text
stringlengths 0
63
|
---|
PETER:
|
Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?
|
Third Musician:
|
Faith, I know not what to say.
|
PETER:
|
O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say
|
for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,'
|
because musicians have no gold for sounding:
|
'Then music with her silver sound
|
With speedy help doth lend redress.'
|
First Musician:
|
What a pestilent knave is this same!
|
Second Musician:
|
Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry for the
|
mourners, and stay dinner.
|
ROMEO:
|
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
|
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:
|
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;
|
And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
|
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
|
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--
|
Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave
|
to think!--
|
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
|
That I revived, and was an emperor.
|
Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,
|
When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!
|
News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!
|
Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
|
How doth my lady? Is my father well?
|
How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;
|
For nothing can be ill, if she be well.
|
BALTHASAR:
|
Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:
|
Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
|
And her immortal part with angels lives.
|
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,
|
And presently took post to tell it you:
|
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
|
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.
|
ROMEO:
|
Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!
|
Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,
|
And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.
|
BALTHASAR:
|
I do beseech you, sir, have patience:
|
Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
|
Some misadventure.
|
ROMEO:
|
Tush, thou art deceived:
|
Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
|
Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?
|
BALTHASAR:
|
No, my good lord.
|
ROMEO:
|
No matter: get thee gone,
|
And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.
|
Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.
|
Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift
|
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
|
I do remember an apothecary,--
|
And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted
|
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
|
Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,
|
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
|
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
|
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
|
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
|
A beggarly account of empty boxes,
|
Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
|
Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,
|
Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.
|
Noting this penury, to myself I said
|
'An if a man did need a poison now,
|
Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
|
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'
|
O, this same thought did but forerun my need;
|
And this same needy man must sell it me.
|
As I remember, this should be the house.
|
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
|
What, ho! apothecary!
|
Apothecary:
|
Who calls so loud?
|
ROMEO:
|
Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.