NARRATOR 4: Juliet retires to her room for the night, now that the guests have all departed.
NARRATOR 5: However, she can’t sleep because she keeps thinking about the handsome young Romeo. She is distressed that the one she loves should belong to the family that is her family’s enemy. She soon wanders out onto her balcony.
NARRATOR 6: She doesn’t realize that Romeo and his friends have come back to her home and are below her in the garden.
MERCUTIO: Come, shall we go? It is too cold here for me.
BENVOLIO: Come now, Romeo, or we shall go without you. It is foolish to be here.
(Romeo waves them away. He turns toward Juliet’s bedroom balcony.)
ROMEO: He jests at scars that never felt a wound. But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon. It is my lady, O, it is my love. She speaks to the fairest stars in all the heaven. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand? O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek.
JULIET: Ay, me.
ROMEO: She speaks. O, speak again, bright angel.
JULET: O Romeo, Romeo, why art thou called Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO: (Aside) Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET: ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself.
ROMEO: I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized. Henceforth, I never will be Romeo.
JULIET: What man stumblest on my musings?
ROMEO: I know not how to tell thee who I am, because it is an enemy to thee.
JULIET: Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
ROMEO: Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.
JULIET:;How camest thou here? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, and the place death, if any of my kinsmen find thee here.
ROMEO: With love’s light wings did I climb these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out. Thy kinsmen are no stop to me.
JULIET: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
ROMEO: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords. Look but sweet, and I am proof against their hostility.
JULIET: I would not for the world they saw thee here.
ROMEO: I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes.
JULIET: Dost thou love me? If thou wilt say ‘Ay’, I will take thy word.
ROMEO: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow.
JULIET: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon.
ROMEO: What shall I swear by?
JULIET: Do not swear at all, and I’ll believe thee.
ROMEO: By my heart’s true love.
JULIET: Good night, good night. A sweet repose and rest.
NURSE: (From within.) Juliet!
JULIET: I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu. (Turning to her room) Anon, good Nurse. (Facing Romeo) Sweet Montague, be true. Stay but a little, I will come again. (Juliet exits behind balcony)
ROMEO: O blessed, blessed night! Is all this but a dream?
JULIET: (Reentering) These words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If thy love is honorable, and thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow where and when thou wilt perform the rite. And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay, and follow thee, my Lord, throughout the world. A thousand times good night.
NURSE: (From within.) Juliet!
NARRATOR 4: As Juliet goes to answer her nurse’s call, Romeo waits patiently for her. When she returns they plan what will transpire the next day.
NARRATOR 5: It is agreed that Juliet will send a messenger to Romeo at nine o’clock the next morning, to find out what arrangements he has made for their wedding.
JULIET: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be tomorrow.
ROMEO: Sleep dwell upon thine eyes.
(They both exit.)
