FRIAR LAURENCE
It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
ALL
It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
FRIAR LAURENCE
Two households, both alike in dignity,
NURSE
In fair
ALL
Verona,
NURSE
where we lay our scene,
BENVOLIO
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
PRINCE
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
LORDS CAPULET / MONTAGUE
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
ROMEO / JULIET
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
MERCUTIO
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
LADY CAPULET
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
FRIAR LAURENCE
It is the cause
ALL
It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
PRINCE
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
TYBALT
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
NURSE
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
ALL
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
(clock ticking)
FRIAR LAURENCE
And all at war with time, for love of you,
That hath been taken from us: we engraft you new
LORD & LADY CAPULET /
LORD MONTAGUE /
FRIAR LAURENCE
(repeating, overlapping)
And all at war with time, for love of you,
That hath been taken from us: we engraft you new
ALL OTHERS
(repeating, overlapping)
It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
ROMEO & JULIET
(repeating, overlappig)
And all at war with time…
FRIAR LAURENCE
We face the forward wind,
And backward turning, end e’re we begin.