The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ACT II
Introduction ACT I ACT II PROLOGUE SCENE I. A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard. SCENE II. Capulet's orchard. SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell. SCENE IV. A street. SCENE V. Capulet's orchard. SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell. ACT III ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE I. A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard. Enter ROMEO ROMEO       Can I go forward when my heart is here?       Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO BENVOLIO       Romeo! my cousin Romeo! MERCUTIO       He is wise; 5     And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed. BENVOLIO       He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:       Call, good Mercutio. MERCUTIO       Nay, I'll conjure too.       Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover! 10    Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:       Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;       Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'       Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,       One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, 15    Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,       When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!       He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;       The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.       I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, 20    By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,       By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh       And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,       That in thy likeness thou appear to us! BENVOLIO       And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. MERCUTIO 25    This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him       To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle       Of some strange nature, letting it there stand       Till she had laid it and conjured it down;       That were some spite: my invocation 30    Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name       I conjure only but to raise up him. BENVOLIO       Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,       To be consorted with the humorous night:       Blind is his love and best befits the dark. MERCUTIO 35    If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.       Now will he sit under a medlar tree,       And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit       As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.       Romeo, that she were, O, that she were 40    An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!       Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;       This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:       Come, shall we go? BENVOLIO       Go, then; for 'tis in vain 45    To seek him here that means not to be found. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene