Shakespeare in Love (1998) Edit

A black day for us all! There is news from a tavern in Deptford.

A broad river divides my lovers.

A cold bed, too, since the twins were born.

A comedy by William Shakespeare.

A comedy.

A cup, closed in my true love's hand?

A different one you haven't written?

A famous victory!

A glooming peace this morning with it brings;

A goodly length in times past, but lately

A great light has gone out.

A hired player no longer.

A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting.

A lady...

A perilous voyage to an unknown land.

A pirate comedy.

A poet of no words?

A quarrel about the bill.

A shipwreck.

A skirmish of words and swords such as I never wrote, nor anyone.

A thousand apologies.

A thousand times good bye.

A thousand times, good night.

A woman! I say this theater is closed!

A woman? You mean that goat?

A Young Man of Verona.

A Young Man of Verona."

A young nobleman of Verona.

Aaaah!

About all the plays that would never come,

Actors are ten a penny,

Adieu.

Adieu.

Admiral's Men, the Chamberlain's Men...

Ah.

Ah. I love your early work.

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than 20 of their swords.

All right.

All the men at court are without poetry.

Almost finished?

Always in and out of love.

An insolent penny a page rogue! Marlowe, he said. Christopher Marlowe.

And a dog. [ Chuckling ]

And a writer of plays that capture my heart.

And adventure.

And all the helpless souls within her...

And brief.

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"

And buys a deadly poison.

And every one of you ne'er do wells that stand in contempt...

And feed upon the shadow of perfection.

And feed upon the shadow of perfection.

And for displaying a female on the public stage!

And has no more pity in him than a dog!

And he drew from poets the literature of the age.

And he spoke like a schoolboy at lessons.

And her bosom.

And her Romeo.

And her spirit, stronger than the sea's embrace.

And her voice, like lark's song?

And I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps.

And I love poetry above all.

And I must marry Wessex a week from Saturday.

And I, Hugh Fennyman, hold your nuts in my hand.

And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

And if we're late for lunch, the old boot will not forgive!

And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death...

And it will be three weeks gone before we return from our estates.

And let me die.

And love. Love above all.

And my Henry VI was a house built on his foundations.

And my ship sails for the new world on the evening tide.

And nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

And on a day of mourning.

And once given, her consent is her command.

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

And receive ten pounds to play your piece,

And so Juliet takes his dagger...

And some punished;

And stutterers who should be sent back to the stews.

And that was only my first try.

And the daughter mutilated with knives.

And the queen's command."

And the Rose smells thusly rank by any name!

And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

And then kills herself.

And then she wakes and sees him dead.

And this distilling liquor drink thou off.

And this is for you!

And thus he goes to the apothecary...

And thus is unable to declare her love.

And two hours of prayer is not piety, it is self importance.

And we will speak some more.

And well married is more so.

And what favor does Mr.Tilney receive from you?

And will be the judge of it as occasion arises.

And with a silken thread plucks it back again,

And yet I would if I were free to follow my desire in the harsh light of day.

And yet she does where the ink has run with tears.

And yet, you let me come to your bed.

And your error, Mr.Tilney, is easily forgiven.

And, lips,

Anne Hathaway was a woman half as old again.

Anon! [ Whispers ] I will come again.

Aphrodite Baggot, who does it behind the Dog and Trumpet?

Are there no more fireworks?

Are you bringing your laundry woman?

Are you going to do it like that?

Are you the author of the plays of William Shakespeare?

Art thou gone so,

As a nurse?

As any mule in Christendom.

As daylight doth a lamp."

As if the organ of my imagination has dried up,

As solemn as they are unsanctified.

As stories must when love's denied

As Thomas Kent, my heart belongs to you,

As to whether a play could show the very truth and nature of love.

As unchangeable as nature.

As would take a king to church for the dowry of a nutmeg.

At Greenwich, come Sunday.

At one with the talking ravens in the Tower.

At sea, then. A voyage to a new world.

Away. Be gone. The sport is at the best.

Aye, husband, friend?

Aye, pilgrim.

Aye, she never needed me more. I swear by your britches.

Aye, she never needed me more. I swear by your britches.

Aye, so I fear. The more is my unrest.

Aye. [ Sighs ]

B B B Break a leg!

Banishment was a blessing.

Be still. Playhouses are not for wellborn ladies.

Be submissive, modest, grateful...

Believe me, love, it was the nightingale."

Believe me, love, it was the owl [ Moans ]

Besides, if I need a play, I have another waiting a comedy by Shakespeare.

Better fortune, boy.

Between marriage and death?

Beyond poetry.

Black Sue, Fat Phoebe,

Both alike in dignity,

Burbage has my keeping,

Burbage, I will see you hanged for a pickpocket.

Burbage!

Burbage?

But a new life beginning on a stranger shore.

But all ends well.

But as Viola, the river divides us,

But fearful of her virtue, she comes to him dressed as a boy.

But he was always hanging around the house.

But I believe there is one who can.

But I do not love you, my lord.

But I do not love you, my lord.

But I know something of a woman in a man's profession.

But I will go to Wessex as a widow from these vows,

But if you are the man to ride her,

But it is beauty's privilege.

But love that overthrows life.

But Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them.

But Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them."

But perhaps she wept a little.

But then he disappears for the length of a bible.

But there's a scene missing.

But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.

But what of Lord Wessex?

But why "alas"?

But you have my heart.

But, alas, I hear you are a drunkard's drunkard.

Buy my apples!

By Ethel's brother, or something His name is Mercutio.

By maligned fate, the message goes astray which would tell Romeo of the friar's plan.

By my head, here comes the Capulets.

By my heel, I care not.

By order of the Master of the Revels!

By the hand of Thomas Kent.

By these drafts in my hand.

Calf love.

Call it, uh, 200 cushions.

Can a lady of wealth and noble marriage...

Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love?

Can I wish that for Lady Viola except in my dreams?

Can you love a fool?

Can you love a player?

Candy apples!

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus.

Cheap at four pence.

Christopher Marlowe, at your service.

Clean your teeth while you dream, then.

Close it.

Come here, Master Kent. Let me look at you.

Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor.

Come hither, nurse. What is yon gentleman?

Come then. We'll say a prayer for his soul.

Come to look for it again.

Come, bitter conduct.

Come. There's no harm in a drink.

Contempt? You closed the Rose. I have not opened it.

Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow.

Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.

Dead! [ Sobs ]

Deeper, softer. None of your twittering larks.

Did I mention her bosom?

Do me a speech. Do me a line.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Do you have a name?

Do you intend to marry, my lord?

Do you know it?

Do you love stories of kings and queens?

Do you think it's funny?

Don't spend yourself in sport.

Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move.

Draw, if you be a man!

Dry sorrow drinks our blood.

Earl! Good to see you.

Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

Even your play.

Everyone!

Everything all right?

Excellent, and a good length.

Except I be by Silvia in the night,

Except I be by Silvia in the night,

Exhibitions of public lewdness.

Farewell! You'll all be welcome in Virginia!

Farewell.

Fifty pounds, Will,

Fifty pounds?

Follow me close. I will speak to them.

Follow me close. I will speak with them.

For 50 pounds, my days as a hired player are over.

For both are infinite."

For both are infinite."

For God's sake, cease your prattling and get out!

For I did not know how much I loved you.

For I thought you the highest poet of my esteem...

For killing Juliet's kinsman Tybalt,

For lewdness and unshamedfacedness!

For love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

For never was a story of more woe...

For one kiss I would defy a thousand Wessexes.

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery.

For the poet of true love.

For Twelfth Night.

For Twelfth Night.

For what lady could live up to it close to...

Found in Psyche's temple on Olympus.

Four years and a hundred miles away in Stratford.

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

From my cot I stray

From tomorrow, away in the country for three weeks!

Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstage

Gentlemen upstage Ladies downstage

Gentlemen, good den! A word with one of you.

Gentlemen, good den! A word with one of you.

George Bryan. James Armitage.

Get me to drink mandragora.

Get me to drink mandragora.

Give it to Master Kent. He will see it rightfully home.

Give my friend a beaker of your best brandy.

Go ask his name.

Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.

Go make your farewell and send her out.

Go once more.

Go to. Go to.

God forbid! Where's this girl?

God forgive me.

God save you, Mother.

God's chosen vessel, the radiant one who shines her light on us

Good bye, my love.

Good luck with yours, Kit.

Good morning, my lord.

Good name.

Good night. Good night.

Good sir.

Good title.

Great loss to playwriting and to dancing.

Gregory, on my word we'll not carry coals.

Gregory, remember thy washing blow!

Has asked me to play the part of the apothecary.

Hath been his timeless end.

Have a care with my name. You will wear it out.

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Have you finished?

He dies by her side,

He dies with such passion and poetry as you ever heard.

He drinks the poison.

He enters the tomb to say farewell to Juliet who lies there cold as death.

He has a good fist for lettering.

He has bought me for you.

He hears only that Juliet is dead.

He is, ma'am.

He returns from his estates to see us married two weeks from Saturday.

He was not dead before.

He was the first man among us.

He would give Thomas Kent...

He's readying the Curtain for Kit Marlowe.

Henslowe, do you know what happens to a man who doesn't pay his debts?

Her chaperone, my lady's country cousin.

Her eyes in heaven would through the airy region...

Her lips?

Her Majesty's consent is requisite when a Wessex takes a wife,

Her mother is the lady of the house, and a good lady...

Here is a a bangle...

Here's to my love!

Hey!

His best friend is killed in a duel...

His boots catch fire!

His fingers were red from fighting...

Hold, there is 40 ducats.

Home keeping youth have ever homely wits,

Hot water, Nurse.

How badly bitten, Mr.Frees?

How does it?

How does the comedy end?

How is this to end?

How long has it been?

How stands your dispositions to be married?

How your mind hops about.

I I'm sped.

I am a dead man, and buggered to boot.

I am Barabbas, the Jew of Malta.

I am Faustus.

I am here to help you.

I am Hieronimo.

I am writing an apothecary, a small but vital role.

I am.

I bear witness to the wager...

I behold my Romeo.

I cannot move in this dress. It makes me look like a pig.

I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon.

I charge thee in the Prince's name obey.

I commend you! [ Laughing ]

I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.

I didn't like it.

I die.

I do not know how to undress a man.

I don't know.

I don't know. It's a mystery.

I dreamed last night of a shipwreck.

I expect you'd know all the booksellers!

I fancy tobacco has a future.

I found something in my sleep.

I gave Shakespeare two sovereigns for Romeo.

I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once.

I had the clerk at Bridewell do it.

I have a blue velvet cap that'll do well.

I have a few debts here and there.

I have a new one nearly finished, and better.

I have a theater. The Curtain is yours.

I have a wife, yes,

I have an ancient name which will bring you preferment...

I have forgot why I called thee back.

I have hurt you, and I'm sorry for it.

I have lost my gift.

I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes.

I have not said all.

I have seen nothing to settle it yet.

I have spoken with your father.

I hear you have a new play for the Curtain.

I hope we work together again.

I I would like to do a speech by a writer who commands the heart of every player.

I I'm very sorry, sir. I have not seen Act Two.

I It's as if my quill is broken,

I know who I am.

I liked it when she stabbed herself, Your Majesty.

I liked it when they cut heads off,

I love you, Will,

I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.

I mean, and we be in choler we'll draw.

I met with a charming mai

I must be gone and live, or stay and die."

I must. I must.

I need 4,000 pounds to fit out a ship and put my investments to work.

I never met the fellow but once at your house.

I nursed her daughter that you talked withal.

I pay thy poverty and not thy will.

I saw her bubbies.

I saw him kissing her bubbies.

I saw our end, and it will come.

I say, a plague on both their houses!

I see you are... open for business, so let's to church.

I seek Master Thomas Kent.

I seek Master Thomas Kent.

I shall not fail. 'Tis 20 year till then.

I tell you, he that can lay hold of her...

I think milady is wise to keep your love at a distance.

I think you lost it today.

I thought you were here because you had none.

I want it plowed into the ground and sown with quicklime!

I wanted to be an actor.

I was a lad of 18.

I was a poet till now, but I've seen beauty that puts my poems...

I was born to look in them and know myself.

I was in a play.

I was the more deceived.

I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.

I will have love, or I will end my days as

I will have poetry in my life,

I will wait.

I would banish nightingales from her garden before they interrupt her song.

I would exchange all my plays to come for all of his that will never come.

I would like to give you something from Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

I would not have thought it.

I would stay asleep my whole life...

I would've been good.

I would've made you immortal.

I'll be damned if you are!

I'll do it.

I'll drag her down by the queen's command!

I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,

I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.

I'll see you all in Clink, in the name of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth!

I'll show you your place, which is in hell!

I'm done with theater.

I'm going to church.

I'm so sorry, Will.

I'm sorry, Mr.Henslowe.

I'm still due for One Gentleman of Verona.

I'm unmanned,

I'm very sorry, sir.

I'm, um I'm the money.

I've killed a man.

I've seen you.

If I could dream myself into a company of players.

If my hurt is to be that you write no more,

If not Wessex, the queen will know the cause,

If only Lord Wessex were here.

If Silvia be not by?

If Silvia be not seen?

If Silvia be not seen?

If they do see thee, they will murder thee."

If they find you here, they will kill you.

If they see me, they see my father's fortune.

If you love her, you must do as she asks.

If you wouldn't mind.

In addition, 400 backsides at three pence, a penny extra for cushions.

In fair Verona,

In my eyes, so do you.

Including interest, in three weeks?

Indeed I am a bride short,

Is at Greenwich today and prepared during the evening's festivities...

Is death, death to any he that utters them."

Is the day so young?

Is this, uh Is this all right?

Is your lady beautiful?

It is a new world.

It is a secret potion. It makes us seeming dead.

It is a stolen season.

It is an honor that I dream not of.

It is customary to make a little speech on the first day.

It is more Let me.

It is not a comedy I'm writing now.

It is strange to me too.

It is worse.

It starts well, then it's all long faced about some Rosaline.

It takes a woman to know it.

It was a... tavern brawl.

It was lucky you were here.

It was the owl. Come to bed.

It was we ourselves did that.

It was your eyes.

It will be a love story,

It will spark between a queen and the poor vagabond who plays the king.

It would be better if you'd tell her to get off her knees and show some civility...

It wouldn't take you long to read it.

It's a beginning.

It's a new comedy by William Shakespeare.

It's coming.

It's like trying to pick a lock with a wet herring.

It's time to settle accounts.

It's you.

Juliet does not come on for 20 pages. It will be all right.

Juliet wills it so."

Just as she said.

Just at the dawning of the day

Just to settle my accounts at the dockside?

Kit.

Lady?

Let him be a duke, and your heroine

Let us have pirates, clowns and a happy ending,

Let's go and cough through it.

Let's say we open in two weeks.

Licentiousness is made a show! Vice is made a show!

Like a puppet in a box.

Like a sickness and its cure together.

Like cold and heat.

Like rain and sun.

Like Valentine and Silvia?

Like you, I found him not at home.

Lips that they must use in prayer.

Locked safe in here. I'll leave the scene in your safekeeping, Ned.

Look thou but sweet, and I am proof against their enmity.

Look what the dream brought us.

Lord Wessex was looking at you tonight.

Lord Wessex, as I foretold, has lost his wife in the playhouse.

Lord Wessex, too, bargaining for a bride.

Lord Wessex. You've been waiting.

Lost your wife so soon?

Love happily with a bankside poet and player?

Love knows nothing of rank or riverbank.

Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire and brimstone.

Love that overthrows empires.

Love, lord,

Lovely waistcoat. Shame about the poetry.

Madam, your mother craves a word with you.

Marlowe attacked and got his own knife in the eye.

Marlowe.

Marlowe.

Master Henslowe, you have your actors... except Thomas Kent.

Master Kent,

Master Kent.

Master Kent...

Master of the Revels, sir. She's over here.

Master Plum. What business here?

Master Shakespeare.

Master Shakespeare...

May I begin, sir?

Mercutio. Good name.

Mistaken identities. Shipwreck. Pirate king.

Mmm, let him be damned for his pages.

Mmm, no. The morning rooster woke me.

Mmmph!

Moonlight.

Most interesting.

Mourning?

Move!

Mr.Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theater business.

Mr.Fennyman, because you love the theater, you must have a part in my play.

Mr.Fennyman.

Mr.Henslowe?

Mr.Pope. Mr.Philips. Welcome.

Mr.Tilney, what is this?

Mr.Tilney.

Much good may it do you.

Musicians don't eat. Sir Robert's orders.

My actors are forced to tour the inn yards of England...

My fortune lies in my plantations. The tobacco weed.

My heavens. I thank you.

My investment! Lambert!

My lady Viola.

My lady Viola.

My Lady Wessex.

My lady.

My lord.

My love is no lie.

My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, because it is an enemy to thee.

My plantations in Virginia are not mortgaged for a nutmeg.

My Romeo's let me down. I see disaster.

My ship is moored at bankside, bound for Virginia on the afternoon tide.

My sleeve wants for a button, Mistress Rosaline.

My tailor wants to be an actor.

My theater is closed by the plague these twelve weeks.

My, but you be a handsome gallant,

Nature and truth are the very enemies of playacting. I'll wager my fortune.

Ned, I know, I know.

Next time you come to Greenwich, come as yourself,

No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest.

No, but at the playhouse. Nurse!

No, for then we should be colliers.

No, no, we haven't the time. Talk prose.

No, no. You have a wife, children?

No, not the artful postures of love,

No, then?

No!

No! [ Sobs ]

No! No. A touch of cold only.

No. I have spoken to the queen.

None other than the Admiral's Men are out on tour.

Nor die.

Not by me. I only stole it.

Not even I can put asunder.

Not for her a watery end,

Not having that which having makes them short.

Not new. My Doctor Faustus.

Not the billing, the bill!

Not yet.

Notice will be posted!

Now listen to me, you dregs.

Now spit.

Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear, nor speaks a word

Now, by my maidenhead at 12 years old,

Now, pay attention, nursie.

Of course you have not. I have not written it.

Of course, such mighty writing.

Of course. I understand. It is to be expected.

Of feats of arms?

Of the authority vested in me by Her Majesty!

Oh Oh, Mr.Fennyman, I think you might have hit upon something.

Oh, but I would be Valentine and Silvia too.

Oh, by this count I shall be much in years ere again...

Oh, cut out my heart. Throw my liver to the dogs.

Oh, dear account! My life is my foe's debt.

Oh, God bless you!

Oh, happy dagger,

Oh, he's a pretty one. Tell me your story while I tickle your fancy.

Oh, I am Fortune's fool!

Oh, I liked the dog for laughs.

Oh, I'll lay 14 of my teeth. And yet my teen be it spoken,

Oh, it's coming. It's coming.

Oh, let Henslowe wait.

Oh, my lady, my love!

Oh, my love.

Oh, my love.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Oh, no.

Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand,

Oh, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.

Oh, Thomas, a pair of pippins...

Oh, what happy hour.

Oh, will you desist, madam!

Oh, Will.

Oh, yes, Master Will. I am Henry the Sixth.

Oh, you, the doors of breath,

Oh!

Oh! Dear God, I did not think it would be me to tell you.

Oh! I'm not so wellborn.

Oh! Not with my props!

Oh?

Oh. It is mine too.

Oh... true apothecary!

On a more fortuitous occasion, perhaps.

On the island of the pirate king.

Once, I had the gift.

One at a time. One at a time. [ Kisses ]

One morning in the month of May

Only that I would never see your face.

Or is it courtly love?

Or we shall send you back to Stratford to your wife.

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

Oranges! Sweet oranges!

Ow! Will!

Part, fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do.

Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Pay attention. You will see how genius creates a legend.

Please.

Poet, playwright of the Rose.

Poet?

Proteus for speaking. Valentine for looks.

Ralph Bagswell, I'd have a part for you,

Richard?

Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter.

Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter.

Romeo and Juliet. Just a suggestion.

Romeo is banished.

Romeo is Italian,

Romeo tries to stop them and gets in Ned's way. I mean, in Mercutio's way.

Romeo, away, be gone!

Romeo.

Romeo. Romeo.

Rosaline, Burbage's seamstress, Aphrodite, who does it behind

Rosaline? You mean Ethel.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May "

Sad... and wonderful.

Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

Say two performances for safety. How much is that, Mr.Frees?

Seal with a righteous kiss...

Sedition and indecency.

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.

See you next week.

Shall have the chinks.

Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

She is always Aphrodite.

She is my essence, and I leave to be if I be not

She is placed in the tomb of the Capulets.

She is to marry Lord Wessex! What should I do?

She lands... on a...

She loves me, Thomas!

She wants to inspect you.

She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you.

She's brought to the duke

Sign there.

Silence, you dog!

Silvia, I did not care for much.

Simply... terrible!

Sin from my lips? Oh, trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again.

Sixteen pounds, five schillings and nine pence.

So get you to my lady's chamber and produce her with or without her undergarments!

So have I. Romeo and Rosaline, scene one.

So how can you understand the emptiness that seeks a soul mate?

So long as you remain silent.

So loving jealous of his liberty.

So something is out of joint.

So stumblest on my counsel?"

So tell my lady William Shakespeare waits for her in the garden.

So, a woman on the stage!

So, my lord? I speak with him every day.

So, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter.

Sold in marriage and halfway to America.

Some shall be pardoned,

Spare me, dear ghost.

Spare me, for the love of Christ. Spare me!

Stabbed to death in a tavern at Deptford.

Stabbed.

Stage fighting.

Stamped, sealed and celebrated.

Stand up straight, girl.

Stay here.

Straight up, Will?

Straight up, Will?

Strangely enough, I'm a bit of a writer meself.

Stream so bright...

Stream so bright...

Suffering cats!

T

T

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T T T Two households

T T T T T

T T T Two

T T T T T T

Take it down stone by stone.

Take thou this vial, being then in bed,

Tell Burbage he has lost a new play by Will Shakespeare.

Tell Master Shakespeare something more cheerful next time...

Tell me you have it nearly done. Tell me you have it started.

Tell me, are you lately humbled in the act of love?

Tell me, in your own words.

Tell me, is is she beautiful?

Than this of Juliet...

Thank you, my lady.

Thank you, Ned.

Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, let go. There's a good nurse.

That birds would sing and think it were not night.

That dog!

That is enough from you, Master Kent.

That is the only matter under discussion today.

That launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless

That launched a thousand ships...

That murderer, which way ran he?

That must be when he goes on the voyage and gets shipwrecked...

That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she."

That woman is a woman!

That's me.

That's my line.

That's the only writing.

That's what they want.

That's who I meant.

That's, what, 500 groundlings at tuppence a head.

The Admiral's Men are returned to the house!

The Admiral's Men!

The apothecary?

The bill? Oh, vanity, vanity!

The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces,

The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed!

The dateless bargain...

The early morning rose would whither on the branch if it could feel envy.

The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.