The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_First Watch._ The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:[1527]
Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.[1528]
Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain;
And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
Who here hath lain this two days buried.[1529] 175
Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:
Raise up the Montagues: some others search:[1530][1531]
We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;[1530][1532]
But the true ground of all these piteous woes[1530][1532]
We cannot without circumstance descry.[1532][1533] 180
_Re-enter some of the_ Watch, _with_ BALTHASAR.
_Sec. Watch._ Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.[1534]
_First Watch._ Hold him in safety, till the prince come
hither.[1535][1536]
_Re-enter_ FRIAR LAURENCE, _and another_ Watchman.
THIRD WATCH. Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:
We took this mattock and this spade from him,
As he was coming from this churchyard's side.[1537] 185
_First Watch._ A great suspicion: stay the friar too.[1535][1538]
_Enter the_ Prince _and_ Attendants.
_Prince._ What misadventure is so early up,[1539]
That calls our person from our morning rest?[1540]
_Enter_ CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, _and others_.[1541]
_Cap._ What should it be that they so shriek abroad?[1542]
_La. Cap._ The people in the street cry Romeo,[1543][1544] 190
Some Juliet, and some Paris, and all run
With open outcry toward our monument.[1545]
_Prince._ What fear is this which startles in our ears?[1546]
_First Watch._ Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;[1547]
And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before, 195
Warm and new kill'd.
_Prince._ Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.[1548]
_First Watch._ Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's
man,[1547][1549]
With instruments upon them fit to open
These dead men's tombs.[1550] 200
_Cap._ O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds![1551]
This dagger hath mista'en, for, lo, his house[1552]
Is empty on the back of Montague,[1552]
And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom![1552][1553]
_La. Cap._ O me! this sight of death is as a bell 205
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
_Enter_ MONTAGUE _and others_.[1554]
_Prince._ Come, Montague; for thou art early up,
To see thy son and heir more early down.[1555]
_Mon._ Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:[1556] 210
What further woe conspires against mine age?[1557]
_Prince._ Look, and thou shalt see.[1558]
_Mon._ O thou untaught! what manners is in this,[1559]
To press before thy father to a grave?
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