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SC. III.
ROMEO AND JULIET
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And steep'd in blood?—Ah, what an unkind hour145 Is guilty of this lamentable chance!— The lady stirs.[Juliet wakes.[C 1] |
| Jul. | O comfortable[E 1] friar! where is[C 2] my lord? I do remember well where I should be, And there I am: where is my Romeo?150 |
[Noise within.[C 3]
| Fri. | I hear some noise.—Lady,[C 4] 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;155 And Paris too: come, I'll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns. Stay not to question, for the watch[E 2] is coming; Come, go, good Juliet; I dare no longer stay.[Exit.[C 5] |
| Jul. | Go,[E 3] get thee hence, for I will not away.—160 What's here? a cup closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless[E 4] end:— O[C 6] churl! drunk all,[C 7] and left[C 8] no friendly drop To help me after?—I will kiss thy lips; Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,165 |
- ↑ 147. Juliet wakes] Pope (substantially), Juliet rises Q 1.
- ↑ 148. where is] Q, where's F.
- ↑ 150. Noise within] Capell.
- ↑ 151. noise.—Lady] Capell; noyse Lady, Q, F.
- ↑ 159. Exit …] Q, F; after line 160 Dyce.
- ↑ 163. O] Q, F; Ah Q 1;
- ↑ all,] Q, all? F;
- ↑ drunk … left] Q; drinke … left Q 3, Ff; drinke … leave Q 1.
- ↑ 148. comfortable] strengthening, supporting; used, as often, in the active sense. So All's Well, I. i. 86, "Be comfortable to my mother."
- ↑ 158. the watch] Shakespeare follows Brooke's poem.
- ↑ 160. Go … away] The words, as Dyce and the Cambridge editors indicate by bringing "Exit" to line 160, may be addressed to the Friar; but they may also be uttered by Juliet to herself after his departure.
- ↑ 162. timeless] untimely, as in Richard II. IV. i. 5.
