ROMEO AND JULIET.

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X.

ROMEO in the tomb, having brought down the body of PARIS. JULIET

"In her best robes uncover'd on the bier."

"ROм.

ACT IV. S. 1.

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,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

Eyes, look your last!

Arms, take your last embrace! and lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!"

ACT V. S. 3.

XI.

FRIAR LAWRENCE comes to the monument: JULIET wakes.

"FRIAR. Romeo! O, pale!-Who else? what, Paris

too?

And steep'd in blood? ah! what an unkind hour

Is guilty of this lamentable chance !—

The lady stirs

(JULIET wakes and stirs.) (JULIET

JUL. O comfortable friar! where is my lord?

I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am;-where is my Romeo?

FRIAR.

(Noise within.)

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!

And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
Among a sisterhood of holy nuns :

Stay not to question, for the watch is coming:

Come go, good Juliet-(noise again)—I dare stay no

longer."

ACT V. S. 3.

ROMEO AND JULIET.

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XII.

"JUL. Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.What's here? a cup closed in my true love's hand! Poison, I see, hath been his untimely end::O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop To help me after?—I will kiss thy lips;

Haply some poison yet doth hang on them

To make me die with a restorative.

Thy lips are warm.

(Kisses him.)

WATCH. (Within.) Lead, boy;-which way

JUL. Yea, noise? then I'll be brief.-O happy dagger! (Snatching ROMEO's dagger.)

This is thy sheath—(stabs herself)—there rust, and let me

die."

ACT V. S. 3.