But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Rom. Lady, by yonder bleffed moon I vow, That tips with filver all these fruit-tree topsJul. O fwear not by the moon, th'inconftant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb; Left that thy love prove likewife variable. Rom. What shall I swear by? Jul. Do not fwear at all. Or if thou wilt, fwear by thy gracious felf, And I'll believe thee. Rom. If my true heart's love Jul. Well, do not fwear-altho' I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night; It is too rafh, too unadvis'd, too fudden, (7) Too like the lightning which doth ceafe to be, Jul. What fatisfaction canft thou have to-night? mine. ful. I gave thee mine before thou didst request it : And yet I would it were to give again. Rom. Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love? Jul. But to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have; (7) See Midsummer Night's Dream, p. 209. My My bounty is as boundless as the fea, I hear fome noife within, dear love, adieu. [Nurfe calls within, -Sweet Mountague, be true: Anon, good nurse- Rom. O blefied, bleffed night. I am afraid Too flattering fweet to be substantial. [Exit. Jul. Three words, dear Romco, and good-night indeed: If that thy bent of love be honourable, Thy purpose marriage, fend me word to-morrow, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; And follow thee, my love, throughout the world. I come anon I do befeech thee- [Within: Madam.] By and by I come To ceafe thy fuit, and leave me to my grief. To-morrow will I fend. Rom. So thrive my foul. Ful. A thousand times good-night. [Exit. Rom. A thousand times the worfe to want thy light. Enter Juliet again. Jul. Hift! Romeo, hist! O for a falkner's voice, Bondage is hoarfe, and may not fpeak aloud, And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine, Rom. Rom. It is my love that calls upon my name, How filver sweet found lovers' tongues by night, Like fofteft mufic to attending ears! Jul. Romeo! Rom. My fweet! Jul. At what o'clock to-morrow Shall I fend to thee? Rom. By the hour of nine. ful. I will not fail, 'tis twenty years till then, I have forgot why I did call thee back. Rom. Let me ftand here till thou remember it. Jul. I fhall forget to have thee ftill stand there, Rememb'ring how I love thy company. Rom. And I'll still stay to have thee still forget, Forgetting any other home but this. Jul. 'Tis almoft morning I would have thee gone, Rom. I would I were thy bird. Yet I fhould kill thee with much cherishing. Good-night, good-night. Parting is fuch fweet forrow, That I fhall fay good-night till it be morrow. SCENE V. Love's Heralds. Love's heralds fhould be thoughts, Which ten times fafter glide than the fun-beams. [Exit. SCENE SCENE VI. Violent Delights, not lasting. These violent delights have violent ends, Lovers, light of Foot. O fo light of foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint; ACT III. SCENE IV. A Lover's Impatience. Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, By their own beauties: or, if love be blind; SCENE (8) The run-aways, &c.] That is, the fun: whom he ele gantly calls the run-away, in reference to the poetical account of the fun driving his chariot of light through the heavens, and running down to the west from the eyes of mortals to the arms of his celeftial mistress. SCENE V. Romeo, on his Banishment. SCENE, The Monastery. Romeo and the Friar. Rom. (9) Ha, banishment! be merciful, fay death! For exile hath more terror in his look Than death itself. Do not fay banishment. Fri. Here from Verona art thou banished: Hence banish'd, is banifh'd from the world, Fri. O deadly fin; O rude unthankfulness! Rom. 'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here No (9) Ha, &c.] The Reader will find in the 90th page of the fecond volume, a paffage or two, that well deferve to be com◄ par'd with this before us. |