[Stage] Friar Lawrence and Romeo enter.
Friar Lawrence(劳伦斯神父)
So smile the heavens upon this holy act
That after-hours with sorrow chide us not.
Romeo(罗密欧)
Amen, amen. But come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight.
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.
Friar Lawrence(劳伦斯神父)
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
[Stage] Juliet rushes in and embraces Romeo.
Here comes the lady. Oh, so light a foot
Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint.
A lover may bestride the gossamers
That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall. So light is vanity.
Juliet(朱丽叶)
Good even to my ghostly confessor.
Friar Lawrence(劳伦斯神父)
Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
Juliet(朱丽叶)
As much to him, else is his thanks too much.
Romeo(罗密欧)
Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it,
then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbor air, and let rich music’s tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.
Juliet(朱丽叶)
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
Friar Lawrence(劳伦斯神父)
Come, come with me, and we will make short work,
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Till Holy Church incorporate two in one.
[Stage] They exit.