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BOMEO AND JULIET. 75 

Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen — 

Lovers can see to do their amorous rites 

By their own beauties ; or, if love be blind, 

It best agrees with night. — Come, civil night, 

Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. 

And learn me how to lose a winning match, 

Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. 

Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks, 

With thy black mantle, till strange love grown bold 

Think true love acted simple modesty. 

Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night ; 

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night 

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. 

Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night. 

Give me my Eomeo ; and, when he shall die. 

Take him and cut him out in little stars. 

And he will make the face of heaven so fine 

That all the world will be in love with night 

And pay no worship to the garish sun. — 

0, I have bought the mansion of a love. 

But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold. 

Not yet enjoy'd. So tedious is this day 

As is the night before some festival 

To an impatient child that hath new robes 

And may not wear them. — 0, here comes my nurse. 

And she brings news ; and every tongue that speaks 

But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence. —