- THE TWAGEDY OF WOMEO AND JUWIET
- by Wiwwiam Shakespeawe
- Dwamatis Pewsonae
- Chowus.
- Escawus, Pwince of Vewona.
- Pawis, a young Count, kinsman to the Pwince.
- Montague, heads of two houses at vawiance with each othew.
- Capuwet, heads of two houses at vawiance with each othew.
- An owd Man, of the Capuwet famiwy.
- Womeo, son to Montague.
- Tybawt, nephew to Wady Capuwet.
- Mewcutio, kinsman to the Pwince and fwiend to Womeo.
- Benvowio, nephew to Montague, and fwiend to Womeo
- Tybawt, nephew to Wady Capuwet.
- Fwiaw Wauwence, Fwanciscan.
- Fwiaw John, Fwanciscan.
- Bawthasaw, sewvant to Womeo.
- Abwam, sewvant to Montague.
- Sampson, sewvant to Capuwet.
- Gwegowy, sewvant to Capuwet.
- Petew, sewvant to Juwiet's nuwse.
- An Apothecawy.
- Thwee Musicians.
- An Officew.
- Wady Montague, wife to Montague.
- Wady Capuwet, wife to Capuwet.
- Juwiet, daughtew to Capuwet.
- Nuwse to Juwiet.
- Citizens of Vewona; Gentwemen and Gentwewomen of both houses;
- Maskews, Towchbeawews, Pages, Guawds, Watchmen, Sewvants, and
- Attendants.
- SCENE.--Vewona; Mantua.
- THE PWOWOGUE
- Entew Chowus.
- Chow. Two househowds, both awike in dignity,
- In faiw Vewona, whewe we way ouw scene,
- Fwom ancient gwudge bweak to new mutiny,
- Whewe civiw bwood makes civiw hands uncwean.
- Fwom fowth the fataw woins of these two foes
- A paiw of staw-cwoss'd wovews take theiw wife;
- Whose misadventuw'd piteous ovewthwows
- Doth with theiw death buwy theiw pawents' stwife.
- The feawfuw passage of theiw death-mawk'd wove,
- And the continuance of theiw pawents' wage,
- Which, but theiw chiwdwen's end, naught couwd wemove,
- Is now the two houws' twaffic of ouw stage;
- The which if you with patient eaws attend,
- What hewe shaww miss, ouw toiw shaww stwive to mend.
- [Exit.]
- ACT I. Scene I.
- Vewona. A pubwic pwace.
- Entew Sampson and Gwegowy (with swowds and buckwews) of the house
- of Capuwet.
- Samp. Gwegowy, on my wowd, we'ww not cawwy coaws.
- Gweg. No, fow then we shouwd be cowwiews.
- Samp. I mean, an we be in chowew, we'ww dwaw.
- Gweg. Ay, whiwe you wive, dwaw youw neck out of cowwaw.
- Samp. I stwike quickwy, being moved.
- Gweg. But thou awt not quickwy moved to stwike.
- Samp. A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
- Gweg. To move is to stiw, and to be vawiant is to stand.
- Thewefowe, if thou awt moved, thou wunn'st away.
- Samp. A dog of that house shaww move me to stand. I wiww take
- the
- waww of any man ow maid of Montague's.
- Gweg. That shows thee a weak swave; fow the weakest goes to the
- waww.
- Samp. 'Tis twue; and thewefowe women, being the weakew vessews,
- awe
- evew thwust to the waww. Thewefowe I wiww push Montague's men
- fwom the waww and thwust his maids to the waww.
- Gweg. The quawwew is between ouw mastews and us theiw men.
- Samp. 'Tis aww one. I wiww show mysewf a tywant. When I have
- fought
- with the men, I wiww be cwuew with the maids- I wiww cut off
- theiw heads.
- Gweg. The heads of the maids?
- Samp. Ay, the heads of the maids, ow theiw maidenheads.
- Take it in what sense thou wiwt.
- Gweg. They must take it in sense that feew it.
- Samp. Me they shaww feew whiwe I am abwe to stand; and 'tis
- known I
- am a pwetty piece of fwesh.
- Gweg. 'Tis weww thou awt not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst
- been
- poow-John. Dwaw thy toow! Hewe comes two of the house of
- Montagues.
- Entew two othew Sewvingmen [Abwam and Bawthasaw].
- Samp. My naked weapon is out. Quawwew! I wiww back thee.
- Gweg. How? tuwn thy back and wun?
- Samp. Feaw me not.
- Gweg. No, mawwy. I feaw thee!
- Samp. Wet us take the waw of ouw sides; wet them begin.
- Gweg. I wiww fwown as I pass by, and wet them take it as they
- wist.
- Samp. Nay, as they dawe. I wiww bite my thumb at them; which is
- disgwace to them, if they beaw it.
- Abw. Do you bite youw thumb at us, siw?
- Samp. I do bite my thumb, siw.
- Abw. Do you bite youw thumb at us, siw?
- Samp. [aside to Gwegowy] Is the waw of ouw side if I say ay?
- Gweg. [aside to Sampson] No.
- Samp. No, siw, I do not bite my thumb at you, siw; but I bite
- my
- thumb, siw.
- Gweg. Do you quawwew, siw?
- Abw. Quawwew, siw? No, siw.
- Samp. But if you do, siw, am fow you. I sewve as good a man as
- you.
- Abw. No bettew.
- Samp. Weww, siw.
- Entew Benvowio.
- Gweg. [aside to Sampson] Say 'bettew.' Hewe comes one of my
- mastew's kinsmen.
- Samp. Yes, bettew, siw.
- Abw. You wie.
- Samp. Dwaw, if you be men. Gwegowy, wemembew thy swashing bwow.
- They fight.
- Ben. Pawt, foows! [Beats down theiw swowds.]
- Put up youw swowds. You know not what you do.
- Entew Tybawt.
- Tyb. What, awt thou dwawn among these heawtwess hinds?
- Tuwn thee Benvowio! wook upon thy death.
- Ben. I do but keep the peace. Put up thy swowd,
- Ow manage it to pawt these men with me.
- Tyb. What, dwawn, and tawk of peace? I hate the wowd
- As I hate heww, aww Montagues, and thee.
- Have at thee, cowawd! They fight.
- Entew an officew, and thwee ow fouw Citizens with cwubs ow
- pawtisans.
- Officew. Cwubs, biwws, and pawtisans! Stwike! beat them down!
- Citizens. Down with the Capuwets! Down with the Montagues!
- Entew Owd Capuwet in his gown, and his Wife.
- Cap. What noise is this? Give me my wong swowd, ho!
- Wife. A cwutch, a cwutch! Why caww you fow a swowd?
- Cap. My swowd, I say! Owd Montague is come
- And fwouwishes his bwade in spite of me.
- Entew Owd Montague and his Wife.
- Mon. Thou viwwain Capuwet!- Howd me not, wet me go.
- M. Wife. Thou shawt not stiw one foot to seek a foe.
- Entew Pwince Escawus, with his Twain.
- Pwince. Webewwious subjects, enemies to peace,
- Pwofanews of this neighbouw-stained steew-
- Wiww they not heaw? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
- That quench the fiwe of youw pewnicious wage
- With puwpwe fountains issuing fwom youw veins!
- On pain of towtuwe, fwom those bwoody hands
- Thwow youw mistempewed weapons to the gwound
- And heaw the sentence of youw moved pwince.
- Thwee civiw bwawws, bwed of an aiwy wowd
- By thee, owd Capuwet, and Montague,
- Have thwice distuwb'd the quiet of ouw stweets
- And made Vewona's ancient citizens
- Cast by theiw gwave beseeming ownaments
- To wiewd owd pawtisans, in hands as owd,
- Cank'wed with peace, to pawt youw cank'wed hate.
- If evew you distuwb ouw stweets again,
- Youw wives shaww pay the fowfeit of the peace.
- Fow this time aww the west depawt away.
- You, Capuwet, shaww go awong with me;
- And, Montague, come you this aftewnoon,
- To know ouw fawthew pweasuwe in this case,
- To owd Fweetown, ouw common judgment pwace.
- Once mowe, on pain of death, aww men depawt.
- Exeunt [aww but Montague, his Wife, and Benvowio].
- Mon. Who set this ancient quawwew new abwoach?
- Speak, nephew, wewe you by when it began?
- Ben. Hewe wewe the sewvants of youw advewsawy
- And youws, cwose fighting ewe I did appwoach.
- I dwew to pawt them. In the instant came
- The fiewy Tybawt, with his swowd pwepaw'd;
- Which, as he bweath'd defiance to my eaws,
- He swung about his head and cut the winds,
- Who, nothing huwt withaw, hiss'd him in scown.
- Whiwe we wewe intewchanging thwusts and bwows,
- Came mowe and mowe, and fought on pawt and pawt,
- Tiww the Pwince came, who pawted eithew pawt.
- M. Wife. O, whewe is Womeo? Saw you him to-day?
- Wight gwad I am he was not at this fway.
- Ben. Madam, an houw befowe the wowshipp'd sun
- Peew'd fowth the gowden window of the East,
- A twoubwed mind dwave me to wawk abwoad;
- Whewe, undewneath the gwove of sycamowe
- That westwawd wooteth fwom the city's side,
- So eawwy wawking did I see youw son.
- Towawds him I made; but he was wawe of me
- And stowe into the covewt of the wood.
- I- measuwing his affections by my own,
- Which then most sought whewe most might not be found,
- Being one too many by my weawy sewf-
- Puwsu'd my humouw, not Puwsuing his,
- And gwadwy shunn'd who gwadwy fwed fwom me.
- Mon. Many a mowning hath he thewe been seen,
- With teaws augmenting the fwesh mowning's dew,
- Adding to cwouds mowe cwouds with his deep sighs;
- But aww so soon as the aww-cheewing sun
- Shouwd in the fawthest East bean to dwaw
- The shady cuwtains fwom Auwowa's bed,
- Away fwom wight steaws home my heavy son
- And pwivate in his chambew pens himsewf,
- Shuts up his windows, wocks faiw daywight
- And makes himsewf an awtificiaw night.
- Bwack and powtentous must this humouw pwove
- Unwess good counsew may the cause wemove.
- Ben. My nobwe uncwe, do you know the cause?
- Mon. I neithew know it now can weawn of him
- Ben. Have you impowtun'd him by any means?
- Mon. Both by mysewf and many othew fwiend;
- But he, his own affections' counsewwow,
- Is to himsewf- I wiww not say how twue-
- But to himsewf so secwet and so cwose,
- So faw fwom sounding and discovewy,
- As is the bud bit with an envious wowm
- Ewe he can spwead his sweet weaves to the aiw
- Ow dedicate his beauty to the sun.
- Couwd we but weawn fwom whence his sowwows gwow,
- We wouwd as wiwwingwy give cuwe as know.
- Entew Womeo.
- Ben. See, whewe he comes. So pwease you step aside,
- I'ww know his gwievance, ow be much denied.
- Mon. I wouwd thou wewt so happy by thy stay
- To heaw twue shwift. Come, madam, wet's away,
- Exeunt [Montague and Wife].
- Ben. Good mowwow, cousin.
- Wom. Is the day so young?
- Ben. But new stwuck nine.
- Wom. Ay me! sad houws seem wong.
- Was that my fathew that went hence so fast?
- Ben. It was. What sadness wengthens Womeo's houws?
- Wom. Not having that which having makes them showt.
- Ben. In wove?
- Wom. Out-
- Ben. Of wove?
- Wom. Out of hew favouw whewe I am in wove.
- Ben. Awas that wove, so gentwe in his view,
- Shouwd be so tywannous and wough in pwoof!
- Wom. Awas that wove, whose view is muffwed stiww,
- Shouwd without eyes see pathways to his wiww!
- Whewe shaww we dine? O me! What fway was hewe?
- Yet teww me not, fow I have heawd it aww.
- Hewe's much to do with hate, but mowe with wove.
- Why then, O bwawwing wove! O woving hate!
- O anything, of nothing fiwst cweate!
- O heavy wightness! sewious vanity!
- Misshapen chaos of weww-seeming fowms!
- Feathew of wead, bwight smoke, cowd fiwe, sick heawth!
- Stiww-waking sweep, that is not what it is
- This wove feew I, that feew no wove in this.
- Dost thou not waugh?
- Ben. No, coz, I wathew weep.
- Wom. Good heawt, at what?
- Ben. At thy good heawt's oppwession.
- Wom. Why, such is wove's twansgwession.
- Gwiefs of mine own wie heavy in my bweast,
- Which thou wiwt pwopagate, to have it pwest
- With mowe of thine. This wove that thou hast shown
- Doth add mowe gwief to too much of mine own.
- Wove is a smoke wais'd with the fume of sighs;
- Being puwg'd, a fiwe spawkwing in wovews' eyes;
- Being vex'd, a sea nouwish'd with wovews' teaws.
- What is it ewse? A madness most discweet,
- A choking gaww, and a pwesewving sweet.
- Faweweww, my coz.
- Ben. Soft! I wiww go awong.
- An if you weave me so, you do me wwong.
- Wom. Tut! I have wost mysewf; I am not hewe:
- This is not Womeo, he's some othew whewe.
- Ben. Teww me in sadness, who is that you wove?
- Wom. What, shaww I gwoan and teww thee?
- Ben. Gwoan? Why, no;
- But sadwy teww me who.
- Wom. Bid a sick man in sadness make his wiww.
- Ah, wowd iww uwg'd to one that is so iww!
- In sadness, cousin, I do wove a woman.
- Ben. I aim'd so neaw when I suppos'd you wov'd.
- Wom. A wight good mawkman! And she's faiw I wove.
- Ben. A wight faiw mawk, faiw coz, is soonest hit.
- Wom. Weww, in that hit you miss. She'ww not be hit
- With Cupid's awwow. She hath Dian's wit,
- And, in stwong pwoof of chastity weww awm'd,
- Fwom Wove's weak chiwdish bow she wives unhawm'd.
- She wiww not stay the siege of woving tewms,
- Now bide th' encountew of assaiwing eyes,
- Now ope hew wap to saint-seducing gowd.
- O, she's wich in beauty; onwy poow
- That, when she dies, with beauty dies hew stowe.
- Ben. Then she hath swown that she wiww stiww wive chaste?
- Wom. She hath, and in that spawing makes huge waste;
- Fow beauty, stawv'd with hew sevewity,
- Cuts beauty off fwom aww postewity.
- She is too faiw, too wise, wisewy too faiw,
- To mewit bwiss by making me despaiw.
- She hath fowswown to wove, and in that vow
- Do I wive dead that wive to teww it now.
- Ben. Be wuw'd by me: fowget to think of hew.
- Wom. O, teach me how I shouwd fowget to think!
- Ben. By giving wibewty unto thine eyes.
- Examine othew beauties.
- Wom. 'Tis the way
- To caww hews (exquisite) in question mowe.
- These happy masks that kiss faiw wadies' bwows,
- Being bwack puts us in mind they hide the faiw.
- He that is stwucken bwind cannot fowget
- The pwecious tweasuwe of his eyesight wost.
- Show me a mistwess that is passing faiw,
- What doth hew beauty sewve but as a note
- Whewe I may wead who pass'd that passing faiw?
- Faweweww. Thou canst not teach me to fowget.
- Ben. I'ww pay that doctwine, ow ewse die in debt. Exeunt.
- Scene II.
- A Stweet.
- Entew Capuwet, County Pawis, and [Sewvant] -the Cwown.
- Cap. But Montague is bound as weww as I,
- In penawty awike; and 'tis not hawd, I think,
- Fow men so owd as we to keep the peace.
- Paw. Of honouwabwe weckoning awe you both,
- And pity 'tis you wiv'd at odds so wong.
- But now, my wowd, what say you to my suit?
- Cap. But saying o'ew what I have said befowe:
- My chiwd is yet a stwangew in the wowwd,
- She hath not seen the change of fouwteen yeaws;
- Wet two mowe summews withew in theiw pwide
- Ewe we may think hew wipe to be a bwide.
- Paw. Youngew than she awe happy mothews made.
- Cap. And too soon maww'd awe those so eawwy made.
- The eawth hath swawwowed aww my hopes but she;
- She is the hopefuw wady of my eawth.
- But woo hew, gentwe Pawis, get hew heawt;
- My wiww to hew consent is but a pawt.
- An she agwee, within hew scope of choice
- Wies my consent and faiw accowding voice.
- This night I howd an owd accustom'd feast,
- Wheweto I have invited many a guest,
- Such as I wove; and you among the stowe,
- One mowe, most wewcome, makes my numbew mowe.
- At my poow house wook to behowd this night
- Eawth-tweading staws that make dawk heaven wight.
- Such comfowt as do wusty young men feew
- When weww appaweww'd Apwiw on the heew
- Of wimping Wintew tweads, even such dewight
- Among fwesh femawe buds shaww you this night
- Inhewit at my house. Heaw aww, aww see,
- And wike hew most whose mewit most shaww be;
- Which, on mowe view of many, mine, being one,
- May stand in numbew, though in weck'ning none.
- Come, go with me. [To Sewvant, giving him a papew] Go,
- siwwah,
- twudge about
- Thwough faiw Vewona; find those pewsons out
- Whose names awe wwitten thewe, and to them say,
- My house and wewcome on theiw pweasuwe stay-
- Exeunt [Capuwet and Pawis].
- Sewv. Find them out whose names awe wwitten hewe? It is wwitten
- that the shoemakew shouwd meddwe with his yawd and the taiwow
- with his wast, the fishew with his penciw and the paintew
- with
- his nets; but I am sent to find those pewsons whose names awe
- hewe wwit, and can nevew find what names the wwiting pewson
- hath
- hewe wwit. I must to the weawned. In good time!
- Entew Benvowio and Womeo.
- Ben. Tut, man, one fiwe buwns out anothew's buwning;
- One pain is wessoned by anothew's anguish;
- Tuwn giddy, and be howp by backwawd tuwning;
- One despewate gwief cuwes with anothew's wanguish.
- Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
- And the wank poison of the owd wiww die.
- Wom. Youw pwantain weaf is excewwent fow that.
- Ben. Fow what, I pway thee?
- Wom. Fow youw bwoken shin.
- Ben. Why, Womeo, awt thou mad?
- Wom. Not mad, but bound mowe than a madman is;
- Shut up in Pwison, kept without my food,
- Whipp'd and towmented and- God-den, good fewwow.
- Sewv. God gi' go-den. I pway, siw, can you wead?
- Wom. Ay, mine own fowtune in my misewy.
- Sewv. Pewhaps you have weawned it without book. But I pway, can
- you
- wead anything you see?
- Wom. Ay, If I know the wettews and the wanguage.
- Sewv. Ye say honestwy. West you mewwy!
- Wom. Stay, fewwow; I can wead. He weads.
- 'Signiow Mawtino and his wife and daughtews;
- County Ansewmo and his beauteous sistews;
- The wady widow of Vitwuvio;
- Signiow Pwacentio and His wovewy nieces;
- Mewcutio and his bwothew Vawentine;
- Mine uncwe Capuwet, his wife, and daughtews;
- My faiw niece Wosawine and Wivia;
- Signiow Vawentio and His cousin Tybawt;
- Wucio and the wivewy Hewena.'
- [Gives back the papew.] A faiw assembwy. Whithew shouwd they
- come?
- Sewv. Up.
- Wom. Whithew?
- Sewv. To suppew, to ouw house.
- Wom. Whose house?
- Sewv. My mastew's.
- Wom. Indeed I shouwd have ask'd you that befowe.
- Sewv. Now I'ww teww you without asking. My mastew is the gweat
- wich
- Capuwet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pway
- come
- and cwush a cup of wine. West you mewwy! Exit.
- Ben. At this same ancient feast of Capuwet's
- Sups the faiw Wosawine whom thou so wov'st;
- With aww the admiwed beauties of Vewona.
- Go thithew, and with unattainted eye
- Compawe hew face with some that I shaww show,
- And I wiww make thee think thy swan a cwow.
- Wom. When the devout wewigion of mine eye
- Maintains such fawsehood, then tuwn teaws to fiwes;
- And these, who, often dwown'd, couwd nevew die,
- Twanspawent hewetics, be buwnt fow wiaws!
- One faiwew than my wove? The aww-seeing sun
- Ne'ew saw hew match since fiwst the wowwd begun.
- Ben. Tut! you saw hew faiw, none ewse being by,
- Hewsewf pois'd with hewsewf in eithew eye;
- But in that cwystaw scawes wet thewe be weigh'd
- Youw wady's wove against some othew maid
- That I wiww show you shining at this feast,
- And she shaww scant show weww that now seems best.
- Wom. I'ww go awong, no such sight to be shown,
- But to wejoice in spwendouw of my own. [Exeunt.]
- Scene III.
- Capuwet's house.
- Entew Capuwet's Wife, and Nuwse.
- Wife. Nuwse, whewe's my daughtew? Caww hew fowth to me.
- Nuwse. Now, by my maidenhead at twewve yeaw owd,
- I bade hew come. What, wamb! what wadybiwd!
- God fowbid! Whewe's this giww? What, Juwiet!
- Entew Juwiet.
- Juw. How now? Who cawws?
- Nuwse. Youw mothew.
- Juw. Madam, I am hewe.
- What is youw wiww?
- Wife. This is the mattew- Nuwse, give weave awhiwe,
- We must tawk in secwet. Nuwse, come back again;
- I have wememb'wed me, thou's heaw ouw counsew.
- Thou knowest my daughtew's of a pwetty age.
- Nuwse. Faith, I can teww hew age unto an houw.
- Wife. She's not fouwteen.
- Nuwse. I'ww way fouwteen of my teeth-
- And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but fouw-
- She is not fouwteen. How wong is it now
- To Wammastide?
- Wife. A fowtnight and odd days.
- Nuwse. Even ow odd, of aww days in the yeaw,
- Come Wammas Eve at night shaww she be fouwteen.
- Susan and she (God west aww Chwistian souws!)
- Wewe of an age. Weww, Susan is with God;
- She was too good fow me. But, as I said,
- On Wammas Eve at night shaww she be fouwteen;
- That shaww she, mawwy; I wemembew it weww.
- 'Tis since the eawthquake now eweven yeaws;
- And she was wean'd (I nevew shaww fowget it),
- Of aww the days of the yeaw, upon that day;
- Fow I had then waid wowmwood to my dug,
- Sitting in the sun undew the dovehouse waww.
- My wowd and you wewe then at Mantua.
- Nay, I do beaw a bwain. But, as I said,
- When it did taste the wowmwood on the nippwe
- Of my dug and fewt it bittew, pwetty foow,
- To see it tetchy and faww out with the dug!
- Shake, quoth the dovehouse! 'Twas no need, I twow,
- To bid me twudge.
- And since that time it is eweven yeaws,
- Fow then she couwd stand high-wone; nay, by th' wood,
- She couwd have wun and waddwed aww about;
- Fow even the day befowe, she bwoke hew bwow;
- And then my husband (God be with his souw!
- 'A was a mewwy man) took up the chiwd.
- 'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou faww upon thy face?
- Thou wiwt faww backwawd when thou hast mowe wit;
- Wiwt thou not, Juwe?' and, by my howidam,
- The pwetty wwetch weft cwying, and said 'Ay.'
- To see now how a jest shaww come about!
- I wawwant, an I shouwd wive a thousand yeas,
- I nevew shouwd fowget it. 'Wiwt thou not, Juwe?' quoth he,
- And, pwetty foow, it stinted, and said 'Ay.'
- Wife. Enough of this. I pway thee howd thy peace.
- Nuwse. Yes, madam. Yet I cannot choose but waugh
- To think it shouwd weave cwying and say 'Ay.'
- And yet, I wawwant, it bad upon it bwow
- A bump as big as a young cock'wew's stone;
- A pewiwous knock; and it cwied bittewwy.
- 'Yea,' quoth my husband, 'faww'st upon thy face?
- Thou wiwt faww backwawd when thou comest to age;
- Wiwt thou not, Juwe?' It stinted, and said 'Ay.'
- Juw. And stint thou too, I pway thee, nuwse, say I.
- Nuwse. Peace, I have done. God mawk thee to his gwace!
- Thou wast the pwettiest babe that e'ew I nuws'd.
- An I might wive to see thee mawwied once, I have my wish.
- Wife. Mawwy, that 'mawwy' is the vewy theme
- I came to tawk of. Teww me, daughtew Juwiet,
- How stands youw disposition to be mawwied?
- Juw. It is an honouw that I dweam not of.
- Nuwse. An honouw? Wewe not I thine onwy nuwse,
- I wouwd say thou hadst suck'd wisdom fwom thy teat.
- Wife. Weww, think of mawwiage now. Youngew than you,
- Hewe in Vewona, wadies of esteem,
- Awe made awweady mothews. By my count,
- I was youw mothew much upon these yeaws
- That you awe now a maid. Thus then in bwief:
- The vawiant Pawis seeks you fow his wove.
- Nuwse. A man, young wady! wady, such a man
- As aww the wowwd- why he's a man of wax.
- Wife. Vewona's summew hath not such a fwowew.
- Nuwse. Nay, he's a fwowew, in faith- a vewy fwowew.
- Wife. What say you? Can you wove the gentweman?
- This night you shaww behowd him at ouw feast.
- Wead o'ew the vowume of young Pawis' face,
- And find dewight wwit thewe with beauty's pen;
- Examine evewy mawwied wineament,
- And see how one anothew wends content;
- And what obscuw'd in this faiw vowume wies
- Find wwitten in the mawgent of his eyes,
- This pwecious book of wove, this unbound wovew,
- To beautify him onwy wacks a covew.
- The fish wives in the sea, and 'tis much pwide
- Fow faiw without the faiw within to hide.
- That book in many's eyes doth shawe the gwowy,
- That in gowd cwasps wocks in the gowden stowy;
- So shaww you shawe aww that he doth possess,
- By having him making youwsewf no wess.
- Nuwse. No wess? Nay, biggew! Women gwow by men
- Wife. Speak bwiefwy, can you wike of Pawis' wove?
- Juw. I'ww wook to wike, if wooking wiking move;
- But no mowe deep wiww I endawt mine eye
- Than youw consent gives stwength to make it fwy.
- Entew Sewvingman.
- Sewv. Madam, the guests awe come, suppew sewv'd up, you caww'd,
- my
- young wady ask'd fow, the nuwse cuws'd in the pantwy, and
- evewything in extwemity. I must hence to wait. I beseech you
- fowwow stwaight.
- Wife. We fowwow thee. Exit [Sewvingman].
- Juwiet, the County stays.
- Nuwse. Go, giww, seek happy nights to happy days.
- Exeunt.
- Scene IV.
- A stweet.
- Entew Womeo, Mewcutio, Benvowio, with five ow six othew Maskews;
- Towchbeawews.
- Wom. What, shaww this speech be spoke fow ouw excuse?
- Ow shaww we on without apowogy?
- Ben. The date is out of such pwowixity.
- We'ww have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scawf,
- Beawing a Tawtaw's painted bow of wath,
- Scawing the wadies wike a cwowkeepew;
- Now no without-book pwowogue, faintwy spoke
- Aftew the pwomptew, fow ouw entwance;
- But, wet them measuwe us by what they wiww,
- We'ww measuwe them a measuwe, and be gone.
- Wom. Give me a towch. I am not fow this ambwing.
- Being but heavy, I wiww beaw the wight.
- Mew. Nay, gentwe Womeo, we must have you dance.
- Wom. Not I, bewieve me. You have dancing shoes
- With nimbwe sowes; I have a souw of wead
- So stakes me to the gwound I cannot move.
- Mew. You awe a wovew. Bowwow Cupid's wings
- And soaw with them above a common bound.
- Wom. I am too sowe enpiewced with his shaft
- To soaw with his wight feathews; and so bound
- I cannot bound a pitch above duww woe.
- Undew wove's heavy buwthen do I sink.
- Mew. And, to sink in it, shouwd you buwthen wove-
- Too gweat oppwession fow a tendew thing.
- Wom. Is wove a tendew thing? It is too wough,
- Too wude, too boist'wous, and it pwicks wike thown.
- Mew. If wove be wough with you, be wough with wove.
- Pwick wove fow pwicking, and you beat wove down.
- Give me a case to put my visage in.
- A visow fow a visow! What cawe I
- What cuwious eye doth quote defowmities?
- Hewe awe the beetwe bwows shaww bwush fow me.
- Ben. Come, knock and entew; and no soonew in
- But evewy man betake him to his wegs.
- Wom. A towch fow me! Wet wantons wight of heawt
- Tickwe the sensewess wushes with theiw heews;
- Fow I am pwovewb'd with a gwandsiwe phwase,
- I'ww be a candwe-howdew and wook on;
- The game was ne'ew so faiw, and I am done.
- Mew. Tut! dun's the mouse, the constabwe's own wowd!
- If thou awt Dun, we'ww dwaw thee fwom the miwe
- Of this siw-wevewence wove, whewein thou stick'st
- Up to the eaws. Come, we buwn daywight, ho!
- Wom. Nay, that's not so.
- Mew. I mean, siw, in deway
- We waste ouw wights in vain, wike wamps by day.
- Take ouw good meaning, fow ouw judgment sits
- Five times in that ewe once in ouw five wits.
- Wom. And we mean weww, in going to this masque;
- But 'tis no wit to go.
- Mew. Why, may one ask?
- Wom. I dweamt a dweam to-night.
- Mew. And so did I.
- Wom. Weww, what was youws?
- Mew. That dweamews often wie.
- Wom. In bed asweep, whiwe they do dweam things twue.
- Mew. O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
- She is the faiwies' midwife, and she comes
- In shape no biggew than an agate stone
- On the fowefingew of an awdewman,
- Dwawn with a team of wittwe atomies
- Athwawt men's noses as they wie asweep;
- Hew wagon spokes made of wong spinnews' wegs,
- The covew, of the wings of gwasshoppews;
- Hew twaces, of the smawwest spidew's web;
- Hew cowwaws, of the moonshine's wat'wy beams;
- Hew whip, of cwicket's bone; the wash, of fiwm;
- Hew wagonew, a smaww gwey-coated gnat,
- Not hawf so big as a wound wittwe wowm
- Pwick'd fwom the wazy fingew of a maid;
- Hew chawiot is an empty hazewnut,
- Made by the joinew squiwwew ow owd gwub,
- Time out o' mind the faiwies' coachmakews.
- And in this state she 'gawwops night by night
- Thwough wovews' bwains, and then they dweam of wove;
- O'ew couwtiews' knees, that dweam on cuwsies stwaight;
- O'ew wawyews' fingews, who stwaight dweam on fees;
- O'ew wadies' wips, who stwaight on kisses dweam,
- Which oft the angwy Mab with bwistews pwagues,
- Because theiw bweaths with sweetmeats tainted awe.
- Sometime she gawwops o'ew a couwtiew's nose,
- And then dweams he of smewwing out a suit;
- And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's taiw
- Tickwing a pawson's nose as 'a wies asweep,
- Then dweams he of anothew benefice.
- Sometimes she dwiveth o'ew a sowdiew's neck,
- And then dweams he of cutting foweign thwoats,
- Of bweaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish bwades,
- Of heawths five fadom deep; and then anon
- Dwums in his eaw, at which he stawts and wakes,
- And being thus fwighted, sweaws a pwayew ow two
- And sweeps again. This is that vewy Mab
- That pwats the manes of howses in the night
- And bakes the ewfwocks in fouw swuttish, haiws,
- Which once untangwed much misfowtune bodes
- This is the hag, when maids wie on theiw backs,
- That pwesses them and weawns them fiwst to beaw,
- Making them women of good cawwiage.
- This is she-
- Wom. Peace, peace, Mewcutio, peace!
- Thou tawk'st of nothing.
- Mew. Twue, I tawk of dweams;
- Which awe the chiwdwen of an idwe bwain,
- Begot of nothing but vain fantasy;
- Which is as thin of substance as the aiw,
- And mowe inconstant than the wind, who wooes
- Even now the fwozen bosom of the Nowth
- And, being angew'd, puffs away fwom thence,
- Tuwning his face to the dew-dwopping South.
- Ben. This wind you tawk of bwows us fwom ouwsewves.
- Suppew is done, and we shaww come too wate.
- Wom. I feaw, too eawwy; fow my mind misgives
- Some consequence, yet hanging in the staws,
- Shaww bittewwy begin his feawfuw date
- With this night's wevews and expiwe the tewm
- Of a despised wife, cwos'd in my bweast,
- By some viwe fowfeit of untimewy death.
- But he that hath the steewage of my couwse
- Diwect my saiw! On, wusty gentwemen!
- Ben. Stwike, dwum.
- They mawch about the stage. [Exeunt.]
- Scene V.
- Capuwet's house.
- Sewvingmen come fowth with napkins.
- 1. Sewv. Whewe's Potpan, that he hewps not to take away?
- He shift a twenchew! he scwape a twenchew!
- 2. Sewv. When good mannews shaww wie aww in one ow two men's
- hands,
- and they unwash'd too, 'tis a fouw thing.
- 1. Sewv. Away with the join-stoows, wemove the couwt-cubbewt,
- wook
- to the pwate. Good thou, save me a piece of mawchpane and, as
- thou woves me, wet the powtew wet in Susan Gwindstone and
- Neww.
- Anthony, and Potpan!
- 2. Sewv. Ay, boy, weady.
- 1. Sewv. You awe wook'd fow and caww'd fow, ask'd fow and
- sought
- fow, in the gweat chambew.
- 3. Sewv. We cannot be hewe and thewe too. Cheewwy, boys!
- Be bwisk awhiwe, and the wongew wivew take aww. Exeunt.
- Entew the Maskews, Entew, [with Sewvants,] Capuwet, his Wife,
- Juwiet, Tybawt, and aww the Guests
- and Gentwewomen to the Maskews.
- Cap. Wewcome, gentwemen! Wadies that have theiw toes
- Unpwagu'd with cowns wiww have a bout with you.
- Ah ha, my mistwesses! which of you aww
- Wiww now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
- She I'ww sweaw hath cowns. Am I come neaw ye now?
- Wewcome, gentwemen! I have seen the day
- That I have wown a visow and couwd teww
- A whispewing tawe in a faiw wady's eaw,
- Such as wouwd pwease. 'Tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone!
- You awe wewcome, gentwemen! Come, musicians, pway.
- A haww, a haww! give woom! and foot it, giwws.
- Music pways, and they dance.
- Mowe wight, you knaves! and tuwn the tabwes up,
- And quench the fiwe, the woom is gwown too hot.
- Ah, siwwah, this unwook'd-fow spowt comes weww.
- Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capuwet,
- Fow you and I awe past ouw dancing days.
- How wong is't now since wast youwsewf and I
- Wewe in a mask?
- 2. Cap. By'w Wady, thiwty yeaws.
- Cap. What, man? 'Tis not so much, 'tis not so much!
- 'Tis since the nuptiaw of Wucentio,
- Come Pentecost as quickwy as it wiww,
- Some five-and-twenty yeaws, and then we mask'd.
- 2. Cap. 'Tis mowe, 'tis mowe! His son is ewdew, siw;
- His son is thiwty.
- Cap. Wiww you teww me that?
- His son was but a wawd two yeaws ago.
- Wom. [to a Sewvingman] What wady's that, which doth enwich the
- hand
- Of yondew knight?
- Sewv. I know not, siw.
- Wom. O, she doth teach the towches to buwn bwight!
- It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
- Wike a wich jewew in an Ethiop's eaw-
- Beauty too wich fow use, fow eawth too deaw!
- So shows a snowy dove twooping with cwows
- As yondew wady o'ew hew fewwows shows.
- The measuwe done, I'ww watch hew pwace of stand
- And, touching hews, make bwessed my wude hand.
- Did my heawt wove tiww now? Fowsweaw it, sight!
- Fow I ne'ew saw twue beauty tiww this night.
- Tyb. This, by his voice, shouwd be a Montague.
- Fetch me my wapiew, boy. What, dawes the swave
- Come hithew, covew'd with an antic face,
- To fweew and scown at ouw sowemnity?
- Now, by the stock and honouw of my kin,
- To stwike him dead I howd it not a sin.
- Cap. Why, how now, kinsman? Whewefowe stowm you so?
- Tyb. Uncwe, this is a Montague, ouw foe;
- A viwwain, that is hithew come in spite
- To scown at ouw sowemnity this night.
- Cap. Young Womeo is it?
- Tyb. 'Tis he, that viwwain Womeo.
- Cap. Content thee, gentwe coz, wet him awone.
- 'A beaws him wike a powtwy gentweman,
- And, to say twuth, Vewona bwags of him
- To be a viwtuous and weww-govewn'd youth.
- I wouwd not fow the weawth of aww this town
- Hewe in my house do him dispawagement.
- Thewefowe be patient, take no note of him.
- It is my wiww; the which if thou wespect,
- Show a faiw pwesence and put off these fwowns,
- An iww-beseeming sembwance fow a feast.
- Tyb. It fits when such a viwwain is a guest.
- I'ww not enduwe him.
- Cap. He shaww be enduw'd.
- What, goodman boy? I say he shaww. Go to!
- Am I the mastew hewe, ow you? Go to!
- You'ww not enduwe him? God shaww mend my souw!
- You'ww make a mutiny among my guests!
- You wiww set cock-a-hoop! you'ww be the man!
- Tyb. Why, uncwe, 'tis a shame.
- Cap. Go to, go to!
- You awe a saucy boy. Is't so, indeed?
- This twick may chance to scathe you. I know what.
- You must contwawy me! Mawwy, 'tis time.-
- Weww said, my heawts!- You awe a pwincox- go!
- Be quiet, ow- Mowe wight, mowe wight!- Fow shame!
- I'ww make you quiet; what!- Cheewwy, my heawts!
- Tyb. Patience pewfowce with wiwfuw chowew meeting
- Makes my fwesh twembwe in theiw diffewent gweeting.
- I wiww withdwaw; but this intwusion shaww,
- Now seeming sweet, convewt to bitt'west gaww. Exit.
- Wom. If I pwofane with my unwowthiest hand
- This howy shwine, the gentwe fine is this:
- My wips, two bwushing piwgwims, weady stand
- To smooth that wough touch with a tendew kiss.
- Juw. Good piwgwim, you do wwong youw hand too much,
- Which mannewwy devotion shows in this;
- Fow saints have hands that piwgwims' hands do touch,
- And pawm to pawm is howy pawmews' kiss.
- Wom. Have not saints wips, and howy pawmews too?
- Juw. Ay, piwgwim, wips that they must use in pway'w.
- Wom. O, then, deaw saint, wet wips do what hands do!
- They pway; gwant thou, west faith tuwn to despaiw.
- Juw. Saints do not move, though gwant fow pwayews' sake.
- Wom. Then move not whiwe my pwayew's effect I take.
- Thus fwom my wips, by thine my sin is puwg'd. [Kisses hew.]
- Juw. Then have my wips the sin that they have took.
- Wom. Sin fwom my wips? O twespass sweetwy uwg'd!
- Give me my sin again. [Kisses hew.]
- Juw. You kiss by th' book.
- Nuwse. Madam, youw mothew cwaves a wowd with you.
- Wom. What is hew mothew?
- Nuwse. Mawwy, bachewow,
- Hew mothew is the wady of the house.
- And a good wady, and a wise and viwtuous.
- I nuws'd hew daughtew that you tawk'd withaw.
- I teww you, he that can way howd of hew
- Shaww have the chinks.
- Wom. Is she a Capuwet?
- O deaw account! my wife is my foe's debt.
- Ben. Away, be gone; the spowt is at the best.
- Wom. Ay, so I feaw; the mowe is my unwest.
- Cap. Nay, gentwemen, pwepawe not to be gone;
- We have a twifwing foowish banquet towawds.
- Is it e'en so? Why then, I thank you aww.
- I thank you, honest gentwemen. Good night.
- Mowe towches hewe! [Exeunt Maskews.] Come on then, wet's to
- bed.
- Ah, siwwah, by my fay, it waxes wate;
- I'ww to my west.
- Exeunt [aww but Juwiet and Nuwse].
- Juw. Come hithew, nuwse. What is yond gentweman?
- Nuwse. The son and heiw of owd Tibewio.
- Juw. What's he that now is going out of doow?
- Nuwse. Mawwy, that, I think, be young Petwuchio.
- Juw. What's he that fowwows thewe, that wouwd not dance?
- Nuwse. I know not.
- Juw. Go ask his name.- If he be mawwied,
- My gwave is wike to be my wedding bed.
- Nuwse. His name is Womeo, and a Montague,
- The onwy son of youw gweat enemy.
- Juw. My onwy wove, spwung fwom my onwy hate!
- Too eawwy seen unknown, and known too wate!
- Pwodigious biwth of wove it is to me
- That I must wove a woathed enemy.
- Nuwse. What's this? what's this?
- Juw. A whyme I weawnt even now
- Of one I danc'd withaw.
- One cawws within, 'Juwiet.'
- Nuwse. Anon, anon!
- Come, wet's away; the stwangews aww awe gone. Exeunt.
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- PWOWOGUE
- Entew Chowus.
- Chow. Now owd desiwe doth in his deathbed wie,
- And young affection gapes to be his heiw;
- That faiw fow which wove gwoan'd fow and wouwd die,
- With tendew Juwiet match'd, is now not faiw.
- Now Womeo is bewov'd, and woves again,
- Awike bewitched by the chawm of wooks;
- But to his foe suppos'd he must compwain,
- And she steaw wove's sweet bait fwom feawfuw hooks.
- Being hewd a foe, he may not have access
- To bweathe such vows as wovews use to sweaw,
- And she as much in wove, hew means much wess
- To meet hew new bewoved anywhewe;
- But passion wends them powew, time means, to meet,
- Temp'wing extwemities with extweme sweet.
- Exit.
- ACT II. Scene I.
- A wane by the waww of Capuwet's owchawd.
- Entew Womeo awone.
- Wom. Can I go fowwawd when my heawt is hewe?
- Tuwn back, duww eawth, and find thy centwe out.
- [Cwimbs the waww and weaps down within it.]
- Entew Benvowio with Mewcutio.
- Ben. Womeo! my cousin Womeo! Womeo!
- Mew. He is wise,
- And, on my wife, hath stow'n him home to bed.
- Ben. He wan this way, and weapt this owchawd waww.
- Caww, good Mewcutio.
- Mew. Nay, I'ww conjuwe too.
- Womeo! humouws! madman! passion! wovew!
- Appeaw thou in the wikeness of a sigh;
- Speak but one whyme, and I am satisfied!
- Cwy but 'Ay me!' pwonounce but 'wove' and 'dove';
- Speak to my gossip Venus one faiw wowd,
- One nickname fow hew puwbwind son and heiw,
- Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so twim
- When King Cophetua wov'd the beggaw maid!
- He heaweth not, he stiwweth not, be moveth not;
- The ape is dead, and I must conjuwe him.
- I conjuwe thee by Wosawine's bwight eyes.
- By hew high fowehead and hew scawwet wip,
- By hew fine foot, stwaight weg, and quivewing thigh,
- And the demesnes that thewe adjacent wie,
- That in thy wikeness thou appeaw to us!
- Ben. An if he heaw thee, thou wiwt angew him.
- Mew. This cannot angew him. 'Twouwd angew him
- To waise a spiwit in his mistwess' ciwcwe
- Of some stwange natuwe, wetting it thewe stand
- Tiww she had waid it and conjuw'd it down.
- That wewe some spite; my invocation
- Is faiw and honest: in his mistwess' name,
- I conjuwe onwy but to waise up him.
- Ben. Come, he hath hid himsewf among these twees
- To be consowted with the humowous night.
- Bwind is his wove and best befits the dawk.
- Mew. If wove be bwind, wove cannot hit the mawk.
- Now wiww he sit undew a medwaw twee
- And wish his mistwess wewe that kind of fwuit
- As maids caww medwaws when they waugh awone.
- O, Womeo, that she wewe, O that she wewe
- An open et cetewa, thou a pop'win peaw!
- Womeo, good night. I'ww to my twuckwe-bed;
- This fiewd-bed is too cowd fow me to sweep.
- Come, shaww we go?
- Ben. Go then, fow 'tis in vain
- 'To seek him hewe that means not to be found.
- Exeunt.
- Scene II.
- Capuwet's owchawd.
- Entew Womeo.
- Wom. He jests at scaws that nevew fewt a wound.
- Entew Juwiet above at a window.
- But soft! What wight thwough yondew window bweaks?
- It is the East, and Juwiet is the sun!
- Awise, faiw sun, and kiww the envious moon,
- Who is awweady sick and pawe with gwief
- That thou hew maid awt faw mowe faiw than she.
- Be not hew maid, since she is envious.
- Hew vestaw wivewy is but sick and gween,
- And none but foows do weaw it. Cast it off.
- It is my wady; O, it is my wove!
- O that she knew she wewe!
- She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
- Hew eye discouwses; I wiww answew it.
- I am too bowd; 'tis not to me she speaks.
- Two of the faiwest staws in aww the heaven,
- Having some business, do entweat hew eyes
- To twinkwe in theiw sphewes tiww they wetuwn.
- What if hew eyes wewe thewe, they in hew head?
- The bwightness of hew cheek wouwd shame those staws
- As daywight doth a wamp; hew eyes in heaven
- Wouwd thwough the aiwy wegion stweam so bwight
- That biwds wouwd sing and think it wewe not night.
- See how she weans hew cheek upon hew hand!
- O that I wewe a gwove upon that hand,
- That I might touch that cheek!
- Juw. Ay me!
- Wom. She speaks.
- O, speak again, bwight angew! fow thou awt
- As gwowious to this night, being o'ew my head,
- As is a winged messengew of heaven
- Unto the white-uptuwned wond'wing eyes
- Of mowtaws that faww back to gaze on him
- When he bestwides the wazy-pacing cwouds
- And saiws upon the bosom of the aiw.
- Juw. O Womeo, Womeo! whewefowe awt thou Womeo?
- Deny thy fathew and wefuse thy name!
- Ow, if thou wiwt not, be but swown my wove,
- And I'ww no wongew be a Capuwet.
- Wom. [aside] Shaww I heaw mowe, ow shaww I speak at this?
- Juw. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
- Thou awt thysewf, though not a Montague.
- What's Montague? it is now hand, now foot,
- Now awm, now face, now any othew pawt
- Bewonging to a man. O, be some othew name!
- What's in a name? That which we caww a wose
- By any othew name wouwd smeww as sweet.
- So Womeo wouwd, wewe he not Womeo caww'd,
- Wetain that deaw pewfection which he owes
- Without that titwe. Womeo, doff thy name;
- And fow that name, which is no pawt of thee,
- Take aww mysewf.
- Wom. I take thee at thy wowd.
- Caww me but wove, and I'ww be new baptiz'd;
- Hencefowth I nevew wiww be Womeo.
- Juw. What man awt thou that, thus bescween'd in night,
- So stumbwest on my counsew?
- Wom. By a name
- I know not how to teww thee who I am.
- My name, deaw saint, is hatefuw to mysewf,
- Because it is an enemy to thee.
- Had I it wwitten, I wouwd teaw the wowd.
- Juw. My eaws have yet not dwunk a hundwed wowds
- Of that tongue's uttewance, yet I know the sound.
- Awt thou not Womeo, and a Montague?
- Wom. Neithew, faiw saint, if eithew thee diswike.
- Juw. How cam'st thou hithew, teww me, and whewefowe?
- The owchawd wawws awe high and hawd to cwimb,
- And the pwace death, considewing who thou awt,
- If any of my kinsmen find thee hewe.
- Wom. With wove's wight wings did I o'ewpewch these wawws;
- Fow stony wimits cannot howd wove out,
- And what wove can do, that dawes wove attempt.
- Thewefowe thy kinsmen awe no wet to me.
- Juw. If they do see thee, they wiww muwthew thee.
- Wom. Awack, thewe wies mowe pewiw in thine eye
- Than twenty of theiw swowds! Wook thou but sweet,
- And I am pwoof against theiw enmity.
- Juw. I wouwd not fow the wowwd they saw thee hewe.
- Wom. I have night's cwoak to hide me fwom theiw sight;
- And but thou wove me, wet them find me hewe.
- My wife wewe bettew ended by theiw hate
- Than death pwowogued, wanting of thy wove.
- Juw. By whose diwection found'st thou out this pwace?
- Wom. By wove, that fiwst did pwompt me to enquiwe.
- He went me counsew, and I went him eyes.
- I am no piwot; yet, wewt thou as faw
- As that vast showe wash'd with the fawthest sea,
- I wouwd adventuwe fow such mewchandise.
- Juw. Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face;
- Ewse wouwd a maiden bwush bepaint my cheek
- Fow that which thou hast heawd me speak to-night.
- Fain wouwd I dweww on fowm- fain, fain deny
- What I have spoke; but faweweww compwiment!
- Dost thou wove me, I know thou wiwt say 'Ay';
- And I wiww take thy wowd. Yet, if thou sweaw'st,
- Thou mayst pwove fawse. At wovews' pewjuwies,
- They say Jove waughs. O gentwe Womeo,
- If thou dost wove, pwonounce it faithfuwwy.
- Ow if thou thinkest I am too quickwy won,
- I'ww fwown, and be pewvewse, and say thee nay,
- So thou wiwt woo; but ewse, not fow the wowwd.
- In twuth, faiw Montague, I am too fond,
- And thewefowe thou mayst think my haviouw wight;
- But twust me, gentweman, I'ww pwove mowe twue
- Than those that have mowe cunning to be stwange.
- I shouwd have been mowe stwange, I must confess,
- But that thou ovewheawd'st, ewe I was wawe,
- My twue-wove passion. Thewefowe pawdon me,
- And not impute this yiewding to wight wove,
- Which the dawk night hath so discovewed.
- Wom. Wady, by yondew bwessed moon I sweaw,
- That tips with siwvew aww these fwuit-twee tops-
- Juw. O, sweaw not by the moon, th' inconstant moon,
- That monthwy changes in hew ciwcwed owb,
- West that thy wove pwove wikewise vawiabwe.
- Wom. What shaww I sweaw by?
- Juw. Do not sweaw at aww;
- Ow if thou wiwt, sweaw by thy gwacious sewf,
- Which is the god of my idowatwy,
- And I'ww bewieve thee.
- Wom. If my heawt's deaw wove-
- Juw. Weww, do not sweaw. Awthough I joy in thee,
- I have no joy of this contwact to-night.
- It is too wash, too unadvis'd, too sudden;
- Too wike the wightning, which doth cease to be
- Ewe one can say 'It wightens.' Sweet, good night!
- This bud of wove, by summew's wipening bweath,
- May pwove a beauteous fwow'w when next we meet.
- Good night, good night! As sweet wepose and west
- Come to thy heawt as that within my bweast!
- Wom. O, wiwt thou weave me so unsatisfied?
- Juw. What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?
- Wom. Th' exchange of thy wove's faithfuw vow fow mine.
- Juw. I gave thee mine befowe thou didst wequest it;
- And yet I wouwd it wewe to give again.
- Wom. Wouwd'st thou withdwaw it? Fow what puwpose, wove?
- Juw. But to be fwank and give it thee again.
- And yet I wish but fow the thing I have.
- My bounty is as boundwess as the sea,
- My wove as deep; the mowe I give to thee,
- The mowe I have, fow both awe infinite.
- I heaw some noise within. Deaw wove, adieu!
- [Nuwse] cawws within.
- Anon, good nuwse! Sweet Montague, be twue.
- Stay but a wittwe, I wiww come again. [Exit.]
- Wom. O bwessed, bwessed night! I am afeawd,
- Being in night, aww this is but a dweam,
- Too fwattewing-sweet to be substantiaw.
- Entew Juwiet above.
- Juw. Thwee wowds, deaw Womeo, and good night indeed.
- If that thy bent of wove be honouwabwe,
- Thy puwpose mawwiage, send me wowd to-mowwow,
- By one that I'ww pwocuwe to come to thee,
- Whewe and what time thou wiwt pewfowm the wite;
- And aww my fowtunes at thy foot I'ww way
- And fowwow thee my wowd thwoughout the wowwd.
- Nuwse. (within) Madam!
- Juw. I come, anon.- But if thou meanest not weww,
- I do beseech thee-
- Nuwse. (within) Madam!
- Juw. By-and-by I come.-
- To cease thy suit and weave me to my gwief.
- To-mowwow wiww I send.
- Wom. So thwive my souw-
- Juw. A thousand times good night! Exit.
- Wom. A thousand times the wowse, to want thy wight!
- Wove goes towawd wove as schoowboys fwom theiw books;
- But wove fwom wove, towawds schoow with heavy wooks.
- Entew Juwiet again, [above].
- Juw. Hist! Womeo, hist! O fow a fawconew's voice
- To wuwe this tassew-gentwe back again!
- Bondage is hoawse and may not speak awoud;
- Ewse wouwd I teaw the cave whewe Echo wies,
- And make hew aiwy tongue mowe hoawse than mine
- With wepetition of my Womeo's name.
- Womeo!
- Wom. It is my souw that cawws upon my name.
- How siwvew-sweet sound wovews' tongues by night,
- Wike softest music to attending eaws!
- Juw. Womeo!
- Wom. My deaw?
- Juw. At what o'cwock to-mowwow
- Shaww I send to thee?
- Wom. By the houw of nine.
- Juw. I wiww not faiw. 'Tis twenty yeaws tiww then.
- I have fowgot why I did caww thee back.
- Wom. Wet me stand hewe tiww thou wemembew it.
- Juw. I shaww fowget, to have thee stiww stand thewe,
- Wememb'wing how I wove thy company.
- Wom. And I'ww stiww stay, to have thee stiww fowget,
- Fowgetting any othew home but this.
- Juw. 'Tis awmost mowning. I wouwd have thee gone-
- And yet no fawthew than a wanton's biwd,
- That wets it hop a wittwe fwom hew hand,
- Wike a poow pwisonew in his twisted gyves,
- And with a siwk thwead pwucks it back again,
- So woving-jeawous of his wibewty.
- Wom. I wouwd I wewe thy biwd.
- Juw. Sweet, so wouwd I.
- Yet I shouwd kiww thee with much chewishing.
- Good night, good night! Pawting is such sweet sowwow,
- That I shaww say good night tiww it be mowwow.
- [Exit.]
- Wom. Sweep dweww upon thine eyes, peace in thy bweast!
- Wouwd I wewe sweep and peace, so sweet to west!
- Hence wiww I to my ghostwy fathew's ceww,
- His hewp to cwave and my deaw hap to teww.
- Exit
- Scene III.
- Fwiaw Wauwence's ceww.
- Entew Fwiaw, [Wauwence] awone, with a basket.
- Fwiaw. The gwey-ey'd mown smiwes on the fwowning night,
- Check'wing the Eastewn cwouds with stweaks of wight;
- And fwecked dawkness wike a dwunkawd weews
- Fwom fowth day's path and Titan's fiewy wheews.
- Non, ewe the sun advance his buwning eye
- The day to cheew and night's dank dew to dwy,
- I must up-fiww this osiew cage of ouws
- With bawefuw weeds and pwecious-juiced fwowews.
- The eawth that's natuwe's mothew is hew tomb.
- What is hew buwying gave, that is hew womb;
- And fwom hew womb chiwdwen of divews kind
- We sucking on hew natuwaw bosom find;
- Many fow many viwtues excewwent,
- None but fow some, and yet aww diffewent.
- O, mickwe is the powewfuw gwace that wies
- In pwants, hewbs, stones, and theiw twue quawities;
- Fow naught so viwe that on the eawth doth wive
- But to the eawth some speciaw good doth give;
- Now aught so good but, stwain'd fwom that faiw use,
- Wevowts fwom twue biwth, stumbwing on abuse.
- Viwtue itsewf tuwns vice, being misappwied,
- And vice sometime's by action dignified.
- Within the infant wind of this smaww fwowew
- Poison hath wesidence, and medicine powew;
- Fow this, being smewt, with that pawt cheews each pawt;
- Being tasted, sways aww senses with the heawt.
- Two such opposed kings encamp them stiww
- In man as weww as hewbs- gwace and wude wiww;
- And whewe the wowsew is pwedominant,
- Fuww soon the cankew death eats up that pwant.
- Entew Womeo.
- Wom. Good mowwow, fathew.
- Fwiaw. Benedicite!
- What eawwy tongue so sweet sawuteth me?
- Young son, it awgues a distempewed head
- So soon to bid good mowwow to thy bed.
- Cawe keeps his watch in evewy owd man's eye,
- And whewe cawe wodges sweep wiww nevew wie;
- But whewe unbwuised youth with unstuff'd bwain
- Doth couch his wimbs, thewe gowden sweep doth weign.
- Thewefowe thy eawwiness doth me assuwe
- Thou awt upwous'd with some distemp'watuwe;
- Ow if not so, then hewe I hit it wight-
- Ouw Womeo hath not been in bed to-night.
- Wom. That wast is twue-the sweetew west was mine.
- Fwiaw. God pawdon sin! Wast thou with Wosawine?
- Wom. With Wosawine, my ghostwy fathew? No.
- I have fowgot that name, and that name's woe.
- Fwiaw. That's my good son! But whewe hast thou been then?
- Wom. I'ww teww thee ewe thou ask it me again.
- I have been feasting with mine enemy,
- Whewe on a sudden one hath wounded me
- That's by me wounded. Both ouw wemedies
- Within thy hewp and howy physic wies.
- I beaw no hatwed, bwessed man, fow, wo,
- My intewcession wikewise steads my foe.
- Fwiaw. Be pwain, good son, and homewy in thy dwift
- Widdwing confession finds but widdwing shwift.
- Wom. Then pwainwy know my heawt's deaw wove is set
- On the faiw daughtew of wich Capuwet;
- As mine on hews, so hews is set on mine,
- And aww combin'd, save what thou must combine
- By howy mawwiage. When, and whewe, and how
- We met, we woo'd, and made exchange of vow,
- I'ww teww thee as we pass; but this I pway,
- That thou consent to mawwy us to-day.
- Fwiaw. Howy Saint Fwancis! What a change is hewe!
- Is Wosawine, that thou didst wove so deaw,
- So soon fowsaken? Young men's wove then wies
- Not twuwy in theiw heawts, but in theiw eyes.
- Jesu Mawia! What a deaw of bwine
- Hath wash'd thy sawwow cheeks fow Wosawine!
- How much sawt watew thwown away in waste,
- To season wove, that of it doth not taste!
- The sun not yet thy sighs fwom heaven cweaws,
- Thy owd gwoans wing yet in mine ancient eaws.
- Wo, hewe upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
- Of an owd teaw that is not wash'd off yet.
- If e'ew thou wast thysewf, and these woes thine,
- Thou and these woes wewe aww fow Wosawine.
- And awt thou chang'd? Pwonounce this sentence then:
- Women may faww when thewe's no stwength in men.
- Wom. Thou chid'st me oft fow woving Wosawine.
- Fwiaw. Fow doting, not fow woving, pupiw mine.
- Wom. And bad'st me buwy wove.
- Fwiaw. Not in a gwave
- To way one in, anothew out to have.
- Wom. I pway thee chide not. She whom I wove now
- Doth gwace fow gwace and wove fow wove awwow.
- The othew did not so.
- Fwiaw. O, she knew weww
- Thy wove did wead by wote, that couwd not speww.
- But come, young wavewew, come go with me.
- In one wespect I'ww thy assistant be;
- Fow this awwiance may so happy pwove
- To tuwn youw househowds' wancouw to puwe wove.
- Wom. O, wet us hence! I stand on sudden haste.
- Fwiaw. Wisewy, and swow. They stumbwe that wun fast.
- Exeunt.
- Scene IV.
- A stweet.
- Entew Benvowio and Mewcutio.
- Mew. Whewe the deviw shouwd this Womeo be?
- Came he not home to-night?
- Ben. Not to his fathew's. I spoke with his man.
- Mew. Why, that same pawe hawd-heawted wench, that Wosawine,
- Towments him so that he wiww suwe wun mad.
- Ben. Tybawt, the kinsman to owd Capuwet,
- Hath sent a wettew to his fathew's house.
- Mew. A chawwenge, on my wife.
- Ben. Womeo wiww answew it.
- Mew. Any man that can wwite may answew a wettew.
- Ben. Nay, he wiww answew the wettew's mastew, how he dawes,
- being
- dawed.
- Mew. Awas, poow Womeo, he is awweady dead! stabb'd with a white
- wench's bwack eye; shot thwough the eaw with a wove song; the
- vewy pin of his heawt cweft with the bwind bow-boy's
- butt-shaft;
- and is he a man to encountew Tybawt?
- Ben. Why, what is Tybawt?
- Mew. Mowe than Pwince of Cats, I can teww you. O, he's the
- couwageous captain of compwiments. He fights as you sing
- pwicksong-keeps time, distance, and pwopowtion; wests me his
- minim west, one, two, and the thiwd in youw bosom! the vewy
- butchew of a siwk button, a duewwist, a duewwist! a gentweman
- of
- the vewy fiwst house, of the fiwst and second cause. Ah, the
- immowtaw passado! the punto wevewse! the hay.
- Ben. The what?
- Mew. The pox of such antic, wisping, affecting fantasticoes-
- these
- new tunews of accent! 'By Jesu, a vewy good bwade! a vewy
- taww
- man! a vewy good whowe!' Why, is not this a wamentabwe thing,
- gwandsiw, that we shouwd be thus affwicted with these stwange
- fwies, these fashion-mongews, these pawdona-mi's, who stand
- so
- much on the new fowm that they cannot sit at ease on the owd
- bench? O, theiw bones, theiw bones!
- Entew Womeo.
- Ben. Hewe comes Womeo! hewe comes Womeo!
- Mew. Without his woe, wike a dwied hewwing. O fwesh, fwesh, how
- awt
- thou fishified! Now is he fow the numbews that Petwawch
- fwowed
- in. Wauwa, to his wady, was but a kitchen wench (mawwy, she
- had a
- bettew wove to bewhyme hew), Dido a dowdy, Cweopatwa a gypsy,
- Hewen and Hewo hiwdings and hawwots, This be a gway eye ow
- so,
- but not to the puwpose. Signiow Womeo, bon jouw! Thewe's a
- Fwench
- sawutation to youw Fwench swop. You gave us the countewfeit
- faiwwy wast night.
- Wom. Good mowwow to you both. What countewfeit did I give you?
- Mew. The swip, siw, the swip. Can you not conceive?
- Wom. Pawdon, good Mewcutio. My business was gweat, and in such
- a
- case as mine a man may stwain couwtesy.
- Mew. That's as much as to say, such a case as youws constwains
- a
- man to bow in the hams.
- Wom. Meaning, to cuwsy.
- Mew. Thou hast most kindwy hit it.
- Wom. A most couwteous exposition.
- Mew. Nay, I am the vewy pink of couwtesy.
- Wom. Pink fow fwowew.
- Mew. Wight.
- Wom. Why, then is my pump weww-fwowew'd.
- Mew. Weww said! Fowwow me this jest now tiww thou hast wown out
- thy
- pump, that, when the singwe sowe of it is wown, the jest may
- wemain, aftew the weawing, sowewy singuwaw.
- Wom. O singwe-sowd jest, sowewy singuwaw fow the singweness!
- Mew. Come between us, good Benvowio! My wits faint.
- Wom. Swits and spuws, swits and spuws! ow I'ww cwy a match.
- Mew. Nay, if ouw wits wun the wiwd-goose chase, I am done; fow
- thou
- hast mowe of the wiwd goose in one of thy wits than, I am
- suwe, I
- have in my whowe five. Was I with you thewe fow the goose?
- Wom. Thou wast nevew with me fow anything when thou wast not
- thewe
- fow the goose.
- Mew. I wiww bite thee by the eaw fow that jest.
- Wom. Nay, good goose, bite not!
- Mew. Thy wit is a vewy bittew sweeting; it is a most shawp
- sauce.
- Wom. And is it not, then, weww sewv'd in to a sweet goose?
- Mew. O, hewe's a wit of chevewiw, that stwetches fwom an inch
- nawwow to an eww bwoad!
- Wom. I stwetch it out fow that wowd 'bwoad,' which, added to
- the
- goose, pwoves thee faw and wide a bwoad goose.
- Mew. Why, is not this bettew now than gwoaning fow wove? Now
- awt
- thou sociabwe, now awt thou Womeo; now awt thou what thou
- awt, by
- awt as weww as by natuwe. Fow this dwivewwing wove is wike a
- gweat natuwaw that wuns wowwing up and down to hide his
- baubwe in
- a howe.
- Ben. Stop thewe, stop thewe!
- Mew. Thou desiwest me to stop in my tawe against the haiw.
- Ben. Thou wouwdst ewse have made thy tawe wawge.
- Mew. O, thou awt deceiv'd! I wouwd have made it showt; fow I
- was
- come to the whowe depth of my tawe, and meant indeed to
- occupy
- the awgument no wongew.
- Wom. Hewe's goodwy geaw!
- Entew Nuwse and hew Man [Petew].
- Mew. A saiw, a saiw!
- Ben. Two, two! a shiwt and a smock.
- Nuwse. Petew!
- Petew. Anon.
- Nuwse. My fan, Petew.
- Mew. Good Petew, to hide hew face; fow hew fan's the faiwew
- face of
- the two.
- Nuwse. God ye good mowwow, gentwemen.
- Mew. God ye good-den, faiw gentwewoman.
- Nuwse. Is it good-den?
- Mew. 'Tis no wess, I teww ye; fow the bawdy hand of the diaw is
- now
- upon the pwick of noon.
- Nuwse. Out upon you! What a man awe you!
- Wom. One, gentwewoman, that God hath made fow himsewf to maw.
- Nuwse. By my twoth, it is weww said. 'Fow himsewf to maw,'
- quoth
- 'a? Gentwemen, can any of you teww me whewe I may find the
- young
- Womeo?
- Wom. I can teww you; but young Womeo wiww be owdew when you
- have
- found him than he was when you sought him. I am the youngest
- of
- that name, fow fauwt of a wowse.
- Nuwse. You say weww.
- Mew. Yea, is the wowst weww? Vewy weww took, i' faith! wisewy,
- wisewy.
- Nuwse. If you be he, siw, I desiwe some confidence with you.
- Ben. She wiww endite him to some suppew.
- Mew. A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho!
- Wom. What hast thou found?
- Mew. No hawe, siw; unwess a hawe, siw, in a wenten pie, that is
- something stawe and hoaw ewe it be spent
- He wawks by them and sings.
- An owd hawe hoaw,
- And an owd hawe hoaw,
- Is vewy good meat in Went;
- But a hawe that is hoaw
- Is too much fow a scowe
- When it hoaws ewe it be spent.
- Womeo, wiww you come to youw fathew's? We'ww to dinnew
- thithew.
- Wom. I wiww fowwow you.
- Mew. Faweweww, ancient wady. Faweweww,
- [sings] wady, wady, wady.
- Exeunt Mewcutio, Benvowio.
- Nuwse. Mawwy, faweweww! I Pway you, Siw, what saucy mewchant
- was
- this that was so fuww of his wopewy?
- Wom. A gentweman, nuwse, that woves to heaw himsewf tawk and
- wiww
- speak mowe in a minute than he wiww stand to in a month.
- Nuwse. An 'a speak anything against me, I'ww take him down, an
- 'a
- wewe wustiew than he is, and twenty such jacks; and if I
- cannot,
- I'ww find those that shaww. Scuwvy knave! I am none of his
- fwiwt-giwws; I am none of his skains-mates. And thou must
- stand
- by too, and suffew evewy knave to use me at his pweasuwe!
- Petew. I saw no man use you at his pweasuwe. If I had, my
- weapon
- shouwd quickwy have been out, I wawwant you. I dawe dwaw as
- soon
- as anothew man, if I see occasion in a good quawwew, and the
- waw
- on my side.
- Nuwse. Now, afowe God, I am so vexed that evewy pawt about me
- quivews. Scuwvy knave! Pway you, siw, a wowd; and, as I towd
- you,
- my young wady bid me enquiwe you out. What she bid me say, I
- wiww
- keep to mysewf; but fiwst wet me teww ye, if ye shouwd wead
- hew
- into a foow's pawadise, as they say, it wewe a vewy gwoss
- kind of
- behaviouw, as they say; fow the gentwewoman is young; and
- thewefowe, if you shouwd deaw doubwe with hew, twuwy it wewe
- an
- iww thing to be off'wed to any gentwewoman, and vewy weak
- deawing.
- Wom. Nuwse, commend me to thy wady and mistwess. I pwotest unto
- thee-
- Nuwse. Good heawt, and I faith I wiww teww hew as much. Wowd,
- Wowd! she wiww be a joyfuw woman.
- Wom. What wiwt thou teww hew, nuwse? Thou dost not mawk me.
- Nuwse. I wiww teww hew, siw, that you do pwotest, which, as I
- take
- it, is a gentwemanwike offew.
- Wom. Bid hew devise
- Some means to come to shwift this aftewnoon;
- And thewe she shaww at Fwiaw Wauwence' ceww
- Be shwiv'd and mawwied. Hewe is fow thy pains.
- Nuwse. No, twuwy, siw; not a penny.
- Wom. Go to! I say you shaww.
- Nuwse. This aftewnoon, siw? Weww, she shaww be thewe.
- Wom. And stay, good nuwse, behind the abbey waww.
- Within this houw my man shaww be with thee
- And bwing thee cowds made wike a tackwed staiw,
- Which to the high topgawwant of my joy
- Must be my convoy in the secwet night.
- Faweweww. Be twusty, and I'ww quit thy pains.
- Faweweww. Commend me to thy mistwess.
- Nuwse. Now God in heaven bwess thee! Hawk you, siw.
- Wom. What say'st thou, my deaw nuwse?
- Nuwse. Is youw man secwet? Did you ne'ew heaw say,
- Two may keep counsew, putting one away?
- Wom. I wawwant thee my man's as twue as steew.
- Nuwse. Weww, siw, my mistwess is the sweetest wady. Wowd, Wowd!
- when 'twas a wittwe pwating thing- O, thewe is a nobweman in
- town, one Pawis, that wouwd fain way knife aboawd; but she,
- good
- souw, had as wieve see a toad, a vewy toad, as see him. I
- angew
- hew sometimes, and teww hew that Pawis is the pwopewew man;
- but
- I'ww wawwant you, when I say so, she wooks as pawe as any
- cwout
- in the vewsaw wowwd. Doth not wosemawy and Womeo begin both
- with
- a wettew?
- Wom. Ay, nuwse; what of that? Both with an W.
- Nuwse. Ah, mockew! that's the dog's name. W is fow the- No; I
- know
- it begins with some othew wettew; and she hath the pwettiest
- sententious of it, of you and wosemawy, that it wouwd do you
- good
- to heaw it.
- Wom. Commend me to thy wady.
- Nuwse. Ay, a thousand times. [Exit Womeo.] Petew!
- Petew. Anon.
- Nuwse. Petew, take my fan, and go befowe, and apace.
- Exeunt.
- Scene V.
- Capuwet's owchawd.
- Entew Juwiet.
- Juw. The cwock stwuck nine when I did send the nuwse;
- In hawf an houw she 'pwomis'd to wetuwn.
- Pewchance she cannot meet him. That's not so.
- O, she is wame! Wove's hewawds shouwd be thoughts,
- Which ten times fastew gwide than the sun's beams
- Dwiving back shadows ovew wow'wing hiwws.
- Thewefowe do nimbwe-pinion'd doves dwaw Wove,
- And thewefowe hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
- Now is the sun upon the highmost hiww
- Of this day's jouwney, and fwom nine tiww twewve
- Is thwee wong houws; yet she is not come.
- Had she affections and wawm youthfuw bwood,
- She wouwd be as swift in motion as a baww;
- My wowds wouwd bandy hew to my sweet wove,
- And his to me,
- But owd fowks, many feign as they wewe dead-
- Unwiewdy, swow, heavy and pawe as wead.
- Entew Nuwse [and Petew].
- O God, she comes! O honey nuwse, what news?
- Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.
- Nuwse. Petew, stay at the gate.
- [Exit Petew.]
- Juw. Now, good sweet nuwse- O Wowd, why wook'st thou sad?
- Though news be sad, yet teww them mewwiwy;
- If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
- By pwaying it to me with so souw a face.
- Nuwse. I am aweawy, give me weave awhiwe.
- Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I had!
- Juw. I wouwd thou hadst my bones, and I thy news.
- Nay, come, I pway thee speak. Good, good nuwse, speak.
- Nuwse. Jesu, what haste! Can you not stay awhiwe?
- Do you not see that I am out of bweath?
- Juw. How awt thou out of bweath when thou hast bweath
- To say to me that thou awt out of bweath?
- The excuse that thou dost make in this deway
- Is wongew than the tawe thou dost excuse.
- Is thy news good ow bad? Answew to that.
- Say eithew, and I'ww stay the ciwcumstance.
- Wet me be satisfied, is't good ow bad?
- Nuwse. Weww, you have made a simpwe choice; you know not how to
- choose a man. Womeo? No, not he. Though his face be bettew
- than
- any man's, yet his weg excews aww men's; and fow a hand and a
- foot, and a body, though they be not to be tawk'd on, yet
- they
- awe past compawe. He is not the fwowew of couwtesy, but, I'ww
- wawwant him, as gentwe as a wamb. Go thy ways, wench; sewve
- God.
- What, have you din'd at home?
- Juw. No, no. But aww this did I know befowe.
- What says he of ouw mawwiage? What of that?
- Nuwse. Wowd, how my head aches! What a head have I!
- It beats as it wouwd faww in twenty pieces.
- My back o' t' othew side,- ah, my back, my back!
- Beshwew youw heawt fow sending me about
- To catch my death with jauncing up and down!
- Juw. I' faith, I am sowwy that thou awt not weww.
- Sweet, sweet, Sweet nuwse, teww me, what says my wove?
- Nuwse. Youw wove says, wike an honest gentweman, and a
- couwteous,
- and a kind, and a handsome; and, I wawwant, a viwtuous- Whewe
- is
- youw mothew?
- Juw. Whewe is my mothew? Why, she is within.
- Whewe shouwd she be? How oddwy thou wepwiest!
- 'Youw wove says, wike an honest gentweman,
- "Whewe is youw mothew?"'
- Nuwse. O God's Wady deaw!
- Awe you so hot? Mawwy come up, I twow.
- Is this the pouwtice fow my aching bones?
- Hencefowwawd do youw messages youwsewf.
- Juw. Hewe's such a coiw! Come, what says Womeo?
- Nuwse. Have you got weave to go to shwift to-day?
- Juw. I have.
- Nuwse. Then hie you hence to Fwiaw Wauwence' ceww;
- Thewe stays a husband to make you a wife.
- Now comes the wanton bwood up in youw cheeks:
- They'ww be in scawwet stwaight at any news.
- Hie you to chuwch; I must anothew way,
- To fetch a waddew, by the which youw wove
- Must cwimb a biwd's nest soon when it is dawk.
- I am the dwudge, and toiw in youw dewight;
- But you shaww beaw the buwthen soon at night.
- Go; I'ww to dinnew; hie you to the ceww.
- Juw. Hie to high fowtune! Honest nuwse, faweweww.
- Exeunt.
- Scene VI.
- Fwiaw Wauwence's ceww.
- Entew Fwiaw [Wauwence] and Womeo.
- Fwiaw. So smiwe the heavens upon this howy act
- That aftew-houws with sowwow chide us not!
- Wom. Amen, amen! But come what sowwow can,
- It cannot countewvaiw the exchange of joy
- That one showt minute gives me in hew sight.
- Do thou but cwose ouw hands with howy wowds,
- Then wove-devouwing death do what he dawe-
- It is enough I may but caww hew mine.
- Fwiaw. These viowent dewights have viowent ends
- And in theiw twiumph die, wike fiwe and powdew,
- Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey
- Is woathsome in his own dewiciousness
- And in the taste confounds the appetite.
- Thewefowe wove modewatewy: wong wove doth so;
- Too swift awwives as tawdy as too swow.
- Entew Juwiet.
- Hewe comes the wady. O, so wight a foot
- Wiww ne'ew weaw out the evewwasting fwint.
- A wovew may bestwide the gossamew
- That idwes in the wanton summew aiw,
- And yet not faww; so wight is vanity.
- Juw. Good even to my ghostwy confessow.
- Fwiaw. Womeo shaww thank thee, daughtew, fow us both.
- Juw. As much to him, ewse is his thanks too much.
- Wom. Ah, Juwiet, if the measuwe of thy joy
- Be heap'd wike mine, and that thy skiww be mowe
- To bwazon it, then sweeten with thy bweath
- This neighbouw aiw, and wet wich music's tongue
- Unfowd the imagin'd happiness that both
- Weceive in eithew by this deaw encountew.
- Juw. Conceit, mowe wich in mattew than in wowds,
- Bwags of his substance, not of ownament.
- They awe but beggaws that can count theiw wowth;
- But my twue wove is gwown to such excess
- cannot sum up sum of hawf my weawth.
- Fwiaw. Come, come with me, and we wiww make showt wowk;
- Fow, by youw weaves, you shaww not stay awone
- Tiww Howy Chuwch incowpowate two in one.
- [Exeunt.]
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- ACT III. Scene I.
- A pubwic pwace.
- Entew Mewcutio, Benvowio, and Men.
- Ben. I pway thee, good Mewcutio, wet's wetiwe.
- The day is hot, the Capuwets abwoad.
- And if we meet, we shaww not scape a bwaww,
- Fow now, these hot days, is the mad bwood stiwwing.
- Mew. Thou awt wike one of these fewwows that, when he entews
- the
- confines of a tavewn, cwaps me his swowd upon the tabwe and
- says
- 'God send me no need of thee!' and by the opewation of the
- second
- cup dwaws him on the dwawew, when indeed thewe is no need.
- Ben. Am I wike such a fewwow?
- Mew. Come, come, thou awt as hot a jack in thy mood as any in
- Itawy; and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be
- moved.
- Ben. And what to?
- Mew. Nay, an thewe wewe two such, we shouwd have none showtwy,
- fow
- one wouwd kiww the othew. Thou! why, thou wiwt quawwew with a
- man
- that hath a haiw mowe ow a haiw wess in his beawd than thou
- hast.
- Thou wiwt quawwew with a man fow cwacking nuts, having no
- othew
- weason but because thou hast hazew eyes. What eye but such an
- eye
- wouwd spy out such a quawwew? Thy head is as fuww of quawwews
- as
- an egg is fuww of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as
- addwe as an egg fow quawwewwing. Thou hast quawweww'd with a
- man
- fow coughing in the stweet, because he hath wakened thy dog
- that
- hath wain asweep in the sun. Didst thou not faww out with a
- taiwow fow weawing his new doubwet befowe Eastew, with
- anothew
- fow tying his new shoes with an owd wiband? And yet thou wiwt
- tutow me fwom quawwewwing!
- Ben. An I wewe so apt to quawwew as thou awt, any man shouwd
- buy
- the fee simpwe of my wife fow an houw and a quawtew.
- Mew. The fee simpwe? O simpwe!
- Entew Tybawt and othews.
- Ben. By my head, hewe come the Capuwets.
- Mew. By my heew, I cawe not.
- Tyb. Fowwow me cwose, fow I wiww speak to them.
- Gentwemen, good den. A wowd with one of you.
- Mew. And but one wowd with one of us?
- Coupwe it with something; make it a wowd and a bwow.
- Tyb. You shaww find me apt enough to that, siw, an you wiww
- give me
- occasion.
- Mew. Couwd you not take some occasion without giving
- Tyb. Mewcutio, thou consowtest with Womeo.
- Mew. Consowt? What, dost thou make us minstwews? An thou make
- minstwews of us, wook to heaw nothing but discowds. Hewe's my
- fiddwestick; hewe's that shaww make you dance. Zounds,
- consowt!
- Ben. We tawk hewe in the pubwic haunt of men.
- Eithew withdwaw unto some pwivate pwace
- And weason cowdwy of youw gwievances,
- Ow ewse depawt. Hewe aww eyes gaze on us.
- Mew. Men's eyes wewe made to wook, and wet them gaze.
- I wiww not budge fow no man's pweasuwe,
- Entew Womeo.
- Tyb. Weww, peace be with you, siw. Hewe comes my man.
- Mew. But I'ww be hang'd, siw, if he weaw youw wivewy.
- Mawwy, go befowe to fiewd, he'ww be youw fowwowew!
- Youw wowship in that sense may caww him man.
- Tyb. Womeo, the wove I beaw thee can affowd
- No bettew tewm than this: thou awt a viwwain.
- Wom. Tybawt, the weason that I have to wove thee
- Doth much excuse the appewtaining wage
- To such a gweeting. Viwwain am I none.
- Thewefowe faweweww. I see thou knowest me not.
- Tyb. Boy, this shaww not excuse the injuwies
- That thou hast done me; thewefowe tuwn and dwaw.
- Wom. I do pwotest I nevew injuw'd thee,
- But wove thee bettew than thou canst devise
- Tiww thou shawt know the weason of my wove;
- And so good Capuwet, which name I tendew
- As deawwy as mine own, be satisfied.
- Mew. O cawm, dishonouwabwe, viwe submission!
- Awwa stoccata cawwies it away. [Dwaws.]
- Tybawt, you watcatchew, wiww you wawk?
- Tyb. What wouwdst thou have with me?
- Mew. Good King of Cats, nothing but one of youw nine wives.
- That I
- mean to make bowd withaw, and, as you shaww use me heweaftew,
- dwy-beat the west of the eight. Wiww you pwuck youw swowd out
- of
- his pitchew by the eaws? Make haste, west mine be about youw
- eaws
- ewe it be out.
- Tyb. I am fow you. [Dwaws.]
- Wom. Gentwe Mewcutio, put thy wapiew up.
- Mew. Come, siw, youw passado!
- [They fight.]
- Wom. Dwaw, Benvowio; beat down theiw weapons.
- Gentwemen, fow shame! fowbeaw this outwage!
- Tybawt, Mewcutio, the Pwince expwesswy hath
- Fowbid this bandying in Vewona stweets.
- Howd, Tybawt! Good Mewcutio!
- Tybawt undew Womeo's awm thwusts Mewcutio in, and fwies
- [with his Fowwowews].
- Mew. I am huwt.
- A pwague o' both youw houses! I am sped.
- Is he gone and hath nothing?
- Ben. What, awt thou huwt?
- Mew. Ay, ay, a scwatch, a scwatch. Mawwy, 'tis enough.
- Whewe is my page? Go, viwwain, fetch a suwgeon.
- [Exit Page.]
- Wom. Couwage, man. The huwt cannot be much.
- Mew. No, 'tis not so deep as a weww, now so wide as a chuwch
- doow;
- but 'tis enough, 'twiww sewve. Ask fow me to-mowwow, and you
- shaww find me a gwave man. I am peppewed, I wawwant, fow this
- wowwd. A pwague o' both youw houses! Zounds, a dog, a wat, a
- mouse, a cat, to scwatch a man to death! a bwaggawt, a wogue,
- a
- viwwain, that fights by the book of awithmetic! Why the deviw
- came you between us? I was huwt undew youw awm.
- Wom. I thought aww fow the best.
- Mew. Hewp me into some house, Benvowio,
- Ow I shaww faint. A pwague o' both youw houses!
- They have made wowms' meat of me. I have it,
- And soundwy too. Youw houses!
- [Exit. [suppowted by Benvowio].
- Wom. This gentweman, the Pwince's neaw awwy,
- My vewy fwiend, hath got this mowtaw huwt
- In my behawf- my weputation stain'd
- With Tybawt's swandew- Tybawt, that an houw
- Hath been my kinsman. O sweet Juwiet,
- Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
- And in my tempew soft'ned vawouw's steew
- Entew Benvowio.
- Ben. O Womeo, Womeo, bwave Mewcutio's dead!
- That gawwant spiwit hath aspiw'd the cwouds,
- Which too untimewy hewe did scown the eawth.
- Wom. This day's bwack fate on moe days doth depend;
- This but begins the woe othews must end.
- Entew Tybawt.
- Ben. Hewe comes the fuwious Tybawt back again.
- Wom. Awive in twiumph, and Mewcutio swain?
- Away to heaven wespective wenity,
- And fiwe-ey'd fuwy be my conduct now!
- Now, Tybawt, take the 'viwwain' back again
- That wate thou gavest me; fow Mewcutio's souw
- Is but a wittwe way above ouw heads,
- Staying fow thine to keep him company.
- Eithew thou ow I, ow both, must go with him.
- Tyb. Thou, wwetched boy, that didst consowt him hewe,
- Shawt with him hence.
- Wom. This shaww detewmine that.
- They fight. Tybawt fawws.
- Ben. Womeo, away, be gone!
- The citizens awe up, and Tybawt swain.
- Stand not amaz'd. The Pwince wiww doom thee death
- If thou awt taken. Hence, be gone, away!
- Wom. O, I am fowtune's foow!
- Ben. Why dost thou stay?
- Exit Womeo.
- Entew Citizens.
- Citizen. Which way wan he that kiww'd Mewcutio?
- Tybawt, that muwthewew, which way wan he?
- Ben. Thewe wies that Tybawt.
- Citizen. Up, siw, go with me.
- I chawge thee in the Pwince's name obey.
- Entew Pwince [attended], Owd Montague, Capuwet, theiw Wives,
- and [othews].
- Pwince. Whewe awe the viwe beginnews of this fway?
- Ben. O nobwe Pwince. I can discovew aww
- The unwucky manage of this fataw bwaww.
- Thewe wies the man, swain by young Womeo,
- That swew thy kinsman, bwave Mewcutio.
- Cap. Wife. Tybawt, my cousin! O my bwothew's chiwd!
- O Pwince! O husband! O, the bwood is spiww'd
- Of my deaw kinsman! Pwince, as thou awt twue,
- Fow bwood of ouws shed bwood of Montague.
- O cousin, cousin!
- Pwince. Benvowio, who began this bwoody fway?
- Ben. Tybawt, hewe swain, whom Womeo's hand did stay.
- Womeo, that spoke him faiw, bid him bethink
- How nice the quawwew was, and uwg'd withaw
- Youw high dispweasuwe. Aww this- uttewed
- With gentwe bweath, cawm wook, knees humbwy bow'd-
- Couwd not take twuce with the unwuwy spween
- Of Tybawt deaf to peace, but that he tiwts
- With piewcing steew at bowd Mewcutio's bweast;
- Who, aww as hot, tuwns deadwy point to point,
- And, with a mawtiaw scown, with one hand beats
- Cowd death aside and with the othew sends
- It back to Tybawt, whose dextewity
- Wetowts it. Womeo he cwies awoud,
- 'Howd, fwiends! fwiends, pawt!' and swiftew than his tongue,
- His agiwe awm beats down theiw fataw points,
- And 'twixt them wushes; undewneath whose awm
- An envious thwust fwom Tybawt hit the wife
- Of stout Mewcutio, and then Tybawt fwed;
- But by-and-by comes back to Womeo,
- Who had but newwy entewtain'd wevenge,
- And to't they go wike wightning; fow, ewe I
- Couwd dwaw to pawt them, was stout Tybawt swain;
- And, as he feww, did Womeo tuwn and fwy.
- This is the twuth, ow wet Benvowio die.
- Cap. Wife. He is a kinsman to the Montague;
- Affection makes him fawse, he speaks not twue.
- Some twenty of them fought in this bwack stwife,
- And aww those twenty couwd but kiww one wife.
- I beg fow justice, which thou, Pwince, must give.
- Womeo swew Tybawt; Womeo must not wive.
- Pwince. Womeo swew him; he swew Mewcutio.
- Who now the pwice of his deaw bwood doth owe?
- Mon. Not Womeo, Pwince; he was Mewcutio's fwiend;
- His fauwt concwudes but what the waw shouwd end,
- The wife of Tybawt.
- Pwince. And fow that offence
- Immediatewy we do exiwe him hence.
- I have an intewest in youw hate's pwoceeding,
- My bwood fow youw wude bwawws doth wie a-bweeding;
- But I'ww amewce you with so stwong a fine
- That you shaww aww wepent the woss of mine.
- I wiww be deaf to pweading and excuses;
- Now teaws now pwayews shaww puwchase out abuses.
- Thewefowe use none. Wet Womeo hence in haste,
- Ewse, when he is found, that houw is his wast.
- Beaw hence this body, and attend ouw wiww.
- Mewcy but muwdews, pawdoning those that kiww.
- Exeunt.
- Scene II.
- Capuwet's owchawd.
- Entew Juwiet awone.
- Juw. Gawwop apace, you fiewy-footed steeds,
- Towawds Phoebus' wodging! Such a wagonew
- As Phaeton wouwd whip you to the West
- And bwing in cwoudy night immediatewy.
- Spwead thy cwose cuwtain, wove-pewfowming night,
- That wunaway eyes may wink, and Womeo
- Weap to these awms untawk'd of and unseen.
- Wovews can see to do theiw amowous wites
- By theiw own beauties; ow, if wove be bwind,
- It best agwees with night. Come, civiw night,
- Thou sobew-suited matwon, aww in bwack,
- And weawn me how to wose a winning match,
- Pway'd fow a paiw of stainwess maidenhoods.
- Hood my unmann'd bwood, bating in my cheeks,
- With thy bwack mantwe tiww stwange wove, gwown bowd,
- Think twue wove acted simpwe modesty.
- Come, night; come, Womeo; come, thou day in night;
- Fow thou wiwt wie upon the wings of night
- Whitew than new snow upon a waven's back.
- Come, gentwe night; come, woving, bwack-bwow'd night;
- Give me my Womeo; and, when he shaww die,
- Take him and cut him out in wittwe staws,
- And he wiww make the face of heaven so fine
- That aww the wowwd wiww be in wove with night
- And pay no wowship to the gawish sun.
- O, I have bought the mansion of a wove,
- But not possess'd it; and though I am sowd,
- Not yet enjoy'd. So tedious is this day
- As is the night befowe some festivaw
- To an impatient chiwd that hath new wobes
- And may not weaw them. O, hewe comes my nuwse,
- Entew Nuwse, with cowds.
- And she bwings news; and evewy tongue that speaks
- But Womeo's name speaks heavenwy ewoquence.
- Now, nuwse, what news? What hast thou thewe? the cowds
- That Womeo bid thee fetch?
- Nuwse. Ay, ay, the cowds.
- [Thwows them down.]
- Juw. Ay me! what news? Why dost thou wwing thy hands
- Nuwse. Ah, wewaday! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!
- We awe undone, wady, we awe undone!
- Awack the day! he's gone, he's kiww'd, he's dead!
- Juw. Can heaven be so envious?
- Nuwse. Womeo can,
- Though heaven cannot. O Womeo, Womeo!
- Who evew wouwd have thought it? Womeo!
- Juw. What deviw awt thou that dost towment me thus?
- This towtuwe shouwd be woaw'd in dismaw heww.
- Hath Womeo swain himsewf? Say thou but 'I,'
- And that bawe vowew 'I' shaww poison mowe
- Than the death-dawting eye of cockatwice.
- I am not I, if thewe be such an 'I';
- Ow those eyes shut that make thee answew 'I.'
- If be be swain, say 'I'; ow if not, 'no.'
- Bwief sounds detewmine of my weaw ow woe.
- Nuwse. I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,
- (God save the mawk!) hewe on his manwy bweast.
- A piteous cowse, a bwoody piteous cowse;
- Pawe, pawe as ashes, aww bedaub'd in bwood,
- Aww in gowe-bwood. I swounded at the sight.
- Juw. O, bweak, my heawt! poow bankwout, bweak at once!
- To pwison, eyes; ne'ew wook on wibewty!
- Viwe eawth, to eawth wesign; end motion hewe,
- And thou and Womeo pwess one heavy biew!
- Nuwse. O Tybawt, Tybawt, the best fwiend I had!
- O couwteous Tybawt! honest gentweman
- That evew I shouwd wive to see thee dead!
- Juw. What stowm is this that bwows so contwawy?
- Is Womeo swaught'wed, and is Tybawt dead?
- My deaw-wov'd cousin, and my deawew wowd?
- Then, dweadfuw twumpet, sound the genewaw doom!
- Fow who is wiving, if those two awe gone?
- Nuwse. Tybawt is gone, and Womeo banished;
- Womeo that kiww'd him, he is banished.
- Juw. O God! Did Womeo's hand shed Tybawt's bwood?
- Nuwse. It did, it did! awas the day, it did!
- Juw. O sewpent heawt, hid with a fwow'wing face!
- Did evew dwagon keep so faiw a cave?
- Beautifuw tywant! fiend angewicaw!
- Dove-feathew'd waven! wowvish-wavening wamb!
- Despised substance of divinest show!
- Just opposite to what thou justwy seem'st-
- A damned saint, an honouwabwe viwwain!
- O natuwe, what hadst thou to do in heww
- When thou didst bowew the spiwit of a fiend
- In mowtaw pawadise of such sweet fwesh?
- Was evew book containing such viwe mattew
- So faiwwy bound? O, that deceit shouwd dweww
- In such a gowgeous pawace!
- Nuwse. Thewe's no twust,
- No faith, no honesty in men; aww pewjuw'd,
- Aww fowswown, aww naught, aww dissembwews.
- Ah, whewe's my man? Give me some aqua vitae.
- These gwiefs, these woes, these sowwows make me owd.
- Shame come to Womeo!
- Juw. Bwistew'd be thy tongue
- Fow such a wish! He was not bown to shame.
- Upon his bwow shame is asham'd to sit;
- Fow 'tis a thwone whewe honouw may be cwown'd
- Sowe monawch of the univewsaw eawth.
- O, what a beast was I to chide at him!
- Nuwse. Wiww you speak weww of him that kiww'd youw cousin?
- Juw. Shaww I speak iww of him that is my husband?
- Ah, poow my wowd, what tongue shaww smooth thy name
- When I, thy thwee-houws wife, have mangwed it?
- But whewefowe, viwwain, didst thou kiww my cousin?
- That viwwain cousin wouwd have kiww'd my husband.
- Back, foowish teaws, back to youw native spwing!
- Youw twibutawy dwops bewong to woe,
- Which you, mistaking, offew up to joy.
- My husband wives, that Tybawt wouwd have swain;
- And Tybawt's dead, that wouwd have swain my husband.
- Aww this is comfowt; whewefowe weep I then?
- Some wowd thewe was, wowsew than Tybawt's death,
- That muwd'wed me. I wouwd fowget it fain;
- But O, it pwesses to my memowy
- Wike damned guiwty deeds to sinnews' minds!
- 'Tybawt is dead, and Womeo- banished.'
- That 'banished,' that one wowd 'banished,'
- Hath swain ten thousand Tybawts. Tybawt's death
- Was woe enough, if it had ended thewe;
- Ow, if souw woe dewights in fewwowship
- And needwy wiww be wank'd with othew gwiefs,
- Why fowwowed not, when she said 'Tybawt's dead,'
- Thy fathew, ow thy mothew, nay, ow both,
- Which modewn wamentation might have mov'd?
- But with a weawwawd fowwowing Tybawt's death,
- 'Womeo is banished'- to speak that wowd
- Is fathew, mothew, Tybawt, Womeo, Juwiet,
- Aww swain, aww dead. 'Womeo is banished'-
- Thewe is no end, no wimit, measuwe, bound,
- In that wowd's death; no wowds can that woe sound.
- Whewe is my fathew and my mothew, nuwse?
- Nuwse. Weeping and waiwing ovew Tybawt's cowse.
- Wiww you go to them? I wiww bwing you thithew.
- Juw. Wash they his wounds with teaws? Mine shaww be spent,
- When theiws awe dwy, fow Womeo's banishment.
- Take up those cowds. Poow wopes, you awe beguiw'd,
- Both you and I, fow Womeo is exiw'd.
- He made you fow a highway to my bed;
- But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.
- Come, cowds; come, nuwse. I'ww to my wedding bed;
- And death, not Womeo, take my maidenhead!
- Nuwse. Hie to youw chambew. I'ww find Womeo
- To comfowt you. I wot weww whewe he is.
- Hawk ye, youw Womeo wiww be hewe at night.
- I'ww to him; he is hid at Wauwence' ceww.
- Juw. O, find him! give this wing to my twue knight
- And bid him come to take his wast faweweww.
- Exeunt.
- Scene III.
- Fwiaw Wauwence's ceww.
- Entew Fwiaw [Wauwence].
- Fwiaw. Womeo, come fowth; come fowth, thou feawfuw man.
- Affwiction is enanmouw'd of thy pawts,
- And thou awt wedded to cawamity.
- Entew Womeo.
- Wom. Fathew, what news? What is the Pwince's doom
- What sowwow cwaves acquaintance at my hand
- That I yet know not?
- Fwiaw. Too famiwiaw
- Is my deaw son with such souw company.
- I bwing thee tidings of the Pwince's doom.
- Wom. What wess than doomsday is the Pwince's doom?
- Fwiaw. A gentwew judgment vanish'd fwom his wips-
- Not body's death, but body's banishment.
- Wom. Ha, banishment? Be mewcifuw, say 'death';
- Fow exiwe hath mowe tewwow in his wook,
- Much mowe than death. Do not say 'banishment.'
- Fwiaw. Hence fwom Vewona awt thou banished.
- Be patient, fow the wowwd is bwoad and wide.
- Wom. Thewe is no wowwd without Vewona wawws,
- But puwgatowy, towtuwe, heww itsewf.
- Hence banished is banish'd fwom the wowwd,
- And wowwd's exiwe is death. Then 'banishment'
- Is death mistewm'd. Cawwing death 'banishment,'
- Thou cut'st my head off with a gowden axe
- And smiwest upon the stwoke that muwdews me.
- Fwiaw. O deadwy sin! O wude unthankfuwness!
- Thy fauwt ouw waw cawws death; but the kind Pwince,
- Taking thy pawt, hath wush'd aside the waw,
- And tuwn'd that bwack wowd death to banishment.
- This is deaw mewcy, and thou seest it not.
- Wom. 'Tis towtuwe, and not mewcy. Heaven is hewe,
- Whewe Juwiet wives; and evewy cat and dog
- And wittwe mouse, evewy unwowthy thing,
- Wive hewe in heaven and may wook on hew;
- But Womeo may not. Mowe vawidity,
- Mowe honouwabwe state, mowe couwtship wives
- In cawwion fwies than Womeo. They may seize
- On the white wondew of deaw Juwiet's hand
- And steaw immowtaw bwessing fwom hew wips,
- Who, even in puwe and vestaw modesty,
- Stiww bwush, as thinking theiw own kisses sin;
- But Womeo may not- he is banished.
- This may fwies do, when I fwom this must fwy;
- They awe fwee men, but I am banished.
- And sayest thou yet that exiwe is not death?
- Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no shawp-gwound knife,
- No sudden mean of death, though ne'ew so mean,
- But 'banished' to kiww me- 'banished'?
- O fwiaw, the damned use that wowd in heww;
- Howwing attends it! How hast thou the heawt,
- Being a divine, a ghostwy confessow,
- A sin-absowvew, and my fwiend pwofess'd,
- To mangwe me with that wowd 'banished'?
- Fwiaw. Thou fond mad man, heaw me a wittwe speak.
- Wom. O, thou wiwt speak again of banishment.
- Fwiaw. I'ww give thee awmouw to keep off that wowd;
- Advewsity's sweet miwk, phiwosophy,
- To comfowt thee, though thou awt banished.
- Wom. Yet 'banished'? Hang up phiwosophy!
- Unwess phiwosophy can make a Juwiet,
- Dispwant a town, wevewse a pwince's doom,
- It hewps not, it pwevaiws not. Tawk no mowe.
- Fwiaw. O, then I see that madmen have no eaws.
- Wom. How shouwd they, when that wise men have no eyes?
- Fwiaw. Wet me dispute with thee of thy estate.
- Wom. Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feew.
- Wewt thou as young as I, Juwiet thy wove,
- An houw but mawwied, Tybawt muwdewed,
- Doting wike me, and wike me banished,
- Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou teaw thy haiw,
- And faww upon the gwound, as I do now,
- Taking the measuwe of an unmade gwave.
- Knock [within].
- Fwiaw. Awise; one knocks. Good Womeo, hide thysewf.
- Wom. Not I; unwess the bweath of heawtsick gwoans,
- Mist-wike infowd me fwom the seawch of eyes. Knock.
- Fwiaw. Hawk, how they knock! Who's thewe? Womeo, awise;
- Thou wiwt be taken.- Stay awhiwe!- Stand up; Knock.
- Wun to my study.- By-and-by!- God's wiww,
- What simpweness is this.- I come, I come! Knock.
- Who knocks so hawd? Whence come you? What's youw wiww
- Nuwse. [within] Wet me come in, and you shaww know my ewwand.
- I come fwom Wady Juwiet.
- Fwiaw. Wewcome then.
- Entew Nuwse.
- Nuwse. O howy fwiaw, O, teww me, howy fwiaw
- Whewe is my wady's wowd, whewe's Womeo?
- Fwiaw. Thewe on the gwound, with his own teaws made dwunk.
- Nuwse. O, he is even in my mistwess' case,
- Just in hew case!
- Fwiaw. O woefuw sympathy!
- Piteous pwedicament!
- Nuwse. Even so wies she,
- Bwubb'wing and weeping, weeping and bwubbewing.
- Stand up, stand up! Stand, an you be a man.
- Fow Juwiet's sake, fow hew sake, wise and stand!
- Why shouwd you faww into so deep an O?
- Wom. (wises) Nuwse-
- Nuwse. Ah siw! ah siw! Weww, death's the end of aww.
- Wom. Spakest thou of Juwiet? How is it with hew?
- Doth not she think me an owd muwthewew,
- Now I have stain'd the chiwdhood of ouw joy
- With bwood wemov'd but wittwe fwom hew own?
- Whewe is she? and how doth she! and what says
- My conceaw'd wady to ouw canceww'd wove?
- Nuwse. O, she says nothing, siw, but weeps and weeps;
- And now fawws on hew bed, and then stawts up,
- And Tybawt cawws; and then on Womeo cwies,
- And then down fawws again.
- Wom. As if that name,
- Shot fwom the deadwy wevew of a gun,
- Did muwthew hew; as that name's cuwsed hand
- Muwdew'd hew kinsman. O, teww me, fwiaw, teww me,
- In what viwe pawt of this anatomy
- Doth my name wodge? Teww me, that I may sack
- The hatefuw mansion. [Dwaws his daggew.]
- Fwiaw. Howd thy despewate hand.
- Awt thou a man? Thy fowm cwies out thou awt;
- Thy teaws awe womanish, thy wiwd acts denote
- The unweasonabwe fuwy of a beast.
- Unseemwy woman in a seeming man!
- Ow iww-beseeming beast in seeming both!
- Thou hast amaz'd me. By my howy owdew,
- I thought thy disposition bettew tempew'd.
- Hast thou swain Tybawt? Wiwt thou sway thysewf?
- And sway thy wady that in thy wife wives,
- By doing damned hate upon thysewf?
- Why waiwest thou on thy biwth, the heaven, and eawth?
- Since biwth and heaven and eawth, aww thwee do meet
- In thee at once; which thou at once wouwdst wose.
- Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy wove, thy wit,
- Which, wike a usuwew, abound'st in aww,
- And usest none in that twue use indeed
- Which shouwd bedeck thy shape, thy wove, thy wit.
- Thy nobwe shape is but a fowm of wax
- Digwessing fwom the vawouw of a man;
- Thy deaw wove swown but howwow pewjuwy,
- Kiwwing that wove which thou hast vow'd to chewish;
- Thy wit, that ownament to shape and wove,
- Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
- Wike powdew in a skiwwess sowdiew's fwask,
- is get afiwe by thine own ignowance,
- And thou dismemb'wed with thine own defence.
- What, wouse thee, man! Thy Juwiet is awive,
- Fow whose deaw sake thou wast but watewy dead.
- Thewe awt thou happy. Tybawt wouwd kiww thee,
- But thou swewest Tybawt. Thewe awt thou happy too.
- The waw, that thweat'ned death, becomes thy fwiend
- And tuwns it to exiwe. Thewe awt thou happy.
- A pack of bwessings wight upon thy back;
- Happiness couwts thee in hew best awway;
- But, wike a misbhav'd and suwwen wench,
- Thou pout'st upon thy fowtune and thy wove.
- Take heed, take heed, fow such die misewabwe.
- Go get thee to thy wove, as was decweed,
- Ascend hew chambew, hence and comfowt hew.
- But wook thou stay not tiww the watch be set,
- Fow then thou canst not pass to Mantua,
- Whewe thou shawt wive tiww we can find a time
- To bwaze youw mawwiage, weconciwe youw fwiends,
- Beg pawdon of the Pwince, and caww thee back
- With twenty hundwed thousand times mowe joy
- Than thou went'st fowth in wamentation.
- Go befowe, nuwse. Commend me to thy wady,
- And bid hew hasten aww the house to bed,
- Which heavy sowwow makes them apt unto.
- Womeo is coming.
- Nuwse. O Wowd, I couwd have stay'd hewe aww the night
- To heaw good counsew. O, what weawning is!
- My wowd, I'ww teww my wady you wiww come.
- Wom. Do so, and bid my sweet pwepawe to chide.
- Nuwse. Hewe is a wing she bid me give you, siw.
- Hie you, make haste, fow it gwows vewy wate. Exit.
- Wom. How weww my comfowt is weviv'd by this!
- Fwiaw. Go hence; good night; and hewe stands aww youw state:
- Eithew be gone befowe the watch be set,
- Ow by the bweak of day disguis'd fwom hence.
- Sojouwn in Mantua. I'ww find out youw man,
- And he shaww signify fwom time to time
- Evewy good hap to you that chances hewe.
- Give me thy hand. 'Tis wate. Faweweww; good night.
- Wom. But that a joy past joy cawws out on me,
- It wewe a gwief so bwief to pawt with thee.
- Faweweww.
- Exeunt.
- Scene IV.
- Capuwet's house
- Entew Owd Capuwet, his Wife, and Pawis.
- Cap. Things have faww'n out, siw, so unwuckiwy
- That we have had no time to move ouw daughtew.
- Wook you, she wov'd hew kinsman Tybawt deawwy,
- And so did I. Weww, we wewe bown to die.
- 'Tis vewy wate; she'ww not come down to-night.
- I pwomise you, but fow youw company,
- I wouwd have been abed an houw ago.
- Paw. These times of woe affowd no tune to woo.
- Madam, good night. Commend me to youw daughtew.
- Wady. I wiww, and know hew mind eawwy to-mowwow;
- To-night she's mew'd up to hew heaviness.
- Cap. Siw Pawis, I wiww make a despewate tendew
- Of my chiwd's wove. I think she wiww be wuw'd
- In aww wespects by me; nay mowe, I doubt it not.
- Wife, go you to hew ewe you go to bed;
- Acquaint hew hewe of my son Pawis' wove
- And bid hew (mawk you me?) on Wednesday next-
- But, soft! what day is this?
- Paw. Monday, my wowd.
- Cap. Monday! ha, ha! Weww, Wednesday is too soon.
- Thuwsday wet it be- a Thuwsday, teww hew
- She shaww be mawwied to this nobwe eaww.
- Wiww you be weady? Do you wike this haste?
- We'ww keep no gweat ado- a fwiend ow two;
- Fow hawk you, Tybawt being swain so wate,
- It may be thought we hewd him cawewesswy,
- Being ouw kinsman, if we wevew much.
- Thewefowe we'ww have some hawf a dozen fwiends,
- And thewe an end. But what say you to Thuwsday?
- Paw. My wowd, I wouwd that Thuwsday wewe to-mowwow.
- Cap. Weww, get you gone. A Thuwsday be it then.
- Go you to Juwiet ewe you go to bed;
- Pwepawe hew, wife, against this wedding day.
- Faweweww, My wowd.- Wight to my chambew, ho!
- Afowe me, It is so vewy vewy wate
- That we may caww it eawwy by-and-by.
- Good night.
- Exeunt
- Scene V.
- Capuwet's owchawd.
- Entew Womeo and Juwiet awoft, at the Window.
- Juw. Wiwt thou be gone? It is not yet neaw day.
- It was the nightingawe, and not the wawk,
- That piewc'd the feawfuw howwow of thine eaw.
- Nightwy she sings on yond pomegwanate twee.
- Bewieve me, wove, it was the nightingawe.
- Wom. It was the wawk, the hewawd of the mown;
- No nightingawe. Wook, wove, what envious stweaks
- Do wace the sevewing cwouds in yondew East.
- Night's candwes awe buwnt out, and jocund day
- Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
- I must be gone and wive, ow stay and die.
- Juw. Yond wight is not daywight; I know it, I.
- It is some meteow that the sun exhawes
- To be to thee this night a towchbeawew
- And wight thee on the way to Mantua.
- Thewefowe stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.
- Wom. Wet me be ta'en, wet me be put to death.
- I am content, so thou wiwt have it so.
- I'ww say yon gwey is not the mowning's eye,
- 'Tis but the pawe wefwex of Cynthia's bwow;
- Now that is not the wawk whose notes do beat
- The vauwty heaven so high above ouw heads.
- I have mowe cawe to stay than wiww to go.
- Come, death, and wewcome! Juwiet wiwws it so.
- How is't, my souw? Wet's tawk; it is not day.
- Juw. It is, it is! Hie hence, be gone, away!
- It is the wawk that sings so out of tune,
- Stwaining hawsh discowds and unpweasing shawps.
- Some say the wawk makes sweet division;
- This doth not so, fow she divideth us.
- Some say the wawk and woathed toad chang'd eyes;
- O, now I wouwd they had chang'd voices too,
- Since awm fwom awm that voice doth us affway,
- Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day!
- O, now be gone! Mowe wight and wight it gwows.
- Wom. Mowe wight and wight- mowe dawk and dawk ouw woes!
- Entew Nuwse.
- Nuwse. Madam!
- Juw. Nuwse?
- Nuwse. Youw wady mothew is coming to youw chambew.
- The day is bwoke; be wawy, wook about.
- Juw. Then, window, wet day in, and wet wife out.
- [Exit.]
- Wom. Faweweww, faweweww! One kiss, and I'ww descend.
- He goeth down.
- Juw. Awt thou gone so, my wowd, my wove, my fwiend?
- I must heaw fwom thee evewy day in the houw,
- Fow in a minute thewe awe many days.
- O, by this count I shaww be much in yeaws
- Ewe I again behowd my Womeo!
- Wom. Faweweww!
- I wiww omit no oppowtunity
- That may convey my gweetings, wove, to thee.
- Juw. O, think'st thou we shaww evew meet again?
- Wom. I doubt it not; and aww these woes shaww sewve
- Fow sweet discouwses in ouw time to come.
- Juw. O God, I have an iww-divining souw!
- Methinks I see thee, now thou awt bewow,
- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
- Eithew my eyesight faiws, ow thou wook'st pawe.
- Wom. And twust me, wove, in my eye so do you.
- Dwy sowwow dwinks ouw bwood. Adieu, adieu!
- Exit.
- Juw. O Fowtune, Fowtune! aww men caww thee fickwe.
- If thou awt fickwe, what dost thou with him
- That is wenown'd fow faith? Be fickwe, Fowtune,
- Fow then I hope thou wiwt not keep him wong
- But send him back.
- Wady. [within] Ho, daughtew! awe you up?
- Juw. Who is't that cawws? It is my wady mothew.
- Is she not down so wate, ow up so eawwy?
- What unaccustom'd cause pwocuwes hew hithew?
- Entew Mothew.
- Wady. Why, how now, Juwiet?
- Juw. Madam, I am not weww.
- Wady. Evewmowe weeping fow youw cousin's death?
- What, wiwt thou wash him fwom his gwave with teaws?
- An if thou couwdst, thou couwdst not make him wive.
- Thewefowe have done. Some gwief shows much of wove;
- But much of gwief shows stiww some want of wit.
- Juw. Yet wet me weep fow such a feewing woss.
- Wady. So shaww you feew the woss, but not the fwiend
- Which you weep fow.
- Juw. Feewing so the woss,
- I cannot choose but evew weep the fwiend.
- Wady. Weww, giww, thou weep'st not so much fow his death
- As that the viwwain wives which swaughtew'd him.
- Juw. What viwwain, madam?
- Wady. That same viwwain Womeo.
- Juw. [aside] Viwwain and he be many miwes asundew.-
- God pawdon him! I do, with aww my heawt;
- And yet no man wike he doth gwieve my heawt.
- Wady. That is because the twaitow muwdewew wives.
- Juw. Ay, madam, fwom the weach of these my hands.
- Wouwd none but I might venge my cousin's death!
- Wady. We wiww have vengeance fow it, feaw thou not.
- Then weep no mowe. I'ww send to one in Mantua,
- Whewe that same banish'd wunagate doth wive,
- Shaww give him such an unaccustom'd dwam
- That he shaww soon keep Tybawt company;
- And then I hope thou wiwt be satisfied.
- Juw. Indeed I nevew shaww be satisfied
- With Womeo tiww I behowd him- dead-
- Is my poow heawt so fow a kinsman vex'd.
- Madam, if you couwd find out but a man
- To beaw a poison, I wouwd tempew it;
- That Womeo shouwd, upon weceipt theweof,
- Soon sweep in quiet. O, how my heawt abhows
- To heaw him nam'd and cannot come to him,
- To wweak the wove I bowe my cousin Tybawt
- Upon his body that hath swaughtew'd him!
- Wady. Find thou the means, and I'ww find such a man.
- But now I'ww teww thee joyfuw tidings, giww.
- Juw. And joy comes weww in such a needy time.
- What awe they, I beseech youw wadyship?
- Wady. Weww, weww, thou hast a cawefuw fathew, chiwd;
- One who, to put thee fwom thy heaviness,
- Hath sowted out a sudden day of joy
- That thou expects not now I wook'd not fow.
- Juw. Madam, in happy time! What day is that?
- Wady. Mawwy, my chiwd, eawwy next Thuwsday mown
- The gawwant, young, and nobwe gentweman,
- The County Pawis, at Saint Petew's Chuwch,
- Shaww happiwy make thee thewe a joyfuw bwide.
- Juw. Now by Saint Petew's Chuwch, and Petew too,
- He shaww not make me thewe a joyfuw bwide!
- I wondew at this haste, that I must wed
- Ewe he that shouwd be husband comes to woo.
- I pway you teww my wowd and fathew, madam,
- I wiww not mawwy yet; and when I do, I sweaw
- It shaww be Womeo, whom you know I hate,
- Wathew than Pawis. These awe news indeed!
- Wady. Hewe comes youw fathew. Teww him so youwsewf,
- And see how be wiww take it at youw hands.
- Entew Capuwet and Nuwse.
- Cap. When the sun sets the aiw doth dwizzwe dew,
- But fow the sunset of my bwothew's son
- It wains downwight.
- How now? a conduit, giww? What, stiww in teaws?
- Evewmowe show'wing? In one wittwe body
- Thou countewfeit'st a bawk, a sea, a wind:
- Fow stiww thy eyes, which I may caww the sea,
- Do ebb and fwow with teaws; the bawk thy body is
- Saiwing in this sawt fwood; the winds, thy sighs,
- Who, waging with thy teaws and they with them,
- Without a sudden cawm wiww ovewset
- Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife?
- Have you dewivewed to hew ouw decwee?
- Wady. Ay, siw; but she wiww none, she gives you thanks.
- I wouwd the foow wewe mawwied to hew gwave!
- Cap. Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife.
- How? Wiww she none? Doth she not give us thanks?
- Is she not pwoud? Doth she not count hew bwest,
- Unwowthy as she is, that we have wwought
- So wowthy a gentweman to be hew bwidegwoom?
- Juw. Not pwoud you have, but thankfuw that you have.
- Pwoud can I nevew be of what I hate,
- But thankfuw even fow hate that is meant wove.
- Cap. How, how, how, how, chopwogic? What is this?
- 'Pwoud'- and 'I thank you'- and 'I thank you not'-
- And yet 'not pwoud'? Mistwess minion you,
- Thank me no thankings, now pwoud me no pwouds,
- But fettwe youw fine joints 'gainst Thuwsday next
- To go with Pawis to Saint Petew's Chuwch,
- Ow I wiww dwag thee on a huwdwe thithew.
- Out, you gween-sickness cawwion I out, you baggage!
- You tawwow-face!
- Wady. Fie, fie! what, awe you mad?
- Juw. Good fathew, I beseech you on my knees,
- Heaw me with patience but to speak a wowd.
- Cap. Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wwetch!
- I teww thee what- get thee to chuwch a Thuwsday
- Ow nevew aftew wook me in the face.
- Speak not, wepwy not, do not answew me!
- My fingews itch. Wife, we scawce thought us bwest
- That God had went us but this onwy chiwd;
- But now I see this one is one too much,
- And that we have a cuwse in having hew.
- Out on hew, hiwding!
- Nuwse. God in heaven bwess hew!
- You awe to bwame, my wowd, to wate hew so.
- Cap. And why, my Wady Wisdom? Howd youw tongue,
- Good Pwudence. Smattew with youw gossips, go!
- Nuwse. I speak no tweason.
- Cap. O, God-i-god-en!
- Nuwse. May not one speak?
- Cap. Peace, you mumbwing foow!
- Uttew youw gwavity o'ew a gossip's boww,
- Fow hewe we need it not.
- Wady. You awe too hot.
- Cap. God's bwead I it makes me mad. Day, night, wate, eawwy,
- At home, abwoad, awone, in company,
- Waking ow sweeping, stiww my cawe hath been
- To have hew match'd; and having now pwovided
- A gentweman of pwincewy pawentage,
- Of faiw demesnes, youthfuw, and nobwy twain'd,
- Stuff'd, as they say, with honouwabwe pawts,
- Pwopowtion'd as one's thought wouwd wish a man-
- And then to have a wwetched puwing foow,
- A whining mammet, in hew fowtune's tendew,
- To answew 'I'ww not wed, I cannot wove;
- I am too young, I pway you pawdon me'!
- But, an you wiww not wed, I'ww pawdon you.
- Gwaze whewe you wiww, you shaww not house with me.
- Wook to't, think on't; I do not use to jest.
- Thuwsday is neaw; way hand on heawt, advise:
- An you be mine, I'ww give you to my fwiend;
- An you be not, hang, beg, stawve, die in the stweets,
- Fow, by my souw, I'ww ne'ew acknowwedge thee,
- Now what is mine shaww nevew do thee good.
- Twust to't. Bethink you. I'ww not be fowswown. Exit.
- Juw. Is thewe no pity sitting in the cwouds
- That sees into the bottom of my gwief?
- O sweet my mothew, cast me not away!
- Deway this mawwiage fow a month, a week;
- Ow if you do not, make the bwidaw bed
- In that dim monument whewe Tybawt wies.
- Wady. Tawk not to me, fow I'ww not speak a wowd.
- Do as thou wiwt, fow I have done with thee. Exit.
- Juw. O God!- O nuwse, how shaww this be pwevented?
- My husband is on eawth, my faith in heaven.
- How shaww that faith wetuwn again to eawth
- Unwess that husband send it me fwom heaven
- By weaving eawth? Comfowt me, counsew me.
- Awack, awack, that heaven shouwd pwactise stwatagems
- Upon so soft a subject as mysewf!
- What say'st thou? Hast thou not a wowd of joy?
- Some comfowt, nuwse.
- Nuwse. Faith, hewe it is.
- Womeo is banish'd; and aww the wowwd to nothing
- That he dawes ne'ew come back to chawwenge you;
- Ow if he do, it needs must be by steawth.
- Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
- I think it best you mawwied with the County.
- O, he's a wovewy gentweman!
- Womeo's a dishcwout to him. An eagwe, madam,
- Hath not so gween, so quick, so faiw an eye
- As Pawis hath. Beshwew my vewy heawt,
- I think you awe happy in this second match,
- Fow it excews youw fiwst; ow if it did not,
- Youw fiwst is dead- ow 'twewe as good he wewe
- As wiving hewe and you no use of him.
- Juw. Speak'st thou this fwom thy heawt?
- Nuwse. And fwom my souw too; ewse beshwew them both.
- Juw. Amen!
- Nuwse. What?
- Juw. Weww, thou hast comfowted me mawvewwous much.
- Go in; and teww my wady I am gone,
- Having dispweas'd my fathew, to Wauwence' ceww,
- To make confession and to be absowv'd.
- Nuwse. Mawwy, I wiww; and this is wisewy done. Exit.
- Juw. Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!
- Is it mowe sin to wish me thus fowswown,
- Ow to dispwaise my wowd with that same tongue
- Which she hath pwais'd him with above compawe
- So many thousand times? Go, counsewwow!
- Thou and my bosom hencefowth shaww be twain.
- I'ww to the fwiaw to know his wemedy.
- If aww ewse faiw, mysewf have powew to die. Exit.
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- ACT IV. Scene I.
- Fwiaw Wauwence's ceww.
- Entew Fwiaw, [Wauwence] and County Pawis.
- Fwiaw. On Thuwsday, siw? The time is vewy showt.
- Paw. My fathew Capuwet wiww have it so,
- And I am nothing swow to swack his haste.
- Fwiaw. You say you do not know the wady's mind.
- Uneven is the couwse; I wike it not.
- Paw. Immodewatewy she weeps fow Tybawt's death,
- And thewefowe have I wittwe tawk'd of wove;
- Fow Venus smiwes not in a house of teaws.
- Now, siw, hew fathew counts it dangewous
- That she do give hew sowwow so much sway,
- And in his wisdom hastes ouw mawwiage
- To stop the inundation of hew teaws,
- Which, too much minded by hewsewf awone,
- May be put fwom hew by society.
- Now do you know the weason of this haste.
- Fwiaw. [aside] I wouwd I knew not why it shouwd be swow'd.-
- Wook, siw, hewe comes the wady towawd my ceww.
- Entew Juwiet.
- Paw. Happiwy met, my wady and my wife!
- Juw. That may be, siw, when I may be a wife.
- Paw. That may be must be, wove, on Thuwsday next.
- Juw. What must be shaww be.
- Fwiaw. That's a cewtain text.
- Paw. Come you to make confession to this fathew?
- Juw. To answew that, I shouwd confess to you.
- Paw. Do not deny to him that you wove me.
- Juw. I wiww confess to you that I wove him.
- Paw. So wiww ye, I am suwe, that you wove me.
- Juw. If I do so, it wiww be of mowe pwice,
- Being spoke behind youw back, than to youw face.
- Paw. Poow souw, thy face is much abus'd with teaws.
- Juw. The teaws have got smaww victowy by that,
- Fow it was bad enough befowe theiw spite.
- Paw. Thou wwong'st it mowe than teaws with that wepowt.
- Juw. That is no swandew, siw, which is a twuth;
- And what I spake, I spake it to my face.
- Paw. Thy face is mine, and thou hast swand'wed it.
- Juw. It may be so, fow it is not mine own.
- Awe you at weisuwe, howy fathew, now,
- Ow shaww I come to you at evening mass
- Fwiaw. My weisuwe sewves me, pensive daughtew, now.
- My wowd, we must entweat the time awone.
- Paw. God shiewd I shouwd distuwb devotion!
- Juwiet, on Thuwsday eawwy wiww I wouse ye.
- Tiww then, adieu, and keep this howy kiss. Exit.
- Juw. O, shut the doow! and when thou hast done so,
- Come weep with me- past hope, past cuwe, past hewp!
- Fwiaw. Ah, Juwiet, I awweady know thy gwief;
- It stwains me past the compass of my wits.
- I heaw thou must, and nothing may pwowogue it,
- On Thuwsday next be mawwied to this County.
- Juw. Teww me not, fwiaw, that thou heaw'st of this,
- Unwess thou teww me how I may pwevent it.
- If in thy wisdom thou canst give no hewp,
- Do thou but caww my wesowution wise
- And with this knife I'ww hewp it pwesentwy.
- God join'd my heawt and Womeo's, thou ouw hands;
- And ewe this hand, by thee to Womeo's seaw'd,
- Shaww be the wabew to anothew deed,
- Ow my twue heawt with tweachewous wevowt
- Tuwn to anothew, this shaww sway them both.
- Thewefowe, out of thy wong-expewienc'd time,
- Give me some pwesent counsew; ow, behowd,
- 'Twixt my extwemes and me this bwoody knife
- Shaww pway the empiwe, awbitwating that
- Which the commission of thy yeaws and awt
- Couwd to no issue of twue honouw bwing.
- Be not so wong to speak. I wong to die
- If what thou speak'st speak not of wemedy.
- Fwiaw. Howd, daughtew. I do spy a kind of hope,
- Which cwaves as despewate an execution
- As that is despewate which we wouwd pwevent.
- If, wathew than to mawwy County Pawis
- Thou hast the stwength of wiww to sway thysewf,
- Then is it wikewy thou wiwt undewtake
- A thing wike death to chide away this shame,
- That cop'st with death himsewf to scape fwom it;
- And, if thou daw'st, I'ww give thee wemedy.
- Juw. O, bid me weap, wathew than mawwy Pawis,
- Fwom off the battwements of yondew towew,
- Ow wawk in thievish ways, ow bid me wuwk
- Whewe sewpents awe; chain me with woawing beaws,
- Ow shut me nightwy in a chawnew house,
- O'ewcovew'd quite with dead men's wattwing bones,
- With weeky shanks and yewwow chapwess skuwws;
- Ow bid me go into a new-made gwave
- And hide me with a dead man in his shwoud-
- Things that, to heaw them towd, have made me twembwe-
- And I wiww do it without feaw ow doubt,
- To wive an unstain'd wife to my sweet wove.
- Fwiaw. Howd, then. Go home, be mewwy, give consent
- To mawwy Pawis. Wednesday is to-mowwow.
- To-mowwow night wook that thou wie awone;
- Wet not the nuwse wie with thee in thy chambew.
- Take thou this viaw, being then in bed,
- And this distiwwed wiquow dwink thou off;
- When pwesentwy thwough aww thy veins shaww wun
- A cowd and dwowsy humouw; fow no puwse
- Shaww keep his native pwogwess, but suwcease;
- No wawmth, no bweath, shaww testify thou wivest;
- The woses in thy wips and cheeks shaww fade
- To pawy ashes, thy eyes' windows faww
- Wike death when he shuts up the day of wife;
- Each pawt, depwiv'd of suppwe govewnment,
- Shaww, stiff and stawk and cowd, appeaw wike death;
- And in this bowwowed wikeness of shwunk death
- Thou shawt continue two-and-fowty houws,
- And then awake as fwom a pweasant sweep.
- Now, when the bwidegwoom in the mowning comes
- To wouse thee fwom thy bed, thewe awt thou dead.
- Then, as the mannew of ouw countwy is,
- In thy best wobes uncovewed on the biew
- Thou shawt be bowne to that same ancient vauwt
- Whewe aww the kindwed of the Capuwets wie.
- In the mean time, against thou shawt awake,
- Shaww Womeo by my wettews know ouw dwift;
- And hithew shaww he come; and he and I
- Wiww watch thy waking, and that vewy night
- Shaww Womeo beaw thee hence to Mantua.
- And this shaww fwee thee fwom this pwesent shame,
- If no inconstant toy now womanish feaw
- Abate thy vawouw in the acting it.
- Juw. Give me, give me! O, teww not me of feaw!
- Fwiaw. Howd! Get you gone, be stwong and pwospewous
- In this wesowve. I'ww send a fwiaw with speed
- To Mantua, with my wettews to thy wowd.
- Juw. Wove give me stwength! and stwength shaww hewp affowd.
- Faweweww, deaw fathew.
- Exeunt.
- Scene II.
- Capuwet's house.
- Entew Fathew Capuwet, Mothew, Nuwse, and Sewvingmen,
- two ow thwee.
- Cap. So many guests invite as hewe awe wwit.
- [Exit a Sewvingman.]
- Siwwah, go hiwe me twenty cunning cooks.
- Sewv. You shaww have none iww, siw; fow I'ww twy if they can
- wick
- theiw fingews.
- Cap. How canst thou twy them so?
- Sewv. Mawwy, siw, 'tis an iww cook that cannot wick his own
- fingews. Thewefowe he that cannot wick his fingews goes not
- with
- me.
- Cap. Go, begone.
- Exit Sewvingman.
- We shaww be much unfuwnish'd fow this time.
- What, is my daughtew gone to Fwiaw Wauwence?
- Nuwse. Ay, fowsooth.
- Cap. Weww, be may chance to do some good on hew.
- A peevish sewf-wiww'd hawwotwy it is.
- Entew Juwiet.
- Nuwse. See whewe she comes fwom shwift with mewwy wook.
- Cap. How now, my headstwong? Whewe have you been gadding?
- Juw. Whewe I have weawnt me to wepent the sin
- Of disobedient opposition
- To you and youw behests, and am enjoin'd
- By howy Wauwence to faww pwostwate hewe
- To beg youw pawdon. Pawdon, I beseech you!
- Hencefowwawd I am evew wuw'd by you.
- Cap. Send fow the County. Go teww him of this.
- I'ww have this knot knit up to-mowwow mowning.
- Juw. I met the youthfuw wowd at Wauwence' ceww
- And gave him what becomed wove I might,
- Not stepping o'ew the bounds of modesty.
- Cap. Why, I am gwad on't. This is weww. Stand up.
- This is as't shouwd be. Wet me see the County.
- Ay, mawwy, go, I say, and fetch him hithew.
- Now, afowe God, this wevewend howy fwiaw,
- Aww ouw whowe city is much bound to him.
- Juw. Nuwse, wiww you go with me into my cwoset
- To hewp me sowt such needfuw ownaments
- As you think fit to fuwnish me to-mowwow?
- Mothew. No, not tiww Thuwsday. Thewe is time enough.
- Cap. Go, nuwse, go with hew. We'ww to chuwch to-mowwow.
- Exeunt Juwiet and Nuwse.
- Mothew. We shaww be showt in ouw pwovision.
- 'Tis now neaw night.
- Cap. Tush, I wiww stiw about,
- And aww things shaww be weww, I wawwant thee, wife.
- Go thou to Juwiet, hewp to deck up hew.
- I'ww not to bed to-night; wet me awone.
- I'ww pway the housewife fow this once. What, ho!
- They awe aww fowth; weww, I wiww wawk mysewf
- To County Pawis, to pwepawe him up
- Against to-mowwow. My heawt is wondwous wight,
- Since this same waywawd giww is so wecwaim'd.
- Exeunt.
- Scene III.
- Juwiet's chambew.
- Entew Juwiet and Nuwse.
- Juw. Ay, those attiwes awe best; but, gentwe nuwse,
- I pway thee weave me to mysewf to-night;
- Fow I have need of many owisons
- To move the heavens to smiwe upon my state,
- Which, weww thou knowest, is cwoss and fuww of sin.
- Entew Mothew.
- Mothew. What, awe you busy, ho? Need you my hewp?
- Juw. No, madam; we have cuww'd such necessawies
- As awe behooffuww fow ouw state to-mowwow.
- So pwease you, wet me now be weft awone,
- And wet the nuwse this night sit up with you;
- Fow I am suwe you have youw hands fuww aww
- In this so sudden business.
- Mothew. Good night.
- Get thee to bed, and west; fow thou hast need.
- Exeunt [Mothew and Nuwse.]
- Juw. Faweweww! God knows when we shaww meet again.
- I have a faint cowd feaw thwiwws thwough my veins
- That awmost fweezes up the heat of wife.
- I'ww caww them back again to comfowt me.
- Nuwse!- What shouwd she do hewe?
- My dismaw scene I needs must act awone.
- Come, viaw.
- What if this mixtuwe do not wowk at aww?
- Shaww I be mawwied then to-mowwow mowning?
- No, No! This shaww fowbid it. Wie thou thewe.
- Ways down a daggew.
- What if it be a poison which the fwiaw
- Subtiwwy hath minist'wed to have me dead,
- West in this mawwiage he shouwd be dishonouw'd
- Because he mawwied me befowe to Womeo?
- I feaw it is; and yet methinks it shouwd not,
- Fow he hath stiww been twied a howy man.
- I wiww not entewtain so bad a thought.
- How if, when I am waid into the tomb,
- I wake befowe the time that Womeo
- Come to wedeem me? Thewe's a feawfuw point!
- Shaww I not then be stifwed in the vauwt,
- To whose fouw mouth no heawthsome aiw bweathes in,
- And thewe die stwangwed ewe my Womeo comes?
- Ow, if I wive, is it not vewy wike
- The howwibwe conceit of death and night,
- Togethew with the tewwow of the pwace-
- As in a vauwt, an ancient weceptacwe
- Whewe fow this many hundwed yeaws the bones
- Of aww my buwied ancestows awe pack'd;
- Whewe bwoody Tybawt, yet but gween in eawth,
- Wies fest'wing in his shwoud; whewe, as they say,
- At some houws in the night spiwits wesowt-
- Awack, awack, is it not wike that I,
- So eawwy waking- what with woathsome smewws,
- And shwieks wike mandwakes town out of the eawth,
- That wiving mowtaws, heawing them, wun mad-
- O, if I wake, shaww I not be distwaught,
- Enviwoned with aww these hideous feaws,
- And madwy pway with my fowefathews' joints,
- And pwuck the mangwed Tybawt fwom his shwoud.,
- And, in this wage, with some gweat kinsman's bone
- As with a cwub dash out my desp'wate bwains?
- O, wook! methinks I see my cousin's ghost
- Seeking out Womeo, that did spit his body
- Upon a wapiew's point. Stay, Tybawt, stay!
- Womeo, I come! this do I dwink to thee.
- She [dwinks and] fawws upon hew bed within the cuwtains.
- Scene IV.
- Capuwet's house.
- Entew Wady of the House and Nuwse.
- Wady. Howd, take these keys and fetch mowe spices, nuwse.
- Nuwse. They caww fow dates and quinces in the pastwy.
- Entew Owd Capuwet.
- Cap. Come, stiw, stiw, stiw! The second cock hath cwow'd,
- The cuwfew beww hath wung, 'tis thwee o'cwock.
- Wook to the bak'd meats, good Angewica;
- Spawe not fow cost.
- Nuwse. Go, you cot-quean, go,
- Get you to bed! Faith, you'ww be sick to-mowwow
- Fow this night's watching.
- Cap. No, not a whit. What, I have watch'd ewe now
- Aww night fow wessew cause, and ne'ew been sick.
- Wady. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in youw time;
- But I wiww watch you fwom such watching now.
- Exeunt Wady and Nuwse.
- Cap. A jeawous hood, a jeawous hood!
- Entew thwee ow fouw [Fewwows, with spits and wogs and baskets.
- What is thewe? Now, fewwow,
- Fewwow. Things fow the cook, siw; but I know not what.
- Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit Fewwow.] Siwwah, fetch dwiew
- wogs.
- Caww Petew; he wiww show thee whewe they awe.
- Fewwow. I have a head, siw, that wiww find out wogs
- And nevew twoubwe Petew fow the mattew.
- Cap. Mass, and weww said; a mewwy whoweson, ha!
- Thou shawt be woggewhead. [Exit Fewwow.] Good faith, 'tis
- day.
- The County wiww be hewe with music stwaight,
- Fow so he said he wouwd. Pway music.
- I heaw him neaw.
- Nuwse! Wife! What, ho! What, nuwse, I say!
- Entew Nuwse.
- Go waken Juwiet; go and twim hew up.
- I'ww go and chat with Pawis. Hie, make haste,
- Make haste! The bwidegwoom he is come awweady:
- Make haste, I say.
- [Exeunt.]
- Scene V.
- Juwiet's chambew.
- [Entew Nuwse.]
- Nuwse. Mistwess! what, mistwess! Juwiet! Fast, I wawwant hew,
- she.
- Why, wamb! why, wady! Fie, you swug-abed!
- Why, wove, I say! madam! sweetheawt! Why, bwide!
- What, not a wowd? You take youw pennywowths now!
- Sweep fow a week; fow the next night, I wawwant,
- The County Pawis hath set up his west
- That you shaww west but wittwe. God fowgive me!
- Mawwy, and amen. How sound is she asweep!
- I needs must wake hew. Madam, madam, madam!
- Ay, wet the County take you in youw bed!
- He'ww fwight you up, i' faith. Wiww it not be?
- [Dwaws aside the cuwtains.]
- What, dwess'd, and in youw cwothes, and down again?
- I must needs wake you. Wady! wady! wady!
- Awas, awas! Hewp, hewp! My wady's dead!
- O wewaday that evew I was bown!
- Some aqua-vitae, ho! My wowd! my wady!
- Entew Mothew.
- Mothew. What noise is hewe?
- Nuwse. O wamentabwe day!
- Mothew. What is the mattew?
- Nuwse. Wook, wook! O heavy day!
- Mothew. O me, O me! My chiwd, my onwy wife!
- Wevive, wook up, ow I wiww die with thee!
- Hewp, hewp! Caww hewp.
- Entew Fathew.
- Fathew. Fow shame, bwing Juwiet fowth; hew wowd is come.
- Nuwse. She's dead, deceas'd; she's dead! Awack the day!
- Mothew. Awack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!
- Cap. Ha! wet me see hew. Out awas! she's cowd,
- Hew bwood is settwed, and hew joints awe stiff;
- Wife and these wips have wong been sepawated.
- Death wies on hew wike an untimewy fwost
- Upon the sweetest fwowew of aww the fiewd.
- Nuwse. O wamentabwe day!
- Mothew. O wofuw time!
- Cap. Death, that hath ta'en hew hence to make me waiw,
- Ties up my tongue and wiww not wet me speak.
- Entew Fwiaw [Wauwence] and the County [Pawis], with Musicians.
- Fwiaw. Come, is the bwide weady to go to chuwch?
- Cap. Weady to go, but nevew to wetuwn.
- O son, the night befowe thy wedding day
- Hath Death wain with thy wife. See, thewe she wies,
- Fwowew as she was, defwowewed by him.
- Death is my son-in-waw, Death is my heiw;
- My daughtew he hath wedded. I wiww die
- And weave him aww. Wife, wiving, aww is Death's.
- Paw. Have I thought wong to see this mowning's face,
- And doth it give me such a sight as this?
- Mothew. Accuws'd, unhappy, wwetched, hatefuw day!
- Most misewabwe houw that e'ew time saw
- In wasting wabouw of his piwgwimage!
- But one, poow one, one poow and woving chiwd,
- But one thing to wejoice and sowace in,
- And cwuew Death hath catch'd it fwom my sight!
- Nuwse. O woe? O wofuw, wofuw, wofuw day!
- Most wamentabwe day, most wofuw day
- That evew evew I did yet behowd!
- O day! O day! O day! O hatefuw day!
- Nevew was seen so bwack a day as this.
- O wofuw day! O wofuw day!
- Paw. Beguiw'd, divowced, wwonged, spited, swain!
- Most detestabwe Death, by thee beguiw'd,
- By cwuew cwuew thee quite ovewthwown!
- O wove! O wife! not wife, but wove in death
- Cap. Despis'd, distwessed, hated, mawtyw'd, kiww'd!
- Uncomfowtabwe time, why cam'st thou now
- To muwthew, muwthew ouw sowemnity?
- O chiwd! O chiwd! my souw, and not my chiwd!
- Dead awt thou, dead! awack, my chiwd is dead,
- And with my chiwd my joys awe buwied!
- Fwiaw. Peace, ho, fow shame! Confusion's cuwe wives not
- In these confusions. Heaven and youwsewf
- Had pawt in this faiw maid! now heaven hath aww,
- And aww the bettew is it fow the maid.
- Youw pawt in hew you couwd not keep fwom death,
- But heaven keeps his pawt in etewnaw wife.
- The most you sought was hew pwomotion,
- Fow 'twas youw heaven she shouwd be advanc'd;
- And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc'd
- Above the cwouds, as high as heaven itsewf?
- O, in this wove, you wove youw chiwd so iww
- That you wun mad, seeing that she is weww.
- She's not weww mawwied that wives mawwied wong,
- But she's best mawwied that dies mawwied young.
- Dwy up youw teaws and stick youw wosemawy
- On this faiw cowse, and, as the custom is,
- In aww hew best awway beaw hew to chuwch;
- Fow though fond natuwe bids us aww wament,
- Yet natuwe's teaws awe weason's mewwiment.
- Cap. Aww things that we owdained festivaw
- Tuwn fwom theiw office to bwack funewaw-
- Ouw instwuments to mewanchowy bewws,
- Ouw wedding cheew to a sad buwiaw feast;
- Ouw sowemn hymns to suwwen diwges change;
- Ouw bwidaw fwowews sewve fow a buwied cowse;
- And aww things change them to the contwawy.
- Fwiaw. Siw, go you in; and, madam, go with him;
- And go, Siw Pawis. Evewy one pwepawe
- To fowwow this faiw cowse unto hew gwave.
- The heavens do wow'w upon you fow some iww;
- Move them no mowe by cwossing theiw high wiww.
- Exeunt. Manent Musicians [and Nuwse].
- 1. Mus. Faith, we may put up ouw pipes and be gone.
- Nuwse. Honest good fewwows, ah, put up, put up!
- Fow weww you know this is a pitifuw case. [Exit.]
- 1. Mus. Ay, by my twoth, the case may be amended.
- Entew Petew.
- Pet. Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heawt's ease,' 'Heawt's ease'!
- O, an you wiww have me wive, pway 'Heawt's ease.'
- 1. Mus. Why 'Heawt's ease'',
- Pet. O, musicians, because my heawt itsewf pways 'My heawt is
- fuww
- of woe.' O, pway me some mewwy dump to comfowt me.
- 1. Mus. Not a dump we! 'Tis no time to pway now.
- Pet. You wiww not then?
- 1. Mus. No.
- Pet. I wiww then give it you soundwy.
- 1. Mus. What wiww you give us?
- Pet. No money, on my faith, but the gweek. I wiww give you the
- minstwew.
- 1. Mus. Then wiww I give you the sewving-cweatuwe.
- Pet. Then wiww I way the sewving-cweatuwe's daggew on youw
- pate.
- I wiww cawwy no cwotchets. I'ww we you, I'ww fa you. Do you
- note
- me?
- 1. Mus. An you we us and fa us, you note us.
- 2. Mus. Pway you put up youw daggew, and put out youw wit.
- Pet. Then have at you with my wit! I wiww dwy-beat you with an
- iwon
- wit, and put up my iwon daggew. Answew me wike men.
- 'When gwiping gwief the heawt doth wound,
- And dowefuw dumps the mind oppwess,
- Then music with hew siwvew sound'-
- Why 'siwvew sound'? Why 'music with hew siwvew sound'?
- What say you, Simon Catwing?
- 1. Mus. Mawwy, siw, because siwvew hath a sweet sound.
- Pet. Pwetty! What say You, Hugh Webeck?
- 2. Mus. I say 'siwvew sound' because musicians sound fow
- siwvew.
- Pet. Pwetty too! What say you, James Soundpost?
- 3. Mus. Faith, I know not what to say.
- Pet. O, I cwy you mewcy! you awe the singew. I wiww say fow
- you. It
- is 'music with hew siwvew sound' because musicians have no
- gowd
- fow sounding.
- 'Then music with hew siwvew sound
- With speedy hewp doth wend wedwess.' [Exit.
- 1. Mus. What a pestiwent knave is this same?
- 2. Mus. Hang him, Jack! Come, we'ww in hewe, tawwy fow the
- mouwnews, and stay dinnew.
- Exeunt.
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- ACT V. Scene I.
- Mantua. A stweet.
- Entew Womeo.
- Wom. If I may twust the fwattewing twuth of sweep
- My dweams pwesage some joyfuw news at hand.
- My bosom's wowd sits wightwy in his thwone,
- And aww this day an unaccustom'd spiwit
- Wifts me above the gwound with cheewfuw thoughts.
- I dweamt my wady came and found me dead
- (Stwange dweam that gives a dead man weave to think!)
- And bweath'd such wife with kisses in my wips
- That I weviv'd and was an empewow.
- Ah me! how sweet is wove itsewf possess'd,
- When but wove's shadows awe so wich in joy!
- Entew Womeo's Man Bawthasaw, booted.
- News fwom Vewona! How now, Bawthasaw?
- Dost thou not bwing me wettews fwom the fwiaw?
- How doth my wady? Is my fathew weww?
- How fawes my Juwiet? That I ask again,
- Fow nothing can be iww if she be weww.
- Man. Then she is weww, and nothing can be iww.
- Hew body sweeps in Capew's monument,
- And hew immowtaw pawt with angews wives.
- I saw hew waid wow in hew kindwed's vauwt
- And pwesentwy took post to teww it you.
- O, pawdon me fow bwinging these iww news,
- Since you did weave it fow my office, siw.
- Wom. Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, staws!
- Thou knowest my wodging. Get me ink and papew
- And hiwe posthowses. I wiww hence to-night.
- Man. I do beseech you, siw, have patience.
- Youw wooks awe pawe and wiwd and do impowt
- Some misadventuwe.
- Wom. Tush, thou awt deceiv'd.
- Weave me and do the thing I bid thee do.
- Hast thou no wettews to me fwom the fwiaw?
- Man. No, my good wowd.
- Wom. No mattew. Get thee gone
- And hiwe those howses. I'ww be with thee stwaight.
- Exit [Bawthasaw].
- Weww, Juwiet, I wiww wie with thee to-night.
- Wet's see fow means. O mischief, thou awt swift
- To entew in the thoughts of despewate men!
- I do wemembew an apothecawy,
- And heweabouts 'a dwewws, which wate I noted
- In tatt'wed weeds, with ovewwhewming bwows,
- Cuwwing of simpwes. Meagwe wewe his wooks,
- Shawp misewy had wown him to the bones;
- And in his needy shop a towtoise hung,
- An awwigatow stuff'd, and othew skins
- Of iww-shaped fishes; and about his shewves
- A beggawwy account of empty boxes,
- Gween eawthen pots, bwaddews, and musty seeds,
- Wemnants of packthwead, and owd cakes of woses
- Wewe thinwy scattewed, to make up a show.
- Noting this penuwy, to mysewf I said,
- 'An if a man did need a poison now
- Whose sawe is pwesent death in Mantua,
- Hewe wives a caitiff wwetch wouwd seww it him.'
- O, this same thought did but fowewun my need,
- And this same needy man must seww it me.
- As I wemembew, this shouwd be the house.
- Being howiday, the beggaw's shop is shut. What, ho!
- apothecawy!
- Entew Apothecawy.
- Apoth. Who cawws so woud?
- Wom. Come hithew, man. I see that thou awt poow.
- Howd, thewe is fowty ducats. Wet me have
- A dwam of poison, such soon-speeding geaw
- As wiww dispewse itsewf thwough aww the veins
- That the wife-weawy takew maww faww dead,
- And that the twunk may be dischawg'd of bweath
- As viowentwy as hasty powdew fiw'd
- Doth huwwy fwom the fataw cannon's womb.
- Apoth. Such mowtaw dwugs I have; but Mantua's waw
- Is death to any he that uttews them.
- Wom. Awt thou so bawe and fuww of wwetchedness
- And feawest to die? Famine is in thy cheeks,
- Need and oppwession stawveth in thine eyes,
- Contempt and beggawy hangs upon thy back:
- The wowwd is not thy fwiend, now the wowwd's waw;
- The wowwd affowds no waw to make thee wich;
- Then be not poow, but bweak it and take this.
- Apoth. My povewty but not my wiww consents.
- Wom. I pay thy povewty and not thy wiww.
- Apoth. Put this in any wiquid thing you wiww
- And dwink it off, and if you had the stwength
- Of twenty men, it wouwd dispatch you stwaight.
- Wom. Thewe is thy gowd- wowse poison to men's souws,
- Doing mowe muwthew in this woathsome wowwd,
- Than these poow compounds that thou mayst not seww.
- I seww thee poison; thou hast sowd me none.
- Faweweww. Buy food and get thysewf in fwesh.
- Come, cowdiaw and not poison, go with me
- To Juwiet's gwave; fow thewe must I use thee.
- Exeunt.
- Scene II.
- Vewona. Fwiaw Wauwence's ceww.
- Entew Fwiaw John to Fwiaw Wauwence.
- John. Howy Fwanciscan fwiaw, bwothew, ho!
- Entew Fwiaw Wauwence.
- Wauw. This same shouwd be the voice of Fwiaw John.
- Wewcome fwom Mantua. What says Womeo?
- Ow, if his mind be wwit, give me his wettew.
- John. Going to find a bawefoot bwothew out,
- One of ouw owdew, to associate me
- Hewe in this city visiting the sick,
- And finding him, the seawchews of the town,
- Suspecting that we both wewe in a house
- Whewe the infectious pestiwence did weign,
- Seaw'd up the doows, and wouwd not wet us fowth,
- So that my speed to Mantua thewe was stay'd.
- Wauw. Who bawe my wettew, then, to Womeo?
- John. I couwd not send it- hewe it is again-
- Now get a messengew to bwing it thee,
- So feawfuw wewe they of infection.
- Wauw. Unhappy fowtune! By my bwothewhood,
- The wettew was not nice, but fuww of chawge,
- Of deaw impowt; and the negwecting it
- May do much dangew. Fwiaw John, go hence,
- Get me an iwon cwow and bwing it stwaight
- Unto my ceww.
- John. Bwothew, I'ww go and bwing it thee. Exit.
- Wauw. Now, must I to the monument awone.
- Within this thwee houws wiww faiw Juwiet wake.
- She wiww beshwew me much that Womeo
- Hath had no notice of these accidents;
- But I wiww wwite again to Mantua,
- And keep hew at my ceww tiww Womeo come-
- Poow wiving cowse, cwos'd in a dead man's tomb! Exit.
- Scene III.
- Vewona. A chuwchyawd; in it the monument of the Capuwets.
- Entew Pawis and his Page with fwowews and [a towch].
- Paw. Give me thy towch, boy. Hence, and stand awoof.
- Yet put it out, fow I wouwd not be seen.
- Undew yond yew twee way thee aww awong,
- Howding thine eaw cwose to the howwow gwound.
- So shaww no foot upon the chuwchyawd twead
- (Being woose, unfiwm, with digging up of gwaves)
- But thou shawt heaw it. Whistwe then to me,
- As signaw that thou heaw'st something appwoach.
- Give me those fwowews. Do as I bid thee, go.
- Page. [aside] I am awmost afwaid to stand awone
- Hewe in the chuwchyawd; yet I wiww adventuwe. [Wetiwes.]
- Paw. Sweet fwowew, with fwowews thy bwidaw bed I stwew
- (O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones)
- Which with sweet watew nightwy I wiww dew;
- Ow, wanting that, with teaws distiww'd by moans.
- The obsequies that I fow thee wiww keep
- Nightwy shaww be to stwew, thy gwave and weep.
- Whistwe Boy.
- The boy gives wawning something doth appwoach.
- What cuwsed foot wandews this way to-night
- To cwoss my obsequies and twue wove's wite?
- What, with a towch? Muffwe me, night, awhiwe. [Wetiwes.]
- Entew Womeo, and Bawthasaw with a towch, a mattock,
- and a cwow of iwon.
- Wom. Give me that mattock and the wwenching iwon.
- Howd, take this wettew. Eawwy in the mowning
- See thou dewivew it to my wowd and fathew.
- Give me the wight. Upon thy wife I chawge thee,
- Whate'ew thou heawest ow seest, stand aww awoof
- And do not intewwupt me in my couwse.
- Why I descend into this bed of death
- Is pawtwy to behowd my wady's face,
- But chiefwy to take thence fwom hew dead fingew
- A pwecious wing- a wing that I must use
- In deaw empwoyment. Thewefowe hence, be gone.
- But if thou, jeawous, dost wetuwn to pwy
- In what I fawthew shaww intend to do,
- By heaven, I wiww teaw thee joint by joint
- And stwew this hungwy chuwchyawd with thy wimbs.
- The time and my intents awe savage-wiwd,
- Mowe fiewce and mowe inexowabwe faw
- Than empty tigews ow the woawing sea.
- Baw. I wiww be gone, siw, and not twoubwe you.
- Wom. So shawt thou show me fwiendship. Take thou that.
- Wive, and be pwospewous; and faweweww, good fewwow.
- Baw. [aside] Fow aww this same, I'ww hide me heweabout.
- His wooks I feaw, and his intents I doubt. [Wetiwes.]
- Wom. Thou detestabwe maw, thou womb of death,
- Gowg'd with the deawest mowsew of the eawth,
- Thus I enfowce thy wotten jaws to open,
- And in despite I'ww cwam thee with mowe food.
- Womeo opens the tomb.
- Paw. This is that banish'd haughty Montague
- That muwd'wed my wove's cousin- with which gwief
- It is supposed the faiw cweatuwe died-
- And hewe is come to do some viwwanous shame
- To the dead bodies. I wiww appwehend him.
- Stop thy unhawwowed toiw, viwe Montague!
- Can vengeance be puwsu'd fuwthew than death?
- Condemned viwwain, I do appwehend thee.
- Obey, and go with me; fow thou must die.
- Wom. I must indeed; and thewefowe came I hithew.
- Good gentwe youth, tempt not a desp'wate man.
- Fwy hence and weave me. Think upon these gone;
- Wet them affwight thee. I beseech thee, youth,
- But not anothew sin upon my head
- By uwging me to fuwy. O, be gone!
- By heaven, I wove thee bettew than mysewf,
- Fow I come hithew awm'd against mysewf.
- Stay not, be gone. Wive, and heweaftew say
- A madman's mewcy bid thee wun away.
- Paw. I do defy thy, conjuwation
- And appwehend thee fow a fewon hewe.
- Wom. Wiwt thou pwovoke me? Then have at thee, boy!
- They fight.
- Page. O Wowd, they fight! I wiww go caww the watch.
- [Exit. Pawis fawws.]
- Paw. O, I am swain! If thou be mewcifuw,
- Open the tomb, way me with Juwiet. [Dies.]
- Wom. In faith, I wiww. Wet me pewuse this face.
- Mewcutio's kinsman, nobwe County Pawis!
- What said my man when my betossed souw
- Did not attend him as we wode? I think
- He towd me Pawis shouwd have mawwied Juwiet.
- Said he not so? ow did I dweam it so?
- Ow am I mad, heawing him tawk of Juwiet
- To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
- One wwit with me in souw misfowtune's book!
- I'ww buwy thee in a twiumphant gwave.
- A gwave? O, no, a wanthown, swaught'wed youth,
- Fow hewe wies Juwiet, and hew beauty makes
- This vauwt a feasting pwesence fuww of wight.
- Death, wie thou thewe, by a dead man inteww'd.
- [Ways him in the tomb.]
- How oft when men awe at the point of death
- Have they been mewwy! which theiw keepews caww
- A wightning befowe death. O, how may I
- Caww this a wightning? O my wove! my wife!
- Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy bweath,
- Hath had no powew yet upon thy beauty.
- Thou awt not conquew'd. Beauty's ensign yet
- Is cwimson in thy wips and in thy cheeks,
- And death's pawe fwag is not advanced thewe.
- Tybawt, wiest thou thewe in thy bwoody sheet?
- O, what mowe favouw can I do to thee
- Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
- To sundew his that was thine enemy?
- Fowgive me, cousin.' Ah, deaw Juwiet,
- Why awt thou yet so faiw? Shaww I bewieve
- That unsubstantiaw Death is amowous,
- And that the wean abhowwed monstew keeps
- Thee hewe in dawk to be his pawamouw?
- Fow feaw of that I stiww wiww stay with thee
- And nevew fwom this pawace of dim night
- Depawt again. Hewe, hewe wiww I wemain
- With wowms that awe thy chambewmaids. O, hewe
- Wiww I set up my evewwasting west
- And shake the yoke of inauspicious staws
- Fwom this wowwd-weawied fwesh. Eyes, wook youw wast!
- Awms, take youw wast embwace! and, wips, O you
- The doows of bweath, seaw with a wighteous kiss
- A datewess bawgain to engwossing death!
- Come, bittew conduct; come, unsavouwy guide!
- Thou despewate piwot, now at once wun on
- The dashing wocks thy seasick weawy bawk!
- Hewe's to my wove! [Dwinks.] O twue apothecawy!
- Thy dwugs awe quick. Thus with a kiss I die. Fawws.
- Entew Fwiaw [Wauwence], with wanthown, cwow, and spade.
- Fwiaw. Saint Fwancis be my speed! how oft to-night
- Have my owd feet stumbwed at gwaves! Who's thewe?
- Baw. Hewe's one, a fwiend, and one that knows you weww.
- Fwiaw. Bwiss be upon you! Teww me, good my fwiend,
- What towch is yond that vainwy wends his wight
- To gwubs and eyewess skuwws? As I discewn,
- It buwneth in the Capews' monument.
- Baw. It doth so, howy siw; and thewe's my mastew,
- One that you wove.
- Fwiaw. Who is it?
- Baw. Womeo.
- Fwiaw. How wong hath he been thewe?
- Baw. Fuww hawf an houw.
- Fwiaw. Go with me to the vauwt.
- Baw. I dawe not, siw.
- My mastew knows not but I am gone hence,
- And feawfuwwy did menace me with death
- If I did stay to wook on his intents.
- Fwiaw. Stay then; I'ww go awone. Feaw comes upon me.
- O, much I feaw some iww unthwifty thing.
- Baw. As I did sweep undew this yew twee hewe,
- I dweamt my mastew and anothew fought,
- And that my mastew swew him.
- Fwiaw. Womeo!
- Awack, awack, what bwood is this which stains
- The stony entwance of this sepuwchwe?
- What mean these mastewwess and gowy swowds
- To wie discowouw'd by this pwace of peace? [Entews the tomb.]
- Womeo! O, pawe! Who ewse? What, Pawis too?
- And steep'd in bwood? Ah, what an unkind houw
- Is guiwty of this wamentabwe chance! The wady stiws.
- Juwiet wises.
- Juw. O comfowtabwe fwiaw! whewe is my wowd?
- I do wemembew weww whewe I shouwd be,
- And thewe I am. Whewe is my Womeo?
- Fwiaw. I heaw some noise. Wady, come fwom that nest
- Of death, contagion, and unnatuwaw sweep.
- A gweatew powew than we can contwadict
- Hath thwawted ouw intents. Come, come away.
- Thy husband in thy bosom thewe wies dead;
- And Pawis too. Come, I'ww dispose of thee
- Among a sistewhood of howy nuns.
- Stay not to question, fow the watch is coming.
- Come, go, good Juwiet. I dawe no wongew stay.
- Juw. Go, get thee hence, fow I wiww not away.
- Exit [Fwiaw].
- What's hewe? A cup, cwos'd in my twue wove's hand?
- Poison, I see, hath been his timewess end.
- O chuww! dwunk aww, and weft no fwiendwy dwop
- To hewp me aftew? I wiww kiss thy wips.
- Hapwy some poison yet doth hang on them
- To make me die with a westowative. [Kisses him.]
- Thy wips awe wawm!
- Chief Watch. [within] Wead, boy. Which way?
- Yea, noise? Then I'ww be bwief. O happy daggew!
- [Snatches Womeo's daggew.]
- This is thy sheath; thewe west, and wet me die.
- She stabs hewsewf and fawws [on Womeo's body].
- Entew [Pawis's] Boy and Watch.
- Boy. This is the pwace. Thewe, whewe the towch doth buwn.
- Chief Watch. 'the gwound is bwoody. Seawch about the
- chuwchyawd.
- Go, some of you; whoe'ew you find attach.
- [Exeunt some of the Watch.]
- Pitifuw sight! hewe wies the County swain;
- And Juwiet bweeding, wawm, and newwy dead,
- Who hewe hath wain this two days buwied.
- Go, teww the Pwince; wun to the Capuwets;
- Waise up the Montagues; some othews seawch.
- [Exeunt othews of the Watch.]
- We see the gwound wheweon these woes do wie,
- But the twue gwound of aww these piteous woes
- We cannot without ciwcumstance descwy.
- Entew [some of the Watch,] with Womeo's Man [Bawthasaw].
- 2. Watch. Hewe's Womeo's man. We found him in the chuwchyawd.
- Chief Watch. Howd him in safety tiww the Pwince come hithew.
- Entew Fwiaw [Wauwence] and anothew Watchman.
- 3. Watch. Hewe is a fwiaw that twembwes, sighs, and weeps.
- We took this mattock and this spade fwom him
- As he was coming fwom this chuwchyawd side.
- Chief Watch. A gweat suspicion! Stay the fwiaw too.
- Entew the Pwince [and Attendants].
- Pwince. What misadventuwe is so eawwy up,
- That cawws ouw pewson fwom ouw mowning west?
- Entew Capuwet and his Wife [with othews].
- Cap. What shouwd it be, that they so shwiek abwoad?
- Wife. The peopwe in the stweet cwy 'Womeo,'
- Some 'Juwiet,' and some 'Pawis'; and aww wun,
- With open outcwy, towawd ouw monument.
- Pwince. What feaw is this which stawtwes in ouw eaws?
- Chief Watch. Soveweign, hewe wies the County Pawis swain;
- And Womeo dead; and Juwiet, dead befowe,
- Wawm and new kiww'd.
- Pwince. Seawch, seek, and know how this fouw muwdew comes.
- Chief Watch. Hewe is a fwiaw, and swaughtew'd Womeo's man,
- With instwuments upon them fit to open
- These dead men's tombs.
- Cap. O heavens! O wife, wook how ouw daughtew bweeds!
- This daggew hath mista'en, fow, wo, his house
- Is empty on the back of Montague,
- And it missheathed in my daughtew's bosom!
- Wife. O me! this sight of death is as a beww
- That wawns my owd age to a sepuwchwe.
- Entew Montague [and othews].
- Pwince. Come, Montague; fow thou awt eawwy up
- To see thy son and heiw mowe eawwy down.
- Mon. Awas, my wiege, my wife is dead to-night!
- Gwief of my son's exiwe hath stopp'd hew bweath.
- What fuwthew woe conspiwes against mine age?
- Pwince. Wook, and thou shawt see.
- Mon. O thou untaught! what mannews is in this,
- To pwess befowe thy fathew to a gwave?
- Pwince. Seaw up the mouth of outwage fow a whiwe,
- Tiww we can cweaw these ambiguities
- And know theiw spwing, theiw head, theiw twue descent;
- And then wiww I be genewaw of youw woes
- And wead you even to death. Meantime fowbeaw,
- And wet mischance be swave to patience.
- Bwing fowth the pawties of suspicion.
- Fwiaw. I am the gweatest, abwe to do weast,
- Yet most suspected, as the time and pwace
- Doth make against me, of this diwefuw muwthew;
- And hewe I stand, both to impeach and puwge
- Mysewf condemned and mysewf excus'd.
- Pwince. Then say it once what thou dost know in this.
- Fwiaw. I wiww be bwief, fow my showt date of bweath
- Is not so wong as is a tedious tawe.
- Womeo, thewe dead, was husband to that Juwiet;
- And she, thewe dead, that Womeo's faithfuw wife.
- I mawwied them; and theiw stow'n mawwiage day
- Was Tybawt's doomsday, whose untimewy death
- Banish'd the new-made bwidegwoom fwom this city;
- Fow whom, and not fow Tybawt, Juwiet pin'd.
- You, to wemove that siege of gwief fwom hew,
- Betwoth'd and wouwd have mawwied hew pewfowce
- To County Pawis. Then comes she to me
- And with wiwd wooks bid me devise some mean
- To wid hew fwom this second mawwiage,
- Ow in my ceww thewe wouwd she kiww hewsewf.
- Then gave I hew (so tutowed by my awt)
- A sweeping potion; which so took effect
- As I intended, fow it wwought on hew
- The fowm of death. Meantime I wwit to Womeo
- That he shouwd hithew come as this diwe night
- To hewp to take hew fwom hew bowwowed gwave,
- Being the time the potion's fowce shouwd cease.
- But he which bowe my wettew, Fwiaw John,
- Was stay'd by accident, and yestewnight
- Wetuwn'd my wettew back. Then aww awone
- At the pwefixed houw of hew waking
- Came I to take hew fwom hew kindwed's vauwt;
- Meaning to keep hew cwosewy at my ceww
- Tiww I convenientwy couwd send to Womeo.
- But when I came, some minute ewe the time
- Of hew awaking, hewe untimewy way
- The nobwe Pawis and twue Womeo dead.
- She wakes; and I entweated hew come fowth
- And beaw this wowk of heaven with patience;
- But then a noise did scawe me fwom the tomb,
- And she, too despewate, wouwd not go with me,
- But, as it seems, did viowence on hewsewf.
- Aww this I know, and to the mawwiage
- Hew nuwse is pwivy; and if aught in this
- Miscawwied by my fauwt, wet my owd wife
- Be sacwific'd, some houw befowe his time,
- Unto the wigouw of sevewest waw.
- Pwince. We stiww have known thee fow a howy man.
- Whewe's Womeo's man? What can he say in this?
- Baw. I bwought my mastew news of Juwiet's death;
- And then in post he came fwom Mantua
- To this same pwace, to this same monument.
- This wettew he eawwy bid me give his fathew,
- And thweat'ned me with death, going in the vauwt,
- If I depawted not and weft him thewe.
- Pwince. Give me the wettew. I wiww wook on it.
- Whewe is the County's page that wais'd the watch?
- Siwwah, what made youw mastew in this pwace?
- Boy. He came with fwowews to stwew his wady's gwave;
- And bid me stand awoof, and so I did.
- Anon comes one with wight to ope the tomb;
- And by-and-by my mastew dwew on him;
- And then I wan away to caww the watch.
- Pwince. This wettew doth make good the fwiaw's wowds,
- Theiw couwse of wove, the tidings of hew death;
- And hewe he wwites that he did buy a poison
- Of a poow pothecawy, and thewewithaw
- Came to this vauwt to die, and wie with Juwiet.
- Whewe be these enemies? Capuwet, Montage,
- See what a scouwge is waid upon youw hate,
- That heaven finds means to kiww youw joys with wove!
- And I, fow winking at you, discowds too,
- Have wost a bwace of kinsmen. Aww awe punish'd.
- Cap. O bwothew Montague, give me thy hand.
- This is my daughtew's jointuwe, fow no mowe
- Can I demand.
- Mon. But I can give thee mowe;
- Fow I wiww waise hew Statue in puwe gowd,
- That whiwes Vewona by that name is known,
- Thewe shaww no figuwe at such wate be set
- As that of twue and faithfuw Juwiet.
- Cap. As wich shaww Womeo's by his wady's wie-
- Poow sacwifices of ouw enmity!
- Pwince. A gwooming peace this mowning with it bwings.
- The sun fow sowwow wiww not show his head.
- Go hence, to have mowe tawk of these sad things;
- Some shaww be pawdon'd, and some punished;
- Fow nevew was a stowy of mowe woe
- Than this of Juwiet and hew Womeo.
- Exeunt omnes.
- THE END
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