Scene 6.1: Romeo and Juliet Benvolio I will. I promise you. Farewell, cousin.

[Romeo exits]
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Juliet Come, gentle night. Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, take him, and cut
him out in little stars.

[Romeo enters] Scene 6.3: Thursday

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Juliet What is the rush? I pray you tell my lord, I will not marry yet.
[both lying down]
[Lord Capulet enters]
Juliet Must you be gone? It's nowhere near the dawn. You heard a nightingale not a
Lady Capulet Here comes your father. You can tell him so yourself.
lark, I promise. She sings each night sitting in a yonder tree. Believe me, love, it was a
nightingale.
Lord Capulet My girl is like a channel. What, more tears? The sea level will rise if more
tears fall from your sweet eyes. [kisses Juliet on the forehead] Wife, have you told her of
Romeo It was the lark, the herald of the morn. No nightingale.
the marriage plans?
[Nurse enters]
Lady Capulet I have, and she will have none of it, I swear.
Nurse Madam! Your mother's coming to your chamber! The day is here! Make haste! I
Lord Capulet Soft. Soft. How? Will she, none? [furious] Does she not give us thanks? Is
shall be gone. Your parents must not know that I have been part of this deceit.
she not proud? Does she not think she's blessed? unworthy as she is that we have
Romeo I'll teach Benvolio to learn your news each day. brought a worthy gentleman to be her groom?

Juliet No more than that. Each hour in each day. Each minute in each hour is a day for Juliet Thankful I am and grateful for your love but proud I cannot be of what I hate.
pining lovers.
Lord Capulet How…how-how-how, chopped logic. What is this? "Proud" and "I thank
Romeo And Amen to that. Farewell my love. you" but "I thank you not"?Thank me no thankings nor proud me no prouds! Be ready
lady! Thursday morning next, to go with Paris to St. Peter church! Or I will drag thee
[they kiss then Romeo exits]
thither on a rail!

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Lady Capulet Are you mad?

Juliet Good Father! I beseech you on my knees! Will you not give me lead to plead for

Scene 6.2: Benvolio

my cause?

Lord Capulet [goes to Juliet and held her angrily] You…[throws her] I tell you what! Be
{CURTAINS OPENS } there or never after look me in the face! Speak not. Reply not. Answer not. My fingers
itch!
[Romeo and Mercutio enters]

[Nurse enters]
Romeo Please, Benvolio, be an angel to my love. Watch her firmly as it would do the
eyes of God. Nurse My lord please stop.
Lady Capulet No! Husband! You are too hot! alone. Send your prying nurse to her own room. Lie down upon your bed and take this
vial. Drink it till the last drop. Soon, soft drowsiness will close your eyes. Your pulse will
Lord Capulet God's blood! it does make me mad! Day, night, month, year! My constant
cease and there will be no sign of life within you. Neither warmth, nor breath. But every
care! has been to have my only child worthily matched! And here I find an educated
sign of death. This will continue for six and 20 hours and you will awake from a pleasant
man of equal birth with honorable parts, with fine estates and handsome to behold, and
dream. While I will write news to Romeo. He will wake you from a kiss. And he will carry
what is my reward? A puking fool who answers, "I'll not wed. I cannot love. I am too
you to a far distant place where all sorrow becomes joy.
young. I pray you pardon me." [to Juliet] Now think on this! Thursday is near. If you will
play the bride, then are you my daughter and all is forgot. If you will not, then you are Juliet Give me the vial and I'll do what thee had said. Farewell, dear Friar.
mine no more. Graze where you will. You shall not house with me. Beg, starve, or hang,
[Juliet exits]
I'll ne're acknowledge thee, nor pass to you the slightest thing that's mine. I swear to this,
my word!
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[Lord Capulet exits]

Scene 6.5: Fake Death

Juliet How can a father speak so to a child?

[Lady Capulet glares at Juliet and exits]

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Juliet Oh, oh God. Oh, Nurse, how shall this be prevented? I have a living husband here
on earth. Lord Capulet We must a move on! Paris will be here! Get anything that we need! Spare
not the cost!
Nurse Well, here it is. Romeo is exiled never coming back now. I think it is best to
marry you with the count. Nurse My lady and my lord, get some rest!

Juliet Speakest thou from thy heart? Lord Capulet What nonsense! I've been all night and long for lesser cause than this.

Nurse And from my soul. Or the devil take us all. Lady Capulet And I know why. And look to have no repetition now.

Juliet Amen… Lord Capulet A wife still jealous after all these years?

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Lord Capulet Why, 'tis compliment enough to give me cheer.

Scene 6.4: Vial [Lady Capulet exits]

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[Friar and Juliet enters]
[Nurse enters]
Friar Laurence I wish I could be of help.
Nurse Mistress? Juliet? Oh still fast asleep? Come, lady. It's time to wake. Heavens, how
Juliet If you could be of no solution to my plight then this knife shall be my deliverer.
sound you slumber. I must need to wake you. Lady. Lady! [sobs] Oh, no!

Friar Laurence Ah Jesu Maria! Daughter, I do spy a kind of hope but it requires a
[nurse exits]
desperate execution. You have the strength or will to kill yourself rather than marry
Paris. That's what you need. Tomorrow's Thursday. Now tonight, make sure you sleep {CURTAINS CLOSE}