Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead; To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, The horrible conceit of death and night, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, So early waking-what with loathsome smells; (1) The fabulous accounts of the plant called mandrake give it a degree of animal life, and say that when it is torn from the ground it groans, which is fatal to him that pulls it up. (2) Distracted. Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee. [She throws herself on the bed. SCENE IV-Capulet's hall. Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse. La. Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Enter Capulet. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, The curfeu bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:-- Spare not for cost. Nurse. Go, go, you cot-quean, go, Get you to bed; 'faith, you'll be sick to-morrow For this night's watching. Cap. No, not a whit; What! I have watch'd ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt? in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!—Now, fellow, What's there? Enter Servants, with spits, logs, and baskets. 1 Serv. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit Serv.]— Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. (1) The room where pies were made. (2) Mouse was a term of endearment to a woman. And never trouble Peter for the matter. [Exit. Cap. 'Mass, and well said; A merry whoreson! ha, Thou shalt be logger-head.-Good faith, 'tis day: The county will be here with music straight, [Music within. For so he said he would. I hear him near :Nurse!-Wife!--what, ho!—what, nurse, I say! Enter Nurse. Go, waken Juliet, go, and trim her up; I'll go and chat with Paris:-Hie, make haste, Make haste! the bridegroom he is come already: Make haste, I say! [Exeunt, SCENE V-Juliet's chamber; Juliet on the bed. Enter Nurse. Nurse. Mistress !-what, mistress!-Juliet!fast, I warrant her, she: Why, lamb!—why, lady!-fie, you slug-a-bed!— Why, love, I say!-madam! sweet-heart!-why, bride! What, not a word ?-you take your pennyworths now; Sleep for a week: for the next night, I warrant, That you shall rest but little.-God forgive me, Some aqua-vitæ, ho!-my lord! my lady! Enter Lady Capulet. La. Cap. What noise is here? Nurse. O lamentable day! La. Cap. What is the matter? Nurse. Look, look. heavy day! La. Cap. O me, O me!-my child, my only life, Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!Help, help!-call help. Enter Capulet. Cap. For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. Nurse. She's dead, deceas'd, she's dead; alack the day! La. Cap. Alack the day! she's dead, she's dead, she's dead. Cap. Ha! let me see her :-Out, alas! she's cold; Her blood is settled; and her joints are 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. Accursed time! unfortunate old man! Nurse. O lamentable day! La. Cap. O woful time! Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. Enter Friar Laurence and Paris, with Musicians. And doth it give me such a sight as this? La. Cap. Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Most miserable hour, that e'er time saw In lasting labour of his pilgrimage! But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight. Par. Beguil'd, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! Most détestable death, by thee beguil'd, By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown! O love! O life!-not life, but love in death! Cap. Despis'd, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd! Uncomfortable time, why cam'st thou now To murder murder our solemnity?— O child! O child!-my soul, and not my child!Dead art thou, dead!-alack! my child is dead; And, with my child, my joys are buried. Fri. Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not In these confusions. Heaven and yourself your Your part in her you could not keep from death; |