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But look thou stay not till the watch be set,

For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;

Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time

To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,

Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back

With twenty hundred thousand times more joy

Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.

Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;

And bid her hasten all the house to bed,

Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:

Romeo is coming.

Nurse. O Lord! I could have stay'd here all the night

To hear good counsel: O! what learning is.

My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.

Rom. Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.

Nurse offers to go in, and turns again.

Nurse. Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir.

Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.

Rom. How well my comfort is reviv'd by this!

''Fri. L''. Go hence; good-night; and here stands all your state:

Either be gone before the watch be set,

Or by the break of day disguis'd from hence:

Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,

And he shall signify from time to time

Every good hap to you that chances here.

Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good-night.

Rom. But that a joy past joy calls out on me,

It were a grief so brief to part with thee:

Farewell.

 147 watch: guard

150 blaze: make public

156 apt unto: ready for

165 stands all your state: all your fortune depends

173 so brief: in such rude haste 