Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe- I do remember well where I should be, [Noise within. Law. I hear some noise.-Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and unnatural' sleep; 15 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars [last! 20 Law. Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my 30 Balth. It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master, Law. Who is it? Balth. Romeo. [me; Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; 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. Enter Watch, with the Page of Paris. Page. This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn. Watch. The ground is bloody; Search about Go, some of you, whome'er you find, attach. 35 Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain;- Law. Stay then, I'll go alone.--Fear comes upon 45 Balth. As I did sleep under this yew-tree here, Law. Romeo? To lie discolour'd by this place of peace? Romeo! O, pale!-Who else? what, Paris too? The lady stirs. Jul. [waking.] O, comfortable friar, where is my lord? 50 55 Enter some of the Watch, with Balthasar. 2 Watch. Here's Romeo's man, we found him in the church-yard. 1 Watch. Hold him in safety, 'till the prince come hither. Enter another Watchman, with Friar Lawrence. We took this mattock and this spade from him, 1 See a note on scene 5th of the preceding act.-To set up one's rest, is to be determined to any certain purpose, to rest in perfect confidence and resolution, to make up one's mind. • Conduct Shakspeare alludes to the sleep of for conductor. This accident was reckoned ominous. With open out-cry, toward our monument. Prince. What fear is this, which startles in our ears? Watch.Sovereign, here lies the county Paris slain; And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before, Warm, and new kill'd. Prince. Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes. Watch. Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man; With instruments upon them, fit to open Cap. O, heaven!--O, wife! look how our This dagger hath mista'en, for, lo! his house Enter Montague, and others. Prince.Come, Montague, for thou art early up, To see thy son and heir more early down. Mon. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: What further woe conspires against my age? Prince. Look, and thou shalt see. Mon. O thou untaught! what manners is in this, To press before thy father to a grave? Prince. Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, 'Till we can clear these ambiguities, And know their spring, their head, their true de- And then will I be general of your woes, Law. I am the greatest, able to do least, Prince. Then say at once what thou dost know in this. Law. I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a tedious tale. To help to take her from her borrow'd grave, The noble Paris, and true Romeo, dead. 25 Prince. We still have known thee for a holy man. Where's Romeo's man? what can he say to this? And then in post he came from Mantua, Prince. Give me the letter, I will look on it. Where is the county's page that rais'd the watch?-35 Sirrah, what made your master in this place? Page, He came with flowers to strew his lady's And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Prince. This letter doth make good the friar's words, Their course of love, the tidings of her death: 45 And here he writes, that he did buy a poison Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; The form of death: mean time I writ to Rome, Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.- Mon. But I can give thee more Cap. As rich shall Romeo by his lady lie; It appears that the dagger was anciently worn behind the back. 3S 3 Prince. Prince. A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not shew his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished': [Exeunt omnes. Mr. Steevens says, that this line has reference to the novel from which the fable is taken. Here we read that Juliet's female attendant was banished for concealing her marriage; Romeo's servant set at liberty, because he had only acted in obedience to his master's orders; the apothecary taken, tortured, condemned, and hanged; while friar Lawrence was permitted to retire to a hermitage in the neighbourhood of Verona, where he ended his life in penitence and peace. HAMLET. Lords, Ladies, Players, Grave-diggers, Sailors, Messengers, and other Attendants. 'The original story on which this play is built, may be found in Saxo Grammaticus, the Danish historian. 2 i. e. me who am already on the watch, and have a right to demand the watch-word. 3 Rivals for partners, according to Warburton.-Hanmer says, that by rivals of the watch are meant those who were to watch on the next adjoining ground.-Rivals, in the original sense of the word, were proprietors of neighbouring lands, parted only by a brook, which belonged equally to both. 3 S 4 He When yon same star, that's westward from the 10 At least the whisper goes so. Our last king, Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Mar, Peace, break thee off; look where it Enter Ghost. Ber. In the same figure,like the king that's dead. ratio. Whose image even but now appear'd to us, [wonder. 20 [night, Hor. What art thou, that usurp'st this time of Ber. See! it stalks away. Hor. Stay; speak; I charge thee, speak. Mar. 'Tis gone, and will not answer. Is not this something more than phantasy? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe, Of mine own eyes. Mar. Is it not like the king? Hor. As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on, [hour, Mar. Thus, twice before, and just at this dead With martial stalk he hath gone by our watch. Hor. In what particular thought to work, I know not; 5 But, in the Why this same strict and most observant watch 6 25 Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands, 30 That hath a stomach in't; which is no other But to recover of us, by strong hand, 10 The source of this our watch; and the chief head Hor. A mote it is, to trouble the mind's eye. 45 The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead 13 pan whose influence Neptune's empire stands, 50 Was sick almost to dooms-day with eclipse. And even the like precurse of fierce 13 events,As harbingers preceding still the fates, And prologue to the omen1 coming on,— Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen.— 'i. e. add a new testimony to that of our eyes. 2 To harrow is to conquer, to subdue. The word is of Saxon origin. He speaks of a prince in Poland whom he slew in battle. Polack was, in that age, the term for an inhabitant of Poland: Polaque, French. A sled, or sledge, is a carriage made use of in the cold countries. i. e. what particular train of thinking to follow. i. e. general thoughts, and tendency at large. Carriage is import: design'd, is formed, drawn up between them. Unimpra ed, for unrefined, To shark up may mean to pick up without distinction, as the sharkfish collects his prey. Stomach, in the time of our author, was used for constancy, resolution. i.e. tumultuous hurry. 11 Palmy for victorious, flourishing. 12 Disasters is here finely used in its original signification of evil conjunction of stars. "Fierce, for conspicuous, glaring. for fate. 14 Omen, Re-enter |