Romeo and Juliet / Ромео и Джульетта. Уильям Шекспир

is not Romeo, he’s some other where.

Benvolio

      Tell me in sadness who is that you love?

Romeo

      What, shall I groan and tell thee?

Benvolio

      Groan! Why, no; but sadly tell me who.

Romeo

      Bid a sick man in sadness make his will,

      A word ill urg’d to one that is so ill.

      In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.

Benvolio

      I aim’d so near when I suppos’d you lov’d.

Romeo

      A right good markman, and she’s fair I love.

Benvolio

      A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

Romeo

      Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit

      With Cupid’s arrow, she hath Dian’s wit;

      And in emphasis proof of chastity well arm’d,

      From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharm’d.

      She will not stay the siege of loving terms

      Nor bide th’encounter of assailing eyes,

      Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:

      O she’s rich in beauty, only poor

      That when she dies, with beauty dies her store.

Benvolio

      Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?

Romeo

      She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste;

      For beauty starv’d with her severity,

      Cuts beauty off from all posterity.

      She is too fair, too wise; wisely too fair,

      To merit bliss by making me despair.

      She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow

      Do I live dead, that live to tell it now.

Benvolio

      Be rul’d by me, forget to think of her.

Romeo

      O teach me how I should forget to think.

Benvolio

      By giving liberty unto thine eyes;

      Examine other beauties.

Romeo

      ’Tis the way

      To call hers, exquisite, in question more.

      These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows,

      Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair;

      He that is strucken blind cannot forget

      The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

      Show me a mistress that is passing fair,

      What doth her beauty serve but as a note

      Where I may read who pass’d that passing fair?

      Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget.

Benvolio

      I’ll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.

      [Exeunt.]

      Scene II

      A Street. Enter Capulet, Paris and Servant.

Capulet

      But Montague is bound as well as I,

      In penalty alike; and ’tis not hard, I think,

      For men so old as we to keep the peace.

Paris

      Of honourable reckoning are you both,

      And pity ’tis you liv’d at odds so long.

      But now my lord, what say you to my suit?

Capulet

      But saying o’er what I have said before.

      My child is yet a stranger in the world,

      She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;

      Let two more summers wither in their pride

      Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

Paris

      Younger than she are happy mothers made.

Capulet

      And too soon marr’d are those so early made.

      The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,

      She is the hopeful lady of my earth:

      But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,

      My will to her consent is but a part;

      And she agree, within her scope of choice

      Lies my consent and fair according voice.

      This night I hold an old accustom’d feast,

      Whereto I have invited many a guest,

      Such as I love, and you among the store,

      One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

      At my poor house look to behold this night

      Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:

      Such comfort as do lusty young men feel

      When well apparell’d April on the heel

      Of limping winter treads, even such delight

      Among fresh female buds shall you this night

      Inherit at my house. Hear all, all see,

      And like her most whose merit most shall be:

      Which, on more view of many, mine, being one,

      May stand in number, though in reckoning none.

      Come, go with me. Go, sirrah, trudge about

      Through fair Verona; find those persons out

      Whose names are written there, [gives a paper] and to them say,

      My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.

      [Exeunt Capulet and Paris]

Servant

      Find them out whose names are written here! It is written that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned. In good time!

      Enter Benvolio and Romeo

Benvolio

      Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning,

      One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish;

      Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;

      One desperate grief cures with another’s languish:

      Take thou some new infection to thy eye,

      And the rank poison of the old will die.

Romeo

      Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.

Benvolio

      For what, I pray thee?

Romeo

      For your broken shin.

Benvolio

      Why, Romeo, art thou mad?

Romeo

      Not mad, but bound more than a madman is:

      Shut up in prison, kept without my food,

      Whipp’d and tormented and-God-den, good fellow.

Servant

      God gi’ go-den. I pray, sir, can you read?

Romeo

      Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.

Servant

      Perhaps you have learned it without book.

      But I pray, can you read anything you see?

Romeo

      Ay, If I know the letters and the language.

Servant

      Ye