( ) : Give me that mattock and the iron bar. Hold, take this letter. Early in the morning See you deliver it to my lord and father. Give me the light. Upon your life I order you Whatever you hear or see keep away And do not interrupt me in my action. Why I descend into this bed of death Is partly to admire my lady’s face But mostly to take from her dead finger A precious ring, a ring that I must use In dear purpose. Therefore away from here! Balthasar: I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you. ( ) Enter Romeo and his servant, Balthasar, with a torch, a mattock and an iron bar. Romeo He retires and Romeo starts opening the door to the vault. ( ) : This is that banished arrogant Montague That murdered my love’s cousin – with which grief It is supposed the fair creature died And here has come to do some villainous act To the dead bodies. I will stop him. ( ) Stop your evil effort, vile Montague! Obey and go with me, for you must die! : I must indeed, and for this I came. Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. Fly from here and leave me. Think upon these dead. Put not another sin upon my head By pushing me to fury. O, be gone! Stay not, be gone, live and forget not to say A mad man’s mercy let you run away. : Obey and go with me! You are a vile murderer! : Will you provoke me? Then look out, boy! ( ) : O, Lord, they fight! I will go and call the watch! ( ) : O, I am… slain! Paris appears. Paris Advancing. Romeo Paris Romeo They fight. Page Exit Page. Paris
