R+J fragmenten ACT IV scene 1

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R+J fragmenten ACT IV scene 1

Lines 6-8

PARIS

Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,

• She’s grieving too much over Tybalt’s death, 

And therefore have I little talked of love,

• so I haven’t talked to her about love. 

For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

• Romantic love can’t flourish during times of mourning

Lines 9-12

P: Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous

• Now, sir, her father thinks it’s dangerous

That she do give her sorrow so much sway,

•  that she has given herself so fully to sorrow

And in his wisdom hastes our marriage

• In his wisdom, he’s rushing our marriage

To stop the inundation of her tears—

•  in order to stop her tears.

Lines 24

P: Do not deny to him that you love me.

• Don’t deny to him that you love me.

J: I will confess to you that I love him.

• I’ll confess to you that I love him.

P: So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.

• I'm sure you will also confess that you love me.

J: If I do so, it will be of more price

Being spoke behind your back than to your face.

• If I do so, it will be worth more if I say it behind your back than if I say it to your face.

 

who is "him"?

ROMEO!

Lines 52-54

J: If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,

• If with all your wisdom even you can’t help

Do thou but call my resolution wise,

•  then you must agree that my resolution to die is wise.

And with this knife I’ll help it presently.

•  And this knife will help me do it. 

Lines 66-70

J: Be not so long to speak. I long to die

If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.

• Don’t wait long to speak. I want to die if what you say isn’t a solution.

F: Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,

• Wait, daughter. I see a ray of hope. 

Which craves as desperate an execution

As that is desperate which we would prevent.

• But it will require an act as desperate as the situation we want to avoid

Lines 71-76

F: If, rather than to marry County Paris,

Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,

•  If you have the willpower to kill yourself rather than marry Count Paris, 

Then is it likely thou wilt undertake

A thing like death to chide away this shame,

• then you’ll likely agree to experience something like death to escape this problem.

That copest with death himself to ’scape from it.

• You can wrestle with death itself in order to escape from death. 

An if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.

• If you dare to do it, I’ll give you the solution.

J: O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,

From off the battlements of yonder tower;

Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk

Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;

Or shut me nightly in a charnel house,

O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones,

With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;

Or bid me go into a new-made grave

And hide me with a dead man in his shroud—

To avoid marrying Paris I’d jump from the top of a tower; or walk down thief-infested alleys; or sit among a nest of serpents; or be chained up with wild bears; or be shut up every night in a crypt full of rattling bones, stinking flesh, and skulls without jawbones; or climb into a freshly dug grave and hide beneath the shroud of a dead man. All those things make me tremble when I hear them said, but I’ll do them without fear or dread in order to be a pure wife to my sweet love.

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77-85

F: 

Hold, then. Go home, be merry. Give consent

To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow.

Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone.

Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.

Be strong, then. Go home, be cheerful, and agree to marry Paris. Tomorrow is Wednesday. Tomorrow night make sure that you go to sleep alone. Don’t let the Nurse sleep in your bedroom.

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89-92

F: Take thou this vial, being then in bed,

And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,

When presently through all thy veins shall run

A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse

Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.

Drink this liquor when you’re in bed. A cold, sleepy feeling will then run through your veins, and your pulse will cease. Your body will go cold, and you’ll stop breathing. 

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93-97

F: No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.

The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade

To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall

Like death when he shuts up the day of life.

Each part, deprived of supple government,

Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death.

The red of your lips and cheeks will fade to a pale ashen color, and your eyelids will close just as if you were dead. Your body will lose control over its own movement, and will become stiff as that of a corpse.

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97-103

F: And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death

Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,

And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes

To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.

You’ll remain in this simulation of death for forty-two hours, and then you’ll wake as if from a pleasant sleep. So when the bridegroom comes to wake you from your bed in the morning, he will think that you are dead.

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104-108

F: Then, as the manner of our country is,

In thy best robes uncovered on the bier

Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault

Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.

Then, as is the tradition of our city, you’ll be dressed in your best clothes and placed on an uncovered funeral bier, and carried to the Capulet tomb that holds all of your dead relatives. 

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109-112

F: In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,

Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,

And hither shall he come, and he and I

Will watch thy waking, and that very night

Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.

And this shall free thee from this present shame,

If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,

Abate thy valor in the acting it.

Meanwhile, before you wake up, I’ll send word to Romeo of our plan. He’ll come here, and we’ll keep a watch over you as you wake. That night, Romeo will take you with him to Mantua. So, as long as you don’t change your mind or let your womanly fear interfere with your courage, you’ll be free from the current situation which threatens to force you into sin.

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113-121