SCENE VI.
A Room in Capulet's House.
Enter Juliet.
Juliet.
Be black as ink thou night! that Romeo may
Unseen approach, 'till morn with me to stay.
(Enter Nurse.)
O here comes nurse! say, what's the news, old lass?
Nurse.
Oh! things are now come to a pretty pass!
Juliet.
Why dost thou wring thy shrivelled hands and cry?
Nurse.
He's dead! he's dead! what pity he should die!
O wicked deed! O Romeo! Romeo!
Juliet.
Why with these howlings dost torment me so?
Speak plainly out; has Romeo cut his throat?
If so, I'll drown me in our garden moat:
Say thou but aye, and I will do it quickly.
Nurse.
I saw him looking bloody, pale and sickly,
Aud had a fit. Oh Tibalt! Tibalt, Oh!
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Juliet.
Is Tibalt also dead? Oh, don't say so!
Nurse.
Tibalt is killed by Romeo,—there! that's all!
Romeo's transported—now your tears let fall.
The devil take that hang-dog Romeo!
Juliet.
Blisters upon thy tongue for saying so!
Nurse.
Poor Tibalt he has cruelly misused.
Juliet.
Well, if he have, he shan't be thus abused:
I'd rather have ten thousand Tibalts dead,
Than my own loving Romeo banished:
Rather than this, I'd see my dad, and mother,
And you, and all, die after one another!
Nurse.
You're mad! to bed: Romeo shall still come to thee;
With blood of Tibalt's on his hands, to woo thee.
I know his hiding-place.
Juliet.
Give him this garter,
And tell him he has acted like a Tartar;
But I forgive him.—This is my token true.
Bid him come quickly.
Nurse.
Yes.
Juliet.
Now see you do.
[Exeunt.
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Richard Gurney [1812], Romeo and Juliet travesty. In three acts (Published by T. Hookham, Junr. and E. T. Hookham... and J. M. Richardson [etc.], London) [word count] [S39800].
