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"Romeo is banished": to speak that word, Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, All slain, all dead: "Romeo is banished!" There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,125 In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.[E 1] Where is my father and my mother, nurse?

Nurse.

Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse: Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.

Jul.

Wash they his wounds with tears:[C 1][E 2] mine shall be spent,130 When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled, Both you and I, for Romeo is exiled: He made you for a highway to my bed, But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.[C 2]135 Come, cords;[C 3] come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed; And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!

Nurse.

Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo To comfort you: I wot well where he is. Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:140 I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell.

Jul.	O, find him! give this ring to my true knight, And bid him come to take his last farewell.

[Exeunt.

1. 130. tears:] Qq 3, 4, F; teares? Q.
2. 135. maiden-widowed] hyphen Rowe.
3. 136. cords] Q, cord F.

1. 126. sound] make audible; but to sound as with a plummet is possible.
2. 130. tears:] Several editors prefer the tears? of Q.