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
_1._ I by my troth Mistresse is it, it had need be mended.
_Enter Seruingman._
_Ser_: Alack alack what shal I doe, come Fidlers play me
some mery dumpe.
_1._ A sir, this is no time to play.
_Ser_: You will not then? 85
_1._ No marry will wee.
_Ser_: Then will I giue it you, and soundly to.
_1._ What will you giue vs?
_Ser_: The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile sol you.
_1._ If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you. 90
_Ser_: I will put vp my Iron dagger, and beate you with
my wodden wit. Come on Simon found Pot, Ile pose you,
_1._ Lets heare.
_Ser_: When griping griefe the heart doth wound,
And dolefull dumps the minde oppresse: 95
Then musique with her siluer sound,
Why siluer sound? Why siluer sound?
_1._ I thinke because musicke hath a sweet sound.
_Ser_: Pretie, what say you Mathew minikine?
_2._ I thinke because Musitions sound for siluer. 100
_Ser_: Prettie too: come, what say you?
_3._ I say nothing.
_Ser_: I thinke so, Ile speake for you because you are the
Singer. I saye Siluer sound, because such Fellowes as you
haue sildome Golde for sounding. Farewell Fidlers, 105
farewell. _Exit._
_1._ Farewell and be hangd: come lets goe. _Exeunt._
[Sidenote: [SC. XX.]]
_Enter Romeo._
_Rom_: If I may trust the flattering Eye of Sleepe,
My Dreame presagde some good euent to come.
My bosome Lord sits chearfull in his throne,
And I am comforted with pleasing dreames.
Me thought I was this night alreadie dead: 5
(Strange dreames that giue a dead man leaue to thinke)
And that my Ladie _Iuliet_ came to me,
And breathd such life with kisses in my lips,
That I reuiude and was an Emperour.
_Enter Balthasar his man booted._
Newes from _Verona_. How now _Balthasar_, 10
How doth my Ladie? Is my Father well?
How fares my _Juliet_? that I aske againe:
If she be well, then nothing can be ill.
_Balt_: Then nothing can be ill, for she is well,
Her bodie sleepes in _Capels_ Monument, 15
And her immortall parts with Angels dwell.
Pardon me Sir, that am the Messenger of such bad tidings.
_Rom_: Is it euen so? then I defie my Starres.
Goe get me incke and paper, hyre post horse,
I will not stay in _Mantua_ to night. 20
_Balt_: Pardon me Sir, I will not leaue you thus,
Your lookes are dangerous and full of feare:
I dare not, nor I will not leaue you yet.
_Rom_: Doo as I bid thee, get me incke and paper,
And hyre those horse: stay not I say. 25
_Exit Balthasar._
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