Disk II - 05 What If [Act 4, Scene 3]

Female vocal [Juliet]

Doubts and fears set in as Juliet is about to drink the potion the Friar has given her.

Juliet: Farewell, God know when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life:
I’ll call them back again to comfort me.
Nurse, what should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come vial, what if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
No, no, this shall forbid it, lie thou there.
What if it be a poison which the Friar
Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead,
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me, there a fearful point:
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault?
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes.
 
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here’s drink, I drink to thee.

Disk I

Disk II

01 Prologue
02 Rebellious Subjects [I.1]
03 The Feast of Capulet [I.2]
04 Gentle Sin [I.5](334kb)
05 Juliet is the Sun [II.2] (361kb)
06 Take All Myself [II.2] (478kb)
07 Two in One [II.6]
08 Plague on Both Houses [III.1]
09 Fortune’s Fool [III.1]
10 Mansion of a Love [III.2] (219kb)
11 Back Foolish Tears [III.2]
12 Verona Walls [III.3] (327kb)

01 There Art Thou Happy [III.3]
02 Let’s Talk [III.5]
03 I Will Not Marry Paris [III.5]
04 Like Death [IV.1]
05 What If… [IV.3]
06 O Woeful Day [IV.5]
07 Ill News [V.1]
08 My Love, My Wife [V.3]
09 Here Will I Remain [V.3]
10 Kiss Thy Lips [V.3]
11 A Story of Woe [V.3]