ROMEO: Banishment? Be merciful,
say death; for exile hath mor terror in his look much more than
death. Do not say Banishment.
FATHER LAWRENCE: Affliction is
ennamoured of thy parts, and thou art weded to calamity. Hence
from Verona art thou banished. Be patient, for the world is broad
and wide.
ROMEO: There is no world without
Verona walls, hence banished is banished from the world and worlds
exile is death. Then banished is death mis-termed. Calling death
banished, thou cu'st my head off with a golden axe and smiles
upon the stroke that murderes me.
FATHER LAWRENCE: O deadly sin,
O rude unthankfulness! This is dear mercy and thou sees it not.
Hence!
NURSE: I come for my lady, Juliet.
FATHER LAWRENCE: Welcome.
NURSE: Where is my Lady's lord?
FATHER LAWRENCE: Romeo, come forth.
ROMEO: Nurse.
NURSE: Sir. Ah, sir. Death the
end of all
Romeo: Speakest thou of Juliet?
Where is she? And how doth she? And what say my concealed lady
of our canceled love?
NURSE: O, she says nothing sir,
but weeps and weeps, and then on Romeo cries and then falls down
again.
ROMEO: As if that name, Shot from
the deadly level of a gun did murder her, as that name's cursed
hand did murder her kinsman.
FATHER LAWRENCE: I thought thy
disposition better tempered! Thy Juliet is alive. There art thou
happy. The law that threatened death becomes thy friend and turns
it to exile. There art thou happy. A Pack of blessings light upon
thy back. Wherefore railest thou on thy birth the heaven and earth?
Since birth and heaven and earth all three do meet in thee at
once.
NURSE: Sir, a ring my lady bid
me give you.
ROMEO: How well my comfort is
revived by this.
FATHER LAWRENCE: Hie you make
haste! But look thou stay not till the watch be set, for then
thou canst not pass to Mantua where thau shalt live till we can
find a time to blaze you marriage, reconcile your friends, beg
pardon of the Prince and call thee back with twenty hundred times
more joy, than thou wentst forth in lametation. Quick hence! Be
gone by break of day! Sojourn in Mantua.
