Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Act 2 - Scene 1
A lane by the wall of Capulet’s orchard.
Romeo : Can I go forward when my heart is here?
[p]Turn back, dull earth, and
find thy centre out.
Benvolio : Romeo! my cousin Romeo!
Mercutio : He is wise;
[p]And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed.
Benvolio : He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:
[p]Call, good
Mercutio.
Mercutio : Nay, I'll conjure too.
[p]Romeo! humours! madman! passion!
lover!
[p]Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:
[p]Speak but one
rhyme, and I am satisfied;
[p]Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love'
and 'dove;'
[p]Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
[p]One
nick-name for her purblind son and heir,
[p]Young Adam Cupid, he that
shot so trim,
[p]When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
[p]He
heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;
[p]The ape is dead, and I
must conjure him.
[p]I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
[p]By
her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
[p]By her fine foot, straight
leg and quivering thigh
[p]And the demesnes that there adjacent
lie,
[p]That in thy likeness thou appear to us!
Benvolio : And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
Mercutio : This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him
[p]To raise a spirit in his
mistress' circle
[p]Of some strange nature, letting it there
stand
[p]Till she had laid it and conjured it down;
[p]That were some
spite: my invocation
[p]Is fair and honest, and in his mistress'
name
[p]I conjure only but to raise up him.
Benvolio : Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,
[p]To be consorted with
the humorous night:
[p]Blind is his love and best befits the dark.
Mercutio : If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
[p]Now will he sit under a
medlar tree,
[p]And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
[p]As
maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
[p]Romeo, that she were, O,
that she were
[p]An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!
[p]Romeo,
good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;
[p]This field-bed is too cold for
me to sleep:
[p]Come, shall we go?
Benvolio : Go, then; for 'tis in vain
[p]To seek him here that means not to be
found.
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