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Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that |
Which the commission of thy years and art |
Could to no issue of true honour bring. |
Be not so long to speak; I long to die, |
If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, |
Which craves as desperate an execution. |
As that is desperate which we would prevent. |
If, rather than to marry County Paris, |
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, |
Then is it likely thou wilt undertake |
A thing like death to chide away this shame, |
That copest with death himself to scape from it: |
And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. |
JULIET: |
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, |
From off the battlements of yonder tower; |
Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk |
Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; |
Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, |
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, |
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; |
Or bid me go into a new-made grave |
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; |
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; |
And I will do it without fear or doubt, |
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent |
To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow: |
To-morrow night look that thou lie alone; |
Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber: |
Take thou this vial, being then in bed, |
And this distilled liquor drink thou off; |
When presently through all thy veins shall run |
A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse |
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease: |
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest; |
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade |
To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall, |
Like death, when he shuts up the day of life; |
Each part, deprived of supple government, |
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death: |
And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death |
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, |
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. |
Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes |
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead: |
Then, as the manner of our country is, |
In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier |
Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault |
Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie. |
In the mean time, against thou shalt awake, |
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, |
And hither shall he come: and he and I |
Will watch thy waking, and that very night |
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. |
And this shall free thee from this present shame; |
If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear, |
Abate thy valour in the acting it. |
JULIET: |
Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear! |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous |
In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed |
To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. |
JULIET: |
Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford. |
Farewell, dear father! |
CAPULET: |
So many guests invite as here are writ. |
Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. |
Second Servant: |
You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they |
can lick their fingers. |
CAPULET: |
How canst thou try them so? |
Second Servant: |
Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his |
own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his |
fingers goes not with me. |
CAPULET: |
Go, be gone. |
We shall be much unfurnished for this time. |
What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence? |
Nurse: |
Ay, forsooth. |
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