This page has been validated.
180
ROMEO AND JULIET
[ACT V.
|
And threaten'd me with death, going in the vault,275 |
| Prince. | Give me the letter; I will look on it.— Where is the county's page that raised the watch?— Sirrah, what made[E 1] your master in this place? |
| Page.[C 1] | He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;280 And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb; And by and by[E 2] my master drew on him; And then I ran away to call the watch. |
| Prince. | This letter doth make good the friar's words,285 Their course of love, the tidings of her death: And here he writes that he did buy a poison Of a poor pothecary, and therewithal Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.— Where be these enemies?—Capulet!—Montague!290 See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love; And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace[E 3] of kinsmen: all are punish'd. |
| Cap. | O brother Montague, give me thy hand:295 |
- ↑ 280. Page] F, Boy Q.
- ↑ 279. made] was doing, or was about, as in Merry Wives, II. i. 244: "What they made there I know not."
- ↑ 283. by and by] immediately, presently, as often in Shakespeare.
- ↑ 294. brace] Mercutio and Paris. See [[../../Act 3/Scene 1|iii. i. 115]], [[../../Act 3/Scene 5|iii. v. 180]] ("princely parentage" Q i), and v. iii. 75. In Troilus and Cressida, iv. v. 175 brace is used as here: "Your brace of warlike brothers."
