FRIAR              O, in this love, you love your child so ill                         That you run mad, seeing that she is well.                         She’s not well married that lives married long,                         But she’s best married that dies married young.                         Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary                         On this fair corse, and as […]

FRIAR              Peace ho, for shame! Confusion’s cure lives not                         In these confusions. Heaven and yourself                         Had part in this fair maid, now heaven hath all,                         And all the better is it for the maid:                         Your part in her you could not keep from death,                         But heaven keeps his part in […]

PARIS              Beguiled, divorcèd, wrongèd, spited, slain!                         Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled,                         By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown!                         O love! O life! not life, but love in death! CAPULET        Despised, distressèd, hated, martyred, killed!                         Uncomfortable time, why cam’st thou now                         To murder, murder our solemnity?                         O child, O child! […]

NURSE            O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!                         Most lamentable day, most woeful day                         That ever, ever I did yet behold!                         O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!                         Never was seen so black a day as this.                         O woeful day, O woeful day! (4.5.49-54) This is probably the […]

LADY CAPULET         Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!                                     Most miserable hour that e’er time saw                                     In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!                                     But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,                                     But one thing to rejoice and solace in,                                     And cruel Death hath catched it from my sight! (4.5.43-48) So this is […]

CAPULET        O son, the night before thy wedding day                         Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,                         Flower as she was, deflowerèd by him.                         Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,                         My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,                         And leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s. […]

NURSE                        O lamentable day! LADY CAPULET                                             O woeful time! CAPULET                    Death that hath tane her hence to make me wail                                     Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. Enter FRIAR [LAWRENCE] and the COUNTY [PARIS with the MUSICIANS]. FRIAR  LAWRENCE    Come, is the bride ready to go to church? CAPULET                    Ready to go, but never […]

Enter Father [CAPULET]. CAPULET                    For shame, bring Juliet forth, her lord is come. NURSE                        She’s dead, deceased, she’s dead, alack the day! LADY CAPULET         Alack the day, she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead! CAPULET                    Hah, let me see her. Out alas, she’s cold,                                     Her blood is settled and her joints are stiff:                                     Life and […]

[Enter Mother, LADY CAPULET.] LADY CAPULET         What noise is here? NURSE                                                            O lamentable day! LADY CAPULET         What is the matter? NURSE                                                            Look, look! O heavy day! LADY CAPULET         O me, o me, my child, my only life!                                     Revive, look up, or I will die with thee.                                     Help, help! Call help. (4.5.17-21) The scene […]

NURSE                                    God forgive me!                         Marry and amen! How sound is she asleep!                         I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam!                         Ay, let the County take you in your bed,                         He’ll fright you up, i’faith. Will it not be?                         [Draws back the curtains.]                         What, dressed, and in your clothes, and […]