[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, […]
Continue ReadingEnter 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 […]
Continue ReadingCaptain 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. […]
Continue ReadingEnter 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 […]
Continue ReadingJuliet: 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 […]
Continue ReadingThy 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 […]
Continue ReadingHe’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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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. […]
Continue ReadingWhere’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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