Page 3212 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. [10]
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

JULIET

Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I.
It is some meteor that the sun exhales
To be to thee this night a torchbearer
And light thee on thy way to Mantua. [15]
Therefore stay yet: thou need’st not to be gone.

ROMEO

Let me be ta’en, let me be put to death,
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
I’ll say yon grey is not the morning’s eye,
’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow. [20]
Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads.
I have more care to stay than will to go.
Come death, and welcome. Juliet wills it so.
How is’t, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day. [25]

JULIET

It is, it is. Hie hence, begone, away.
It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Some say the lark makes sweet division.
This doth not so, for she divideth us. [30]
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes.
O, now I would they had chang’d voice too,
Since arm from arm that voices doth us affray,
Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day.
O now be gone, more light and light it grows. [35]

ROMEO

More light and light: more dark and dark our woes.

Enter Nurse hastily.