scene iii a churchyard in it a tomb belonging to the capulets enter paris and his page bearing flowers and a torch paris give me thy torch boy hence and stand aloof yet put it out for i would not be seen under yond yew trees lay thee all along holding thine ear close to the hollow ground so shall no foot upon the churchyard tread being loose unfirm with digging up of graves but thou shalt hear it whistle then to me as signal that thou hear st something approach give me those flowers do as i bid thee go page i am almost afraid to stand alone here in the churchyard yet i will adventure retires paris 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 distill d by moans the obsequies that i for thee will keep nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep the page whistles the boy gives warning something doth approach what cursed foot wanders this way to night to cross my obsequies and true love s rite what with a torch muffle me night awhile retires enter romeo and balthasar with a torch mattock c romeo give me that mattock and the wrenching iron hold take this letter early in the morning see thou deliver it to my lord and father give me the light upon thy life i charge thee whate er thou hear st or seest stand all aloof and do not interrupt me in my course why i descend into this bed of death is partly to behold my lady s face but chiefly to take thence from her dead finger a precious ring a ring that i must use in dear employment therefore hence be gone but if thou jealous dost return to pry in what i further shall intend to do by heaven i will tear thee joint by joint and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs the time and my intents are savage wild more fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers or the roaring sea balthasar i will be gone sir and not trouble you romeo so shalt thou show me friendship take thou that live and be prosperous and farewell good fellow balthasar for all this same i ll hide me hereabout his looks i fear and his intents i doubt retires romeo thou detestable maw thou womb of death gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth thus i enforce thy rotten jaws to open and in despite i ll cram thee with more food opens the tomb paris this is that banish d haughty montague that murder d my love s cousin with which grief it is supposed the fair creature died and here is come to do some villanous shame to the dead bodies i will apprehend him comes forward stop thy unhallow d toil vile montague can vengeance be pursued further than death condemned villain i do apprehend thee obey and go with me for thou must die romeo i must indeed and therefore came i hither good gentle youth tempt not a desperate man fly hence and leave me think upon these gone let them affright thee i beseech thee youth put not another sin upon my head by urging me to fury o be gone by heaven i love thee better than myself for i come hither arm d against myself stay not be gone live and hereafter say a madman s mercy bade thee run away paris i do defy thy conjurations and apprehend thee for a felon here romeo wilt thou provoke me then have at thee boy they fight page o lord they fight i will go call the watch exit paris o i am slain falls if thou be merciful open the tomb lay me with juliet dies romeo in faith i will let me peruse this face mercutio s kinsman noble county paris what said my man when my betossed soul did not attend him as we rode i think he told me paris should have married juliet said he not so or did i dream it so or am i mad hearing him talk of juliet to think it was so o give me thy hand one writ with me in sour misfortune s book i ll bury thee in a triumphant grave a grave o no a lantern slaughter d youth for here lies juliet and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light death lie thou there by a dead man interr d laying paris in the tomb how oft when men are at the point of death have they been merry which their keepers call a lightning before death o how may i call this a lightning 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 tybalt liest thou there in thy bloody sheet o what more favour can i do to thee than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain to sunder his that was thine enemy forgive me cousin ah dear juliet why art thou yet so fair shall i believe that unsubstantial death is amorous and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour for fear of that i still will stay with thee and never from this palace of dim night depart again here here will i remain with worms that are thy chamber maids o here will i set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world wearied flesh 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 come bitter conduct come unsavoury guide thou desperate pilot now at once run on the dashing rocks thy sea sick weary bark here s to my love drinks o true apothecary thy drugs are quick thus with a kiss i die dies enter at the other end of the churchyard friar laurence with a lantern crow and spade friar laurence saint francis be my speed how oft to night have my old feet stumbled at graves who s there balthasar here s one a friend and one that knows you well friar laurence bliss be upon you tell me good my friend what torch is yond that vainly lends his light to grubs and eyeless skulls as i discern it burneth in the capel s monument balthasar it doth so holy sir and there s my master one that you love friar laurence who is it balthasar romeo friar laurence how long hath he been there balthasar full half an hour friar laurence go with me to the vault balthasar i dare not sir my master knows not but i am gone hence and fearfully did menace me with death if i did stay to look on his intents friar laurence stay then i ll go alone fear comes upon me o much i fear some ill unlucky thing balthasar as i did sleep under this yew tree here i dreamt my master and another fought and that my master slew him friar laurence romeo advances alack alack what blood is this which stains the stony entrance of this sepulchre what mean these masterless and gory swords to lie discolour d by this place of peace enters the tomb 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 juliet o comfortable friar where is my lord i do remember well where i should be and there i am where is my romeo noise within friar laurence 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 no longer stay juliet go get thee hence for i will not away exit friar laurence what s here a cup closed in my true love s hand poison i see hath been his timeless end o churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after i will kiss thy lips haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make die with a restorative kisses him thy lips are warm first watchman lead boy which way juliet 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 falls on romeo s body and dies enter watch with the page of paris page this is the place there where the torch doth burn first watchman the ground is bloody search about the churchyard go some of you whoe er you find attach pitiful sight here lies the county slain and juliet bleeding warm and newly dead who here hath lain these two days buried go tell the prince run to the capulets raise up the montagues some others search we see the ground whereon these woes do lie but the true ground of all these piteous woes we cannot without circumstance descry re enter some of the watch with balthasar second watchman here s romeo s man we found him in the churchyard first watchman hold him in safety till the prince come hither re enter others of the watch with friar laurence third watchman here is a friar that trembles sighs and weeps we took this mattock and this spade from him as he was coming from this churchyard side first watchman a great suspicion stay the friar too enter the prince and attendants prince what misadventure is so early up that calls our person from our morning s rest enter capulet lady capulet and others capulet what should it be that they so shriek abroad lady capulet the people in the street cry romeo some juliet and some paris and all run with open outcry toward our monument prince what fear is this which startles in our ears first watchman 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 first watchman here is a friar and slaughter d romeo s man with instruments upon them fit to open these dead men s tombs capulet o heavens o wife look how our daughter bleeds this dagger hath mista en for lo his house is empty on the back of montague and it mis sheathed in my daughter s bosom lady capulet o me this sight of death is as a bell that warns my old age to a sepulchre enter montague and others prince come montague for thou art early up to see thy son and heir more early down montague 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 mine age prince look and thou shalt see montague 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 descent and then will i be general of your woes and lead you even to death meantime forbear and let mischance be slave to patience bring forth the parties of suspicion friar laurence i am the greatest able to do least yet most suspected as the time and place doth make against me of this direful murder and here i stand both to impeach and purge myself condemned and myself excused prince then say at once what thou dost know in this friar laurence i will be brief for my short date of breath is not so long as is a tedious tale romeo there dead was husband to that juliet and she there dead that romeo s faithful wife i married them and their stol n marriage day was tybalt s dooms day whose untimely death banish d the new made bridegroom from the city for whom and not for tybalt juliet pined you to remove that siege of grief from her betroth d and would have married her perforce to county paris then comes she to me and with wild looks bid me devise some mean to rid her from this second marriage or in my cell there would she kill herself then gave i her so tutor d by my art a sleeping potion which so took effect as i intended for it wrought on her the form of death meantime i writ to romeo that he should hither come as this dire night to help to take her from her borrow d grave being the time the potion s force should cease but he which bore my letter friar john was stay d by accident and yesternight return d my letter back then all alone at the prefixed hour of her waking came i to take her from her kindred s vault meaning to keep her closely at my cell till i conveniently could send to romeo but when i came some minute ere the time of her awaking here untimely lay the noble paris and true romeo dead she wakes and i entreated her come forth and bear this work of heaven with patience but then a noise did scare me from the tomb and she too desperate would not go with me but as it seems did violence on herself all this i know and to the marriage her nurse is privy and if aught in this miscarried by my fault let my old life be sacrificed some hour before his time unto the rigour of severest law prince we still have known thee for a holy man where s romeo s man what can he say in this balthasar i brought my master news of juliet s death and then in post he came from mantua to this same place to this same monument this letter he early bid me give his father and threatened me with death going in the vault i departed not and left him there prince give me the letter i will look on it where is the county s page that raised the watch sirrah what made your master in this place page he came with flowers to strew his lady s grave and bid me stand aloof and so i did anon comes one with light to ope the tomb and by and by my master drew on him and then i ran away to call the watch prince this letter doth make good the friar s words their course of love the tidings of her death and here he writes that he did buy a poison of a poor pothecary and therewithal came to this vault to die and lie with juliet where be these enemies capulet montague see what a scourge is laid upon your hate that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love and i for winking at your discords too have lost a brace of kinsmen all are punish d capulet o brother montague give me thy hand this is my daughter s jointure for no more can i demand montague but i can give thee more for i will raise her statue in pure gold that while verona by that name is known there shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful juliet capulet as rich shall romeo s by his lady s lie poor sacrifices of our enmity prince a glooming peace this morning with it brings the sun for sorrow will not show his head go hence to have more talk of these sad things some shall be pardon d and some punished for never was a story of more woe than this of juliet and her romeo exeunt11