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- New Ending
- Act V, Scene III
- Verona. A churchyard; the monument of the Capulets. Enter Romeo and Paris.
- Paris
- This is that banished haughty Montague,
- That murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief
- It is supposed that fair creature died,
- And here is come to do some villainous shame
- To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.
- Stop thy unhallowed toil vile Montague.
- Can vengance be pursued further than death?
- Condemned villian, I do apprehend thee.
- Obey and go with me, for thou must die.
- Romeo
- I must indeed, and therefor came I hither,
- Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man
- For thou nor any man shall prevent me from being with my love tonight,
- Put not another sin upon my head
- By urging me to fury. O be gone
- For I shall know not what I do but rather do what I must
- A madman’s mercy bid thee, run away.
- Paris
- I defy thee!
- For thou hast done my love great injustice.
- Romeo
- Her love is mine!
- Your love she shall never be!
- [they fight]
- [Paris is slain]
- Romeo
- Forgive me good sir
- For again, I know not what I do
- Inside the tomb of Capulet
- Romeo
- O Fair Juliet why must thou torture me so
- For even in death thy beauty is paralleled only by the stars in the sky.
- O Lord what great injustice hast thou done to thee
- For my love is gone
- And no greater crime against me can thou think of.
- Tis our familes’ to blame
- Not us.
- For they are blinded by tradition and driven by hatred.
- O but it matters not.
- Soon shall I be with thee and soon shall I once again be merry,
- For to live forth be not true life but hell.
- Only is life with thee heaven.
- And alas,
- A choice have I,
- Heaven, or Hell?
- Ha! you must be jest, a question for the fools is this.
- Heaven is thine choice!
- Fair Juliet, as this vile poison shall pass through thine lips,
- I think not of death, but light, of heavenly divine
- That shall greeteth me once I have gone
- And her name be Juliet.
- [Romeo brings poison to his lips]
- Juliet
- Halt!
- Gentle Romeo, the lord call you not.
- For the death that hast become me, be no more than a mask that I wear
- Romeo
- Can it be true?
- Fair Juliet lives?
- O thank the lord!
- A love as great as thine can not be grasped even by Deaths icy hand!
- For it looks death in the face and laughs!
- Juliet
- O Dear love
- Tis true this occasion is a merry one
- Yet I fear happiness be here not.
- Hark, something yonder is astir
- [enter Friar Laurence]
- Friar Laurence
- O Thank the heavens a thousand fold
- For it twas the worst that I feared for thee
- Lucky are you the lord be by your side
- But haste must be made both houses of Capulet and Montague come hither
- And joining them be none other than Prince.
- I bid thee, flee from this place of death
- For this godforsaken city bring thee no justice nor righteousness,
- Fashioned were the walls of Verona to house the devil’s minions
- And that it does.
- And so begone or thou shalt meet thy fate!
- Juliet
- Dear Friar the lord himself be in you
- So good a man deserve not be in such a place as you speak of
- So pray I for thee to one day be amongst men of eqaul greatness
- And so Farewell good man
- Pray I our paths will cross in better days
- [exit Romeo and Juliet]
- [enter Prince, Capulet, and Montague]
- Prince
- Good Friar,
- Mistaken am I to say you know of the events taken place
- In this house of death
- Friar Laurence
- Before thou can know that of the present
- Thou shalt learn that of the past
- Romeo be husband to her Juliet
- Married them I did, and yet their secret wedding day
- Was also Tybalt’s doomsday.
- And faithful wife Juliet be was to wed to County Paris
- And then with incredible sorrow,
- Thou bid me devise some mean to rid
- Her of this second marriage
- Or slay herself immediately say she.
- A sleeping potion of thine own creation
- Was to be her relief
- Though I writ to Romeo biding him to come hither
- To awake the sleeping Juliet this night,
- Fail did he to receive it.
- So upon receiving my own letter back I rushed hither
- To prevent the worst from occuring.
- Prince
- And what be of Romeo now?
- Capulet
- And what be of Juliet, her body lay, did she wake?
- Friar Laurence
- …Slain be them both
- Montague
- And by who’s hand?
- Friar Laurence
- Pass Paris’s body did you not?
- Prince
- We did
- Friar Laurence
- As Romeo arrived to see his departed love
- Followed he was by Paris whom was extremely angered
- At Romeos presence at his fiance’s grave
- Challenged Romeo to a duel
- As fighting began Juliet rushed to stop it the blade of Paris delivered a death blow To fair Juliet instead of Romeo
- Enraged at the loss of his love Romeo Slew Paris then turned
- The blade to heart of his own and ran himself through.
- Paris
- And where be the bodies of Juliet and Romeo?
- Friar Laurence
- Buried, yonder
- Beneath those tress, Together be they, in death and in life.
- Prince
- Capulet, Montague
- See what a scourge is laid upon your hate
- The heavens find means to kill your joys with love
- All are punished!
- Capulet
- O brother Montague,
- Forgivith thou for all the injustices I hasth done to you
- And to all Montagues alike
- Montague
- And dear Capulet
- Realized have I the error in my ways
- Punishment of any kind be fit for the behavoir such as that
- That has been displayed between the twain of our houses
- Prince
- Go hence then, to have more talk of these sad things,
- Some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished
- For never was a story of more woe
- Than this of Juliet, and her Romeo
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