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Cap. What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?

Lady Cap. The people in the street cry Romeo,

Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run

With open outcry toward our monument.

Prince. What fear is this which startles in your ears?

First Watch. Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;

And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,

Warm and new kill'd.

Prince. Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.

First Watch. Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;

With instruments upon them, fit to open

These dead men's tombs.

Cap. O, heaven!—O wife! look how our daughter bleeds!

This dagger hath mista'en!—for, lo, his house

Is empty on the back of Montague—

And is mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom.

Lady Cap. O me! this sight of death is as a bell,

That warns my old age to a sepulchre.

Prince. Come, Montague: for thou art early up,

To see thy son and heir more early down.

Mon. Alas! my liege, my wife is dead to-night;

Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath.

What further woe conspires against mine age?

 203 house: scabbard

207 warns: summons

