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They’ll be in scarlet straight at any news.
Hie you to church. I must another way
To fetch a ladder by the which your love
Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark.
I am the drudge, and toil in your delight, [75]
But you shall bear the burden soon at night.
Go. I’ll to dinner. Hie you to the cell.

JULIET

Hie to high fortune! Honest Nurse, farewell.

Exeunt.

Scene VI IT

Enter Friar (Laurence) and Romeo.

FRIAR LAURENCE

So smile the heavens upon this holy act
That after-hours with sorrow chide us not.

ROMEO

Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight. [5]
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare:
It is enough I may but call her mine.

FRIAR LAURENCE

These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, [10]
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. [15]

Enter Juliet somewhat fast and embraces Romeo.
Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot
Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint.