THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET - 22

by William Shakespeare in English Love Stories

ACT VSCENE I. Mantua. A Street.Enter Romeo. ROMEO.If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne;And all this day an unaccustom’d spiritLifts me above the ...Read Morewith cheerful thoughts.I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,—Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!—And breath’d such life with kisses in my lips,That I reviv’d, and was an emperor.Ah me, how sweet is love itself possess’d,When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy. Enter Balthasar. News from Verona! How now, Balthasar?Dost thou not bring Read Less