[Enter ROMEO]
Romeo
If I can trust my dreams, then some joyful news is coming soon.
Love rules my heart, and all day long a strange feeling has been making me cheerful.
I had a dream that my lady came and found me dead.
It’s a strange dream that lets a dead man think!
She came and brought me back to life by kissing my lips.
I rose from the dead and was an emperor.
Oh my! How sweet it would be to actually have the woman I love,
When merely thinking about love makes me so happy.
[Enter Romeo’s man BALTHASAR, off from riding.]
Do you have news from Verona! - What is it, Balthasar?
Do you bring me a letter from the friar?
How is my wife? Is my father well?
How is my Juliet? I ask that again,
Because nothing can be wrong if she is well.
Balthasar
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But this same poor man must sell it to me.
[Ah] As I remember.. this should be the house.
Today’s a holiday, so the beggar’s shop is shut. Hey! Apothecary!
[The APOTHECARY enters]
Apothecary
Who’s that calling so loud?
Romeo
Come here, man. I see that you are poor.
Here are forty coins. dwwds
Let me have a shot of poison,
Something that works so fast that the person who takes it will die as fast as gunpowder exploding in a cannon.
Apothecary
I have lethal poisons like that. But it’s against the law to sell them in Mantua,
And the penalty is death.
Romeo
You’re this poor and wretched and still afraid to die?
Your cheeks are thin because of hunger. I can see in your eyes that you are starving
Anyone can see that you’re a beggar.
The world is not your friend,
And neither is the law.
The world does not make laws to make you rich.
So do not be poor. Break the law, and take this money
(Romeo holds out money)
Apothecary
I agree because I am poor, not because I want to.
Romeo
I pay you because you’re poor, not because you want me to buy this.
Romeo
If I can trust my dreams, then some joyful news is coming soon.
Love rules my heart, and all day long a strange feeling has been making me cheerful.
I had a dream that my lady came and found me dead.
It’s a strange dream that lets a dead man think!
She came and brought me back to life by kissing my lips.
I rose from the dead and was an emperor.
Oh my! How sweet it would be to actually have the woman I love,
When merely thinking about love makes me so happy.
[Enter Romeo’s man BALTHASAR, off from riding.]
Do you have news from Verona! - What is it, Balthasar?
Do you bring me a letter from the friar?
How is my wife? Is my father well?
How is my Juliet? I ask that again,
Because nothing can be wrong if she is well.
Balthasar
Then …show more content…
But this same poor man must sell it to me.
[Ah] As I remember.. this should be the house.
Today’s a holiday, so the beggar’s shop is shut. Hey! Apothecary!
[The APOTHECARY enters]
Apothecary
Who’s that calling so loud?
Romeo
Come here, man. I see that you are poor.
Here are forty coins. dwwds
Let me have a shot of poison,
Something that works so fast that the person who takes it will die as fast as gunpowder exploding in a cannon.
Apothecary
I have lethal poisons like that. But it’s against the law to sell them in Mantua,
And the penalty is death.
Romeo
You’re this poor and wretched and still afraid to die?
Your cheeks are thin because of hunger. I can see in your eyes that you are starving
Anyone can see that you’re a beggar.
The world is not your friend,
And neither is the law.
The world does not make laws to make you rich.
So do not be poor. Break the law, and take this money
(Romeo holds out money)
Apothecary
I agree because I am poor, not because I want to.
Romeo
I pay you because you’re poor, not because you want me to buy this.