proof) that such a law was in force in mine action on the proudest he."
Spain and Portugal. Other examples could be added.
T T
162 ROMEO AND JULIET [ACT v.
Rom. Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness,
And fear'st to die ? famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, 70
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back ;
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law :
The world affords no law to make thee rich ;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
Ap. My poverty, but not my will, consents. 75
Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
Ap. Put this in any liquid thing you will,
And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
Rom. There is thy gold, worse poison to men's
souls 80
Doing more murder in this loathsome world
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not
sell:
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.
Farewell : buy food, and get thyself in flesh.
Corne, cordial and not poison, go with me 85
To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee.
{Exeunt.
71. Contempt . . . back'} Q, F; Upon thy backe Jiangs ragged Miserie Q \.
76. fay] Q I, Qq 4, 5 ; pray Q, F. 80. There is] Q, There's F. 8l.
murder] Q, F ; murders Qq 4, 5. 84. thyself iii] Q, F ; thee into Q I.
70. starvr.th] are hungry. Changed but the line should be read in connec-
by Rowe (following Otway's version lion with "take this," line 74.
in Cains Man' us) to s/arcf/i. Pope 77. Put Ihis] Steevens suggests
read stare ivitliin ; slarlclh in has that Shakespeare had not quite forgot
been suggested. a somewhat similar commendation of
76. f>ay] Knight retains pray Q, F; his poison by the Potccary in Chaucer's
Fardoncrcs Talc,
sc. ii.] ROMEO AND JULIET 163
SCENE II. Verona, friar Laurence's cell.
Enter Friar JOHN.
Fri. John. Holy Franciscan friar ! brother, ho !
Enter Friar LAURENCE.
Fri. Lau. This same should be the voice of Friar John.
Welcome from Mantua : what says Romeo ?
Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.
Fri. John. Going to find a bare-foot brother out, 5
One of our order, to associate me,
Here in this city visiting the sick,
And finding him, the searchers of the town,
Suspecting that we both were in a house
Where the infectious pestilence did reign, 10
Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth ;
So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.
Fri. Lau. Who bare my letter then to Romeo ?
Fri. Joint. I could not send it, here it is again,
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, i 5
So fearful were they of infection.
Fri. Lau. Unhappy fortune ! by my brotherhood,
Verona] Dyce. Friar Laurence's cell] Capell.
5. bare-foot brother} In his account 9. he use'} Delius notes that, accord-
of the Franciscan brothers going ing to both Brooke and Painter, the
abroad in company one with another "house" was the convent to which
Shakespeare follows Brooke's poem ; the bare-foot brother belonged.
but Brooke represents the pestilence n. 6Va/V/] a duty of the English
as at Mantua. constable. Hcrford : " The Middle-
6. associate] accompany. So Hall, sex Sessions Rolls contain cases of the
Chronicle (quoted in New Eng. Diet.]: trial of constables for neglecting this
" He should have associated him in
his journey."
164 ROMEO AND JULIET [ACT v.
The letter was not nice, but full of charge
Of dear import ; and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence ; 20
Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight
Unto my cell.
Fri. John, Brother, I '11 go and bring it thee. \Exit.
Fri. Lau. Now must I to the monument alone ;
Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake: 25
She will beshrew me much that Romeo
Hath had no notice of these accidents ;
But I will write again to Mantua,
And keep her at my cell till Romeo come:
Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb ! 30
[Exit.
SCENE III. The Same. A churchyard ; in it a
monument belonging to the Capulets.
Enter PARIS and his Page, bearing flowers and a torch.
Par. Give me thy torch, boy : hence, and stand aloof:
Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,
A churchyard . . .] Rowe (substantially). Enter . . .] Capell (sub-
stantially) ; Enter Countie Paris and his Page with flowers and sweete water
Q I ; Enter Paris and his Page Q, F. I. aloof] Q, aloft F. 3. yond
yew-trees'} Pope; this Elv-tree O I; yond young trees Q, F; along} (),
; alone F 2.
18. nice} trivial; see in. i. 160 ;
" full of charge," full of importance ; Scene III.
so "parcels of charge," Winter's
Tale, iv. iv. 261. A churchyard . . .] Brooke in his
26. beshrew} blame severely. Ful- poem "refers to the Italian custom
ler, Holy and Profane State, IV. ix. of building large family tombs "
280 : " lie hath just cause to beshrciv (Rolfe).
his fingers."
sc. in.] ROMEO AND JULIET 165
Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground ;
So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread, 5
Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
But thou shalt hear it : whistle then to me,
As signal that thou hear'st something approach.
Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee ; go.
Page. [Aside.] I am almost afraid to stand alone i o
Here in the churchyard ; yet I will adventure.
[Retires.
Par. Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,
O woe ! thy canopy is dust and stones
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans : I 5
The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
[The Page whistles.
The boy gives warning something doth approach.
What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,
To cross my obsequies and true love's rite? 20
What, with a torch ! muffle me, night, awhile.
[Retires.
4. Holding //&/w] Capell ; Keeping thine O I ; Holding thy O, F. 10.
[Aside]] Capell. 11. Retires] Capell ; Exit F 2; omitted (,), F. 12,
13. strew, . . . stones ] strew: . . . stones, O, F. I?. The Page
whistles] Whistle Boy Q, F. 18. warning something} Collier ; warning,
something Cj, F. 19. way] Q, rcayes F. 2O. rite] Pope (ed. 2); right
O, F; rites Q I. 21. Retires] Capell.
Dyce takes "stand" to 14. sweet ivater] water perfumed,
mean remain. as in Titus Androniciis, n. iv. 0.
12, 13. strew, . . . stones ] See stage-direction (.,> I at opening
The pointing, which differs little from of this scene.
that of the Cambridge Shakespeare, 1 8. warning something] Several
is intended to make the second line editors point as U, F.
of this sonnet-like sextet parenthetic,
166 ROMEO AND JULIET [
ACT V.
Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch, mattock, etc.
Rom. Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
Hold, take this letter ; early in the morning
See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
Give me the light : upon thy life I charge thee, 2 5
Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,
And do not interrupt me in my course.
Why I descend into this bed of death
Is partly to behold my lady's face,
But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger 30
A precious ring, a ring that I must use
In dear employment : therefore hence, be gone :
But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry
In what I farther shall intend to do,
By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint, 35
And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs :
The time and my intents are savage-wild,
More fierce and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
Bal. I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you. 40
Rom. So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou
that:
Enter . . .] Malone, from Theobald and Capell ; Enter Romeo and Peter
Qq 2, 3, Ef ; Enter Romeo and Balthazar his man, Oq 4, 5 ; Enter Romeo
and Balthasar, with a torch, a mattocke, and a crow of yron O i. 34.
farther] Q, further F. 37. savage -wild] hyphen, Steevens. 40, 43.
Bal.] Qq 4, 5 ; Pet. Q, F. 40. you] ,}' Q. 41. show me friendship]
Q, F ; win my favour Q I.
21. Balthasar] Peter in Q, F. portant, as in 1 Henry IV. IV. i. 34:
Collier suggests that Kemp doubled " so . . . dear a trust."
his part, acting both Peter and 33. jealous] suspicious, as often in
Balthasar, whence the confusion. Shakespeare.
32. dear] precious in import, im-
ROMEO AND JULIET 167
Live, and be prosperous ; and farewell, good fellow.
BaL [Aside.] For all this same, I '11 hide me hereabout :
His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt. [Retires.
Rom. Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, 45
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
{Opens the tomb.
And, in despite, I '11 cram thce with more food !
Par. This is that banish'd haughty Montague,
That murder'd my love's cousin, with which
grief 50
It is supposed the fair creature died ;
And here is come to do some villanous shame
To the dead bodies : I will apprehend him.
\Comes forivard.
Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague !
Can vengeance be pursued further than death ? 55
Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:
Obey, and go with me ; for thou must die.
Rom. I must indeed ; and therefore came I hither.
Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man ;
Fly hence and leave me : think upon these
gone ; 60
Let them affiright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
43. [Aside]] Capell. 44. Retires] Ilunmcr. Kxit F 2. 47. Open.-. . .]
Capell substantially ; Cambridge after line 48. 53. Conies forward]
draws and rushes forward Capell (after line 54). 60. thisc'] (J, t/wf*: F.
45. detestable] accented as in IV. thinks a trap-door may have been
47. Opens the tomb] Daniel sup- brought Juliet up in his arms from
poses that the tomb was placed in the vault beneath the stage.
the space under the gallery at the 48. ctcsfitt] Keiglnley conjectures
back of the stage proper. Malone requite.
168 ROMEO AND JULIET [ACT v.
Put not another sin upon my head
By urging me to fury : O, be gone !
By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
For I come hither arm'd against myself: 65
Stay not, be gone ; live, and hereafter say
A madman's mercy bid thee run away.
Par. I do defy thy conjurations
And apprehend thee for a felon here.
Rom. Wilt thou provoke me ? then have at thee,
boy ! [ They fight. 7 o
Page. O Lord, they fight ! I will go call the watch.
{Exit.
Par. O, I am slain ! \_Fal I s\ If thou be merciful,
Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. [Dies.
Rom. In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face :
Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris ! 7 5
What said my man when my betossed soul
Did not attend him as we rode ? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet :
Said he not so ? or did I dream it so ?
Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, 80
To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book !
62. Put} O, F ; Htape O i ; Pull Rowe. 67. hid} O, F ; bad O 5.
68. conjurations} Q i ; comniiration Q ; cotnmisseration O 3. F. 69. appre-
hend} Q, F ; doc attach Q I. 70. They fight] Q I. 71. Page] Qq 4, 5 ;
omitted Qq 2, 3 ; Pet. F ; Boy Q I. Exit] Capell. 72. [Falls]] Capell.
73. Dies] Theobald. 82. book!} Capell, booke, Q, hooL-e. F.
62. Put} Capell conjectures Pluck, and reads commiseration. Mommsen
68. conjurations} solemn entreaties, conjectures comminution.
as in Henry V. i. ii. 29. A passage 71. O . . . watc/i} Printed in
in Painter's tale misled Steevens into italics, without prefix, in Oq 2, 3.
supposing that it meant magical in- Mommsen supposes that the italics
cantations. Collier (MS.) omits thy indicate that it was spoken behind
the scenes.
ROMEO AND JULIET
169
I '11 bury thcc in a triumphant grave ;
A grave ? O, no, a lantern, slaughter'd youth ;
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes 85
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
{Laying Paris in the tomb.
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry ! which their keepers call
A lightning before death : O, how may I 90
Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty :
Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, 95
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet ?
87. Laying . . .] Theobald. 94. art} O, arc V.
84. lantern} used in the archi-
tectural sense ; a structure on the top
of a dome, or the roof of a hall for the
admission of light ; a tower the
interior of which, open to view from
the ground, is lighted from an upper
tier of windows (e.g. the lantern of
Ely), also a light open erection on
the top of a tower. Steevens cites
Holland's Pliny, 35. 12: "hence
came the louvers and Ian femes reared
over the roofes of temples.' 1
86. presence} presence - chamber,
state-room, as in Richard II. I. iii.
289.
87. Death} Dyce (ed. 2) adopts
Lettsom's conjecture Dead. Romeo
brings "Death," in the person of
Paris, into the presence-chamber.
87. a dead man} For Romeo him-
self already has parted with life.
Clarke aptly compares Keats, Isa-
bel/a :
" So the two brothers and their
murder d man
Rode past fair Florence."
90. lightning} Ray gives as a pro-
verbial saying, "It's a lightning
before death." Steevens quotes an
example from The Second Part of The
Downfall of Robert, Earl of Hunting-
don (1601). For other examples, and
a fine simile from Daniel's Ciril li'ars,
see Nares' Glossary.
96. death's pale Jlag} Steevens com-
pares Daniel's Complaint of Rosamond
(1592), lines 773-775 : .
" And nought-respecting death (the
last of paines)
I'lac'd his pale colours (th 1 ensigne
of his might)
Upon his new-got spoyle before his
right."
97. Tybalt} This address to Tybalt
had its suggestion in Hrouke's poem.
170 ROMEO AND JULIET [ACT v.
O, what more favour can I do to thee
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy ? I oo
Forgive me, cousin ! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair ? shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour? 105
For fear of that I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again : here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chambermaids ; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest, I I o
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your
last!
Arms, take your last embrace ! and, lips, O you,
100. thine] Q, thy F. 102. shall I believe] Theobald ; I -will believe,
Shall I believe Q, F. 107. palace} pallat Q (alone).
103. Death is amorous] Malone Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with
compares Daniel's Complaint of Rosa- a kisse I die."
mond (1592), lines 841-845 : Qq 4, 5 omit these lines; Daniel
" Ah, how me thinkes I see Death supposes that they are a shortened
dallying seekes, version of the speech intended for
To entertaine it selfe iii Loves sweet the stage and by accident printed.
place. Where ere thou tut/iblest in, he adds,
"may possibly be a corruption of a
And ugly Death sits faire within stage-direction to the actor to fall
her face." into the tomb." The words may only
106. still] constantly, as often in be a grim way of saying, "Wherever
Shakespeare. thy grave may be."
108. Depart again] Following line HO. set . . . rest] See note on iv.
107 and preceding line 108 Qq 2, 3 v. 6.
and Ff read: 112-118. Eyes . . . bar/;] Whiter
" Depart againe, come lye thou in notes the coincidence that in Romeo's
my arme, (armes Ff) speech I. iv. 106 of ominous pre-
Heer's to thy health, where ere monition, ideas drawn from the stars,
thou tumblest in. the land, the sea succeed one another
O true Appothecarie ! as here.
sc. in.] ROMEO AND .JULIET 171
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death ! 115
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide !
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark !
Here 's to my love ! [Drinks] O true apothecary !
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. 120
[Dies.
Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, Friar
LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade.
Fri. Saint Francis be my speed ! how oft to-night
Have my old feet stumbled at graves ! Who 's
there ?
Bal. Here 's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
Fri. Bliss be upon you ! Tell me, good my friend,
What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light 125
To grubs and eyeless skulls ? as I discern,
It burneth in the Capels' monument.
119. [Drinks]] Theobald (substantially). 120. Dies] Theobald. 121.
Enter . . .] Malone (after Capell) ; Enter Erier with Lanthorne, Crowe, and
Spade. Q, F.
114. doors of breath'] Compare 2 Capell and Dyce adopt. Rolfejustlv
Henry IV. iv. v. 31: "gates of observes that Romeo has given up the
breath,'' in the sense of lips. helm to the "desperate pilot,'' wh'i
115. dateless. . . engrossing] Date- now is master of the bark.
less is without a term, everlasting, as 122. stumbled] an evil omen, re-
in Sonnets, xxx. 6: "death's dateless ferred to in ,? Henry I' I. IV. vii. II.
night." " Engrossing," probably not Sir Tobie Matthew, stumbling on the
copying a document, but rather buy- morning of his intended reception into
ing up wholesale, as in Sonneh, the Roman Catholic Church, \va>
cxxxiii. 6. So Misselden, Free Trad,-, tempted to postpone it to another
71 (1622): "Some one or few . . . day. After this line (122^ Steevens
do joine together to engrosse and buy inserts from Q i, "'Who is it that
in a Commodotie." consorts, so late, the dead?"
116. conduct] See III. i. 130. 123. T'al.] So, and in subsequent
118. thy~\ Pope read my, which speeches, Oq 4, 5; "Man.''O, E.
172 ROMEO AND JULIET [ACT v.
Bal. It doth so, holy sir ; and there 's my master,
One that you love.
Fri. Who is it ?
Bal. Romeo.
Fri. How long hath he been there ?
Bal. Full half an hour. 130
Fri. Go with me to the vault.
Bal. I dare not, sir :
My master knows not but I am gone hence ;
And fearfully did menace me with death
If I did stay to look on his intents.
Fri. Stay, then ; I '11 go alone. Fear comes upon
me ; 135
O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.
Bal. As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,
I dreamt my master and another fought,
And that my master slew him.
Fri. Romeo ! [Advances.
Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains 140
The stony entrance of this sepulchre ?
What mean these masterless and gory swords
To lie discolour'd by this place of peace ?
[Enters the tomb.
Romeo ! O, pale ! Who else ? what, Paris too ?
135. Stay, then ;~\ Ilazlitt, Slay then O, Stay, then F, Slay then, Q 5;
Fear] Q, Fcarcs F. 136. unlucky'} F, unthriftic O (alone). 137. yew-
tree} Pope, yong tree. Q, young tree F. 139. Romeo '.} Rowc ; Komeo. O, F ;
J\oieo'{ llanmer. Advances] Malone. 143. Enters . . .] Capell, sub-
stantially.
136. unlucky} Some editors, follow- that Balthasar, who did not venture
ing Q, -unthrifty. to his master's assistance, wishes to
138. / dreamt'} I fail to see any break the fact to the Friar rather than
other "touch of nature'' here than state it plainly.
sc. in. I ROMEO AND JULIET 173
And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind
hour 145
Is guilty of this lamentable chance !
The lady stirs. {Juliet -cakes.
Jit!. O comfortable friar ! where is my lord ?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am: where is my Romeo? i 50
\_Xoise Ti '/////;/.
Fri. I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep :
A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents : come, come away :
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead ; 155
And Paris too : come, I '11 dispose of thce
Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.
Stay not to question, for the watch is coming ;
Come, go, good Juliet ; I dare no longer stay. [Exit.
Jul. Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. i 60
What 's here ? a cup closed in my true love's hand ?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end :
O churl ! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, 165
147. Juliet wakes] Pope (substantially), Juliet rises O i. 148. -jL<hc>\- /.>]
Q, where V F. 150. Noise within] Capell. 151. noise. L'idy~\ Capell ;
noyse Lady, O, F. 159. Exit . . .] O, F: after line 160 Dyce. 163.
0]Q, F ; Ah O i ; //,] O, all? F ; drunk . . . !,ft] O ; drinkc .' . . .' // < > 3,
Ff; drinkc . . . Icarc. Q I.
148. co/iifortah!,:] strengthening, Dyceand the Cambridge editors indi-
supporting ; used, as often, in the cale by bringing '' Exit ;> to line 160,
active sense. So All 's \\ r >-!!, I. i. 86, may he addressed to the Friar: hut
" Be comfortable to my mother.'' they may also he uttered by Juliet to
158. thc-i<aic!i\ Shakespeare follows herself after his departure.
Brooke's poem. 162. tint, '.' .<v] untimely, as in
160. Go . . . a'd>ay\ The words, as Richard II, tv. i. 5.
174 ROMEO AND JULIET [ACT v.
To make me die with a restorative. [Kisses him.
Thy lips are warm !
First Watch. [ Within.~\ Lead, boy : which way ?
Jul. Yea, noise ? then I '11 be brief. O happy dagger !
[Snatching Romeo's dagger.
This is thy sheath ; [Stabs herself.
there rust, and let me die.
[Falls on Romeo's body, and dies.
Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS.
Page. This is the place ; there, where the torch doth
burn. 170
First Watch. The ground is bloody ; search about the
churchyard :
Go, some of you, whoe'er you find, attach.
[Exeunt some.
Pitiful sight ! here lies the county slain,
And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
Who here hath lain this two days buried. 175
Go, tell the prince ; run to the Capulets ;
167. First Watch [Within]] Capell ; Enter boy and Watch. Watch Q, F.
168. Snatching . . .] Steevens. 169. This is\ Q, ' Tis in F. Stabs
herself] Kils herselfe Y (at end of line), omitted Q, She stabs herselfe and
falles Q i ; rust] Q, F ; rest Q I. Falls . . .] Malone. Enter Watch . . .]
Capell substantially, here, in place assigned by Q I (compare collation,
line 167). 170. Page] Capell, Watch boy Q, Boy F. 172. Exeunt . . .]
Hanmer substantially. 175. this] Q these F.
169. rnst~\ Of course restQ I, which otherwise rust in its sheath, rusting
many editors prefer, may be right ; in her heart ; and, with fierce and
but our best authority is Q, and rust amorous joy, she cries, ' This is thy
would more readily be misprinted rest sheath ; there rust, and let me die.' "
than vice versa. Grant White, who 'Tis in of F is an attempt to emend
had regarded rust as a misprint, altered the misprint '77s is of Q 3. Mr. Fleay
his opinion, and wrote: "Juliet's proposes dagger lie In this, ending
imagination is excited, and, looking line 167 at noise.
beyond her suicidal act, she sees her 175. two days'] See iv. i. 105.
dead Romeo s dagger, which would
sc. in.] HOMEO AND JULIET 175
Raise up the Montagues ; some others search :
{Exeunt other Watchmen.
We see the ground whereon these woes do lie ;
Hut the true ground of all these piteous woes
We cannot without circumstance descry. i 80
Re-enter some of the Watch, witli HALTHASAR.
Second Watch. Here 's Romeo's man ; we found him in
the churchyard.
First Watch. Hold him in safety till the prince come
hither.
Re-enter Friar LAURENCE, and another Watchman.
Third Watch. Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and
weeps :
We took this mattock and this spade from him,
As he was coming from this churchyard side. 185
First Watch. A great suspicion : stay the friar too.
Enter the PRINCE and Attendants.
Prince. What misadventure is so early up,
That calls our person from our morning's rest ?
Enter CAPULET, Lady CAPULET, and others.
Cap. What should it be that they so shriek abroad ?
177. Exeunt . . .] Capell. 180. Re-enter . . .] Dyce ; Enter Rnmeos
man O, E. iSi. Second Watch] Rowe ; Watch o, E. 182, iS6. Eirst
Watch] Rowe, Chiefe Watch O, O>n. E. 185. churchyard} V . church-
yards O. 1 86. too} E, too too O. iSS. i/toniiiijs] E, /.///;/- U.
Enter . . .] Capell (substantially), Enter Capel> (J, Enter Capulet and hi.-.
Wife P". 189. they so shriek] E, is so s/irikt: (.).
176 ROMEO AND JULIET [ACT v.
Lady Cap. The people in the street cry " Romeo," 1 90
Some " Juliet," and some " Paris " ; and all run
With open outcry toward our monument.
Prince. What fear is this which startles in our ears ?
First Watch. Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain ;
And Romeo dead ; and Juliet, dead before, 195
Warm and new kill'd.
Prince. Search, seek, and know how this foul murder