A Mournful Farewell -
Juliet was in her room. She was impatient and was waiting for the night and for Romeo.
“Come night, come gentle night and bring me my Romeo; and when he dies cut him into little stars. He will make the face of heaven so beautiful that all the world will be in love with the night!” she was daydreaming1.
Just then there was a knock on the door, the nurse came in.
“Ay me! He’s dead! He’s dead, dead! We are lost, Juliet, we are lost! He’s gone, he’s killed, he’s dead!” she kept repeating2.
“How can you torment me so? Alas, speak! Is Romeo dead?
Say yes or no, I beg you! Oh… speak!” implored Juliet alarmed.
And the nurse, “I saw the wound, I saw it with my eyes… and his body was pale and covered with blood… O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!…”
“You break my heart! Is Romeo killed? Is Tybalt dead? Did Romeo’s hand shed3 Tybalt’s blood?” enquired Juliet in tears.
Then the nurse explained what had happened. Juliet was shocked, she started weeping4. She wept for her cousin, Tybalt,
she wept for Romeo, “O serpent heart!… No, no, I will not speak ill5 of him that is my husband! But why, villain, did you kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband. Back, foolish tears, back…” Romeo’s banishment was death to her, “To speak that word is to say that father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet all are killed, all dead!…” So she wept for a Montague and for a Capulet, she wept for the death of her dreams…