{"id":4779,"date":"2015-09-10T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4779"},"modified":"2015-09-10T21:25:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:25:52","slug":"romeo-and-juliet-act-iii-scene-iii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4779","title":{"rendered":"Romeo and Juliet: Act III, Scene iii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romeo and Juliet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 3, Scene 3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friar Laurence<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Ralf Jean-Pierre<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0to open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

108. \u00a0Hold thy desperate hand:<\/span>
\n109. \u00a0Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:<\/span>
\n110. \u00a0Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote<\/span>
\n111. \u00a0The unreasonable fury of a beast:<\/span>
\n112. \u00a0Unseemly woman in a seeming man!<\/span>
\n113. \u00a0Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!<\/span>
\n114. \u00a0Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,<\/span>
\n115. \u00a0I thought thy disposition better temper’d.<\/span>
\n116. \u00a0Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?<\/span>
\n117. \u00a0And stay thy lady too that lives in thee,<\/span>
\n118. \u00a0By doing damned hate upon thyself?<\/span>
\n119. \u00a0Why rail’st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?<\/span>
\n120. \u00a0Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet<\/span>
\n121. \u00a0In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose.<\/span>
\n122. \u00a0Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;<\/span>
\n123. \u00a0Which, like a usurer, abound’st in all,<\/span>
\n124. \u00a0And usest none in that true use indeed<\/span>
\n125. \u00a0Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:<\/span>
\n126. \u00a0Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,<\/span>
\n127. \u00a0Digressing from the valour of a man;<\/span>
\n128. \u00a0Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,<\/span>
\n129. \u00a0Killing that love which thou hast vow’d to cherish;<\/span>
\n130. \u00a0Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,<\/span>
\n131. \u00a0Misshapen in the conduct of them both,<\/span>
\n132. \u00a0Like powder in a skitless soldier’s flask,<\/span>
\n133. \u00a0Is set afire by thine own ignorance,<\/span>
\n134. \u00a0And thou dismember’d with thine own defence.<\/span>
\n135. \u00a0What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,<\/span>
\n136. \u00a0For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;<\/span>
\n137. \u00a0There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,<\/span>
\n138. \u00a0But thou slew’st Tybalt; there are thou happy too:<\/span>
\n139. \u00a0The law that threaten’d death becomes thy friend<\/span>
\n140. \u00a0And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:<\/span>
\n141. \u00a0A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back;<\/span>
\n142. \u00a0Happiness courts thee in her best array;<\/span>
\n143. \u00a0But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,<\/span>
\n144. \u00a0Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love:<\/span>
\n145. \u00a0Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.<\/span>
\n146. \u00a0Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,<\/span>
\n147. \u00a0Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:<\/span>
\n148. \u00a0But look thou stay not till the watch be set,<\/span>
\n149. \u00a0For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;<\/span>
\n150. \u00a0Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time<\/span>
\n151. \u00a0To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,<\/span>
\n152. \u00a0Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back<\/span>
\n153. \u00a0With twenty hundred thousand times more joy<\/span>
\n154. \u00a0Than thou went’st forth in lamentation.<\/span>
\n155. \u00a0Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;<\/span>
\n156. \u00a0And bid her hasten all the house to bed,<\/span>
\n157. \u00a0Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:<\/span>
\n158. \u00a0Romeo is coming.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romeo and Juliet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 3, Scene 3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friar Laurence (This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Ralf Jean-Pierre) Click here\u00a0to open a scanned version. 108. \u00a0Hold thy desperate hand: 109. \u00a0Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: 110. \u00a0Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4779","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"Romeo and Juliet: Act III, Scene iii | The State of Shakespeare","description":"Romeo and Juliet. Act 3, Scene 3. Friar Laurence (This text is featured in our interview with Ralf Jean-Pierre) Click here to open a scanned version. 108. Hold thy desperate hand: 109. Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: 110. Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts","canonical_url":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4779","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"google-site-verification":"UA-28965856-1","p:domain_verify":"d36dfa872cf08cb1686a0c207bca81df","miscellaneous":""},"schema":null,"og:locale":"en_US","og:site_name":"The State of Shakespeare","og:type":"website","og:title":"Romeo and Juliet: Act III, Scene iii | The State of Shakespeare","og:description":"Romeo and Juliet. Act 3, Scene 3. Friar Laurence (This text is featured in our interview with Ralf Jean-Pierre) Click here to open a scanned version. 108. Hold thy desperate hand: 109. Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: 110. Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts","og:url":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4779","fb:admins":"100001614971768","og:image":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/stateofshakes_600x600.jpg","og:image:secure_url":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/stateofshakes_600x600.jpg","og:image:width":600,"og:image:height":600,"twitter:card":"photo","twitter:site":"@stateofshakespe","twitter:title":"Romeo and Juliet: Act III, Scene iii | The State of Shakespeare","twitter:description":"Romeo and Juliet. Act 3, Scene 3. Friar Laurence (This text is featured in our interview with Ralf Jean-Pierre) Click here to open a scanned version. 108. Hold thy desperate hand: 109. Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: 110. Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts","twitter:image":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/stateofshakes_600x600.jpg"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"4779","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":"","og_description":"","og_object_type":"website","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":"","og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":"","og_article_tags":"","twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"photo","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":null,"schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2021-01-04 18:36:21","updated":"2026-04-03 02:07:14","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"

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