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FRIAR              I will be brief, for my short date of breath                         Is not so long as is a tedious tale.                         Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,                         And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife:                         I married them, and their stol’n marriage day                         Was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely death […]

FRIAR              I am the greatest, able to do least,                         Yet most suspected, as the time and place                         Doth make against me, of this direful murder;                         And here I stand both to impeach and purge                         Myself condemnèd and myself excused. PRINCE           Then say at once what thou dost know in this. (5.3.223-228) […]

PRINCE           Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,                         Till we can clear these ambiguities,                         And know their spring, their head, their true descent,                         And then will I be general of your woes,                         And lead you even to death. Mean time forbear,                         And let mischance be slave to patience. […]

                        Enter MONTAGUE. PRINCE           Come, Montague, for thou art early up                         To see thy son and heir now early down. MONTAGUE   Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight;                         Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.                         What further woe conspires against mine age? PRINCE           Look and thou shalt see.                         [Montague […]

                                    [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 […]

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, […]

                                    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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]