The Complete Tragedies of William Shakespeare - All 12 Books in One Edition. William Shakespeare

Tonight she’s mew’d up to her heaviness.

       Capulet.

       Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender

       Of my child’s love: I think she will be rul’d

       In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.—

       Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;

       Acquaint her here of my son Paris’ love;

       And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next,—

       But, soft! what day is this?

       Paris.

       Monday, my lord.

       Capulet.

       Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,

       Thursday let it be;—a Thursday, tell her,

       She shall be married to this noble earl.—

       Will you be ready? do you like this haste?

       We’ll keep no great ado,—a friend or two;

       For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,

       It may be thought we held him carelessly,

       Being our kinsman, if we revel much:

       Therefore we’ll have some half a dozen friends,

       And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?

       Paris.

       My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.

       Capulet.

       Well, get you gone: o’ Thursday be it then.—

       Go you to Juliet, ere you go to bed,

       Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.—

       Farewell, my lord.—Light to my chamber, ho!—

       Afore me, it is so very very late

       That we may call it early by and by.—

       Good night.

       [Exeunt.]

       SCENE V. An open Gallery to Juliet’s Chamber, overlooking the Garden.

       [Enter Romeo and Juliet.]

       Juliet.

       Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:

       It was the nightingale, and not the lark,

       That pierc’d the fearful hollow of thine ear;

       Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree:

       Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

       Romeo.

       It was the lark, the herald of the morn,

       No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks

       Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:

       Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day

       Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

       I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

       Juliet.

       Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I:

       It is some meteor that the sun exhales

       To be to thee this night a torch-bearer

       And light thee on the way to Mantua:

       Therefore stay yet, thou need’st not to be gone.

       Romeo.

       Let me be ta’en, let me be put to death;

       I am content, so thou wilt have it so.

       I’ll say yon gray is not the morning’s eye,

       ‘Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow;

       Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat

       The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:

       I have more care to stay than will to go.—

       Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.—

       How is’t, my soul? let’s talk,—it is not day.

       Juliet.

       It is, it is!—hie hence, be gone, away!

       It is the lark that sings so out of tune,

       Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

       Some say the lark makes sweet division;

       This doth not so, for she divideth us:

       Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes;

       O, now I would they had chang’d voices too!

       Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,

       Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day.

       O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.

       Romeo.

       More light and light,—more dark and dark our woes!

       [Enter Nurse.]

       Nurse.

       Madam!

       Juliet.

       Nurse?

       Nurse.

       Your lady mother is coming to your chamber:

       The day is broke; be wary, look about.

       [Exit.]

       Juliet.

       Then, window, let day in, and let life out.

       Romeo.

       Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I’ll descend.

       [Descends.]

       Juliet.

       Art thou gone so? my lord, my love, my friend!

       I must hear from thee every day i’ the hour,

       For in a minute there are many days:

       O, by this count I shall be much in years

       Ere I again behold my Romeo!

       Romeo.

       Farewell!

       I will omit no opportunity

       That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.

       Juliet.

       O, think’st thou we shall ever meet again?

       Romeo.

       I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve

       For sweet discourses in our time to come.

       Juliet.

       O God! I have an ill-divining soul!

       Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,

       As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:

       Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.

       Romeo.

       And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:

       Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!

       [Exit below.]

       Juliet.

       O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:

       If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him

       That is renown’d for faith? Be fickle, fortune;

       For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long

       But send him back.

       Lady Capulet.

       [Within.] Ho, daughter! are you up?

       Juliet.

       Who is’t that calls? is it my lady mother?

       Is she not down so late, or up so early?

       What unaccustom’d cause procures her hither?

       [Enter Lady Capulet.]