Juliet's Death

(Juliet, her head resting on Romeo’s chest:)
“O mine fallen lover, how I hast angered the heavens!
I had claimed thy face would glorify the stars that I speak of,
But alas! Thy face is sickly and sallow by monkshood’s poison!
O, how I hast cheated and swindled the stars of their bounty!”
(Juliet raises the vial to the torchlight, spinning it with her fingers.)
“How should I find mine way along life’s path without thy light to guide me?”
(Juliet caresses Romeo’s face with the hand unoccupied by the vial.)
“The light emitted by thy eyes; the warmth which once resided in thy cheeks,
Hath been siphoned into blackness by the devil himself!”
(Juliet, laying across Romeo and sobbing:)
“And it is of mine doing! It is mine blood that hath chilled thy!”
(Juliet hurls the vile away, sending fragments of glass across the stone floor.)
“I could hadst left thou unperturbed,
I could hast left Montagues’ Apple of Eden undisturbed.
I should not hast plucked the rose that which would stir mine father's scorn,
For now I am impaled upon its thorn,”
(Juliet gently slides Romeo’s dagger from its sheath.)
“And forever immobilized by its potent sting.”
(Juliet gets on her knees, hair matted across her face.)
“I wish to hear thy sing!
I wish to see thy life through the eyes of the queen of dreams!”
(Juliet raises the dagger and hunches over Romeo.)
“Happy dagger, take me to where the Lord’s gold flows in streams!”
(Juliet stabs herself, falls onto Romeo, and dies.)