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Paris, Lines 12-21
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Act 5,
Scene 3
Lines 12-21

Paris performs a speech from Act 5, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 5.3 Performance: Paris, Lines 12-21

Paris

Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew, —
O woe, thy canopy is dust and stones!  —
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans.
The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
[The Page whistles]
The boy gives warning something doth approach.
What cursed foot wanders this way tonight,
To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?                  
What, with a torch! Muffle me, night, a while.