No Fear Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 3, Scene 5, Page 9
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JULIET
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
That sees into the bottom of my grief?—
O sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week.
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
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JULIET
Is there no pity in the sky that can see my sadness? Oh, my sweet
mother, don’t throw me out! Delay this marriage for a
month, or a week. Or, if you don’t delay, make my wedding
bed in the tomb where Tybalt lies.
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LADY CAPULET
Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word.
Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
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LADY CAPULET
Don’t talk to me, because I won’t say a word. Do
as you please, because I’m done worrying about you.
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JULIET
O God!—O Nurse, how shall this be prevented?
My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven.
How shall that faith return again to earth,
Unless that husband send it me from heaven
By leaving earth? Comfort me. Counsel me.—
Alack, alack, that heaven should practice stratagems
Upon so soft a subject as myself.—
What sayst thou? Hast thou not a word of joy?
Some comfort, Nurse.
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JULIET
Oh God!—Oh Nurse, how can this be stopped? My husband
is alive on earth, my vows of marriage are in heaven. How can I
bring those promises back down to earth, unless my husband sends
them back down to me by dying and going to heaven? Give me comfort.
Give me advice. Oh no! Oh no! Why does heaven play tricks on someone
as weak as me? What do you say? Don’t you have one word of
joy? Give me some comfort, Nurse.
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