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ROMEO AND JULIET. I35 

Unter Montague and others. 

Prince. Come, Montague ; for thou art early up, 
-To see thy son and heir more early down. 

Montague. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night ; 
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath. 
What further woe conspires against mine age ? 

Prince. Look, and thou shalt see. 

Mo7itague. thou untaught ! what manners is in this, 
To press before thy father to a grave ? 

Prince. Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while. 
Till we can clear these ambiguities. 
And know their spring, their head, their true descent ; 
And then will I be general of your woes, 
And lead you even to death : meantime forbear. 
And let mischance be slave to patience.' — 
Bring forth the parties of suspicion. , 

Friar Laurence. I am the greatest, able to do least, 
Yet most suspected, as the time and place 
Doth make against me, of this direful murder ; 
And here I stand, both to impeach and purge 
Myself condemned and myself excus'd. 

Prince. Then say at once what thou dost know in this. 

Friar Laurence. I will be brief, for my short date of 
breath 
Is not so long as is a tedious tale. 
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; 
And she, there dead, that Eomeo's faithful wife.