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
_Iul_: Goe learne his name, if he be maried,
My graue is like to be my wedding bed. 110
_Nur_: _His name is_ Romeo _and a_ Mountague, _the onely_
_sonne of your great enemie._
_Iul_: My onely Loue sprung from my onely hate,
Too early seene vnknowne, and knowne too late:
Prodigious birth of loue is this to me, 115
That I should loue a loathed enemie.
Nurse: _Whats this? whats that?_
_Iul_: Nothing Nurse but a rime I learnt euen now of oue I dancst with.
Nurse: _Come your mother staies for you, Ile goe a long_
_with you._ _Exeunt._
[Sidenote: [SC. VI.]]
_Enter Romeo alone._
_Ro_: Shall I goe forward and my heart is here?
Turne backe dull earth and finde thy Center out.
_Enter Benuolio Mercutio_.
_Ben: Romeo_, my cosen _Romeo_.
_Mer_: Doest thou heare he is wise,
Vpon my life he hath stolne him home to bed. 5
_Ben_: He came this way, and leapt this Orchard wall.
Call good _Mercutio._
_Mer_: Call, nay Ile coniure too.
_Romeo_, madman, humors, passion, liuer, appeare thou in
likenes of a sigh: speek but one rime & I am satisfied, cry 10
but ay me. Pronounce but Loue and Doue, speake to
my gossip _Venus_ one faire word, one nickname for her
purblinde sonne and heire young _Abraham: Cupid_ hee
that shot so trim when young King _Cophetua_ loued the
begger wench. Hee heares me not. I coniure thee by 15
_Rosalindes_ bright eye, high forehead, and scarlet lip, her
prettie foote, straight leg, and quiuering thigh, and the
demaines that there adiacent lie, that in thy likenesse
thou appeare to vs.
_Ben_: If he doe heare thee thou wilt anger him. 20
_Mer_: Tut this cannot anger him, marrie if one shuld
raise a spirit in his Mistris circle of some strange fashion,
making it there to stand till she had laid it, and coniurde
it downe, that were some spite. My inuocation is faire
and honest, and in his Mistris name I coniure onely but 25
to raise vp him.
_Ben_: Well he hath hid himselfe amongst those trees,
To be consorted with the humerous night,
Blinde in his loue, and best befits the darke.
_Mer_: If loue be blind, loue will not hit the marke, 30
Now will he sit vnder a Medler tree,
And wish his Mistris were that kinde of fruite,
As maides call Medlers when they laugh alone.
Ah _Romeo_ that she were, ah that she were
An open _Et cætera_, thou a poprin Peare. 35
_Romeo_ God night, il'e to my trundle bed:
This field bed is too cold for mee.
Come lets away, for tis but vaine,
To seeke him here that meanes not to be found.
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