The boy gives warning something doth approach. What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,[1450] To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?[1451] 20 What, with a torch! Muffle me, night, awhile.[1452] [_Retires._ _Enter_ ROMEO _and_ BALTHASAR, _with a torch, mattock, &c._[1453] _Rom._ Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.[1454] Hold, take this letter; early in the morning See thou deliver it to my lord and father. Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee, 25 Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,[1455] And do not interrupt me in my course. Why I descend into this bed of death Is partly to behold my lady's face, But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger 30 A precious ring, a ring that I must use In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone: But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I farther shall intend to do,[1456] By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint 35 And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild,[1457] More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. _Bal._ I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.[1458][1459] 40 _Rom._ So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou[1460] that: Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.[1458] _Bal._ [_Aside_] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:[1461] His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.[1462] [_Retires._ _Rom._ Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,[1463] 45 Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I'll cram thee with more food.[1464] [_Opens the tomb._ _Par._ This is that banish'd haughty Montague That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,[1465] 50 It is supposed, the fair creature died, And here is come to do some villanous shame To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.[1466] [_Comes forward._ Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague![1467] Can vengeance be pursued further than death? 55 Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:[1468] Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.