Are you at leisure, holy father, now; Fri. My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now. My lord, I must entreat the time alone. Par. Heav'n shield, I should disturb devotion. Juliet, farewell. [Exit PARIS. Jul. Go, shut the door, and when thou hast done So, Come weep with me, past hope, past care, past help. Fri. O Juliet, I already know thy grief. Jul. Tell me not, Friar, that thou know'st my grief, Unless thou tell me, how I may prevent it. If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, Heav'n join'd my heart and Romeo's; thou, our hands; And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd, Or my true heart, with treacherous revolt, Fri. Hold, daughter! I do spy a kind of hope, A thing like death, to free thee from this marriage; Jul. O bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, Where roaring bears and savage lions roam! And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; And I will do it, without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love. Fri. Hold then, go home, be merry, give consent To marry Paris; look thou lie alone; Let not thy Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber; And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death In thy white robes uncover'd on the bier, If no unconstant toy, nor womanish fear, Jul. Give me, Oh, give me, tell me not of fear. [Taking the Phial. Fri. Hold, get you gone, be strong and prosperous In this resolve; I'll send a Friar with speed To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. Jul. Love, give me strength, and strength shall help afford. Farewell, dear father [Exeunt. SCENE II. CAPULET'S House. Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and NURSE. Cap. What, is my daughter gone to Friar Law rence? Nurse. Ay, forsooth. Cap. Well, he may chance to do some good on her: A peevish, self-will'd harlotry it is. Enter JULIET. Nurse. See, where she comes from shrift, with merry look! Cap. How now, my headstrong; where have you been gadding? Jul. Where I have learnt me to repent the sin To you and your behests; and am enjoin'd, Cap. Send for the County; go tell him of this: I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning. As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow. Lady C. No, not till Thursday; there is time enough. Cap. Go, Nurse, go with her; we'll to church to[Exeunt JULIET and NURSE. morrow. Lady C. We shall be short in our provision; 'Tis now near night. Cap. Tush, all things shall be well: Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her; I'll not to bed, but walk myself to Paris, T'appoint him 'gainst to-morrow. My heart's light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd. [Exeunt. SCENE III. JULIET'S Chamber. Enter JULIET and NURSE. Jul. Ay, those attires are best; but, gentle Nurse, I pray thee leave me to myself to night; For I have need of many orisons, To move the Heav'ns to smile upon my state, Enter LADY CAPULET. Lady C. What, are you busy? do you need my help? Jul. No, madam, we have cull'd such necessa ries As are behoveful for our state to-morrow; Lady C. Then good night: Get thee to bed, and rest, for thou hast need. [Exeunt LADY CAPULET and NURSE. Jul. Farewell-Heav'n knows when we shall meet again! I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, [Takes out a Phial. [Pointing to a Dagger. I wake before the time that Romeo To whose foul mouth no wholesome air breathes in? And there be strangled ere my Romeo comes ? Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Ꮐ |