Julia.
Is Romeo blind
To all the ills such rashness would ensure?
Romeo.
Seek not, sweet love, to change my fixed resolve.
A knocking is now heard; Julia becomes alarmed lest it should
prove to be her father; Romeo's servant, the comic man, or
"Gracioso," enters in a wretched plight, covered with mud and
mortar; he proceeds to give a very full and circumstantial account
of his misfortunes and the cause of the delay. Having been
pelted with mortar by some bricklayers, one of whom discovers
that he is a Capelete, he then escapes, and so disfigured, appears
upon the stage. After this interruption the interview continues,
Romeo agreeing, however, to do Julia's bidding.
Julia.
To-night we'll meet, and then we may agree
How his consent by gentleness to gain,
And not to force his now unwilling ear.
Romeo.
My venturous bark has never found a safe
And welcome anchorage. Still———
