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 THE DUKE OF VEBONA, Bìsbo. 
 
 CAPULET. Basso. 
 
 TYBALT, Nephew to Capulet. . Tbnok. ' 
 
 GREGORY. Ba«itonb. 
 
 PARIS. Babiions. 
 
 ROMEO. Tbnob. 
 
 MERCUTIO, Friend of Romeo. Babitomb. 
 
 BENVOJjIO, Friend of Romeo. Tbnob. 
 
 STEPHANO, Pdge to Romeo. Soprano. 
 
 FRIAR LAWRENCE. Basso. 
 
 JULIET, Daughter of Capulet. Sofeano. 
 
 GERTRUDE, the Nurse. M. Soprano. 
 
 Ladies and Nobles of Verona, Citizens, Soldiers, Monks, Pages, and Retainers of bot! 
 
 Houses. i 
 
 Thb Action takes place at Vebona. 
 
 AUGUMENT. 
 
 Shakespeare's drama is very closely followed, both in structure and dialogue, in the present lyrical version 
 of Romeo and Juliet. The book is in Five Acts. In the first, the house of Cspulet is disi;overed en fUe 
 Amongst the crowd of maskers comes Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio and their friends on a youthful frolic. Juliot 
 and Romeo meet — and mutually love at first si;^ht, maigre the fair Capulet's betrothal to Paris. Tybalt, a hot' 
 blooded kinsman, pierces through Romeo's disguise, and wishes to bring him to task then and there, but Cap- 
 ulet himself, in the true spirit ot hospitality, restrains him, and the aet terminates as it begins, with dance and 
 song. Act i^econd is devoted to the Balcony scene — almost literally transcribed from Shakespeare, with an 
 episodical interruption by some retainers of the house, who fancy that something is amiss, but fail to discover 
 what. Act third is divided into two scenes, — the first is the Friar's cell, and the business of this division of the 
 act is the clandestine marriage of the two lovers. In the .«econd scene, Romeo's page, Stephano — an invention 
 of the librettist's — is dicovered searoliing by Capulet's door in Verona for his missing master. A boyish bit of 
 arrcance on his part provokes the servants of the house into drawing on him, and speedily the combat becomes 
 general, through the entnince of Mercutio, Paris, Benvolio, Tybalt, Romeo, and their several adherents. One 
 grievance h'ads quickly to another, and Mercutio is slain by Tybalt, who, in his turn is kihed by Romeo. 
 Then Capulet arrives on the ^ceiic, closely followed by the Duke and his suite. After a short investigation, the 
 latter adiiidges banisliment to Romeo, who vows he will see Juliet once more, at all hazard, and so the act 
 closes. In Act fourth there are also two scenes, — the first is Juliet's room at night, when occurs the seoond 
 grand duet for the lovers, also faithfully taken from Shakespeare. After Romeo departs at dawn, Capulet 
 comes with Fiiar Lawrence to tell his daughter of her intended marriaje with Paris, and that the ceremony 
 will straightway be performed. Ile then retires to receive his guests, and in her despair Juliet asks the Friar'i 
 help This he gives her in tlie shape of a potion, describing its effects. The next scene is the wedding party 
 in Capulet's great hall. The cpithalainium is interrupted by the illneti of Juliet, who finally (alls insensible. 
 ' She is dead," all cry as the act drop descends. Act filth takes place; in the tomb of all the Capulcts. Ilere, 
 as in the Shakespearean version, Romeo arrives, believes his mistress dead, and takes poison. Juliet only re- , 
 »ivc8 to find her lover beyond mortal aid, and stabbing herself with a dagger, sb"» dies in his arms. i 
 
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 ROMEO E GIULIETTA 
 
 ATTO I. 
 
 iCENA I. — Una gallerìa rìccatnente tUuininata nel palazx 
 de' Capuleti. 
 
 Dame e Cavalieri in domino e mascheratt. 
 
 '3W0. Ne' dì felici 
 
 L' ore protratte, 
 Fajgon ratte 
 Como il balen. 
 
 Cogliamo amici 
 Cogliam la rosa 
 Clie risogliosa 
 Coir alba vien. 
 Uomini. ridente 
 
 Stilo! d' amor, 
 
 Rifulgente 
 
 D' ostio e d' or. 
 
 Il tuo brio. 
 Ci seduce 
 Ci conduce, 
 Dietro a te. 
 
 E desìo 
 D' esultanza. 
 Alla danza 
 Spingo il pie. 
 "ionne. Bella notte 
 
 Di piacer 
 Di tripudio 
 Lusingliier. 
 
 Chi fartivo 
 Baci miete, 
 Nella rete 
 Piomberà. 
 
 Coir abbrivo 
 Della danza, 
 L' esultanza 
 Fine avrà. 
 ru«i'. Ne' di felifci, &c. 4c. 
 
 Entrano VkRi. eTs.n.essi lengotio la loro maschera 
 in mano, 
 
 SCENA n — Pari, Tebaldo, e Detti. 
 
 l'eb. Or dimmi o Pari con franchezza 
 Della festa che ti par 1 
 ■i. L' opulenza e la bellezza. 
 Quivi albergano del par. 
 
 ACT I. 
 
 SCENE I. — A Hall magnijìcently decorated, in Capo lei 'a 
 house. 
 
 Lords and Ladies in masks and dominoes are discovered. 
 
 Chonis. Swift hours of pleasure 
 Pass to gay measure 
 Danced in the maze of glimmering feet; 
 While at the closes 
 Red wreck of roses 
 From our chaplets fall crush'd,but sweet I 
 Lords. Happy masks that kiss fair maid, 
 Do but tell the grace they shade, 
 Half concealing, 
 Half revealing. 
 Love, in every cliarm array 'd! 
 Gleams of Heav'n — but sparely given-^ 
 Yet for these a heart is paid I 
 Ladies. Night of fancy — lustrous night, 
 All thy stars to love invite ; 
 Sweet laugh calling. 
 Light foot falling. 
 And low cadence. 
 Sung by maidens. 
 Smooth rough man to woman's will I 
 Chorus. Swift hours of pleasure 
 Pass to gay measure 
 Danced in the maze of glimmering feet; 
 While at the closes 
 Red wreck of roses 
 From our chaplets fall crush'd,but sweet ! 
 [Enter Tybalt and Pabib, loith their vizors in their hand 
 
 SCENE n.— Pabib, Tybalt, and the aUm. 
 
 Tijb. Well Paris, my friend, what say's! thon ? 
 
 Was there ever a nobler feast ? 
 Par. What eartli holds of beauty excelling 
 
 Have these halls assembled as guest I 
 
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 BOMBO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Bom. 
 
 Mer. 
 
 Cora 
 Rom 
 
 No, no, convenimmo già. 
 Di nnlla osar or qui che nessun ne sospetii, 
 Partiam senza bravar il vecchio Capuletti, 
 Ah ! se de' Capjletti cosi la tempra è ria 
 Fora il fuggirli codaidìa [ Volendo tguainare. 
 Nati non siamo all' onte, 
 Abbiam di che fa fronte. 
 (Ripetendo.) Nati non siamo all' onte, etc. 
 
 No vo partir Ionian da qui 
 
 Essere agogno. 
 Mi. Perchè 1 
 
 Bom. Io m' ebbi un sogno — 
 
 Mer, {Interrompendolo e comic.) 
 
 Ahi ! presagi tremendi ! — 
 
 La fata Mab ti visitò. 
 Som. (.Con distrazione,) Che intendi ? 
 
 [Rom. siede iti disparte, Meb. gli si mette dietro.) 
 
 Rom. No — take noi oft your mask, 
 
 Be prudent still — that no one may suspect ub I 
 The Capulet's our foe — beware his anger ! 
 
 Mer. Bah I If they think we come to scorn and jeer 
 
 Their feast — why then we're not the cow'rds to hide 
 And should they question us, our swords shall give 
 The answer ! 
 
 Chorus. Ay ! should they question ns, our swords, 
 
 Shall give them answer ! 
 
 Rom. Pray you. forbear— 
 
 My soul is sad with foreboding — 
 
 Mer. How's that 1 
 
 Rom. I have been dreaming ! 
 
 Mer. Ah ! but dreams off lie ! 
 
 So then Queen Mab kath been with you 1 
 
 Rom. Queen Mab i 
 
 BALLATA DELL REGINA MAB.—'&^LLkH of Qceen Mab. Meboutio. 
 
 ii^i^iiipirjiieiiiiiii-iiiieiiiiii 
 
 Mab, 
 Mab, 
 
 re - gì - na di men - zo • gne, Free-ai - ede a' ao • gni. Più leg - 
 
 the Jai ■ ry queen of false - hood. Presides o'er vi - sions ! Light a» 
 
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 gie • r» Più leg - gie - ra Del - la brex-ia pbas-eg - gie - ra, 
 air is she, yes, lighter than the soft breezes of summer, 
 
 Quando il sol de • oli - aa , 
 When the sun de - eli - nelh, 
 
 ifeiiaiif^sl:lSHj^gijj}|ii^p;j|=^feig;ìS^l 
 
 Su per 1' au-ra rien 
 Through the air she comes. 
 
 E cam - mi - na 
 
 Journeying on ■ ward 
 
 Qual ba - len, 
 Hke a flash. 
 
 E cam - mi - na 
 
 Journeying onward 
 
 Qual ba - len. 
 lihe a flask. 
 
 II carro suo che via per I' etra 
 
 Fende lieve muto l' ombra tetra 
 E fra i mortali altero vola, 
 
 Composto fu d' una noeciuola. 
 Bardatura fornia a briglia 
 
 Coir ali sue la cociniglia 
 E la formica esperta aurina 
 
 Seppe assestarle all' agilbiga. 
 Somministrava una farfalla. 
 
 La sferza : splende il bianco fiocco. 
 Come sfavilla Tier 1' etra stella 
 
 Allor che più 1' ombra è tetra. 
 Ogni notte in quest' equipaggio. 
 
 Mali, sorride nel suo passaggio 
 A chi desia vedovanza 
 
 A chi d' Imcn nutre speranza. 
 Al giunger suo fa la Civetta 
 
 .Mille progetti di toletta 
 Il cortigian suo curve addoppia, 
 
 Ed il l*0"ta rime acóoppia. 
 All' avar che dovizie anela 
 
 Reconditi tesoli svela. 
 Libertà promette, e da speme. 
 
 Al prigionier che in ferri geme. 
 Ti guerricr sogna onori e glorie. 
 
 Mischie ardite, sconfitte, vittorie 
 Poi ripensando a' suoi sudori, 
 
 Spera il suo crin cinger d' allori 
 E a te vereconda fanciulla, 
 
 Quando le coltri Tai stancando 
 
 For atomies draw her ('tis said}. 
 
 Athwart poor sleeping mortal's noses, 
 In chariot then she reposes. 
 That of a hazel. nut is made : 
 And the wagon-spokes, of the spinner's legs slendei 
 
 and long ; 
 The coachman, a small grey-coated gnat, 
 Who wields a cricket-hone whip, film'd for a thong ! 
 The traces are made of a small spider's web. 
 
 Collars of the moonshine's wat'ry beam, 
 So in royal state she comes, 
 VVhile we sleep and dream ! 
 O'er a lawyer's tìnger she gallops. 
 
 And with fees all bis dream is glowing, 
 Then o'er the nose cif courtier going. 
 Straight that nose will smell out a suit ; 
 Or with a tithe-pig's tail she'll tickle 
 Reverend parson soundly snoring. 
 Then of advancement he'll be dreaming. 
 And a better living to boot ! 
 Then the miser in dreams bcholdeth. 
 Vain wealth that wicked Mah upholdeth, 
 And to captive pining all lone. 
 Liberty smileth through bar and stone! 
 O'er the neck of the soldier driving. 
 Swift ho dreamcth of foreign battle. 
 Of Spanish blade and cannon's rattle.
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Le tue molli labbra s6oranJo 
 
 Mab, fa dolci baci sognar I 
 Mab, re^'ina di menzogne, 
 
 Presfliede a sogni, &c. &c. 
 
 Roitt. (Alzandosi.) Ebben, 1' avvertimento arcano. 
 
 Venga da Mab o d' altri. 
 
 In tal luogo in tal momento, 
 
 Io mi pento attristar 
 
 Da rio presentimento. 
 Uer. {Scherzanilo.) La tua pena, io 1' indovino, 
 
 Provien dal non trovar qui dentro Rosalina, 
 Saprà fra poco altra nuova bellezza 
 Lenir tua tristezza. 
 Vien ! 
 
 Bom. 
 
 Mer. 
 Rom. 
 
 Mer. 
 
 Rom. 
 
 Mer. 
 
 (A Mer., indicando Giù. cui vede da lungi.) 
 
 Ah ! rimira ! 
 
 Che vuoi diri 
 
 Quella beltà celeste 
 
 Un ra^'gio di stella par. 
 
 Quell' altra che presso s' arresta 
 
 Ha beltà piìi modesta. 
 
 tesor def^no de' cieli ! 
 Qual face arcana abbaglia repente gli occhi miei ? 
 Altìn tu ti riveli, O purissimo amore, 
 No pria d' or non amai! non amai! 
 
 Ah ! obbliato ha Rosalina 
 E preveduto 1' avevam ! 
 L' amica abbandona 
 E vedi dolor ! 
 Eì r opra corona 
 D' un novello amor. 
 Coro. (Sotto voce.) L' amica abbandona, etc. 
 [Mer. trascina seco RoM. nel mentre che GiD. entra teguita da 
 Gel. 
 
 SCENA V.— GicLETTA, Geltkudb. 
 
 Giù. Ebben, Geltrude, parla ornai, urge 1' ora. 
 
 Gel. Lascia almen eh' io riposi ! 
 
 Qual mai pensier t' accora ? 
 
 [Sorridendo maliziosamente. 
 
 Il Conte Pari cerchi tu forse ? 
 Giù. {Con indifferenza.) Chi Pari ? — 
 
 Gel. La perla degli sposi 
 
 In esso troverai 
 Giù Ab ! ah ! or ben pensando stp 
 
 A farmi sposa. 
 Gel. Nella tua verde età 
 
 Era già collocata. 
 Oiu. No, no I non ti vo piìi pel momento ascoltar 
 
 Vò neir inganno mio restar I 
 
 Then wakes — and swears a ptay'r or twa . 
 To thee, Mab will come, gentle maiden. 
 Sleeping thy tender grace array'd in. 
 And, sly kisses on thee bestowing, 
 
 Make thee dream of love's kisses too ! 
 Mab ! Queen Mab, &c. 
 Rom. No more ! thou talkest but of nought — of fantasy 
 Idly begotten : yet tonight, my friend, my mind 
 Misgives me, of sad consequence 
 That hangeth yet in the stars ! 
 
 Mer. Little marvel 
 
 Thy sad demeanour. The pretty Rosaline 
 Is not among the dancers. But faces fair 
 They are here that, once shown thee. 
 Will make thee think thy swan is but a crow I 
 Come ! 
 
 Rom. {Looking off.) Ah ! behold I 
 
 Mer. What is't now ? 
 
 Rom. Beauty that showeth the torches 
 
 To bum in the darkness more bright I 
 Mer. (The beldame that follows behind 
 
 Is not, by my troth, so lovely \) 
 Rom. Like rich gem on Ethiop's ear. 
 
 Her beamy bangs upon the cheek of night I 
 Oh, never till this hoar, 
 
 Have I met with true beauty ! Did my heart 
 
 Love then before 1 No — ne'er till now 1 
 Mer. ^ Cho. Good ! 
 
 Gone is Rosaline's dominion. 
 
 Dead the old desire doth lie 1 
 
 The fair he groan'd for, and would gladly die 
 
 With the tender Juliet match 'd, is now not fair I 
 
 Cho. Gone is Rosaline's dominion, &c 
 
 [Mer., 
 
 Rom., ^c, exeunt 
 
 SCENE V. — Enter Juliet, followed by the Nubsb. 
 
 Jul. What is't you'd tell mei Good nurse, speak! 
 
 Speak, I pray thee ! 
 Nur. O, my back ! my poor back I 
 
 Marry, go to your mother — to your mother, 
 
 And Paris your bridegroom 1 
 
 Jul. That's all 1 
 
 Nur. A proper man, I trow ; you've made a happy choice. 
 
 Jul. {Laughing.) Ah, ab ! Good nurse, my maiden heart 
 
 Thinks not of marriage. 
 Nur. Go to ! go to I 
 
 At your age, i' faith I was married. 
 Jul. No more ! Leave me now, I pray, to the fair dream. 
 
 NULLA CALMA D'UN BEL SORRISO.—IS THE CALMNESS OF A VISION. Abietta Valse. Juubt. 
 
 Mgi|,|iljiÌipil^giiiife:iÌ;|i:flÉi|ÌÉ3^ 
 
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 In 
 
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 the 
 
 bel 
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 ■o - 
 vii - 
 
 gno,. 
 ion... 
 
 dol 
 
 $weet 
 
 ^i|}^Sj^ls^ieii^j;^^|^E|^l^ 
 
 oeair 
 and 
 
 al ■ 
 (ran 
 
 ma.. 
 quit. 
 
 VI 
 
 ■ TO 
 
 dwell 
 
 gnor; 
 part, 
 
 E fl . 
 
 Fond • -I]/
 
 8 
 
 BOMBO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Ji?3^iiÌ:ggg|gEEa:ig;=caì"gpj^pagjÉ=ii^ 
 
 Qnest' ebbrezza 
 
 Si fupjace ! — 
 Non dura ohimè che nn di. 
 
 Vien 1' istante 
 
 Che trem:mte 
 All' amor s' apre il cor 
 E tatto, oliiraè, svanisce allor. 
 Lungi ilal verno algente 
 
 Voglio ancor spirar 
 
 L' aura d' Aprii tupente 
 
 Che fa baci sognar. 
 
 Quest' ebbrezza 
 
 Di giovinezza' 
 
 Dolce parlar al cor 
 
 Più d' ogni amor ! 
 
 I Gre. comfHire dal fondo e s' avviene in RoM. 
 
 SCENA VL — Gkegorio, Romeo e detti. 
 
 Ron. 
 
 {A Gre. indicamloi/li Gin.) 
 
 Qual' è il nome cii colei ! 
 
 È tu r ignori ì è Gcitrude ? 
 Gel. ( Volgendosi indietro. ) Ebhen ? — 
 Gre. (Avvicinandosi a Ge-l.) Bella e gentil mia Dama 
 
 La cena ad imbandir la fuori alcun vi chiama. 
 
 Ore. 
 
 Gel. Or ben, corro allor. 
 
 Giù. (a Gel.) Va ! [Ella_far per andarsene. 
 
 Gel. sorte accompagnata da Gre. 
 
 SCENA VII.— Romeo* Giulietta. 
 
 Rom. Di grazia, t' arresta ancor I 
 
 As in fair dream enfoiden, 
 Born of fantasy golden. 
 Spirits from fairy land olden, 
 
 On me now tend ! 
 Ah ! for ever would this gladness 
 Shine on me brightly as now. 
 Would that never age and sadness 
 Tt lew their shade o'er my brow! 
 But, short as day, 
 Youth passes away ! 
 Song, jest, perfume and dances. &c. 
 Then ere the summer's failing. 
 
 Pluck the rose that bloometh to die, 
 Love with its breath inhaling. 
 
 Love that stOids in its odorous sign 1 
 
 [ Coe» to Nub. 
 
 SCENE VI.— Romeo, Greoort, and the above. 
 
 Rom. What lady's that, holds converse there ? 
 
 Gre. Easily told ; that is Gertrude ! 
 Nur. Who calls ? 
 
 Gre (to NtTB.) Lady! for thee they're seeking, and the 
 varlets 
 But lag without thee to bestir them. 
 Nur. Good lack I its true 1 
 
 JiU. Go! 
 
 [Jul. is following when Rom. restrains her. 
 
 SCENE Vn.— Romeo and Juliet. 
 
 Bom. I pray thee go not yet ! 
 
 ANOIOL CHE VESTI.— ASGEL THAT WEAKEST. Romeo. 
 
 tist.j: 3 — yiAj re i-C c i?zl ^-i ^ S— v 1-- — ^ 1 
 
 An - gioì che ves - ti 
 An - gel that wear ■ est 
 
 Gra - lie ce - les - ti, 
 Ora • ces the fair - est, 
 
 per - don, se o - sai too - car. 
 For - give, if to touch I dare. 
 
 m^^^i^m^ÉÉm^mE^^imm^i 
 
 L'a - la • ba - stii - na, 
 The mar - We whiteness 
 
 Tu - a ma - ni - na 
 Of thy hands brightness 
 
 Che fatta in eie - 
 That Heav'n hath formed 
 
 lo par ! 
 so fair I 
 
 X il fi - o, Del fai • lo mi - o Un mol - le ba - ciò pud. 
 
 en, un - spar • ing, That for my dar ■ ing I one soft kiss be fined. 
 
 Scon - tar il fi 
 Claim, then, un - spar ■ ing, 
 
 Un ba - cio 
 
 Kiss, that ef 
 
 ■fac - eia L' in - deg • na tnu) - eia Che que - sta man las - ciò. 
 
 fa - ce$ UB - wor - thv Ira - ces. This hand hath left be • hind.
 
 BOMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 9 
 
 Ofu 
 
 Ham. 
 
 Giù. 
 Rom 
 
 Giù 
 
 Ham. 
 
 Giù. 
 Ram. 
 
 Giù. 
 fùrni. 
 
 Calma il ti timore 
 
 Il cor concesse 
 Al pelicgrin tanto osar 
 
 Pel suo araore 
 
 uè satite iatesse 
 Soglion spesso perdonar 
 
 Ma alla sua bocca 
 
 La niau di' ei tocca 
 Con prudenza deen ricusar. 
 
 Dover lo dice 
 
 Che a lor non lice 
 
 Il bacio ini'ant;ttoro d' accertar. 
 Le sante luinno pur, 
 
 Un bel lalibro vermiglio. 
 Si, ma sol per pregar. 
 Non odon elle mai, 
 
 Nel cor un pio consiglio. 
 
 Più clemente desire 
 Alle preci d' amor 
 
 Ognor ban chiuso il cor 
 
 Pure neir esaudir. 
 Esaudì allor mici voti, 
 
 Ed il volto a me volgi 
 
 Che già vedo arrossir. 
 Ah ! io non seppi fingere. 
 
 E il peccato resta a me. 
 Or per calmar vostr' anzia. 
 Quel peccalo rendi a me. 
 
 {Le bacia una mano. 
 
 No m' app.irticn 
 
 Lo la-eia a me. 
 Non t' a,iijartieu 
 
 Lo rendi a me. 
 
 SCENA VIII.— Tebaldo e detti. 
 
 Rom. {Volgendosi.) Alcun — \Si n)>onelama»chera. 
 
 Giù. E Tebaldo mio cugino. 
 
 Rom. ( Con sorpresa.) Eccbe I — tu sei ì — 
 
 Giù La figlia son di Capuletto. 
 
 Rom. (Fra se.) Cieli— 
 
 Teb. (A Gin. inoltrandosi.) Perdon, cugina 
 
 Languir farai la festa 
 
 Se pili t' involi a noi, a venir deh ! t' appresta. 
 
 \ Sotto voce. 
 
 Chi è mai quel pellegrin che tosto si copria 
 
 Il volto al giunger mio 1 — 
 Giù. Io no '1 80. 
 
 Feb. {Jissandolo minaccioso.) Par che cerchi evitarmi. 
 Horn. {Salutando.) 
 
 tóio vi salvi signor. [Esce. 
 
 SCENA IX. — Tebaldo, Gihuetta, poi Capdleto. 
 
 Teb. Ah ! l'ho riconosciuto a' suoi detti ! al mio sdegno I 
 
 Ed esso — egl' è Romeo. 
 Giù. (Frase.) Romeo? — 
 
 2'e6. Suir onor 
 
 Io ben .saprò, lo giuro, punir quel traditore. \Esce. 
 Giù. Egl' era Romeo 
 
 Ah I io lo viddi ornai senz' apprezzarlo I 
 All' odio fìi cuna questo amo'- fatai 
 Oh ! desti» se mi divieti amarlo 
 Sol già la tomba 
 Il mio letto Daziai. 
 
 [Ella s* allontana lentamente. I concitati entrajw. Pari 
 e Teb. compajono da un lato mentra dati' altro entrarlo I 
 KoM., MeR-, e Ben. seguiti dai loro amici. i 
 
 Jul. Thy hand, good pilgrim, this fine but wrongetb 
 
 For ihou dost blame it o'ermuch, 
 
 To pure devotion surely belonceth. 
 Saintly palm that thou m.iy'st touch. 
 
 Hands there are, sacred to pilgrim's tjrecting, 
 But ah me ! not such as this. 
 
 Palm unto palm, not red lips meeting, 
 Is a holy palmer's kiss I 
 
 Rom. To palmer and to saint, have not lips too been giv'n ? 
 
 Jul. Yes ; but only for pray'r ! 
 
 Rom. Then grant my pr.ay'r, dear saint, or faith may els* 
 be driv'n. 
 
 Unto deepest despair ! 
 Jul. Know, the saints ne'er are moved. 
 
 And if they grant a pray'r, 'tis for the prayer's sake ' 
 
 Rom. Then move not, sweetest saint, 
 
 WliiLst th' etiect of my prav'r, from tbv lips 
 I shall take ! ' [He kisses her. 
 
 Jul. Ah ! now my lips from thine burning. 
 
 Have the sm that they have lak'n. 
 Rom. give that sin back again, 
 
 To my lips their fault returning. 
 
 Jul. I No, not again ! no, not again ! 
 Bom. ) O give the sin to me again I 
 
 [Enter Ttb., Rom. re-nuuka. 
 
 SCENE VUl.— Tybalt and the above. 
 
 Rom. Who comes ì 
 
 Jul. Tybalt, my cousin dear ! 
 
 Rom. Then say, who art thou ? 
 
 Jut. Daughter 
 
 Of Capulet, sir, am 1 1 
 
 Rom. Ah ! 
 
 Tt/b. [Coming down.) 
 
 I faith, sweet Juliet, though our sport 
 Be not yet at the best, still our guests will go. 
 An' ihou art not there 1 Come away — come away I 
 And tell me true sweet coz ; knowest iliou [Aside to Joi- 
 That stranger pilgrim, who so quickly mask'd ? 
 
 Jul. No— not I ! 
 
 Ti/b. It would seem that he shuns me ! 
 
 Rom.( To Ttb.^ Sir, I give thee good den I [Exit 
 
 SCENE IX.— Tybalt, Juliet, ajlerwards Capulet. 
 
 Tyb. Ha I 'tis a Montague by his voice — it is Romeo ' 
 Even 60 — it is he, I'll swear ! 
 
 Jul. Romeo ! ah ! 
 
 Tyb. Daring slave ! now by my stock and honor of kin 
 I will slay him ! [ExU 
 
 Jul. 'Twas Romeo, he said I 
 
 Ah ! 'twas the only son of our great foeman — 
 The cold grave then is to be my wedding-bed I 
 ^.Only love springing from my only hate I 
 Seen all too early — and known all to late I
 
 10 
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 SCENA X. — Tebaldo, Pari, Romeo, Mebcczio, Ben- 
 TCLio, mintati, poi Capuleto. 
 
 Td>. Eccolo ! — ei vien. 
 Pari. Ma chi mai 1 
 
 7e6. Romeo. 
 
 Par. Desso in ver ' 
 
 Rom. ( Atestamenta fra se, guardando Gic.) Il mio nome 
 
 A lei snona delitto 
 
 O dolor ! Capuleto h suo padre, ed io I' amo. 
 Mer. Vedete, qnai torbidi sguardi lancia Tebaldo, 
 
 L' nragan presso sta. 
 
 Teb. (Contenendosi a slento.) La rabbia m' accieca I — 
 Cap. (A gì' invitali.) 
 
 Clie ! voi partite già 1 rimanete o signori I 
 
 1/ imbandita cena s' onori 1 
 Teò. {Frase) Ahi crudele soffereni» I 
 
 Già lansue la mìa pazienza I 
 
 Quivi io <rinro sull' onor 
 
 Di punir il traditor. 
 Mer. ( Piano agli amici. ) 
 
 Ei ci minaccia pmdenza ! 
 
 Ah! non facciam resistenza ! 
 
 Bene potria talor, 
 
 Far oltraggio il suo furor. 
 Cap. Notte è questa d' esultanza; 
 
 Via s' intrecci un altra danza 
 
 Di voi tutti ero assai più 
 
 Gaio e snello in gioventii. 
 Corv. ■ Via ! si mesca e 1' esultanza 
 Meglio allegri nuova danza 
 Il bollordi gioventù 
 Presto passa e non vien piìl. 
 [Mer. seguito da' suoi amici sorte tratrinando seco KoM. 
 
 Teb. Egli ci sfugge ! — 
 
 Chi vnol seguirmi 1 egli è mestier eh jo lo sfidi. 
 [Segìiita da Pari a da alcuni suoi amici /a per seguire lo 
 stuolo de' Montecclii. 
 Cap. {A Teb. accostando.) 
 
 Mai no ! qui scandali non voglio, 
 
 M' odi tu ? Mascherato ei venia, 
 
 Deggio e voglio ignorar come ha nome chi sia 1 
 
 Guai se t' attenti un passo far. 
 
 1 Volgendoti agli invitali. 
 Su, baldi garzon 
 Su vaghe donzelle ; 
 Venite o campion, 
 Scegliete le hello. 
 
 Lunce ogni pensier 
 Cui dolga esultanza, 
 A fervida danza 
 Dia loco il piacer. 
 CV»o fjMrge o'jrni ponsier 
 
 Cui dolL'a esultanza, 
 A fervida danza 
 Di» loco il piacer. 
 
 rììiiL dkll' atto PBtao. 
 
 SCENE X. — Tybalt, Paris, Rombo, Mercotio, Bbs 
 voLio Guests, afterwards Capulkt. 
 
 Tyh. There he stands ! 
 
 Par. What is't now ? 
 
 Tyb. {Pointing at Rom. Romeo's there ! 
 
 Par. Romeo there ? 
 
 \Movements of surprise — Tyb. is about to rush upon the 
 
 Montague when Cap. enters. Tyb. points out RoM. 
 
 Cap. restrains him with a gesture. 
 Rom. (Aside.) 
 
 To be Romeo is a crime in her eyes ! fatal name ! 
 
 Oapulet is her father; and I love" her! 
 Mer. (To Romeo.) Beware — 
 
 For see how with anger the fiery Tybalt is chafing : 
 
 There's a storm brewing fa^t ! 
 
 I bum for vengeance ! 
 ( To guests going. ) 
 
 What ! quit the floor so soon 1 Nay, then, gentlemen, 
 
 Preparo not to begone, for a trifling banquet awaits. 
 
 Vengeance cometh ! vengeance comcth ! 
 
 And for this intrusion shameful, blood 
 
 Alone shall make amends : death to Romeo 
 
 Then I swear ! 
 
 See how they watch us ! 
 
 Nay, stir not — and use thy wit more then valonr; 
 
 We beard the foe in their camp ; let us not 
 
 Wake their ire ! 
 
 Tub. 
 Cfap. 
 
 Tsb. 
 
 Mer. 
 
 Cap. House again the sound of pleasure. 
 
 Crush the wine-cup, tread the measure, 
 Time has been (I swear to you) 
 When I danced and drank for two ! 
 Chorus. Rouse again the sound of pleasure. 
 
 Crush the wine-cup, tre.ad the measure, 
 Youth's a stuff will flot endure 
 No.ight beyond the present's sure ! 
 Mer. drags Rom. away, followed by Ben. and friend». 
 Exeunt. 
 Tyb. Romeo will 'scape me! let who will, follow! 
 
 I shall stroke his pretty face with mv gauntlet. 
 [Makes as // to pursue RoM. Cap. restrains him impe- 
 riously. 
 Cap. (Aside to Ttb.) Not so ! I will not brook disorder! 
 Dost thou liearl Thou shalt not follow Romeo ! 
 Wliat a placue is't to me what this youngster is called ? 
 From this thr place thou shalt not stir ! 
 
 A hall, sirs, a hall ! | To the gnetU 
 
 Lead forth now each maiden, 
 
 Earth treading stars all, 
 With bright beauty laden ! 
 Like to April on the heel, 
 Of lame winter pressing. 
 Its coldness caressing, 
 So love young hearts feel I 
 
 Chorus. Like to April on the heel. 
 Of lame winter pressing, 
 Its coldness caressing, 
 So love young hearts feel ! 
 
 BHD OP TBK riBST AOI
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
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 ATTO II. 
 
 Un gimrdino. A manca la dimora di GlCLIETTA. At 
 primo piano una Jìnastra con balcone. Infondo una 
 gradinata che domina altri giardini. E notte. 
 
 SCENE I.— Stefano, Homeo. 
 
 Stitano dietro la gradinata del fondo tiene una scala di 
 seta ed adjuta Romeo a scavalcare il muro, quindi si 
 ritira portando seco la scala. 
 
 Row (Solo.) Notte ! qui fra 1' omlire tue fitte, 
 
 Asil mi (là ! 
 Mer. (Al di fuori, chiamando.) Romeo! Romeo I 
 Rem. Di Merciizio la voreell'è: 
 
 Ei beffft;(,'i;i i barhnii lai d' amor 
 Che non provò giammai. 
 Coro al di fuori. 
 
 Egli s' avvia e tace ; 
 Più non ode, lontano egli è 
 
 Sol d' ombre amor si piace 
 Per i* ombre amor scorga il suo pie ! 
 
 \Le voci sì allontanano. 
 Bom. Amor ! ' 
 
 Si, r esser mio tatto accende e sedace 
 
 [Lajinettra di GiD. s'illumina. 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 A Garden. Jvi,iet's apartments. Win'lotn unii icdcemy 
 At back a parapet overhanging the gardens. Night. 
 
 SCENE I. — Stephano and Romeo. 
 
 ►, the page, discovered against the parapet, heJp' 
 Romeo iy menna of a rn/Kltiddnr. Exit th* 
 rinn awau the ladder. 
 
 Stephano, ..... ,.,.,,. , 
 
 ing up Romeo bg means of 
 page, bearing away the ladder. 
 
 Rom. O night ! spread thy pinions above me. 
 
 And bide me now ! 
 Mer. (Off.) Romeo! Romeo! 
 
 Som. 'Tis Mercutio that mocking calls 1 Ever so I 
 
 He jcsteth at scars that never felt a woand ! 
 
 Mer, . (Off.) Love sick, and sad, and pining, 
 
 Ben. f Hither Romeo was seen to wend : 
 
 4" ( May night, fond lovers shrining 
 
 Clio. •' Now to the pair a covert lend ! 
 
 Rom. Ah ! it is love that hath stirr'd all my being! 
 
 1^ light appears in Juliet's wituiom 
 
 DEH I SOBGI O itrCE.— KISE, FAIREST SUN! Cavatina. Kombo. 
 
 Deh 1 sorgi o luce in ciò - lo. 
 Rise, fair ■ est sun in heav-en 1 
 
 E di - ra • da le Btel • le 
 Quench the start with thy brightness, 
 
 Che Bpan-don «en - za 
 That o'er the vault at 
 
 ve - lo Le nui - te lor fiam • mei • le. Deh I sorgi al - fin. Deh ! sorei al - 
 
 ve 
 
 e 
 
 Le nui - te lor fiam • mei • le, 
 Shine with a fee ■ ble light - nets. 
 
 Deh I sorgi al - fin, 
 Oh t rise a • gain 
 
 Deh ! sorgi al 
 Oh I rise 
 
 %t?='rr,-=r-^^=ft 
 
 ^ 
 
 i2=t 
 
 -J=-: 
 
 ÌìlfÌg^ÌEBgi:|l^^ÌÌÌflÌS|ii 
 
 fin, 
 gain ; 
 
 dia - gom 
 and ban 
 
 bra, L' al - to or - ror di quest' ombra. 
 ish Nights dark shades, bid them van-ish. 
 
 
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 El - la veglia. 
 She is watching, 
 
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 Ah ! Boìoglie i no-di De suoi fui - gi -di ca-pel - li. Ne' miei preghi. Amor, se m'o- di, A 
 
 Ah! ever untwining From their bonds her tresses shin • ing I If my pra!/ers,>ove,shaU reach thy hearing, Ap ■ 
 
 41 
 
 mMmf^mmmmfmi^^mimm*^ 
 
 le - 1, 
 proach her, 
 
 a le ■ i 
 
 approach her, 
 
 reca i vo - ti mie - i. 
 
 All my fond vows bear • ing, 
 
 El - la par - la 
 Nowshe speaketh. 
 
 quanto e bel - la I 
 AJì ! how e\arming. 
 
 Ah ! nulla intesi o dolor 
 Mi parlava il sao sguardo, 
 Rispondeva a lei il mio cor 
 
 By ber beauty's brilliant ray, 
 As burneth, ashamed and jaded, 
 
 A lamp by the light of day ! 
 At her window, on her fair hand.
 
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 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Ah ! Borfri appar o sol, 4c. 
 Ah ! sorgi amai 
 Astro puro incantator 
 
 Appar ! vien ! appar ! 
 \La finestra si apre. Gin. comjxire al balcone. RoM. 
 ti nasconde neW ombra. 
 
 SCENA II.— Romeo, Giulietta. 
 
 6iu. Odiar ! potrollo oime ! Odio barbaro e reo 
 O Romeo ! perchè tal nome si fece il tuo f 
 Ripudia ojnai tal nome al nostro amor fatale 
 
 , ripudia il mio. 
 
 Bom. Che di tu ? e fia ver 1 Ah ! distogli da me 
 Quel fatai dubbio oh! Dio. 
 
 Giù. Chi m' ascolta, 
 
 Chi sorprender osò le pene del mio cor? 
 
 Rom. Nomarmi io non potrei, per dirti ornai ohi son 1 
 
 Giù. Che, non sei tu Romeo f 
 
 Rom. No, no '1 sarò piU mai 
 
 Vo rinascere omai altro nome m' avrò 
 
 Ah ! per amarte sola 
 
 Del tuo amor rinascerò. 
 
 Giù. Ah ! tu sai che quest' omhra il viso mio ti cel« — 
 Ben lo sai — ah ! se tn ne vedesti il rossor ! 
 
 Tutto, il candor esso rivela 
 
 E la purità del mio cor. 
 Di motteggiar sostinm ! m'ami tu ? 
 Indovino la tua risposta già 
 
 Vani giuri non far, 
 Latona, co' suoi rai eh' io ben credo incostanti, 
 Rischiara lo spergiuro e deride el' amanti 
 Caro Romeo Ica! e dimi sol — " Io t' amo " — 
 
 E crederò ; 
 E r nnor mio affido a te o mio Signor 
 Come potrai in me fidarti ognor 
 
 Il mio sorpresso cor 
 Accusar tu non dei di leggerezza. 
 
 Per non saper tacere 
 Ma la notte indiscreta accusane sol 
 
 Che tradiva il mistero. 
 Rom. Nanti a dio 
 
 Che n' accolta, io ti giuro mia ft. 
 Giù. Ascolta ! alcun — ti scosta, va. 
 
 [Rom. s' allontana e s-ompare dietroqli alberi. Gin. si 
 ritira dal balcone e chiude cautamenfe la finestra. 
 
 SCENA TU. — Gregorio seguito da alrnni famigliari poi 
 Geltrcde. Grkqobio e</ 1 famigliari entrano con lan- 
 terne sorde e cercano per ogni parte. 
 
 Coro. Nessuno ! — nessuno ! — 
 
 Vestigio non v' ha; — 
 Di cui r importuno 
 Fuggilo sarà. 
 
 Quel vile, quel reo 
 Attcndea Romeo — 
 Ma I' avverso fato 
 A noi 1' ha involato ? 
 E beffe egli già 
 De' nostri si fa. 
 
 Nessuno, nessuno, etc. 
 Gel. {Entrando, a Orr.) Chi cercate voi qui. 
 Gre D' un paggio de' rei Monteccb ; il traditot 
 
 Ne< lasciar qircste soglie, I 
 
 See now she leaneth her cheek. 
 On that hand, were I a glove, 
 That I might touch that cheek ! 
 Ah, fairest sun, ari,se, &c 
 ^The window opens, Jul. comes on to thebalcyny. Ron 
 conceals himself, 
 
 SCENE II.— RoMKO and JnuBT. 
 
 Jul. Ah me ! — And still I love him ! 
 Romeo, why art thou Romeo ? 
 Doff then thy name, for't is nc part. 
 My love, of thee ! What rose «-e call 
 By other name would smell as sweetly : 
 Tliou'rt no foe, 'tis thy name ! 
 
 Bom. Can it be 
 
 That thoa'rt mine ? Romeo henceforth 
 1 never more will be ! 
 
 Jul. Who art thou, say. 
 
 That, be-screen'd by the night, 
 So stumblest on my dream ? 
 
 Rom. I know not how 
 
 To tell thee who I am by name. 
 
 Jul. Thou art Romeo, I know ! 
 
 Rom. Nay, 
 
 Ne'er shall I be known again, dear saint. 
 By a name that is foe unto thee ! 
 Yet, oh speak ! — speak to my soul, bright angel. 
 To the night thou'rt glorious, as a messenger 
 From heav'n ! 
 
 Jul. Ah! thou knowest the mask of night 
 
 Is on my f.ice, — or my bi'ow would be red 
 With a maidenly blush for the words 
 I've spoken unto thee : wherefore yet deny 
 What I've said ? then, compliment farewell ! 
 Lov'st thou me ? 
 
 If so be that thou answerest me, ay. 
 Swear thou not by the moon — tli' inconstant mooB 
 That monthly in circled orb changeth ; 
 But by thy gracious self and the oath I'll believe! 
 If me thou lov'st — pronounce it faithfully, 
 " I love thee ! " — and I am thine ! 
 But, if thou think'st me quickly won. 
 Ah, then. I'll frown, and say thee nay. 
 So that thou wilt but woo me. But trust me I 
 Will prove fir more faithful to thee than those 
 Who have the cunning to be stranger ! 
 O impute not to light love 
 My passion so true, which the night hath discovered I 
 
 Rom. Ah, my heart is true — and 'tis all, love, for thee I 
 Jul. But hearken ! — a noise ! — ah, Romeo, 
 
 Fly, ere they come. (Exitifrom balcortf 
 
 SCENE III. — Enter Gregory and retainers toith lanlemt 
 Tltey grope about the stage. 
 
 Chorus. There's no one ! there's no one 1 
 The page, too, is fled, 
 We owe to the rascal 
 
 The dance we've been led ! 
 Confusion ! disaster ! 
 On him and his master — 
 Why did fortune save 
 The sorry scurvy knave I 
 
 He will tell to-morrow 
 How the slip he gave ! 
 
 There's no one ! there's no cne, Ac. 
 Nur. Marry — what is this coil ? 
 Gre. A scurvy Montague trick ! 
 
 Over the throslihold of Capulet'e home.
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 13 
 
 Gel 
 Gn 
 
 Gal. 
 Gre. 
 
 Osate hs fu.- oltraL'^io 
 Al nostro almo bignor. 
 Mi dite il 7er ? 
 
 Si narro il vero. 
 Un de' Montecclii in con.pagnia d' alcuni scoi 
 Tiirliar ardia la nostra festa. 
 Un de' Montecchi ? 
 
 Un do' Monterclii. 
 
 Con. Forse pegl' occhi tuoi qui venuto è il fellon ? 
 
 Gd. 
 
 Gre. 
 Coro. 
 
 Ah ! 1' osi ancora ! — giuro snll' onor mio 
 Io '1 favo venir dritto a voi 
 Che non avrà desio di ritornar. 
 
 Lo crediam. 
 
 Lo crediam noi par 
 Buona notte, nmabil Signora 
 Le tue virtud! accresci ognor 
 Ogni graaia dio t' infonda 
 Ei Montecchi sperda ognor. 
 
 [Geb. ed i famigliari s'aJlontanano. 
 
 SCENA IV. — Gelteddb, ;)oi Gcilietta. 
 
 Gel. Benedetto il baston che mi farà vendetta 
 
 Dì que' fellon ! 
 Giù. { Comparendo sulle soglie. ) 
 
 Sei tu Geltrude ? 
 Gel. Sì, mia diletta; 
 
 Ma si tardi perchè ancor vegliando stai t 
 Giù. T' attendea — 
 
 Entriam. 
 
 Ti segno va. 
 [Ella volge !o sguardo a se d' intorno, poi rientra, RoM 
 ricompare.) 
 
 SCENA V. — Romeo poi' Giulietta. 
 
 Bom. Notte divina, io t' imploro 
 
 Lasciami al sou'no che incanta il mio cor 
 
 Destarmi non vorrei 
 Alla realita creder non posso ancor. 
 Giù. (Ricomparendo .<:ulle soglia, sotto voce.) 
 
 Romeo ' — 
 Boti. {Rivolgendosi.) Angiol mio ! 
 
 Giù. (Sotto voce.) 
 
 Anco un detto, poscia addio ! 
 A te verranne alcuno doman. 
 
 Se tu m' ami se tua mi vuoi e sposa, 
 Fammi dir in qual di, a qual ora in qnal parte 
 Dell' Eterno al cospetto 
 11 nostro Imen fin benedetto. 
 Allor o mio signor mia volontà sarai. 
 E r intiera mia vita avrai 
 Sarò a te solo. Ahi sol v'ivo per te. 
 Ma, se tua fiamma 
 tr folle amor sol bi'amasse da me 
 
 Ah ! te ne scongiuro allor 
 Per quest' ora d' in?anto non rivedermi più. 
 M' abbandona al mio pianto, mi lascia al mio dolor. 
 Rem. [Inginocrhianrìosi.) 
 
 Ah I io già te '1 dissi t' adoro 
 Io t' amo, e sol tu sii 1' aurora 
 Ovunque il cor s^ volgerà. 
 Ho ! mio tesoro 
 Disponi di mia vita ; — 
 Neil' alma mia smarita 
 Tutte iniondi le gioie del Ciel. 
 GH. {L^Àamando.) Giulietta I 
 
 Nur. 
 Gre. 
 
 Nur. 
 Gre. 
 Cho. 
 
 Nur. 
 
 Gre. 
 Cho. 
 
 Gre. 
 and 
 Cho. 
 
 Nur. 
 
 Have two Montagues past ; ay, and laughed 
 
 At his beaifl ! 
 
 Trtily yon're mad ! 
 No, by our ladye, on this very night 
 H;Uh a Montague been ra.sh enough 
 To join our nieiry making ! 
 Is't as you say 1 
 
 Just as I say ! 
 All ! doubtless 'tis thy beauty that brings him thh 
 
 wav ! 
 r faith, perhaps so ! but I'm no flirt-gill^ 
 And if e'er he comoth again — the knave 1^ 
 I'll treat him so — I'll warrant 
 He'll not plague me more ! 
 
 Not a dnnbt ! 
 As for that, good nurse — not a doubt ! 
 Nurse, good night I so pray me devoutly 
 
 For one as virtuous as she is fair, 
 And likewise — curse we stoutly 
 All our foes such 'venture as dare ! 
 [Exeunt Gre : and ntnijiers follow. 
 Nowbesbrewthem, for that ihoy u^c me 
 At their pleasure. — The sorry knaves ! 
 
 [Enter Jri /Vf>m house 
 
 SCENE IV.— TVie Nurse onrf Juliet. 
 
 Jul. 'Tis thou, nurse, speakest ? 
 
 Nur. Ay lady, truly! 
 
 But the nicht doth advance ; 'tis time 
 
 Thou wert a-bed. 
 Jul. Is it so late ? 
 
 Nur. ^ Going.) To bed! - 
 Jut Lc.id on, <rood nurse ! 
 
 \Exit Nur. to house, followed hi Jul., who looks inquir 
 
 ingly into the garden. Enter Romeo. 
 
 SCENE v.— Romeo, then Juliet. 
 
 Rom. Night all too blessed ! I am fearful. 
 
 Being in night, this is all but a dream. 
 
 That, waking, I may find too flattering sweet, 
 
 To 'bide the dawn. [Enter JvL.from houM 
 
 Jul. Love of mine I 
 
 Rom. Speak, my dearest I 
 
 J\J.. But a word. 
 
 Then farewell ! 
 
 If that the faith thou pledeest be true. 
 If in honor me forlby wife thou takest. 
 Then to-moirow, my love, send a message unto ma, 
 Telling me where and when will be perform'd 
 The rite of marrincre. Then all I have, my lord. 
 Low at thy feet I'll lay ; through the whole world. 
 Thy steps I'll follow, though my kinsmen. 
 Dearest, should say me nay ! Yet, 
 If true love feigning, thoti mean'st not well. 
 And thy vows all are vain, I do beseech thee then 
 Cease thy wooing and leave me — 
 Leave me to my grief that will always fill my days 
 
 Rom. Ah, my sweet ! Doubt not my affection, 
 For, so thrive my soul, I do love thee I 
 And my life is in thy love. 
 Like softest music to ears the sound attending, 
 
 So silver sweet thy tones are falling. 
 Soul now with soul in love is blending. 
 And for ever, sweet, thou art mine I 
 Nur. (Calhny.) Juliet !
 
 14 
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Giù. {Rivolgendosi e porgendo orecchio.) 
 
 Son chiamata. 
 Rom. ( Rialzandosi e prendendola una mano.) 
 
 Ah! di già? 
 Giù. Parti, io temo che alcun ci vegga insieme. 
 
 Gel. (Chiamando.) Giulietta! 
 
 Jul. Or Tengo. 
 
 Rom. Ascolta ancor !— 
 
 Giù. Somesso ! — 
 
 Rom No, no, nessun t' appella — 
 
 Giù. Ohimè piano favella ! 
 
 Rom (Prendendola per uno mano e conducendola sulla scena.) 
 
 Jul. Hark ! they call ms 
 
 Rom. Ah 1 not yet. 
 
 Jul. Go ! 
 
 I'd not for the world they saw thee hete, love. 
 
 [NcE. call* within 
 Jul. I come ! 
 
 Rom. A moment more — 
 
 Jul. Away ! 
 
 Rom. Fear not ! I'm hidden in night's cloak ! 
 Jul. Speak low ! 
 
 [Rom. restrains her, they come down the stage. 
 
 AHI NON PARTIR.— kB.\ GO NOT YET. DuBT. Boheo and Juliet. 
 
 -T-X 
 
 BOKSO. Ah! non par - tir, deh! ta - ci! Ah! non par - tir, deh ! ta - ci! La - sciai la • scia che ancor 
 Ahi go not yet, bui stay thee I Ahi go not yet, but stay thee I Let me, let mt once more 
 
 ^^II^tl^L^'l^i-- 
 
 m^i^^:^TÉàmMmmmm 
 
 ma - no io ba - . . cL 
 
 dear hand, I pray thee. 
 
 Juliet. Ta - ci, qui presso a no - i. 
 Si • lence, a step is near us. 
 
 Te - mo che alcun s'ag-gi - li. Lai • eia, 
 
 Some one, I fear unii hear us, JjA 
 
 Romeo. 
 
 JCLIET 
 
 t — 5 — P-t* — jj; — ^ I--» — « i-i-:^:? — — — k<-l_pzr^ >-! 
 
 i- 
 
 scia che al&n la mia ma - no ri - ti - ri 1 
 
 me al least take my hand from thy keeping. 
 
 Both. 
 
 Ad - di - ol 
 
 Good night, love. 
 
 Ad - di - o ! 
 Good night, love. 
 
 Ad- 
 Good 
 
 ieg;iit?^ili=j^:iS=Pf;E=N=^=?Él 
 
 o! Ad - di - 
 
 love I Good night t. 
 
 ol 
 
 Ah ! ques ■ to ad-dio si dol - 
 
 Dear - est, this fond good night 
 
 al 
 is 
 
 nos - tro 
 such sweet 
 
 -È£=t=t=ì-É^ 
 
 -•-IS-* - — • • »-\-f 
 
 1# u 
 
 mm^ 
 
 - re, Du 
 
 - row. That 
 
 rar, 
 / 
 
 du - rar 
 should say, 
 
 doT - rebbe in • si • 
 good night, good night. 
 
 no al primo al - bor. 
 liU it be dawn. 
 
 Giu. Ed or io ten scongiuro, 
 
 Va!— 
 Ram. Ah! crudele! — 
 
 Giu. Percliè ti richiamava? O follia! 
 
 Appena sei presso a me ohe all' istante il core obblia 
 
 Partito io ti vorrei, non per altro lontan 
 Qiial prigioniero au<;ol, ti'nuio da un hambin 
 
 Con un lil ili sffa avvinto al pie 
 Appena verso il ciel scioijlie 1' ali il meschìn 
 
 Che il fanciullo ver se 1' attira pien di gioja, 
 Tanto è geloso amor se dona liberta. 
 
 Rom. Ah ! non fiigeir ancora, etc. etc. 
 Giu. Addio I mille volte addi') I 
 
 Jul. Now indeed, I do entreat (hee — go I 
 
 Ram. Tet a moment — 
 
 \ls goinfj, when she beckons him involuntarily to return, 
 Jul. For what ilo I recall thee? 
 
 Ah. T krmv not ! and when thou'rt near me, my sweet, 
 All tlie less do I icmcmlier. Yes ! 
 I would have thee gone, but no further from me, 
 Thati hoj)s the captive hii'il frolli lady's idle iiand, 
 
 Witii silken gyves its flight restrnining; 
 And as she plui'ks it l>iick with a L'enilo command, 
 So, if thou wert my bird, within my hower remaining, 
 I too would linlil thee captive, bound with silken band I 
 Rom. Ah, might I stay for ever? 
 Jul. Alas, we munt part I 
 
 Farewell I 
 Rom. ^ I Parting from tliee is, oh ! so sweet a sorrow, 
 .lui. 1 That I could say, " good night " till dawn I
 
 BOMBO B GIULIETTA. 
 
 15 
 
 [Ella sfumc dalle brama di RoH. e rìenira nella tua camera. 
 Horn. (Solo.) Va! e dormi ornai 1 riposai 
 Che un forriso infantil 
 Le tuo labbra vermiglio 
 
 Dolcemente accarezzi ognor. 
 E mormorar nel sonno : io t' amo udrai 
 E 1' Buretta ti poipa 
 Questo mio bacio d' amor I 
 
 TO SECONDO. 
 
 ATTO III. 
 
 QUADRO PRIMO. 
 
 La cella di Fra Lorenzo. Aggiorna. 
 
 SCENA I.— Fra Lobenzo e Rombo. 
 
 Ram. padre, Dio vi salvi I 
 
 Aro L Eccbè ! 1' aurora appena 
 
 Dirada 1' ombra, e già desto sei f 
 
 Qual pensier ti scorile a me ! — 
 
 Forse d' amor novella pena ì 
 
 Rom, Lo diceste d' amor mio padre pena eli' è. 
 
 Fra. L. D'amore — tu sempre pensi a Rosalinal 
 
 Ram. Qual nome odo suonar ! Noto ei non giunge a me 
 Occhio mortai che s' apre a bellezza divina. 
 Può ricordarsi ancor 
 D' un suo tl■a^corso error ? 
 Come amar Rosalina ove splende Giulietta? 
 
 Fra. L. Che ! la figlia di Capuleto 1 
 
 [Indicando Gin. che etitra dal/ondo. 
 
 SCENA II. — GinLiETTA, Geltbudb e detti. 
 
 Rom. Si la vedi. 
 
 Giù. Romeo ! 
 
 Rom. Chiedevati il niiocor 
 
 Ma ti veggo — e muto ahi ! divento 
 Giù. {Indicando Rom.) 
 
 Mio Padre. Avoi lo presento : 
 Voi conoscete il core che gli dono 
 
 [Rivolgendosi a Fka L. e presentandogli RoH. 
 Tutto a sua fede io 1' abbandono 
 Deh ! benedite il nostro amor! 
 Fra II Si dovessi affrontar mille atroci agonie, 
 Socorrerovi ognor 
 Possa la nimistà di vostre dinastie 
 Finir pel vostro amor ! 
 Rom. (A Gel.) Tu veglia al di fuor. 
 
 [Gel. sorte. 
 
 SCENA III. — Romeo, Giulietta, Fra Lorenzo. 
 
 Fra L. Al rostro amor cocente 
 Se fau-^io il <iel consente 
 
 Vegli su voi sempre il Signor 
 
 [ S'inginocchiano . 
 Tu che degnasti a poca argilla 
 Commnnicar di vita alta immortai scintilla ; 
 Tu che di roso ordita hai d' an»or la catena 
 
 Jul. 
 Rom. 
 
 Good night, O my love ! 
 
 I Tliet/ embrace — Jdl. flit» io th» iooM 
 Soft be thy repose, till morning I 
 On thine eyes slumber dwell, ami sweet peace 
 In thy bosom : would I were sleep, and peace 
 So sweet to rest ! 
 
 END OF TOE SECOND ACT. 
 
 ACT III. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 SCENE I.— The cell of Friar Lawrence. 
 
 The friar discovered kneeling before a crucifit. 
 
 Rom. Good morrow, holy father — ^fair good-morrow I 
 Law. (Rising.) 
 
 My son 1 Ah, Romeo ! How comes so early 
 
 Thy salutation sweet f Art uproused 
 
 By so: e secret caro 1 Or is it love alone 
 
 Doth vex thee 1 
 Rom. Ah, the last is the truth, 
 
 My father, for I love ! 
 Law. You love? 
 
 (God p.irdon sin.) Is't Rosaline still 1 
 Rom. Th.nt nnme I have forgotten. 
 
 And with it all its woe ! 
 
 Shall then the eye 
 
 That opens on the light of morning, weep 
 
 With a fond regret the darkness that hath fled t 
 
 Rosahne is no match, I trow, 
 
 For my fairest Juliet ! 
 Law. What ! is it then 
 
 A foe yon love ? 
 
 SCENE II. — Enter Jxji.iET followed by Gertrddb. 
 
 Rum. Lo, she comes ! 
 
 Jul. Ah! my own ! ( Thy embrace.) 
 
 Rom. My soul, my life, my love ! 
 
 Thou art mine — ay, mine now for ever ! 
 Jul. ( To Law.) 
 
 My father ! 'Tis maniau'e we seen. , 
 
 To none but Romeo shall I e'er bo wedded, 
 
 So are we come to seek thy office. 
 
 That holy church make us two one ! 
 
 Law. Str.ange ! that children of two rival houses 
 
 Should marry : but in this your help I shall prove; 
 Who knoweth but this matrh may Ijind the foes 
 Together ; and turn all their rancour to love I 
 
 Rom. (ToGer.) Nurse, wait thou outside. [Exit Gs^ 
 
 SCENE IIL — RoMKo, Juliet, Feiak Laweenob. 
 
 Law. To bless the marriage token 
 The solemn tow now spoken 
 O supplicate high heav'n this day. 
 
 Let us pray — let us pr.ay ! [They kneel 
 
 smile, fair heaven, upon this niarnatre, 
 And ye, fond pair, when by our holy church united 
 See that ye live, tliat sorrow thenceforth
 
 6 
 
 KOMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Consacrando i nodi d' imene dal sacro snol d' Israel. 
 Arresta il tuo sguardo clement» su questa pia coppia 
 
 fidente. 
 
 Che si prostra innanzi a te 
 
 Shall not chide thee ; and remember aye 
 That delights vi'lently enjoyed, quickly fade I 
 O heaven in thy great mercy hear us, 
 When unto thee we call, be near us. 
 Who bow before thy awful throne ! 
 
 "IGNOR, NOI PBOMETTIAM.—On, LORD, WE PBOIUSE. Tbio. RoifEO, Juliet, Lawbenok. 
 Rombo and Jdliet. Lawbence. 
 
 - gnor noi pro-met-tiam a tue leg • gi obbe - dir. Se - con - da la lor brama o 
 
 Lord, meek-ly we promise thy laws to - bey. Support them in each good en 
 
 - con - da la lor brama o - ne • Bio. 
 
 ne 
 deav 
 
 v-—r- 
 
 . ^ — J — 
 
 l'unione a 
 Grant that this un • ion 
 
 * — , _-_i_-^ — 0-1-0- 
 
 •:Eiiiz*i=t:^p-5;l 
 
 out b' ap - pre - sta Sempre sia di pace e d' a • 
 may he ev ■ er One of peaceful joy and of 
 
 zzj^zzzzzt ' j~zr j5Zi~ii 1^ i 
 
 mor, D' ogni vii^tude abbia do - 
 
 love. Bless them with virtue's heav'nly 
 
 Rom. and JcL. 
 
 
 Deg - na con-ser - 
 Make them pure avd 
 
 In-te - me - 
 In hearts like 
 
 va le, o si - gnor. 
 ho - ly. O Lord, 
 
 Lawbence. 
 
 ra . 
 spir 
 
 to 
 its 
 
 il cor ! 
 a - bove. 
 
 Si-gnor, 
 Lord, 
 
 sia nostra 
 be thou our 
 
 ^^^?^igsip^ti?*^^ifertÌlÌ1^5);aH-si5^t 
 
 Bcor - ta 
 
 lead - er. 
 
 be 
 
 nostra a 
 
 thou our 
 
 mor! 
 
 love. 
 
 Deh ! fa 
 
 Then, 
 
 che 
 
 old 
 
 m sua ca - m - zia ! 
 
 age ad ■ van • ces, 
 
 Vegga sua prole-ir pel cammin del 
 May they behold their children walk up ■ 
 
 Bom. L. Jul. 
 
 
 ret - to, Nel sa - lu - ta - re tuo ti - mor. Si - gnor 
 rightly, At in thy fear, from day to day. Lord, 
 
 preserva o • gnor nostri alme dell' er • ror. 
 preserva, we pray, our souls from t'rror's way. 
 
 Fra L. Fra che questa coppia innocente 
 
 Da te qui o congionta al presente, 
 
 Pus^a al premio eterno tinivar ! 
 Rom. e Giù. Signor, gli sguardi tuoi 
 
 De^na su noi piegar ! 
 Fra L. U Romeo, scegli tu per tua sposa Giulietta 1 
 Rom. Si, mio Padre 
 Fra L. (A Gin ) Unirti a liomeo, vuoi tu 1 
 'jiu. Si, mio Padre. 
 ^'ra L Per mia man dal ciel benedetta. 
 
 Sia quest' union 
 
 Sorgete or mai ! [Rom. e Gin. abbrasciati. 
 
 A4. 
 
 Santo piacer, gioja iutinita! 
 
 Fauste il ciel accoglieva i miei voti d* amor 
 Dio di bontà, fonte di vita 
 
 Deh ! sia tu, benedetto ognor, etc. 
 
 'Rom. e Giù. si separuno. Rom. sorte con Fea L., Giù. 
 (on Gkl. Cambiamento a vista. 
 
 QUADRO SECONDO. 
 
 Una via di Verona. A manca il pilazzo de' Capukti. 
 
 SCENA I. — Sthpano, solo. 
 
 *» Da jeri indarno il mio Signor io cerco ; 
 
 [F( 'oendosi al palazzo de Caputeli. 
 
 Lato. And when life and love both are over. 
 
 And death breaks the dream of the lover, 
 O grant that they yet meet above I 
 Rom. Sf .Jut. 
 
 Oh thou father of all ! deign now to bless our love 1 
 Law. Romeo, say, for thy wife takest now this woman ! 
 Rom. Yes, my father ! 
 
 Law. ( To Jul.) For husband thou takest this man t 
 Jut. Yes, my father I [They exchange ringt. 
 
 Law. [Joining ttieir haiids together.) 
 
 In his name who marriage ordnineth 
 I join your hands — be man and wife ! 
 
 [Rom. and Jul. rise and embrace. 
 A4. 
 Two heai ts now one — no more to sever, 
 Gracious heav'n in thy mcrey thy favour now lend. 
 Grant that our love bu now and for ever, 
 Holy — pure — till our life shall end I 
 [Rom. and 3 a L. exeunt seiHiratety. Jul. ici'M Ges Rom. 
 with Law. 
 
 PART U. 
 
 A street in Verona. Capulbi's house. 
 SCENE 1.— Enter Stephano. 
 Ste. Since yesterday, I've sought in vain my master.
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 17 
 
 Rimansc ancor fra voi Capulcti codardi ? 
 
 Vediamo allor se de' vostri 1' ardir 
 
 Qui s' avvisa staman artimitnir 1' ira mia. 
 
 [Prendendo la sua spada a mo' di chitarra. 
 
 O Capulet, perchance Ijo yet honors thy hoase 
 I'll sing a stave, so tlie servants will ronse, 
 Flocking out to repair yesterdays sad disaster I 
 
 ABI COL NIBBIO MICIDIALE— Aa I WITH KITES OF MTTRD'ROUS INSTINCTS. CANZoifE. Stxphauo. 
 
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 nib ■ 
 
 kite» 
 
 bio 
 
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 nu - 01 
 
 murd'rous 
 
 
 dia - le, 
 
 in - stincts. 
 
 Tot - te 
 
 Ten-der 
 
 V- 
 
 - rei - la cbe 
 rfoye, why still 
 
 fai 
 
 tu? 
 main t 
 
 Da qui 
 
 Far a • 
 
 
 lun - ge ah 1 spie-ga I'a - le, 
 way fly with outspread pinions, 
 
 £ fra lor non tor - na più. 
 And re • turn, nev - er a • gain. 
 
 Del ta lot - ta ne' pe ■ 
 
 III thy Strug • gle snares sur - 
 
 Fer-mo pie ros - tro cru - deL 
 
 Tal-ons strong, and cru ■ d beak. 
 
 - ri - gli, Gio - van sol ri - cur - vi ar - ti - gli 
 
 • round thee. Young, a - lone, with claws the]/ will wound thee, 
 
 Lunge ornai da questo suolo, 
 Tortorella, spiega il volo 
 Cerca pace ad altro Ciel ! 
 Ah I mi eredi, o bella. 
 
 Chi vivrà vedrà; 
 
 La tua tortorella 
 
 Un di se ne andrà. 
 Qui vicino a questo speco, 
 
 Del periglo ignaro ancor, 
 
 Un colomlio dianzi teco 
 
 Favellò cred' io d' amor. 
 Lo sparvierro che mai non dorme 
 
 Dtll' incanto batte ahi ! 1' ormo 
 
 L' insidia notte e di. 
 
 M:;! si tien la coppia allerta ; 
 V ha chi veglia all' aura aperta. 
 E tutto già scopri. 
 
 Ah ! credimi, o bella. 
 
 Chi vivrà vedrà, 
 
 La tua tortorella 
 
 Un di se ne andrà I 
 ( 3re. ed alcuni famigliari sortono dal palazzo de' Capuleti. 
 
 SCENA II. — Stefano, Gregorio, famigli. 
 
 Ste, Ah ! ah ! giungono alfin ! 
 
 Gre. Chi presso a queste porte. 
 
 Viene a garrir si forte ? ' 
 
 Ste. Spiace a lor la canzon. 
 
 Ore (Ai famìgli.) Giuro al ciel ! non è lui, 
 
 Che col ferro alla man jeri inseguivam 1 
 I famigli. Egli è desso ; quale audaccia I 
 
 Sl(. ( Fingendo di non occuparsi dei nuovi lopragiunti.) 
 Ah ! credimi o bella 
 
 Chi vivrà vedrà; 
 
 La tua tortorella 
 
 Un di se ne andrà. 
 Gre. Egl' è per corbellar, galante camerata 
 
 Che spifferando vai si bella serenata ? 
 
 ,Sle. Amo assai la musica. 
 
 Unlike thine, soft and true and slender, 
 Unlike thine, laid to lips more tender. 
 In kiss'^s warm and long ! 
 See you guard her snfely, 
 
 They that live will know ; 
 Or your dove may flutter 
 From her cage and go ! 
 Now it hiipp'd that a ring-dove 6ying, 
 
 From his wood-land so green, 
 To that eyrie came one eve sighing 
 
 For her young love I ween ! 
 O'er a banquet of prey they'd mangled. 
 In the vale the vultures loud wrangled. 
 
 Harsh rose their cry afar ; 
 But the doves, for the past-atoning. 
 Heeded not, while their love-vows moaning ; 
 And rose the first liright star! 
 See you guard her safely. 
 
 They that live will know ; 
 Or your dove may flutter 
 From her cage and go ! 
 [Enter Gre. and retainers from Cap's, houag. 
 
 SCENE II. — Stephano, Gregory, and retainers 
 
 Ste. At last tlie warriors come ! 
 Gre. In truth I'm in a passion ! 
 
 No wonder — disturb'd in this fashion I 
 Ste. (They object to ray song !) 
 Gre. What! I' faith, 
 
 'Tis the p.age, that, sword in hand, last night 
 We hunted to the door ! 
 Chorus. 'Tis the rascal I 
 
 Audacious varlet ! 
 «Ste. See yon guard her safely, 
 
 They that live will know ; 
 Or your dove may flutter 
 From her cage and go I 
 
 Grt. A quarrel dost thou seek, 
 
 O minstrel most alarming ? 
 And is it to provoke. 
 
 Thou troUest songs so charming! 
 Ste. I'm fond of music !
 
 18 
 
 EOMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Gre. 
 
 Su. 
 
 Gre. 
 
 Su. 
 
 Gre. 
 
 Se non muti canzon, giacerai sulla strada: 
 Tu puoi la ghitarra spezzar. 
 
 Per ghitarra cingo il ferro 
 E eò piò d' nn aria suonar. 
 
 Viva il ciel ! 1' effetto fia bello : 
 
 Ci metteremo un ritornello. 
 Ebbene, un tantino suoniam. 
 In guardia I 
 
 I famigli. ( Ridendo. ) La canzon ascoltiam ! 
 Mentre Ste. e Gre. si battono. 
 
 Qual furore, Da campione 
 
 Giusto Ciel ! — Vuol morir. 
 
 Via fa core Pronto ha schermo, 
 
 Giovinciel ! Passo fermo : 
 
 Quel oppone Per mia fé. 
 
 Franco ardir ! Destro egli è. 
 
 SCENA IH. — / medesimi, Mekcczio, Benvolio, poi 
 Tebaldo, Pari, Romeo, e partigiani delle due case. 
 
 Mer, Sovvercliiare un fancinl! 
 
 [Sguaina la spada e si getta fra i combattenti. 
 Afte ! tal codardia 
 De' Capuleli è degna e della lor genìa ! 
 
 [Ter. e Pari entrano S'guiti da alcuni loro amici. 
 Teb. CMeb. impiijnando V elsa della sua tpadi.) 
 
 Pronta hai troppo la lingua al parlar. 
 Mer. Pili pronto il braccio ancor. 
 
 Teb. (Snuainando.) Ah! lo Torrei veder ! 
 
 Mer. {Facendo lo stesso.) Vedilo tosto allor. 
 
 [Mentre fanno per incrocicchiare la spada RoM. entro e 8Ì 
 precipita fra i combattati per separarli. 
 Rom. (A Meb.) Tregua, olà! 
 Mer. Tu Romeo ? 
 
 Teb. E Romeo ! 
 
 Ah ! r averno a me il tragge ! 
 
 IA Meb.) Deh ! conredi che seco io misuri pria 1' acciar. 
 A EoM.) Orsù, vile Montecco, il Brando altia disnuda : 
 E se nostra muggion jeri osasti insultar, 
 Amara, ornai, niertata ammenda 
 Del vile insulto qui dèi f:ir. 
 Tu, che con lingua arrogante, 
 Jeri a Giulietta tremante 
 D' amor osasti favellar. 
 Ascolta orcio che solo il disprezzo m' ispira : 
 Un vii tu sei. 
 
 [ROH. poggia prontamente la mano sulV alsa della sua 
 spada e la sguaina a me'a, ma dopo un breve istante di 
 riflessione la limette nel fodero, 
 
 Rom. Amdiam, non mi conosci ancor Tebaldo 
 
 Un tal insulto è vano 
 
 Ho nel mici cor lien d' amarti racion 
 
 Mal grado me or disarma ogni furor 
 
 Ma un vii io no '1 fui mai — Addio. 
 
 [Fa per dilungar$i. 
 fleé, A quanto ascolto, 
 
 Chiedi pcrdnn del tuo fallire — stolto! — 
 Rom Tch.'ildo io mai non t' offesi 
 
 Di rincori più tempo non è. 
 Mer. Il sanguinoso e vile oltraggio 
 
 Così soffrir puoi tu ? 
 
 Ebben I se più lento ti mostri al cimento 
 Solo ornai questo acciar 
 Basti r onta a lavar. 
 Rom Sospendi ohimè t' arresta oh dio t 
 
 Jf« No, qui vendicar ti deggio 
 
 [ Volgendoli a Tkb. 
 Vieni, o vii traditor ! ti para innan/.i a me I 
 
 Gre. - Of course — of course ! 
 
 Yet I've known for such pranks the gay serenaéer 
 
 Has had his guitar broke in two ! 
 Ste. Ah! 
 
 Very likely — but then good fellow — 
 
 Mu guitar's a sword, hard to break ! 
 Ore. Save my soul ! if that be your music, 
 
 Perhaps we may give you the answer! 
 Ste. (Drawing.) Let's try then, if we are in tune ! 
 Gre. {Drawi?ig.) Have at you ! [TTiey fight 
 
 Chorus. {Laughing.) We will hear how they play ! 
 
 How they pnrry — how they thrust, 
 
 Quick as lightning ! soon shall one bite the dust I 
 Strong the boy is in defence ; 
 Faith ! the issue's in suspense ! 
 
 Was a soldier ever bolder, 
 Than this slip of a boy ? 
 
 SCENE in. — Filter Mercctio aiirfBENVOLlo. Mercu»- 
 IO draws his sword and interrupts the combat. 
 
 Mer. So you draw on a child ! Go to ! 
 
 'Tis an achievement worthy Capulet's fame; 
 Like master — so like man ! 
 
 [Enter Ttb., Paris, andfriendt. 
 
 Tyb. {Drawing to Mkr.) Sir, your word 
 
 Seemeth over-ready to me ! 
 Mer. We'll join it 
 
 With a blow ! 
 Tyb. You'll find me apt enough. 
 
 Mer. That I can prove at once I 
 
 [They engage. RoM. enters hastily and throws himself he 
 
 tween them. 
 Rom. Gentles, hold ! 
 Mer. Romeo here ! 
 
 Tyb. Romeo here! 
 
 It is fate that hath led him ! 
 
 [To INIer., with ironical politenem. 
 
 For a time peace be with vou : here cometh 
 
 The man I must fight ! ( To Rom.) Now draw ! 
 
 Draw for your life ! A spy thou art 
 
 And traitor, — draw an' thou be a man ! 
 
 Dost thou think I forget the night thou camest 
 
 Without a bidding? Now for that insult 
 
 Thou should pay ! — 
 
 Ay ! and llie more by this token, 
 That to my Juliet thou hast spoken. 
 
 Unlia|ipy man, thou'lt rue the day ! 
 
 No better term than this my hatred affords me — 
 
 Thou ait a villain ! 
 
 [HoM. half-draws his sword, then sheathes it calmly 
 Rom. But no — yet villain am I none, Tybalt, 
 
 Rensori have I to love thee — whicii doth excuse 
 
 All llie rage of tliy words. Be satisfied. 
 
 Nor seek quarrel with me ! I see 
 
 Thou dost not know mc — farewell ! 
 
 [ Retii rt a itep 
 Tyb. Thou canst not thus, hoy, excuse 
 
 All the wrouL' that thou hast done me ! Traitor! 
 Rom. Never have I wrong'd thee, I do protest! 
 
 Thy name to me is dear as my own. 
 Mer. Calm and dishonorable yielding! 
 
 How is this ? Heard I aright ? So be it ; 
 
 Pll reply with nn a la stoccata. 
 [Dravs.) .So sir, pluck out your sword — for now 
 
 I am your man ! 
 Rom- {Restraining him.) Put up thy rapier, 
 
 Good Merculio — 
 Mer. No ! Come now, Sir, 
 
 Show your passado ; draw, you rat catcher, dr»w 
 
 Make haste — else I may strike I
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 19 
 
 Tel. [Avtximandosi.) Eccomi a t« ! 
 Rom. Sospendi, ohimè i 
 
 Mer. Lasciama deli I 
 
 Coro. In osso ft Riper si de I 
 
 Schiatta vii ! vii genia ! 
 
 Gelia alfin di terror ! — 
 
 D' Averno 1' ira or sia 
 
 Sostegno al sao furor I 
 
 [ROH. si precipita fra Mer. a Teb., la spada di quest' 
 ultimo passa sotto il braccio di KoM. eferisce Mer. 
 
 Mer. 
 
 Ahi ferito! 
 
 Rom. 
 
 Ferito ■?— 
 
 Mer. 
 
 Maledetti ! — 
 
 
 Sieno i vostri rancor ! 
 
 
 \A Rom. con rimprovero 
 Perche intromesso ti sei ? — 
 
 
 Ron. 
 
 nOM, 
 
 Teb. 
 Rom. 
 Tutti. 
 
 O sorte ria ! 
 
 Deh si soccorra ! 
 Mer. ( Vacillando.) Io manco onimè ! — 
 
 \ Alami da' Montecchi traggon fuori Mer. 
 Ah ! vanne alfin, 
 Lontan da me, 
 Prudenza indegna ! — 
 E tu furor, 
 Tremendo, regna. 
 Nel mio bollente offeso cor. 
 [A Teb. sguainando la sua spada.) Tebaldo, 
 Qui non respira altro vii fuor dì te. 
 Sciagura a te 
 Largo a me. 
 
 Schiatta vii — 
 Vii genìa 
 Gela al fin 
 Di terror, 
 D' averno 1' ira or sia 
 Propizia al suo furor, &c, &c. 
 
 [Il cielo comincia ad imbrunire. 
 Rom. {Ferendo Teb.) Muor ! 
 Teb. Vacilla, Cap. entra e lo sostiene fra le braccia. 
 
 SCENA IV.— Detti, Capuleto, Cittadini, poi II Du- 
 ca col suo geguito. 
 
 Cap. O ciel ! Tebaldo !— 
 
 [Cap. Ajutato da' suoi stende a terra Teb. egli sostiene 
 il capo. 
 Ben. (A Rom.) La ferita è mortale ! — 
 
 Fuggi tosto di qui ! 
 Roa {Sondolore) Che feci, ohimè 1 
 
 [Ripensando a Gir. 
 Ah ! fuggir lunge da lei ! — 
 Ben. Qui puoi, morte trovar I 
 
 Ami, Venga dunque a me ! io 1' invoco ! 
 
 Teb. (A Cap. con voce morente,) 
 Odimi dell ! 
 Un voto mio — giura compir! 
 
 Cap. Giuro a te suU' onor obhedir — 
 
 [ Una folla di i:iltndini invade la scena ; pece stante II D. 
 entra con sequito di gentiluomi e di paggi. Questi ultimi 
 portano della torchie. 
 
 Cw. Il duca I 
 
 Tyb. I am for yoa I 
 
 Rom. I pray you, hold ! 
 Mer. No ! let as be ! 
 
 Cho. Montagues — Montagues — race offending 
 Tremble all in alarm. 
 May demon, dark aid lending, , 
 
 Now nerve his 'venging arm I 
 Ben., Ste. ^ Man's, retainers. 
 
 Capulets — Clapulets — race oflFending 
 
 Tremble all in alarm. 
 May demon dark aid li nding, 
 Now nerve bis 'venging arm 1 
 
 Rom. Rancour and hate ne'er ending. 
 
 From age to age yet stronger grow, 
 Our homes rending 
 In sorrow and in woe ! 
 Mer. Ah ! I'm hurt ! 
 Rom. Thou hurt ■? 
 
 Mer. ( Stiigqerinq .) I am pepper 'd. 
 
 Pla'.'ue o' your bouses, both — but why 
 Did you come us betwoen ? 
 
 Rom. Alas ! 
 
 Hurt for my honour ! A surgeon, quick ! 
 Mer. Now help me, there ! 
 
 [Erils leaning on his fiiendt 
 Rom. Ah ! he is slain ! — Aw.ay to heav'n 
 
 Respective mercy ! And thou, O fire-ey'd fury, 
 
 Shalt he alone my conduct now. 
 
 [Dratvinq sword and advancinq.) Tybalt I 
 
 Mereutio's soul hovers — waiting for thine. 
 
 Rom. No hurt the wrong's transcending 
 
 Wrought to honour's harm; 
 
 May demon, dark aid lending. 
 
 Now nerve my 'venging arm \ 
 
 [Night approaches. 
 
 Rom. (To Ttb.) Fall on ! | Wounds him mortally. 
 
 Tyb. totters and falls into the arms of Cap. who enters. 
 
 SCENE IV.— Ti^e same, Capulet, Citizens, afterward* 
 the D0KE. 
 
 Cap. Ah heav'n ! Tybalt I 
 
 Ben. (To Rom.) He is mortally wounded. Hence begone 
 
 Quick, away ! 
 Rom. O evil fate^-dead ! — 
 
 And he was her kinsman I 
 
 Ben. If thou stay, 
 
 It is death ! 
 Rom. Let it then be so, 
 
 I am ready ! 
 Tyb. (Dying, to Cap.) Yet a word more — 
 
 This my last pray'r— see ye fulfil 1 
 
 Cap. On my soul do I swear that thy will 
 
 Shall be done ! [Enter Citizeiu 
 
 Citizens. How now ì Tybalt is slain I 
 Ben. ( Tc Rom.) Be thyself I 
 
 Chonis Ihe Duke ! 
 
 [Enter the Duks with suite and torch bearert
 
 ao 
 
 BOMBO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 [ CaptJeti. A noi giusriiia ! — 
 l ifonlfcciti. Giustizia a csi, Sisnore '. 
 
 Cap. (Al duca v>dÙ!ai>doffU Tkb. marta.) Giastizia ! 
 Tutti i Capnldi. Giastizia ! 
 
 Cap. E Tebaldo qni testé — 
 
 Svenalo da Romeo. 
 Som. In Mercnzio 1' acciar primiero egli torcea 
 
 L' uDÌstade e 1' onor Tendicar k» dorea ! 
 
 / Montecchi. Giustizis ! 
 
 / CavvJfti. Giastizia ! 
 
 H D. Ecche ? delitti ogcor ? Xel crudo vostro cor 
 Nulla dnnqne potrà 1' ire nitrici calmar 
 Nnila dunque di mano il brando a voi strappar, 
 Chi più faréie seguo All' odio vostro indecno ? 
 
 I Wgeiidosi a BoM. 
 Pel tuo fallir a morte la lettre ti danna 
 Ma r a^jTKSor non sei, basti il bando. 
 
 Rom. iCcìpito.) Ociel! 
 
 /J i). Se ali' imbrunir non s^ni il mio comando, 
 X' ascrivi solo i danni a te ! 
 
 Sarò d' or innanzi tremendo : 
 Da qae^o di por fine intendo. All' indulgenza 
 del mio core. 
 
 |Ii. D. «' alLmUma eoi wegHtto. 
 Bom. {Fra se, am disperazione.) Sorte crude! 1 1' elisigli I 
 Ah ! mono, ma la vò riveder ! 
 
 TIXB DELL ATTO TERZO. 
 
 ATTO IV. 
 
 La Camera di GiCLIETIA. 
 Sacu. — £,j fcf.vi e Waminata da un doppiere. 
 
 SCEU.ì 1.— RonEo, GiuuEWA. 
 GtOLlETTA è mdata ; BoXEC sia a suoi piaH. 
 
 Giìi. Va, t" ho «rfk perdonato : 
 
 TeValdo t' abborria, 
 E se lu no '1 -'pegnevi, 
 Sjjento il crudel t' avria. 
 Abbia or tregua il dolor 
 Xo, rimorsi non ho. 
 Ei r* esecrava, ed io r* amo. 
 
 Rom. Ah ! dillo ancora si dillo ancora 
 
 Ct«. Io t' amo n-jo hen. mio sposo. 
 Oh ! mìo Romeo. 
 
 Cap. ( To Duke.) Avenge me ! 
 Bftainers. Avengs us ! 
 
 Cap. {Poiatintf io Txb's corpse.) 
 
 Tybalt's slain — mv near friend ; on Romeo 
 
 Is bis blood. 
 
 Som. From Mercntio first 
 
 He struck out lusty life. Then I swore 
 His revenie ; for my fate I am ready ! 
 
 Montagues. Avenge us ! 
 
 Omnes. Avense us ! 
 
 LhJce. How now ? In this sad fray 
 
 Hath your anger found vent ? O deem ye not 
 
 My love for your brawls lies a-hleedinj ? 
 
 Xonght seemeth strontr to keep your hands 
 
 From off your hilrs. Who knoweth, I 
 
 May be next victim of yonr faction ! | T\. Bow 
 
 For this offence, oh Romeo, thon 
 
 Deservest death ; but as thon didst speak him t<ir. 
 
 Then thou art banished ! 
 
 Rom. (Aside.) Ofite! 
 
 Duhe. If from this night 
 
 Within the walls thou tarry, nor pray'rs 
 Xor tears shall avail j and deaf f liall I be 
 To all pleading ; for I hold that mercy 
 Bnt murders — when those that kill 
 It weakly pardons ! 
 
 Rom. O cmel fate ! 
 
 Exiled ! — exiled ! Xo — come what will 
 I will see her again ! 
 
 BKB OP TH]KD ACT. 
 
 JW. 
 
 Rom. 
 Jul.' 
 
 ACT IV. 
 
 The ckimher o/"Jni.iEi. 
 It is night. The room is lit by a torch. 
 
 SCENE L— Romeo, JtTLiET. 
 J1TI.IET, dùìcopercd on a ctmdi. Romeo at her /eel 
 
 Tes, I pardon thee this— 
 That Tybalt thou hast kill'd : for if Tybalt 
 Had lir'd, perchance thon would'st have fallen, 
 Comfort all this to me ! 'twas thy hfe he soDght 
 And I love thee ! 
 
 O speak again 
 
 That word so fair ! 
 
 Ah, Romeo 
 Thee I love — mv husband — dear unto me ! 
 
 NOTTS GESTIL V IMENE.-GO. 1 BLESSED NIGHT HTMENIAL. Dura. Boiixo aad JOUK. 
 
 JtnjET. 
 
 ^ 
 
 mm^^^^-^^^^^'e^^s^^m 
 
 Noi - te gen-til d' I - me • ne, O 
 
 Oh I blest ■ ed night Hy-n^-Bini Hours 
 
 Bono. 
 
 re ao-avi tl oar ! 
 to the heart so dear. 
 
 Per noi di rose Amor, Tn • 
 Ixm toeaves the chain$ tre looor Of 
 
 loz =r5:n5dri:zi>_ > t—*» — ?^> — t — ^^; ? '■ ^= — >-i — ^—, =zi
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 31 
 
 r ^ yJ — r- -> [:^/_/_>_ ^.cz _..c_>_>_> — «••-1.^^:5 • 
 
 su-teh&au-e ca-te- ne, 
 blooming ro-te» per-en - nial. 
 
 Ca - ri di-vini ac - cen - ti ; 
 Bo • ly and dear confess -ùm. 
 
 d^*'-:*! 
 
 ? ,'5__"«_J ^J^Li ~ | — :~ 
 
 Alia - Btichie vo - la - ta ! 
 Mi/i - le - ry tweel uf love. 
 
 Schiu - (ler tu fai le 
 TAou dosi un/old the 
 
 No che più bei mo - menti In cie-lo Id - dio non ha, Schiu 
 
 No more enraptured moments Are found in Aepu'n a • bove, Thou 
 
 Z . rìef^r' ^- ,i-ì-C~ '?fc=?^ — '— .— >J--=t5 
 
 i^t|5iiiSs^J^^3^^;ÌÌ^?%^l^j| 
 
 Schiu • der tu fai le por - te . ■ . . Del pa - 
 Thou dost un -fold the por - tal .... Of Par 
 
 ^ì»^Vi'r^ 
 
 ra-dÌ30 a me ! 
 a dite for me I 
 
 -»- 
 
 
 [r primi rafigi (U/V alba riscliìaran m 
 
 riate. O'dfsi il cardo d* un allodma, 
 
 Giù. O Borneo, deli ! che bai, tu 1 — 
 
 Rom. Ascolta o mia Giulietta : 
 
 Mcssaggiera del dì 
 Canta I' Allodoletta. 
 
 Giù. No, non albeg<ria ancor ; 
 
 La gentil melodia 
 Che pur dianzi, o mio ben, 
 I tuoi sensi feria. 
 Era il dolce usrtrnuol 
 Col suo cinto d' amor. 
 
 Ami. L' allodoletta ohimè 
 
 Messasera del di 
 Mira i gelo-i nii 
 Che r orizonte indora 
 E pur vedi sparir 
 La stella e 1' aurora, 
 Che sorridente e bella 
 Di rose adorna appar. 
 
 Giù. No, non albeggia ancor ! 
 
 Inopportuna e mesta 
 E di luna il b.iglior 
 Resta ancor I t' amo, sai 1 
 
 Bon. Venga U n one ornai — io resto 
 Giù. Ah ! è pur vero spunta il dì 
 
 Va, forza è lasciar la tua Giali;<tca. 
 /toni. Ah ! non albeggia ancor. 
 
 La gentil melodia 
 
 D' u'-ignuolo è gli è 
 
 Col suo canto d' amor. 
 
 Giù L' allodolatta ohimè 
 
 Che avverte il mio cor. 
 
 Parti mia viia — 
 Bern. Anco n.i bacio — e parto. 
 
 le invet- 
 
 [Day breaks: the lark is heard. 
 Jul. Wilt begone ? — Nay, not yet ! 
 
 Ram. (Rising.) Ah! hearken. 
 
 Dearest Juliet, 'tis the lark that thou hearest. 
 The herald of mom. 
 
 Jul. (Restraining ìàm.) No! 'tis not yet near da;, 
 
 'Twas no lark pierced thine ear, love. 
 
 But the strain thou dost hear 
 
 From the pomegranate rising 
 
 Is the nightingale's note 
 
 That she nightly sings there ! 
 Rom. Xay, 'tis the lark, alas ! 
 
 Early herald of morn ; look, love. 
 
 What envious streaks, clouds in the east 
 
 Are lacing ! now night's candles 
 
 Are burning palely : on the moantains. 
 
 On tip-toe standeth jocund day ; 
 
 I must begone— or die ! 
 
 Jul. 
 
 Rom. 
 Jul. 
 
 Rom. 
 
 Jul. 
 
 Rom. 
 
 No! 
 No, love, it is not day — 
 Rather some wandering meteor 
 For thee the sun's exhaled, as a torch 
 On thy way ! Stay, then, stay ! 
 
 ( Rom emhuces Jul. pcoioufW) 
 Let me be put to death — .liou wiliest ! 
 
 Ah ! thou wert right, it is day I 
 Go ! hie hence away — tarry no longer I 
 No, no ! 'tis not yet near day, 
 'Twas no lark pierc'd thine ear, love ; 
 'Twas the nightingale's note 
 On the pomegranate tree ! 
 
 Navi 
 'Tis the lark, alas, early herald of mom, 
 Love, now leave me ! 
 
 One kisi more. 
 And I go !
 
 39 
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Oiu. Oh, dolore ) lei^ crndele. 
 
 Ami. 
 
 Giù. 
 
 Giù. 
 
 e 
 Rom. 
 
 Ah! 
 
 Sul mio seno cosi I 
 
 Resta ancor ! resta ancor ! 
 
 Sarà dolcezza al cor 
 
 E al nostro amor fedele 
 
 La sorte un dì crudele 
 
 Rimembrar allor. 
 Tu dei partir, ohimè ! 
 
 Romeo lasciar mi de, 
 
 Il cor si spezza. 
 
 Debbo strapparti & questa dolce ebrezza. 
 
 Tu dei ).-.■, 
 Dovrò Jpatt"- ohimè! 
 
 Romeo lasciar 
 
 d% 
 
 Ron. 
 Già. 
 
 Giù. 
 
 Il cor si spezza, 
 
 Ì Debbo strapparti à questa dolce ebbrezza 
 Deh ! non rapirmi a si celeste ebbrezza I 
 La sorte ria 
 Che da te mi separa, 
 Più degni morte 
 E crudele ed amara. 
 Tu dei partir ohimè ! etc. etc, 
 Addio! mia Giulietta! Addio! 
 Addio ! 
 
 Ognor ò tè 1 
 
 [Egli scende dal balcone e dispare 
 {Soia.) Addio, mia vita 
 Addio amor ! 
 
 Santi del cielo 
 A voi confido il mio core. 
 
 SCENA n. — Giulietta, Geltetjde, poi Capuleto 
 
 e F. LOBENZO 
 
 Gel. {Entrando.) 
 
 Giulietta ! — ah ! sia lode al ciel ! 
 
 Il tuo sposo partì, ecco il genitore. 
 Giù. Ciel '—egli sa ? 
 Gel. Nulla, io spero 
 
 Padre Lorenzo il segue. 
 Giù. Signor di noi pietà. 
 
 [Entrano Cap e F. LoR 
 
 Cap. Che, mia figlia, appena in ciel sorge 1' aurora, 
 E già (lesta se' tu? — perchè non dormi ancora? 
 Ohimè ! certo un medesmc pensier, ben lo so 
 Duo stesso dolor, col mattin ne destò — 
 
 A tanto lutto omai d' Imen succeda il canto 
 Fedele ai voti estremi che Tebaldo formò 
 Lo sposo prendi al fin che morendo ei nomò 
 Sorridi, tergi omai tuo lungo pianto 1 
 
 Giù. Questo sposo sareobe ? — 
 
 Cap. De pai valenti il 6or 
 
 Il conte Pari. 
 Giù. Ciel !— 
 
 F. Ijot. (c. s.) Ah ! taci. 
 
 Gel. {Piano a Gic.) Taci deh ! per pietà. 
 
 Cap. L' aitar 1' attende già ; si compia il sacro rito ! 
 
 Uniti siate entrambi, siate uniti all' istante 
 
 E 1' ombra di Tebaldo a queste Imene innante, 
 
 Sì plachi, alfine e ti conforti. 
 
 Jul. Morn grows lighter, 
 
 Fate grows darker ! 
 Rom. Yet doubt not 
 
 That we'll meet, my Jnliet, again I 
 
 And all these woes shall serre, lore. 
 
 For sweet discourses in onr time to come I 
 
 Jul. But now indeed farewell ! 
 
 For dawn doth end the spell 
 
 With young love glowing. 
 And thou my soul's delight. 
 
 Afar art going ! 
 
 Bon. But now indeed farewell ! 
 
 For dawn doth end the spell 
 With young love glowing, 
 From thee my soul's delight, 
 Aftir I'm going! 
 
 Jul. O fortune, grant 
 
 Though we part now in sorrow, 
 
 Our love may blossom 
 More brightly to-morrow I 
 
 Rom, Farewell ! — lo, it is morning, 
 
 Jul. ^ Rom. Farewell 1 my soul, my love ! 
 
 [Rom. goes off the balcony. JcL. watdws his deteeHt 
 
 Jul. Farewell oh dear one ! Angels above, 
 
 To you, to you, I now confide my love ! 
 
 [Enter Ger. hattibf. 
 
 SCENE n.- 
 
 -Juliet, Gertrude, afterwards Capuixt 
 and Friar Lawrence. 
 
 Ger. Where is Juliet '> (sees her.) ah ! a mercy my child 
 That your husband is gone ! your father is coming I 
 
 Jul. 
 Ger. 
 
 Jul. 
 
 Cap. 
 
 Jul. 
 Cap. 
 
 Heav'n ! will he know 1 
 
 Nay, that he will not ; 
 With him the friar comes — 
 
 In heav'n 
 I put my trust ! 
 
 [Enter Cap. and F. Law 
 How now daughter 1 the day-light yet is young 
 In heaven — and behold ! thou'rt awake, 
 As if thou had'st not slumber'd. Al;v;k! 
 On thee, too, weigheth my care, I can see, 
 And a deep regret for the youth we have lost I 
 I'll have the knot tied up, 
 Before this time to-morrow, 
 A husband soon will dry all her grief for the slain. 
 Now that the wayward girl knows her duty again, 
 My heart feeleth 
 
 No more its sorrow ! 
 Who is he, I'm to wed Ì 
 The noblest of us all ! Paris, brave and true I 
 
 Jul. {In terror.) Ah! 
 Law. {Aside to J VI..) Be silent I 
 Ger. (Aside to Jul.) On your guard I 
 
 Cap. Sleep, Tybalt, sleep in peace ! though 
 The gay marriage-train caroaseth. 
 Worthy is the county, that thy bride espouseth. 
 Worthy her, worthy thee, 
 
 So, Tybalt sleep in peace ' 
 At holy l'oter'a shrine 
 
 My child shall Paris marry. 
 For all things now are well, and my heart*! WOD 
 drous li.'ht.
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 23 
 
 Zi' «Ito voler de' morti come fosse di Dio è sacro : 
 Iiegge eli' è suprema, di natura è legge 
 Noi dobbiam venerar, la loro volontà 
 ai. 
 Giù. (Fra te.) Non temer o mio oen, rimorso il cor non ha. 
 Gti. (Fra »e.) Nella tomba lasciam dormir chi sceso è gii». 
 Cap. Noi dobbiam venerar la loro volontà. 
 F.ìjor. {Fra te.) Ella trema ed io purgià sento in cor di lei 
 
 lei pietà. 
 Cap. Padre Lorenzo, norma a te saprà qui dettar. 
 
 Gli amici giungon già ; Li vado lul incontrar. 
 
 [Egli sarte con Gel. 
 
 SCENA III. — Fra Lokenzo, — Gidlietta. 
 
 Giù. Mio padre, più non reggo, tutto è perduto — 
 
 10 v' ho per obbedir celato il mio dolor 
 
 La mia colpevol speme. Deh ! lenite il mio martir 
 
 Vogliatemi sottrar al dolor che mi preme : 
 
 Pietade o Padre ! oppur qui m' appresto a morir. 
 
 F. Lor. Ebben, timor nullo hai tu della morte 1 
 Giù. No ! meglio è morir, che sopportar tal sorte. 
 
 F. Lor. [Porgendole un ampolla.) 
 
 Bevi allor questo filtro : per le membra e nel cor 
 
 Serpeggiar sentirai repentino languor 
 
 Come fossi all' estremo spiro 
 
 Del tue sangue, fra poco, arresterassi il corso. 
 
 Fra poco un livido pallor di morte, 
 Offuscherà di tue guancie le rose ; 
 Socchiuderansi immoti i tuoi fulgenti rai, 
 E mille voce 1' aura assorderan di lai 
 Ah ! non è piti diran le pallenti tue forme 
 Ma gli spirti ilei C'iel canteranno : " Ella dorme." 
 - E dopo un giorno appena, i tuoi begl' occhi oppressi, 
 Siccome in morta brage fuscello che s' avvivi, 
 
 Scuoteranno alfine il letargo lor, 
 
 11 tuo diletto ed io, la nell' ombra furtivi. 
 Vigili attenderem del tuo risorge 1' ora 
 Poi seco fuggirai pria che sponti 1' aurora. 
 Esiti ancor ^ 
 
 Giù. (Prendendo V ampolla.) 
 
 No, in voi mio padre spero e m' affido. 
 F. Lor. A diman ! 
 Giù. A diman ! [F. Lor. sorte. 
 
 I Odesi un preludio d' organo. Entra Cap., Pari, e 
 alcuni amici. 
 
 Cap. (Offrendo la mano a Gin. che f alza.) 
 O figlia, r eccheggiar 
 Odi di suoni e Canti 
 Al imeneo t' appresta 
 Di rose cinta appar 
 E felice tu sarai 
 Al pie del santo Aitar. 
 
 [Pak. «' amanza per mettere il tuo annetto in dito 
 a Gin 
 
 For joy of this glad news, I will not sleep to-night, 
 Prepare ye — and see 
 
 That mirth nor music tarry ! 
 a 4. 
 Jul. (Aside.) Still my heart is thine, my love for aye! 
 Ger. (Aside.) Let the dead in cold obstruction rest for aye I 
 Law. (Aside.) How she tremble» I still her heart will love 
 
 obey. 
 Cap. Rest, O Tybalt in peace — the dead I shall obey ! 
 Daughter, remain i 
 To receive the guests while I go — 
 
 Father Lawrence, to thee. 
 Thy duty now will show ! 
 
 {Exit, followed by Geb 
 
 SCENE in. — Friar Lawrf.ncb and Juliet. 
 
 Jul. (In despair.) My father! 
 
 I am past cure, past hope, past help ! 
 
 Love, and my secret troth I've kept hid in my breast, 
 
 For thou did'st so advise me. In my need 
 
 Now to thee I turn ; from out thy long 
 
 Experience, give present counsel. 
 
 give me, my father, a hope — if not. 
 
 Then I'm ready to die I 
 
 [She takes a dagger from her breast. 
 Law. My child ! then death has for thee no terrors ? 
 Jul. No ! — none — far worse than death 
 Living a wife, shame-stained ! 
 
 [Law. takes out a phial. 
 Law. Drink then, drink of this potion. 
 
 When thou shall be alone : quick, a drowsy humor 
 
 Shall run thro' thy veins : and shall seize on 
 
 Each vital spirit: then its progress 
 
 No pulse shall keep, but shall cease to beat I 
 
 Ail soon the roses on thy lip, and on 
 
 Thy cheek shall wither and fade into ashes; 
 
 Thine eyelids too will close — as life is shut 
 
 By death 
 
 In vain 
 Loud will they raise the sound of lamentation, 
 " Juliet is dead ! Juliet is dead ! " For so 
 Shall they deem thee reposing. But 
 The angels above will reply " she but sleeps ! " 
 For two-and-forty hours, thou shalt lie in death's 
 
 seeming, 
 And then, to life awaking as from a pleasant dreaming. 
 From the ancient vault thou shalt haste away ; 
 Thy husband shall be there, in the night to wateh 
 
 o'er thee, 
 Nigh to thee ever, on thy waking we will stay, 
 So shall this draught once more to life and love 
 
 restore thee. 
 Art thou afraid ? 
 Jul. (Takina the phial.) No! love gives me strength, 
 And that strength help affurdeth I 
 
 Law. Till the hour! 
 
 Jul. Till the hour I [Exit I^kw. 
 
 [7 Re organ is heard. Enter Cap., Pabis, ana tevcrai 
 friends. 
 
 Cap My daughter ! this thy hand 
 
 On thy betroth'd bestowing, 
 His spouse now shalt thou be. 
 By the sanction divine ; 
 May fortune fair be thine. 
 And happiness o'erflowing. 
 
 Come I stays the marriage rite, 
 Seek we the holy shrine I 
 
 [Par. tries to put the wedding ring on Jvl's. finger. Sht 
 shudders and withdraws it.
 
 34 
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Giù. ( Ritirando In sun mano e salto voce come in sogno. ) 
 Neil' odio fu concetto, quest' in felice amor, 
 Fora r avel mio sof^ijiorDo nuzìal ! 
 
 [Ella si stacca dal capo la corona nuziale: i tuoi 
 capelli si snodano e le ricadono sulle spalle. 
 Cap. Figlia mia ritorna in te f 
 
 Giù. Ah ! mi sorregete ! Mancar mi sento ! — 
 
 [ Gli astanti la circondano. 
 
 Deb. ! qual tremito e il mio ! qual odo arcano accento ? — 
 Forse di morte ? io manco. Ah ! padre — Addio ! 
 
 [Ella cade esanime. 
 
 Cap. O Giulietta ! O figlio 
 
 Ah ! Spenta ! 
 Tut. ( Con terrore.) Spenta ! Giusto Ciel 1 
 
 FINE DKLL ATTO QUAKIO. 
 
 I Jul. {In a revery.ì My one love on the earth. 
 
 Sprung from my only hate ! Then ahall iht i;ni*v 
 Be my cold we<i'ding-bed ! 
 I [She plucks off her marriatje wreath, and unloo»^$ ^^ trraMv. 
 She grows Jainter ar.d fainter. 
 Cap. Come ! 
 
 My daughter, be not afraid ! * 
 
 Jul. Ah ! help, I say I 
 
 I'm falling — 
 
 [She totters — th^ tupjiort hn 
 And what meaneth tliis darkness ! 
 Whose is that voice that calls me ? can it be death ' 
 O Heav'n ! — my father ! — farewell ! 
 
 [She falls insensible in hit amu 
 Cap. My Juliet ! 
 
 Mv daughter ! — lifeless !^-dead ! 
 All. ' She is dead ! 
 
 BND OF THE FOURTH AOT. 
 
 Rom 
 
 ATTO V. 
 
 Le tombe de' Capuleti sotterraneo. 
 
 SCENA I. — GinLiETTA, poi Romeo. 
 
 Sinfonia. 
 In capo a qualche istanti, s* ode il fracasso d' una leva cht 
 forza la porta. Q,aesta cade con rumore. Romeo com. 
 pare. 
 
 , Salve ! oh ! tomba salve spietato avel ! 
 Un avel ! no ! no ! 
 Un asilo piìi bello. E vano il cercar nel ciel I 
 Ahi Salve maggion raggiante di splendor ! 
 
 [Scorgendo Giu. a precipitandosi verso di lei. 
 Ah ! eir è là— è dessa ! 
 Prende la lampada che sta sulla tomba e osserva il volto di GlU. 
 
 0, mia sposa '■ — tu o mia diletta 
 
 La morte, nel rapir 1' immortai tua beli' alma 
 
 Non volle offuscar tua beli'a. 
 
 No, no ; questa beltà che m' accende. 
 
 Sul tuo volto sereno ancor intera splende, 
 
 E sorride all' eternità. 
 
 [Ripone la lampada sulla tomba. 
 
 Perchè la mostri a me si bella o livida morte? 
 Forsa per affrettarmi la beli' alma a seguir 
 Va ! questo è il solo ben eh' appagar può mia sorte 
 E la tua preda ornai non ti potrà fuggir 
 
 I (Guardando a se d' iutonw. 
 
 Cara mi sei tu fatta adesso 
 
 Tomba pietosa or dei 
 
 Per sempre unirmi a lei 
 
 O mio braccio dalle ancor tuo amplesso 
 
 Mia b<jcca dalle pur I' estremo bacio d' amor. 
 
 [Ablrraccia e Im-ia Oiv., poi to</liendosi dal giusta cuone 
 un ampolla di metallo ne beve il contenuto. 
 
 Ti scg'io mia Giullietta — 
 Giù. {Scuotandosi ; poco a poco.) Ove son io? 
 Sam. {Fissandogli archi su Qw.) Gran dio I 
 
 Sua bocca mor(non>^ 1 
 
 Rom 
 
 ACT V. 
 
 TTie vault of the CapiUets. 
 SCENE I. — Romeo, then Jcliet. 
 
 Symphony, then the noise of a crowbar is heard. The door 
 yields. Enter ROM. with the iron bar in his hand, 
 
 'Tis here ! [Throws aside hi» bar. 
 
 All hail, O tomb, home of the silent dead ! 
 Not a tomb ! No ! for here Juliet is lying, 
 Miikins the grim vault fidi of light. 
 All hail ! shrine, radiant and bright ! 
 
 [Perceives and rushes towards her 
 Ah ! she is there — my Juliet ! 
 
 [ Takes the lamp to see her the more distinctly 
 Burn, 
 O torch in the gloom I to me, show her again V 
 Wife beloved ! — Ah. thou art not conquered ; 
 For death, though it has drawn from thy breath 
 All the honey, to change thee yet lack'd 
 The pow'r. No, siili beauty's ensign is crimson 
 In thy lips, love — and death's pale flag 
 Is not advanced there ! 
 
 [Replaces the lamp on the tomi. 
 O, is it, 
 Unsubstantial death of thee is amorous. 
 And that the lean abhori'èd monster keeps 
 Theo here ? For fear of that I'll stay with thee, 
 My beloved, nor again from this palace 
 Of dim night depart. 
 
 Yes, mv weary yoke 
 Now off-shaking, O, hero will I set up 
 My everlasiin»; rest. Eyes, O look your last; 
 Arms, take your last embrace ; and kiss her, lips. 
 That are the doors of breath ! 
 
 [Ue embraces JoL. then takes a phial of poison from his pouch. 
 
 My love, 
 
 Thus do I pledge thee I [He drinks the poiton. 
 
 Jul. (Half awaking.) Where .-.m I ? 
 
 Rom. (Siartled.) 'Twa< but fancy ! Am I dreaming? 
 
 Yet eurclv she did sneak I [Seizes her hand
 
 ROMEO E GIULIETTA. 
 
 Q5 
 
 Mia mano — ah! tremo ancor I 
 Si, la mia man senti — palpitare il suo cor — 
 
 \Gtv. guarda liOM, con ismarrimento. 
 Ella schiude i rai ! — ella sorge ! — 
 
 Giù. {Sospirando.) Romeo ! 
 
 Som. Vergin benedetta I 
 
 (Giù. posca un piede sui gradini delta tomba. 
 Vivo ancor, mia Giulietta. 
 Giù. Deh ! qual è questa Toce che m' empie il cor di 
 
 [speme 1 
 Rom. Son io lo sposo tnn < 
 
 Che moria di dolor ma pia felice amante, 
 Ei ridona al tuo cor la luce inebriamo, 
 
 Dell' amor e del ciel. 
 
 Giù. (Precipitandosi fra la braccia di RoM.) 
 
 Ah 1 sei tu ' — 
 Bom. Vieni 1 fuggi con me I — 
 
 Giù. Oh trasporto ■ — 
 Rom. e Giù. Vieni un piìi pietoso molo 
 Vieni scordando il duolo 
 Felici ancor vivretn 
 
 Deh ! vien I 
 Dio di bontà, fonte di vita, 
 Oh 1 Signor 
 Benedetto ognor. 
 flora. ( Con un grido straziante. | 
 
 Ah ! dei parenti il coi è macigno cnidel 1 
 
 Giù. Che di tu ? Romeo I 
 
 Rom. Non nianti. je preghiere 
 
 Nulla puote intenerir — 
 Alla porta del ciel Giulietta, già felice con te, e morir. 
 Giù. Morir ! — ahj la febbre t' ofusca ! 
 Di te qual delirio s' iiidona'* 
 Rientra in te, ti parli la ragioD*. 
 Rom. Ohimè ti credetti moria 
 
 E — ed io bevei — il velen ' — 
 Giù. Un velen ! giusto ciel ! — 
 
 Rom. (Stringendo Gm. fra ìa sue braccia ) 
 Consolati fu sogno 
 Ahi ! troppo breve e bello 
 L' amor celeste tìamma 
 Sorvive oltre T avello 
 E neir etra scolpito 
 Va fra gì' angeli eletti 
 Come luce divina 
 In sen all' infinito. 
 Giu. (Con dispera:.) Oh dolor ! — oh tortura I — 
 Horn. ( Con languente, f 
 
 Ascolta, o mia Giulietta 
 Messasgier.i del li'i canta 1' allodoletta 
 Ah ! non alhe;:gia ancor 
 Egli è il dolce u.sigiuiolo 
 Che sospira il suo duolo 
 Cauta e more d' amor 
 ^Heimta dalle braccia di Giù. e cade sui gradini del sepolcro. 
 jlu. ( liaccoijiiendo l' ampolla.) 
 
 Ah ! sposo crudel ! di quel veleno 
 Restasse ancor un sorso almeno ; 
 [Getta l' anifiolla e resta alquanto indecisa ; poi scorgendo 
 tutto a un trailo il pugnale che RoH. cinge al fitanco, to 
 strappa repentinamente. 
 
 Ah ! ben giungi, o Pugnai 1 
 
 Le nostre alme unirai \Sife'isce 
 
 Rom. Rialzandosi alquanto.) 
 Ciel ! che fisti mai ! 
 3iu. ( Gettandosi fi a le braccia di Rom. ) 
 
 My hands, 
 Trembling the while, feel in hers 
 That the life-blood is still running warm! 
 [She opens her eyes, raises her head slightly, and looks at ku 
 Now her eyes open ! She ariseth I 
 Jul. (Moving.) Where's my lord ì 
 Rom. thou merciful heaVn ' 
 
 She's alive I sne's alive ! 
 Jul. Sits up, and puts Iter feel on the ground. 
 Jul. Ah 1 methought that I hcnrd. 
 
 Tones that I lov'd, soft falling ! 
 Rom. 'Tis 1 1 Romeo — thine own — 
 Who thy slumbers have stirr'd, 
 Led by my heart alone, 
 Thee, my bride, unto love 
 And the fair world recalling I 
 
 Jul. falls inti kis 
 Jul. mine own ! 
 
 Rom. Come let's fly heuce 1 
 
 Jul. Happy dawn ! 
 
 Rom. ) Coiije, the world is all before as, 
 
 ^ > Two hearts, yet one I 
 
 Jul. ) Grant that our love — 
 
 Be now and ever 
 Holy and pure, till our life shall end. 
 
 Rom. (Tottering.) 
 
 Ah ! hearts of stone — ay, harder than stone, 
 Have our fathers ! 
 Jul. (Frightened.) 
 
 But thy words are so wild I 
 Rom. Nur sorrow, nor entreaty, softened them 
 
 To their children's prayer ! on the thresholo 
 Of joy we are standing — yet we die I 
 Jul. We die I I Romeo, suro thou wanderest ! 
 What strange terrors seize on thy fancy ? 
 My love — my lord, recall ihee to thyself. 
 Rom. Alas ! I believed thee dead, love, at.d — 
 
 I drank of this draught ! [Shows the phiuL 
 
 Jul. Of that draught I 
 
 It is death ! [They rmbraot 
 
 Rom. Yield not thyself to sorrow. 
 
 Our dream was all too bright. 
 Now dawns a fairer morrow, 
 
 Shall never set in night ! 
 From a dull slumber waking. 
 
 In a fiir dawn I rise. 
 Chains my soul now is breaking. 
 To heav'n dove-like it flies 1 
 
 Jul. my heart — break, break in sorrow ! 
 Rom . (Meandering.) 
 
 Yet hark ! Juliet my dearest — 'tis the lark, 
 Early Jierald proclaiming the day I 
 
 No, no ! 
 'Tis not yet near day ! 'Tis no lark 
 Thou dost hear, love ! but the nightingale lone 
 On the pomegranate tree ! 
 [Ue slips from her arms, and falls on the stens of the bier. 
 Jul. (Takiiiq Ike phial.) Ah! thou churl, 
 
 Drink all ! no friendly drop thou'st leit me. 
 To help me, so I die with thee ! 
 [She flings the phial away, then remembering tne dagger, 
 draws iljrom her breast. 
 
 Ah! 
 Here's my dagger still ! I'd forgotten thee, — 
 Friend ; now happy dagger, behold thy sheath ! 
 [She slabs herself. With a supreme effort, Rom. half rai» 
 es htinsf'lf, Jul. sinks in hts arms. 
 Rom. Hold I hold thy hand ! 
 Jul. Ah, happy moment.
 
 6 
 
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 Ah ! lieta appieno or lon ! — 
 
 I Lioscia cadere il pugnale' 
 M' è caro in qaest' ora paprema 
 
 Il morir qui con te 
 Vien ! prendi un bacio — lo t" amo 
 [Facendo un ultimo sforzo, si rialza a mejsn. 
 Oiu. Signor, di noi pietà . — 
 
 I Sptramo. Cadt la tda 
 
 Stay I My soni now with rapture 19 (trolling, 
 Thus to die, love, with tiiee. 
 
 [She let» fall the dagger 
 Yet one embrace I 
 I love thee I 
 
 [ TTiei) half rise in each otherM armi. 
 Jul. h»«T D grant us thy grace ' 
 
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