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Verona. FRIAR LAURENCE’S Cell. | |
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Enter FRIAR JOHN. | |
| Fri. J. Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho! | |
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Enter FRIAR LAURENCE. | |
| Fri. L. This same should be the voice of Friar John. | 5 |
| Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo? | |
| Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. | |
| Fri. J. Going to find a bare-foot brother out, | |
| One of our order, to associate me, | |
| Here in this city visiting the sick, | 10 |
| And finding him, the searchers of the town, | |
| Suspecting that we both were in a house | |
| Where the infectious pestilence did reign, | |
| Seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth; | |
| So that my speed to Mantua there was stay’d. | 15 |
| Fri. L. Who bare my letter then to Romeo? | |
| Fri. J. I could not send it, here it is again, | |
| Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, | |
| So fearful were they of infection. | |
| Fri. L. Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood, | 20 |
| The letter was not nice, but full of charge | |
| Of dear import; and the neglecting it | |
| May do much danger. Friar John, go hence; | |
| Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight | |
| Unto my cell. | 25 |
| Fri. J. Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee. [Exit. | |
| Fri. L Now must I to the monument alone; | |
| Within these three hours will fair Juliet wake: | |
| She will beshrew me much that Romeo | |
| Hath had no notice of these accidents; | 30 |
| But I will write again to Mantua, | |
| And keep her at my cell till Romeo come: | |
| Poor living corse, clos’d in a dead man’s tomb! [Exit. | |
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