导读

《罗密欧与朱丽叶》（简称《罗》剧）是莎士比亚最受欢迎的剧作之一，大约写于1594或1595年，当时的莎士比亚30岁光景，那正是莎士比亚戏剧创作的繁盛期。这个悲剧出现在当时英国舞台上，可说预告着英国文艺复兴时期一个以莎士比亚为代表的文艺高潮即将来到。在此之前，英国舞台上还不曾有过取得这样巨大成就的一部杰作。无论基德的《西班牙悲剧》（约1589年）也罢，马洛的《帖木儿》（1587～1588年）、《浮士德》（约1592年）也罢，在戏剧结构的完美上、人物心理刻画的细致上，都不能和这部悲剧相比拟；尤其像朱丽叶这样一位光彩四射的女主人公的形象，更是中世纪以来的欧洲舞台上，前所未见的。莎士比亚本人还正在继续努力，向他个人的创作最高峰攀登，但经过刻苦的学习阶段，已经无可怀疑地显示出一位戏剧大师的艺术才华了。在以往那些喜剧作品中，爱情得到热烈的赞美和温情的呵护，在这出戏里，年轻男女的爱情更深更瑰丽，但结局却是双双殉情，留下一个悲怆的故事，至今流传。主人公的名字已成为爱和情人的代名词。

莎士比亚创作此剧的主要来源有两个，分别是布鲁克斯（Arthur Brooks）的《罗密额斯与朱丽叶的悲剧史》（Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet）以及潘特（William Painter）的《罗密欧与朱丽叶塔》（Rhomeo and Julietta）。前者尤其提供了故事完整的架构，因此莎翁的《罗》剧几乎可说是依据该作品改写而成。

本剧描述维洛那的两个望族蒙太古与凯普莱特为世仇，但两家子女罗密欧与朱丽叶却在一场舞会中坠入情网，并透过修士劳伦斯的证婚，秘密结为夫妇。结完婚当天，两家人马在街上斗殴，凯普莱特家的提伯尔特杀死了罗密欧的好友班优里奥，罗密欧一时激愤，遂也杀了提伯尔特。

维洛那亲王于是下令逐出罗密欧。之后，朱丽叶的父亲提出一门亲事，要她嫁给帕里斯伯爵。无助的朱丽叶向劳伦斯修士求助，并接受他的提议，喝下一种药水，以便诈死。修士打算把这个消息告诉给罗密欧，叫他到墓穴里把朱丽叶带走，但罗密欧始终没有接到修士的信，只得到朱丽叶死去的消息。他万分悲痛，当晚赶回维洛那城，服毒殉情。朱丽叶醒来后，看到身旁的罗密欧已经殉情而死，于是就用短剑结束了自己的生命。罗密欧和朱丽叶通过自己的死向封建社会制度和旧的婚姻道德发出强烈抗议。从表面上看：是家族的仇恨、是死亡战胜并毁灭了他们，但实际上，作者在宣扬那种永恒的观念：爱情克服一切困难。《圣经》上说过，爱如死亡之坚强。死亡奈何不了爱情。他们的死不但促使两个世代相互仇恨的家族迅速和解，而且他们的爱具有超越死亡的巨大的精神力量。全剧自始至终回荡着对爱的赞美。罗密欧临死前在朱丽叶身边所唱爱的颂歌象征性地表达了爱永远不死的观念：“一个坟墓吗？啊，不！这是一个灯塔，因为朱丽叶睡在这里，她的美貌使这一个墓窟变成一座充满着光明的欢宴的华堂……啊，我的爱人！我的妻子！死虽然吸去了你呼吸中的芳蜜，却还没有力量摧残你的美貌；你还没有被它征服，你的嘴唇上，面庞上，依然显着红润的美艳，不曾让灰白的死亡进占。”从这个意义上说，这出悲剧带着喜剧般的乐观情绪。

故事中的爱情简单而真诚、冲动而自然，故事中的仇恨则是直接而暴力，此种情感和其他的莎剧有显著不同。本剧的主角都是青少年（罗密欧18岁，朱丽叶13岁），情感的方式直接外放，充满年少情怀。罗密欧在一开场就是个深陷情网、为爱痴狂的年轻人，在遇见朱丽叶之后，又立刻为之疯狂。他翻越柯家围墙，遂产生了著名的“楼台景”（the balcony scene）。据记载，当时伦敦的观众热烈欢迎《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的演出。伦敦市场上先后出版了四种单行本，最早的一种（1597年）书名页上写道：“该剧博得一片掌声，多次公演”。出版商非法印卖这种戏本儿原是为了赚钱，他们看准了这是一部受欢迎的戏。英国牛津大学图书馆至今还保存着一部《莎剧全集》原始版本（1623年），它被当时的牛津大学学生们翻得最旧最烂的部分就是男女主人公在楼台上诀别的那场戏。当他后来知道自己被放逐了以后，整个人瘫在地上嚎啕大哭，表现得很直接，而朱丽叶对自己情感的表白也同样直率。

随着故事的发展，两人陷入孤立状况。除了劳伦斯修士，亲友都不知道他们的恋情，两人只能独自面对苦恋、家庭和逼婚的压力，还有墓地的恐怖景象。劳伦斯修士为两人证婚，主要盼望能借此消弭两家的仇恨，所以严格说来，他也没有真正进入两人的感情世界。

本剧虽然是莎翁早期的悲剧，但从中已经隐约可见莎氏悲剧的雏形：“运”（fortune）与“命”（nature）交织，构成悲剧的因果。例如，劳伦斯修士的信未曾送达罗密欧的手里，而罗密欧则在冲动的性格下饮鸩自尽。剧中有多处显示，罗密欧虽有好想法，却总是缺乏机运，加以行事过于鲁莽，终究步入无可挽救的田地。因此，也有不少评论家认为朱丽叶显得较为成熟懂事，她对自己的感情诚实，但不直接违抗父命，对帕里斯持适当的礼仪，并有勇气接受劳伦斯修士的建议，以维护自己的婚姻。

婚姻这一点也反映出清教徒重视神圣婚姻的传统。在英国诗人乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer,1345—1400年）、史宾赛（Edmund Spenser,1552？—1599年）或意大利诗人佩托拉克（Petrarch,1304—1374年）的故事里，都可见男性追求理想女子的最终目的就是结婚。在伊丽莎白时期，男生合法的结婚年龄为14岁，女生则为12岁。在望族之中，女孩出嫁的年龄会更小，这是因为父母为确保其地位财产，会提早为女儿安排婚事，而这也是朱丽叶所面临的状况。

剧中也有多处呈现观念的冲突和爱情的矛盾。例如：朱丽叶既承认自己的感情，却又认为表白过于露骨；劳伦斯修士既希望男女主角的结合可以消除两家的世仇，却又担心激情会害了两人。莎士比亚将这股对爱情的欲望用悲剧作为结束，恰巧显示了人们对伊丽莎白时期的浪漫主义思想，有着焦虑悲观的一面。

西欧人承认欲望的重要性，他们认为此剧深刻地表现个人主张，而且让女性和男性都获得了自我实现。人们对欲望的态度会反映出其社会文化，朱丽叶在楼台一景的自我表白，不同于传统中否定欲望的态度。

在当时，女性对爱情的欲望象征着死亡，但男女主角基于欲望的相许，也为浪漫的个人主义树立了新观点。剧中肯定男女性欲觉醒的美感，这段感情之所以造成社会问题，并非因为彼此家庭互相仇恨，而是他们年纪轻轻就受到爱欲驱使，私下结婚。这股个人的欲望又和父权产生冲突，因为当时的父亲有权为女儿安排婚事。那是个充满着肉欲气息的世界，又是个被仇恨统治着的世界，可没有爱情立足的余地啊。罗密欧和朱丽叶为之而甘心献出自己的生命的爱情，还只是这一历史时期的新生事物，像一朵鲜花瑟瑟地开放在寒气逼人的早春天气，得不到阳光和雨露的滋润，绽苞初放，就遭受风雨的摧残。

除了情节和人物之外，本剧的语言也特别受到重视。莎翁在这个时期偏好人物描写和诗艺。当时盛行十四行诗，他也用这种修辞语言来表现恋人的心境。这种写作方式包括夸饰（hyperbole）、机智言词（witty conceit）、似是而非的谲辞（oxymoron）和反复（repetition）等等，而其写作内容则刻意表现出模糊、暗示和预言。也因为如此，所以剧中有些对话不像是在刻画角色，反倒像是一段诗作。这一对纯真的青年为了追求爱情自由，最终以死反抗阻碍他们结合的封建势力，在情节上虽属悲剧，却也充满了喜剧作品中对生活的热爱、对幸福的向往和对未来的信心，全剧洋溢着积极向上的乐观主义气氛，实际是一首青春与爱情的赞歌。尽管主人公付出了生命的代价，但隔阂却消除了，爱情、理想最终得胜，罗密欧与朱丽叶成为世界文学中不朽的典型。剧中充满了浓郁的抒情性，那些深情热烈的词句不知打动过多少少男少女的心。

本故事最常见的评论是关于命运与意志的冲突，莎翁在此剧里把这两者放在同等的地位上。对于罗密欧和朱丽叶的悲剧命运，批评家有各种看法。罗勒（John Lawlor）从中古世纪悲剧的标准来看，指出命运并不企图控制人类，但人若愿意从命运的教训中学习，则可化解悲剧的结果，例如两大家族最后化解了彼此的仇恨。

克里伯（T.J.Cribb）以新柏拉图的观念来看本剧的秩序，例如“死亡”代表爱情胜过仇恨，爱与恨这两种相抗的力量由提伯尔特这个角色来表现：他反对这对恋人，却让他们成为爱情英雄。

浪漫时期的作家特别赞扬此剧，如华兹华斯（William Wordsworth）、柯立芝（Samuel Taylor Coleridge）、雪莱（Percy Bysshe Shelley）、济慈（John Keats）、兰姆（Charles Lamb）或韩兹黎（William Hazlitt）。但20世纪的批评家如卜瑞黎（A.C.Bradley）则倾向于认为，比起莎翁晚期的作品如《李尔王》、《麦克白》等，此剧显得缺乏力量与深度，不够成熟。

不管评论如何，《罗密欧与朱丽叶》一剧有精湛的艺术技巧。全剧情节的发展前后呼应，浑然一体。结构严谨、对比鲜明，时而紧张，时而轻松，时而悲怆，时而欢快，跌宕起伏，错落有致，加上一些优美的抒情场面，收到生动的艺术效果。如争吵和决斗之间安排花园阳台相会这脍炙人口的抒情场面；男主人公的被放逐和随之而来的悲剧结局之间却有一次新婚夫妇相聚的良辰美景。在人物性格的描写上，作者也采用这种对比法。剧中的喜剧人物，朱丽叶的奶妈，像中国旧戏中的彩旦，对爱情抱着粗俗的观念，一会儿这样说，一会儿又那样说，没有定见，唯见风使舵而已，这与小姐的纯洁坚贞形成鲜明的对照。朱丽叶性格的成熟正是与奶妈的所作所为有紧密的联系。一开始，朱丽叶很信任她，派她当信使与罗密欧联系，此时朱丽叶初尝爱的甜蜜，需要人指点帮助。但当爱人被放逐，凯普莱特先生要女儿嫁给帕里斯时，奶妈就大夸这位贵族如何英俊潇洒，而且富有，说罗密欧遭放逐不能回来就跟死了差不多，再说爱这东西……也无所谓。当她这么劝朱丽叶改弦更张时，朱丽叶从此具有了坚定的性格，决定独自行动：“去，我的顾问；从此以后，我再也不把你当作心腹看待了。”

自然，因为是早期悲剧作品，作者在处理情节发展时，的确留下一些粗糙的斧痕。如过多利用偶然因素，表现宿命观念。该剧的开场序诗里就说：“是命运注定这两家仇敌，生下了一双不幸的恋人。”主人公的死亡，似乎是可以避免的。如罗密欧的自杀是因为劳伦斯没有把消息准确地传递给他。不过我们须记得，莎士比亚写这出戏时，正是喜剧创作的巅峰时期，他注重表达理想，他把人物理想化为诗意的爱，像在喜剧中一样。在全部莎士比亚悲剧中，这部作品倒是别具一格。

NURSE

Even or odd,of all days in the year,

Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.

Susan and she—God rest all Christian souls!—

Were of an age: well,Susan is with God;

She was too good for me: but,as I said,

On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;

That shall she,marry; I remember it well.

'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;

And she was wean'd,—I never shall forget it,—

Of all the days of the year,upon that day:

For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,

Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;

My lord and you were then at Mantua:—

Nay,I do bear a brain:—but,as I said,

When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple

Of my dug and felt it bitter,pretty fool,

To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!

Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need,I trow,

To bid me trudge:

And since that time it is eleven years;

For then she could stand alone; nay,by the rood,

She could have run and waddled all about;

For even the day before,she broke her brow:

And then my husband—God be with his soul!

A' was a merry man—took up the child:

'Yea,' quoth he,'dost thou fall upon thy face?

Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;

Wilt thou not,Jule?' and,by my holidame,

The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'

To see,now,how a jest shall come about!

I warrant,an I should live a thousand years,

I never should forget it:

'Wilt thou not,Jule?' quoth he;

And,pretty fool,it stinted and said 'Ay.'

乳母

不多不少，不先不后，到收获节的晚上她才满14岁。苏珊跟她同年——上帝安息一切基督徒的灵魂！唉！苏珊是跟上帝在一起啦，我命里不该有这样一个孩子。可是我说过的，到收获节的晚上，她就要满14岁啦；正是，一点不错，我记得清清楚楚的。自从地震那一年到现在，已经11年啦；那时候她已经断了奶，我永远不会忘记，不先不后，刚巧在那一天；因为我在那时候用艾叶涂在奶头上，坐在鸽棚下面晒着太阳；老爷跟您那时候都在曼多亚。瞧，我的记性可不算坏。可是我说的，她一尝到我奶头上的艾叶的味道，觉得变苦啦，哎哟，这可爱的小傻瓜！她就发起脾气来，把奶头摔开啦。那时候地震，鸽棚都在摇动呢：这个说来话长，算来也有11年啦；后来她就慢慢地会一个人站得直挺挺的，还会摇呀摆地到处乱跑，就是在她跌破额角的那一天，我那去世的丈夫——上帝安息他的灵魂！他是个喜欢说说笑笑的人，把这孩子抱了起来，“啊！”他说，“你往前扑了吗？等你年纪一大，你就要往后仰了；是不是呀，朱丽？”谁知道这个可爱的坏东西忽然停住了哭声，说“嗯。”哎哟，真把人都笑死了！要是我活到一千岁，我也再不会忘记这句话。“是不是呀，朱丽？”他说；这可爱的小傻瓜就停住了哭声，说“嗯。”

LADY CAPULET

What say you? can you love the gentleman?

This night you shall behold him at our feast;

Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,

And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;

Examine every married lineament,

And see how one another lends content

And what obscured in this fair volume lies

Find written in the margent of his eyes.

This precious book of love,this unbound lover,

To beautify him,only lacks a cover:

The fish lives in the sea,and 'tis much pride

For fair without the fair within to hide:

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,

That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;

So shall you share all that he doth possess,

By having him,making yourself no less.

凯普莱特夫人

你怎么说？你能不能喜欢这个绅士？今晚上在我们家里的宴会中间，你就可以看见他。从年轻的帕里斯的脸上，你可以读到用秀美的笔写成的迷人诗句；一根根齐整的线条，交织成一幅谐和的图画；要是你想探索这一卷美好的书中的奥秘，在他的眼角上可以找到微妙的诠释。这本珍贵的恋爱的经典，只缺少一帧可以使它相得益彰的封面；正像游鱼需要活水，美妙的内容也少不了美妙的外表陪衬。记载着金科玉律的宝籍，锁合在漆金的封面里，它的辉煌富丽为众目所共见；要是你做了他的封面，那么他所有的一切都属于你所有了。

JULIET

O Romeo,Romeo!

Wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

Or,if thou wilt not,be but sworn my love,

And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

ROMEO

[Aside] Shall I hear more,or shall I speak at this?

JULIET

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Thou art thyself,though not a Montague.

What's Montague? it is nor hand,nor foot,

Nor arm,nor face,nor any other part

Belonging to a man.

O,be some other name!

What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

So Romeo would,were he not Romeo call'd,

Retain that dear perfection which he owes

Without that title.Romeo,doff thy name,

And for that name which is no part of thee

Take all myself.

朱丽叶

罗密欧啊，罗密欧！为什么你偏偏是罗密欧呢？否认你的父亲，抛弃你的姓名吧；也许你不愿意这样做，那么只要你宣誓做我的爱人，我也不愿再姓凯普莱特了。

罗密欧

（旁白）我是继续听下去呢，还是现在就对她说话？

朱丽叶

只有你的名字才是我的仇敌；你即使不姓蒙太古，仍然是这样的一个你。姓不姓蒙太古又有什么关系呢？它又不是手，又不是脚，又不是手臂，又不是脸，又不是身体上任何其他的部分。啊！换一个姓名吧！姓名本来是没有意义的；我们叫做玫瑰的这一种花，要是换了个名字，它的香味还是同样的芬芳；罗密欧要是换了别的名字，他的可爱的完美也决不会有丝毫改变。罗密欧，抛弃了你的名字吧；我愿意把我整个的心灵，赔偿你这一个身外的空名。

JULIET

O serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!

Despised substance of divinest show!

Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,

A damned saint,an honourable villain!

O nature,what hadst thou to do in hell,

When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend

In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?

Was ever book containing such vile matter

So fairly bound?

O that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!

朱丽叶

啊，花一样的面庞里藏着蛇一样的心！那一条恶龙曾经栖息在这样清雅的洞府里？美丽的暴君！天使般的魔鬼！披着白鸽羽毛的乌鸦！豺狼一样残忍的羔羊！圣洁的外表包覆着丑恶的实质！你的内心刚巧和你的形状相反，一个万恶的圣人，一个庄严的奸徒！造物主啊！你为什么要从地狱里提出这一个恶魔的灵魂，把它安放在这样可爱的一座肉体的天堂里？哪一本邪恶的书籍曾经装订得这样美观？啊！谁想得到这样一座富丽的宫殿里，会容纳着欺人的虚伪！

JULIET

Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek

For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night

Fain would I dwell on form,fain,fain deny

What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!

Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'

And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,

Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries

Then say,Jove laughs.O gentle Romeo,

If thou dost love,pronounce it faithfully:

Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,

I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,

So thou wilt woo; but else,not for the world.

In truth,fair Montague,I am too fond,

And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:

But trust me,gentleman,I'll prove more true

Than those that have more cunning to be strange.

I should have been more strange,I must confess,

But that thou overheard'st,ere I was ware,

My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,

And not impute this yielding to light love,

Which the dark night hath so discovered.

朱丽叶

幸亏黑夜替我罩上了一重面幕，否则为了我刚才被你听去的话，你一定可以看见我脸上羞愧的红晕。我真想遵守礼法，否认已经说过的言语，可是这些虚文俗礼，现在只好一切置之不顾了！你爱我吗？我知道你一定会说“是的”；我也一定会相信你的话；可是也许你起的誓只是一个谎，人家说，对于恋人们的寒盟背信，天神是一笑置之的。温柔的罗密欧啊！你要是真的爱我，就请你诚意告诉我；你要是嫌我太容易降心相从，我也会堆起怒容，装出倔强的神气，拒绝你的好意，好让你向我婉转求情，否则我是无论如何不会拒绝你的。俊秀的蒙太古啊，我真的太痴心了，所以也许你会觉得我的举动有点轻浮；可是相信我，朋友，总有一天你会知道我的忠心远胜过那些善于矜持作态的人。我必须承认，倘不是你乘我不备的时候偷听去了我的真情的表白，我一定会更加矜持一点的；所以原谅我吧，是黑夜泄漏了我心底的秘密，不要把我的允诺看作无耻的轻狂。

JULIET

The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;

In half an hour she promised to return.

Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.

O,she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,

Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,

Driving back shadows over louring hills:

Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,

And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

Now is the sun upon the highmost hill

Of this day's journey,and from nine till twelve

Is three long hours,yet she is not come.

Had she affections and warm youthful blood,

She would be as swift in motion as a ball;

My words would bandy her to my sweet love,

And his to me:

But old folks,many feign as they were dead;

Unwieldy,slow,heavy and pale as lead.

O God,she comes!

Enter Nurse and PETER

O honey nurse,what news?

Hast thou met with him?

Send thy man away.

朱丽叶

我在九点钟差奶妈去；她答应在半小时以内回来。也许她碰不见他；那是不会的。啊！她的脚走起路来不大方便。恋爱的使者应当是思想，因为它比驱散山坡上的阴影的太阳光还要快十倍；所以维纳斯的云车是用白鸽驾驶的，所以凌风而飞的比特德生着翅膀。现在太阳已经升上中天，从九点钟到十二点钟是三个很长的钟点，可是她还没有回来。要是她是个有感情、有温暖的青春的血液的人，她的行动一定会像球儿一样敏捷，我用一句话就可以把她抛到我的心爱的情人那里，他也可以用一句话把她抛回到我这里；可是年纪老的人，大多像死人一般，手脚滞钝，呼唤不灵，慢腾腾地没有一点精神。

奶妈及彼得上。

啊，上帝！她来了。啊，好心肝奶妈！什么消息？你碰到他了吗？叫那个人出去。

JULIET

Gallop apace,you fiery-footed steeds,

Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner

As Phaethon would whip you to the west,

And bring in cloudy night immediately.

Spread thy close curtain,love-performing night,

That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo

Leap to these arms,untalk'd of and unseen.

Lovers can see to do their amorous rites

By their own beauties; or,if love be blind,

It best agrees with night.

Come,civil night,

Thou sober-suited matron,all in black,

And learn me how to lose a winning match,

Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:

Hood my unmann'd blood,bating in my cheeks,

With thy black mantle; till strange love,grown bold,

Think true love acted simple modesty.

Come,night; come,Romeo;

Come,thou day in night;

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.

Come,gentle night,come,loving,black-brow'd night,

Give me my Romeo; and,when he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.

O,I have bought the mansion of a love,

But not possess'd it,and,though I am sold,

Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day

As is the night before some festival

To an impatient child that hath new robes

And may not wear them.

O,here comes my nurse,

And she brings news;

And every tongue that speaks

But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.

Enter Nurse,with cords

Now,nurse,what news?

What hast thou there?

The cords That Romeo bid thee fetch?

朱丽叶

快快跑过去吧，踏着火云的骏马，把太阳拖回到它的安息的所在；但愿驾车的法厄同鞭策你们飞驰到西方，让阴沉的暮夜赶快降临。展开你密密的帷幕吧，成全恋爱的黑夜！遮住夜行人的眼睛，让罗密欧悄悄地投入我的怀里，不被人家看见也不被人家谈论！恋人们可以在他们自身美貌的光辉里互相缱绻；即使恋爱是盲目的，那也正好和黑夜相称。来吧，温文的夜，你朴素的黑衣妇人，教会我怎样在一场全胜的赌博中失败，把各人纯洁的童贞互为赌注。用你黑色的罩巾遮住我脸上羞怯的红潮，等我深藏内心的爱情慢慢地胆大起来，不再因为在行动上流露真情而惭愧。来吧，黑夜！来吧，罗密欧！来吧，你黑夜中的白昼！因为你将要睡在黑夜的翼上，比乌鸦背上的新雪还要皎白。来吧，柔和的黑夜！来吧，可爱的黑颜的夜，把我的罗密欧给我！等他死了以后，你再把他带去，分散成无数的星星，把天空装饰得如此美丽，使全世界都恋爱着黑夜，不再崇拜炫目的太阳。啊！我已经买下了一所恋爱的华厦，可是它还不曾属我所有；虽然我已经把自己出卖，可是还没有被买主领去。这日子长得真叫人厌烦，正像一个做好了新衣服的小孩，在节日的前夜焦躁地等着天明一样。啊！我的奶妈来了。她带着消息来了。谁的舌头上只要说出了罗密欧的名字，他就在吐露着天上的仙音。奶妈，什么消息？你带着些什么来了？那就是罗密欧叫你去拿的绳子吗？

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,O,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:

Or,if sour woe delights in fellowship

And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,

Why follow'd not,when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'

Thy father,or thy mother,nay,or both,

Which modern lamentations might have moved?

But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,

'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,

Is father,mother,Tybalt,Romeo,Juliet,

All slain,all dead.'Romeo is banished!'

There is no end,no limit,measure,bound,

In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.

Where is my father,and my mother,nurse?

朱丽叶

他是我的丈夫，我应当说他坏话吗？啊！我的可怜的丈夫！你的三小时的妻子都这样凌辱你的名字，谁还会对它说一句温情的慰藉呢？可是你这恶人，你为什么杀死我的哥哥？他要是不杀死我的哥哥，我的凶恶的哥哥就会杀死我的丈夫。回去吧，愚蠢的眼泪，流回到你的源头；你那滴滴的细流，本来是悲哀的倾注，可是你却错把它呈献给喜悦。我的丈夫活着，他没有被提伯尔特杀死；提伯尔特死了，他想要杀死我的丈夫！这明明是喜讯，我为什么要哭泣呢？还有两个字比提伯尔特的死更使我痛心，像一柄利刃刺进了我的胸中；我但愿忘了它们，可是唉！它们紧紧地牢附在我的记忆里，就像萦回在罪人脑中的不可宥恕的罪恶。“提伯尔特死了，罗密欧放逐了！”放逐了！这“放逐”两个字，就等于杀死了一万个提伯尔特。单单提伯尔特的死，已经可以令人伤心了；即使祸不单行，必须在“提伯尔特死了”这一句话以后，再接上一句不幸的消息，为什么不说你的父亲，或是你的母亲，或是父母两人都死了，那也可以引起一点人情之常的哀悼？可是在提伯尔特的噩耗以后，再接连一记更大的打击，“罗密欧放逐了！”这句话简直等于说，父亲、母亲、提伯尔特、罗密欧、朱丽叶，一起被杀，一起死了。“罗密欧放逐了！”这一句话里面包含着无穷无际、无极无限的死亡，没有字句能够形容出这里面蕴蓄着的悲伤。——奶妈，我的父亲、我的母亲呢？

JULIET

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,

That sees into the bottom of my grief?

O,sweet my mother,cast me not away!

Delay this marriage for a month,a week;

Or,if you do not,make the bridal bed

In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

LADY CAPULET

Talk not to me,for I'll not speak a word: Do as thou wilt,for I have done with thee.

Exit

JULIET

O God!—O nurse,how shall this be prevented?

My husband is on earth,my faith in heaven;

How shall that faith return again to earth,

Unless that husband send it me from heaven

By leaving earth? comfort me,counsel me.

Alack,alack,that heaven should practise stratagems

Upon so soft a subject as myself!

What say'st thou?

Hast thou not a word of joy?

Some comfort,nurse.

朱丽叶

天知道我心里是多么难过，难道它竟会不给我一点慈悲吗？啊，我的亲爱的母亲！不要丢弃我！把这门亲事延期一个月或是一个星期也好；或者要是您不答应我，那么请您把我的新床安放在提伯尔特长眠的幽暗的坟茔里吧！

凯普莱特夫人

不要对我讲话，我没有什么话好说的。随你的便吧，我是不管你啦。（下。）

朱丽叶

上帝啊！啊，奶妈！这件事情怎么避过去呢？我的丈夫还在世间，我的誓言已经上达天听；倘使我的誓言可以收回，那么除非我的丈夫已经脱离人世，从天上把它送还给我。安慰安慰我，替我想想办法吧。唉！想不到天也会捉弄像我这样一个柔弱的人！你怎么说？难道你没有一句可以使我快乐的话吗？奶妈，给我一点安慰吧！

NURSE

Faith,here it is.

Romeo is banish'd;

And all the world to nothing,

That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;

Or,if he do,it needs must be by stealth.

Then,since the case so stands as now it doth,

I think it best you married with the county.

O,he's a lovely gentleman!

Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle,madam,

Hath not so green,so quick,so fair an eye

As Paris hath.Beshrew my very heart,

I think you are happy in this second match,

For it excels your first: or if it did not,

Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,

As living here and you no use of him.

乳母

好，那么你听我说。罗密欧是已经放逐了；我可以拿随便什么东西跟你打赌，他再也不敢回来责问你，除非他偷偷地溜了回来。事情既然这样，那么我想你最好还是跟那伯爵结婚吧。啊！他真是个可爱的绅士！罗密欧比起他来只好算是一块抹布；小姐，一只鹰也没有像帕里斯那样一双又是碧绿好看、又是锐利的眼睛。说句该死的话，我想你这第二个丈夫，比第一个丈夫好得多啦；纵然不是好得多，可是你的第一个丈夫虽然还在世上，对你已经没有什么用处，也就跟死了差不多啦。

JULIET

Tell me not,friar,that thou hear'st of this,

Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:

If,in thy wisdom,thou canst give no help,

Do thou but call my resolution wise,

And with this knife I'll help it presently.

God join'd my heart and Romeo's,thou our hands;

And ere this hand,by thee to Romeo seal'd,

Shall be the label to another deed,

Or my true heart with treacherous revolt

Turn to another,this shall slay them both:

Therefore,out of thy long-experienced time,

Give me some present counsel,or,behold,

'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife

Shall play the umpire,arbitrating that

Which the commission of thy years and art

Could to no issue of true honour bring.

Be not so long to speak; I long to die,

If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.

朱丽叶

神父，不要对我说你已经听见这件事情，除非你能够告诉我怎样避免它；要是你的智慧不能帮助我，那么只要你赞同我的决心，我就可以立刻用这把刀解决一切。上帝把我的心和罗密欧的心结合在一起，我们两人的手是你替我们结合的；要是我这一只已经由你证明和罗密欧缔盟的手，再去和别人缔结新盟，或是我的忠贞的心起了叛变，投进别人的怀里，那么这把刀可以割下这背盟的手，诛戮这叛变的心。所以，神父，凭着你的丰富的见识阅历，请你赶快给我一些指教；否则瞧吧，这把血腥气的刀，就可以在我跟我的困难之间做一个公证人，替我解决你的经验和才能所不能替我觅得一个光荣解决的难题。不要老是不说话；要是你不能指教我一个补救的办法，那么我除了一死以外，没有别的希冀。

JULIET

Farewell!

God knows 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.

Laying down her dagger

What if it be a poison,

Which the friar Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,

Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,

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's 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?

Or,if I live,is it not very like,

The horrible conceit of death and night,

Together with the terror of the place,—

As in a vault,an ancient receptacle,

Where,for these many hundred years,the bones

Of all my buried ancestors are packed:

Where bloody Tybalt,yet but green in earth,

Lies festering in his shroud; where,as they say,

At some hours in the night spirits resort;—

Alack,alack,is it not like that I,

So early waking,what with loathsome smells,

And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,

That living mortals,hearing them,run mad:—

O,if I wake,shall I not be distraught,

Environed with all these hideous fears?

And madly play with my forefather's joints?

And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?

And,in this rage,with some great kinsman's bone,

As with a club,dash out my desperate brains?

O,look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost

Seeking out Romeo,that did spit his body

Upon a rapier's point: stay,Tybalt,stay!

Romeo,I come!

This do I drink to thee.

She falls upon her bed,within the curtains

朱丽叶

再会！上帝知道我们将在什么时候相见。我觉得仿佛有一阵寒颤刺激着我的血液，简直要把生命的热流冻结起来似的；待我叫她们回来安慰安慰我。奶妈！——要她到这儿来干吗？这凄惨的场面必须让我一个人扮演。来，药瓶。要是这药水不发生效力呢？那么我明天早上就必须结婚吗？不，不，这把刀会阻止我；你躺在那儿吧。（将匕首置枕边）也许这瓶里是毒药，那神父因为已经替我和罗密欧证婚，现在我再跟别人结婚，恐怕损害他的名誉，所以有意骗我服下去毒死我；我怕也许会有这样的事；可是他一向是众所公认的道高德重的人，我想大概不至于；我不能抱着这样卑劣的思想。要是我在坟墓里醒了过来，罗密欧还没有到来把我救出去呢？这倒是很可怕的一点！那时我不是要在终年透不进一丝新鲜空气的地窟里活活闷死，等不到我的罗密欧到来吗？即使不闷死，那死亡和长夜的恐怖，那古墓中阴森的气象，几百年来，我祖先的尸骨都堆积在那里，入土未久的提伯尔特蒙着他的殓衾，正在那里腐烂；人家说，一到晚上，鬼魂便会归返他们的墓穴；唉！唉！要是我太早醒来，这些恶臭的气味，这些使人听了会发疯的凄厉的叫声；啊！要是我醒来，周围都是这种吓人的东西，我不会心神迷乱，疯狂地抚弄着我的祖宗的骨骼，把肢体溃烂的提伯尔特拖出了他的殓衾吗？在这样疯狂的状态中，我不会拾起一根老祖宗的骨头来，当做一根棍子，打破我的发昏的头颅吗？啊，瞧！那不是提伯尔特的鬼魂，正在那里追赶罗密欧，报复他的一剑之仇吗？等一等，提伯尔特，等一等！罗密欧，我来了！我为你干了这一杯！

倒在幕内的床上。

PRINCE

Rebellious subjects,enemies to peace,

Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,—

Will they not hear?

What,ho! you men,you beasts,

That quench the fire of your pernicious rage

With purple fountains issuing from your veins,

On pain of torture,from those bloody hands

Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,

And hear the sentence of your moved prince.

Three civil brawls,bred of an airy word,

By thee,old Capulet,and Montague,

Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,

And made Verona's ancient citizens

Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,

To wield old partisans,in hands as old,

Canker'd with peace,to part your canker'd hate:

If ever you disturb our streets again,

Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

For this time,all the rest depart away:

You Capulet; shall go along with me:

And,Montague,come you this afternoon,

To know our further pleasure in this case,

To old Free-town,our common judgment-place.

Once more,on pain of death,all men depart.

亲王

目无法纪的臣民，扰乱治安的罪人，你们的刀剑都被你们邻人的血玷污了；——他们不听我的话吗？喂，听着！你们这些人，你们这些畜生，你们为了扑灭你们怨毒的怒焰，不惜让殷红的流泉从你们的血管里喷涌出来；他们要是畏惧刑法，赶快从你们血腥的手里丢下你们的凶器，静听你们震怒的君王的判决。凯普莱特，蒙太古，你们已经三次为了一句口头上的空言，引起了市民的械斗，扰乱了我们街道上的安宁，害得维洛那的年老公民，也不能不脱下他们尊严的装束，在他们习于安乐的苍老衰弱的手里夺过古旧的长枪，分解你们溃烂的纷争。要是你们以后再在市街上闹事，就要把你们的生命作为扰乱治安的代价。现在别人都给我退下去；凯普莱特，你跟我来；蒙太古，你今天下午到自由村的审判厅里来，听候我对于今天这一案的宣判。大家散开去，倘有逗留不去的，格杀勿论！

MERCUTIO

O,then,I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

She is the fairies' midwife,and she comes

In shape no bigger than an agate-stone

On the fore-finger of an alderman,

Drawn with a team of little atomies

Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;

Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,

The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,

The traces of the smallest spider's web,

The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,

Her whip of cricket's bone,the lash of film,

Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,

Not so big as a round little worm

Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;

Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut

Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,

Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.

And in this state she gallops night by night

Through lovers' brains,and then they dream of love;

O'er courtiers' knees,that dream on court'sies straight,

O'er lawyers' fingers,who straight dream on fees,

O'er ladies ' lips,who straight on kisses dream,

Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,

Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:

Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,

And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;

And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail

Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,

Then dreams,he of another benefice:

Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,

And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,

Of breaches,ambuscadoes,Spanish blades,

Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon

Drums in his ear,at which he starts and wakes,

And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two

And sleeps again.

This is that very Mab

That plats the manes of horses in the night,

And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,

Which once untangled,much misfortune bodes:

This is the hag,when maids lie on their backs,

That presses them and learns them first to bear,

Making them women of good carriage:

This is she—

茂丘西奥

啊！那么一定春梦婆来望过你了。她是精灵们的稳婆；她的身体只有郡吏手指上一颗玛瑙那么大；几匹蚂蚁大小的细马替她拖着车子，越过酣睡的人们的鼻梁，她的车辐是用蜘蛛的长脚做成的；车篷是蚱蜢的翅膀；挽索是小蜘蛛丝，颈带如水的月光；马鞭是蟋蟀的骨头；缰绳是天际的游丝。替她驾车的是一只小小的灰色的蚊虫，它的大小还不及从一个贪懒丫头的指尖上挑出来的懒虫的一半。她的车子是野蚕用一个榛子的空壳替她造成，它们从古以来，就是精灵们的车匠。她每夜驱着这样的车子，穿过情人们的脑中，他们就会在梦里谈情说爱；经过官员们的膝上，他们就会在梦里打躬作揖；经过律师们的手指，他们就会在梦里伸手讨讼费；经过娘儿们的嘴唇，她们就会在梦里跟人家接吻，可是因为春梦婆讨厌她们嘴里吐出来的糖果的气息，往往罚她们满嘴长着水泡。有时奔驰过廷臣的鼻子，他就会在梦里寻找好差事；有时她从捐献给教会的猪身上拔下它的尾巴来，撩拨着一个牧师的鼻孔，他就会梦见自己又领到一份俸禄；有时她绕过一个兵士的颈项，他就会梦见杀敌人的头，进攻、埋伏、锐利的剑锋、淋漓的痛饮——忽然被耳边的鼓声惊醒，咒骂了几句，又翻了个身睡去了。就是这一个春梦婆在夜里把马鬣打成了辫子，把懒女人的龌龊的乱发烘成一处处胶粘的硬块，倘然把它们梳通了，就要遭逢祸事；就是这个婆子在人家女孩子们仰面睡觉的时候，压在她们的身上，教会她们怎样养儿子；就是她——

FRIAR LAURENCE

The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,

Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,

And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels

From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:

Now,ere the sun advance his burning eye,

The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,

I must up-fill this osier cage of ours

With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.

The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;

What is her burying grave that is her womb,

And from her womb children of divers kind

We sucking on her natural bosom find,

Many for many virtues excellent,

None but for some and yet all different.

O,mickle is the powerful grace that lies

In herbs,plants,stones,and their true qualities:

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live

But to the earth some special good doth give,

Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use

Revolts from true birth,stumbling on abuse:

Virtue itself turns vice,being misapplied;

And vice sometimes by action dignified.

Within the infant rind of this small flower

Poison hath residence and medicine power:

For this,being smelt,with that part cheers each part;

Being tasted,slays all senses with the heart.

Two such opposed kings encamp them still

In man as well as herbs,grace and rude will;

And where the worser is predominant,

Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

劳伦斯

黎明笑向着含愠的残宵，

金鳞浮上了东方的天梢；

看赤轮驱走了片片乌云，

像一群醉汉向四处狼奔。

趁太阳还没有睁开火眼，

晒干深夜里的涔涔露点，

我待要采摘下满箧盈筐，

毒草灵葩充实我的青囊。

大地是生化万类的慈母，

她又是掩藏群生的坟墓，

试看她无所不载的胸怀，

哺乳着多少的姹女婴孩！

天生下的万物没有弃掷，

什么都有它各自的特色，

石块的冥顽，草木的无知，

都含着玄妙的造化生机。

莫看那蠢蠢的恶木莠蔓，

对世间都有它特殊贡献；

即使最纯良的美谷嘉禾，

用得失当也会害性戕躯。

美德的误用会变成罪过，

罪恶有时反会造成善果。

这一朵有毒的弱蕊纤苞，

也会把淹煎的痼疾医疗；

它的香味可以祛除百病，

吃下腹中却会昏迷不醒。

草木和人心并没有不同，

各自有善意和恶念争雄；

恶的势力倘然占了上风，

死便会蛀蚀进它的心中。

FRIAR LAURENCE

Holy Saint Francis,what a change is here!

Is Rosaline,whom thou didst love so dear,

So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies

Not truly in their hearts,but in their eyes.

Jesu Maria,what a deal of brine

Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!

How much salt water thrown away in waste,

To season love,that of it doth not taste!

The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,

Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;

Lo,here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit

Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:

If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,

Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:

And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,

Women may fall,when there's no strength in men.

劳伦斯

圣芳济啊！多么快的变化！难道你所深爱着的罗瑟琳，就这样一下子被你抛弃了吗？这样看来，年轻人的爱情，都是见异思迁，不是发于真心的。耶稣，马丽亚！你为了罗瑟琳的缘故，曾经用多少的眼泪洗过你消瘦的面庞！为了替无味的爱情添加一点辛酸的味道，曾经浪费掉多少的咸水！太阳还没有扫清你吐向苍穹的怨气，我这龙钟的耳朵里还留着你往日的呻吟！瞧！就在你自己的颊上，还剩着一丝不曾揩去的旧时的泪痕。要是你不曾变了一个人，这些悲哀都是你真实的情感，那么你是罗瑟琳的，这些悲哀也是为罗瑟琳而发的；难道你现在已经变心了吗？男人既然这样没有恒心，那就莫怪女人家朝三暮四了。

ROMEO

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

JULIET appears above at a window

But,soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east,and Juliet is the sun.

Arise,fair sun,and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid,since she is envious;

Her vestal livery is but sick and green

And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.

It is my lady,

O,it is my love! O,that she knew she were!

She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?

Her eye discourses;

I will answer it.

I am too bold,'tis not to me she speaks:

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,

Having some business,do entreat her eyes

To twinkle in their spheres till they return.

What if her eyes were there,they in her head?

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,

As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven

Would through the airy region stream so bright

That birds would sing and think it were not night.

See,how she leans her cheek upon her hand!

O,that I were a glove upon that hand,

That I might touch that cheek!

罗密欧

没有受过伤的才会讥笑别人身上的创痕。（朱丽叶自上方窗户中出现）轻声！那边窗子里亮起来的是什么光？那就是东方，朱丽叶就是太阳！起来吧，美丽的太阳！赶走那妒忌的月亮，她因为她的女弟子比她美得多，已经气得面色惨白了。既然她这样妒忌着你，你不要忠于她吧；脱下她给你的这一身惨绿色的贞女的道服，它是只配给愚人穿的。那是我的意中人；啊！那是我的爱；唉，但愿她知道我在爱着她！她欲言又止，可是她的眼睛已经道出了她的心事。待我去回答她吧；不，我不要太鲁莽，她不是对我说话。天上两颗最灿烂的星，因为有事他去，请求她的眼睛替代它们在空中闪耀。要是她的眼睛变成了天上的星星，天上的星星变成了她的眼睛，那便怎样呢？她脸上的光辉会掩盖了星星的明亮，正像灯光在朝阳下黯然失色一样；在天上的她的眼睛，会在太空中大放光明，使鸟儿误认为黑夜已经过去而唱出它们的歌声。瞧！她用纤手托住了脸，那姿态是多么美妙！啊，但愿我是那一只手上的手套，好让我亲一亲她脸上的香泽！

BENVOLIO

Tybalt,here slain,whom Romeo's hand did slay;

Romeo that spoke him fair,bade him bethink

How nice the quarrel was,and urged withal

Your high displeasure: all this uttered

With gentle breath,calm look,knees humbly bow'd,

Could not take truce with the unruly spleen

Of Tybalt deaf to peace,but that he tilts

With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,

Who all as hot,turns deadly point to point,

And,with a martial scorn,with one hand beats

Cold death aside,and with the other sends

It back to Tybalt,whose dexterity,

Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,

'Hold,friends! friends,part!' and,swifter than

His tongue,

His agile arm beats down their fatal points,

And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm

An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life

Of stout Mercutio,and then Tybalt fled;

But by and by comes back to Romeo,

Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,

And to 't they go like lightning,for,ere I

Could draw to part them,was stout Tybalt slain.

And,as he fell,did Romeo turn and fly.

This is the truth,or let Benvolio die.

班伏里奥

死在这儿的提伯尔特，他是被罗密欧杀死的。罗密欧很诚恳地劝告他，叫他想一想这种争吵多么没意思，并且也提起您的森严的禁令。他用温和的语调、谦恭的态度，赔着笑脸向他反复劝解，可是提伯尔特充耳不闻，一味逞着他的骄横，拔出剑来就向勇敢的茂丘西奥胸前刺了过去；茂丘西奥也动了怒气，就和他两下交锋起来，自恃着本领高强，满不在乎地一手挡开了敌人致命的剑锋，一手向提伯尔特还刺过去，提伯尔特眼明手快，也把它挡开了。那个时候罗密欧就高声喊叫，“住手，朋友；两下分开！”说时迟，来时快，他的敏捷的腕臂已经打下了他们的利剑，他就插身在他们两人中间；谁料提伯尔特怀着毒心，冷不防打罗密欧的手臂下面刺了一剑过去，竟刺中了茂丘西奥的要害，于是他就逃走了。等了一会儿他又回来找罗密欧，罗密欧这时候正是满腔怒火，就像闪电似的跟他打起来，我还来不及拔剑阻止他们，勇猛的提伯尔特已经中剑而死，罗密欧见他倒在地上，也就转身逃走了。我所说的句句都是真话，倘有虚言，愿受死刑。

ROMEO

'Tis torture,and not mercy: heaven is here,

Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog

And little mouse,every unworthy thing,

Live here in heaven and may look on her;

But Romeo may not: more validity,

More honourable state,more courtship lives

In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize

On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand

And steal immortal blessing from her lips,

Who even in pure and vestal modesty,

Still blush,as thinking their own kisses sin;

But Romeo may not; he is banished:

Flies may do this,but I from this must fly:

They are free men,but I am banished.

And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?

Hadst thou no poison mix'd,no sharp-ground knife,

No sudden mean of death,though ne'er so mean,

But 'banished' to kill me?—'banished'?

O friar,the damned use that word in hell;

Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,

Being a divine,a ghostly confessor,

A sin-absolver,and my friend profess'd,

To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

罗密欧

这是酷刑，不是恩典。朱丽叶所在的地方就是天堂；这儿的每一只猫、每一只狗、每一只小小的老鼠，都生活在天堂里，都可以瞻仰她的容颜，可是罗密欧却看不见她。污秽的苍蝇都可以接触亲爱的朱丽叶的皎洁的玉手，从她的嘴唇上偷取天堂中的幸福，那两片嘴唇是这样的纯洁贞淑，永远含着娇羞，好像觉得它们自身的相吻也是一种罪恶；苍蝇可以这样做，我却必须远走高飞，它们是自由人，我却是一个放逐的流徒。你还说放逐不是死吗？难道你没有配好的毒药、锋锐的刀子或者无论什么致命的利器，而必须用“放逐”两个字把我杀害吗？放逐！啊，神父！只有沉沦在地狱里的鬼魂才会用到这两个字，伴着凄厉的呼号；你是一个教士，一个替人忏罪的神父，又是我的朋友，怎么忍心用“放逐”这两个字来糟蹋我呢？

CAPULET

God's bread! it makes me mad:

Day,night,hour,tide,time,work,play,

Alone,in company,still my care hath been

To have her match'd: and having now provided

A gentleman of noble parentage,

Of fair demesnes,youthful,and nobly train'd,

Stuff'd,as they say,with honourable parts,

Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;

And then to have a wretched puling fool,

A whining mammet,in her fortune's tender,

To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,

I am too young; I pray you,pardon me.

' But,as you will not wed,I'll pardon you:

Graze where you will you shall not house with me:

Look to't,think on't,I do not use to jest.

Thursday is near; lay hand on heart,advise:

An you be mine,I'll give you to my friend;

And you be not,hang,beg,starve,die in the streets,

For,by my soul,I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,

Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:

Trust to't,bethink you;

I'll not be forsworn.

凯普莱特

哼！我气都气疯啦。每天每夜，时时刻刻，不论忙着空着，独自一个人或是跟别人在一起，我心里总是在盘算着怎样把她许配给一户好好的人家；现在好容易找到一位出身高贵的绅士，又有家私，又年轻，又受过高尚的教养，正是人家说的十二分的人才，好到没得说的了；偏偏这个不懂事的傻丫头，放着送上门来的好福气不要，说什么“我不要结婚”、“我不懂恋爱”、“我年纪太小”、“请你原谅我”；好，你要是不愿意嫁人，我可以让你自由，尽你的意思到什么地方去，我这屋子里可容不得你了。你给我想想明白，我是一向说到哪里做到哪里的。星期四就在眼前；自己仔细考虑考虑。你倘然是我的女儿，就得听我的话嫁给我的朋友；你倘然不是我的女儿，那么你去上吊也好，做叫花子也好，挨饿也好，死在街道上也好，我都不管，因为凭着我的灵魂起誓，我是再也不会认你这个女儿的，你也别想我会分一点什么给你。我不会骗你，你想一想吧；我已经发过誓了，我一定要把它做到。

FRIAR LAURENCE

Hold,then; go home,be merry,give consent

To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:

To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;

Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:

Take thou this vial,being then in bed,

And this distilled liquor drink thou off;

When presently through all thy veins shall run

A cold and drowsy humour,for no pulse

Shall keep his native progress,but surcease:

No warmth,no breath,shall testify thou livest;

The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade

To paly ashes,thy eyes' windows fall,

Like death,when he shuts up the day of life;

Each part,deprived of supple government,

Shall,stiff and stark and cold,appear like death:

And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death

Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,

And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

Now,when the bridegroom in the morning comes

To rouse thee from thy bed,there art thou dead:

Then,as the manner of our country is,

In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier

Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault

Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.

In the mean time,against thou shalt awake,

Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,

And hither shall he come: and he and I

Will watch thy waking,and that very night

Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.

And this shall free thee from this present shame;

If no inconstant toy,nor womanish fear,

Abate thy valour in the acting it.

劳伦斯

好，那么放下你的刀；快快乐乐地回家去，答应嫁给帕里斯。明天就是星期三了；明天晚上你必须一人独睡，别让你的奶妈睡在你的房间里；这一个药瓶你拿去，等你上床以后，就把这里面炼就的液汁一口喝下，那时就会有一阵昏昏沉沉的寒气通过你全身的血管，接着脉搏就会停止跳动；没有一丝热气和呼吸可以证明你还活着；你的嘴唇和颊上的红色都会变成灰白；你的眼睑闭下，就像死神的手关闭了生命的白昼；你身上的每一部分失去了灵活的控制，都像死一样僵硬寒冷；在这种与死无异的状态中，你必须经过四十二小时，然后你就仿佛从一场酣睡中醒了过来。当那新郎在早晨来催你起身的时候，他们会发现你已经死了，然后，照着我们国里的规矩，他们就要替你穿起盛装，用柩车载着你到凯普莱特族中祖先的坟茔里。同时因为要预备你醒来，我可以写信给罗密欧，告诉他我们的计划，叫他立刻到这儿来；我跟他两个人就守在你的身边，等你一醒过来，当夜就叫罗密欧带着你到曼多亚去。只要你不临时变卦，不中途气馁，这一个办法一定可以使你避免这一场眼前的耻辱。

ROMEO

In faith,I will.

Let me peruse this face.

Mercutio's kinsman,noble County Paris!

What said my man,when my betossed soul

Did not attend him as we rode? I think

He told me Paris should have married Juliet:

Said he not so? or did I dream it so?

Or am I mad,hearing him talk of Juliet,

To think it was so?

O,give me thy hand,

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!

I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;

A grave? O no! a lantern,slaughter'd youth,

For here lies Juliet,and her beauty makes

This vault a feasting presence full of light.

Death,lie thou there,by a dead man interr'd.

Laying PARIS in the tomb

How oft when men are at the point of death

Have they been merry! which their keepers call

A lightning before death:

O,how may I Call this a lightning?

O my love! my wife!

Death,that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,

Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:

Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet

Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,

And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

Tybalt,liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?

O,what more favour can I do to thee,

Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain

To sunder his that was thine enemy?

Forgive me,cousin! Ah,dear Juliet,

Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe

That unsubstantial death is amorous,

And that the lean abhorred monster keeps

Thee here in dark to be his paramour?

For fear of that,I still will stay with thee;

And never from this palace of dim night

Depart again: here,here will I remain

With worms that are thy chamber-maids;

O,here Will I set up my everlasting rest,

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

From this world-wearied flesh.

Eyes,look your last!

Arms,take your last embrace! and,lips,

O you The doors of breath,seal with a righteous kiss

A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

Come,bitter conduct,come,unsavoury guide!

Thou desperate pilot,now at once run on

The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!

Here's to my love!

Drinks

O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick.

Thus with a kiss I die.

罗密欧

好，我愿意成全你的志愿。让我瞧瞧他的脸；啊，茂丘西奥的亲戚，尊贵的帕里斯伯爵！当我们一路上骑马而来的时候，我的仆人曾经对我说过几句话，那时我因为心绪烦乱，没有听得进去；他说些什么？好像他告诉我说帕里斯本来预备娶朱丽叶为妻；他不是这样说吗？还是我做过这样的梦？或者还是我神经错乱，听见他说起朱丽叶的名字，所以发生了这一种幻想？啊！把你的手给我，你我都是登录在厄运的黑册上的人，我要把你葬在一个胜利的坟墓里；一个坟墓吗？啊，不！被杀害的少年，这是一个灯塔，因为朱丽叶睡在这里，她的美貌使这一个墓窟变成一座充满着光明的欢宴的华堂。死了的人，躺在那儿吧，一个死了的人把你安葬了。（将帕里斯放下墓中）人们临死的时候，往往反会觉得心中愉快，旁观的人便说这是死前的一阵回光返照；啊！这也就是我的回光返照吗？啊，我的爱人！我的妻子！死虽然已经吸去了你呼吸中的芳蜜，却还没有力量摧残你的美貌；你还没有被他征服，你的嘴唇上、面庞上，依然显着红润的美艳，不曾让灰白的死亡进占。提伯尔特，你也裹着你的血淋淋的殓衾躺在那儿吗？啊！你的青春葬送在你仇人的手里，现在我来替你报仇来了，我要亲手杀死那杀害你的人。原谅我吧，兄弟！啊！亲爱的朱丽叶，你为什么仍然这样美丽？难道那虚无的死亡，那枯瘦可憎的妖魔，也是个多情种子，所以把你藏匿在这幽暗的洞府里做他的情妇吗？为了防止这样的事情，我要永远陪伴着你，再不离开这漫漫长夜的幽宫；我要留在这儿，跟你的侍婢，那些蛆虫们在一起；啊！我要在这儿永久安息下来，从我这厌倦人世的凡躯上挣脱厄运的束缚。眼睛，瞧你的最后一眼吧！手臂，做你最后一次的拥抱吧！嘴唇，啊！你呼吸的门户，用一个合法的吻，跟网罗一切的死亡订立一个永久的契约吧！来，苦味的向导，绝望的领港人，现在赶快把你的厌倦于风涛的船舶向那巉岩上冲撞过去吧！为了我的爱人，我干了这一杯！（饮药）啊！卖药的人果然没有骗我，药性很快地发作了。我就这样在这一吻中死去。

FRIAR LAURENCE

I will be brief,for my short date of breath

Is not so long as is a tedious tale.

Romeo,there dead,was husband to that Juliet;

And she,there dead,that Romeo's faithful wife:

I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day

Was Tybalt's dooms-day,whose untimely death

Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,

For whom,and not for Tybalt,Juliet pined.

You,to remove that siege of grief from her,

Betroth'd and would have married her perforce

To County Paris: then comes she to me,

And,with wild looks,bid me devise some mean

To rid her from this second marriage,

Or in my cell there would she kill herself.

Then gave I her,so tutor'd by my art,

A sleeping potion; which so took effect

As I intended,for it wrought on her

The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,

That he should hither come as this dire night,

To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,

Being the time the potion's force should cease.

But he which bore my letter,Friar John,

Was stay'd by accident,and yesternight

Return'd my letter back.Then all alone

At the prefixed hour of her waking,

Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;

Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,

Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:

But when I came,some minute ere the time

Of her awaking,here untimely lay

The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.

She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,

And bear this work of heaven with patience:

But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;

And she,too desperate,would not go with me,

But,as it seems,did violence on herself.

All this I know; and to the marriage

Her nurse is privy: and,if aught in this

Miscarried by my fault,let my old life

Be sacrificed,some hour before his time,

Unto the rigour of severest law.

劳伦斯

我要把经过的情形尽量简单地叙述出来，因为我的短促的残生还不及一段冗繁的故事那么长。死了的罗密欧是死了的朱丽叶的丈夫，她是罗密欧的忠心的妻子，他们的婚礼是由我主持的。就在他们秘密结婚的那天，提伯尔特死于非命，这位才做新郎的人也从这城里被放逐出去；朱丽叶是为了他，不是为了提伯尔特，才那样伤心憔悴。你们因为要替她解除烦恼，把她许婚给帕里斯伯爵，还要强迫她嫁给他，她就跑来见我，神色慌张地要我替她想个办法避免这第二次的结婚，否则她要在我的寺院里自杀。所以我就根据我的医药方面的学识，给她一服安眠的药水；它果然发生了我所预期的效力，她一服下去就像死了一样昏沉过去。同时我写信给罗密欧，叫他就在这一个悲惨的晚上到这儿来，帮助把她搬出她寄寓的坟墓，因为药性一到时候便会过去。可是替我带信的约翰神父却因遭到意外，不能脱身，昨天晚上才把我的信依然带了回来。那时我只好按照着预先算定她醒来的时间，一个人前去把她从她家族的墓茔里带出来，预备把她藏匿在我的寺院里，等有方便再去叫罗密欧来；不料我在她醒来以前几分钟到这儿来的时候，尊贵的帕里斯和忠诚的罗密欧已经双双惨死了。她一醒过来，我就请她出去，劝她安心忍受这一种出自天意的变故；可是那时我听见了纷纷的人声，吓得逃出了墓穴，她在万分绝望之中不肯跟我去，看样子她是自杀了。这是我所知道的一切，至于他们两人的结婚，那么她的乳母也是与闻的。要是这一场不幸的惨祸，是由我的疏忽所造成，那么我这条老命愿受最严厉的法律的制裁，请您让它提早几点钟牺牲了吧。