Nurse. Madam, your mother craves a word with you. Nurfe. Marry, batchelor, Her mother is the Lady of the house, Rom. Is fhe a Capulet? [To ber Nurft. O dear account! my life is my foe's debt. I'll to my reft. [Exeunt Jul. Come hither, nurfe. What is yon gentleman ? Nurfe. The fon and heir of old Tiberio. Jul. What's he that now is going out of door? Jul. What's he that follows here, that would not dance? Jul. Go afk his name. If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed. Nurfe. His name is Romeo, and a Mountague, The only fon of your great enemy. Jul. My only love fprung from my only hate! That I muft love a loathed enemy. Thus from my lips, by thine my fin is purg'd. Cive me my fin again. Jul. You kiss by th' book. [Kifing ber. Jul. A rhime I learn'd e'en now Of one I danc'd withal. Nurfe. Anon, anon` [One calls within, Juliet. Come, let's away, the ftrangers all are gone. Enter Chorus, [Exeunt, Cho. Now old defire doth on his death-bed lye, Alike bewitched by the charm of looks: And the fteal love's fweet bait from fearful hooks. Being held a foe, he may not have access To breathe fuch vows as lovers use to swear; But paffion lends them power, time means to meet, ACT Rom. CAN The STREET. Enter Romeo alone. [Exit, AN I go forward when my heart is here?, Enter Benvolio with Mercutio. Ben. Romeo, my coufin Romeo! Mer. He is wife, And, on my life, hath ftol'n him home to bed. [Exit. Ben. He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall. Call, good Mercutio. Mer. Nay, I'll conjure too. Why, Romeo! humours! madman! paffion! lover! Speak but one Rhime, and I am fatisfied. C (Young (Young Abraham* Cupid, he that shot so true, Ben. An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. Of fome ftrange nature, letting it there ftand up Ben. Come, he hath hid himself among these trees, To be conforted with the hum'rous night: Blind is his love, and beft befits the dark, Mer. If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. And with his mistrels were that kind of fruit, Ben. Go then, for 'tis in vain To feek him here that means not to be found. SCENE II. Capulet's Garden. Rom. He jefts at fears that never felt a wound- It is the eaft, and Juliet is the fun! [Exeunt. [Juliet appears above at a window. Arife, fair fun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already fick and pale with grief This, probably, was a name fupidly given to Cupid in the old ballad here referr'd to of King Gopherus and the beggar maid. That That thou, her maid, art far more fair than the. Her veftal livery is but fick and green, And none but fools do wear it; caft it off. Rom. She fpeaks. Oh, fpeak again, bright angel, for thou art And fails upon the bofom of the air. Jul O Romeo, Romeo. wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name : Or if thou wilt not, be but fworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. Rom. Shall I hear more, or shall I fpeak at this? [Afide. Jul. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy: Thou'rt not thy felf fo, though a Mountague, What's Mountague ? it is not hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face nor any other part. What's in a name that which we call a rofe, By any other name would smell as fweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes, С 2 Without Without that title; Romeo, quit thy name, Rom. I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd, Jul. What man art thou, that thus befcreen'd in night So ftumbleft on my counsel? Rom. By a name I know not how to tell thee who I am: My name, dear faint, is hateful to my self, Had I it written, I would tear the word. Jul. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's uttering, yet I know the found. Art thou not Romeo, and a Mountague? Rom. Neither, fair faint, if either thee dislike. Jul. How cam'ft thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high, and hard to climb, And the place death, confidering who thou art, If any of my kinfmen find thee here. Rom. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch thefe walls, For ftony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt: Jul. If they do fee thee, they will murder thee. Jul. I would not for the world they faw thee here. Rom. I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes, And but thou love me, let them find me here; My life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. Jul. By whofe direction found'st thou out this place? Rom. By love, that first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counfel, and I lent him eyes: I am no pilot, yet wert thou as far As that vaft fhore wafh'd with the farthest fea, Jul. |