Fri. These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die: like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore, love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Here comes the lady.

Enter JULIEt.

O! so light a foot

Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:
A lover may bestride the gossamers
That idle in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall; so light is vanity.

Jul. Good even to my ghostly confessor.

Fri. Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
Jul. As much to him, else are his thanks too much.
Rom. Ah, Juliet! if the measure of thy joy

Be heap'd like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagin'd happiness, that both

Receive in either by this dear encounter.

Jul. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,

Brags of his substance, not of ornament:

They are but beggars that can count their worth;

But my true love is grown to such excess,

I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

Fri. Come, come with me, and we will make short work;

For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone,

Till holy church incorporate two in one.

[Exeunt.

ACT III. SCENE I.

A Public Place.

Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants. Ben. I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:

The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,

And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl;

For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

Mer. Thou art like one of those fellows that, when he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table, and says, "God send me no need of thee" and, by the operation of the second cup, draws him on the drawer, when, indeed, there is no need.

Ben. Am I like such a fellow?

Mer. Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood, as any in Italy; and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved.

Mer. Nay, an there were two such, we should have none shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts having no other reason, but because thou hast hazel eyes: what eye, but such an eye, would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels, as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with another, for tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling!

Ben. An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.

Mer. The fee-simple? O simple!

Ben. By my head, here come the Capulets.

Enter TYBALT, and Others.

Mer. By my heel, I care not.

Tyb. Follow me close, for I will speak to them. Gentlemen, good den! a word with one of you.

Mer. And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow.

Tyb. You will find me apt enough to that, Sir, if you will give me occasion.

Mer. Could you not take some occasion without giving?
Tyb. Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo.

Mer. Consort! what! dost thou make us minstrels? an thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall make you dance.

consort!

Ben. We talk here in the public haunt of men:
Either withdraw unto some private place,
Or reason coldly of your grievances,,

Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.

'Zounds,

Mer. Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze: I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.

Enter ROMEO.

Tyb. Well, peace be with you, Sir.

Here comes my man.

Mer. But I'll be hang'd, Sir, if he wear your livery:

Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;
Your worship, in that sense, may call him -man.
Tyb. Romeo, the hate I bear thee, can afford
No better term than this. thou art a villain.

Rom. Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage

To such a greeting: - villain am I none;

Therefore farewell: I see, thou know'st me not.

Tyb. Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries
That thou hast done me; therefore, turn and draw.
Rom. I do protest, I never injur'd thee;

But love thee better than thou canst devise,
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:

And so, good Capulet, - which name I tender
As dearly as mine own, - be satisfied.

Mer. O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
A la stoccata carries it away.

Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?

[Draws.

Tyb. What would'st thou have with me?

that I mean to make bold withal, and,

as you shall use me here

Mer. Good king of cats, nothing, but one of your nine lives;

after, dry-beat the rest of the eight.

Will you pluck your sword

out of his pilcher by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about

your ears ere it be out.

Tyb. I am for you.

Rom. Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.
Mer. Come, Sir, your passado.

[Drawing.

[They fight.

- gentlemen, for shame

Rom. Draw, Benevolio;

Beat down their weapons:

Forbear this outrage! — Tybalt - Mercutio -
The prince expressly hath forbid this bandying
In Verona streets. Hold, Tybalt! - good Mercutio!
[Exeunt TYBALT and his Partisans.

A plague o' both the houses! I am sped:
Is he gone, and hath nothing?

Ben.

What! art thou hurt?

Mer. Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 't is enough. Where is my page?-go, villain, fetch a surgeon.

[Exit Page.

and

Rom. Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mer. No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 't is enough, 't will serve: ask for me to-morrow, you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world: 1: a plague o' both your houses! -'Zounds! a dog,

a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! the devil, came you between us? I was hurt under your arm. Rom. I thought all for the best.

› Mer. Help me into some house, Benvolio,

Or I shall faint.

A plague o' both your houses!

They have made worms' meat of me:

your houses!

[Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO.

Rom. This gentleman, the prince 's near ally, My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt

In my behalf; my reputation stain'd

With Tybalt's slander, Tybalt, that an hour

Hath been my cousin;

O sweet Juliet!

Thy beauty hath made me effeminate,

And in my temper soften'd valour's steel.

Re-enter BENVOLIO.

Ben. O Romeo, Romeo! brave Mercutio 's dead; That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clouds,

Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.

Rom. This day's black fate on more days doth depend;

This but begins the woe, others must end.

Re-enter TYBALT.

Ben. Here comes the furious Tybalt back again. Rom. Alive! in triumph! and Mercutio slain! Away to heaven, respective lenity,

And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now!
Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,
That late thou gav'st me; for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,

Staying for thine to keep him company:

Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

Tyb. Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence.

Rom.

This shall determine that.

[They fight; TYBALT falls.

Ben. Romeo, away! begone!

The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain:

:

Stand not amaz'd: the prince will doom thee death,

If thou art taken. Hence!

Rom. O! I am fortune's fool.