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And Paris, too!—O, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!

Jul. Here he is still, and I will hold him fast;
They shall not tear him from me.

Lau. Patience, lady!

Jul. O, thou cursed friar! Patience!

Talk'st thou of patience to a wretch like me?
Lau. O, fatal error !—Rise, thou fair distress'd,
And fly this scene of death.

Jul. Come thou not near me;

Or this dagger shall quit my Romeo's death.

[Draws a dagger. Lau. I wonder not thy griefs have made thee desp'rate.

Voices without. (l.) Follow, follow!

Lau. What noise without? Sweet Juliet, let us

fly.

A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents.

Come, haste away;

I will dispose thee, most unhappy lady,
Amongst a sisterhood of holy nuns.

Voices without. (l.) Which way? which way?
Lau. Stay not to question; for the watch is

coming;

Come; go, good Juliet.—I dare not longer stay.

[Exit R. Jul. (Lying on the corpse.) Go, get thee hence; for I will not away.—

What's here? a phial!—Romeo's timeless end.
O, churl drink all; and leave no friendly drop
To help me after ?—I will kiss thy lips;
Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them.

Voices without. (l.) Lead, boy-which way?
Jul. Noise again!

Then I'll be brief. O, happy dagger!

[Stabs herself..

This is thy sheath ;—there rest—and let me die.

[Dies.

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