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
What bloud is this that staines the entrance
Of this marble stony monument?
What meanes these maisterles and goory weapons?
Ah me I doubt, whose heere? what _Romeo_ dead?
Who and _Paris_ too? what vnluckie houre
Is accessary to so foule a sinne?
_Iuliet rises._
The Lady sturres.[1595]
Ah comfortable Fryer. 105
I doe remember well where I should be,
And what we talkt of: but yet I cannot see
Him for whose sake I vndertooke this hazard.
_Fr_: Lady come foorth, I heare some noise at hand,
We shall be taken, _Paris_ he is slaine, 110
And _Romeo_ dead: and if we heere be tane
We shall be thought to be as accessarie.
I will prouide for you in some close Nunery.
_Iul_: Ah leaue me, leaue me, I will not from hence.
_Fr_: I heare some noise, I dare not stay, come, come. 115
_Iul_: Goe get thee gone.
Whats heere a cup closde in my louers hands?
Ah churle drinke all, and leaue no drop for me.
_Enter watch._
_Watch_: This way, this way.
_Iul_: I, noise? then must I be resolute. 120
O happy dagger thou shalt end my feare,
Rest in my bosome, thus I come to thee.
_She stabs herselfe and falles._
_Enter watch._
_Cap_: Come looke about, what weapons haue we heere?
See frends where _Iuliet_ two daies buried,
New bleeding wounded, search and see who's neare, 125
Attach and bring them to vs presently.
_Enter one with the Fryer._
_1._ Captaine heers a Fryer with tooles about him,
Fitte to ope a tombe.
_Cap_: A great suspition, keep him safe.
_Enter one with Romeos man._
_1._ Heeres _Romeos_ Man. 130
_Capt_: Keepe him to be examinde.
_Enter Prince with others._
_Prin_: What early mischiefe calls vs vp so soone.
_Capt_: O noble Prince, see here
Where _Juliet_ that hath lyen intoombd two dayes,
Warme and fresh bleeding, _Romeo_ and Countie _Paris_ 135
Likewise newly slaine.
_Prin_: Search seeke about to finde the murderers.
_Enter olde Capolet and his Wife._
_Capo_: What rumor's this that is so early vp?
_Moth_: The people in the streetes crie _Romeo_,
And some on _Iuliet_: as if they alone 140
Had been the cause of such a mutinie.
_Capo_: See Wife, this dagger hath mistooke:
For (loe) the backe is emptie of yong _Mountague_,
And it is sheathed in our Daughters breast.
_Enter olde Montague._
_Prin_: Come _Mountague_, for thou art early vp, 145
To see thy Sonne and Heire more early downe.
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