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But then a noise did scare me from the tomb
And she, too desperate, would not go with me
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
All this I know; and to the marriage
Her Nurse is privy; and if aught in this [265]
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrific’d some hour before his time
Unto the rigour of severest law.

PRINCE

We still have known thee for a holy man.
Where’s Romeo’s man? What can he say to this? [270]

BALT HASAR

I brought my master news of Juliet’s death,
And then in post he came from Mantua
To this same place, to this same monument.
This letter he early bid me give his father
And threaten’d me with death, going in the vault, [275]
If I departed not and left him there.

PRINCE

Give me the letter, I will look on it.
Where is the County’s Page that rais’d the Watch?
Sirrah, what made your master in this place?

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He came with flowers to strew his lady’s grave [280]
And bid me stand aloof, and so I did.
Anon comes one with light to open the tomb
And by and by my master drew on him,
And then I ran away to call the Watch.

PRINCE

This letter doth make good the Friar’s words: [285]
Their course of love, the tidings of her death,
And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Of a poor pothecary, and therewithal
Came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet.
Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague, [290]