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And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs.
The time and my intents are savage-wild,
More fierce and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

BALT HASAR

I will be gone, sir, and not trouble ye. [40]

ROMEO

So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that.
Live, and be prosperous, and farewell, good fellow.

BALT HASAR

For all this same, I’ll hide me hereabout.
His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.

(Balthasar retires.)

ROMEO

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death [45]
Gorg’d with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.

Romeo opens the tomb.

PARIS

This is that banish’d haughty Montague
That murder’d my love’s cousin - with which grief [50]
It is supposed the fair creature died -
And here is come to do some villainous shame
To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.
Stop thy unhallow’d toil, vile Montague.
Can vengeance be pursu’d further than death? [55]
Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee.
Obey, and go with me, for thou must die.

ROMEO

I must indeed, and therefore came I hither.
Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man.
Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone. [60]
Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,