AcT 3, ScEnE 3


Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,44 Digressing45


from the valour of a man. 130


Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,46 Killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish. Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, Misshapen in the conduct of them both,47 Like powder in a skilless soldier’s flask,48 Is set afire by thine own ignorance, And thou dismembered49


with thine own defence. 140


What? Rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead: There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, But thou slew’st Tybalt. 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 lights up upon thy back; Happiness courts thee in her best array.50 But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench, Thou pout’st51


upon thy fortune and thy love. 150


Take heed, take heed! – for such die miserable. Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed.52 Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her. But look thou stay not till the watch be set,53 For then thou canst not pass to Mantua, Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time To blaze54


Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back With twenty hundred thousand times more joy Than thou went’st forth in lamentation.56 Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady, And bid her hasten all the house to bed, Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.57 Romeo is coming.


160


NuRsE O Lord, I could have stayed here all the night To hear good counsel.58


O, what learning is! My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come.


RoMeO Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.59


NuRsE Here sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir. Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. [Exit]


RoMeO How well my comfort is revived by this!


170


FrIaR LaUrEnCe Go hence – good night – and here stands all your state:60 Either be gone before the watch be set, Or by the break of day disguised from hence. Sojourn61


in Mantua. I’ll find out your man, 60 61


here stands all your state: your situation depends upon it


Sojourn: Stay for a while/Live temporarily


131 59 chide: scold/reproach 47 48 44


a form of wax: i.e. an inferior replica


45 Digressing: straying 46 hollow perjury: empty lies


Misshapen…both: mismanaging both (your manliness and love)


Like powder…soldier’s flask: like gunpowder in a clumsy soldier’s container


49


dismembered: blown limb from limb


50 best array: finest clothes 51 pout’st: complains 52 decreed: decided 53


stay not…be set: do not stay after the guards come on duty


your marriage, reconcile your friends,55


54 blaze: announce 55


reconcile your friends: unite your families


56 lamentation: grieving/sorrow


57


Which heavy…unto: which sadness makes them likely to do


58 counsel: advice


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