TPTT The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ACT III
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
SCENE I. A public place.
SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.
SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.
SCENE IV. A room in Capulet's house.
SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.
ACT IV
ACT V
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SCENE IV. A room in Capulet's house.
Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS
CAPULET
      Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,
      That we have had no time to move our daughter:
      Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
      And so did I:--Well, we were born to die.
5     'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:
      I promise you, but for your company,
      I would have been a-bed an hour ago.
PARIS
      These times of woe afford no time to woo.
      Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.
LADY CAPULET
10    I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;
      To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.
CAPULET
      Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
      Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled
      In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.
15    Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;
      Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;
      And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--
      But, soft! what day is this?
PARIS
      Monday, my lord,
CAPULET
20    Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,
      O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,
      She shall be married to this noble earl.
      Will you be ready? do you like this haste?
      We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two;
25    For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
      It may be thought we held him carelessly,
      Being our kinsman, if we revel much:
      Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,
      And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?
PARIS
30    My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.
CAPULET
      Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then.
      Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,
      Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.
      Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!
35    Afore me! it is so very very late,
      That we may call it early by and by.
      Good night.
Exeunt
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