[Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse]
JULIET Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?
Nurse The son and heir of old Tiberio.
JULIET What's he that now is going out of door?
Nurse Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.
JULIET What's he that follows there, that would not dance?
Nurse I know not.
JULIET Go ask his name: if he be married.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Nurse His name is Romeo, and a Montague;
The only son of your great enemy.
JULIET My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
Nurse What's this? what's this?
JULIET A rhyme I learn'd even now
Of one I danced withal.
[One calls within 'Juliet.']
Nurse Anon, anon!
Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.
[Exeunt]
ROMEO AND JULIET
ACT II
PROLOGUE
[Enter Chorus]
Chorus Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
Alike betwitched by the charm of looks,
But to his foe supposed he must complain,
And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:
Being held a foe, he may not have access
To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;
And she as much in love, her means much less
To meet her new-beloved any where:
But passion lends them power, time means, to meet
Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.
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