Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time Nurse. O Lord, I could have staid here all the night, To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!- Hie Rom. Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. Either be gone before the watch be set, [Exeunt. 6 here stands all your state;] The whole of your fortune depends on this. SCENE IV. A Room in Capulet's House. Enter CAPULET, Lady CAPULET, and PARIS. Cap. Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckily, That we have had no time to move our daughter: Look you, she lov'd her kinsman Tybalt dearly, And so did I;-Well, we were born to die.— 'Tis very late, she'll not come down to night: I promise you, but for your company, I would have been a-bed an hour ago. Par. These times of woe afford no time to woo: Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.. La. Cap. I will, and know her mind early to Of morrow; To-night she's mew'd up' to her heaviness. And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next- Par. Monday, my lord. Cap. Monday? ha! ha' Well, Wednesday is too soon, O' Thursday let it be;-o' Thursday, tell her, 7 mew'd up-] This is a phrase from falconry. A mew was a place of confinement for hawks. 8 Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender-] Desperate means only bold, adventurous, as if he had said in the vulgar phrase, I will speak a bold word, and venture to promise you my daughter. We'll keep no great ado;—a friend, or two:- Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends, morrow. Cap. 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.- May call it early by and by:-Good night. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Juliet's Chamber. Enter ROMEO and JULIET. Jul. 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 yon pomegranate tree:9 Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. Rom. 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; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree:] This is not merely a poetical supposition. It is observed of the nightingale, that, if undisturbed, she sits and sings upon the same tree for many weeks together. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. Jul. It is, it is, hie hence, be gone, away; 1 the pale reflex-] The appearance of a cloud opposed to the moon. ? I have more care to stay,-] Care for inclination. 3 sweet division;] Division seems to have been the technical phrase for the pauses or parts of a musical composition. 4 Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day.] The hunts-up was the name of the tune anciently played to wake the hunters, and collect them together. But a huntsup also signified a morning song to a new-married woman, the day after her marriage, and is used here in that sense. Nurse. Madam! Jul. Nurse? Enter Nurse. Nurse. Your lady mother's coming to your chamber: The day is broke; be wary, look about. [Exit Nurse. Jul. Then, window, let day in, and let life out. Rom. Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll de scend. Jul. Art thou friend! [ROMEO descends. lord! my my love! gone so? my I must hear from thee every day i'the hour, Rom. Farewell! I will omit no opportunity Jul. O, think'st thou, we shall ever meet again? Rom. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come. Jul. 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. Rom. And trust me, love, in my eye so do you: Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu! adieu! Exit ROMEO. Jul. 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; $ That is renown'd for faith?] This Romeo, so renown'd for faith, was but the day before dying for love of another woman: yet this is natural. Romeo was the darling object of Juliet's love, and Romeo was, of course, to have every excellence. |