No Fear Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 5, Scene 3, Page 10
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PRINCE
What fear is this which startles in our ears?
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PRINCE
What’s this awful thing that everyone’s crying
about?
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CHIEF WATCHMAN
Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain,
And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before,
Warm and new killed.
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CHIEF WATCHMAN
Prince, here lies Count Paris killed. And Romeo dead. And Juliet.
She was dead before, but now she’s warm and hasn’t
been dead for long.
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PRINCE
Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
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PRINCE
Investigate how this foul murder came about.
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CHIEF WATCHMAN
Here is a friar, and slaughtered Romeo’s man,
With instruments upon them fit to open
These dead men’s tombs.
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CHIEF WATCHMAN
Here is a friar, and dead Romeo’s man. They’ve
got tools on them—tools they could use to open these
tombs.
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CAPULET
O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
This dagger hath mista'en—for, lo, his house
Is empty on the back of Montague,
And it mis-sheathèd in my daughter’s
bosom.
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CAPULET
Oh heavens! Oh wife, look at how our daughter bleeds! That knife
should be in its sheath on that Montague’s back, but
instead it’s mis-sheathed in my daughter’s
breast.
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LADY CAPULET
O me! This sight of death is as a bell,
That warns my old age to a sepulcher.
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LADY CAPULET
Oh my! This sight of death is like a bell that warns me
I’m old and I’ll die soon.
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Enter MONTAGUE
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PRINCE
Come, Montague, for thou art early up
To see thy son and heir now early down.
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PRINCE
Come, Montague. You’re up early to see your son down
early.
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MONTAGUE
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight.
Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.
What further woe conspires against mine age?
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MONTAGUE
Oh, my liege, my wife died tonight. Sadness over my son’s
exile stopped her breath. What further pain must I endure in my old
age?
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PRINCE
Look, and thou shalt see.
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PRINCE
Look, and you’ll see.
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MONTAGUE
(to
ROMEO) O thou untaught! What manners
is in this,
To press before thy father to a grave?
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MONTAGUE
(seeing
ROMEO's body) Oh, you
undisciplined boy! Where are your manners? It’s not right
for a son to push past his father on his way to the grave.
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