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And vice sometimes by action dignified. |
Within the infant rind of this small flower |
Poison hath residence and medicine power: |
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; |
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. |
Two such opposed kings encamp them still |
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; |
And where the worser is predominant, |
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. |
ROMEO: |
Good morrow, father. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
Benedicite! |
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? |
Young son, it argues a distemper'd head |
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: |
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, |
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; |
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain |
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign: |
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure |
Thou art up-roused by some distemperature; |
Or if not so, then here I hit it right, |
Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night. |
ROMEO: |
That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline? |
ROMEO: |
With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; |
I have forgot that name, and that name's woe. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then? |
ROMEO: |
I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again. |
I have been feasting with mine enemy, |
Where on a sudden one hath wounded me, |
That's by me wounded: both our remedies |
Within thy help and holy physic lies: |
I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo, |
My intercession likewise steads my foe. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; |
Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. |
ROMEO: |
Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set |
On the fair daughter of rich Capulet: |
As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine; |
And all combined, save what thou must combine |
By holy marriage: when and where and how |
We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow, |
I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, |
That thou consent to marry us to-day. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! |
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, |
So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies |
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. |
Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine |
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline! |
How much salt water thrown away in waste, |
To season love, that of it doth not taste! |
The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, |
Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears; |
Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit |
Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet: |
If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine, |
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline: |
And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then, |
Women may fall, when there's no strength in men. |
ROMEO: |
Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
For doting, not for loving, pupil mine. |
ROMEO: |
And bad'st me bury love. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
Not in a grave, |
To lay one in, another out to have. |
ROMEO: |
I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now |
Doth grace for grace and love for love allow; |
The other did not so. |
FRIAR LAURENCE: |
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