Romeo and Juliet

Lady Capulet
Good night.
Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.
  Lady Capulet and the Nurse exit.
Juliet
Farewell.—God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
I’ll call them back again to comfort me.—
Nurse!—What should she do here?
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Lady Capulet
What noise is here?
Nurse
O lamentable day!
Lady Capulet
What is the matter?
Nurse
Look, look!—O heavy day!

Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Lady Capulet
O me! O me!
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Friar Lawrence
Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
Capulet
Ready to go, but never to return.—
O son, the night before thy wedding day
Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowerèd by him.
Death is my son-in-law; Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded.
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Peter
Musicians, O musicians, “Heart’s ease,”
“Heart’s ease.” O, an you will have me live, play
“Heart’s ease.”
First Musician
Why “Heart’s ease?”
Peter
O musicians, because my heart itself plays “My
heart is full.” O, play me some merry dump to
comfort me.

I’ll re you, I’ll fa you.
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Romeo
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne,
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Ah me, how sweet is love itself possessed
When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!
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Friar John
Holy Franciscan friar, brother, ho!
 Enter Friar Lawrence.
Friar Lawrence
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.

Suspecting that we both were in a house
Where the infectious pestilence did reign,
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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 distilled by moans.
The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
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Paris
O, I am slain! If thou be merciful,
Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet.  He dies.
Romeo
In faith, I will.—Let me peruse this face.
Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris!
What said my man when my betossèd soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet.
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Juliet
O comfortable friar, where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
Friar Lawrence
I hear some noise.—Lady, come from that nest
Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.

O, happy dagger,
This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.
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Page
This is the place, there where the torch doth burn.
First Watch
The ground is bloody.—Search about the churchyard.
Go, some of you; whoe’er you find, attach.
  Some watchmen exit.

We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,
But the true ground of all these piteous woes
We cannot without circumstance descry

Pitiful sight!
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