Faculty of English

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 […]

[4.5] NURSE            Mistress, what mistress! Juliet! Fast, I warrant her, she.                         Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!                         Why, love, I say! madam! sweet heart! why, bride!                         What, not a word? You take your pennyworths now;                         Sleep for a week, for the next night I warrant                         The County Paris hath […]

CAPULET                    A jealous hood, a jealous hood! Enter three or four [SERVINGMEN] with spits and logs and baskets                                                                         Now, fellow,                                     What is there? FIRST SERVINGMANThings for the cook, sir, but I know not what. CAPULET                    Make haste, make haste.                                                             [Exit First Servingman]                                                                         Sirrah, fetch drier logs.                                     Call Peter, he will show […]

[4.4] Enter lady of the house [LADY CAPULET] and NURSE [with herbs]. LADY CAPULET         Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse. NURSE                        They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.                                     Enter old CAPULET. CAPULET                    Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crowed, The curfew bell hath rung, ’tis three o’clock. Look to […]

JULIET                        O look! methinks I see my cousin’s ghost                         Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body                         Upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay!                         Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink – I drink to thee.                         [She falls upon her bed, within the curtains.] (4.3.55-58) A final, terrified hallucination – and yes, […]

JULIET                        Alack, alack, is it not like that I,                         So early waking – what with loathsome smells,                         And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,                         That living mortals hearing them run mad –                         O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,                         Environèd with all these hideous fears,                         […]

JULIET                        Or if I live, is it not very like                         The horrible conceit of death and night,                         Together with the terror of the place –                         As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,                         Where for this many hundred years the bones                         Of all my buried ancestors are packed,                         Where bloody […]