eo seeing, begged pardon of his lifeless corse,
and for Juliet's sake called him _cousin_, and said that he was about to
do him a favour by putting his enemy to death. Here Romeo took his last
leave of his lady's lips, kissing them; and here he shook the burden of
his cross stars from his weary body, swallowing that poison which the
apothecary had sold him, whose operation was fatal and real, not like
that dissembling potion which Juliet had swallowed, the effect of which
was now nearly expiring, and she about to awake to complain that Romeo
had not kept his time, or that he had come too soon.

For now the hour was arrived at which the friar had promised that she
should awake; and he, having learned that his letters which he had sent
to Mantua, by some unlucky detention of the messenger, had never reached
Romeo, came himself, provided with a pickaxe and lantern, to deliver the
lady from her confinement; but he was surprised to find a light already
burning in the Capulets' monument, and to see swords and blood near it,
and Romeo and Paris lying breathless by the monument.

Before he could entertain a conjecture, to imagine how these fatal
accidents had fallen out, Juliet awoke out of her trance, and seeing the
friar near her, she remembered the place where she was, and the occasion
of her being there, and asked for Romeo, but the friar, hearing a noise,
bade her come out of that place of death, and of unnatural sleep, for a
greater power than they could contradict had thwarted their intents; and
being frightened by the noise of people coming, he fled: but when Juliet
saw the cup closed in her true love's hands, she guessed that poison had
been the cause of his end, and she would have swallowed the dregs if any
had been left, and she kissed his still warm lips to try if any poison
yet did hang upon them; then hearing a nearer noise of people coming,
she quickly unsheathed a dagger which she wore, and stabbing herself,
died by her true Romeo's side.

The watch by this time had come up to the place. A page belonging to
Count Paris, who had witnessed the fight between his master and Romeo,
had given the alarm, which had spread among the citizens, who went up
and down the streets of Verona confusedly exclaiming, A Paris! a Romeo!
a Juliet! as the rumour had imperfectly reached them, till the uproar
brought Lord Montague and Lord Capulet out of their beds, with the
prince, to inquire into the causes of the disturbance. The fr