Scene Fourteen (Act Three, Scene Five)

Question 0

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Answer 0

Yond light is not daylight, I know it. Therefore stay yet, thou need’st not be gone.

Question 1

Scene starts

Answer 1

Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day: it was the nightingale, and not the lark that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.

Question 2

How now, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day.

Answer 2

It is, it is! Hie hence, begone, away! It is the lark that sings so out of tune, O, now begone, more light and light it grows.

Question 3

Madam

Answer 3

Nurse

Question 4

The day is broke, be wary, look about.

Answer 4

Then window let day in, and let life out.

Question 5

Farewell, farewell, one kiss and I’ll descend.

Answer 5

Art thou gone so? Love, lord, aye, husband, friend! I must hear from thee every day within the hour, for in a minute there are many days. By this count I shall be much in years ere I again behold my Romeo! O, think’st thou we shall ever meet again?

Question 6

Ho daughter, are you up? Why how now Juliet?

Answer 6

Madam I am not well.

Question 7

But now I’ll tell thee joyful tidings girl.

Answer 7

And not comes well in such a needy time. What are they, beseech your ladyship?

Question 8

Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy.

Answer 8

Madam in happy time, what day is this?

Question 9

Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.

Answer 9

Now by Saint Peters church, and Peter too, he shall not make me there a joyful bride! I wonder at his haste, that I must wed ere he that should be husband comes to woo.

Question 10

So unworthy a gentleman to be her husband?

Answer 10

Not proud you have, but thankful that you have.

Question 11

Fie, fie, what are you mad?

Answer 11

Good Father, I beseech you on my knees, hear me with patience, but to speak a word.

Question 12

And you be not, hang, beg, starve, did in the streets.

Answer 12

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!

Question 13

Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.

Answer 13

O Nurse, how shall this be prevented? Comfort me, counsel me. What say’st thou? Hast thou not a word of joy? Some comfort Nurse.

Question 14

As living here and you no use of him.

Answer 14

Speakest thou from thy heart?

Question 15

And from my soul too. Else Beshrew them both.

Answer 15

Amen.

Question 16

What?

Answer 16

Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much, go in, and tell my lady I am gone, having displeased my father, to Friar Lawrence’s cell to make confession, and to be absolved.

Question 17

Marry I will, and this is wisely done.

Answer 17

O most wicked fiend! Go counsellor, thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I’ll to the friar to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die.