BAL. I brought my master news of Juliet's death, PRINCE. Give me the letter; I will look on it. PAGE. He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave; And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb; And by and by my master drew on him; And then I ran away to call the watch. PRINCE. This letter doth make good the friar's words, 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. 280 Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! 272 in post] in post haste. 279 what made your master] what was your master's business. 283 by and by immediately. Cf. II, ii, 151, III, i, 167, III, iii, 76, supra. 294 a brace of kinsmen] Mercutio and Paris. Cf. III, i, 106, 142, supra, where the prince's kinship with Mercutio is mentioned. Paris, though 290 CAP. O brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand. MON. But I can give thee more: That whiles Verona by that name is known, CAP. As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; PRINCE. A glooming peace this morning with it brings; For never was a story of more woe [Exeunt. described as "of noble parentage" III, v, 180, and as "Mercutio's kinsman," V, iii, 75, is not elsewhere more specifically described as related to the prince. 304-309 A glooming peace . . . her Romeo] These lines form a sixain in the stanza of Venus and Adonis. Cf. I, ii, 45-50, and note. 307 Some shall . . . some punished] In Brooke's Poem varied penalties are allotted to many of the surviving actors in the tragedy. The nurse is banished for concealing Juliet's marriage; the apothecary is hanged; Friar Laurence is suffered to retire to a hermitage, where he dies tranquilly six years afterwards; Romeo's servant is pardoned on the ground that he merely acted in obedience to his master's orders. 800 |