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Disk I - 11 Back Foolish Tears [Act 3, Scene 2]
Female vocal [Juliet]
The Nurse informs Juliet that Romeo has slain Tyblat
and that he is banished from Verona.
Juliet: Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
When I thy three-hours wife have mangled it?
But wherefore villain didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have kill’d my husband:
Back foolish tears, back to your native spring,
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you mistaking offer up to joy:
My husband lives that Tybalt would have slain,
And Tybalt’s dead that would have slain my husband:
All this is comfort, wherefore weep I then?
Some word there was, worser than Tybalt’s death
That murder’d me, I would forget it fain,
But Oh it presses to my memory,
Like damned guilty deeds to sinners’ minds,
Tybalt is dead and Romeo banished:
That banished, that one word banished,
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts: Tybalt’s death
Was woe enough if it had ended there:
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