Enter Friar Lawrence with lanthorn, crow, and spade. Fri. St. Francis be my fpeed! how oft to night Have my old feet ftumbled at graves? who's there? Enter Balthafar. Balth. Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well. Fri. Blifs be upon you! Tell me, good my friend, And there's my master, one you dearly love. Balth. Romeo. Fri. How long hath he been there? Balth. Full half an hour. Fri. Go with me to the vault. Balth. I dare not, Sir. My mafter knows not, but I am gone hence; If I did ftay to look on his intents. Fri. Stay then, I'll go alone; fear comes upon me; O, much I fear fome ill unlucky thing. Balth. As I did fleep under this yew-tree here, I dreamt, my mafter and another fought, And that my master slew him. Fri. Romeo! Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains What mean these masterlefs and goary fwords, Romeo! oh pale! who elfe? what Paris too? The lady ftirs. Jul. [awaking.] Oh comfortable Friar, where is my lord? I do remember well, where I should be ; And And there I am; but where is Romeo? Fri. I hear some noife! Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and unnatural fleep; A greater Power, than we can contradict, Hath thwarted our intents; come, come away; Thy husband in thy bosom there lyes dead, And Paris too - Come, I'll difpose of thee Among a fifterhood of holy Nuns: Stay not to queftion, for the Watch is coming. Thy lips are warm. Enter Boy and Watch. Watch. Lead, boy, which way? Jul. Yea, noife? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! [Finding a dagger. This is thy fheath, there rust and let me die. [Kills herself. Boy. This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn. Watch. The ground is bloody. Search about the Go, fome of you, whom e'er you find, attach. Enter Enter fome of the Watch, with Balthafar. 2 Watch. Here's Romeo's man, we found him in the church-yard. 1 Watch. Hold him in fafety, 'till the Prince comes hither. 3 Enter another Watchman, with Friar Lawrence. Watch. Here is a Friar that trembles, fighs and We took this mattock and this fpade from him, Prince. What misadventure is fo early up, Cap. What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? La Cap. The people in the street cry, Romeo; Some, Fuliet; and fome, Paris; and all run With open out-cry tow'rd our Monument. Prince. What fear is this, which startles in ears? your Watch. Sovereign, here lyes the County Paris flain, And Romeo dead, and Juliet (dead before) Warm and new kill'd. Prince. Search, seek, and know, how this foul mur ther comes. Watch. Here is a Friar, and flaughter'd Romeo's man, With inftruments upon them, fit to open These dead men's tombs. Cap. Oh, heav'n! oh, wife! look how our daughter bleeds! This dagger hath mifta'en; for, loe! the sheath Enter Enter Montague. Prince. Come, Montague, for thou art early up, Mon. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to night; Mon. Oh, thou untaught! what manners is in this, To prefs before thy father to a Grave? Prince. Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, 'Till we can clear these ambiguities, And know their fpring, their head, their true defcent; And lead you ev'n to Death. Mean time forbear, Bring forth the parties of fufpicion. Fri. I am the greatest, able to do leaft, Prince. Then fay at once what thou dost know in this. Fri. I will be brief, for my short date of breath Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; E As As I intended; for it wrought on her The form of death. Mean time I writ to Romeo, Prince. We still have known thee for an holy man. Where's Romeo's man? what can he fay to this? Balth. I brought my mafter news of Juliet's death, And then in poft he came from Mantua To this fame place, to this fame Monument. And threatned me with death, going to the Vault, Prince. Give me the letter, I will look on it. Where is the County's page, that rais'd the Watch? Sirrah, what made your mafter in this place? Page. He came with flowers to ftrew his lady's Grave, And bid me ftand aloof, and fo I did: Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb, And |