Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse. Jul. Farewell!-God knows, when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me;- My dismal scene I needs must act alone.- What if this mixture do not work at all? Must I of force be married to the county?- [Laying down a dagger. I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point! To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, The horrible conceit of death and night, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd; Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, So early waking,-what with loathsome smells; And madly play with my forefathers' joints? [She throws herself upon the bed. SCENE IV.-CAPULET'S Hall. Enter Lady CAPULET and Nurse. La. Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Enter CAPULET. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, The curfeu bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock: Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica: Nurse. Go, go, you cot-quean, go, Get you to bed; 'faith, you'll be sick to-morrow Cap. No, not a whit; What! I have watch'd ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood !-Now, fellow, What's there? Enter Servants, with spits, logs, and baskets. 1 Serv. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Serv.]—Sirrah, fetch drier logs; Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. 2 Serv. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs, And never trouble Peter for the matter. [Exit. Cap. 'Mass, and well said; A merry whoreson! ha, Thou shalt be logger-head.-Good faith, 'tis day: The county will be here with music straight, [Music within. For so he said he would. I hear him near:- Enter Nurse. Go, waken Juliet, go, and trim her up; Make haste! the bridegroom he is come already: Make haste, I say! [Exeunt. SCENE V.-JULIET's chamber; JULIET on the bed. Enter Nurse. Nurse. Mistress!—what, mistress !-Juliet !-fast, I warrant her, she : - Why, lamb!-why, lady!-fye, you slug-a-bed !— That shall rest but little.-God forgive me, you (Marry, and amen!) how sound is she asleep! I needs must wake her :-Madam, madam, madam! He'll fright you up, i'faith.-Will it not be? What, drest! and in your clothes! and down again! Enter Lady CAPULET. La. Cap. What noise is here? Nurse. O lamentable day! La. Cap. What is the matter? Nurse. Look, look! O heavy day! La. Cap. O me, O me!-my child, my only life, Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!— Help, help!-call help. Enter CAPULET. Cap. For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. Nurse. She's dead, deceas'd, she's dead; alack the day! La. Cap. Alack the day! she's dead, she's dead, she's dead. Cap. Ha! let me see her :-Out, alas! she's cold; Accursed time! unfortunate old man! La. Cap. O woful time! Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. Enter Friar LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians. Fri. Come, is the bride ready to go to church? Cap. Ready to go, but never to return: O son, the night before thy wedding day Hath death lain with thy bride :-See, there she lies, Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir; And leave him all; life leaving, ali is death's. Par. Have I thought long to see this morning's face, And doth it give me such a sight as this? La. Cap. Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! |