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ROMEO AND JULIET. 137 

She wakes, and I entreated her come forth, 
And bear this work of heaven with patience ; 
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb. 
And she too desperate would not go with me, 
But, as it seems, did violence on herself. 
All this I know ; and to the marriage 
Her nurse is privy : and, if aught in this 
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life 
Be sacrific'd some hour before his time 
Unto the rigor of severest law. 

Prince. We still have known thee for a holy man. — 
Where's Romeo's man ? what can he say in this ? 

Balthasar. I brought my master news of Juliet's 
death, 
And then in post he came from Mantua 
To this same place, to this same monument. 
This letter he early bid me give his father, 
And threaten'd me with death, going in the vault, 
If I departed not and left him there. 

Prince. Give me the letter ; I will look on it. — 
Where is the county's page that rais'd the watch ? — 
Sirrah, what made your master in this place ? 

Page. He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave ; 
And bid me stand aloof, and so I did. 
Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb, 
And by and by my master drew on him ; 
And then I ran away to call the watch.