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ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT III.
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And thou and Romeo press one[C 1] heavy bier!60 |
| Nurse. | O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had! O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman! That ever I should live to see thee dead! |
| Jul. | What storm is this that blows so contrary? Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?65 My dearest[C 2][E 1] cousin, and my dearer lord? Then, dreadful trumpet,[C 3] sound the general doom! For who is living if those two are gone?[C 4] |
| Nurse. | Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo, that kill'd him, he is banished.70 |
| Jul. | O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? |
| Nurse.[C 5] | It did, it did; alas the day, it did! |
| Jul. | [C 6]O serpent[E 2] heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful[E 3] tyrant! fiend angelical!75 Dove-feather'd raven![C 7] wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly[E 4] seem'st; A damned[C 8] saint, an honourable villain! O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell80 |
- ↑ 60. one] Q 4; on Q, F.
- ↑ 66. dearest] Q, F; dear-loved Q 1.
- ↑ 67. dreadful trumpet,] Q, F; let the trumpet Q 1.
- ↑ 69. gone] Q, F; dead Q 1.
- ↑ 72. Nurse] Q 1, Q 5; omitted Q, F.
- ↑ 73, 74. Jul. O … Did] F 2, Q 5; Nur. O … face! Jul. Did, Q, F.
- ↑ 76. Dove-feather'd raven] Theobald; Ravenous dovefeatherd Raven Q, F; Ravenous dove, feathred Raven Qq 4, 5, F 2.
- ↑ 79. damned] Qq 4, 5, F 2; dimme Q; dimne F.
- ↑ 66. dearest] More force is given by this reading to the dearer which follows than if dear-loved Q 1 were read.
- ↑ 73. O serpent] So Macbeth, I. v. 66: "look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't."
- ↑ 75. Beautiful] Daniel proposes Bountiful, to strengthen the antithesis.
- ↑ 78. Just … justly] Exact … exactly, as often in Shakespeare.
