ACT V. SCENE I.-A Street in Mantua. Enter ROMEO. Romeo : F I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, hand : My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. think! And breathed such life with kisses in my lips, That I revived and was an emperor. Ah me! how sweet is love itself possessed, Enter BALTHASAR. News from Verona !-How now, Balthasar ! For nothing can be ill if she be well. Bal. Then she is well, and nothing can be ill : Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault, Rom. Is it e'en so? then I defy you, stars! Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper, And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night. Bal. I do beseech you, sir, have patience : Your looks are pale and wide, and do import Some misadventure. Rom. Tush, thou art deceived: Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do. No matter: get thee gone, And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.— [Exit BALTHASAR. Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night. And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted An alligator stuffed and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, As I remember, this should be the house: Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.- Ap. Enter Apothecary. Who calls so loud? Rom. Come hither, man.—I see, that thou art poor; Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins, That the life-weary taker may fall dead. Ap. Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them. Rom. Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back, The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law: The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. Ap. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. Ap. Put this in any liquid thing you will, And drink it off; and, if you had the strength Of twenty men, it would despatch you straight. Rom. There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, sell: I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [Exeunt. |