A Greater Power Than We Can Contradict Hath Thwarted Our Intents.
Romeo and Juliet: Deed 5, Scene 3
Enter PARIS and his PAGE
[bearing flowers, perfumed water,
and a torch].
PARIS
1. aloof: at a distance.
1Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof.
2. Yet: i.e., on second idea.
2Yet put information technology out, for I would non exist seen.
3. all along: apartment.
iiiUnder yond yew trees lay thee all forth,
4Holding thine ear close to the hollow footing;
5-7. So shall no pes ... But one thousand shalt hear information technology: i.e. That manner—being that the churchyard soil is and then loose from all the graves dug there—you lot will hear the lightest stride.
5Then shall no pes upon the churchyard tread,
6Beingness loose, unfirm, with earthworks up of graves,
7But 1000 shalt hear it: whistle then to me,
8As indicate that chiliad hear'st something approach.
9Give me those flowers. Practise equally I bid thee, get.
PAGE [Aside.]
10. stand up: stay.
11. adventure: accept the gamble.
10I am almost agape to stand alone
elevenHere in the churchyard; yet I will hazard.
[Goes to the back of the stage.]
PARIS
12. Sweet flower: i.e., Juliet.
12Sweet bloom, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,—
thirteenO woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;—
fourteen. sweet water: perfumed water. dew: sprinkle.
fifteen.wanting: lacking.
xvi. obsequies: rites for the dead. keep: always perform.
17. strew: scatter flowers over.
14Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
15Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans.
16The obsequies that I for thee volition keep
17Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
Whistle Boy.
18The boy gives alert something doth arroyo.
19What cursed human foot wanders this way tonight,
20. cross: interrupt, interfere with.
twentyTo cantankerous my obsequies and true love's rite?
21. muffle: conceal.
mattock
21What, with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.
[Hides.]
Enter Romeo and [BALTHASAR,
with a torch, a mattock, and a crowbar].
ROMEO
22. the wrenching atomic number 26: i.e., the crowbar.
"the wrenching atomic number 26"
22Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
[Takes the tools.]
23Hold, take this letter; early in the morning
24Run across k deliver it to my lord and father.
[Gives a alphabetic character and takes the torch.]
25Give me the light. Upon thy life, I accuse thee,
26. stand all aloof: stay far away.
26Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,
27And do not interrupt me in my course.
28Why I descend into this bed of decease,
29Is partly to behold my lady's face;
30-31. to accept ... A precious ring: Romeo is probably lying so that Balthasar won't suspect that he intends suicide.
30But importantly to take thence from her expressionless finger
31A precious ring — a band that I must utilise
32. dear employment: urgent business.
32In dear employment — therefore hence, be gone.
33. jealous: suspicious.
33But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry
34In what I farther shall intend to practise,
35By heaven, I will tear thee articulation by articulation
36And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:
37The fourth dimension and my intents are savage-wild,
38More fierce and more inexorable far
39. empty: hungry.
39Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
BALTHASAR
40I will exist gone, sir, and not trouble y'all.
ROMEO
41So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:
[Gives him money.]
42Live, and be prosperous: and good day, adept beau.
BALTHASAR [Aside.]
43. For all this same: i.east., despite everything he has just said. 44. fear: am anxious most. dubiousness: suspect.
43For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:
44His looks I fear, and his intents I uncertainty.
[Hides where he can come across Romeo.]
ROMEO
45. maw the mouth, jaws, and guts of a voracious beast. womb: belly. 46. the dearest morsel of the earth i.eastward., Juliet.
45Thou detestable maw, thou womb of decease,
46Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
47Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open up,
48. in despite to spite [you lot]. more than food i.eastward., Romeo himself.
48And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!
[Opens the tomb.]
PARIS
49This is that blackball'd haughty Montague,
50That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,
51It is supposed, the fair creature died;
52And here is come up to practise some villanous shame
53To the expressionless bodies. I volition apprehend him.
[Comes forward.]
54Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!
55Tin can vengeance be pursued further than death?
56Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:
57Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.
ROMEO
58I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.
59Skilful gentle youth, tempt non a desperate human being;
60. these gone: i.e., all the expressionless in this churchyard.
60Fly hence, and leave me. Recall upon these gone;
61Permit them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
62Put not another sin upon my head,
63By urging me to fury. O, be gone!
64By sky, I honey thee improve than myself;
65. arm'd against myself: i.e., prepared to impale myself.
65For I come hither arm'd against myself.
66Stay not, exist gone; live, and hereafter say,
67A madman's mercy bade thee run away.
PARIS
68. thy conjuration: i.e., the entreatment that you have merely fabricated.
68I practise defy thy conjuration,
69And auscultate thee for a felon hither.
ROMEO
seventyWilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!
[They fight.]
PAGE
71O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
[Exit.]
PARIS
72O, I am slain! [Falls.] If 1000 be merciful,
73Open up the tomb, lay me with Juliet.
[Dies.]
ROMEO
74. peruse: carefully examine.
74In organized religion, I will. Let me peruse this face.
75Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!
76What said my man, when my betossed soul
77. attend him: pay attention to him.
77Did non attend him as we rode? I think
78. should have: was to have.
78He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
79Said he not so? or did I dream it and then?
80Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
81To think information technology was so? O, requite me thy manus,
82One writ with me in sour misfortune'southward book!
83I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;
84A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,
85For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
86. feasting presence: festive purple bedchamber for receiving guests. 87. Expiry . . . interr'd: Romeo is speaking of himself every bit the "dead man" who inters Death [the torso of Paris].
86This vault a feasting presence full of light.
87Death, prevarication thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
[Laying PARIS in the tomb.]
88How frequently when men are at the betoken of death
89. keepers: nurses, attendants.
89Have they been merry! which their keepers telephone call
90A lightning before death: O, how may I
91Call this a lightning? O my beloved! my married woman!
92Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
93Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
94. ensign: banner.
94Thou art not conquer'd; beauty'due south ensign yet
95Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
96. avant-garde: raised.
96And expiry's pale flag is non advanced in that location.
97. sheet: shroud.
97Tybalt, liest thou there in thy encarmine canvass?
98O, what more favor tin can I practise to thee,
99. cut thy youth in twain: cut your youth in two.
99Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
100.To sunder his: to cutting off his [i.e., Romeo'due south youth].
100To sunder his that was thine enemy?
101Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
102Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
103That unsubstantial expiry is amorous,
104And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
105Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
106. nevertheless: forever.
110. set upwardly my everlasting rest: i.eastward., commit myself to residuum [with Juliet] forever. When a thespian in a card game "prepare up his rest," he bet all he had—including his "rest," his reserve—on one play. .
106For fear of that, I all the same will stay with thee;
107And never from this palace of dim night
108Depart again. Hither, here will I remain
109With worms that are thy bedchamber-maids; O, here
110Will I gear up my everlasting rest,
111And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
112From this world-wearied flesh. Optics, look your last!
113Arms, take your last comprehend! and, lips, O you lot
114The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
115. dateless deal: everlasting contract. engrossing: monopolizing, all-consuming.
115A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
[Kisses Juliet, then speaks to the container
of poison.]
116. conduct: guide.
116Come, biting conduct, come up, unsavoury guide!
117Thou desperate airplane pilot, now at in one case run on
118. dashing rocks: rocks which will dash the ship to pieces. thy sea-sick weary bark: your ship which is sick of voyaging. In Romeo'south metaphor, he is the "bawl," and the poison is the airplane pilot which will guide him to decease.
118The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bawl!
119Hither'southward to my love!
[Drinks.]
119 O true apothecary!
120Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I dice.
[Dies.]
lanthorn: lantern.
crow: crowbar.
Enter FRIAR [LAURENCE] with a lanthorn,
crow, and spade.
FRIAR LAURENCE
121. Saint Francis exist my speed: Saint Francis aid me. Friar Laurence is a Franciscan, the order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226).
121Saint Francis be my speed! how oft tonight
122Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?
BALTHASAR
123Hither'due south one, a friend, and i that knows yous well.
FRIAR LAURENCE
124Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,
125What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light
126To grubs and eyeless skulls? equally I discern,
127. the Capel's monument.: the funeral vault of the Capulets.
127It burneth in the Capel's monument.
BALTHASAR
128Information technology doth then, holy sir; and there'southward my principal,
129One that you dear.
FRIAR LAURENCE
129 Who is information technology?
BALTHASAR
129 Romeo.
FRIAR LAURENCE
130How long hath he been there?
BALTHASAR
130 Full half an hour.
FRIAR LAURENCE
131Go with me to the vault.
BALTHASAR
131 I dare not, sir
132My main knows non but I am gone hence;
133And fearfully did menace me with decease,
134If I did stay to expect on his intents.
FRIAR LAURENCE
135Stay, and so; I'll get alone. Fear comes upon me:
136. unthrifty: unfortunate.
136O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing.
BALTHASAR
137As I did slumber under this yew-tree hither,
138I dreamt my master and another fought,
139And that my master slew him.
FRIAR LAURENCE
139 Romeo!
[Advances to the tomb.]
140Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains
141The stony entrance of this sepulchre?
142-143. What mean these masterless and gory / To lie discolour'd past this place of peace?: what does it mean that these swords, without their owners and covered with gore, lie stained [with blood] side by side to this place of peace?
142What mean these masterless and gory swords
143To lie discolour'd past this place of peace?
[Enters the tomb.]
144Romeo! O, stake! Who else? what, Paris likewise?
145. unkind: unnatural, brutal.
146. deplorable chance: i.e., cruel turn of fortune.
145And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
146Is guilty of this lamentable take a chance!
147The lady stirs.
[JULIET wakes.]
JULIET
148. comfortable: comforting.
148O comfy friar, where is my lord?
149I do retrieve well where I should be,
150And at that place I am. Where is my Romeo?
[Noise offstage.]
FRIAR LAURENCE
151I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
152Of expiry, contagion, and unnatural slumber.
153A greater ability than we can contradict
154Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
155. in thy bosom: Romeo died upon a kiss, and his body nonetheless lies confronting Juliet's. 156. dispose of thee: provide sanctuary for yous.
155Thy husband in thy bust there lies dead;
156And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
157Amid a sisterhood of holy nuns:
158. Stay not to question: don't wait to ask questions.
158Stay not to question, for the picket is coming;
159Come, go, good Juliet,
[Noise over again.]
I cartel no longer stay.
Leave [FRIAR LAURENCE].
JULIET
160Go, get thee hence, for I will non abroad.
161What's here? a loving cup, closed in my true love's hand?
162. timeless: (i) untimely; (ii) eternal.
162Poison, I come across, hath been his timeless cease:
163. churl: miser, selfish person.
163O boor! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
164. after: come later, follow.
164To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
165. Haply: perhaps.
165Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
166. dice with a restorative: die by ways of a medicine that restores health. She calls the poisonous substance "a restorative" because it will restore her to Romeo. Romeo expressed the same idea when he spoke of the poisonous substance as "cordial and non poison."
166To make me die with a restorative.
[Kisses him.]
167Thy lips are warm.
Showtime Watch [Inside]
168Lead, boy: which manner?
JULIET
169Yea, dissonance? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
[Snatching Romeo's dagger.]
170. This: i.e., her breast.
170This is thy sheath;
[Stabs herself.]
170at that place rust, and let me die.
[Falls on Romeo's body, and dies.]
Enter [Paris'] BOY and Sentry.
Page
171This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.
First Watch
172The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:
173. attach: accept into custody.
173Become, some of you, whoe'er you notice attach.
[Exeunt some.]
174Pitiful sight! hither lies the county slain,
175And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
176Who here hath lain these ii days buried.
177Go, tell the prince; run to the Capulets;
178Raise up the Montagues; some others search.
[Exeunt others.]
179-180. ground . . . basis: earth . . . basis, reason.
179We run into the ground whereon these woes do lie;
180But the true ground of all these piteous woes
181. circumstance: details. descry: detect.
181Nosotros cannot without circumstance descry.
Enter [some of the Watch, with] Romeo's human being
[BALTHASAR].
2d Watch
182Here's Romeo'south man; we found him in the churchyard.
Beginning Watch
183. in safety: securely.
183Hold him in condom, till the prince come up here.
Enter FRIAR [LAURENCE] and some other
WATCHMAN.
Third Watch
184Hither is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:
185We took this mattock and this spade from him,
186Equally he was coming from this churchyard side.
First Spotter
187. stay: keep in custody.
187A great suspicion: stay the friar too.
Enter the PRINCE [and ATTENDANTS].
PRINCE
188What misadventure is so early upwardly,
189That calls our person from our morning's rest?
Enter Capels [CAPULET, LADY CAPULET].
CAPULET
190What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?
LADY CAPULET
191The people in the street cry "Romeo,"
192Some "Juliet," and some "Paris"; and all run,
193With open outcry toward our monument.
PRINCE
194What fearfulness is this which startles in our ears?
Commencement Lookout
195Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;
196And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead earlier,
197Warm and new kill'd.
PRINCE
198Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
Get-go Sentinel
199Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;
200With instruments upon them, fit to open
201These dead men'due south tombs.
CAPULET
202O heavens! O wife, look how our girl bleeds!
203. hath mista'en: has mistaken, has taken the incorrect path. his firm: i.due east., its scabbard. 204. on the back of Montague: Romeo must take carried his dagger in a scabbard attached to a baldrick, as a quiver of arrows is carried.
203This dagger hath mista'en—for, lo, his business firm
204Is empty on the back of Montague,—
205And it mis-sheathed in my girl's bosom!
LADY CAPULET
206O me! this sight of death is as a bell,
207That warns my one-time age to a sepulcher.
Enter MONTAGUE.
PRINCE
208-209. early . . . early: early in the morning . . . early in Romeo'south life.
208Come up, Montague; for thou art early upwardly,
209To see thy son and heir more than early downwardly.
MONTAGUE
210Alas, my liege, my married woman is dead tonight;
211Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:
212What farther woe conspires against mine age?
PRINCE
213Expect, and chiliad shalt see.
MONTAGUE
214. O thou untaught!: O y'all rude person!
215. printing before: crowd in front of.
214O yard untaught! what manners is in this?
215To press before thy male parent to a grave?
PRINCE
216. the rima oris of outrage: the outcry of impassioned grief.
216Seal upward the oral fissure of outrage for a while,
217Till nosotros can clear these ambiguities,
218. their leap, their head, their truthful descent: i.e., their source.
219-220. And . . . decease: And then I will be your leader in expressing your woe, and continue to lead you even to the time of our expiry.
222. the parties of suspicion: i.e., the suspects.
218And know their spring, their head, their true descent;
219And then will I exist general of your woes,
220And lead you even to decease: meantime forbear,
221And let mischance be slave to patience.
222Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
FRIAR LAURENCE
223-225.. I am the greatest . . . murder: i.e., I am the one under the greatest suspicion, and least able to excuse myself, because the fourth dimension and identify [where I was constitute] bear witness against me in this terrible murder.
226-227. both to impeach and purge / Myself condemned and myself excused: i.e., both to charge myself with what I am guilty of, and to purge my guilt [by confessing my mistakes] for those faults that may be excused.
223I am the greatest, able to do least,
224All the same most suspected, as the time and identify
225Doth make against me of this direful murder;
226And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
227Myself condemned and myself excused.
PRINCE
228Then say at once what one thousand dost know in this.
FRIAR LAURENCE
229. my short date of breath: the brief time I have left to live.
229I will exist cursory, for my curt date of breath
230Is non then long equally is a tiresome tale.
231Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;
232And she, at that place dead, that Romeo's true-blue wife.
233. stol'n: stolen, hugger-mugger.
233I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day
234Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely decease
235Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,
236. pined: wept, and wasted abroad.
236For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
237. siege of grief: tempest of grief, assault of grief.
237You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
238. perforce: by necessity; i.e., confronting her will.
238Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
239To County Paris: then comes she to me,
240. hateful: means.
240And, with wild looks, bid me devise some hateful
241To rid her from this second wedlock,
242Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
243. so tutor'd by my fine art: guided by my expertise [in medicine].
243Then gave I her, and so tutor'd by my art,
244A sleeping potion; which so took effect
245As I intended, for information technology wrought on her
246The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,
247. as this: this very aforementioned.
247That he should hither come as this dire night,
248To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
249Existence the time the potion's forcefulness should cease.
250But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
251Was stay'd past accident, and yesternight
252Return'd my letter dorsum. Then all alone
253At the prefixed hr of her waking,
254Came I to have her from her kindred's vault;
255. closely: secretly.
255Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,
256Till I conveniently could transport to Romeo:
257But when I came, some minute ere the time
258Of her awaking, here untimely lay
259The noble Paris and truthful Romeo dead.
260She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,
261And acquit this work of heaven with patience:
262Just then a noise did scare me from the tomb;
263And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
264Simply, as information technology seems, did violence on herself.
265All this I know; and to the marriage
266Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this
267Miscarried by my mistake, permit my former life
268Be sacrificed, some hr before his time,
269Unto the rigour of severest constabulary.
PRINCE
270We still accept known thee for a holy man.
271Where's Romeo's human being? what can he say in this?
BALTHASAR
272I brought my master news of Juliet's death;
273. post: cracking haste.
273And then in post he came from Mantua
274To this same identify, to this same monument.
275This letter he early on bid me give his father,
276And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
277If I departed not and left him there.
PRINCE
278Give me the alphabetic character; I will look on it.
279Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?
280. what made your primary in this identify?: what was your main doing in this place?
280Sirrah, what made your master in this identify?
Folio
281He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;
282And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:
283Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;
284And by and by my master drew on him;
285And then I ran abroad to phone call the watch.
PRINCE
286This letter doth make good the friar'due south words,
287Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
288And here he writes that he did purchase a poison
289Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
290Came to this vault to dice, and lie with Juliet.
291Where exist these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
292Meet, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
293. kill your joys: (1) turn your joys to sorrows; (2) impale your children. with love: by ways of dearest. 294.winking at: shutting my eyes to.
295.brace: pair [Mercutio and Paris].
293That heaven finds means to kill your joys with dear.
294And I for winking at your discords besides
295Take lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.
CAPULET
296O brother Montague, give me thy hand:
297. This: i.e., the handshake. jointure: spousal relationship portion.
297This is my daughter'southward jointure, for no more than
298Can I demand.
MONTAGUE
298 But I tin give thee more,
299. ray: array, have made.
299For I will ray her statue in pure gold;
300That while Verona by that name is known,
301. rate: value.
301There shall no figure at such rate exist set
302Every bit that of true and faithful Juliet.
CAPULET
303As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;
304Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
PRINCE
305A glooming peace this morning time with it brings;
306The sun, for sorrow, will not prove his caput
307Go hence, to have more than talk of these deplorable things;
308Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
309For never was a story of more woe
310Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
[Exeunt.]
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