A mis-sheathed dagger? (5.3.202-207)

                                    [Capulet and Lady Capulet enter the tomb.] CAPULET                    O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!                                     This dagger hath mistane, for lo his house                                     Is empty on the back of Montague,                                     And it mis-sheathèd in my daughter’s bosom! LADY CAPULET         O me, this sight of death is as a bell […]

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Paris dead? Romeo dead? Juliet dead, again? (5.3.194-201)

PRINCE           What fear is this which startles in your ears? CAPTAIN        Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain,                         And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before,                         Warm and new killed. PRINCE           Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes. CAPTAIN        Here is a friar, and slaughtered Romeo’s man,                         With instruments upon them, […]

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Enter Prince, enter Capulets… (5.3.188-193)

                                    Enter the PRINCE [with others]. PRINCE                       What misadventure is so early up,                                     That calls our person from our morning rest?                                     Enter Capels [CAPULET, LADY CAPULET] CAPULET                    What should it be that is so shrieked abroad? LADY CAPULET         O, the people in the street cry ‘Romeo’,                                     Some ‘Juliet’, and some ‘Paris’, and all run […]

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Captain of the Watch: what’s happened here? (5.3.179-187)

CAPTAIN                    We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,                                     But the true ground of all these piteous woes                                     We cannot without circumstance descry.                                     Enter [one of the Watch with] Romeo’s man [Balthasar]. SECOND WATCHMAN Here’s Romeo’s man, we found him in the churchyard. CAPTAIN                    Hold him in safety till the Prince come hither. […]

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Enter the Watch: a pitiful sight! (5.3.171-178)

Enter[Paris’s] Boy and WATCH. PAGE               This is the place, there where the torch doth burn. CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH    The ground is bloody, search about the churchyard.                         Go, some of you, whoe’er you find attach.                                                             [Exeunt some of the Watch.]                         [The Captain enters the tomb and returns.]                         Pitiful sight! here lies the […]

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Juliet: Let me die… (5.3.168-170)

CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH [Within]             Lead, boy, which way? JULIET                        Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger,                                     [Taking Romeo’s dagger.]                         This is thy sheath;                                     [Stabs herself.]                                                             there rust, and let me die.                                     [Falls on Romeo’s body and dies.] (5.3.168-170) (The stage directions are editorial in their placement. I […]

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Thy lips are warm! (5.3.160-167)

JULIET                        Go get thee hence, for I will not away.                         What’s here? a cup closed in my true love’s hand?                         Poison I see hath been his timeless end.                         O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop                         To help me after? I will kiss thy lips,                         Haply some poison yet […]

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He’s dead; come away, Juliet! (5.3.151-159)

                                                [Noise within] FRIAR              I hear some noise, lady. Come from that nest                         Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.                         A greater power than we can contradict                         Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.                         Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;                         And Paris too. Come, I’ll dispose of thee                         […]

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The lady stirs – where’s Romeo? (5.3.144-150)

FRIAR              Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?                         And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour                         Is guilty of this lamentable chance!                                                 [Juliet rises.]                         The lady stirs. JULIET                        O comfortable Friar, where is my lord?                         I do remember well where I should be;                         And there I am. […]

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Where’s Romeo? And what’s all this blood? (5.3.139-144)

FRIAR                                                  Romeo!                         [Friar stoops and looks on the blood and weapons.]                         Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains                         The stony entrance of this sepulchre?                         What mean these masterless and gory swords                         To lie discoloured by this place of peace?                                                 [Enters the tomb.] (5.3.139-144) Ages ago I noted that […]

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