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Enter FRIAR [LAURENCE]
and ROMEO.
FRIAR LAURENCE
1 So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
2 That after hours with sorrow chide us not!
ROMEO
3 Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
4 It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
5 That one short minute gives me in her sight.
6 Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
7 Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
8 It is enough I may but call her mine.
FRIAR LAURENCE
9 These violent delights have violent ends
10 And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
11 Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
12 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
13 And in the taste confounds the appetite.
14 Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
15 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Enter JULIET.
16 Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot
17 Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint;
18 A lover may bestride the gossamer
19 That idles in the wanton summer air,
20 And yet not fall; so light is vanity.
JULIET
21 Good even to my ghostly confessor.
FRIAR LAURENCE
22 Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
JULIET
23 As much to him, else is his thanks too much.
ROMEO
24 Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
25 Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more
26 To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
27 This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue
28 Unfold the imagined happiness that both
29 Receive in either by this dear encounter.
JULIET
30 Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
31 Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
32 They are but beggars that can count their worth;
33 But my true love is grown to such excess
34 I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
FRIAR LAURENCE
35 Come, come with me, and we will make short work;
36 For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
37 Till holy church incorporate two in one.
Exeunt.
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