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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
1597
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
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CONTENTS
Dramatis Personae
ACT 1
Prologue
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
ACT 2
Prologue
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
ACT 3
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
ACT 4
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
ACT 5
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
1
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
MONTAGUE
CAPULET
Franciscans
FRIAR LAURENCE
FRIAR JOHN
servants to Capulet.
SAMPSON
GREGORY
An Apothecary.
Three Musicians.
2
Nurse to Juliet.
Chorus.
3
ACT 1
4
PROLOGUE
SCENE 1
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords
and bucklers
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
7
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
Fear me not.
GREGORY
SAMPSON
GREGORY
SAMPSON
ABRAHAM
SAMPSON
ABRAHAM
8
SAMPSON
GREGORY
No.
SAMPSON
GREGORY
ABRAHAM
SAMPSON
ABRAHAM
No better.
SAMPSON
Well, sir.
GREGORY
SAMPSON
ABRAHAM
9
You lie.
SAMPSON
They fight
Enter BENVOLIO
BENVOLIO
Part, fools!
Put up your swords; you know not what you do.
Enter TYBALT
TYBALT
BENVOLIO
TYBALT
They fight
Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs
First Citizen
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
MONTAGUE
LADY MONTAGUE
PRINCE
MONTAGUE
BENVOLIO
LADY MONTAGUE
BENVOLIO
MONTAGUE
BENVOLIO
MONTAGUE
BENVOLIO
MONTAGUE
13
Enter ROMEO
BENVOLIO
MONTAGUE
BENVOLIO
Good-morrow, cousin.
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
14
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
In love?
ROMEO
Out--
BENVOLIO
Of love?
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?
17
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
Exeunt
18
SCENE 2
A street.
CAPULET
PARIS
CAPULET
PARIS
CAPULET
Servant
BENVOLIO
20
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
Servant
ROMEO
Servant
ROMEO
21
Servant
ROMEO
Reads
Servant
Up.
ROMEO
Whither?
Servant
ROMEO
Whose house?
Servant
My master's.
ROMEO
Servant
Exit
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
Exeunt
24
SCENE 3
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
Enter JULIET
JULIET
Nurse
Your mother.
JULIET
Madam, I am here.
What is your will?
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
25
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
27
JULIET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
Enter a Servant
Servant
LADY CAPULET
We follow thee.
Exit Servant
Nurse
Exeunt
30
SCENE 4
A street.
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
31
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
And so did I.
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
33
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
Strike, drum.
Exeunt
36
SCENE 5
First Servant
Second Servant
First Servant
Second Servant
First Servant
You are looked for and called for, asked for and
sought for, in the great chamber.
Second Servant
Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house, meeting the Guests and
Maskers
CAPULET
37
Second Capulet
CAPULET
Second Capulet
CAPULET
38
ROMEO
Servant
ROMEO
TYBALT
CAPULET
TYBALT
39
CAPULET
TYBALT
CAPULET
TYBALT
CAPULET
He shall be endured:
What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;
Am I the master here, or you? go to.
You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!
You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!
TYBALT
40
CAPULET
Go to, go to;
You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?
This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.
Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:
Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!
I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!
TYBALT
Exit
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
Marry, bachelor,
Her mother is the lady of the house,
And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous
I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
Shall have the chinks.
42
ROMEO
Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
CAPULET
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
I know not.
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
Anon, anon!
Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.
Exeunt
44
ACT 2
45
PROLOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
Exit
46
SCENE 1
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
He is wise;
And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed.
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
48
Exeunt
49
SCENE 2
Capulet's orchard.
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
JULIET
Ay me!
ROMEO
She speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee;
Had I it written, I would tear the word.
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
54
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
Exit, above
ROMEO
JULIET
Nurse
[Within] Madam!
JULIET
Nurse
[Within] Madam!
JULIET
56
ROMEO
So thrive my soul--
JULIET
Exit, above
ROMEO
Retiring
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
Romeo!
57
ROMEO
My dear?
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
58
JULIET
Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! parting is such
sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Exit above
ROMEO
Exit
59
SCENE 3
FRIAR LAURENCE
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Benedicite!
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
Young son, it argues a distemper'd head
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;
Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
61
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Not in a grave,
To lay one in, another out to have.
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
63
Exeunt
64
SCENE 4
A street.
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
A challenge, on my life.
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
65
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
The what?
MERCUTIO
Enter ROMEO
66
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
Meaning, to court'sy.
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
Right.
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast
not there for the goose.
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
A sail, a sail!
BENVOLIO
Nurse
Peter!
PETER
Anon!
Nurse
My fan, Peter.
MERCUTIO
70
Nurse
MERCUTIO
Nurse
Is it good den?
MERCUTIO
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
MERCUTIO
Nurse
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
Sings
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
72
Singing
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
PETER
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me.
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
NURSE
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
Exit Romeo
Peter!
PETER
Anon!
Nurse
Exeunt
76
SCENE 5
Capulet's orchard.
Enter JULIET
JULIET
Nurse
Exit PETER
JULIET
77
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
I have.
Nurse
JULIET
Exeunt
80
SCENE 6
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Enter JULIET
JULIET
81
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
Exeunt
82
ACT 3
83
SCENE 1
A public place.
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
TYBALT
MERCUTIO
TYBALT
MERCUTIO
TYBALT
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
Enter ROMEO
TYBALT
MERCUTIO
TYBALT
ROMEO
TYBALT
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
Draws
TYBALT
MERCUTIO
TYBALT
I am for you.
Drawing
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
They fight
ROMEO
TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers
MERCUTIO
I am hurt.
A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothing?
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
88
Exit Page
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
Re-enter BENVOLIO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
Re-enter TYBALT
TYBALT
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
O, I am fortune's fool!
BENVOLIO
Exit ROMEO
First Citizen
BENVOLIO
First Citizen
PRINCE
BENVOLIO
91
LADY CAPULET
PRINCE
BENVOLIO
LADY CAPULET
PRINCE
MONTAGUE
PRINCE
Exeunt
94
SCENE 2
Capulet's orchard.
Enter JULIET
JULIET
Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords
That Romeo bid thee fetch?
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
Romeo can,
Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!
Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
97
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
There's no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:
These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
Shame come to Romeo!
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Exeunt
100
SCENE 3
FRIAR LAURENCE
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Too familiar
Is my dear son with such sour company:
I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
101
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
103
Knocking within
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
Knocking
FRIAR LAURENCE
Knocking
Knocking
Nurse
FRIAR LAURENCE
104
Welcome, then.
Enter Nurse
Nurse
FRIAR LAURENCE
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse!
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
105
ROMEO
As if that name,
Shot from the deadly level of a gun,
Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,
In what vile part of this anatomy
Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion.
FRIAR LAURENCE
Nurse
107
ROMEO
Nurse
Exit
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
Exeunt
108
SCENE 4
CAPULET
PARIS
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
PARIS
Monday, my lord,
109
CAPULET
PARIS
CAPULET
Exeunt
110
SCENE 5
Capulet's orchard.
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!
Nurse
Madam!
JULIET
Nurse?
Nurse
Exit
JULIET
ROMEO
112
He goeth down
JULIET
ROMEO
Farewell!
I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
Exit
JULIET
113
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
115
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
116
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would the fool were married to her grave!
CAPULET
117
JULIET
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
CAPULET
Nurse
CAPULET
Nurse
I speak no treason.
CAPULET
O, God ye god-den.
Nurse
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
Exit
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
Exit
JULIET
120
Nurse
JULIET
Nurse
JULIET
Amen!
121
Nurse
What?
JULIET
Nurse
Exit
JULIET
Exit
122
ACT 4
123
SCENE 1
FRIAR LAURENCE
PARIS
FRIAR LAURENCE
PARIS
FRIAR LAURENCE
Enter JULIET
124
PARIS
JULIET
PARIS
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
PARIS
JULIET
PARIS
JULIET
PARIS
JULIET
PARIS
125
JULIET
PARIS
JULIET
PARIS
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
PARIS
Exit
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
Exeunt
129
SCENE 2
CAPULET
Second Servant
You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they
can lick their fingers.
CAPULET
Second Servant
CAPULET
Go, be gone.
Nurse
Ay, forsooth.
CAPULET
130
Nurse
Enter JULIET
CAPULET
JULIET
CAPULET
JULIET
CAPULET
JULIET
131
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
Exeunt
132
SCENE 3
Juliet's chamber.
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
Good night:
Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need.
JULIET
SCENE 4
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
Enter CAPULET
CAPULET
Nurse
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
136
Now, fellow,
What's there?
First Servant
CAPULET
Second Servant
Exit
CAPULET
Music within
Re-enter Nurse
Exeunt
138
SCENE 5
Juliet's chamber.
Enter Nurse
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
O lamentable day!
LADY CAPULET
139
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Enter CAPULET
CAPULET
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
Nurse
O lamentable day!
LADY CAPULET
O woful time!
CAPULET
140
FRIAR LAURENCE
CAPULET
PARIS
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
PARIS
CAPULET
FRIAR LAURENCE
CAPULET
FRIAR LAURENCE
First Musician
Nurse
Exit
First Musician
Enter PETER
PETER
First Musician
143
PETER
First Musician
PETER
First Musician
No.
PETER
First Musician
PETER
First Musician
PETER
First Musician
144
Second Musician
Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.
PETER
Musician
PETER
Second Musician
PETER
Third Musician
PETER
Exit
First Musician
Second Musician
Exeunt
146
ACT 5
147
SCENE 1
Mantua. A street.
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
BALTHASAR
ROMEO
BALTHASAR
ROMEO
BALTHASAR
ROMEO
Exit BALTHASAR
Enter Apothecary
Apothecary
ROMEO
Apothecary
ROMEO
150
Apothecary
ROMEO
Apothecary
ROMEO
Exeunt
151
SCENE 2
FRIAR JOHN
FRIAR LAURENCE
FRIAR JOHN
FRIAR LAURENCE
FRIAR JOHN
FRIAR LAURENCE
152
FRIAR JOHN
Exit
FRIAR LAURENCE
Exit
153
SCENE 3
PARIS
PAGE
Retires
PARIS
Retires
ROMEO
BALTHASAR
ROMEO
BALTHASAR
155
Retires
ROMEO
PARIS
Comes forward
ROMEO
PARIS
ROMEO
They fight
PAGE
Exit
PARIS
O, I am slain!
Falls
If thou be merciful,
Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.
Dies
ROMEO
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
BALTHASAR
FRIAR LAURENCE
BALTHASAR
FRIAR LAURENCE
Who is it?
BALTHASAR
Romeo.
159
FRIAR LAURENCE
BALTHASAR
FRIAR LAURENCE
BALTHASAR
FRIAR LAURENCE
BALTHASAR
FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo!
Advances
JULIET wakes
JULIET
Noise within
FRIAR LAURENCE
Noise again
JULIET
Kisses him
First Watchman
JULIET
Stabs herself
PAGE
First Watchman
Second Watchman
First Watchman
Third Watchman
First Watchman
PRINCE
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
PRINCE
First Watchman
PRINCE
First Watchman
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
PRINCE
MONTAGUE
PRINCE
164
MONTAGUE
PRINCE
FRIAR LAURENCE
PRINCE
FRIAR LAURENCE
PRINCE
166
BALTHASAR
PRINCE
PAGE
PRINCE
CAPULET
167
MONTAGUE
CAPULET
PRINCE
Exeunt
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