PRINCE A glooming peace this morning with it brings, The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence to have more talk of these sad things; Some will be pardoned, and some punishèd: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. […]
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Fathers join hands, and, golden statues (5.3.296-304)
CAPULET O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more Can I demand. MONTAGUE But I can give thee more, For I will raise her statue in pure gold, That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate […]
Continue ReadingAll are punished (5.3.291-295)
PRINCE Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague? See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I for winking at your discords too Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished. (5.3.291-295) Surely first a pause, filled with not […]
Continue ReadingTo die, and lie with Juliet (5.3.286-290)
PRINCE This letter doth make good the Friar’s words, Their course of love, the tidings of her death; And here he writes that he did buy a poison Of a poor pothecary, and therewithal Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet. (5.3.286-290) Realism is, as ever, a dodgy […]
Continue ReadingPage: It all happened so fast, and I ran away (5.3.279-285)
PRINCE Where is the County’s page that raised the Watch? Sirrah, what made your master in this place? PAGE He came with flowers to strew his lady’s grave, And bid me stand aloof, and so I did. Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb, And by and by my […]
Continue ReadingBalthasar: I just did what I was told… (5.3.271-278)
PRINCE Where’s Romeo’s man? what can he say to this? BALTHASAR I brought my master news of Juliet’s death, And then in post he came from Mantua To this same place, to this same monument. This letter he early bid me give his father, And threatened me with death, going in […]
Continue ReadingAnd that’s all I know: I’m sorry, I’m so, so, sorry (5.3.265-270)
FRIAR All this I know, and to the marriage Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this Miscarried by my fault, let my old life Be sacrificed, some hour before his time, Unto the rigour of severest law. PRINCE We still have known thee for a holy man. (5.3.265-270) The […]
Continue ReadingI’m a coward, I tried, I’m sorry… (5.3.257-264)
FRIAR But when I came, some minute ere the time Of her awakening, here untimely lay The noble Paris and true Romeo dead. She wakes, and I entreated her come forth And bear this work of heaven with patience. But then a noise did scare me from the tomb, […]
Continue ReadingMore revelations: the plan was all worked out, until… (5.3.246-256)
FRIAR Mean time I writ to Romeo That he should hither come as this dire night To help to take her from her borrowed grave, Before the time the potion’s force should cease. But he which bore my letter, Friar John, Was stayed by accident, and yesternight Returned my […]
Continue ReadingFriar: shocking revelation #2 (5.3.237-246)
FRIAR You, to remove that siege of grief from her, Betrothed, and would have married her perforce To County Paris. Then comes she to me, And with wild looks bid me devise some mean To rid her from this second marriage, Or in my cell there would she kill herself. […]
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