| ACT V SCENE II | Friar Laurence's cell. | |
| | Enter FRIAR JOHN | |
| FRIAR JOHN | Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho! | |
| | Enter FRIAR LAURENCE | |
| FRIAR LAURENCE | This same should be the voice of Friar John. | |
| | Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo? | |
| | Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. | 5 |
| FRIAR JOHN | Going to find a bare-foot brother out | |
| | One of our order, to associate me, | |
| | Here in this city visiting the sick, | |
| | And finding him, the searchers of the town, | |
| | Suspecting that we both were in a house | 10 |
| | Where the infectious pestilence did reign, | |
| | Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth; | |
| | So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd. | |
| FRIAR LAURENCE | Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? | |
| FRIAR JOHN | I could not send it,--here it is again,-- | 15 |
| | Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, | |
| | So fearful were they of infection. | |
| FRIAR LAURENCE | Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood, | |
| | The letter was not nice but full of charge | |
| | Of dear import, and the neglecting it | 20 |
| | May do much danger. Friar John, go hence; | |
| | Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight | |
| | Unto my cell. | |
| FRIAR JOHN | Brother, I'll go and bring it thee. | |
| | Exit | |
| FRIAR LAURENCE | Now must I to the monument alone; | 25 |
| | Within three hours will fair Juliet wake: | |
| | She will beshrew me much that Romeo | |
| | Hath had no notice of these accidents; | |
| | But I will write again to Mantua, | |
| | And keep her at my cell till Romeo come; | 30 |
| | Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb! | |
| | Exit | |
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