature's tears our reasons merriment Capulet all things that we ordained festival turn from their office to black funeral our instruments to melancholy bells our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change our bridal flowers serve for a buried course and all things changed them to the contrary friar sir go you in and madam go with him and go sir Paris everyone prepare to follow this fair course under her grave the heavens do lower upon you for some ill move them no more by crossing their high will exit Capulet Lady Capulet Paris and friar first musician faith we may put up our pipes and be gone nurse honest good fellows put up put up for well you know this is a pitiful case exit first musician I by my trouthe the case may be amended enter Peter Peter musicians Oh musicians hearts ease hearts ease and you will have me live play hearts ease first musician why hearts ease Peter Oh musicians because my heart itself plays my heart is full of whoa-oh play me some merry dumped to comfort me first musician not a dump we just no time to play now Peter you will not then first musician no Peter I will then give it you soundly first musician what will you give us Peter no money on my faith but the Gleek I will give you the minstrel first musician then will I give you the serving creature Peter then will I lay the serving creatures dagger on your paint I will carry no crotchets I will Rea you how far you do you note me first musician and you Reyes and Foss you notice second musician pray you put up your dagger and put out your wit Peter then have it you with my wit I will dry beat you with an iron wit and put up my iron dagger answer me like men when griping grief the heart doth wound and doleful dumps the mind oppress the music with her silver sound why silver sound why music with her silver sound what say you Simon Catalan first musician Mary sir because silver hath a sweet sound Peter pretty what say you you've rebec second musician I say silver sound because musicians sound for silver Peter pretty to what say you James sound post third musician faith I know not what to say Peter oh I cry you mercy you are the singer I will say for you it is music with her silver sound because musicians have no gold for sounding then music with her silver sound with speedy help doth lend redress exit first musician what a pestilent knave is this same second musician hang him jack come will in here tarry for the mourner and stay for dinner exit end of scene 5 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by becky crackle canal Winchester Ohio this is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare act 5 scene 1 Mantua a street enter Romeo Romeo if I may trust the flattering I have sleep my dreams presage some joyful news at hand my bosoms Lord sits lightly in his throne and all this day and unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts I dreamt my lady came and found me dead strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think and breathe such life with kisses in my lips that I revived and was an emperor ah me how sweet is love itself possessed when but loves shadows are so rich in joy enter Balthazar news from Verona how now Balthasar dust on out bring the letters from the friar how deaf my lady is my father well how fares my Juliet that I ask again for nothing can be ill if she be well Balthazar then she as well and nothing can be ill her body sleeps in Capel's Monument and her immortal part with angels lives I saw her laid low in her Kindred's vault and presently took post to tell at you oh pardon me for bringing these ill news since you did leave it from my office sir Romeo is even so then I defy you stars thou knowest my lodging get me ink and paper and hire post-horses I will hence tonight Balthazar I do beseech you sir have patience your looks are pale and wild and do import some misadventure Romeo tush thou art deceived leave me and do the thing I bid thee do hast thou no letters to me from the friar Balthasar no my good Lord Romeo no matter get thee gone and hire those horses I'll be with thee straight exit Balthazar well Juliet I will lie with thee tonight let's see for means o mischief thou art Swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men I do remember an apothecary and hereabouts he dwells which late I noted in tattered weeds with overwhelming brows culling of simples meagre were his looks sharp misery had warned him to the bones and in his needy shop a tortoise hung an alligator stuffed and other skins of ill-shaped fishes and about his shelves a beggarly account of empty boxes green earthen pots bladders and musty seeds remnants of pack thread and old cakes of roses were thinly scattered to make up a show noting this penury to myself I said and if a man did need a poison now whose sale is present death in Mantua here lives a Kate of fresh would sell it him oh this same thought did but for run my need and this same needy man must sell at me as I remember this should be the house being holiday the beggar shop is shut what ho apothecary enter apothecary apothecary who calls so loud Romeo come hither man I see that thou art poor hold there is forty ducats let me have a dram of poison such soon speeding gears will disperse itself through all the veins that the life we read taker might fall dead and that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violently as hasty powder furred death hurry from the fatal cannon's womb apothecary such mortal drugs i have but mantua's law is death to any he that utters them romeo art thou so bare and full wretchedness and fierce to die famine is in my cheeks need and oppression starve Athene nine eyes contempt and beggary hangs upon nigh back the world is not thy friend no the world's law the world affords no law to make the rich then be not poor but break it and take this apothecary my poverty but not my will consents Romeo I pay thy poverty and not they will apothecary put this in any liquid thing you will and drink it off and if you had the strength of twenty men it would dispatch you straight Romeo there is thy gold worse poison to men's souls doing more murders in this loathsome world than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell I sell thee poison thou has sold me none farewell buy food and get thy self in flesh come cordial and not poison go with me to Juliet's grave for there must I use the exit end of scene 1 scene 2 friar Lawrence's cell enter friar John friar John holy Franciscan friar brother ho enter Friar Laurence Friar Lawrence this same should be the voice of friar John welcome from Mantua what says Romeo or if his mind be writ give me his letter friar John going to find a barefoot brother out one of our order to associate me here in this city visiting the sick and finding him the searchers of the town suspecting that we both were in a house where the infectious pestilence did reign sealed up the doors it would not let us forth so that my speed to mantua there was stay'd Friar Laurence who bear my letter then to Romeo friar John I could not send it here it is again nor get a messenger to bring it thee so fearful were they of infection Friar Laurence o unhappy fortune by my Brotherhood the letter was not nice but full of charge of dear import and then like collecting it may do much danger friar John go hence get me an iron crow and bring it straight unto my cell friar John brother I'll go and bring it thee exit Friar Lawrence now must I to the monument alone within this three hours will fair Juliet wake she will be through me much that Romeo hath no notice of these accidents but I will write again to Mantua and keep her at my cell till Romeo come poor living course closed in a dead man's tomb exit end of scene to scene three a churchyard in it a monument belonging to the Capulets enter Paris and his page bearing flowers and a torch Paris give me thy torch boy hence and stand aloof yet put it out for I would not be seen under Yann you tree lay thee all along holding thine ear close to the hollow ground so shall no foot upon the churchyard tread being loose unfirm with digging up of graves but thou shalt hear it whistle then to me a signal that thou here is something approached give me those flowers do as I bid thee go page aside I am almost afraid to stand alone here in the churchyard yet I will adventure retires Paris sweet flower with flowers thy bridal bed I strew oh woe thy canopy is dust and stones which with sweet water nightly I will Dew or wanting that with tears distill'd by moans the obsequies that I for thee will keep nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep the page whistles the boy gives warning something doth approach what curse that foot wanders this way tonight to cross my obsequies and true love's write what with a torch muffle me Knight awhile retires enter Romeo and Balthazar with a torch mattock etc Romeo give me that mattock and the wrenching iron hold take this letter early in the morning see thou deliver it to my Lord and father give me the light upon my life I charge thee whatever thou hearest or seest stand all aloof and do not interrupt me in my course why I descend into this bed of death is partly to behold my lady's face but chiefly to take thence from her dead finger a precious ring a ring that I must use in dear employment therefore hence be gone but if thou jealous does return to pry and what I further shall intend to do by heaven I will tear the joint by joint and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs the time and my intents are savage wild more fierce and more inexorable far than empty Tigers or the roaring sea Balthazar I will be gone sir and not trouble you Romeo so shalt thou show me friendship take thou that live and be prosperous and farewell good fellow Balthazar for all the same I'll hide me here about his looks I fear and his intense I doubt retires Romeo thou detestable Maw thou womb of death gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth thus I enforce the rotten jaws to open breaking open the door of the monument and in despite I'll cram Li with more food Paris this is that banished haughty Montague that murdered my love's cousin with which grief it is supposed the fair creature died and here's come to do some villanous shame to the dead bodies I will apprehend him advances stop they on hallowed toil vile montague can vengeance be pursued further than death condemned villain I do apprehend thee obey and go with me for thou must die Romeo I must indeed and therefore came I hither good gentle youth tempt not a desperate man fly Henson leave me think upon these gone let them a fright thee I beseech thee youth put not another sin upon my head by urging me to fury o begone by heaven I love thee better than myself for I come hither armed against myself stay not be gone live and hereafter say a madman's mercy bid the runaway Paris I do defy thy conjurations and that brand thee for a felon here Romeo wilt thou provoke me then have at thee boy they fight page o Lord they fight I will go call the watch exit Paris o him slain Falls if thou be merciful opened the tomb lay me with Juliet he dies Romeo in faith I will let me prove this face Mercutio's kinsman Noble County Paris what said my man when my be tossed soul did not attend him as we rode I think he told me Paris should have married Juliet said he not so or did I dream it so or my mad hearing him talk of Julia to think it was so Oh give me thy hand one writ with me in sour misfortunes book bury thee in a triumphant grave a grave oh no a land horn a slaughtered youth for here lies juliet and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light death lie thou there by a dead man interred laying paris in the monument how oft when men are at the point of death have they been merry which their keepers call a lightning before death o how may I call this a lightning oh my love my wife death that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath no power yet upon thy beauty thou art not conquer'd beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks and deaths pale flag is not advanced there tilt liest thou there in thy bloody sheet Oh what more favor can I do to thee than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain to sunder his that was thine enemy forgive me cousin dear Juliet why art thou yet so fair shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour for fear of that I still will stay with thee and never from this palace of dim night depart again here here will I remain with worms that are thy chambermaids oh here will i set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh eyes look your last arms take your last embrace and lips o you the doors of breath seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death come bitter conduct come unsavoury guide the desperate pilot now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark here's to my love he drinks o true apothecary thy drugs are quick thus with a kiss I die he dies enter at the other end of the churchyard Friar Lawrence with a lantern crow and spade friar st. Francis be my speed how off tonight have my old feet stumbled at graves who's there who is it that consorts so late the dead Balthazar here's one a friend and one that knows you well friar bliss be upon you tell me good my friend what torch is yond that vainly lends his light to grubs and eyeless skulls as I discern it burneth in the Capel's Monument Balthazar it does so wholly sir there's my master one that you love friar who is it Balthazar Romeo friar how long hath he been there Balthazar full half an hour friar go with me to the vault Alfa's are I dare not sir my master knows not but I am gone hence and fearfully did Menace me with death if I did stage a look on his intense friar stay then I'll go alone fear comes upon me o much I fear some ill unlucky thing Balthazar as I did sleep under this yew tree here I dreamt my master in another fought and that my master slew him friar Romeo advances alack alack what blood is this which stains the stony entrance of the Sepulcher what means these masterless and gory swords to lie discolored by this place of peace enters the monument Romeo o pale who else what Paris to and steeped in blood oh what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance the Lady stirs Juliet wakes and stirs Juliet o comfortable friar where is my lord I do remember well where I should be and there I am where is my Romeo noise within friar I hear some noise lady come from that nest of death contagion and unnatural sleep a greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents come come away thy husband in my bosom there lies dead and Paris to come I'll dispose of the among a sisterhood of holy nuns stay not to question for the watch is coming come go good Juliet noises within I dare no longer stay Juliet go get the hands for I will not away exit Friar Laurence what's here a cup closed in my true love's hand poison I see hath been his timeless end o churl drink all and left no friendly drop to help me after I will kiss thy lips haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make me die with a restorative kisses him thy lips are warm first watch within lead boy which way Juliet yeh noise then I'll be brief oh happy dagger snatching Romeo's dagger this is thy sheath stabs herself there rest 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 first watch the ground is bloody search about the churchyard go some of you whoever you find attach accents some of the watch pitiful sight here lies the County slain and Juliet bleeding warm and newly dead who here has lain this two days buried go tell the Prince run to the Capulets raise up the Montagues some others search accent others of the watch we see the ground whereon these woes do lie but the true ground of all these piteous woes we cannot without circumstance descry reenter some of the watch with Balthazar second watch here's Romeo's man we found him in the churchyard first watch hold him in safety till the Prince come hither re-enter others of the watch with Friar Laurence third watch here is a friar that trembles sighs and weeps we took this mattock and this Spade from him as he was coming from this churchyard side first watch a great suspicion stay the friar to enter the prince and attendants Prince what misadventure is so early up that calls our person from our mornings rest enter Capulet Lady Capulet and others Capulet what should it be that they so shriek abroad lady capulet the people in the street cry Romeo some Juliet in some Paris and all run with open outcry toward our Monument Prince what fear is this which startles in our ears first watch sovereign here lies the county Paris slain and Romeo dead and Juliet dead before warm and new killed Prince search seek and know how this foul murder comes first watch here is a friar and slaughter'd romeo's man with instruments upon them fit to open these dead men's tombs Capulet o heaven o wife look how our daughter bleeds this dagger hath mistaken for lo his house is empty on the back of Montague and it miss sheathed and my daughter's bosom Lady Capulet owe me this sight of death is as a bell that warns my old age to a Sepulchre enter Montague and others Prince come Montague for thou art early up to see thy son and heir more early down Montague alas my liege my wife is dead tonight grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath what further woe conspires against mine age Prince look and thou shalt see Montague Oh thou untaught what manners is in this to press before thy father to a grave Prince seal up the mouth of outrage for a while till we can clear these ambiguities and know their spring their head their true descent and then will I be general of your woes and lead you even to death meantime forbear and let miss chance be slaved to patience bring forth the parties of suspicion friar I am the greatest able to do least yet most suspected as the time and place doth make against me of this direful murder and here I stand both to impeach and purge myself condemned and myself excused Prince then say it once without us know in this fryer I will be brief for my short date of breath is not so long as is a tedious tale Romeo there Dead was husband to that Juliet and she there dead that Romeo's faithful wife I married them and their stolen marriage day was Tibbals doomsday whose untimely death banish'd the new-made bridegroom from this city for whom and not for Thibault Juliet pined you to remove that siege of grief from her betrothed and would have married her perforce to County Paris then comes she to me and with wild looks bid me devise some means to rid her from the second marriage or in my cell there she would kill herself then gave I her so tutored by my art a sleeping potion which so took effect as I intended for it wrought on her the form of death meantime I writ to Romeo that he should hither come as the Steyr night to help to take her from her borrowed grave being the time the potion's force should cease but he which bore my letter friar John was stayed by accident and yesternight return'd my letter back then all alone at the prefixed hour of her waking came I to take her from her Kindred's vault meaning to keep her closely at my cell till I conveniently could send to Romeo but when I came submitted ere the time of her awaking here untimely lay the noble Paris and true Romeo dead she wakes and I entreated her come forth and bear this work of heaven with patience but then a noise did scare me from the tomb and she too desperate would not go with me but as it seems did violence on herself all this I know and to the marriage her nurse's privy and if aught in this miscarried by my fault that my old life be sacrificed some hour before his time unto the rigour of Severus law Prince we still have known me for a holy man where's Romeo's man what can he say in this Balthazar I brought my master news of Juliet's death and then in post he came from Mantua to this same place to this same monument this letter he early bid me give his father and threatened me with death going in the vault if I departed not and left him there Prince give me the letter I will look on it where is the county's page that raised the watch sir ah what made your master in this place boy he came with flowers to strew his lady's grave and bid me stand aloof and so I did anon comes one with light to open the tomb and by and by my master drew on him and that I ran away to call the watch Prince this letter doth make good the Friars words their course of love the tidings of her death and here he writes that he did buy a poison of a poor pathi carry and therewithal came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet where be these enemies Capulet Montague see what a scourge is laid upon your hate that heaven finds means to kill your Joy's with love and I for winking at your discords to have lost a brace of kinsmen all are punished Capulet o brother Montague give me thy hand this is my daughter's jointure for no more can I demand Montague but I can give thee more for I will raise her statue in pure gold that while Verona by that name is known there shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet Capulet as rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie poor sacrifices of our enmity Prince a glooming peace this morning with it brings the Sun for sorrow will not show his head go hence to have more talk of these sad things some shall be pardoned and some punished for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo exit end of act 5 end of Romeo and Juliet recorded by Becky crackle canal Winchester Ohio 2006