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What’s your name, man?” +HAMILTON +Alexander Hamilton +My name is Alexander Hamilton +And there’s a million things I haven’t done +But just you wait, just you wait… +ELIZA +When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden +Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden +Half-dead sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick +COMPANY +And Alex got better but his mother went quick +WASHINGTON +Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide +Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, something new inside +A voice saying +WASHINGTON +“You gotta fend for yourself.” COMPANY +“Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.” +WASHINGTON +He started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf +BURR +There would have been nothin’ left to do +For someone less astute +He woulda been dead or destitute +Without a cent of restitution +Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord +Tradin’ sugar cane and rum and all the things he can’t afford +Scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on +Plannin’ for the future see him now as he stands on +The bow of a ship headed for a new land +In New York you can be a new man +COMPANY +Scammin’ +Plannin’ +Oooh… +COMPANY +In New York you can +Be a new man— +In New York you can +Be a new man— +HAMILTON +Just you wait! +Just you wait! +COMPANY +In New York you can be a new man— +WOMEN +In New York— +MEN +New York— +HAMILTON +Just you wait! +COMPANY +Alexander Hamilton +We are waiting in the wings for you +You could never back down +You never learned to take your time! +Oh, Alexander Hamilton +When America sings for you +Will they know what you overcame? +Will they know you rewrote the game? +The world will never be the same, oh +BURR +The ship is in the harbor now +See if you can spot him +Another immigrant +Comin’ up from the bottom +His enemies destroyed his rep +America forgot him COMPANY +Alexander Hamilton +Waiting in the wings for you +You never learned to take your time! +Oh, Alexander Hamilton +Alexander Hamilton… +America sings for you +Will they know what you overcame? +Will they know you rewrote the game? +The world will never be the same, oh +MEN +Just you wait +COMPANY +Just you wait +MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON +We fought with him +LAURENS/PHILIP +Me? I died for him +WASHINGTON +Me? I trusted him +ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA +Me? I loved him +BURR +And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him +COMPANY +There’s a million things I haven’t done +But just you wait! +BURR +What’s your name, man? +COMPANY +Alexander Hamilton! +SONG: AARON BURR, SIR +COMPANY +1776. New York City +HAMILTON +Pardon me. Are you Aaron Burr, sir? +BURR +That depends. Who’s asking? +HAMILTON +Oh, well, sure, sir +I’m Alexander Hamilton, I’m at your service, sir +I have been looking for you +BURR +I’m getting nervous +HAMILTON +Sir… +I heard your name at Princeton. I was seeking an accelerated course of study when I got sort of out of sorts with a buddy of yours. I may have punched him. It’s a blur, sir. He handles the financials? +BURR +You punched the bursar +HAMILTON +Yes! +I wanted to do what you did. Graduate in two, then join the revolution. He looked at me like I was stupid, I’m not stupid +So how’d you do it? How’d you graduate so fast? +BURR +It was my parents’ dying wish before they passed +HAMILTON +You’re an orphan. Of course! I’m an orphan +God, I wish there was a war! +Then we could prove that we’re worth more +Than anyone bargained for… +BURR +Can I buy you a drink? +HAMILTON +That would be nice +BURR +While we’re talking, let me offer you some free advice +Talk less +HAMILTON +What? +BURR +Smile more +HAMILTON +Ha +BURR +Don’t let them know what you’re against or what you’re for +HAMILTON +You can’t be serious +BURR +You wanna get ahead? +HAMILTON +Yes +BURR +Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead +LAURENS +Yo yo yo yo yo! +What time is it? +LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN +Show time! +BURR +…like I said… +LAURENS +Show time! Show time! Yo! +I’m John Laurens in the place to be! +Two pints o’ Sam Adams, but I’m workin’ on three, uh! +Those redcoats don’t want it with me! +Cuz I will pop chick-a pop these cops till I’m free! +LAFAYETTE +Oui oui, mon ami, je m’appelle Lafayette! +The Lancelot of the revolutionary set! +I came from afar just to say “Bonsoir!” +Tell the King “Casse toi!” Who’s the best? +C’est moi! +MULLIGAN +Brrrah brraaah! I am Hercules Mulligan +Up in it, lovin’ it, yes I heard ya mother said “Come again?” +LAFAYETTE & LAURENS +Ayyyyy +MULLIGAN +Lock up ya daughters and horses, of course +It’s hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets… +LAFAYETTE +Wow +LAURENS +No more sex, pour me another brew, son! +Let’s raise a couple more… +LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN +To the revolution! +LAURENS +Well, if it ain’t the prodigy of Princeton college! +MULLIGAN +Aaron Burr! +LAURENS +Give us a verse, drop some knowledge! +BURR +Good luck with that: you’re takin’ a stand +You spit. I’m ‘a sit. We’ll see where we land +LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN +Boooo! +LAURENS +Burr, the revolution’s imminent. What do you stall for? +HAMILTON +If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for? +LAURENS +Ooh +Who are you? MULLIGAN +Ooh +Who are you? LAFAYETTE +Ooh +Who are you? +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS +Ooh, who is this kid? What’s he gonna do? +College +I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish +The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish +I gotta holler just to be heard +With every word, I drop knowledge! +I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal +Tryin’ to reach my goal. My power of speech: unimpeachable +Only nineteen but my mind is older +These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder +Ev’ry burden, ev’ry disadvantage +I have learned to manage, I don’t have a gun to brandish +I walk these streets famished +The plan is to fan this spark into a flame +But damn, it’s getting dark, so let me spell out the name +I am the— +HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS +A-L-E-X-A-N-D +E-R—we are—meant to be… +HAMILTON +A colony that runs independently +Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin’ on us endlessly +Essentially, they tax us relentlessly +Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree +He ain’t ever gonna set his descendants free +So there will be a revolution in this century +Enter me! +LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS +(He says in parentheses) +HAMILTON +Don’t be shocked when your hist’ry book mentions me +I will lay down my life if it sets us free +Eventually, you’ll see my ascendancy +HAMILTON +And I am not throwing away +My shot +I am not throwing away +My shot +Hey yo, I’m just like my country +I’m young, scrappy and hungry +And I’m not throwing away my shot +LAURENS +My shot! +My shot! +And I’m not throwing away my shot. +HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE +I am not throwing away my shot +I am not throwing away my shot +Hey yo, I’m just like my country +I’m young, scrappy and hungry +And I’m not throwing away my shot +It’s time to take a shot! +LAFAYETTE +I dream of life without a monarchy +The unrest in France will lead to ‘onarchy? +‘Onarchy? How you say, how you say, ‘anarchy?’ +When I fight, I make the other side panicky +With my— +HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN +Shot! +MULLIGAN +Yo, I’m a tailor’s apprentice +And I got y’all knuckleheads in loco parentis +I’m joining the rebellion cuz I know it’s my chance +To socially advance, instead of sewin’ some pants! +I’m gonna take a— +HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN +Shot! +LAURENS +But we’ll never be truly free +Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me +You and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in +On a stallion with the first black battalion +Have another— +HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN +Shot! +BURR +Geniuses, lower your voices +You keep out of trouble and you double your choices +I’m with you, but the situation is fraught +You’ve got to be carefully taught: +If you talk, you’re gonna get shot! +HAMILTON +Burr, check what we got +Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot +I think your pants look hot +Laurens, I like you a lot +Let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin’ the pot… +What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot +Poppin’ a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not +A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists? +Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is! +Oh, am I talkin’ too loud? +Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth +I never had a group of friends before +I promise that I’ll make y’all proud +LAURENS +Let’s get this guy in front of a crowd +HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE +I am not throwing away my shot +I am not throwing away my shot +Hey yo, I’m just like my country +I’m young, scrappy and hungry +And I’m not throwing away my shot +I am not throwing away my shot +I am not throwing away my shot +Hey yo, I’m just like my country +I’m young, scrappy and hungry +And I’m not throwing away my shot +LAURENS +Ev’rybody sing: +Whoa, whoa, whoa +Hey! +Whoa! +Wooh!! +Whoa! +Ay, let ‘em hear ya! +Let’s go! +I said shout it to the rooftops! +Said, to the rooftops! +Come on! +Come on, let’s go! HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/ +MULLIGAN +Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! +Whoa! +Whoa! +Yea! +COMPANY +Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! +Whoa! +Whoa! +Yea! +LAURENS +Rise up! +When you’re living on your knees, you rise up +Tell your brother that he’s gotta rise up +Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up +LAURENS AND ENSEMBLE +When are these colonies gonna rise up? +When are these colonies gonna rise up? +When are these colonies gonna rise up? +When are these colonies gonna rise up? +Rise up! +COMPANY +Whoa! Whoa! +Whoa! +Whoa! +Whoa! +Rise up! +HAMILTON +I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory +When’s it gonna get me? +In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me? +If I see it comin’, do I run or do I let it be? +Is it like a beat without a melody? +See, I never thought I’d live past twenty +Where I come from some get half as many +Ask anybody why we livin’ fast and we laugh, reach for a flask +We have to make this moment last, that’s plenty +Scratch that +This is not a moment, it’s the movement +Where all the hungriest brothers with +Something to prove went? +Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand +We roll like Moses, claimin’ our promised land +And? If we win our independence? +Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants? +Or will the blood we shed begin an endless +Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants? +I know the action in the street is excitin’ +But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ +I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’ +We need to handle our financial situation +Are we a nation of states? What’s the state of our nation? +I’m past patiently waitin’. I’m passionately +Smashin’ every expectation +Every action’s an act of creation! +I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and sorrow +For the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow +HAMILTON AND COMPANY +And I am not throwing away my shot +I am not throwing away my shot +Hey yo, I’m just like my country +I’m young, scrappy and hungry +And I’m not throwing away my shot +HAMILTON/LAURENS/ +LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN +We’re gonna rise up! Time to take a shot! +We’re gonna rise up! Time to take a shot! +We’re gonna +HAMILTON +Time to take a shot! +HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/ +LAURENS/MULLIGAN +Time to take a shot! +Time to take a shot! +Take a shot! +Shot! +Shot! +A-yo it’s +Time to take a shot! +Time to take a shot! +And I am— +ENSEMBLE +Not throwing away my shot +Not throwing away my shot +We’re gonna +Rise up! +Rise up! +Rise up! +Rise up! +Rise up! +Rise up! +Ri— ri— ri— +Time to take a shot! +Time to take a shot! +And I am— +HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS +Not throwin’ away my— +COMPANY +Not throwin’ away my shot! +HAMILTON +I may not live to see our glory! +LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS +I may not live to see our glory! +HAMILTON +But I will gladly join the fight! +LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS +But I will gladly join the fight! +HAMILTON +And when our children tell our story… +LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS +And when our children tell our story… +HAMILTON +They’ll tell the story of tonight +MULLIGAN +Let’s have another round tonight +LAFAYETTE +Let’s have another round tonight +HAMILTON +Let’s have another round tonight +LAURENS +Raise a glass to freedom +Something they can never take away +No matter what they tell you +Raise a glass to the four of us +LAURENS/MULLIGAN +Tomorrow there’ll be more of us +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS +Telling the story of tonight +HAMILTON +They’ll tell the story of tonight +LAURENS/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +Raise a glass to freedom +Something they can never take away +HAMILTON +No matter what they tell you +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +Let’s have another round tonight +LAURENS +Raise a glass to the four of us +HAMILTON/LAURENS/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +Tomorrow there’ll be more of us +HAMILTON/LAURENS +Telling the story of tonight +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +Let’s have another round tonight +HAMILTON/LAURENS/ +ENSEMBLE +They’ll tell the story of tonight +They’ll tell the story of tonight +They’ll tell the story of tonight +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/ +ENSEMBLE +Raise a glass to freedom +Raise a glass to freedom +They’ll tell the story of— +FULL ENSEMBLE +Tonight +BURR +There’s nothing rich folks love more +Than going downtown and slummin’ it with the poor +They pull up in their carriages and gawk +At the students in the common +Just to watch them talk +Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded +Uh-oh, but little does he know that +His daughters, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza +Sneak into the city just to watch all the guys at— +COMPANY +Work, work! +ANGELICA +Angelica! +COMPANY +Work, work! +ELIZA +Eliza! +PEGGY +And Peggy! +COMPANY +Work, work! +The Schuyler sisters! +ANGELICA +Angelica! +PEGGY +Peggy! +ELIZA +Eliza! +COMPANY +Work! +PEGGY +Daddy said to be home by sundown +ANGELICA +Daddy doesn’t need to know +PEGGY +Daddy said not to go downtown +ELIZA +Like I said, you’re free to go +ANGELICA +But—look around, look around, the +Revolution’s happening in New York +ELIZA/PEGGY +New York +COMPANY +Angelica +SCHUYLER SISTERS AND COMPANY +Work! +PEGGY +It’s bad enough daddy wants to go to war +ELIZA +People shouting in the square +PEGGY +It’s bad enough there’ll be violence on our shore +ANGELICA +New ideas in the air +ANGELICA AND MALE ENSEMBLE +Look around, look around— +ELIZA +Angelica, remind me what we’re looking for… +ALL MEN +She’s lookin’ for me! +ANGELICA +Eliza, I’m lookin’ for a mind at work +I’m lookin’ for a mind at work! +I’m lookin’ for a mind at work! +Whooaaaaa! +ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY +Whooaaaaa! +Work! COMPANY +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work! +BURR +Wooh! There’s nothin’ like summer in the city +Someone in a rush next to someone lookin’ pretty +Excuse me, miss, I know it’s not funny +But your perfume smells like your daddy’s got money +Why you slummin’ in the city in your fancy heels +You searchin for an urchin who can give you ideals? +ANGELICA +Burr, you disgust me +BURR +Ah, so you’ve discussed me +I’m a trust fund, baby, you can trust me! +ANGELICA +I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine +So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane +You want a revolution? I want a revelation +So listen to my declaration: +ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY +“We hold these truths to be self-evident +That all men are created equal” +ANGELICA +And when I meet Thomas Jefferson +COMPANY +Unh! +ANGELICA +I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel! +WOMEN +Work! +ELIZA +Look around, look around at how +Lucky we are to be alive right now! +ELIZA/PEGGY +Look around, look around at how +Lucky we are to be alive right now! +ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY +History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be +In the greatest city in the world! +SCHUYLER SISTERS AND COMPANY +In the greatest city in the world! +ANGELICA +Cuz I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine +So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane +ANGELICA +You want a revolution? +I want a revelation +So listen to my declaration: +ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY +We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal +Whoo! ELIZA/PEGGY +Look around, look around +The revolution’s happening in— +ELIZA/PEGGY +New York! +In New York! +FEMALE ENSEMBLE +Look around +Look around +At how lucky we are to be alive right now MEN +Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! +Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! +WOMEN +Look around, look around the revolution’s happening +Hey! Hey! +Hey! Hey! +Hey! Hey! +Hey! Hey! +FULL COMPANY +Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now! +History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be +ALL WOMEN +In the greatest city in the world +ALL MEN +In the greatest city— +COMPANY +In the greatest city in the world! +COMPANY +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work, work! +COMPANY +Work, work! +Work, work! +Work, work! +ANGELICA +Angelica! +ELIZA +Eliza! +PEGGY +And Peggy! +ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY +The Schuyler sisters! +We’re looking for a mind at work! +Hey! +Hey! +ANGELICA +Whoa! +In the greatest +City in the world +ELIZA/PEGGY +Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! +In the greatest +City in the world +COMPANY +In the greatest city in the world! +SEABURY +Hear ye, hear ye! My name is Samuel Seabury +And I present “Free Thoughts on the +Proceedings of the Continental Congress!” +Heed not the rabble who scream revolution +They have not your interests at heart +MULLIGAN +Oh my God. Tear this dude apart +SEABURY +Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution +Don’t let them lead you astray +This Congress does not speak for me +BURR +Let him be +SEABURY +They’re playing a dangerous game +I pray the king shows you his mercy +For shame, for shame… +HAMILTON +Yo! +He’d have you all unravel at the +Sound of screams but the +Revolution is comin’ +The have-nots are gonna +Win this +It’s hard to listen to you with a straight face +Chaos and bloodshed already haunt us, honestly you shouldn’t even talk. And what about Boston? Look at the cost, n’ all that we’ve lost n’ you talk +About Congress?! +My dog speaks more eloquently than thee! +But strangely, your mange is the same +Is he in Jersey? +For the revolution! +SEABURY +Heed not the rabble +Who scream +Revolution, they +Have not your +Interests +At heart +Chaos and bloodshed are +Not a +Solution. Don’t +Let them lead you +Astray +This Congress does not +Speak for me +They’re playing a dangerous game +I pray the king shows you his mercy +For shame +For shame! +COMPANY +For the revolution! +SEABURY +Heed— +HAMILTON +If you repeat yourself again I’m gonna— +SEABURY/HAMILTON +Scream— +HAMILTON +Honestly, look at me, please don’t read! +SEABURY +Not your interests— +HAMILTON +Don’t modulate the key then not debate with me! +Why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea? +BURR +Alexander, please! +HAMILTON +Burr, I’d rather be divisive than indecisive, drop the niceties +ENSEMBLE +Silence! A message from the King! +A message from the King! +FULL COMPANY +A message from the King! +Verse1: KING GEORGE +You say +The price of my love’s not a price that you’re willing to pay +You cry +In your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by +Why so sad? +Remember we made an arrangement when you went away +Now you’re making me mad +Remember, despite our estrangement, I’m your man +You’ll be back, soon you’ll see +You’ll remember you belong to me +You’ll be back, time will tell +You’ll remember that I served you well +Oceans rise, empires fall +We have seen each other through it all +And when push comes to shove +I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love! +Chorus: KING GEORGE +Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da +Da da dat dat da ya da! +Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da +Da da dat dat da… +Verse2: KING GEORGE +You say our love is draining and you can’t go on +You’ll be the one complaining when I am gone… +And no, don’t change the subject +Cuz you’re my favorite subject +My sweet, submissive subject +My loyal, royal subject +Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever… +Verse3: KING GEORGE +You’ll be back like before +I will fight the fight and win the war +For your love, for your praise +And I’ll love you till my dying days +When you’re gone, I’ll go mad +So don’t throw away this thing we had +Cuz when push comes to shove +I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love +Chorus: KING GEORGE +Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da +Da da dat dat da ya da! +Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da +Da da dat— +Everybody! +Chorus: All +Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da +Da da dat dat da ya da! +Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da da da da +Dat dat da ya da! +COMPANY +British Admiral Howe’s got troops on the water +Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor +ENSEMBLE 1 +Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor +When they surround our troops! +They surround our troops! +When they surround our troops! +ENSEMBLE 2 +Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor +They surround our troops! +They surround our troops! +HAMILTON +As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war +I knew that I was poor +I knew it was the only way to— +HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE +Rise up! +HAMILTON +If they tell my story +I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or— +HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE +Rise up! +HAMILTON +I will fight for this land +But there’s only one man +Who can give us a command so we can— +HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE +Rise up! +HAMILTON +Understand? It’s the only way to— +HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE +Rise up! Rise up! +HAMILTON +Here he comes! +ENSEMBLE +Here comes the General! +BURR +Ladies and gentlemen! +ENSEMBLE +Here comes the General! +BURR +The moment you’ve been waiting for! +ENSEMBLE +Here comes the General! +BURR +The pride of Mount Vernon! +ENSEMBLE +Here comes the General! +BURR +George Washington! +WASHINGTON +We are outgunned +Outmanned +Outnumbered +Outplanned +We gotta make an all out stand +Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man. +ENSEMBLE +What? +What? +Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! +Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! +WASHINGTON +Check it— +Can I be real a second? +For just a millisecond? +Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second? +Now I’m the model of a modern major general +The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all +Lining up, to put me up on a pedestal +Writin’ letters to relatives +Embellishin’ my elegance and eloquence +But the elephant is in the room +The truth is in ya face when ya hear the British cannons go… +ENSEMBLE +Boom! +WASHINGTON +Any hope of success is fleeting +How can I keep leading when the people I’m +Leading keep retreating? +We put a stop to the bleeding as the British take Brooklyn +Knight takes rook, but look +WASHINGTON +We are outgunned +Outmanned +Outnumbered +Outplanned +We gotta make an all out stand +Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man +Incoming! +ENSEMBLE +What? +What? +Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! +Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! +HAMILTON +They’re battering down the Battery check the damages +MULLIGAN +Rah! +HAMILTON +We gotta stop ‘em and rob ‘em of their advantages +MULLIGAN +Rah! +HAMILTON +Let’s take a stand with the stamina God has granted us +Hamilton won’t abandon ship +Yo, let’s steal their cannons— +MULLIGAN +Shh-boom! COMPANY +Boom! +WASHINGTON +Goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray and… +COMPANY +Boom! +WASHINGTON +Goes the cannon, we’re abandonin’ Kips Bay and… +COMPANY +Boom! +WASHINGTON +There’s another ship and… +COMPANY +Boom! +WASHINGTON +We just lost the southern tip and… +COMPANY +Boom! +WASHINGTON +We gotta run to Harlem quick, we can’t afford another slip +Guns and horses giddyup +I decide to divvy up +My forces, they’re skittish as the British cut the city up +This close to giving up, facing mad scrutiny +I scream in the face of this mass mutiny: +Are these the men with which I am to defend America? +We ride at midnight, Manhattan in the distance +I cannot be everywhere at once, people +I’m in dire need of assistance… +BURR +Your excellency, sir! +WASHINGTON +Who are you? +BURR +Aaron Burr, Sir? +Permission to state my case? +WASHINGTON +As you were +BURR +Sir +I was a captain under General Montgomery +Until he caught a bullet in the neck in Quebec +And well, in summary +I think that I could be of some assistance +I admire how you keep firing on the British +From a distance +WASHINGTON +Huh +BURR +I have some questions, a couple of suggestions on how to fight instead of fleeing west +WASHINGTON +Yes? +BURR +Well— +HAMILTON +Your excellency, you wanted to see me? +WASHINGTON +Hamilton, come in, have you met Burr? +HAMILTON +Yes, sir +HAMILTON AND BURR +We keep meeting +BURR +As I was saying, sir, I look forward to seeing your strategy play out +WASHINGTON +Burr? +BURR +Sir? +WASHINGTON +Close the door on your way out +HAMILTON +Have I done something wrong, sir? +WASHINGTON +On the contrary +I called you here because our odds are beyond scary +Your reputation precedes you, but I have to laugh +HAMILTON +Sir? +WASHINGTON +Hamilton, how come no one can get you on their staff? +HAMILTON +Sir! +WASHINGTON +Don’t get me wrong, you’re a young man of great renown +I know you stole British cannons when we were still downtown +Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox wanted to hire you… +HAMILTON +To be their Secretary? I don’t think so +WASHINGTON +Why’re you upset? +HAMILTON +I’m not— +WASHINGTON +It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hunger +I was just like you when I was younger +Head full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr? +HAMILTON +Yes +WASHINGTON +Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder +HAMILTON +Why are you telling me this? +WASHINGTON +I’m being honest +I’m working with a third of what our Congress has promised +We are a powder keg about to explode +I need someone like you to lighten the load. So? +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON) +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +Ayo, I’m just like my country, I’m young +Scrappy and hungry! +HAMILTON +I am not throwing away my shot! +WASHINGTON +Son +WASHINGON AND COMPANY +We are outgunned, outmanned! +HAMILTON +You need all the help you can get +I have some friends. Laurens, Mulligan +Marquis de Lafayette, okay, what else? +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Outnumbered, outplanned! +HAMILTON +We’ll need some spies on the inside +Some King’s men who might let some things slide +HAMILTON +I’ll write to Congress and tell ‘em we need supplies, you rally the guys, master the element of surprise +I’ll rise above my station, organize your information, ‘til we rise to the occasion of our new nation. Sir! +ENSEMBLE +Here comes the General! +HAMILTON +Rise up! +HAMILTON +Rise up! +ENSEMBLE +Here comes the General! +HAMILTON +Rise up! COMPANY +Boom! +Chicka-boom! +ENSEMBLE +Here comes the General! +SCHUYLER SISTERS +Rise up! +SCHUYLER SISTERS AND WOMEN +Rise up! ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY +Whoa, whoa, whoa… +Whoa, whoa, whoa… +ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY AND WOMEN +Whoa, whoa, whoa… +LAURENS/ +LAFAYETTE/ +MULLIGAN +What? +LAURENS/ +LAFAYETTE/ +MULLIGAN +What? +LAURENS/ +LAFAYETTE/ +MULLIGAN +What? +FULL COMPANY +Here comes the General! +HAMILTON +What? +WASHINGTON +And his right hand man! +FULL COMPANY +Boom! +Burr +How does the bastard, orphan, son of a whore +Go on and on +Grow into more of a phenomenon? +Watch this obnoxious, arrogant, loudmouth bother +Be seated at the right hand of the father +Washington hires Hamilton right on sight +But Hamilton still wants to fight, not write +Now Hamilton’s skill with a quill is undeniable +But what do we have in common? We’re +Reliable with the +All Men +Ladies! +Burr +There are so many to deflower! +All Men +Ladies! +Burr +Looks! Proximity to power +All Men +Ladies! +Burr +They delighted and distracted him +Martha Washington named her feral tomcat after him! +Hamilton +That’s true! +Full Company +1780 +Burr +A winter’s ball +And the Schuyler sisters are the envy of all +Yo, if you can marry a sister, you’re rich, son +Hamilton +Is it a question of if, Burr, or which one? +Hamilton/Burr/Laurens +Hey +Hey +Hey hey +HAMILTON/BURR/LAURENS/ALL WOMEN (EXCEPT ELIZA) +Hey hey hey hey +ELIZA +Ohh, I do I do I do I +Dooo! Hey! +Ohh, I do I do I do I +Dooo! Boy you got me ALL WOMEN +Hey hey hey hey +Hey hey hey hey +Hey hey hey hey +Hey hey hey +ELIZA AND WOMEN +Helpless! +Look into your eyes, and the sky’s the limit I’m helpless! +Down for the count, and I’m drownin’ in ‘em +ELIZA +I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight +We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night +Laughin’ at my sister as she’s dazzling the room +Then you walked in and my heart went “Boom!” +Tryin’ to catch your eye from the side of the ballroom +Everybody’s dancin’ and the band’s top volume +ELIZA AND WOMEN +Grind to the rhythm as we wine and dine +ELIZA +Grab my sister, and +Whisper, “Yo, this +One’s mine.” +My sister made her way across the room to you +And I got nervous, thinking “What’s she gonna do?” +She grabbed you by the arm, I’m thinkin’ “I’m through” +Then you look back at me and suddenly I’m +Helpless! +Oh, look at those eyes +Oh! +Yeah, I’m +Helpless, I know +I’m so into you +I am so into you +I know I’m down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in ‘em. +ALL WOMEN +Oooh +Oooh +Oooh +Oooh +Helpless! +Look into your eyes +And the sky’s the limit +I’m +Helpless! +Down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in ‘em +I’m helpless! +Look into your eyes +And the sky’s the limit I’m helpless! +Down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in ‘em. +HAMILTON +Where are you taking me? +ANGELICA +I’m about to change your life +HAMILTON +Then by all means, lead the way +ELIZA +Elizabeth Schuyler. It’s a pleasure to meet you +HAMILTON +Schuyler? +ANGELICA +My sister +ELIZA +Thank you for all your service +HAMILTON +If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it +ANGELICA +I’ll leave you to it +ELIZA AND WOMEN +One week later +ELIZA +I’m writin’ a letter nightly +Now my life gets better, every letter that you write me +Laughin’ at my sister, cuz she wants to form a harem +ANGELICA +I’m just sayin’, if you really loved me, you would share him +ELIZA +Ha! +Two weeks later +In the living room stressin’ +My father’s stone-faced +While you’re asking for his blessin’ +I’m dying inside, as +You wine +And dine +And I’m tryin’ not to cry +‘cause there’s nothing that your mind can’t do +My father makes his way across the room +To you +I panic for a second, thinking +“we’re through” +But then he shakes your hand and says +“Be true” +And you turn back to me, smiling, and I’m +Helpless! +Helpless! +Hoo! +That boy is mine +That boy is mine! +Helpless! Helpless! +Down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in em +ALL WOMEN +Stressin’ +Blessin’ +Oooh +Oooh +Oooh +Oooh +Helpless! +Look into your eyes +And the sky’s the +Limit I’m +Helpless! +Down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in +‘em I’m +Helpless! +Look into your eyes +And the sky’s the +Limit I’m +Helpless! +Down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in em +HAMILTON +Eliza, I don’t have a dollar to my name +An acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame +All I have’s my honor, a tolerance for pain +A couple of college credits and my top-notch brain +Insane, your family brings out a different side of me +Peggy confides in me, Angelica tried to take a bite of me +No stress, my love for you is never in doubt +We’ll get a little place in Harlem and we’ll figure it out +I’ve been livin’ without a family since I was a child +My father left, my mother died, I grew up buckwild +But I’ll never forget my mother’s face, that was real +And long as I’m alive, Eliza, swear to God +You’ll never feel so… +HAMILTON +Eliza… +I’ve never felt so— +My life is gon’ be fine cuz Eliza’s in it. +ELIZA +I do I do I do I do! +I do I do I do I do! +Hey, yeah, yeah! +I’m down for the count +I’m— +I look into your eyes, and the sky’s the limit +I’m +…drownin’ in ‘em. ALL WOMEN +Helpless! +Helpless! +Helpless! +Down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in ‘em +Helpless! +Helpless! +Helpless! +Down for the count +And I’m drownin’ in ‘em. +Wedding march plays +ALL WOMEN +In New York, you can be a new man… +In New York, you can be a new man… +In New York, you can be a new man… +ELIZA +Helpless +LAURENS +Alright, alright. That’s what I’m talkin’ about! +Now everyone give it up for the maid of honor +Angelica Schuyler! +ANGELICA +A toast to the groom! +To the bride! +From your sister +Who is always by your side +To your union +And the hope that you provide +May you always… +Be satisfied +ALL MEN +To the groom! +To the groom! +To the groom! +To the bride! +To the bride! +Angelica! +Angelica! +Angelica! +By your side! +To the union! +To the revolution! +You provide! +You provide! +HAMILTON AND MEN +Always— +Rewind— +ALL WOMEN +To the groom! +To the bride! +To the bride! +ELIZA AND WOMEN +Angelica! +By your side! +To the union! +To the revolution! +You provide! +Always— +Rewind— +ANGELICA +I remember that night, I just might +Regret that night for the rest of my days +I remember those soldier boys +Tripping over themselves to win our praise +I remember that dreamlike candlelight +Like a dream that you can’t quite place +But Alexander, I’ll never forget the first +Time I saw your face +I have never been the same +Intelligent eyes in a hunger-pang frame +And when you said “Hi,” I forgot my dang name +Set my heart aflame, ev’ry part aflame +FULL COMPANY +This is not a game… +HAMILTON +You strike me as a woman who has never been satisfied +ANGELICA +I’m sure I don’t know what you mean. You forget yourself +HAMILTON +You’re like me. I’m never satisfied +ANGELICA +Is that right? +HAMILTON +I have never been satisfied +ANGELICA +My name is Angelica Schuyler +HAMILTON +Alexander Hamilton +ANGELICA +Where’s your fam’ly from? +HAMILTON +Unimportant. There’s a million things I haven’t done but +Just you wait, just you wait… +ANGELICA +So so so— +So this is what it feels like to match wits +With someone at your level! What the hell is the catch? It’s +The feeling of freedom, of seein’ the light +It’s Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right? +The conversation lasted two minutes, maybe three minutes +Ev’rything we said in total agreement, it’s +A dream and it’s a bit of a dance +A bit of a posture, it’s a bit of a stance. He’s a +Bit of a flirt, but I’m ‘a give it a chance +I asked about his fam’ly, did you see his answer? +His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance? +He’s penniless, he’s flying by the seat of his pants +Handsome, boy, does he know it! +Peach fuzz, and he can’t even grow it! +I wanna take him far away from this place +Then I turn and see my sister’s face and she is… +ELIZA +Helpless… +ANGELICA +And I know she is… +ELIZA +Helpless… +ANGELICA +And her eyes are just… +ELIZA +Helpless… +ANGELICA +And I realize +ANGELICA AND COMPANY +Three fundamental truths at the exact same time… +HAMILTON +Where are you taking me? +ANGELICA +I’m about to change your life +HAMILTON +Then by all means, lead the way +COMPANY (EXCEPT ANGELICA) +Number one! +ANGELICA +I’m a girl in a world in which +My only job is to marry rich +My father has no sons so I’m the one +Who has to social climb for one +So I’m the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in +New York City is insidious +And Alexander is penniless +Ha! That doesn’t mean I want him any less +ELIZA +Elizabeth Schuyler. It’s a pleasure to meet you +HAMILTON +Schuyler? +ANGELICA +My sister +COMPANY +Number two! +ANGELICA +He’s after me cuz I’m a Schuyler sister +That elevates his status, I’d +Have to be naïve to set that aside +Maybe that is why I introduce him to Eliza +Now that’s his bride +Nice going, Angelica, he was right +You will never be satisfied +ELIZA +Thank you for all your service +HAMILTON +If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it +ANGELICA +I’ll leave you to it +COMPANY +Number three! +ANGELICA +I know my sister like I know my own mind +You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind +If I tell her that I love him she’d be silently resigned +He’d be mine +She would say, “I’m fine” +ANGELICA AND COMPANY +She’d be lying +ANGELICA +But when I fantasize at night +It’s Alexander’s eyes +As I romanticize what might +Have been if I hadn’t sized him +Up so quickly +At least my dear Eliza’s his wife; +At least I keep his eyes in my life… +ANGELICA +To the groom! +To the bride! +From your sister +Who is always by your side +To your union +And the hope that you provide +May you always +Be satisfied +And I know +She’ll be happy as +His bride +And I know ALL MEN (EXCEPT HAMILTON) +To the groom! +To the groom! +To the groom! +To the bride! +To the bride! +Angelica! +Angelica! +By your side +To the union! +To the revolution! +You provide! +You provide! +HAMILTON AND MEN +Always— +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +MEN +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied. +ALL WOMEN (EXCEPT ELIZA) +To the groom! +To the bride! +To the bride! +ELIZA AND WOMEN +Angelica! +By your side +To the union! +To the revolution! +You provide! +Always— +Be satisfied +WOMEN +Be satisfied +Be satisfied +Be satisfied. +ANGELICA +He will never be satisfied +I will never be satisfied +LAURENS +I may not live to see our glory! +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +I may not live to see our glory! +LAURENS +But I’ve seen wonders great and small +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +I’ve seen wonders great and small +LAURENS +‘Cause if the tomcat can get married +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +If Alexander can get married— +LAURENS +There’s hope for our ass, after all! +LAFAYETTE +Raise a glass to freedom +LAURENS/MULLIGAN +Hey! +Something you will never see again! +MULLIGAN +No matter what she tells you +LAFAYETTE +Let’s have another round tonight! +LAURENS +Raise a glass to the four of us! +LAFAYETTE/HAMILTON +Ho! +MULLIGAN +To the newly not poor of us! +LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/HAMILTON +Woo! +LAFAYETTE +We’ll tell the story of tonight +LAURENS +Let’s have another round— +HAMILTON +Well, if it isn’t Aaron Burr +BURR +Sir! +HAMILTON +I didn’t think that you would make it +BURR +To be sure +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE +Burr! +BURR +I came to say congratulations +MULLIGAN +Spit a verse, Burr! +BURR +I see the whole gang is here +LAFAYETTE +You are the worst, Burr! +HAMILTON +Ignore them. Congrats to you, Lieutenant Colonel +I wish I had your command instead of manning George’s journal +BURR +No, you don’t +HAMILTON +Yes, I do +BURR +Now, be sensible +From what I hear, you’ve made yourself indispensable +LAURENS +Well, well, I heard +You’ve got a special someone on the side, Burr +HAMILTON +Is that so? +LAURENS +What are you tryin’ to hide, Burr? +BURR +I should go +HAMILTON +No, these guys should go +LAFAYETTE +What? +LAURENS +No! +HAMILTON +Leave us alone +MULLIGAN +Man… +HAMILTON +It’s alright, Burr. I wish you’d brought this girl with you tonight, Burr +BURR +You’re very kind, but I’m afraid it’s unlawful, sir +HAMILTON +What do you mean? +BURR +She’s married +HAMILTON +I see +BURR +She’s married to a British officer +HAMILTON +Oh shit… +BURR +Congrats again, Alexander. Smile more +I’ll see you on the other side of the war +HAMILTON +I will never understand you +If you love this woman, go get her! What are you waiting for? +BURR +I’ll see you on the other side of the war +HAMILTON +I’ll see you on the other side of the war +BURR +Theodosia writes me a letter every day +I'm keeping the bed warm while her husband is away +He's on the British side in Georgia +He's trying to keep the colonies in line +But he can keep all of Georgia +Theodosia, she's mine +Love doesn't discriminate +Between the sinners +And the saints +It takes and it takes and it takes +And we keep loving anyway +We laugh and we cry +And we break +And we make our mistakes +And if there's a reason I'm by her side +When so many have tried +Then I'm willing to wait for it +I'm willing to wait for it +BURR +My grandfather was a fire and brimstone preacher +But there are things that the +Homilies and hymns won't teach ya +My mother was a genius +My father commanded respect +When they died they left no instructions +Just a legacy to protect +MEN +Preacher, preacher +Preacher +Teach ya, teach ya, teach ya +Respect, respect +WOMEN +Genius +BURR/ENSEMBLE +Death doesn’t discriminate +Between the sinners +And the saints +It takes and it takes and it takes +And we keep living anyway +We rise and we fall +And we break +And we make our mistakes +And if there’s a reason I’m still alive +When everyone who loves me has died +I’m willing to wait for it +I’m willing to wait for it +Wait for it +ENSEMBLE +Wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for it +BURR +I am the one thing in life I can control +ENSEMBLE +Wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for it +BURR +I am inimitable +I am an original +ENSEMBLE +Wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for it +BURR +I’m not falling behind or running late +ENSEMBLE +Wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for it +BURR +I’m not standing still +I am lying in wait +ENSEMBLE +Wait +Wait +Wait +BURR +Hamilton faces an endless uphill climb +ENSEMBLE +Climb +Climb +Climb +BURR +He has something to prove +He has nothing to lose +ENSEMBLE +Lose +Lose +Lose +Lose +BURR +Hamilton’s pace is relentless +He wastes no time +ENSEMBLE +Time +Time +Time +BURR +What is it like in his shoes? +Hamilton doesn’t hesitate +He exhibits no restraint +He takes and he takes and he takes +And he keeps winning anyway +He changes the game +He plays and he raises the stakes +And if there’s a reason +He seems to thrive when so few survive, then Goddamnit— +BURR +I'm willing to wait for it +I'm willing to wait for it… +Life doesn't discriminate +Between the sinners and the saints +It takes and it takes and it takes +We rise +We fall +And if there's a reason I'm still alive +When so many have died +Then I'm willin' to— + COMPANY +I'm willing to wait for it +Wait for it +Wait for… +I'm willing to— +Life doesn't discriminate +Between the sinners and the saints +It takes and it takes and it takes +And we keep living anyway +We rise and we fall and we break +And we make our mistakes +And if there's a reason I'm still alive +When so many have died +Then I'm willin' to— +BURR +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +WOMEN +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +MEN +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +Wait for it… +Wait… +ELIZA +Stay alive… +ELIZA/ANGELICA/ENSEMBLE WOMEN +Stay alive… +HAMILTON +I have never seen the General so despondent +I have taken over writing all his correspondence +Congress writes, “George, attack the British forces.” +I shoot back, we have resorted to eating our horses +Local merchants deny us equipment, assistance +They only take British money, so sing a song of sixpence +WASHINGTON +The cavalry’s not coming +HAMILTON +But, sir! +WASHINGTON +Alex, listen. There’s only one way for us to win this +Provoke outrage, outright +HAMILTON +That’s right +WASHINGTON +Don’t engage, strike by night +Remain relentless ‘til their troops take flight +HAMILTON +Make it impossible to justify the cost of the fight +WASHINGTON +Outrun +HAMILTON +Outrun +WASHINGTON +Outlast +HAMILTON +Outlast +WASHINGTON +Hit ‘em quick, get out fast +HAMILTON +Chick-a-plao! +WASHINGTON +Stay alive ‘til this horror show is past +We’re gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast +HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE +Raise a glass! +MULLIGAN +I go back to New York and my apprenticeship +LAFAYETTE +I ask for French aid, I pray that France has sent a ship +LAURENS +I stay at work with Hamilton +We write essays against slavery +And every day’s a test of our camaraderie +And bravery +HAMILTON +We cut supply lines, we steal contraband +We pick and choose our battles and places to take a stand +And ev’ry day +“Sir, entrust me with a command,” +And ev’ry day +WASHINGTON +No +HAMILTON +He dismisses me out of hand +HAMILTON +Instead of me +He promotes +Charles Lee +Makes him second-in-command: +LEE +Charles Lee. ELIZA/ANGELICA +Stay alive… +LEE +I’m a General. Whee!!!! +HAMILTON +Yeah. He’s not the choice I would have gone with +HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE +He shits the bed at the Battle of Monmouth +WASHINGTON +Ev’ryone attack! +LEE +Retreat! +WASHINGTON +Attack! +LEE +Retreat! +WASHINGTON +What are you doing, Lee? Get back on your feet! +LEE +But there’s so many of them! +WASHINGTON +I’m sorry, is this not your speed?! +Hamilton! +HAMILTON +Ready, sir! +WASHINGTON +Have Lafayette take the lead! +HAMILTON +Yes, sir! +LAURENS +A thousand soldiers die in a hundred degree heat +LAFAYETTE +As we snatch a stalemate from the jaws of defeat +HAMILTON +Charles Lee was left behind +Without a pot to piss in +He started sayin’ this to anybody who would listen: +LEE +Washington cannot be left alone to his devices +Indecisive, from crisis to crisis +The best thing he can do for the revolution +Is turn n’ go back to plantin’ tobacco in Mount Vernon +COMPANY +Oo!! +WASHINGTON +Don’t do a thing. History will prove him wrong +HAMILTON +But, sir! +WASHINGTON +We have a war to fight, let’s move along +LAURENS +Strong words from Lee, someone oughta hold him to it +HAMILTON +I can’t disobey direct orders +LAURENS +Then I’ll do it +Alexander, you’re the closest friend I’ve got +HAMILTON +Laurens, do not throw away your shot +MEN +One, two, three, four +FULL COMPANY +Five, six, seven, eight, nine… +BURR/HAMILTON/LAURENS/LEE +It’s the Ten Duel Commandments +FULL COMPANY +It’s the Ten Duel Commandments +Number one! +LAURENS +The challenge: demand satisfaction +If they apologize, no need for further action +COMPANY +Number two! +LAURENS +If they don’t, grab a friend, that’s your second +HAMILTON +Your lieutenant when there’s reckoning to be reckoned +COMPANY +Number three! +LEE +Have your seconds meet face to face +BURR +Negotiate a peace… +HAMILTON +Or negotiate a time and place +BURR +This is commonplace, ‘specially ‘tween recruits +COMPANY +Most disputes die, and no one shoots +Number four! +LAURENS +If they don’t reach a peace, that’s alright +Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site +HAMILTON +You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility +BURR +You have him turn around so he can have deniability +COMPANY +Five! +LEE +Duel before the sun is in the sky +COMPANY +Pick a place to die where it’s high and dry +Number six! +HAMILTON +Leave a note for your next of kin +Tell ‘em where you been. Pray that hell or heaven lets you in +COMPANY +Seven! +LEE +Confess your sins. Ready for the moment +Of adrenaline when you finally face your opponent +COMPANY +Number eight! +LAURENS/LEE/HAMILTON/BURR +Your last chance to negotiate +Send in your seconds, see if they can set the record straight… +BURR +Alexander +HAMILTON +Aaron Burr, sir +BURR +Can we agree that duels are dumb and immature? +HAMILTON +Sure +But your man has to answer for his words, Burr +BURR +With his life? We both know that’s absurd, sir +HAMILTON +Hang on, how many men died because Lee was inexperienced and ruinous? +BURR +Okay, so we’re doin’ this +COMPANY +Number nine! +HAMILTON +Look ‘em in the eye, aim no higher +Summon all the courage you require +Then count +MEN +One two three four +FULL COMPANY +Five six seven eight nine +HAMILTON/BURR +Number +COMPANY +Ten paces! +HAMILTON/BURR +Fire! +HAMILTON +Lee, do you yield? +BURR +You shot him in the side! +Yes, he yields! +LAURENS +I’m satisfied +BURR +Yo, we gotta clear the field! +HAMILTON +Go! We won +COMPANY +Here comes the General! +BURR +This should be fun +WASHINGTON +What is the meaning of this? Mr. Burr, get a medic for the General +BURR +Yes, sir +WASHINGTON +Lee, you will never agree with me +But believe me, these young men don’t speak for me +Thank you for your service +BURR +Let’s ride! +WASHINGTON +Hamilton! +HAMILTON +Sir! +WASHINGTON +Meet me inside +COMPANY +Meet him inside! Meet him inside! +Meet him inside, meet him, meet him inside! +WASHINGTON +Son— +HAMILTON +Don’t call me son +WASHINGTON +This war is hard enough +Without infighting— +HAMILTON +Lee called you out. We called his bluff +WASHINGTON +You solve nothing, you aggravate our allies to the south +HAMILTON +You're absolutely right, John should have shot him in the mouth +That would’ve shut him up +WASHINGTON +Son— +HAMILTON +I’m notcha son— +WASHINGTON +Watch your tone +I am not a maiden in need of defending, I am grown +HAMILTON (OVERLAPPING) +Charles Lee, Thomas Conway +These men take your name and they rake it +Through the mud +WASHINGTON +My name’s been through a lot, I can take it +HAMILTON +Well, I don’t have your name. I don’t have your titles +I don’t have your land +But, if you— +WASHINGTON +No— +HAMILTON +If you gave me command of a battalion, a group of men to lead, I could fly above my station after the war +WASHINGTON +Or you could die and we need you alive +HAMILTON +I’m more than willing to die— +WASHINGTON +Your wife needs you alive, son, I need you alive— +HAMILTON +Call me son one more time— +WASHINGTON +Go home, Alexander +That’s an order from your commander +HAMILTON +Sir— +WASHINGTON +Go home +ELIZA +Look around, look around at how lucky we are +To be alive right now +Look around, look around… +HAMILTON +How long have you known? +ELIZA +A month or so +HAMILTON +Eliza, you should have told me +ELIZA +I wrote to the General a month ago +HAMILTON +No +ELIZA +I begged him to send you home +HAMILTON +You should have told me +ELIZA +I’m not sorry +ELIZA +I knew you’d fight +Until the war was won +But you deserve a chance to meet your son +Look around, look around at how lucky we are +To be alive right now. +HAMILTON +The war’s not +Done. +HAMILTON +Will you relish being a poor man’s wife +Unable to provide for your life? +ELIZA +I relish being your wife +Look around, look around… +Look at where you are +Look at where you started +The fact that you’re alive is a miracle +Just stay alive, that would be enough +And if this child +Shares a fraction of your smile +Or a fragment of your mind, look out world! +That would be enough +I don’t pretend to know +The challenges you’re facing +The worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind +But I’m not afraid +I know who I married +So long as you come home at the end of the day +That would be enough +We don’t need a legacy +We don’t need money +If I could grant you peace of mind +If you could let me inside your heart… +Oh, let me be a part of the narrative +In the story they will write someday +Let this moment be the first chapter: +Where you decide to stay +And I could be enough +And we could be enough +That would be enough +BURR +How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower +Somehow defeat a global superpower? +How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire? +Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross’ flag higher? +Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon! +An immigrant you know and love who’s unafraid to step in! +He’s constantly confusin’, confoundin’ the British henchmen +Ev’ryone give it up for America’s favorite fighting Frenchman! +COMPANY +Lafayette! +LAFAYETTE +I’m takin this horse by the reins makin’ +Redcoats redder with bloodstains +COMPANY +Lafayette! +LAFAYETTE +And I’m never gonna stop until I make ‘em +Drop and burn ‘em up and scatter their remains, I’m +COMPANY +Lafayette! +LAFAYETTE +Watch me engagin’ em! Escapin’ em! +Enragin’ em! I’m— +COMPANY +Lafayette! +LAFAYETTE +I go to France for more funds +COMPANY +Lafayette! +LAFAYETTE +I come back with more +LAFAYETTE AND ENSEMBLE +Guns +And ships +And so the balance shifts +WASHINGTON +We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts +LAFAYETTE +We can end this war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but +For this to succeed, there is someone else we need: +WASHINGTON +I know +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Hamilton! +LAFAYETTE +Sir, he knows what to do in a trench +Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean— +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Hamilton! +LAFAYETTE +Sir, you’re gonna have to use him eventually +What’s he gonna do on the bench? I mean— +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Hamilton! +LAFAYETTE +No one has more resilience +Or matches my practical tactical brilliance— +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Hamilton! +LAFAYETTE +You wanna fight for your land back? +WASHINGTON +I need my right hand man back! +LAFAYETTE +Ah! Uh, get ya right hand man back +You know you gotta get ya right hand man back +I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter but the sooner the better +To get your right hand man back! +COMPANY +Hamilton! +WOMEN +Hamilton! +Hamilton! +Hamilton, Hamilton! +Ha— ha—! +MEN +Get your right hand man back! +Your right hand man back! +Hamilton! +Ha— +Ha— +Hamilton, Hamilton! +Ha— ha—! +WASHINGTON +Alexander Hamilton +Troops are waiting in the field for you +If you join us right now, together we can turn the tide +Oh, Alexander Hamilton +I have soldiers that will yield for you +If we manage to get this right +They’ll surrender by early light +The world will never be the same, Alexander… +WASHINGTON +I was younger than you are now +When I was given my first command +I led my men straight into a massacre +I witnessed their deaths firsthand +I made every mistake +And felt the shame rise in me +And even now I lie awake +WASHINGTON +Knowing history has its eyes on me +HAMILTON/WASHINGTON +History has its eyes on me. LAURENS/MULLIGAN +Whoa… +Whoa… +Whoa… +Yeah +COMPANY +Whoa… +Whoa… +Whoa… +Yeah +WASHINGTON +Let me tell you what I wish I’d known +When I was young and dreamed of glory: +You have no control: +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Who lives, who dies, who tells your story +WASHINGTON +I know that we can win +I know that greatness lies in you +But remember from here on in +WASHINGTON/HAMILTON AND MEN +History has its +Eyes on you. +ENSEMBLE +Whoa… +Whoa… +Whoa… +FULL COMPANY +History has its eyes on you +COMPANY +The battle of Yorktown. 1781 +LAFAYETTE +Monsieur Hamilton +HAMILTON +Monsieur Lafayette +LAFAYETTE +In command where you belong +HAMILTON +How you say, no sweat +We're finally on the field. We’ve had quite a run +LAFAYETTE +Immigrants: +HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE +We get the job done +HAMILTON +So what happens if we win? +LAFAYETTE +I go back to France +I bring freedom to my people if I’m given the chance +HAMILTON +We’ll be with you when you do +LAFAYETTE +Go lead your men +HAMILTON +See you on the other side +LAFAYETTE +‘Til we meet again, let’s go! +ENSEMBLE +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +Hey yo, I’m just like my country, I’m young +Scrappy and hungry +And I’m not throwin’ away my shot! +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +HAMILTON +‘Til the world turns upside down… +ENSEMBLE +‘Til the world turns upside down! +HAMILTON +I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory +This is where it gets me: on my feet +The enemy ahead of me +If this is the end of me, at least I have a friend with me +Weapon in my hand, a command, and my men with me +Then I remember my Eliza’s expecting me… +Not only that, my Eliza’s expecting +We gotta go, gotta get the job done +Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son! +Take the bullets out your gun! +ENSEMBLE +What? +HAMILTON +The bullets out your gun! +ENSEMBLE +What? +HAMILTON +We move under cover and we move as one +Through the night, we have one shot to live another day +We cannot let a stray gunshot give us away +We will fight up close, seize the moment and stay in it +It’s either that or meet the business end of a bayonet +The code word is ‘Rochambeau,’ dig me? +ENSEMBLE +Rochambeau! +HAMILTON +You have your orders now, go, man, go! +And so the American experiment begins +With my friends all scattered to the winds +Laurens is in South Carolina, redefining brav’ry +HAMILTON/LAURENS +We’ll never be free until we end slavery! +HAMILTON +When we finally drive the British away +Lafayette is there waiting— +HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE +In Chesapeake Bay! +HAMILTON +How did we know that this plan would work? +We had a spy on the inside. That’s right +HAMILTON/COMPANY +Hercules Mulligan! +MULLIGAN +A tailor spyin’ on the British government! +I take their measurements, information and then I smuggle it +COMPANY +Up +MULLIGAN +To my brother's revolutionary covenant +I’m runnin’ with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin’ it! +See, that’s what happens when you up against the ruffians +We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it! +Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction +When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again! +COMPANY +Left! Right! Hold! +Go! +What! What! What! +HAMILTON +After a week of fighting, a young man in a red coat stands on a parapet +LAFAYETTE +We lower our guns as he frantically waves a white handkerchief +MULLIGAN +And just like that, it’s over. We tend to our wounded, we count our dead +LAURENS +Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom +WASHINGTON +Not. Yet +HAMILTON +We negotiate the terms of surrender +I see George Washington smile +We escort their men out of Yorktown +They stagger home single file +Tens of thousands of people flood the streets +There are screams and church bells ringing +And as our fallen foes retreat +I hear the drinking song they’re singing… +ALL MEN +The world turned upside down +FULL COMPANY +The world turned upside down +The world turned upside down +The world turned upside down +Down +Down, down, down +LAFAYETTE +Freedom for America, freedom for France! +COMPANY +Down, down, down +HAMILTON +Gotta start a new nation +Gotta meet my son +COMPANY +Down, down, down +MULLIGAN +We won! +LAFAYETTE +We won! +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS +We won! +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/HAMILTON/WASHINGTON +We won! +COMPANY +The world turned upside down! +KING GEORGE +They say +The price of my war’s not a price that they’re willing to pay +Insane +You cheat with the French, now I’m fighting with France and with Spain +I’m so blue +I thought that we’d made an arrangement +When you went away +You were mine to subdue +Well, even despite our estrangement, I’ve got +A small query for you: +What comes next? +You’ve been freed +Do you know how hard it is to lead? +You’re on your own +Awesome. Wow +Do you have a clue what happens now? +Oceans rise +Empires fall +It’s much harder when it’s all your call +All alone, across the sea +When your people say they hate you, don’t +Come crawling back to me +Da da da dat da dat da da da +Da ya da +Da da dat +Da da ya da… +You’re on your own… +BURR +Dear Theodosia, what to say to you? +You have my eyes. You have your mother’s name +When you came into the world, you cried and it broke my heart +I’m dedicating every day to you +Domestic life was never quite my style +When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart +And I thought I was so smart +You will come of age with our young nation +We’ll bleed and fight for you, we’ll make it right for you +If we lay a strong enough foundation +We’ll pass it on to you, we’ll give the world to you +And you’ll blow us all away… +Someday, someday +Yeah, you’ll blow us all away +Someday, someday +HAMILTON +Oh Philip, when you smile I am undone +My son +Look at my son. Pride is not the word I’m looking for +There is so much more inside me now +Oh Philip, you outshine the morning sun +My son +When you smile, I fall apart +And I thought I was so smart +My father wasn’t around +BURR +My father wasn’t around +HAMILTON +I swear that +I’ll be around for you. +BURR +I’ll be around for you. +HAMILTON +I’ll do whatever it takes +BURR +I’ll make a million mistakes +BURR/HAMILTON +I’ll make the world safe and sound for you… +…will come of age with our young nation +We’ll bleed and fight for you, we’ll make it right for you +If we lay a strong enough foundation +We’ll pass it on to you, we’ll give the world to you +And you’ll blow us all away… +Someday, someday +Yeah, you’ll blow us all away +Someday, someday +BURR +After the war I went back to New York +HAMILTON +A-After the war I went back to New York +BURR +I finished up my studies and I practiced law +HAMILTON +I practiced law, Burr worked next door +BURR +Even though we started at the very same time +Alexander Hamilton began to climb +How to account for his rise to the top? +Maaaaan, the man is +BURR & ENSEMBLE +Non-stop! +HAMILTON +Gentlemen of the jury, I’m curious, bear with me +Are you aware that we’re making hist’ry? +This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation +The liberty behind +Deliberation— +ENSEMBLE +Non-stop! +HAMILTON +I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt +With my assistant counsel— +BURR +Co-counsel +Hamilton, sit down +Our client Levi Weeks is innocent. Call your first witness +That’s all you had to say! +HAMILTON +Okay! +One more thing— +BURR +Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? +Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? +Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? +Soon that attitude may be your doom! +ENSEMBLE +Awwww! +BURR +Why do you write like you’re running out of time? +Write day and night like you’re running out of time? +Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of time +Keep on fighting. In the meantime— ENSEMBLE +Why do you write like you’re running out of time? +Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of time +Non-stop! +HAMILTON +Corruption’s such an old song that we can sing along in harmony +And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany +This colony’s economy’s increasingly stalling and +HAMILTON +Honestly, that’s why public service +Seems to be calling me BURR & ENSEMBLE +He’s just +Non-stop! +HAMILTON +I practiced the law, I practic’ly perfected it +I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve corrected it +Now for a strong central democracy +If not, then I’ll be Socrates +Throwing verbal rocks at these mediocrities +ENSEMBLE +Awww! +BURR +Hamilton, at the Constitutional Convention: +HAMILTON +I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention! +BURR +There as a New York junior delegate: +HAMILTON +Now what I’m going to say may sound indelicate… +BURR +Goes and proposes his own form of government! +His own plan for a new form of government! +COMPANY +Awwww! +What? +What? +BURR +Talks for six hours! The convention is listless! +ENSEMBLE MAN +Bright young man… +ANOTHER ENSEMBLE MAN +Yo, who the f is this? +BURR +Why do you always say what you believe? +Why do you always say what you believe? +Ev’ry proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies! +BURR & MEN +Why do you write like it’s +Going out of style? +Write day and night like it’s +Going out of style? +COMPANY +Why do you always say what you believe? +Awww! +ALL WOMEN +Going out of style, hey! +Going out of style, hey! +BURR & COMPANY +Ev’ry day you fight like it’s +Going out of style +Do what you do +BURR +Alexander? +HAMILTON +Aaron Burr, sir +BURR +It’s the middle of the night +HAMILTON +Can we confer, sir? +BURR +Is this a legal matter? +HAMILTON +Yes, and it’s important to me +BURR +What do you need? +HAMILTON +Burr, you’re a better lawyer than me +BURR +Okay +HAMILTON +I know I talk too much, I’m abrasive +You’re incredible in court. You’re succinct, persuasive +My client needs a strong defense. You’re the solution +BURR +Who’s your client? +HAMILTON +The new U.S. Constitution? +BURR +No +HAMILTON +Hear me out +BURR +No way! +HAMILTON +A series of essays, anonymously published +Defending the document to the public +BURR +No one will read it +HAMILTON +I disagree +BURR +And if it fails? +HAMILTON +Burr, that’s why we need it +BURR +The constitution’s a mess +HAMILTON +So it needs amendments +BURR +It’s full of contradictions +HAMILTON +So is independence +We have to start somewhere +BURR +No. No way +HAMILTON +You’re making a mistake +BURR +Good night +HAMILTON +Hey +What are you waiting for? +What do you stall for? +BURR +What? +HAMILTON +We won the war +What was it all for? +Do you support this constitution? +BURR +Of course +HAMILTON +Then defend it +BURR +And what if you’re backing the wrong horse? +HAMILTON +Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed +For the notion of a nation we now get to build +For once in your life, take a stand with pride +I don’t understand how you stand to the side +BURR +I’ll keep all my plans +Close to my chest +I’ll wait here and see +Which way the wind +Will blow +I’m taking my time +Watching the +Afterbirth of a nation +Watching the tension grow +ENSEMBLE +Wait for it, wait for +It, wait… +Which way the wind +Will blow +I’m taking my time +Watching the +Afterbirth of a nation +Watching the tension grow +ANGELICA +I am sailing off to London +I’m accompanied by someone who always pays +I have found a wealthy husband +Who will keep me in comfort for all my days +He is not a lot of fun, but there’s no one +Who can match you for turn of phrase +My Alexander +HAMILTON +Angelica +ANGELICA +Don’t forget to write +ELIZA +Look at where you are +Look at where you started +The fact that you’re alive is a miracle +Just stay alive, that would be enough +And if your wife could share a fraction of your time +If I could grant you peace of mind +Would that be enough? +BURR +Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote twenty-nine. Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one! +BURR +How do you write like you’re +Running out of time? +Write day and night like you’re +Running out of time? +BURR AND MEN +Ev’ry day you fight like you’re +Running out of time like you’re +Running out of time +Are you running out of time? +ALL WOMEN +Running out of time? +Running out of time? +Running out of time +Running out of time +Awwww! +FULL COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON) +How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive? +How do you write like you need it to survive? +How do you write ev’ry second you’re alive? +Ev’ry second you’re alive? Ev’ry second you’re alive? +WASHINGTON +They are asking me to lead +I am doing the best I can +To get the people that I need +I’m asking you to be my right hand man +HAMILTON +Treasury or State? +WASHINGTON +I know it’s a lot to ask +HAMILTON +Treasury or State? +WASHINGTON +To leave behind the world you know… +HAMILTON +Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department? +WASHINGTON +Treasury +HAMILTON +Let’s go +ELIZA +Alexander… +HAMILTON +I have to leave +ELIZA +Alexander— +HAMILTON +Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now +ELIZA +Helpless… +HAMILTON +They are asking me to lead +ELIZA +Look around, isn’t this enough? +ANGELICA +He will never be satisfied +He will never be satisfied +Satisfied +Satisfied… +He will never be satisfied +Satisfied… +Satisfied… +Why do you fight like +ELIZA +What would be enough +To +Be satisfied +Satisfied +Satisfied… +Look around +Look around! +Isn’t this enough? +What would be enough? +Why do you fight like +WASH +History has its eyes… +On… +You! +WASH/MULL/LAUR/LAF +History has its eyes… +On… +You… +BURR +Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? +Soon that attitude’s gonna be your doom! +Why do you fight like you’re running out of time? +Why do you fight like + All +Non-stop! +Non-stop! +Non-stop! +Non-stop! +COMPANY +History has its eyes on you +HAMILTON +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +I am +Alexander Hamilton! +I am not throwin’ away my shot! +COMPANY +Seventeen. Se- se- seventeen… +Se- se- seventeen… +BURR +1789 +How does the bastard orphan +Immigrant decorated war vet +Unite the colonies through more debt? +Fight the other founding fathers til he has to forfeit? +Have it all, lose it all +You ready for more yet? +Treasury Secretary. Washington’s the President +Ev’ry American experiment sets a precedent +Not so fast. Someone came along to resist him +Pissed him off until we had a two-party system +You haven’t met him yet, you haven’t had the chance +‘cause he’s been kickin’ ass as the ambassador to France +But someone’s gotta keep the American promise +You simply must meet Thomas. Thomas! +COMPANY +Thomas Jefferson’s coming home! +Thomas Jefferson’s coming home! +Thomas Jefferson’s coming home! +Thomas Jefferson’s coming home! +Thomas Jefferson’s coming home Lord he’s +Been off in Paris for so long! +Aaa-ooo! +Aaa-ooo! +JEFFERSON +France is following us to revolution +There is no more status quo +But the sun comes up +And the world still spins +ENSEMBLE +Aaa-ooo! +JEFFERSON +I helped Lafayette draft a declaration +Then I said, ‘I gotta go +I gotta be in Monticello.’ +Now the work at home begins… +ENSEMBLE +Aaa-ooo! +JEFFERSON +So what’d I miss? +What’d I miss? +Virginia, my home sweet home, I wanna give you a kiss +I’ve been in Paris meeting lots of different ladies… +I guess I basic’lly missed the late eighties… +I traveled the wide, wide world and came back to this… +ENSEMBLE +Aaa-ooo! +JEFFERSON +There’s a letter on my desk from the President +Haven’t even put my bags down yet +Sally be a lamb, darlin’, won’tcha open it? +It says the President’s assembling a cabinet +And that I am to be the Secretary of State, great! +And that I’m already Senate-approved… +I just got home and now I’m headed up to New York +ENSEMBLE +Headin’ to New York! +Headin’ to New York! +JEFFERSON +Lookin’ at the rolling fields +I can’t believe that we are free +Ready to face +Whatever’s awaiting +Me in N.Y.C. +ENSEMBLE +Believe that we are free +Me in N.Y.C. +JEFFERSON +But who’s waitin’ for me when I step in the place? +My friend James Madison, red in the face +JEFFERSON +He grabs my arm and +I respond +“What’s goin’ on?” +ENSEMBLE +Aaa-ooo! +MADISON +Thomas, we are engaged in a battle for our nation’s very soul +Can you get us out of the mess we’re in? +ENSEMBLE +Aaa-ooo! +MADISON +Hamilton’s new financial plan is nothing less +Than government control +I’ve been fighting for the South alone +Where have you been? +ENSEMBLE +Aaa-ooo! JEFFERSON +Uh…France. +MADISON +We have to win +JEFFERSON +What’d I miss? +What’d I miss? +Headfirst into a political abyss! +I have my first cabinet meeting today +I guess I better think of something to say +I’m already on my way +Let’s get to the bottom of this… +ENSEMBLE +Wha? Wha? What’d I miss? +I’ve come home to this? +Headfirst, into the abyss! +Chik-a-pow! +On my way +What did I miss? +Ahhh ah! +WASHINGTON +Mr. Jefferson, welcome home +HAMILTON +Mr. Jefferson? Alexander Hamilton +WASHINGTON AND ENSEMBLE +Mr. Jefferson, welcome home +COMPANY +Mr. Jefferson, welcome home +Sir, you’ve been off in Paris for so long! +JEFFERSON +So what did I miss? +WASHINGTON +Ladies and gentlemen, you coulda been anywhere in the world tonight, but you’re here with us in New York City. Are you ready for a cabinet meeting??? +The issue on the table: Secretary Hamilton’s plan to assume state debt and establish a national bank. Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir +JEFFERSON +‘Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ +We fought for these ideals; we shouldn’t settle for less +These are wise words, enterprising men quote ‘em +Don’t act surprised, you guys, cuz I wrote ‘em +JEFFERSON/MADISON +Oww +JEFFERSON +But Hamilton forgets +His plan would have the government assume state’s debts +Now, place your bets as to who that benefits: +The very seat of government where Hamilton sits +HAMILTON +Not true! +JEFFERSON +Ooh, if the shoe fits, wear it +If New York’s in debt— +Why should Virginia bear it? Uh! Our debts are paid, I’m afraid +Don’t tax the South cuz we got it made in the shade +In Virginia, we plant seeds in the ground +We create. You just wanna move our money around +This financial plan is an outrageous demand +And it’s too many damn pages for any man to understand +Stand with me in the land of the free +And pray to God we never see Hamilton’s candidacy +Look, when Britain taxed our tea, we got frisky +Imagine what gon’ happen when you try to tax our whisky +CROWD (reacting) +That's my alcohol! + WASHINGTON +Thank you, Secretary Jefferson +Secretary Hamilton, your response +HAMILTON +Thomas. That was a real nice declaration +Welcome to the present, we’re running a real nation +Would you like to join us, or stay mellow +Doin’ whatever the hell it is you do in Monticello? +If we assume the debts, the union gets +A new line of credit, a financial diuretic +How do you not get it? If we’re aggressive and competitive +The union gets a boost. You’d rather give it a sedative? +A civics lesson from a slaver. Hey neighbor +Your debts are paid cuz you don’t pay for labor +“We plant seeds in the South. We create.” +Yeah, keep ranting +We know who’s really doing the planting +And another thing, Mr. Age of Enlightenment +Don’t lecture me about the war, you didn’t fight in it +You think I’m frightened of you, man? +We almost died in a trench +While you were off getting high with the French +Thomas Jefferson, always hesitant with the President +Reticent—there isn’t a plan he doesn’t jettison +Madison, you’re mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine +Damn, you’re in worse shape than the national debt is in +Sittin’ there useless as two shits +Hey, turn around, bend over, I’ll show you +Where my shoe fits +WASHINGTON +Excuse me? Madison, Jefferson, take a walk! Hamilton, take a walk! We’ll reconvene after a brief recess. Hamilton! +HAMILTON +Sir! +WASHINGTON +A word +MADISON +You don’t have the votes +JEFFERSON/MADISON +You don’t have the votes +JEFFERSON +Aha-ha-ha ha! +JEFFERSON/MADISON +You’re gonna need congressional approval and you don’t have the votes +JEFFERSON +Such a blunder sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring the thunder +MADISON +Why he even brings the thunder… +WASHINGTON +You wanna pull yourself together? +HAMILTON +I’m sorry, these Virginians are birds of a feather +WASHINGTON +Young man, I’m from Virginia, so watch your mouth +HAMILTON +So we let Congress get held hostage by the South? +WASHINGTON +You need the votes +HAMILTON +No, we need bold strokes. We need this plan +WASHINGTON +No, you need to convince more folks +HAMILTON +James Madison won’t talk to me, that’s a nonstarter +WASHINGTON +Winning was easy, young man. Governing’s harder +HAMILTON +They’re being intransigent +WASHINGTON +You have to find a compromise +HAMILTON +But they don’t have a plan, they just hate mine! +WASHINGTON +Convince them otherwise +HAMILTON +What happens if I don’t get congressional approval? +WASHINGTON +I imagine they’ll call for your removal +HAMILTON +Sir— +WASHINGTON +Figure it out, Alexander. That’s an order from your commander +ELIZA +Un deux trois quatre +Cinq six sept huit neuf +Good! Un deux trois quatre +Cinq six sept huit neuf +Sept huit neuf— +Sept huit neuf— +PHILIP +Un deux trois quatre +Cinq six sept huit neuf +Un deux trois quatre +Cinq six sept huit neuf +Sept huit neuf— +Sept huit neuf— +ELIZA AND PHILIP +One two three four five six seven eight nine! +HAMILTON +My dearest, Angelica +“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow +Creeps in this petty pace from day to day” +I trust you’ll understand the reference to +Another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play +They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly +I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain +Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff +And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane +HAMILTON/ANGELICA +And there you are, an ocean away +Do you have to live an ocean away? +Thoughts of you subside +Then I get another letter +I cannot put the notion away… +ELIZA +Take a break +HAMILTON +I am on my way +ELIZA +There’s a little surprise before supper +And it cannot wait +HAMILTON +I’ll be there in just a minute, save my plate +ELIZA +Alexander— +HAMILTON +Okay, okay— +ELIZA +Your son is nine years old today +And he has something that he’d like to say +He’s been practicing all day +Philip, take it away— +PHILIP +Daddy, daddy, look— +My name is Philip +I am a poet +I wrote this poem just +To show it +And I just turned nine +You can write rhymes +But you can’t write mine +I practice French +And play piano with my mother +I have a sister, but I want a little brother +My daddy’s trying to start America’s bank +Un deux trois quatre cinq! +HAMILTON +What! +Uh-huh! +Okay! +Bravo! +ELIZA +Take a break +HAMILTON +Hey, our kid is pretty great +ELIZA +Run away with us for the summer +Let’s go upstate +HAMILTON +Eliza, I’ve got so much on my plate +ELIZA +We can all go stay with my father +There’s a lake I know… +HAMILTON +I know +ELIZA +In a nearby park +HAMILTON +I’d love to go +ELIZA +You and I can go when the night gets dark… +HAMILTON +I will try to get away +ANGELICA +My dearest Alexander +You must get through to Jefferson +Sit down with him and compromise +Don’t stop ‘til you agree +Your fav’rite older sister +Angelica, reminds you +There’s someone in your corner all the way across the sea +In a letter I received from you two weeks ago +I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase +It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? +One stroke and you’ve consumed my waking days +It says: +HAMILTON/ANGELICA +“My dearest Angelica” +ANGELICA +With a comma after “dearest.” You’ve written +HAMILTON AND ANGELICA +“My dearest, Angelica.” +ANGELICA +Anyway, all this to say +I’m coming home this summer +At my sister’s invitation +I’ll be there with your fam’ly +If you make your way upstate +I know you’re very busy +I know your work’s important +But I’m crossing the ocean and I just can’t wait +HAMILTON AND ANGELICA +You won’t be an ocean away +You will only be a moment away… +ELIZA +Alexander, come downstairs. Angelica’s arriving today! +ELIZA +Angelica! +ANGELICA +Eliza! +HAMILTON +The Schuyler sisters! +ANGELICA +Alexander +HAMILTON +Hi +ANGELICA +It’s good to see your face +ELIZA +Angelica, tell this man John Adams spends the summer with his family +HAMILTON +Angelica, tell my wife John Adams doesn’t have a real job anyway +ANGELICA +…you’re not joining us? Wait +HAMILTON +I’m afraid I cannot join you upstate +ANGELICA +Alexander, I came all this way +ELIZA +She came all this way— +ANGELICA +All this way— +ELIZA AND ANGELICA +Take a break +HAMILTON +You know I have to get my plan through Congress +ELIZA AND ANGELICA +Run away with us for the summer +Let’s go upstate +HAMILTON +I lose my job if I don’t get my plan through Congress +ELIZA AND ANGELICA +We can all go stay with our father +ELIZA +There’s a lake I know +In a nearby park +You and I can go +Take a break and get away— +Let’s go upstate +Where we can stay +Look around, look around +At how lucky we are to be alive right now— +We can go— +When the night gets dark +Take a break. +ANGELICA +I know I’ll miss your face— +Screw your courage to the sticking place— +Eliza’s right— +Take a break +Run away with us for the summer— +Let’s go upstate +We can all go stay with our father +If you take your time— +You will make your mark +Close your eyes and dream— +When the night gets dark +Take a break. +HAMILTON +I have to get my plan through Congress +I can’t stop until I get this plan through Congress +BURR +There’s nothing like summer in the city +Someone under stress meets someone looking pretty +There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it +And Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it +HAMILTON +I hadn’t slept in a week +I was weak, I was awake +You never seen a bastard orphan +More in need of a break +Longing for Angelica +Missing my wife +That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into my life, she said: +MARIA +I know you are a man of honor +I’m so sorry to bother you at home +But I don’t know where to go, and I came here all alone… +HAMILTON +She said: +MARIA +My husband’s doin’ me wrong +Beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me… +Suddenly he’s up and gone +I don’t have the means to go on +HAMILTON +So I offered her a loan, I offered to walk her home, she said +MARIA +You’re too kind, sir +HAMILTON +I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away +She lived a block away, she said: +MARIA +This one’s mine, sir +HAMILTON +Then I said, “well, I should head back home,” +She turned red, she led me to her bed +Let her legs spread and said: +MARIA +Stay? +HAMILTON +Hey… +MARIA +Hey… +HAMILTON +That’s when I began to pray: +Lord, show me how to +Say no to this +I don’t know how to +Say no to this +But my God, she looks so helpless +And her body’s saying, “hell, yes” +MARIA +Whoa… +HAMILTON +Nooo, show me how to +HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE +Say no to this +HAMILTON +I don’t know how to +HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE +Say no to this +HAMILTON +In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go +ENSEMBLE +Go! Go! Go! +HAMILTON +Then her mouth is on mine, and I don’t say… +ENSEMBLE +No! No! +Say no to this! +No! No! +Say no to this! +No! No! +Say no to this! +No! No! +Say no to this! +HAMILTON +I wish I could say that was the last time +I said that last time. It became a pastime +A month into this endeavor I received a letter +From a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it said: +JAMES +Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health +And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth +In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck +You see, that was my wife who you decided to +HAMILTON +Fuuuu— +JAMES +Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold +So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled +And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife +If the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife +HAMILTON +I hid the letter and I raced to her place +Screamed “How could you?!” in her face +She said: +MARIA +No, sir! +HAMILTON +Half dressed, apologetic. A mess, she looked +Pathetic, she cried: +MARIA +Please don’t go, sir! +HAMILTON +So was your whole story a setup? +MARIA +I don’t know about any letter! +HAMILTON +Stop crying +Goddamnit, get up! +MARIA +I didn’t know any better +HAMILTON +I am ruined… +MARIA +Please don’t leave me with him helpless +Just give him what he wants and you can have me +Whatever you want, +HAMILTON +I am helpless—how could I do this? +I don’t want you +I don’t want you +MARIA +If you pay +You can stay +Tonight +Helpless +Whoa! +How can you +Say no to this? +HAMILTON +Yes +Yes +Yes +Yes. HAMILTON +I don’t… +Lord, show me how to +Say no to this +I don’t know how to +Say no to this +Cuz the situation’s helpless +And her body’s screaming, “Hell, yes” +No, show me how to +Say no to this +How can I +Say no to this? +There is nowhere I can go +When her body’s on mine I do not say… +MARIA +Yes! +Yes! +Yes! +Yes! +ENSEMBLE +Say no to this! +Say no to this! +Say no to this! +Say no to this! +Go! Go! Go! +No! +ENSEMBLE +Say no to this! +No! +Say no to this! +No! +Say no to this! +No! +Say no to this! +HAMILTON +Say no to this… +I don’t say no to this +There is nowhere I can go. +MARIA +Don’t say no to this +ENSEMBLE +Go go go… +JAMES +So? +HAMILTON +Nobody needs to know +BURR +Ah, Mister Secretary +HAMILTON +Mister Burr, sir +BURR +Didja hear the news about good old General Mercer? +HAMILTON +No +BURR +You know Clermont Street? +HAMILTON +Yeah +BURR +They renamed it after him. The Mercer legacy is secure +HAMILTON +Sure +BURR +And all he had to do was die +HAMILTON +That’s a lot less work +BURR +We oughta give it a try +HAMILTON +Ha +BURR +Now how’re you gonna get your debt plan through? +HAMILTON +I guess I’m gonna fin’ly have to listen to you +BURR +Really? +HAMILTON +“Talk less. Smile more.” +BURR +Ha +HAMILTON +Do whatever it takes to get my plan on the Congress floor +BURR +Now, Madison and Jefferson are merciless. +HAMILTON +Well, hate the sin, love the sinner +MADISON +Hamilton! +HAMILTON +I’m sorry Burr, I’ve gotta go +BURR +But— +HAMILTON +Decisions are happening over dinner +BURR +Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room +BURR AND ENSEMBLE +Diametric’ly opposed, foes +BURR +They emerge with a compromise, having opened doors that were +BURR AND ENSEMBLE +Previously closed +ENSEMBLE +Bros +BURR +The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial power +A system he can shape however he wants +The Virginians emerge with the nation’s capital +And here’s the pièce de résistance: +BURR +No one else was in +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +No one else was in +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +No one really knows how the game is played +The art of the trade +How the sausage gets made +We just assume that it happens +But no one else is in +The room where it happens. +ENSEMBLE +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +How the sausage gets made +Assume that it happens +The room where it happens. +BURR AND COMPANY +Thomas claims— +JEFFERSON +Alexander was on Washington’s doorstep one day +In distress ‘n disarray +BURR AND COMPANY +Thomas claims— +JEFFERSON +Alexander said— +HAMILTON +I’ve nowhere else to turn! +JEFFERSON +And basic’ly begged me to join the fray +BURR AND COMPANY +Thomas claims— +JEFFERSON +I approached Madison and said— +“I know you hate ‘im, but let’s hear what he has to say.” +BURR AND COMPANY +Thomas claims— +JEFFERSON +Well, I arranged the meeting +I arranged the menu, the venue, the seating +BURR +But! +No one else was in— +BURR AND COMPANY +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +BURR +No one else was in— +BURR AND COMPANY +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +BURR +No one really knows how the +Parties get to yesssss +The pieces that are sacrificed in +Ev’ry game of chesssss +We just assume that it happens +But no one else is in +The room where it happens. +COMPANY +Parties get to yesssss +Ev’ry game of chesssss +Assume that it happens +The room where it happens. +BURR AND COMPANY +Meanwhile— +BURR +Madison is grappling with the fact that not ev’ry issue can be settled by committee +COMPANY +Meanwhile— +BURR +Congress is fighting over where to put the capital— +Company screams in chaos +BURR +It isn’t pretty +Then Jefferson approaches with a dinner and invite +And Madison responds with Virginian insight: +MADISON +Maybe we can solve one problem with another and win a victory for the Southerners, in other words— +JEFFERSON +Oh-ho! +MADISON +A quid pro quo +JEFFERSON +I suppose +MADISON +Wouldn’t you like to work a little closer to home? +JEFFERSON +Actually, I would +MADISON +Well, I propose the Potomac +JEFFERSON +And you’ll provide him his votes? +MADISON +Well, we’ll see how it goes +JEFFERSON +Let’s go +BURR +No! +COMPANY +—one else was in +The room where it happened +BURR AND COMPANY +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +No one else was in +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +The room where it happened +BURR +My God! +BURR AND COMPANY +In God we trust +But we’ll never really know what got discussed +Click-boom then it happened +BURR +And no one else was in the room where it happened +COMPANY +Alexander Hamilton! +BURR +What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the river? +COMPANY +Alexander Hamilton! +BURR +Did Washington know about the dinner? +Was there Presidential pressure to deliver? +COMPANY +Alexander Hamilton! +BURR +Or did you know, even then, it doesn’t matter +Where you put the U.S. Capital? +HAMILTON +Cuz we’ll have the banks +We’re in the same spot +BURR +You got more than you gave +HAMILTON +And I wanted what I got +When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game +But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game +Oh, you get love for it. You get hate for it +You get nothing if you… +HAMILTON AND COMPANY +Wait for it, wait for it, wait! +HAMILTON +God help and forgive me +I wanna build +Something that’s gonna +Outlive me +HAMILTON/JEFFERSON/ +MADISON/WASHINGTON +What do you want, Burr? +What do you want, Burr? +If you stand for nothing +Burr, then what do you fall for? +COMPANY +What do you want, Burr? +What do you want, Burr? +What do you want, Burr? +What do you want? +BURR +I +Wanna be in +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +I +Wanna be in +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +BURR +I +Wanna be +In the room where it happens +I +I wanna be in the room… +Oh +Oh +I wanna be +I wanna be +I’ve got to be +I’ve got to be +In that room +In that big ol’ room COMPANY +I wanna be in +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +I wanna be in the room +Where it happens +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +I wanna be in +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +I wanna be in +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +The room where it happens. +COMPANY +The art of the compromise— +BURR +Hold your nose and close your eyes +COMPANY +We want our leaders to save the day— +BURR +But we don’t get a say in what they trade away +COMPANY +We dream of a brand new start— +BURR +But we dream in the dark for the most part +BURR AND COMPANY +Dark as a tomb where it happens +BURR +I’ve got to be in +The room… +I’ve got to be… +I’ve got to be… +Oh, I’ve got to be in +The room where it happens… +I’ve got to be, I’ve gotta be, I’ve gotta be… +In the room! +Click-boom! +COMPANY +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +I wanna be in the room +Where it happens! +Click-boom! +PHILIP +Look! +Grandpa’s in the paper! +“War hero Philip Schuyler loses senate seat to young upstart Aaron Burr” +Grandpa just lost his seat in the senate +ELIZA +Sometimes that’s how it goes +PHILIP +Daddy’s gonna find out any minute +ELIZA +I’m sure he already knows +PHILIP +Further down +PHILIP & ELIZA +Further down +PHILIP +Let’s meet the newest senator from New York +ELIZA +New York +PHILIP & ELIZA +Our senator +HAMILTON +Burr? +Since when are you a Democratic-Republican? +BURR +Since being one put me on the up and up again +HAMILTON +No one knows who you are or what you do +BURR +They don’t need to know me +They don’t like you +HAMILTON +Excuse me? +BURR +Oh, Wall Street thinks you’re great +You’ll always be adored by the things you create +But upstate— +HAMILTON +Wait +BURR +—people think you’re crooked +Schuyler’s seat was up for grabs so I took it +HAMILTON +I’ve always considered you a friend +BURR +I don’t see why that has to end +HAMILTON +You changed parties to run against my father-in-law +BURR +I changed parties to seize the opportunity I saw +I swear your pride will be the death of us all +Beware, it goeth before the fall +WASHINGTON +The issue on the table: France is on the verge of war with England, and do we provide aid and our troops to our French allies or do we stay out of it? Remember, my decision on this matter is not subject to congressional approval. The only person you have to convince is me. Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir +JEFFERSON +When we were on death’s door, when we were needy +We made a promise, we signed a treaty +We needed money and guns and half a chance +Who provided those funds? +MADISON +France +JEFFERSON +In return, they didn’t ask for land +Only a promise that we’d lend a hand +And stand with them if they fought against oppressors +And revolution is messy but now is the time to stand +Stand with our brothers as they fight against tyranny +I know that Alexander Hamilton is here and he +Would rather not have this debate +I’ll remind you that he is not Secretary of State +He knows nothing of loyalty +Smells like new money, dresses like fake royalty +Desperate to rise above his station +Everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation +ENSEMBLE +Ooh!! +JEFFERSON +Hey, and if ya don’t know, now ya know, Mr. President +WASHINGTON +Thank you, Secretary Jefferson. Secretary Hamilton, your response +HAMILTON +You must be out of your Goddamn mind if you think +The President is gonna bring the nation to the brink +Of meddling in the middle of a military mess +A game of chess, where France is Queen and Kingless +We signed a treaty with a King whose head is now in a basket +Would you like to take it out and ask it? +“Should we honor our treaty, King Louis’ head?” +“Uh… do whatever you want, I’m super dead.” +WASHINGTON +Enough. Hamilton is right +JEFFERSON +Mr. President— +WASHINGTON +We’re too fragile to start another fight +JEFFERSON +But sir, do we not fight for freedom? +WASHINGTON +Sure, when the French figure out who’s gonna lead ‘em +JEFFERSON +The people are leading— +WASHINGTON +The people are rioting +There’s a difference. Frankly, it’s a little disquieting you would let your ideals blind you to reality +Hamilton +HAMILTON +Sir +WASHINGTON +Draft a statement of neutrality +JEFFERSON +Did you forget Lafayette? +HAMILTON +What? +JEFFERSON +Have you an ounce of regret? +You accumulate debt, you accumulate power +Yet in their hour of need, you forget +HAMILTON +Lafayette’s a smart man, he’ll be fine +And before he was your friend, he was mine +If we try to fight in every revolution in the world, we never stop +Where do we draw the line? +JEFFERSON +So quick-witted +HAMILTON +Alas, I admit it +JEFFERSON +I bet you were quite a lawyer +HAMILTON +My defendants got acquitted +JEFFERSON +Yeah. Well, someone oughta remind you +HAMILTON +What? +JEFFERSON +You’re nothing without Washington behind you +WASHINGTON +Hamilton! +JEFFERSON +Daddy’s calling! +BURR +It must be nice, it must be nice to have +Washington on your side +It must be nice, it must be nice to have +Washington on your side +JEFFERSON +Ev’ry action has its equal, opposite reactions +Thanks to Hamilton, our cab’net’s fractured into factions +Try not to crack under the stress, we’re breaking down like fractions +We smack each other in the press, and we don’t print retractions +I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion +The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion +Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration +As Wall Street robs ‘em blind in search of chips to cash in +This prick is askin’ for someone to bring him to task +Somebody gimme some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him +I’ll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it +While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket +JEFFERSON AND BURR +It must be nice, it must be nice to have +Washington on your side +It must be nice, it must be nice to have +Washington on your side +Look back at the Bill of Rights +MADISON +Which I wrote +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +The ink hasn’t dried +It must be nice, it must be nice to have +Washington on your side +MADISON +So he’s doubled the size of the government +Wasn’t the trouble with much of our previous government size? +BURR +Look in his eyes! +JEFFERSON +See how he lies +MADISON +Follow the scent of his enterprise +JEFFERSON +Centralizing national credit +And making American credit competitive +MADISON +If we don’t stop it we aid and abet it +JEFFERSON +I have to resign +MADISON +Somebody has to stand up for the South! +BURR +Somebody has to stand up to his mouth! +JEFFERSON +If there’s a fire you’re trying to douse +MADISON AND JEFFERSON +You can’t put it out from inside the house +JEFFERSON +I’m in the cabinet. I am complicit in +Watching him grabbin’ at power and kiss it +If Washington isn’t gon’ listen +To disciplined dissidents, this is the difference: +This kid is out! +MADISON/BURR/JEFFERSON +Oh! +This immigrant isn’t somebody we chose +Oh! +This immigrant’s keeping us all on our toes +Oh! +Let’s show these Federalists who they’re up against! +Oh! +JEFFERSON/MADISON +Southern motherfuckin’— +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Democratic-Republicans! +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR/ENSEMBLE +Oh! +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Let’s follow the money and see where it goes +ENSEMBLE +Oh! +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Because every second the Treasury grows +ENSEMBLE +Oh! +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +If we follow the money and see where it leads +Get in the weeds, look for the seeds of +Hamilton’s misdeeds +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +It must be nice. It must be nice +MADISON +Follow the money and see where it goes +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +It must be nice. It must be nice +JEFFERSON +The emperor has no clothes +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +We won’t be invisible. We won’t be denied +Still +It must be nice, it must be nice to have +Washington on your side +HAMILTON +Mr. President, you asked to see me? +WASHINGTON +I know you’re busy +HAMILTON +What do you need, sir? Sir? +WASHINGTON +I wanna give you a word of warning +HAMILTON +Sir, I don’t know what you heard +But whatever it is, Jefferson started it +WASHINGTON +Thomas Jefferson resigned this morning +HAMILTON +You’re kidding +WASHINGTON +I need a favor +HAMILTON +Whatever you say, sir, Jefferson will pay for his behavior +WASHINGTON +Shh. Talk less +HAMILTON +I’ll use the press +I’ll write under a pseudonym, you’ll see what I can do to him— +WASHINGTON +I need you to draft an address +HAMILTON +Yes! He resigned. You can finally speak your mind— +WASHINGTON +No, he’s stepping down so he can run for President +HAMILTON +Ha. Good luck defeating you, sir +WASHINGTON +I’m stepping down. I’m not running for President +HAMILTON +I’m sorry, what? +WASHINGTON +One last time +Relax, have a drink with me +One last time +Let’s take a break tonight +And then we’ll teach them how to say goodbye +To say goodbye +You and I +HAMILTON +No, sir, why? +WASHINGTON +I wanna talk about neutrality +HAMILTON +Sir, with Britain and France on the verge of war, is this the best time— +WASHINGTON +I want to warn against partisan fighting +HAMILTON +But— +WASHINGTON +Pick up a pen, start writing +I wanna talk about what I have learned +The hard-won wisdom I have earned +HAMILTON +As far as the people are concerned +You have to serve, you could continue to serve— +WASHINGTON +No! One last time +The people will hear from me +One last time +And if we get this right +We’re gonna teach ‘em how to say +Goodbye +You and I— +HAMILTON +Mr. President, they will say you’re weak +WASHINGTON +No, they will see we’re strong +HAMILTON +Your position is so unique +WASHINGTON +So I’ll use it to move them along +HAMILTON +Why do you have to say goodbye? +WASHINGTON +If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on +It outlives me when I’m gone +Like the scripture says: +“Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree +And no one shall make them afraid.” +They’ll be safe in the nation we’ve made +I wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree +A moment alone in the shade +At home in this nation we’ve made +One last time +HAMILTON +One last time +HAMILTON +Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. I shall also carry with me +HAMILTON +The hope +That my country will +View them with indulgence; +And that +After forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal +The faults of incompetent abilities will be +Consigned to oblivion, as I myself must soon be to the mansions of rest +I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws +Under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust +Of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. WASHINGTON +The hope +View them with indulgence +After forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal +Consigned to oblivion, as I myself must soon be to the mansions of rest +I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws +Under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust +Of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. +WASHINGTON +One last time +ALL WOMEN +George Washington’s going home! +HAMILTON +Teach ‘em how to say goodbye +WASHINGTON +You and I +Going home +History has its eyes on you +We’re gonna teach ‘em how to +Say goodbye! +Teach ‘em how to +Say goodbye! +To say goodbye! +Say goodbye! +One last time! COMPANY +George Washington’s going home +George Washington’s going home +George Washington’s going home +George Washington’s going home +Teach ‘em how to say goodbye! +Teach ‘em how! +Say goodbye! +Say goodbye! +One last time! +KING GEORGE +They say +George Washington’s yielding his power and stepping away +‘Zat true? +I wasn’t aware that was something a person could do +I’m perplexed +Are they gonna keep on replacing whoever’s in charge? +If so, who’s next? +There’s nobody else in their country who looms quite as large… +A sentinel whispers in King George’s ear +John Adams?! +I know him +That can’t be +That’s that little guy who spoke to me +All those years ago +What was it, eighty-five? +That poor man, they’re gonna eat him alive! +Oceans rise +Empires fall +Next to Washington, they all look small +All alone +Watch them run +They will tear each other into pieces +Jesus Christ, this will be fun! +Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da +Da da da dat dat da ya daaaaa! +“President John Adams” +Good Luck +BURR +How does Hamilton the short-tempered +Protean creator of the Coast Guard +Founder of the New York Post +Ardently abuse his cab’net post +Destroy his reputation? +Welcome, folks, to +BURR/COMPANY +The Adams administration! +BURR +Jefferson’s the runner-up, which makes him the Vice President +JEFFERSON +Washington can’t help you now, no more mister nice President +BURR +Adams fires Hamilton +Privately calls him “creole bastard” in his taunts +JEFFERSON +Say what?! +BURR +Hamilton publishes his response +HAMILTON +Sit down, John, you fat mother—BLEEP +BURR +Hamilton is out of control +MADISON +This is great! He’s out of power. He holds no office. And he just destroyed President John Adams, the only other significant member of his party +JEFFERSON +Hamilton’s a host unto himself. As long as he can hold a pen, he’s a threat. Let’s let him know what we know +HAMILTON +Mr. Vice President +Mr. Madison +Senator Burr +What is this? +JEFFERSON +We have the check stubs. From separate accounts… +MADISON +Almost a thousand dollars, paid in different amounts… +BURR +To a Mr. James Reynolds way back in +Seventeen ninety-one +HAMILTON +Is that what you have? Are you done? +MADISON +You are uniquely situated by virtue of your position— +JEFFERSON +Though ‘virtue’ is not a word I’d apply to this situation— +MADISON +To seek financial gain, to stray from your sacred mission— +JEFFERSON +And the evidence suggests you’ve engaged in speculation— +BURR +An immigrant embezzling our government funds— +JEFFERSON/MADISON +I can almost see the headline, your career is done +BURR +I hope you saved some money for your daughter and sons +BURR/JEFFERSON/MADISON +Ya best g'wan run back where ya come from! +HAMILTON +Ha! You don’t even know what you’re asking me to confess +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Confess +HAMILTON +You have nothing. I don’t have to tell you anything at all +Unless +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Unless +HAMILTON +If I can prove that I never broke the law +Do you promise not to tell another soul what you saw? +BURR +No one else was in the room where it happened +HAMILTON +Is that a yes? +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Um, yes +BURR +“Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health +And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth +In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck +You see, it was my wife who you decided to—” +JEFFERSON +Whaaaat— +HAMILTON +She courted me +Escorted me to bed and when she had me in a corner +That’s when Reynolds extorted me +For a sordid fee +I paid him quarterly +I may have mortally wounded my prospects +But my papers are orderly! +As you can see I kept a record of every check in my checkered +History. Check it again against your list n’ see consistency +I never spent a cent that wasn’t mine +You sent the dogs after my scent, that’s fine +Yes, I have reasons for shame +But I have not committed treason and sullied my good name +As you can see I have done nothing to provoke legal action +Are my answers to your satisfaction? +JEFFERSON +My God +MADISON +Gentlemen, let’s go +HAMILTON +So? +JEFFERSON AND MADISON +The people won't know what we know +HAMILTON +Burr! +How do I know you won’t use this against me +The next time we go toe to toe? +BURR +Alexander, rumors only grow. And we both +Know what we know +HAMILTON +In the eye of a hurricane +There is quiet +For just a moment +A yellow sky +When I was seventeen a hurricane +Destroyed my town +I didn’t drown +I couldn’t seem to die +I wrote my way out +Wrote everything down far as I could see +I wrote my way out +I looked up and the town had its eyes on me +They passed a plate around +Total strangers +Moved to kindness by my story +Raised enough for me to book passage on a +Ship that was New York bound… +I wrote my way out of hell +I wrote my way to revolution +I was louder than the crack in the bell +I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell +I wrote about The Constitution and defended it well +And in the face of ignorance and resistance +I wrote financial systems into existence +And when my prayers to God were met with indifference +I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance +In the eye of a hurricane +There is quiet +For just a moment +A yellow sky +I was twelve when my mother died +She was holding me +We were sick and she was holding me +I couldn’t seem to die +BURR +Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it… +BURR AND ENSEMBLE +Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it… +Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait… +HAMILTON +I’ll write my way out… +Write ev’rything down, far as I can see… +I’ll write my way out… +Overwhelm them with honesty. +WASHINTON/ +ELIZA/ANGELICA/ +MARIA +History has its eyes on you +HAMILTON +This is the eye of the hurricane, this is the only +Way I can protect my legacy… +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON) +Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait… +HAMILTON +The Reynolds Pamphlet +FULL COMPANY +The Reynolds Pamphlet +JEFFERSON/MADISON/ANGELICA +Have you read this? +BURR/JEFFERSON/MADISON +Alexander Hamilton had a torrid affair +And he wrote it down right there +MADISON +Highlights! +HAMILTON/JEFFERSON +“The charge against me +Is a connection with one +James Reynolds! +For purposes of +Improper speculation +My real crime is an +Amorous connection with his wife +For a considerable time +With his knowing consent +JAMES +James Reynolds! +BURR +My real crime is an +Amorous connection with his wife +MADISON/BURR/JEFFERSON +Damn! +HAMILTON/JEFFERSON/MADISON +“I had frequent meetings with her +Most of them at my own house.” +BURR +At his own house! +MADISON +At his own house! +DEEP VOICE +Damn! +HAMILTON/JEFFERSON +“Mrs. Hamilton with our children being absent +On a visit to her father.” +MADISON/BURR +No… +COMPANY +Boooo! +MADISON/BURR +Have you read this? +JEFFERSON +Well, he’s never gon’ be President now +MADISON/BURR +Never gon’ be President now +JEFFERSON +Well, he’s never gon’ be President now +MADISON/BURR +Never gon’ be President now +JEFFERSON +He’s never gon’ be President now +MADISON/BURR +Never gon’ be President now +JEFFERSON +That’s one less thing to worry about +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +That’s one less thing to worry about! +ANGELICA +I came as soon as I heard +JEFFERSON +What?! +HAMILTON +Angelica— +COMPANY +All the way from London?! +Damn +HAMILTON +Angelica, thank God +Someone who understands what I’m +Struggling here to do +ANGELICA +I’m not here for you +ENSEMBLE +Oooooh! +ANGELICA +I know my sister like I know my own mind +You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind +I love my sister more than anything in this life +I will choose her happiness over mine every time +Put what we had aside +I’m standing at her side +You could never be satisfied +God, I hope you’re satisfied +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Well, he’s never gon’ be President now +Well, he’s never gon’ be President now +Well, he’s never gon’ be President now +That’s one less thing to worry about. +ENSEMBLE MEN +Never gon’ be President now +Never gon’ be President now +Never gon’ be President now +That’s one less thing to worry about. +JEFFERSON/MADISON +Hey! +At least he was honest with our money! +Hey! +At least he was honest with our money! +HAMILTON +Hey! +At least I was honest with our money! +Hey! +At least he was honest with our money! ENSEMBLE WOMEN +Well he’s never gon’ be President now +Well he’s never gon’ be President now +Well he’s never gon’ be President now +That’s one less thing to worry about. +ENSEMBLE MEN +Well he’s never gon’ be President now +Well he’s never gon’ be President now +Well he’s never gon’ be President now. +FULL COMPANY +That’s one less thing to worry about! +The Reynolds Pamphlet +JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR +Have you read this? +You ever see somebody ruin their own life? +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON/ELIZA) +His poor wife +ELIZA +I saved every letter you wrote me +From the moment I read them +I knew you were mine +You said you were mine +I thought you were mine +Do you know what Angelica said +When we saw your first letter arrive? +She said +“Be careful with that one, love +He will do what it takes to survive.” +You and your words flooded my senses +Your sentences left me defenseless +You built me palaces out of paragraphs +You built cathedrals +I’m re-reading the letters you wrote me +I’m searching and scanning for answers +In every line +For some kind of sign +And when you were mine +The world seemed to +Burn +Burn +You published the letters she wrote you +You told the whole world how you brought +This girl into our bed +In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives +Do you know what Angelica said +When she read what you’d done? +She said +“You have married an Icarus +He has flown too close to the sun.” +You and your words, obsessed with your legacy… +Your sentences border on senseless +And you are paranoid in every paragraph +How they perceive you +You, you, you… +I’m erasing myself from the narrative +Let future historians wonder how Eliza +Reacted when you broke her heart +You have torn it all apart +I am watching it +Burn +Watching it burn +The world has no right to my heart +The world has no place in our bed +They don’t get to know what I said +I’m burning the memories +Burning the letters that might have redeemed you +You forfeit all rights to my heart +You forfeit the place in our bed +You sleep in your office instead +With only the memories +Of when you were mine +I hope that you burn +PHILIP +Meet the latest graduate of King’s College! +I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but, dag, I amaze and astonish! +The scholars say I got the same virtuosity and brains as my pops! +The ladies say my brain’s not where the resemblance stops! +I’m only nineteen but my mind is older +Gotta be my own man, like my father, but bolder +I shoulder his legacy with pride +I used to hear him say +That someday +I would— +ENSEMBLE +Blow us all away +PHILIP +Ladies, I’m lookin for a Mr. George Eacker +Made a speech last week, our Fourth of July speaker +He disparaged my father’s legacy in front of a crowd +I can’t have that, I’m making my father proud +MARTHA +I saw him just up Broadway a couple of blocks +He was goin’ to see a play +PHILIP +Well, I’ll go visit his box +DOLLY +God, you’re a fox +PHILIP +And y’all look pretty good in ya’ frocks +How ‘bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks? +BOTH +Ok! +COMPANY +Blow us all away! +PHILIP +George! +GEORGE +Shh +PHILIP +George! +GEORGE +Shh! I’m tryin’ to watch the show! +PHILIP +Ya’ shoulda watched your mouth before you +Talked about my father though! +GEORGE +I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true +Your father’s a scoundrel, and so, it seems, are you +ENSEMBLE +Ooooooooooh! +PHILIP +It’s like that? +GEORGE +Yeah, I don’t fool around +I’m not your little schoolboy friends +PHILIP +See you on the dueling ground +That is, unless you wanna step outside and go now +GEORGE +I know where to find you, piss off +I’m watchin’ this show now +PHILIP +Pops, if you had only heard the shit he said about you +I doubt you would have let it slide and I was not about to— +HAMILTON +Slow down +PHILIP +I came to ask you for advice. This is my very first duel +They don’t exactly cover this subject in boarding school +HAMILTON +Did your friends attempt to negotiate a peace? +PHILIP +He refused to apologize, we had to let the peace talks cease +HAMILTON +Where is this happening? +PHILIP +Across the river, in Jersey +HAMILTON/PHILIP +Everything is legal in New Jersey… +HAMILTON +Alright. So this is what you’re gonna do: +Stand there like a man until Eacker is in front of you +When the time comes, fire your weapon in the air +This will put an end to the whole affair +PHILIP +But what if he decides to shoot? Then I’m a goner +HAMILTON +No. He’ll follow suit if he’s truly a man of honor +To take someone’s life, that is something you can’t shake +Philip, your mother can’t take another heartbreak +PHILIP +Father— +HAMILTON +Promise me. You don’t want this +Young man’s blood on your conscience +PHILIP +Okay, I promise +HAMILTON +Come back home when you’re done +Take my guns. Be smart. Make me proud, son +PHILIP +My name is Philip +I am a poet +I’m a little nervous, but I can’t show it +I’m sorry, I’m a Hamilton with pride +You talk about my father, I cannot let it slide +Mister Eacker! How was the rest of your show? +GEORGE +I’d rather skip the pleasantries +Let’s go +Grab your pistol +PHILIP +Confer with your men +The duel will commence after we count to ten +ENSEMBLE +Count to ten! +PHILIP +Look ‘em in the eye, aim no higher +Summon all the courage you require +Then slowly and clearly aim your gun towards the sky— +MALE ENSEMBLE +One two three four +FULL ENSEMBLE +Five six seven— +ENSEMBLE WOMEN +Stay alive… +Stay alive… +Stay alive… +HAMILTON +Where’s my son? +Is he alive? +DOCTOR +Mr. Hamilton, come in. They brought him in a half an hour ago. He lost a lot of blood on the way over. +DOCTOR +Yes. But you have to understand +The bullet entered just above his hip and +Lodged in his right arm +HAMILTON +Can I see him please? +DOCTOR +I’m doing ev’rything I can, but the wound was +Already infected when he arrived— +HAMILTON +Philip +PHILIP +Pa +I did exactly as you said, Pa +I held my head up high +HAMILTON +I know, I know. Shh +I know, I know +Shh. I know you did +Ev’rything just right +Shh +I know, I know +I know, I know +I know +Save your strength and +Stay alive… +PHILIP +High +Even before we got to ten— +I was aiming for the sky +I was aiming for the sky +ENSEMBLE MEN +Stay alive… +ELIZA +No! +HAMILTON +Eliza +ELIZA +Is he breathing? Is he going to survive this? ENSEMBLE MEN +Stay alive… +ELIZA +Who did this, Alexander, did you know? +PHILIP +Mom, I’m so sorry for forgetting what you taught me +ELIZA +My son— +PHILIP +We played piano +ELIZA +I taught you piano +PHILIP +You would put your hands on mine +ELIZA +You changed the melody every time +PHILIP +Ha. I would always change the line +ELIZA +Shh. I know, I know +PHILIP +I would always change the line +ELIZA +I know, I know +ELIZA +Un deux trois quatre +Cinq six sept huit neuf +Good +Un deux trois quatre +Cinq six sept +Huit neuf +Sept huit neuf— +Sept huit… +PHILIP +Un deux trois quatre +Cinq six sept huit neuf +PHILIP +Un deux trois… +ANGELICA +There are moments that the words don’t reach +There is suffering too terrible to name +You hold your child as tight as you can +And push away the unimaginable +The moments when you’re in so deep +It feels easier to just swim down +ANGELICA/ENSEMBLE +The Hamiltons move uptown +And learn to live with the unimaginable +HAMILTON +I spend hours in the garden +I walk alone to the store +And it’s quiet uptown +I never liked the quiet before +I take the children to church on Sunday +A sign of the cross at the door +And I pray +That never used to happen before +ANGELICA AND WOMEN +If you see him in the street, walking by +Himself, talking to himself, have pity +HAMILTON +Philip, you would like it uptown +It’s quiet uptown +ANGELICA AND WOMEN +He is working through the unimaginable +ALL MEN (EXCEPT HAMILTON) +His hair has gone grey. He passes every day +They say he walks the length of the city +HAMILTON +You knock me out, I fall apart +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND ELIZA) +Can you imagine? +HAMILTON +Look at where we are +Look at where we started +I know I don’t deserve you, Eliza +But hear me out. That would be enough +If I could spare his life +If I could trade his life for mine +He’d be standing here right now +And you would smile, and that would be enough +I don’t pretend to know +The challenges we’re facing +I know there’s no replacing what we’ve lost +And you need time +But I’m not afraid +I know who I married +Just let me stay here by your side +That would be enough +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND ELIZA) +If you see him in the street, walking by her +Side, talking by her side, have pity +HAMILTON +Eliza, do you like it uptown? It’s quiet uptown +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND ELIZA) +He is trying to do the unimaginable +See them walking in the park, long after dark +Taking in the sights of the city +HAMILTON +Look around, look around, Eliza +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND ELIZA) +They are trying to do the unimaginable +ANGELICA +There are moments that the words don’t reach +There is a grace too powerful to name +We push away what we can never understand +We push away the unimaginable +They are standing in the garden +Alexander by Eliza’s side +She takes his hand +ELIZA +It’s quiet uptown +COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND ELIZA) +Forgiveness. Can you imagine? +Forgiveness. Can you imagine? +If you see him in the street, walking by her +Side, talking by her side, have pity +They are going through the unimaginable +FULL COMPANY +The election of 1800 +JEFFERSON +Can we get back to politics? +MADISON +Please? +JEFFERSON +Yo. Ev’ry action has an equal, opposite reaction +John Adams shat the bed. I love the guy, but he’s in traction +Poor Alexander Hamilton? He is missing in action +So now I’m facing— +JEFFERSON AND MADISON +Aaron Burr! +JEFFERSON +With his own faction +MADISON +He’s very attractive in the North. New Yorkers like his chances +JEFFERSON +He’s not very forthcoming on any particular stances +MADISON +Ask him a question: it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances +JEFFERSON +And they say I’m a Francophile: at least they know I know where France is! +MADISON +Thomas that’s the problem, see, they see Burr as a less extreme you +JEFFERSON +Ha! +MADISON +You need to change course, a key endorsement might redeem you +JEFFERSON +Who did you have in mind? +MADISON +Don’t laugh +JEFFERSON +Who is it? +MADISON +You used to work on the same staff +JEFFERSON +Whaaaat +MADISON +It might be nice, it might be nice +To get Hamilton on your side +JEFFERSON AND MADISON +It might be nice, it might be nice +To get Hamilton on your side +BURR +Talk less! +Smile more! +Don’t let ‘em know what you’re against or what you’re for! +Shake hands with him! +Charm her! +It’s eighteen hundred, ladies, tell your husbands: vote for +Burr! +ENSEMBLE +Burr! +Burr! +Burr! +Burr! +Burr! +Burr! +MALE VOTER +I don’t like Adams +FEMALE VOTER +Well, he’s gonna lose, that’s just defeatist +ANOTHER MALE VOTER +And Jefferson— +TWO MEN +In love with France! +ANOTHER FEMALE VOTER +Yeah, he’s so elitist! +TWO WOMEN +I like that Aaron Burr! +A WOMAN +I can’t believe we’re here with him! +A MAN +He seems approachable…? +ANOTHER MALE VOTER +Like you could grab a beer with him! +ENSEMBLE +Dear Mr. Hamilton: your fellow Fed’ralists would like to know how you’ll be voting +HAMILTON +It’s quiet uptown +ENSEMBLE +Dear Mr. Hamilton: John Adams doesn’t stand a chance, so who are you promoting? +HAMILTON +It’s quiet uptown +MEN +Jefferson or Burr? +We know it’s lose-lose +Jefferson or Burr? +But if you had to choose +WOMEN +Jefferson or Burr? +We know it’s lose-lose +Jefferson or Burr? +But if you had to choose +EVEN MORE VOTERS +Dear Mr. Hamilton: +John Adams doesn’t stand a chance so who are you promoting? +But if you had to choose +MEN +Jefferson or Burr? +We know it’s lose-lose +Jefferson or Burr? +But if you had to choose +WOMEN +Jefferson or Burr? +We know it’s lose-lose +Jefferson or Burr? +But if you had to choose +HAMILTON +Well, if it isn’t Aaron Burr. Sir! +BURR +Alexander! +HAMILTON +You’ve created quite a stir, sir! +BURR +I’m going door to door! +HAMILTON +You’re openly campaigning? +BURR +Sure! +HAMILTON +That’s new +BURR +Honestly, it’s kind of draining +HAMILTON +Burr— +BURR +Sir! +HAMILTON +Is there anything you wouldn’t do? +BURR +No. I’m chasing what I want +And you know what? +HAMILTON +What? +BURR +I learned that from you +ENSEMBLE +If you had to choose +If you had to choose +MADISON +It’s a tie! +ENSEMBLE +If you had to choose +If you had to choose +JEFFERSON +It’s up to the delegates! +ENSEMBLE +If you had to choose +If you had to choose +JEFFERSON/MADISON +It’s up to Hamilton! +VOTERS +If you had to choose +If you had to choose +If you had to +Choose +Choose +Choose! MADISON/ +ENSEMBLE +Jefferson or Burr? +Choose +Choose +Choose! +ENSEMBLE +Jefferson or Burr? +Choose +Choose +Choose! +HAMILTON +Yo +ENSEMBLE +Oh! +HAMILTON +The people are asking to hear my voice +ENSEMBLE +Oh! +HAMILTON +For the country is facing a difficult choice +ENSEMBLE +Oh! +HAMILTON +And if you were to ask me who I’d promote— +ENSEMBLE +Oh! +HAMILTON +—Jefferson has my vote +JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE +Oh! +HAMILTON +I have never agreed with Jefferson once +JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE +Oh! +HAMILTON +We have fought on like seventy-five diff’rent fronts +JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE +Oh! +HAMILTON +But when all is said and all is done +Jefferson has beliefs. Burr has none +ENSEMBLE +Oooooooooooooh +MADISON AND JEFFERSON +Well, I’ll be damned +Well, I’ll be damned +MADISON +Hamilton’s on your side +ENSEMBLE +Well, I’ll be damned +Well, I’ll be damned +JEFFERSON +And? +MADISON +You won in a landslide +BURR +Congrats on a race well-run +I did give you a fight +JEFFERSON +Uh-huh +BURR +I look forward to our partnership +JEFFERSON +Our partnership? +BURR +As your vice-President +JEFFERSON +Ha. Yeah, right +You hear this guy? Man openly campaigns against me, talkin’ bout, “I look forward to our partnership.” +MADISON +It’s crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be Vice President +JEFFERSON +Yeah, you know what? We can change that. You know why? +MADISON +Why? +JEFFERSON +‘cuz I’m the President. Hey, Burr, when you see Hamilton, thank him for the endorsement +BURR +How does Hamilton +An arrogant +Immigrant, orphan +Bastard, whoreson +Somehow endorse +Thomas Jefferson, his enemy +A man he’s despised since the beginning +Just to keep me from winning? +I wanna be in the room where it happens— +BURR AND COMPANY +The room where it happens +The room where it happens +BURR +You’ve kept me from— +BURR AND COMPANY +The room where it happens +BURR +For the last time +Dear Alexander: +I am slow to anger +But I toe the line +As I reckon with the effects +Of your life on mine +I look back on where I failed +And in every place I checked +The only common thread has been your disrespect +Now you call me “amoral,” +A “dangerous disgrace,” +If you’ve got something to say +Name a time and place +Face to face +I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant +A dot Burr +HAMILTON +Mr. Vice President: +I am not the reason no one trusts you +No one knows what you believe +I will not equivocate on my opinion +I have always worn it on my sleeve +Even if I said what you think I said +You would need to cite a more specific grievance +Here’s an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements +BURR +Sweet Jesus +HAMILTON +Hey, I have not been shy +I am just a guy in the public eye +Tryin’ to do my best for our republic +I don’t wanna fight +But I won’t apologize for doing what’s right +I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant +A dot Ham +BURR +Careful how you proceed, good man +Intemperate indeed, good man +Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or +Prepare to bleed, good man +HAMILTON +Burr, your grievance is legitimate +I stand by what I said, every bit of it +You stand only for yourself +It’s what you do +I can’t apologize because it’s true +BURR +Then stand, Alexander +Weehawken. Dawn +Guns. Drawn +HAMILTON +You’re on +BURR AND HAMILTON +I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant +HAMILTON +A dot Ham +BURR +A dot Burr +ELIZA +Alexander, come back to sleep +HAMILTON +I have an early meeting out of town +ELIZA +It’s still dark outside +HAMILTON +I know. I just need to write something down +ELIZA +Why do you write like you’re running out of time? +HAMILTON +Shhh +ELIZA +Come back to bed. That would be enough +HAMILTON +I’ll be back before you know I’m gone +ELIZA +Come back to sleep +HAMILTON +This meeting’s at dawn +ELIZA +Well, I’m going back to sleep +HAMILTON +Hey. Best of wives and best of women +MALE COMPANY +One two three four +FULL COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND BURR) +Five six seven eight nine— +BURR +There are ten things you need to know +COMPANY +Number one! +BURR +We rowed across the Hudson at dawn +My friend, William P. Van Ness signed on as my— +BURR AND COMPANY +Number two! +BURR +Hamilton arrived with his crew: +Nathaniel Pendleton and a doctor that he knew +COMPANY +Number three! +BURR +I watched Hamilton examine the terrain +I wish I could tell you what was happ’ning in his brain +This man has poisoned my political pursuits! +COMPANY +Most disputes die and no one shoots! +Number four! +BURR +Hamilton drew first position +Looking, to the world, like a man on a mission +This is a soldier with a marksman’s ability +The doctor turned around so he could have deniability +COMPANY +Five! +BURR +Now I didn’t know this at the time +But we were— +BURR AND PHILIP +Near the same spot +Your son died, is that +Why— HAMILTON +Near the same spot +My son died, is that +Why— +COMPANY +Six! +BURR +He examined his gun with such rigor? +I watched as he methodically fiddled with the trigger +COMPANY +Seven! +BURR +Confession time? Here’s what I got: +My fellow soldiers’ll tell you I’m a terrible shot +COMPANY +Number eight! +BURR/HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE MEN +Your last chance to negotiate +Send in your seconds, see if they can set the record straight +BURR +They won’t teach you this in your classes +But look it up, Hamilton was wearing his glasses +Why? If not to take deadly aim? +It’s him or me, the world will never be the same +I had only one thought before the slaughter: +This man will not make an orphan of my daughter +COMPANY +Number nine! +BURR +Look him in the eye, aim no higher +Summon all the courage you require +Then count: +COMPANY +One two three four five six seven eight nine +Number ten paces! Fire!— +HAMILTON +I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory +Is this where it gets me, on my feet, sev’ral feet ahead of me? +I see it coming, do I run or fire my gun or let it be? +There is no beat, no melody +Burr, my first friend, my enemy +Maybe the last face I ever see +If I throw away my shot, is this how you’ll remember me? +What if this bullet is my legacy? +Legacy. What is a legacy? +It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see +I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me +America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me +You let me make a difference +A place where even orphan immigrants +Can leave their fingerprints and rise up +I’m running out of time. I’m running, and my time’s up +Wise up. Eyes up +I catch a glimpse of the other side +Laurens leads a soldiers’ chorus on the other side +My son is on the other side +He’s with my mother on the other side +Washington is watching from the other side +Teach me how to say goodbye +Rise up, rise up, rise up +Eliza +My love, take your time +I’ll see you on the other side +Raise a glass to freedom… +BURR AND COMPANY +He aims his pistol at the sky— +BURR +Wait! +BURR +I strike him right between his ribs +I walk towards him, but I am ushered away +They row him back across the Hudson +I get a drink +COMPANY +Aaaah +Aaaah +Aaaah +BURR +I hear wailing in the streets +COMPANY +Aaaah +Aaaah +Aaaah +BURR +Somebody tells me, “You’d better hide.” +COMPANY +Aaaah +Aaaah +Aaaah +BURR +They say +BURR AND ANGELICA +Angelica and Eliza— +BURR +Were both at his side when he died +Death doesn’t discriminate +Between the sinners and the saints +It takes and it takes and it takes +History obliterates +In every picture it paints +It paints me and all my mistakes +When Alexander aimed +At the sky +He may have been the first one to die +But I’m the one who paid for it +I survived, but I paid for it +Now I’m the villain in your history +I was too young and blind to see… +I should’ve known +I should’ve known +The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me +The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me +WASHINGTON +Let me tell you what I wish I’d known +When I was young and dreamed of glory +You have no control: +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Who lives +Who dies +Who tells your story? +BURR +President Jefferson: +JEFFERSON +I’ll give him this: his financial system is a +Work of genius. I couldn’t undo it if I tried +And I tried +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Who lives +Who dies +Who tells your story? +BURR +President Madison: +MADISON +He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity +I hate to admit it, but he doesn’t get enough credit +For all the credit he gave us +WASHINGTON AND COMPANY +Who lives +Who dies +Who tells your story? +ANGELICA +Every other founding father story gets told +Every other founding father gets to grow old +BURR +But when you’re gone, who remembers your name? +Who keeps your flame? +BURR AND MEN +Who tells your story? +Who tells your story? +ANGELICA AND WOMEN +Who tells your story? +Your story? +WOMEN +Eliza +ELIZA +I put myself back in the narrative +WOMEN +Eliza +ELIZA +I stop wasting time on tears +I live another fifty years +It’s not enough +COMPANY +Eliza +ELIZA +I interview every soldier who fought by your side +MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS +She tells our story +ELIZA +I try to make sense of your thousands of pages of writings +You really do write like you’re running out of— +ELIZA AND COMPANY +Time +ELIZA +I rely on— +ELIZA AND ANGELICA +Angelica +ELIZA +While she’s alive— +ELIZA AND ANGELICA +We tell your story +ELIZA +She is buried in Trinity Church +ELIZA AND ANGELICA +Near you +ELIZA +When I needed her most, she was right on— +ELIZA AND COMPANY +Time +ELIZA +And I’m still not through +I ask myself, “What would you do if you had more—” +ELIZA AND COMPANY +Time +ELIZA +The Lord, in his kindness +He gives me what you always wanted +He gives me more— +ELIZA AND COMPANY +Time +ELIZA +I raise funds in D.C. for the Washington Monument +WASHINGTON +She tells my story +ELIZA +I speak out against slavery +You could have done so much more if you only had— +ELIZA AND COMPANY +Time +ELIZA +And when my time is up, have I done enough? +ELIZA +Will they tell our story? COMPANY +Will they tell your story? +ELIZA +Oh. Can I show you what I’m proudest of? +COMPANY +The orphanage +ELIZA +I established the first private orphanage in New York City +COMPANY +The orphanage +ELIZA +I help to raise hundreds of children +I get to see them growing up +COMPANY +The orphanage +ELIZA +In their eyes I see you, Alexander +I see you every— +ELIZA AND COMPANY +Time +ELIZA +And when my time is up +Have I done enough? +Will they tell my story? +COMPANY +Will they tell your story? +ELIZA +Oh, I can’t wait to see you again +It’s only a matter of— +ELIZA AND COMPANY +Time +COMPANY +Will they tell your story? +Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? +Will they tell your story? +Who lives, who dies— +COMPANY +Time… +Time… +Time… +FULL COMPANY +Who tells your story? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/examples/hamilton/hamilton_parser.py b/examples/hamilton/hamilton_parser.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..757c86f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/hamilton/hamilton_parser.py @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +import os +import re + + +def sanitize_text(text): + # Remove special characters and extra whitespace + sanitized = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]', '', text) + sanitized = ' '.join(sanitized.split()) + return sanitized + + +def parse_script(filename): + current_speaker = None + current_speech = [] + messages = [] + + with open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as file: + for line in file: + line = line.strip() + + # Check if this line is a new speaker + if ( + line + and line.isupper() + and not line.startswith('ACT') + and not line.startswith('SCENE') + ): + # If we have a current speaker, save their message + if current_speaker: + sanitized_speech = sanitize_text(' '.join(current_speech)) + messages.append((sanitize_text(current_speaker), sanitized_speech)) + + # Start a new speech + current_speaker = line + current_speech = [] + elif line and not line.startswith('[') and current_speaker: + # Add this line to the current speech + current_speech.append(line) + + # Add the last speech + if current_speaker: + sanitized_speech = sanitize_text(' '.join(current_speech)) + messages.append((sanitize_text(current_speaker), sanitized_speech)) + + return messages + + +def get_hamilton_messages(): + file_path = 'hamilton.txt' + script_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + relative_path = os.path.join(script_dir, file_path) + # Use the function + return parse_script(relative_path) diff --git a/examples/hamilton/runner.py b/examples/hamilton/runner.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fbd5825c --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/hamilton/runner.py @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +""" +Copyright 2024, Zep Software, Inc. + +Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); +you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. +You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + +Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software +distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, +WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. +See the License for the specific language governing permissions and +limitations under the License. +""" + +import asyncio +import logging +import os +import sys +from datetime import datetime, timedelta + +from dotenv import load_dotenv + +from examples.hamilton.hamilton_parser import get_hamilton_messages +from graphiti_core import Graphiti +from graphiti_core.llm_client import AnthropicClient +from graphiti_core.nodes import EpisodeType +from graphiti_core.utils.bulk_utils import RawEpisode +from graphiti_core.utils.maintenance.graph_data_operations import clear_data + +load_dotenv() + +neo4j_uri = os.environ.get('NEO4J_URI', 'bolt://localhost:7687') +neo4j_user = os.environ.get('NEO4J_USER', 'neo4j') +neo4j_password = os.environ.get('NEO4J_PASSWORD', 'password') + + +def setup_logging(): + # Create a logger + logger = logging.getLogger() + logger.setLevel(logging.INFO) # Set the logging level to INFO + + # Create console handler and set level to INFO + console_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout) + console_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO) + + # Create formatter + formatter = logging.Formatter('%(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') + + # Add formatter to console handler + console_handler.setFormatter(formatter) + + # Add console handler to logger + logger.addHandler(console_handler) + + return logger + + +async def main(): + setup_logging() + llm_client = AnthropicClient() + client = Graphiti(neo4j_uri, neo4j_user, neo4j_password, llm_client) + messages = get_hamilton_messages() + + await clear_data(client.driver) + await client.build_indices_and_constraints() + + episodes: list[RawEpisode] = [ + RawEpisode( + name=f'Message {i}', + content=f'{speaker}: {speech}', + source_description='Hamilton Transcript', + source=EpisodeType.message, + reference_time=datetime.now() + timedelta(seconds=i * 10), + ) + for i, (speaker, speech) in enumerate(messages[:50]) + ] + + await client.add_episode_bulk(episodes) + + +asyncio.run(main()) diff --git a/examples/presidential_debates/bush_gore_debate.txt b/examples/presidential_debates/bush_gore_debate.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e0474668 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/presidential_debates/bush_gore_debate.txt @@ -0,0 +1,339 @@ +October 3, 2000 + +The First Gore-Bush Presidential Debate + +MODERATOR: Good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. I’m Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS, and I welcome you to the first of three 90-minute debates between the Democratic candidate for president, Vice President Al Gore and the Republican candidate, Governor George W. Bush of Texas. The debates are sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. We’ll have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttal is limited to one minute. But as moderator I have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another three-and-a-half minutes. Even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects were chosen by me alone. I have told no one from the two campaigns, or the Commission, or anyone else involved what they are. There is a small audience in the hall tonight. They are not here to participate, only to listen. I have asked, and they have agreed, to remain silent for the next 90 minutes. Except for right now, when they will applaud as we welcome the two candidates, Governor Bush and Vice President Gore. + +(Applause) + +MODERATOR: And now the first question as determined by a flip of a coin, it goes to Vice President Gore. Vice President Gore, you have questioned whether Governor Bush has the experience to be President of the United States. What exactly do you mean? + +GORE: Well, Jim, first of all, I would like to thank the sponsors of this debate and the people of Boston for hosting the debate. I would like to thank Governor Bush for participating, and I would like to say I’m happy to be here with Tipper and our family. I have actually not questioned Governor Bush’s experience. I have questioned his proposals. And here is why. I think this is a very important moment for our country. We have achieved extraordinary prosperity. And in this election, America has to make an important choice. Will we use our prosperity to enrich not just the few, but all of our families? I believe we have to make the right and responsible choices. If I’m entrusted with the presidency, here are the choices that I will make. I will balance the budget every year. I will pay down the national debt. I will put Medicare and Social Security in a lockbox and protect them. And I will cut taxes for middle-class families. I believe it’s important to resist the temptation to squander our surplus. If we make the right choices, we can have a prosperity that endures and enriches all of our people. If I’m entrusted with the presidency, I will help parents and strengthen families because, you know, if we have prosperity that grows and grows, we still won’t be successful unless we strengthen families by, for example, ensuring that children can always go to schools that are safe. By giving parents the tools to protect their children against cultural pollution. I will make sure that we invest in our country and our families. And I mean investing in education, health care, the environment, and middle-class tax cuts and retirement security. That is my agenda and that is why I think that it’s not just a question of experience. + +MODERATOR: Governor Bush, one minute rebuttal. + +BUSH: Well, we do come from different places. I come from West Texas. The governor is the chief executive officer. We know how to set agendas. I think you’ll find the difference reflected in our budgets. I want to take one-half of the surplus and dedicate it to Social Security. One-quarter of the surplus for important projects, and I want to send one-quarter of the surplus back to the people who pay the bills. I want everybody who pays taxes to have their tax rates cut. And that stands in contrast to my worthy opponent’s plan, which will increase the size of government dramatically. His plan is three times larger than President Clinton’s proposed plan eight years ago. It is a plan that will have 200 new programs — expanded programs and creates 20,000 new bureaucrats. It it empowers Washington. Tonight you’re going to hear that my passion and my vision is to empower Americans to be able to make decisions for themselves in their own lives. + +MODERATOR: So I take it by your answer, then, Mr. Vice President, that in an interview recently with the “New York Times” when you said that you questioned whether or not Governor Bush has experience enough to be president, you were talking about strictly policy differences. + +GORE: Yes, Jim. I said that his tax cut plan, for example, raises the question of whether it’s the right choice for the country. And let me give you an example of what I mean. Under Governor Bush’s tax cut proposal, he would spend more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% than all of the new spending that he proposes for education, health care, prescription drugs and national defense all combined. Now, I think those are the wrong priorities. Now, under my proposal, for every dollar that I propose in spending for things like education and health care, I will put another dollar into middle class tax cuts. And for every dollar that I spend in those two categories, I’ll put $2 toward paying down the national debt. I think it’s very important to keep the debt going down and completely eliminate it. And I also think it’s very important to go to the next stage of welfare reform. Our country has cut the welfare rolls in half. I fought hard from my days in the Senate and as vice president to cut the welfare rolls and we’ve moved millions of people in America into good jobs. But it’s now time for the next stage of welfare reform, and include fathers and not only mothers. + +MODERATOR: We’re going to get a lot of those. + +BUSH: Let me just say that obviously tonight we’re going to hear some phony numbers about what I think and what we ought to do. People need to know that over the next ten years it is going to be $25 trillion of revenue that comes into our treasurey and we anticipate spending $21 trillion. And my plan say why don’t we pass 1.3 trillion of that back to the people who pay the bills? Surely we can afford 5% of the $25 trillion that are coming into the treasury to the hard working people that pay the bills. There is a difference of opinion. My opponent thinks the government — the surplus is the government’s money. That’s not what I think. I think it’s the hard-working people of America’s money and I want to share some of that money with you so you have more money to build and save and dream for your families. It’s a difference of opinion. It’s a difference between government making decisions for you and you getting more of your money to make decisions for yourself. + +MODERATOR: Let me just follow up one quick question. When you hear Vice President Gore question your experience, do you read it the same way, that he’s talking about policy differences only? + +BUSH: Yes. I take him for his word. Look, I fully recognize I’m not of Washington. I’m from Texas. And he’s got a lot of experience, but so do I. And I’ve been the chief executive officer of the second biggest state in the union. I have a proud record of working with both Republicans and Democrats, which is what our nation needs. Somebody that can come to Washington and say let’s forget all the finger pointing and get positive things done on Medicare, prescription drugs, Social Security, and so I take him for his word. + +GORE: Jim, if I could just respond. I know that. The governor used the phrase phony numbers, but if you look at the plan and add the numbers up, these numbers are correct. He spends more money for tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% than all of his new spending proposals for health care, prescription drugs, education and national defense all combined. I agree that the surplus is the American people’s money, it’s your money. That’s why I don’t think we should give nearly half of it to the wealthiest 1%, because the other 99% have had an awful lot to do with building the surplus in our prosperity. + +MODERATOR: Three-and-a-half minutes is up. New question. + +BUSH: I hope it’s about wealthy people. + +MODERATOR: Governor Bush, you have a question. This is a companion question to the question I asked Vice President Gore. You have questioned whether Vice President Gore has demonstrated the leadership qualities necessary to be President of the United States. What do you mean by that? + +BUSH: Actually what I’ve said, Jim. I’ve said that eight years ago they campaigned on prescription drugs for seniors. And four years ago they campaigned on getting prescription drugs for seniors. And now they’re campaigning on getting prescription drugs for seniors. It seems like they can’t get it done. Now, they may blame other folks, but it’s time to get somebody in Washington who is going to work with both Republicans and Democrats to get some positive things done when it comes to our seniors. And so what I’ve said is that there’s been some missed opportunities. They’ve had a chance. They’ve had a chance to form consensus. I’ve got a plan on Medicare, for example, that’s a two-stage plan that says we’ll have immediate help for seniors and what I call immediate Helping Hand, a $48 billion program. But I also want to say to seniors, if you’re happy with Medicare the way it is, fine, you can stay in the program. But we’re going to give you additional choices like they give federal employees in the federal employee health plan. They have a variety of choices to choose, so should seniors. And my point has been, as opposed to politicizing an issue like Medicare, in other words, holding it up as an issue, hoping somebody bites it and try to clobber them over the head with it for political purposes, this year, in the year 2000, it’s time to get it done once and for all. That’s what I’ve been critical about the administration for. Same with Social Security. I think there was a good opportunity to bring Republicans and Democrats together to reform the Social Security system so seniors will never go without. Those on Social Security today will have their promise made, but also to give younger workers the option at their choice of being able to manage some of their own money in the private sector to make sure there’s a Social Security system around tomorrow. There are a lot of young workers at our rallies we go to that when they hear I’ll trust them at their option to be able to manage, under certain guidelines, some of their own money to get a better rate of return so that they’ll have a retirement plan in the future, they begin to nod their heads and they want a different attitude in Washington. + +MODERATOR: One minute rebuttal. + +GORE: Well, Jim, under my plan all seniors will get prescription drugs under Medicare. The governor has described Medicare as a government HMO. It’s not, and let me explain the difference. Under the Medicare prescription drug proposal I’m making, here is how it works, you go to your own doctor. Your doctor chooses your prescription. No HMO or insurance company can take those choices away from you. Then you go to your own pharmacy. You fill the prescription and Medicare pays half the cost. If you’re in a very poor family or if you have very high costs, Medicare will pay all the costs, a $25 premium, and much better benefits than you can possibly find in the private sector. Now here is the contrast. 95% of all seniors would get no help whatsoever under my opponent’s plan for the first four or five years. Now, one thing I don’t understand, Jim, is why is it that the wealthiest 1% get their tax cuts the first year, but 95% of seniors have to wait four to five years before they get a single penny? + +BUSH: I guess my answer to that is the man is running on Medi-scare. Trying to frighten people in the voting booth. It’s just not the way I think and it’s not my intentions and not my plan. I want all seniors to have prescription drugs in Medicare. We need to reform Medicare. There’s been opportunity to do so but this administration has failed to do it. And so seniors will have not only a Medicare plan where the poor seniors will have prescription drugs paid for, but there will be a variety of options. The current system today has meant a lot for a lot of seniors, and I really appreciate the intentions of the current system as I mentioned. If you’re happy with the system you can stay in it. But there are a lot of procedures that haven’t kept up in Medicare with the current times. No prescription drug benefits, no drug therapy, no preventative medicines, no vision care. We need to have a modern system to help seniors, and the idea of supporting a federally controlled 132,000-page document bureaucracy as being a compassionate way for seniors, and the only compassionate source of care for seniors is not my vision. I believe we ought to give seniors more options. I believe we ought to make the system work better. I know this. I know it will require a different kind of leader to go to Washington to say to both Republicans and Democrats, let’s come together. You’ve had your chance, Vice President, you’ve been there for eight years and nothing has been done. My point is, is that my plan not only trusts seniors with options, my plan sets aside $3.4 trillion for Medicare over the next ten years. My plan also says it requires a new approach in Washington, D.C. It’s going to require somebody who can work across the partisan divide. + +GORE: If I could respond to that. Under my plan I will put Medicare in an iron clad lockbox and prevent the money from being used for anything other than Medicare. The governor has declined to endorse that idea even though the Republican as well as Democratic leaders in Congress have endorsed it. I would be interested to see if he would say this evening he’ll put Medicare in a lockbox. I don’t think he will because under his plan if you work out the numbers  $100 billion comes out of Medicare just for the wealthiest 1% in the tax cut. Now here is the difference. Some people who say the word reform actually mean cuts. Under the governor’s plan, if you kept the same fee for service that you have now under Medicare, your premiums would go up by between 18% and 47%, and that is the study of the Congressional plan that he’s modeled his proposal on by the Medicare actuaries. Let me give you one quick example. There is a man here tonight named George McKinney from Milwaukee. He’s 70 years old, has high blood pressure, his wife has heart trouble. They have an income of $25,000 a year. They can’t pay for their prescription drugs and so they’re some of the ones that go to Canada regularly in order to get their prescription drugs. Under my plan, half of their costs would be paid right away. Under Governor Bush’s plan, they would get not one penny for four to five years and then they would be forced to go into an HMO or to an insurance company and ask them for coverage, but there would be no limit on the premiums or the deductibles or any of the terms and conditions. + +BUSH: I cannot let this go by, the old-style Washington politics, of we’re going to scare you in the voting booth. Under my plan the man gets immediate help with prescription drugs. It’s called Immediate Helping Hand. Instead of squabbling and finger pointing, he gets immediate help. Let me say something. + +MODERATOR: Your –[cross talk] + +GORE: Can I make another point? They get $25,000 a year income, that makes them ineligible. + +BUSH: Look, this is a man who has great numbers. He talks about numbers. I’m beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, but he invented the calculator. It’s fuzzy math. It’s a scaring — he’s trying to scare people in the voting booth. Under my tax plan that he continues to criticize, I set one-third. The federal government should take no more than a third of anybody’s check. But I also dropped the bottom rate from 15% to 10%. Because by far the vast majority of the help goes to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder. If you’re a family of four in Massachusetts, making $50,000, you get a 50% cut in the federal income taxes you pay. It’s from $4000 to about $2000. Now, the difference in our plans is I want that $2,000 to go to you, and the vice president would like to be spending the $2,000 on your behalf. + +MODERATOR: One quick thing, gentlemen. These are your rules. I’m doing my best. We’re way over the three and a half minutes. I have no problems with it. Do you want to have a quick response? We’re almost to five minutes on this. + +GORE: It’s just clear you can go to the website and look. If you make more than $25,000 a year you don’t get a penny of help under the Bush prescription drug proposal for at least four to five years, and then you’re pushed into a Medicare — into an HMO or insurance company plan, and there’s no limit on the premiums or the deductibles or any of the conditions. And the insurance companies say it won’t work and they won’t offer these plans. + +MODERATOR: Let me ask you both this and we’ll move on on the subject. As a practical matter, both of you want to bring prescription drugs to seniors, correct? + +GORE: Correct. + +BUSH: Correct. + +GORE: The difference is I want to bring it to 100% and he wants to bring it to 5%. + +BUSH: That’s totally false for him to stand up here and say that. Let me make sure the seniors hear me loud and clear. They have had their chance to get something done. I’m going to work with Democrats and Republicans to reform the system. All seniors will be covered, all poor seniors will have their prescription drugs paid for, and in the meantime, we’ll have a plan to help poor seniors and in the meantime it could be one year or two years. + +GORE: Let me call your attention to the key word there. He said all poor seniors. + +BUSH: Wait a minute. All seniors are covered under prescription drugs in my plan. + +GORE: In the first year? + +BUSH: If we can get it done in the first year, you bet. Yours is phased in in eight years. + +GORE: It’s a two-phase plan. For the first four years — it takes a year to pass it and for the first four years only the poor are covered. Middle class seniors like George McKinney and his wife are not covered for four to five years. + +MODERATOR: I have an idea. If you have any more to say about this, you can say it in your closing statements and we’ll move on, okay? New question. Vice President Gore. How would you contrast your approach to preventing future oil price and supply problems like we have now to the approach of Governor Bush? + +GORE: Excellent question. And here is the simple difference. My plan has not only a short-term component, but also a long-term component. And it focuses not only on increasing the supply, which I think we have to do, but also on working on the consumption side. Now, in the short-term we have to free ourselves from the domination of the big oil companies that have the ability to manipulate the price from OPEC when they want to raise the price. And in the long-term we have to give new incentives for the development of domestic resources like deep gas in the western Gulf, like stripper wells for oil, but also renewable sources of energy. And domestic sources that are cleaner and better. And I’m proposing a plan that will give tax credits and tax incentives for the rapid development of new kinds of cars and trucks and buses and factories and boilers and furnaces that don’t have as much pollution, that don’t burn as much energy, and that help us get out on the cutting edge of the new technologies that will create millions of new jobs. Because, when we sell these new products here, we’ll then be able to sell them overseas. There is a ravenous demand for them overseas. Now, another big difference is Governor Bush is proposing to open up some of our most precious environmental treasures, like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the big oil companies to go in and start producing oil there. I think that is the wrong choice. It would only give us a few months’ worth of oil and the oil wouldn’t start flowing for many years into the future. I don’t think it’s a fair price to pay to destroy precious parts of America’s environment. We have to bet on the future and move beyond the current technologies to have a whole new generation of more efficient, cleaner, energy technology. + +BUSH: It’s an issue I know a lot about. I was a small oil person for a while in west Texas. This is an administration that’s had no plan. And all of a sudden the results of having no plan have caught up with America. First and foremost we have to fully fund LIHEAP which is a way to help low income folks, particularly here in the east to pay for high fuel bills. Secondly, we need an active exploration program in America. The only way to become less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil is to explore at home. You bet I want to open up a small part of Alaska. When that field is online it will produce one million barrels a day. Today we import one million barrels from Saddam Hussein. I would rather that a million come from our own hemisphere, our own country as opposed to Saddam Hussein. I want to build more pipelines to move natural gas throughout this hemisphere. I want to develop the coal resources in America. Have clean coal technologies. We’ve got abundant supplies of energy here in America and we’d better get after it, we better start exploring it or otherwise we’ll be in deep trouble in the future because of our dependency upon foreign sources of crude. + +MODERATOR: So if somebody is watching tonight and listening to what the two of you just said, is it fair to say, okay, the differences between Governor Bush and Vice President Gore are as follows. You’re for doing something on the consumption end and you’re for doing something on the production end? + +GORE: Let me clarify. I’m for doing something both on the supply side and production side and on the consumption side. Let me say, that I found one thing in Governor Bush’s answer that we certainly agree on, and that’s the low income heating assistance program. I commend you for supporting that. I worked to get $400 million just a couple of weeks ago. And to establish a permanent home heating oil reserve here in the northeast. Now, as for the proposals that I’ve worked for for renewables and conservation and efficiencies and new technologies. The fact is for the last few years in the Congress, we’ve faced a lot of opposition to them. They’ve only approved about 10% of the agenda I’ve helped to send up there. I think we need to get serious about this energy crisis, both in the Congress and in the White House, and if you entrust me with the presidency, I will tackle this problem and focus on new technologies that will make us less dependent on big oil or foreign oil. + +MODERATOR: How would you draw the difference? + +BUSH: Well I would first say he should have been tackling it for the last seven years. Secondly the difference is we need to explore at home. And the vice president doesn’t believe in exploration in Alaska. There’s a lot of shut-in gas that we need to be moving out of Alaska by pipeline. There’s an interesting issue up in the northwest as well. Do we remove dams that produce hydroelectric energy? I’m against removing dams in the northwest. I don’t know where the vice president stands but that’s a renewable energy source of energy. We need to keep that in line. I was in coal country in West Virginia yesterday. There is an abundant supply of coal in America. I know we can do a better job of clean coal technologies. I’m going to ask the Congress for $2 billion to make sure we have the cleanest coal technologies in the world. My answer to you is in the short-term we need to get after it here in America. We need to explore our resources and we need to develop our reservoirs of domestic production. We also need to have a hemispheric energy policy where Canada, Mexico and the United States come together. I brought this up recently with Vincent Fox the newly elected president in Mexico, he’s a man I know from Mexico. I talked to him about how best to expedite the exploration of natural gas in Mexico and transport it up to the United States so we become less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil. This is a major problem facing America. The administration did not deal with it. It’s time for a new administration to deal with the energy problem. + +GORE: If I may just briefly, Jim, note. I found a couple of other things we agree upon. We may not find that many this evening, so I wanted to emphasize. I strongly support new investments in clean coal technology. I made a proposal three months ago on this. And also domestic exploration yes, but not in the environmental treasures of our country. We don’t have to do that. That’s the wrong choice. I know the oil companies have been itching to do that, but it is not the right thing for the future. + +BUSH: No. It’s the right thing for the consumers. Less dependency upon foreign sources of crude is good for consumers. And we can do so in an environmentally friendly way. + +GORE: Well can I have the last word on this? + +MODERATOR: New question, new subject. Governor Bush. If elected president, would you try to overturn the FDA’s approval last week of the abortion pill RU-486? + +BUSH: I don’t think a president can do that. I was disappointed in the ruling because I think abortions ought to be more rare in America, and I’m worried that that pill will create more abortions and cause more people to have abortions. This is a very important topic and it’s a very sensitive topic, because a lot of good people disagree on the issue. I think what the next president ought to do is to promote a culture of life in America. Life of the elderly and life of those living all across the country. Life of the unborn. As a matter of fact, I think a noble goal for this country is that every child, born or unborn, need to be protected by law and welcomed to life. I know we need to change a lot of minds before we get there in America. What I do believe is that we can find good, common ground on issues of parental consent or parental notification. I know we need to ban partial birth abortions. This is a place where my opponent and I have strong disagreement. I believe banning partial birth abortions would be a positive step to reducing the number of abortions in America. This is an issue that will require a new attitude. We’ve been battling over abortion for a long period of time. Surely this nation can come together to promote the value of life. Surely we can fight off these laws that will encourage doctors to — to allow doctors to take the lives of our seniors. Surely we can work together to create a cultural life so some of these youngsters who feel like they can take a neighbor’s life with a gun will understand that that’s not the way America is meant to be. Surely we can find common ground to reduce the number of abortions in America. As to the drug itself, I mentioned I was disappointed. I hope the FDA took its time to make sure that American women will be safe who use this drug. + +MODERATOR: Vice President Gore? + +GORE: Well, Jim, the FDA took 12 years, and I do support that decision. They determined it was medically safe for the women who use that drug. This is indeed a very important issue. First of all on the issue of partial birth or so-called late-term abortion, I would sign a law banning that procedure, provided that doctors have the ability to save a woman’s life or to act if her health is severely at risk. That’s not the main issue. The main issue is whether or not the Roe v. Wade decision is going to be overturned. I support a woman’s right to choose. My opponent does not. It is important because the next president is going to appoint three and maybe even four justices of the Supreme Court. And Governor Bush has declared to the anti-choice groups that he will appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who are known for being the most vigorous opponents of a woman’s right to choose. Here is the difference. He trusts the government to order a woman to do what it thinks she ought to do. I trust women to make the decisions that affect their lives, their destinies and their bodies. And I think a woman’s right to choose ought to be protected and defended. + +MODERATOR: Governor, we’ll go to the Supreme Court question in a moment, but make sure I understand your position on RU-486. If you’re elected president, not through appointments to the FDA, you won’t support legislation to overturn this? + +BUSH: I don’t think a president can unilaterally overturn it. The FDA has made its decision. + +MODERATOR: That means you wouldn’t, through appointments, to the FDA and ask them to — + +BUSH: I think once a decision has been made, it’s been made unless it’s proven to be unsafe to women. + +GORE: Jim, the question you asked, if I heard you correctly, was would he support legislation to overturn it. And if I heard the statement day before yesterday, you said you would order — he said he would order his FDA appointee to review the decision. Now that sounds to me a little bit different. I just think that we ought to support the decision. + +BUSH: I said I would make sure that women would be safe who used the drug. + +MODERATOR: On the Supreme Court question. Should a voter assume — you’re pro-life. + +BUSH: I am pro-life. + +MODERATOR: Should a voter assume that all judicial appointments you make to the supreme court or any other court, federal court, will also be pro-life? + +BUSH: The voters should assume I have no litmus test on that issue or any other issue. Voters will know I’ll put competent judges on the bench. People who will strictly interpret the Constitution and not use the bench to write social policy. That is going to be a big difference between my opponent and me. I believe that the judges ought not to take the place of the legislative branch of government. That they’re appointed for life and that they ought to look at the Constitution as sacred. They shouldn’t misuse their bench. I don’t believe in liberal activist judges. I believe in strict constructionists. Those are the kind of judges I will appoint. I’ve named four supreme court justices in the State of Texas and would ask the people to check out their qualifications, their deliberations. They’re good, solid men and women who have made good, sound judgments on behalf of the people of Texas. + +MODERATOR: What kind of appointments should they expect from you? + +GORE: We both use similar language to reach an exactly opposite outcome. I don’t favor a litmus test, but I know that there are ways to assess how a potential justice interprets the Constitution. And in my view, the Constitution ought to be interpreted as a document that grows with our country and our history. And I believe, for example, that there is a right of privacy in the Fourth Amendment. And when the phrase a strict constructionist is used and when the names of Scalia and Thomas are used as the benchmarks for who would be appointed, those are code words, and nobody should mistake this, for saying the governor would appoint people who would overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s very clear to me. I would appoint people that have a philosophy that I think would have it quite likely they would uphold Roe v. Wade. + +MODERATOR: Is the vice president right? Is that a code word for overturning Roe v. Wade? + +BUSH: It sounds like the vice president’s not right very many times tonight. I just told you the criteria on which I’ll appoint judges. I have a record of appointing judges in the State of Texas. That’s what a governor gets to do. A governor gets to name supreme court judges. He also reads all kinds of things into my tax plan and into my Medicare plan. I want the viewers out there to listen to what I have to say about it. + +MODERATOR: Reverse the question. What code phrases should we read by what you said about what kind of people you would appoint? + +GORE: It would be likely that they would uphold Roe v. Wade. I do believe it’s wrong to use a litmus test. If you look at the history of a lower court judge’s rulings, you can get a pretty good idea of how they’ll interpret questions. A lot of questions are first impression, and these questions that have been seen many times come up in a new context and so — but, you know, this is a very important issue. Because a lot of young women in this country take this right for granted and it could be lost. It is on the ballot in this election, make no mistake about it. + +BUSH: I’ll tell you what kind of judges he’ll put on. He’ll put liberal activists justices who will use their bench to subvert the legislature, that’s what he’ll do. + +GORE: That’s not right. + +MODERATOR: New subject, new question. Vice President Gore, if President Milosevic of Yugoslavia refuses to accept the election results and leave office, what action, if any, should the United States take to get him out of there? + +GORE: Well, Milosevic has lost the election. His opponent, Kostunica, has won the election. It’s overwhelming. Milosevic’s government refuses to release the vote count. There’s now a general strike going on. They’re demonstrating. I think we should support the people of Serbia and Yugoslavia, as they call the Serbia plus Montenegro, and put pressure in every way possible to recognize the lawful outcome of the election. The people of Serbia have acted very bravely in kicking this guy out of office. Now he is trying to not release the votes and then go straight to a so-called runoff election without even announcing the results of the first vote. Now, we’ve made it clear, along with our allies, that when Milosevic leaves, then Serbia will be able to have a more normal relationship with the rest of the world. That is a very strong incentive that we’ve given them to do the right thing. Bear in mind also, Milosevic has been indicted as a war criminal and he should be held accountable for his actions. Now, we have to take measured steps because the sentiment within Serbia is, for understandable reasons, against the United States because their nationalism — even if they don’t like Milosevic, they still have some feelings lingering from the NATO action there. So we have to be intelligent in the way we go about it. But make no mistake about it, we should do everything we can to see that the will of the Serbian people expressed in this extraordinary election is done. And I hope that he’ll be out of office very shortly. + +MODERATOR: Governor Bush, one minute. + +BUSH: Well, I’m pleased with the results of the election. As the vice president is. It’s time for the man to go. It means that the United States must have a strong diplomatic hand with our friends in NATO. That’s why it’s important to make sure our alliances are as strong as they possibly can be to keep the pressure on Mr. Milosevic. But this will be an interesting moment for the Russians to step up and lead as well. Be a wonderful time for the Russians to step into the Balkans and convince Mr. Milosevic that it’s in his best interest and his country’s best interest to leave office. The Russians have a lot of sway in that part of the world. We would like to see the Russians use that sway to encourage democracy to take hold. It’s an encouraging election. It’s time for the man to leave. + +MODERATOR: What if he doesn’t leave? What if all the diplomatic efforts, all the pressure from all over the world and he still doesn’t go? Is this the kind of thing, to be specific, that you as president would consider the use of U.S. military force to get him gone? + +GORE: In this particular situation, no. Bear in mind that we have a lot of sanctions in force against Serbia right now. And the people of Serbia know that they can escape all those sanctions if this guy is turned out of power. Now, I understand what the governor has said about asking the Russians to be involved, and under some circumstances that might be a good idea. But being as they have not yet been willing to recognize Kostunica as the lawful winner of the election, I’m not sure it’s right for us to invite the president of Russia to mediate this — this dispute there because we might not like the results that comes out of that. They currently favor going forward with a runoff election. I think that’s the wrong thing. I think the governor’s instinct is not necessarily bad because we have worked with the Russians in a constructive way in Kosovo, for example, to end the conflict there. But I think we need to be very careful in the present situation before we invite the Russians to play the lead role in mediating. + +BUSH: Well obviously we wouldn’t use the Russians if they didn’t agree with our answer, Mr. Vice President. + +GORE: They don’t. + +BUSH: Let me say this to you, I wouldn’t use force. I wouldn’t use force. + +MODERATOR: You wouldn’t use force? + +BUSH: No. + +MODERATOR: Why not? + +BUSH: It’s not in our national interest to use force in this case. I would use pressure and diplomacy. There is a difference with what the president did in Kosovo which I supported and this. It’s up to the people in this region to take control of their country. + +MODERATOR: New question. How would you go about as president deciding when it was in the national interest to use U.S. force, generally? + +BUSH: Well, if it’s in our vital national interests, and that means whether our territory is threatened or people could be harmed, whether or not the alliances are — our defense alliances are threatened, whether or not our friends in the Middle East are threatened. That would be a time to seriously consider the use of force. Secondly, whether or not the mission was clear. Whether or not it was a clear understanding as to what the mission would be. Thirdly, whether or not we were prepared and trained to win. Whether or not our forces were of high morale and high standing and well-equipped. And finally, whether or not there was an exit strategy. I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded in my approach. I don’t think we can be all things to all people in the world. I think we’ve got to be very careful when we commit our troops. The vice president and I have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation building. I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place. So I would take my responsibility seriously. And it starts with making sure we rebuild our military power. Morale in today’s military is too low. We’re having trouble meeting recruiting goals. We met the goals this year, but in the previous years we have not met recruiting goals. Some of our troops are not well-equipped. I believe we’re overextended in too many places. And therefore I want to rebuild the military power. It starts with a billion dollar pay raise for the men and women who wear the uniform. A billion dollars more than the president recently signed into law. It’s to make sure our troops are well-housed and well-equipped. Bonus plans to keep some of our high-skilled folks in the services and a commander in chief who clearly sets the mission. The mission is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place. + +MODERATOR: Vice President Gore, one minute. + +GORE: Let me tell you what I’ll do. First of all  I want to make it clear, our military is the strongest, best-trained, best-equipped, best-led fighting force in the world and in the history of the world. Nobody should have any doubt about that, least of all our adversaries or potential adversaries. If you entrust me with the presidency, I will do whatever is necessary in order to make sure our forces stay the strongest in the world. In fact, in my ten-year budget proposal I’ve set aside more than twice as much for this purpose as Governor Bush has in his proposal. Now, I think we should be reluctant to get involved in someplace in a foreign country. But if our national security is at stake, if we have allies, if we’ve tried every other course, if we’re sure military action will succeed, and if the costs are proportionate to the benefits, we should get involved. Now, just because we don’t want to get involved everywhere doesn’t mean we should back off anywhere it comes up. I disagree with the proposal that maybe only when oil supplies are at stake that our national security is at risk. I think that there are situations like in Bosnia or Kosovo where there’s a genocide, where our national security is at stake there. + +BUSH: I agree our military is the strongest in the world today, that’s not the question. The question is will it be the strongest in the years to come? The warning signs are real. Everywhere I go on the campaign trail I see moms and dads whose son or daughter may wear the uniform and they tell me about how discouraged their son or daughter may be. A recent poll was taken among 1,000 enlisted personnel, as well as officers, over half of whom will leave the service when their time of enlistment is up. The captains are leaving the service. There is a problem. And it’s going to require a new commander in chief to rebuild the military power. The other day I was honored to be flanked by Colin Powell and General Norman Schwartzkopf recently stood by me side and agreed with me. They said even if we are the strongest if we don’t do something if we don’t have a clear vision of the military, if we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world and nation building missions, then we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road, and I’m going to prevent that. I’m going to rebuild our military power. It’s one of the major priorities of my administration. + +MODERATOR: Vice President Gore, how should the voters go about deciding which one of you is better suited to make the kinds of decisions, whether it’s Milosevic or whatever, in the military and foreign policy area? + +GORE: Well, they should look at our proposals and look at us as people and make up their own minds. When I was a young man, I volunteered for the Army. I served my country in Vietnam. My father was a senator who strongly opposed the Vietnam War. I went to college in this great city, and most of my peers felt against the war as I did. But I went anyway because I knew if I didn’t, somebody else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee, would have to go in my place. I served for eight years in the House of Representatives and I served on the Intelligence Committee, specialized in looking at arms control. I served for eight years in the United States Senate and served on the Armed Services Committee. For the last eight years I’ve served on the National Security Council, and when the conflict came up in Bosnia, I saw a genocide in the heart of Europe with the most violent war on the continent of Europe since World War II. Look, that’s where World War I started in the Balkans. My uncle was a victim of poisonous gas there. Millions of Americans saw the results of that conflict. We have to be willing to make good, sound judgments. Incidentally, I know the value of making sure our troops have the latest technology. The governor has proposed skipping the next generation of weapons. I think that’s a big mistake, because I think we have to stay at the cutting edge. + +MODERATOR: Governor, how would you advise the voters to make the decision on this issue? + +BUSH: I think you’ve got to look at how one has handled responsibility in office. Whether or not it’s — the same in domestic policy as well. Whether or not you have the capacity to convince people to follow? Whether or not one makes decisions based on sound principles or whether or not you rely upon polls and focus groups on how to decide what the course of action is. We have too much polling and focus groups going on in Washington today. We need decisions made on sound principles. I’ve been the governor of a big state. I think one of the hallmarks of my relationship in Austin, Texas, is that I’ve had the capacity to work with both Republicans and Democrats. I think that’s an important part of leadership. I think what it means to build consensus. I’ve shown I know how to do so. Tonight in the audience there’s one elected state senator who is a Democrat, a former state-wide officer who is a Democrat, a lot of Democrats who are here in the debate to — because they want to show their support that shows I know how to lead. And so the fundamental answer to your question, who can lead and who’s shown the ability to get things done? + +GORE: If I could say one thing. + +MODERATOR: We are way over three-and-a-half minutes. Go ahead. + +GORE: One of the key points in foreign policy and national security policy is the need to re-establish the old-fashioned principle that politics ought to stop at the water’s edge. When I was in the United States Congress, I worked with former President Reagan to modernize our strategic weaponry and to pursue arms control in a responsible way. When I was in the United States Senate I worked with former President Bush, your father. I was one of only a few Democrats in the Senate to support the Persian Gulf War. I think bipartisanship is a national asset. We have to find ways to reestablish it in foreign policy and national security policy. + +MODERATOR: Do you have a problem with that? + +BUSH: Yeah. Why haven’t they done it in seven years? + +MODERATOR: New subject. New question. Should the voters of this election, Vice President Gore, see this in the domestic area as a major choice between competing political philosophies? + +GORE: Oh, absolutely. This is a very important moment in the history of our country. Look, we’ve got the biggest surpluses in all of American history. The key question that has to be answered in this election is will we use that prosperity wisely in a way that benefits all of our people and doesn’t go just to the few. Almost half of all the tax cut benefits, as I said under Governor Bush’s plan, go to the wealthiest 1%. I think we have to make the right and responsible choices. I think we have to invest in education, protecting the environment, health care, a prescription drug benefit that goes to all seniors, not just to the poor, under Medicare, not relying on HMOs and insurance companies. I think that we have to help parents and strengthen families by dealing with the kind of inappropriate entertainment material that families are just heart sick that their children are exposed to. I think we’ve got to have welfare reform taken to the next stage. I think that we have got to balance the budget every single year, pay down the national debt and, in fact, under my proposal the national debt will be completely eliminated by the year 2012. I think we need to put Medicare and Social Security in a lockbox. The governor will not put Medicare in a lockbox. I don’t think it should be used as a piggy bank for other programs. I think it needs to be moved out of the budget and protected. I’ll veto anything that takes money out of Social Security or Medicare for anything other than Social Security or Medicare. Now, the priorities are just very different. I’ll give you a couple of examples. For every new dollar that I propose for spending on health care, Governor Bush spends $3 for a tax cut for the wealthiest 1%. Now, for every dollar that I propose to spend on education, he spends $5 on a tax cut for the wealthiest 1%. Those are very clear differences. + +MODERATOR: Governor, one minute. + +BUSH: The man is practicing fuzzy math again. There’s differences. Under Vice President Gore’s plan, he is going to grow the federal government in the largest increase since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965. We’re talking about a massive government, folks. We’re talking about adding to or increasing 200 programs, 20,000 new bureaucrats. Imagine how many IRS agents it is going to take to be able to figure out his targeted tax cut for the middle class that excludes 50 million Americans. There is a huge difference in this campaign. He says he’s going to give you tax cuts. 50 million of you won’t receive it. He said in his speech he wants to make sure the right people get tax relief. That’s not the role of a president to decide right and wrong. Everybody who pays taxes ought to get tax relief. After my plan is in place, the wealthiest Americans will pay a higher percentage of taxes then they do today, the poorest of Americans, six million families, won’t pay any tax at all. It’s a huge difference. A difference between big exploding federal government that wants to think on your behalf and a plan that meets priorities and liberates working people to be able to make decisions on your own. + +GORE: Let me just say, Jim, you haven’t heard the governor deny these numbers. He’s called them phony and fuzzy. The fact remains almost 30% of his proposed tax cut goes to — only to Americans that make more than $1 million per year. More money goes to the — can I have a rebuttal here? + +MODERATOR: I want to see if he buys that. + +BUSH: Let me tell you what the facts are. The facts are after my plan, the wealthiest of Americans pay more taxes of the percentage of the whole than they do today. Secondly, if you’re a family of four making $50,000 in Massachusetts, you get a 50% tax cut. Let me give you one example. The Strunk family in Allentown, Pennsylvania, I campaigned with them the other day. They make $51,000 combined income, they pay about $3500 in taxes. Under my plan, they get $1800 of tax relief. Under Vice President Gore’s plan, they get $145 of tax relief. Now you tell me who stands on the side of the fence. You ask the Strunks whose plan makes more sense. There is a difference of opinion. He would rather spend the family’s $1800 and I would rather the Strunks spend their own money. + +MODERATOR: Do you see it that way Mr. Vice President? + +GORE: No, I don’t, and I’m not going to go to calling names on his facts. I’m just gonna tell you what the real facts are. The analysis that he’s talking about leaves out more than half of the tax cuts that I have proposed. And if you just add the numbers up, he still hasn’t denied it, he spends more money on a tax cut for the wealthiest 1% than all his new proposals for prescription drugs, healthcare, education, and national defense combined. Now those are the wrong priorities. $665 billion over ten years for the wealthiest 1%. As I said, almost 30% of it goes to Americans that make more than $1 million per year. Every middle class family is eligible for a tax cut under my proposal. Let me give you some specific examples. I believe college tuition up to $10,000 per year ought to be tax deductible so middle-class families can choose to send their children to college. I believe all senior citizens should be able to choose their own doctors and get prescription drugs from their own pharmacists with Medicare paying half the bill. I believe parents ought to be able to make more choices need more public and charter school choice to send their kids always to a safe school. We need to make education the number one priority in our country and treat teachers like the professionals that they are. And that’s why I have made it a number one priority in my budget, not a tax cut for the wealthy. + +BUSH: Let me talk about tax cuts one more time. This is a man whose plan excludes 50 million Americans. + +GORE: Not so. + +BUSH: Take for example the marriage penalty. If you itemize your tax return, you get no marriage penalty relief. He picks and chooses. He decides who the right people are. It’s a fundamental difference of opinion. I want my fellow Americans to hear one more time. We’ll spend $25 trillion — we’ll collect $25 trillion in revenue in the next 10 years and spend $21 trillion. Surely we can send 5% back to you that pay the bills. There’s a problem wait. I want to say something, Jim. This man has been disparaging my plan with all this Washington fuzzy math. I want you to hear a problem we’ve got here in the USA. If you’re a single mother making $22,000 a year and you have two children, under this tax code, for every additional dollar you make, you pay a higher marginal rate on that dollar than someone making more than $200,000 a year, and that is not right. My plan drops the rate from 15% to 10% and increases the child credit from $500 to $1,000 to make the code more fair for everybody, not just a few, not just a handful. Everybody who pays taxes ought to get some relief. + +MODERATOR: Having cleared that up, we’re going to a new question. Education. Governor Bush. Both of you have promised dramatically to change — to change dramatically public education in this country. Of the public money spent on education, only 6% of that is federal money. You want to change 100% of the public education with 6% of the money, is that possible? + +BUSH: We can make a huge difference by saying if you receive federal money we expect you to show results. Let me give you a story about public education, if I might. It’s about Kipp Academy in Houston, Texas. A charter school run by some people from Teach For America. Young folks saying I’m going to do something good for my country. I want to teach. A guy named Michael runs the school. It is a school full of so-called at-risk children. It’s how we unfortunately label certain children. Basically it means they can’t learn. It’s a school of strong discipline and high standards. It’s one of the best schools in Houston. Here are the key ingredients. High expectations, strong accountabily. What Michael says, don’t put all these rules on us, just let us teach and hold us accountable for every grade. That’s what we do. And as a result, these mainly Hispanic youngsters are some of the best learners in Houston, Texas. That’s my vision for public education all around America. Many of you viewers don’t know, but Laura and I sent our girls to public school. They went to Austin High School. And many of the public schools are meeting the call. But, unfortunately, a lot of schools are trapping children in schools that just won’t teach and won’t change. Here is the role of the federal government. One is to change Head Start to a reading program. Two is to say if you want to access reading money, you can do so. The goal is for every single child to learn to Read. there must by K-2 diagnostic teaching tools, teacher training money, available. Three, we have to consolidate the federal programs to free districts to free the schools and encourage innovators like Michael. Let them reach out beyond the confines of the current structure to recruit teach-for-the-children type teachers. Four, we’re going to say if you receive federal money, measure third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade. Show us if they are learning to read, write, add and subtract and if so there will be bonus plans. But if not, instead of continuing to subsidize failure, the money will go to — the federal money will go to the parents for public school or charter school or tutorial or Catholic school. What I care about is children. And so does Michael Feinberg. And you know what? It can happen in America with the right kind of leadership. + +GORE: We agree on a couple of things on education. I strongly support new accountability, so does Governor Bush. I strongly support local control, so does Governor Bush. I’m in favor of testing as a way of measuring performance. Every school and every school district, have every state test the children. I’ve also proposed a voluntary national test in the fourth grade and eighth grade, and a form of testing the governor has not endorsed. I think that all new teachers ought to be tested in the subjects that they teach. We’ve got to recruit 100,000 new teachers. And I have budgeted for that. We’ve got to reduce the class size so that the student who walks in has more one-on-one time with the teacher. We ought to have universal pre-school and we ought to make college tuition tax deductible, up to $10,000 a year. I would like to tell you a quick story. I got a letter today as I left Sarasota, Florida. I’m here with a group of 13 people from around the country who helped me prepare. We had a great time. Two days ago we ate lunch at a restaurant. The guy that served us lunch gave me a letter today. His name is Randy Ellis. He has a 15-year-old daughter named Caley, who is in Sarasota High School. Her science class was supposed to be for 24 students. She’s the 36th student in that classroom. They sent me a picture of her in the classroom. They can’t squeeze another desk in for her, so she has to stand during class. I want the federal government, consistent with local control and new accountability, to make improvement of our schools the number one priority so Caley will have a desk and can sit down in a classroom where she can learn. + +MODERATOR: All right. So having heard the two of you, the voters have just heard the two of you, what is the difference? What is the choice between the two of you on education? + +BUSH: The first is, the difference is there is no new accountability measures in Vice President Gore’s plan. He says he’s for voluntary testing. You can’t have voluntary testing. You must have mandatory testing. You must say that if you receive money you must show us whether or not children are learning to read and write and add and subtract. That’s the difference. You may claim you’ve got mandatory testing but you don’t, Mr. Vice President. That’s a huge difference. Testing is the cornerstone of reform. You know how I know? Because it’s the cornerstone of reform in the State of Texas. Republicans and Democrats came together and said what can we do to make our public education the best in the country? We’ve done a long way working together to do so. The cornerstone is to have strong accountability in return for money and in return for flexibility. We’re going to ask you to show us whether or not — we ask you to post the results on the Internet. We encourage parents to take a look at the comparative results of schools. We have a strong charter school movement that I signed the legislation to get started in the State of Texas. I believe if we find poor children trapped in schools that won’t teach, we need to free the parents. We need to expand education savings accounts. Something that the vice president’s running mate supports. There’s big differences. He won’t support freeing local districts from the strings of federal money. + +GORE: First of all, I do have mandatory testing. I think the governor may not have heard what I said clearly. The voluntary national testing is in addition to the mandatory testing that we require of states. All schools, all school districts, students themselves, and required teacher testing, which goes a step farther than Governor Bush has been willing to go. Here are a couple of differences, though, Jim. Governor Bush is in favor of vouchers which take taxpayer money away from public schools and give them to private schools that are not accountable for how the money is used and don’t have to take all applicants. Now, private schools play a great role in our society. All of our children have gone to both public schools and private schools. But I don’t think private schools should have a right to take taxpayer money away from public schools at a time when Caley Ellis is standing in that classroom. Let me give you another example. I went to a school in Dade County, Florida where the facilities are so overcrowded the children have to eat lunch in shifts with the first shift for lunch starting at 9:30 in the morning. Look, this is a funding crisis all around the country. There are fewer parents of school-age children as a percentage of the voting population and there is the largest generation of students ever. We’re in an information age when learning is more important than ever. 90% of our kids go to public schools. We have to make it the number one priority. Modernize our schools, reduce class size, recruit new teachers, give every child a chance to learn with one-on-one time in a quality — high-quality, safe school. If it’s a failing school, shut it down and reopen it under a new principal with a turnaround team of specialists the way Governor Jim Hunt does in North Carolina. Here is another difference. The governor, if it’s a failing school, would leave the children in that failing school for three years and then give a little bit of money to the parents, a down payment on a down payment for private school tuition, and pretend that that would be enough for them to go out and go to a private school. It’s an illusion. + +MODERATOR: Wait a minute, Governor. + +BUSH: Okay. First of all, most of good governance is at the state level. See, here is the mentality. I’m going to make the state do this and make the state do that. All I’m saying is if you spend money, show us results and test every year, which you do not do, Mr. Vice President. You don’t test every year. You can say you do to the cameras but you don’t, unless you’ve changed your plan here on the stage. + +GORE: I didn’t say that. + +BUSH: You need to test every year. That’s how you determine if children are progressing to excellence. Secondly, one of the things that we have to be careful about in politics is throwing money at a system that has not yet been reformed. More money is needed and I spend more money, but step one is to make sure we reform the system to have the system in place that leaves no child behind. Stop this business about asking gosh, how old are you? If you’re 10 we’ll put you here, 12 you put here. Start asking the question, what do you know? If you don’t know what you’re supposed to know, we’ll make sure you do early before it’s too late. + +MODERATOR: New question. We’ve been talking about a lot of specific issues. It’s often said that in the final analysis about 90% of being the President of the United States is dealing with the unexpected, not with issues that came up in the campaign. Vice President Gore, can you point to a decision, an action you have taken, that illustrates your ability to handle the unexpected, the crisis under fire? + +GORE: When the action in Kosovo was dragging on and we were searching for a solution to the problem, our country had defeated the adversary on the battlefield without a single American life being lost in combat. But the dictator Milosevic was hanging on. I invited the former prime minister of Russia to my house and took a risk in asking him to get personally involved, along with the head of Finland, to go to Belgrade and to take a set of proposals from the United States that would constitute basically a surrender by Serbia. But it was a calculated risk that paid off. Now, I could probably give you some other examples of decisions over the last 24 years. I have been in public service for 24 years, Jim. And throughout all that time the people I have fought for have been the middle-class families, and I have been willing to stand up to powerful interests like the big insurance companies, the drug companies, the HMOs, the oil companies. They have good people and they play constructive roles sometimes, but sometimes they get too much power. I cast my lot with the people even when it means that you have to stand up to some powerful interests who are trying to turn the — the policies and the laws to their advantage. You can see it in this campaign. The big drug companies support Governor Bush’s prescription drug proposal. They oppose mine because they don’t want to get Medicare involved because they’re afraid that Medicare will negotiate lower prices for seniors who currently pay the highest prices of all. + +MODERATOR: Governor Bush? + +BUSH: I’ve been standing up to big Hollywood, big trial lawyers. Was – what was the question? It was about emergencies, wasn’t it? + +MODERATOR: It was about — okay. + +BUSH: You know, as governor, one of the things you have to deal with is catastrophe. I can remember the fires that swept Parker County, Texas. I remember the floods that swept our state. I remember going down to Del Rio, Texas. I have to pay the administration a compliment. James Lee Witt of FEMA has done a really good job of working with governors during times of crisis. But that’s the time when you’re tested not only — it’s the time to test your mettle, a time to test your heart when you see people whose lives have been turned upside down. It broke my heart to go to the flood scene in Del Rio where a fellow and his family got completely uprooted. The only thing I knew to do was to get aid as quickly as possible with state and federal help, and to put my arms around the man and his family and cry with them. That’s what governors do. They are often on the front line of catastrophic situations. + +MODERATOR: New question. There can be all kinds of crises, Governor. A questions for you. There could be a crisis, for instance, in the financial area, the stock market could take a tumble, there could be a failure of a major financial institution. What is your general attitude toward government intervention in such events? + +BUSH: Well, it depends, obviously. But what I would do first and foremost, is I would get in touch with the Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, to find out all the facts and all the circumstances. I would have my Secretary of the Treasury be in touch with the financial centers not only here, but at home. I would make sure that key members of Congress were called in to discuss the gravity of the situation. And I would come up with a game plan to deal with it. That’s what governors end up doing. We end up being problem solvers. We come up with practical, common sense solutions for problems that we’re confronted with. In this case, in the case of a financial crisis, I would gather all the facts before I made the decision as to what the government ought or ought not to do. + +MODERATOR: Vice President Gore? + +GORE: First I want to compliment the governor on his response to those fires and floods in Texas. I accompanied James Lee Witt down to Texas when those fires broke out. And FEMA has been a major flagship project of our reinventing government efforts. And I agree, it works extremely well now. On the international financial crises that come up, my friend, Bob Rubin, the former Secretary of Treasury is here, he’s a close advisor to me and great friend in all respects. I have had a chance to work with him and Alan Greenspan and others on the crisis following the collapse of the Mexican peso. When the Asian financial crisis raised the risk of world-wide recession that could affect our economy, And now, of course, the euro’s value has been dropping, but seems to be under control. But it started for me in the last eight years when I had the honor of casting the tie-breaking vote to end the old economic plan here at home and put into place a new economic plan that has helped us to make some progress, 22 million new jobs, the greatest prosperity ever. But it’s not good enough. My attitude is you ain’t seen nothing yet. We need to do more and better. + +MODERATOR: So, Governor, would you agree there is no basic difference here on intervening — on federal government intervening in what might be seen by others to be a private financial crisis? + +BUSH: No, there’s no difference on that. There is a difference, though, as to what the economy has meant. I think the economy has meant more for the Gore and Clinton folks than the Gore and Clinton folks have meant for the economy. I think most of the economic growth that has taken place is a result of ingenuity and hard work and entrepreneurship and that’s the role of goverment to encourage that. In terms of in response to the question, no. + +GORE: Can I comment on that? + +MODERATOR: You may. + +GORE: You know, I think the American people deserve credit for the great economy that we have. It’s their ingenuity, I agree with that. But you know, they were working pretty hard eight years ago. And now they had ingenuity eight years ago. The difference is we’ve got a new policy. And instead of concentrating on tax cuts mostly for the wealthy, we want — I want tax cuts for the middle-class families and I want to continue the prosperity and make sure that it enriches not just a few but all of our families. We have gone from the biggest deficits to the biggest surpluses. We have gone from a triple-dip recession during the previous 12 years to a tripling of the stock market. Instead of a high unemployment, we have the lowest African-American and Latin American unemployment rates in history and 22 million new jobs. It’s not good enough. Too many people have been left behind. We have got to do much more. The key is job training, education, investments in health care and education, environment, retirement security. And incidentally, we have got to preserve Social Security. I’m totally opposed to diverting one out of every six dollars out of the Social Security trust fund, as the Governor has proposed, into the stock market. I want new incentives for savings and investment for the young couples who are working hard so they can save and invest on their own on top of Social Security, not at the expense of Social Security, as the governor proposes. + +BUSH: Two points. One, a lot of folks are still waiting for that 1992 middle-class tax cut. I remember the vice president saying, “Just give us a chance to get up there, we’re going to make sure you get tax cuts.” It didn’t happen. Now he’s having to say that again. They’ve had their chance to deliver a tax cut to you. Secondly, the surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and size of the federal budget. The Senate Budget Committee did a study of the vice president’s expenditures. It’s been projected that they could conceivably bust the budget by $900 billion. That means he’ll either have to raise your taxes by $900 billion or go into the Social Security surplus for $900 billion. This is a plan that is going to increase the bureaucracy by 20,000 people. His targeted tax cut is so detailed, so much fine print that it is going to require numerous IRS agents. We need somebody to simplify the code, to be fair, to continue prosperity by sharing some of the surplus with the people who pay the bills, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic ladder. + +GORE: If I could respond, Jim. What he’s quoting is not the Senate Budget Commiitte, it is a partisan press release by the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee that’s not worth the government — the taxpayer-paid paper that it’s printed on. Now, as for 20,000 new bureaucrats, as you call them, you know, the size of the federal government will go down in a Gore administration. In the reinventing government program you just look at the numbers. It is 300,000 people smaller today than it was eight years ago. Now, the fact is you’re going to have a hard time convincing folks that we were a whole lot better off eight years ago than we are today. But that’s not the question. The question is, will we be better off four years from now than we are today? And as for the surest way to threaten our prosperity, having a $1.9 trillion tax cut, almost half of which goes to the wealthy, and a $1 trillion Social Security privatization proposal is the surest way to put our budget into deficit – raise interest rates and put our prosperity at risk. + +BUSH: I can’t let the man continue with fuzzy math. It is 1.3 trillion Mr. Vice President. It will go to everybody who pays taxes. I’m not going to be the kind of president that says you get tax relief and you don’t. I’m not going to be a picker and chooser. What is fair is everybody who pays taxes ought to get relief. + +MODERATOR: I thought we cleared this up a while ago. New question on Social Security. Both of you have Social Security reform plans, so we could spend the rest of the evening and two or three other evenings talking about them in detail. We won’t do that. But — + +GORE: Suits me. + +MODERATOR: Many experts, including Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan, Vice President Gore, say that it will be impossible for either of you, essentially, to keep the system viable on its own during the coming baby boomer retirement onslaught without either reducing benefits or increasing taxes. You disagree? + +GORE: I do disagree. Because if we can keep our prosperity going, if we can continue balancing the budget and paying down the debt, then the strong economy keeps generating surpluses. Here is my plan. I will keep Social Security in a lockbox and that pays down the national debt. And the interest savings I would put right back into Social Security. That extends the life of Social Security for 55 years. Now, I think that it’s very important to understand that cutting benefits under Social Security means that people like Winifred Skinner from Des Moines, Iowa, who is here, would really have a much harder time. Because there are millions of seniors who are living almost hand to mouth. And you talk about cutting benefits. I don’t go along with it. I am opposed to it. I’m also opposed to a plan that diverts 1 out of every $6 away from the Social Security Trust Fund. Social Security is a trust fund that pays the checks this year with the money that is paid into Social Security this year. The governor wants to divert 1 out of every $6 off into the stock market, which means that he would drain a trillion dollars out of the Social Security Trust Fund in this generation over the next ten years, and Social Security under that approach would go bankrupt within this generation. His leading advisor on this plan actually said that would be okay, because then the Social Security Trust Fund could start borrowing. It would borrow up to $3 trillion. Now, Social Security has never done that. And I don’t think it should do that. I think it should stay in a lockbox, and I’ll tell you this. I will veto anything that takes money out of Social Security for privatization or anything else other than Social Security. + +BUSH: I thought it was interesting that on the two minutes he spent about a million-and-a-half on my plan, which means he doesn’t want you to know what he’s doing is loading up IOUs for future generations. He puts no real assets into the Social Security system. The revenues exceed the expenses in Social Security until the year 2015 which means all retirees are going to get the promises made. For those of you who he wants to scare into the voting booth to vote for him, hear me loud and clear. A promise made will be a promise kept. You bet we want to allow younger workers to take some of their own money. That’s the difference of opinion. The vice president thinks it’s the government’s money. The payroll taxes are your money. You ought to put it in prudent, safe investments so that $1 trillion over the next ten years grows to be $3 trillion. The money stays within the Social Security system. It’s a part of the Social Security system. He claims it will be out of Social Security. It’s your money, it’s a part of your retirement benefit. It’s a fundamental difference between what we believe. I want you to have your own asset that you can call your own. That you can pass on from one generation to the next. I want to get a better rate of return for your own money than the paltry 2% that the current Social Security Trust gets today. Mr. Greenspan I thought missed an opportunity to say there’s a third way, and that is to get a better rate of return on the Social Security monies coming into the trust. There is $2.3 trillion of surplus that we can use to make sure that younger workers have a Social Security plan in the future. If we’re smart and if we trust workers and if we understand the power of the compounding rate of interest. + +GORE: Here is the difference. I give a new incentive for younger workers to save their own money and invest their own money, but not at the expense of Social Security, on top of Social Security. My plan is Social Security plus. The governor’s plan is Social Security minus. Your future benefits would be cut by the amount that’s diverted into the stock market. If you make bad investments, that’s too bad. But even before then the problem hits because the money contributed to Social Security this year is an entitlement. That’s how it works. And the money is used to pay the benefits for seniors this year. If you cut the amount going in 1 out of every $6, then you have to cut the value of each check by 1 out of every $6 unless you come up with the money from somewhere else. I would like to know from the governor — I know we’re not supposed to ask each other questions — but I’d be interested in knowing, does that trillion dollars come from the trust fund, or does it come from the rest of the budget? + +BUSH: No. There’s enough money to pay seniors today in the current affairs of Social Security. The trillion comes from the surplus. Surplus is money — more money than needed. Let me tell you what your plan is. It’s not Social Security plus, it’s Social Security plus huge debt. That is what it is. You leave future generations with tremendous IOUs. It’s time to have a leader that doesn’t put off tomorrow what we should do today. It’s time to have somebody to step up and say look, let’s let younger workers take some of their own money and under certain guidelines invest it in the private markets. The safest of federal investments yields 4%. That’s twice the amount of rate of return than the current Social Security Trust. It’s a fundamental difference of opinion here, folks. Younger worker after younger worker hears my call that says I trust you. And you know what, the issue is changing. Seniors now understand that the promise made will be a promise kept, but younger workers now understand we better have a government that trusts them and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. + +GORE: Could I respond to that, Jim? This is a big issue. Could we do another round on it? + +MODERATOR: We’re almost out of time. + +GORE: Just briefly. When FDR established Social Security, they didn’t call them IOUs, they called it the full faith and credit of the United States. If you don’t have trust in that, I do. If you take it out of the surplus in the trust fund, that means the trust fund goes bankrupt in this generation within 20 years. + +BUSH: This is a government that thinks a 2% rate of return on your money is satisfactory. It’s not. This is a government that says younger workers can’t possibly have their own assets. We need to think differently about the issue. We need to make sure our seniors get the promise made. If we don’t trust younger workers to manage some of their own money with the Social Security surplus, to grow from $1 trillion to $3 trillion, it will be impossible to bridge the gap without it. What Mr. Gore’s plan will do causing huge payroll taxes or major benefit reductions. + +MODERATOR: New question. Are there issues of character that distinguish you from Vice President Gore? + +BUSH: The man loves his wife and I appreciate that a lot. And I love mine. The man loves his family a lot, and I appreciate that, because I love my family. I think the thing that discouraged me about the vice president was uttering those famous words, “No controlling legal authority.” I felt like there needed to be a better sense of responsibility of what was going on in the White House. I believe that — I believe they’ve moved that sign, “The buck stops here” from the Oval Office desk to “The buck stops here” on the Lincoln bedroom. It’s not good for the country and it’s not right. We need to have a new look about how we conduct ourselves in office. There’s a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, I don’t want you to let me down again. And we can do better than the past administration has done. It’s time for a fresh start. It’s time for a new look. It’s time for a fresh start after a season of cynicism. And so I don’t know the man well, but I’ve been disappointed about how he and his administration have conducted the fundraising affairs. You know, going to a Buddhist temple and then claiming it wasn’t a fundraiser isn’t my view of responsibility. + +MODERATOR: Vice President Gore? + +GORE: I think we ought to attack our country’s problems, not attack each other. I want to spend my time making this country even better than it is, not trying to make you out to be a bad person. You may want to focus on scandal. I want to focus on results. As I said a couple of months ago, I stand here as my own man and I want you to see me for who I really am. Tipper and I have been married for 30 years. We became grandparents a year-and-a-half ago. We’ve got four children. I have devoted 24 years of my life to public service and I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, if you entrust me with the presidency, I may not be the most exciting politician, but I will work hard for you every day. I will fight for middle-class families and working men and women and I will never let you down. + +MODERATOR: So, Governor, what are you saying when you mention the fundraising scandals or the fundraising charges that involve Vice President Gore? What are you saying that the voters should take from that that’s relevant to this election? + +BUSH: They ought to factor in it when they go to the voting booth. + +MODERATOR: In what way? + +BUSH: I think people need to be held responsible for the actions they take in life. I think that — well, I think that’s part of the need for a cultural change. We need to say we each need to be responsible for what we do. People in the highest office of the land must be responsible for decisions they make in life. And that’s the way I’ve conducted myself as Governor of Texas and that’s the way I’ll conduct myself as President of the United States, should I be fortunate enough to earn your vote. + +MODERATOR: Are you saying all this is irrelevant, Vice President Gore? + +GORE: No. I think the American people should take into account who we are as individuals, what our experience is, what our positions are on the issues and proposals are. I’m asking you to see me for who I really am. I’m offering you my own vision, my own experience, my own proposals. And incidentally, one of them is this. This current campaign financing system has not reflected credit on anybody in either party. And that’s one of the reasons I’ve said before, and I’ll pledge here tonight, if I’m president, the very first bill that Joe Lieberman and I will send to the United States Congress is the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. And the reason it’s that important is that all of the other issues, whether prescription drugs for all seniors that are opposed by the drug companies or the patient’s bill of rights to take the decisions away from the HMOs and give them to the doctors and nurses, opposed by the HMOs and insurance companies, all these other proposals are going to be a lot easier to get passed for the American people if we limit the influence of special interest money and give democracy back to the American people. And I wish Governor Bush would join me this evening in endorsing the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill. + +BUSH: You know, this man has no credibility on the issue. As a matter of fact, I read in the “New York Times” where he said he co-sponsored the McCain-Feingold Campaign Fundraising Bill. But he wasn’t in the Senate with Senator Feingold. And so, look, I’m going to — what you need to know about me is I will uphold the law, I’m going to have an attorney general that enforces the law. The time for campaign funding reform is after the election. This man has outspent me and the special interests are outspending me. And I am not going to lay down my arms in the middle of the campaign for somebody who has got no credibility on the issue. + +MODERATOR: Senator McCain — hold on one second. Senator McCain said in August, “It doesn’t matter which one of you is President of the United States in January, there is going to be blood on the floor of the United States Senate,” and he’ll tie up the Senate until campaign finance reform is passed that includes a ban on soft money. First of all, would you support that effort by him, or would you sign a bill that is finally passed that included — + +BUSH: I would support an effort to ban corporate soft money and labor union soft money so long as there was dues check-off. I’ve campaigned on this since the primaries. I believe there needs to be instant disclosure on the Internet as to who has given to who. I think we need to fully enforce the law. I think we need to have an attorney general that says if a law is broken, we’ll enforce it. Be strict and firm about it. + +GORE: Look, Governor Bush, you have attacked my character and credibility and I am not going to respond in kind. I think we ought to focus on the problems and not attack each other. One of the serious problems, hear me well, is that our system of government is being undermined by too much influence coming from special interest money. We have to get a handle on it. And like John McCain, I have learned from experience, and it’s not a new position for me. 24 years ago I supported full public financing of all federal elections. And anybody who thinks I’m just saying it, it will be the first bill I send to the Congress. I want you to know I care passionately about this and I will fight until it becomes law. + +BUSH: I want people to hear what he just said. He is for full public financing of Congressional elections. I’m absolutely, adamently opposed to that. I don’t want the government financing congressional elections. + +MODERATOR: On that wonderful note of disagreement, we have to stop here and we want to go now to your closing statements. Governor Bush is first. You have two minutes. + +BUSH: Thank you, Jim. Thank the University of Massachusetts and Mr. Vice President, thank you. It has been a good, lively exchange. There is a huge difference of opinion. Mine is I want to empower people in their own lives. I also want to go to Washington to get some positive things done. It is going to require a new spirit. A spirit of cooperation. It will require the ability of a Republican president to reach out across the partisan divide and to say to Democrats, let’s come together to do what is right for America. It’s been my record as Governor of Texas, it will be how I conduct myself if I’m fortunate enough to earn your vote as President of the United States. I want to finally get something done on Medicare. I want to make sure prescription drugs are available for all seniors. And I want seniors to have additional choices when it comes to choosing their health care plans. I want to finally get something done on Social Security. I want to make sure the seniors have the promise made will be a promise kept, but I want younger workers to be able to manage some of their own money, some of their own payroll taxes in the private sector under certain guidelines to get a better rate of return on your own money. I want to rebuild our military to keep the peace. I want to have a strong hand when it comes to the United States in world affairs. I don’t want to try to put our troops in all places at all times. I don’t want to be the world’s policeman, I want to be the world’s peacemaker by having a military of high morale and a military that is well-equipped. I want anti-ballistic missile systems to protect ourselves and our allies from a rogue nation that may try to hold us hostage or blackmail our allies and friends. I want to make sure the education system fulfills its hope and promise. I’ve had a strong record of working with Democrats and Republicans in Texas to make sure no child is left behind. I understand the limited role of the federal government, but it could be a constructive role when it comes to reform, by insisting that there be a strong accountability systems. My intentions are to earn your vote and earn your confidence. I’m asking for your vote. I want you to be on my team. And for those of you working, thanks from the bottom of my heart. For those of you making up your mind, I would be honored to have your support. + +MODERATOR: Vice President Gore, two minutes. + +GORE: I want to thank everybody who watched and listened tonight because this is indeed a crucial time in American history. We’re at a fork in the road. We have this incredible prosperity, but a lot of people have been left behind. And we have a very important decision to make. Will we use the prosperity to enrich all of our families and not just a few? One important way of looking at this is to ask who are you going to fight for? Throughout my career in public service, I have fought for the working men and women of this country, middle-class families. Why? Because you are the ones who have the hardest time paying taxes, the hardest time making ends meet. You are the ones who are making car payments and mortgage payments and doing right by your kids. And a lot of times there are powerful forces that are against you. Make no mistake about it, they do have undue influence in Washington, D.C. and it makes a difference if you have a president who will fight for you. I know one thing about the position of president, it’s the only position in our Constitution that is filled by an individual who is given the responsibility to fight not just for one state or one district or the well-connected or wealthy, but to fight for all of the people, including especially those who most need somebody who will stand up and take on whatever powerful forces might stand in the way. There is a woman named Winifred Skinner here tonight from Iowa. I mentioned her earlier. She’s 79 years old. She has Social Security. I’m not going to cut her benefits or support any proposal that would. She gets a small pension, but in order to pay for her prescription drug benefits, she has to go out seven days a week several hours a day picking up cans. She came all the way from Iowa in a Winnebago with her poodle in order attend here tonight. I want to tell her, I’ll fight for a prescription drug benefit for all seniors and fight for the people of this country for a prosperity that benefits all. + +MODERATOR: We will continue this dialogue next week on October 11th at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The format then will be more informal, more conversational with the two candidates seated at a table with me. The third will be October 17th at Washington University in St. Louis, and that will follow a town-hall type format. Also on the day after tomorrow, October 5, there is a 90-minute debate between the democratic nominee for vice president, Senator Joe Lieberman and the republican candidate for vice president former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. It will be held at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. The moderator will be Bernard Shaw of CNN. Thank you, Governor Bush, Vice President Gore. See you next week. For now from Boston, I’m Jim Lehrer. Thank you, and good night. + +(APPLAUSE) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/examples/presidential_debates/nixon_kennedy_debate.txt b/examples/presidential_debates/nixon_kennedy_debate.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..51ba8f1a --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/presidential_debates/nixon_kennedy_debate.txt @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +September 26, 1960 + +The First Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate + +HOWARD K. SMITH, MODERATOR: Good evening. The television and radio stations of the United States and their affiliated stations are proud to provide facilities for a discussion of issues in the current political campaign by the two major candidates for the presidency. The candidates need no introduction. The Republican candidate, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, and the Democratic candidate, Senator John F. Kennedy. According to rules set by the candidates themselves, each man shall make an opening statement of approximately eight minutes’ duration and a closing statement of approximately three minutes’ duration. In between the candidates will answer, or comment upon answers to questions put by a panel of correspondents. In this, the first discussion in a series of four uh – joint appearances, the subject-matter has been agreed, will be restricted to internal or domestic American matters. And now for the first opening statement by Senator John F. Kennedy. + +SENATOR KENNEDY: Mr. Smith, Mr. Nixon. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln said the question was whether this nation could exist half-slave or half-free. In the election of 1960, and with the world around us, the question is whether the world will exist half-slave or half-free, whether it will move in the direction of freedom, in the direction of the road that we are taking, or whether it will move in the direction of slavery. I think it will depend in great measure upon what we do here in the United States, on the kind of society that we build, on the kind of strength that we maintain. We discuss tonight domestic issues, but I would not want that to be any implication to be given that this does not involve directly our struggle with Mr. Khrushchev for survival. Mr. Khrushchev is in New York, and he maintains the Communist offensive throughout the world because of the productive power of the Soviet Union itself. The Chinese Communists have always had a large population. But they are important and dangerous now because they are mounting a major effort within their own country. The kind of country we have here, the kind of society we have, the kind of strength we build in the United States will be the defense of freedom. If we do well here, if we meet our obligations, if we’re moving ahead, then I think freedom will be secure around the world. If we fail, then freedom fails. Therefore, I think the question before the American people is: Are we doing as much as we can do? Are we as strong as we should be? Are we as strong as we must be if we’re going to maintain our independence, and if we’re going to maintain and hold out the hand of friendship to those who look to us for assistance, to those who look to us for survival? I should make it very clear that I do not think we’re doing enough, that I am not satisfied as an American with the progress that we’re making. This is a great country, but I think it could be a greater country; and this is a powerful country, but I think it could be a more powerful country. I’m not satisfied to have fifty percent of our steel-mill capacity unused. I’m not satisfied when the United States had last year the lowest rate of economic growth of any major industrialized society in the world. Because economic growth means strength and vitality; it means we’re able to sustain our defenses; it means we’re able to meet our commitments abroad. I’m not satisfied when we have over nine billion dollars worth of food – some of it rotting – even though there is a hungry world, and even though four million Americans wait every month for a food package from the government, which averages five cents a day per individual. I saw cases in West Virginia, here in the United States, where children took home part of their school lunch in order to feed their families because I don’t think we’re meeting our obligations toward these Americans. I’m not satisfied when the Soviet Union is turning out twice as many scientists and engineers as we are. I’m not satisfied when many of our teachers are inadequately paid, or when our children go to school part-time shifts. I think we should have an educational system second to none. I’m not satisfied when I see men like Jimmy Hoffa – in charge of the largest union in the United States – still free. I’m not satisfied when we are failing to develop the natural resources of the United States to the fullest. Here in the United States, which developed the Tennessee Valley and which built the Grand Coulee and the other dams in the Northwest United States at the present rate of hydropower production – and that is the hallmark of an industrialized society – the Soviet Union by 1975 will be producing more power than we are. These are all the things, I think, in this country that can make our society strong, or can mean that it stands still. I’m not satisfied until every American enjoys his full constitutional rights. If a Negro baby is born – and this is true also of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in some of our cities – he has about one-half as much chance to get through high school as a white baby. He has one-third as much chance to get through college as a white student. He has about a third as much chance to be a professional man, about half as much chance to own a house. He has about uh – four times as much chance that he’ll be out of work in his life as the white baby. I think we can do better. I don’t want the talents of any American to go to waste. I know that there are those who want to turn everything over to the government. I don’t at all. I want the individuals to meet their responsibilities. And I want the states to meet their responsibilities. But I think there is also a national responsibility. The argument has been used against every piece of social legislation in the last twenty-five years. The people of the United States individually could not have developed the Tennessee Valley; collectively they could have. A cotton farmer in Georgia or a peanut farmer or a dairy farmer in Wisconsin and Minnesota, he cannot protect himself against the forces of supply and demand in the market place; but working together in effective governmental programs he can do so. Seventeen million Americans, who live over sixty-five on an average Social Security check of about seventy-eight dollars a month, they’re not able to sustain themselves individually, but they can sustain themselves through the social security system. I don’t believe in big government, but I believe in effective governmental action. And I think that’s the only way that the United States is going to maintain its freedom. It’s the only way that we’re going to move ahead. I think we can do a better job. I think we’re going to have to do a better job if we are going to meet the responsibilities which time and events have placed upon us. We cannot turn the job over to anyone else. If the United States fails, then the whole cause of freedom fails. And I think it depends in great measure on what we do here in this country. The reason Franklin Roosevelt was a good neighbor in Latin America was because he was a good neighbor in the United States. Because they felt that the American society was moving again. I want us to recapture that image. I want people in Latin America and Africa and Asia to start to look to America; to see how we’re doing things; to wonder what the resident of the United States is doing; and not to look at Khrushchev, or look at the Chinese Communists. That is the obligation upon our generation. In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt said in his inaugural that this generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. I think our generation of Americans has the same rendezvous. The question now is: Can freedom be maintained under the most severe tack – attack it has ever known? I think it can be. And I think in the final analysis it depends upon what we do here. I think it’s time America started moving again. + +MR. SMITH: And now the opening statement by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. + +MR. NIXON: Mr. Smith, Senator Kennedy. The things that Senator Kennedy has said many of us can agree with. There is no question but that we cannot discuss our internal affairs in the United States without recognizing that they have a tremendous bearing on our international position. There is no question but that this nation cannot stand still; because we are in a deadly competition, a competition not only with the men in the Kremlin, but the men in Peking. We’re ahead in this competition, as Senator Kennedy, I think, has implied. But when you’re in a race, the only way to stay ahead is to move ahead. And I subscribe completely to the spirit that Senator Kennedy has expressed tonight, the spirit that the United States should move ahead. Where, then, do we disagree? I think we disagree on the implication of his remarks tonight and on the statements that he has made on many occasions during his campaign to the effect that the United States has been standing still. We heard tonight, for example, the statement made that our growth in national product last year was the lowest of any industrial nation in the world. Now last year, of course, was 1958. That happened to be a recession year. But when we look at the growth of G.N.P. this year, a year of recovery, we find that it’s six and nine-tenths per cent and one of the highest in the world today. More about that later. Looking then to this problem of how the United States should move ahead and where the United States is moving, I think it is well that we take the advice of a very famous campaigner: Let’s look at the record. Is the United States standing still? Is it true that this Administration, as Senator Kennedy has charged, has been an Administration of retreat, of defeat, of stagnation? Is it true that, as far as this country is concerned, in the field of electric power, in all of the fields that he has mentioned, we have not been moving ahead. Well, we have a comparison that we can make. We have the record of the Truman Administration of seven and a half years and the seven and a half years of the Eisenhower Administration. When we compare these two records in the areas that Senator Kennedy has – has discussed tonight, I think we find that America has been moving ahead. Let’s take schools. We have built more schools in these last seven and a half years than we built in the previous seven and a half, for that matter in the previous twenty years. Let’s take hydroelectric power. We have developed more hydroelectric power in these seven and a half years than was developed in any previous administration in history. Let us take hospitals. We find that more have been built in this Administration than in the previous Administration. The same is true of highways. Let’s put it in terms that all of us can understand. We often hear gross national product discussed and in that respect may I say that when we compare the growth in this Administration with that of the previous Administration that then there was a total growth of eleven percent over seven years; in this Administration there has been a total growth of nineteen per cent over seven years. That shows that there’s been more growth in this Administration than in its predecessor. But let’s not put it there; let’s put it in terms of the average family. What has happened to you? We find that your wages have gone up five times as much in the Eisenhower Administration as they did in the Truman Administration. What about the prices you pay? We find that the prices you pay went up five times as much in the Truman Administration as they did in the Eisenhower Administration. What’s the net result of this? This means that the average family income went up fifteen per cent in the Eisenhower years as against two per cent in the Truman years. Now, this is not standing still. But, good as this record is, may I emphasize it isn’t enough. A record is never something to stand on. It’s something to build on. And in building on this record, I believe that we have the secret for progress, we know the way to progress. And I think, first of all, our own record proves that we know the way. Senator Kennedy has suggested that he believes he knows the way. I respect the sincerity which he m- which he makes that suggestion. But on the other hand, when we look at the various programs that he offers, they do not seem to be new. They seem to be simply retreads of the programs of the Truman Administration which preceded it. And I would suggest that during the course of the evening he might indicate those areas in which his programs are new, where they will mean more progress than we had then. What kind of programs are we for? We are for programs that will expand educational opportunities, that will give to all Americans their equal chance for education, for all of the things which are necessary and dear to the hearts of our people. We are for programs, in addition, which will see that our medical care for the aged are – is – are much – is much better handled than it is at the present time. Here again, may I indicate that Senator Kennedy and I are not in disagreement as to the aims. We both want to help the old people. We want to see that they do have adequate medical care. The question is the means. I think that the means that I advocate will reach that goal better than the means that he advocates. I could give better examples, but for – for whatever it is, whether it’s in the field of housing, or health, or medical care, or schools, or the eh- development of electric power, we have programs which we believe will move America, move her forward and build on the wonderful record that we have made over these past seven and a half years. Now, when we look at these programs, might I suggest that in evaluating them we often have a tendency to say that the test of a program is how much you’re spending. I will concede that in all the areas to which I have referred Senator Kennedy would have the spe- federal government spend more than I would have it spend. I costed out the cost of the Democratic platform. It runs a minimum of thirteen and two-tenths billions dollars a year more than we are presently spending to a maximum of eighteen billion dollars a year more than we’re presently spending. Now the Republican platform will cost more too. It will cost a minimum of four billion dollars a year more, a maximum of four and nine-tenths billion dollar a year more than we’re presently spending. Now, does this mean that his program is better than ours? Not at all. Because it isn’t a question of how much the federal government spends; it isn’t a question of which government does the most. It is a question of which administration does the right thing. And in our case, I do believe that our programs will stimulate the creative energies of a hundred and eighty million free Americans. I believe the programs that Senator Kennedy advocates will have a tendency to stifle those creative energies, I believe in other words, that his program would lead to the stagnation of the motive power that we need in this country to get progress. The final point that I would like to make is this: Senator Kennedy has suggested in his speeches that we lack compassion for the poor, for the old, and for others that are unfortunate. Let us understand throughout this campaign that his motives and mine are sincere. I know what it means to be poor. I know what it means to see people who are unemployed. I know Senator Kennedy feels as deeply about these problems as I do, but our disagreement is not about the goals for America but only about the means to reach those goals. + +MR. SMITH: Thank you, Mr. Nixon. That completes the opening statements, and now the candidates will answer questions or comment upon one another’s answers to questions, put by correspondents of the networks. The correspondents: [introducing themselves: “I’m Sander Vanocur, NBC News;” “I’m Charles Warren, Mutual News;” “I’m Stuart Novins, CBS News;” “Bob Fleming, ABC News.”] The first question to Senator Kennedy from Mr. Fleming. + +MR. FLEMING: Senator, the Vice President in his campaign has said that you were naive and at times immature. He has raised the question of leadership. On this issue, why do you think people should vote for you rather than the Vice President? + +MR. KENNEDY: Well, the Vice President and I came to the Congress together 1946; we both served in the Labor Committee. I’ve been there now for fourteen years, the same period of time that he has, so that our experience in uh – government is comparable. Secondly, I think the question is uh – what are the programs that we advocate, what is the party record that we lead? I come out of the Democratic party, which in this century has produced Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and which supported and sustained these programs which I’ve discussed tonight. Mr. Nixon comes out of the Republican party. He was nominated by it. And it is a fact that through most of these last twenty-five years the Republican leadership has opposed federal aid for education, medical care for the aged, development of the Tennessee Valley, development of our natural resources. I think Mr. Nixon is an effective leader of his party. I hope he would grant me the same. The question before us is: which point of view and which party do we want to lead the United States? + +MR. SMITH: Mr. Nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? + +Mr. NIXON: I have no comment. + +Mr. SMITH: The next question: Mr. Novins. + +MR. NOVINS: Mr. Vice President, your campaign stresses the value of your eight year experience, and the question arises as to whether that experience was as an observer or as a participant or as an initiator of policy-making. Would you tell us please specifically what major proposals you have made in the last eight years that have been adopted by the Administration? + +MR. NIXON: It would be rather difficult to cover them in eight and- in two and a half minutes. I would suggest that these proposals could be mentioned. First, after each of my foreign trips I have made recommendations that have been adopted. For example, after my first trip abroad – abroad, I strongly recommended that we increase our exchange programs particularly as they related to exchange of persons of leaders in the labor field and in the information field. After my trip to South America, I made recommendations that a separate inter-American lending agency be set up which the South American nations would like much better than a lend- than to participate in the lending agencies which treated all the countries of the world the same. Uh – I have made other recommendations after each of the other trips; for example, after my trip abroad to Hungary I made some recommendations with regard to the Hungarian refugee situation which were adopted, not only by the President but some of them were enacted into law by the Congress. Within the Administration, as a chairman of the President’s Committee on Price Stability and Economic Growth, I have had the opportunity to make recommendations which have been adopted within the Administration and which I think have been reasonably effective. I know Senator Kennedy suggested in his speech at Cleveland yesterday that that committee had not been particularly effective. I would only suggest that while we do not take the credit for it – I would not presume to – that since that committee has been formed the price line has been held very well within the United States. + +MR. KENNEDY: Well, I would say in the latter that the – and that’s what I found uh – somewhat unsatisfactory about the figures uh – Mr. Nixon, that you used in your previous speech, when you talked about the Truman Administration. You – Mr. Truman came to office in nineteen uh – forty-four and at the end of the war, and uh – difficulties that were facing the United States during that period of transition – 1946 when price controls were lifted – so it’s rather difficult to use an overall figure taking those seven and a half years and comparing them to the last eight years. I prefer to take the overall percentage record of the last twenty years of the Democrats and the eight years of the Republicans to show an overall period of growth. In regard to uh – price stability uh – I’m not aware that that committee did produce recommendations that ever were certainly before the Congress from the point of view of legislation in regard to controlling prices. In regard to the exchange of students and labor unions, I am chairman of the subcommittee on Africa and I think that one of the most unfortunate phases of our policy towards that country was the very minute number of exchanges that we had. I think it’s true of Latin America also. We did come forward with a program of students for the Congo of over three hundred which was more than the federal government had for all of Africa the previous year, so that I don’t think that uh – we have moved at least in those two areas with sufficient vigor. + +MR. SMITH: The next question to Senator Kennedy from Mr. Warren. + +MR. WARREN: Uh – Senator Kennedy, during your brief speech a few minutes ago you mentioned farm surpluses. + +MR. KENNEDY: That’s correct. + +MR. WARREN: I’d like to ask this: It’s a fact, I think, that presidential candidates traditionally make promises to farmers. Lots of people, I think, don’t understand why the government pays farmers for not producing certain crops or paying farmers if they overproduce for that matter. Now, let me ask, sir, why can’t the farmer operate like the business man who operates a factory? If an auto company overproduces a certain model car Uncle Sam doesn’t step in and buy up the surplus. Why this constant courting of the farmer? + +MR. KENNEDY: Well, because I think that if the federal government moved out of the program and withdrew its supports uh – then I think you would have complete uh – economic chaos. The farmer plants in the spring and harvests in the fall. There are hundreds of thousands of them. They really don’t – they’re not able to control their market very well. They bring their crops in or their livestock in, many of them about the same time. They have only a few purchasers that buy their milk or their hogs – a few large companies in many cases – and therefore the farmer is not in a position to bargain very effectively in the market place. I think the experience of the twenties has shown what a free market could do to agriculture. And if the agricultural economy collapses, then the economy of the rest of the United States sooner or later will collapse. The farmers are the number one market for the automobile industry of the United States. The automobile industry is the number one market for steel. So if the farmers’ economy continues to decline as sharply as it has in recent years, then I think you would have a recession in the rest of the country. So I think the case for the government intervention is a good one. Secondly, my objection to present farm policy is that there are no effective controls to bring supply and demand into better balance. The dropping of the support price in order to limit production does not work, and we now have the highest uh – surpluses – nine billion dollars worth. We’ve had a uh – higher tax load from the Treasury for the farmer in the last few years with the lowest farm income in many years. I think that this farm policy has failed. In my judgment the only policy that will work will be for effective supply and demand to be in balance. And that can only be done through governmental action. I therefore suggest that in those basic commodities which are supported, that the federal government, after endorsement by the farmers in that commodity, attempt to bring supply and demand into balance – attempt effective production controls – so that we won’t have that five or six per cent surplus which breaks the price fifteen or twenty per cent. I think Mr. Benson’s program has failed. And I must say, after reading the Vice President’s speech before the farmers, as he read mine, I don’t believe that it’s very much different from Mr. Benson’s. I don’t think it provides effective governmental controls. I think the support prices are tied to the average market price of the last three years, which was Mr. Benson’s theory. I therefore do not believe that this is a sharp enough breach with the past to give us any hope of success for the future. + +MR. SMITH: Mr. Nixon, comment? + +MR. NIXON; I of course disagree with Senator Kennedy insofar as his suggestions as to what should be done uh – with re- on the farm program. He has made the suggestion that what we need is to move in the direction of more government controls, a suggestion that would also mean raising prices uh – that the consumers pay for products and im- and imposing upon the farmers uh – controls on acreage even far more than they have today. I think this is the wrong direction. I don’t think this has worked in the past; I do not think it will work in the future. The program that I have advocated is one which departs from the present program that we have in this respect. It recognizes that the government has a responsibility to get the farmer out of the trouble he presently is in because the government got him into it. And that’s the fundamental reason why we can’t let the farmer go by himself at the present time. The farmer produced these surpluses because the government asked him to through legislation during the war. Now that we have these surpluses, it’s our responsibility to indemnify the farmer during that period that we get rid of the farmer uh – the surpluses. Until we get the surpluses off the farmer’s back, however, we should have a program such as I announced, which will see that farm income holds up. But I would propose holding that income up not through a type of program that Senator Kennedy has suggested that would raise prices, but one that would indemnify the farmer, pay the farmer in kind uh – from the products which are in surplus. + +Mr. SMITH: The next question to Vice President Nixon from Mr. Vanocur. + +MR. VANOCUR: Uh – Mr. Vice President, since the question of executive leadership is a very important campaign issue, I’d like to follow Mr. Novins’ question. Now, Republican campaign slogans – you’ll see them on signs around the country as you did last week – say it’s experience that counts – that’s over a picture of yourself; sir uh – implying that you’ve had more governmental executive decision-making uh – experience than uh – your opponent. Now, in his news conference on August twenty-fourth, President Eisenhower was asked to give one example of a major idea of yours that he adopted. His reply was, and I’m quoting; “If you give me a week I might think of one. I don’t remember.” Now that was a month ago, sir, and the President hasn’t brought it up since, and I’m wondering, sir, if you can clarify which version is correct – the one put out by Republican campaign leaders or the one put out by President Eisenhower? + +MR. NIXON: Well, I would suggest, Mr. Vanocur, that uh – if you know the President, that was probably a facetious remark. Uh – I would also suggest that insofar as his statement is concerned, that I think it would be improper for the President of the United States to disclose uh – the instances in which members of his official family had made recommendations, as I have made them through the years to him, which he has accepted or rejected. The President has always maintained and very properly so that he is entitled to get what advice he wants from his cabinet and from his other advisers without disclosing that to anybody – including as a matter of fact the Congress. Now, I can only say this. Through the years I have sat in the National Security Council. I have been in the cabinet. I have met with the legislative leaders. I have met with the President when he made the great decisions with regard to Lebanon, Quemoy and Matsu, other matters. The President has asked for my advice. I have given it. Sometimes my advice has been taken. Sometimes it has not. I do not say that I have made the decisions. And I would say that no president should ever allow anybody else to make the major decisions, The president only makes the decisions. All that his advisers do is to give counsel when he asks for it. As far as what experience counts and whether that is experience that counts, that isn’t for me to say. Uh – I can only say that my experience is there for the people to consider; Senator Kennedy’s is there for the people to consider. As he pointed out, we came to the Congress in the same year. His experience has been different from mine. Mine has been in the executive branch. His has been in the legislative branch. I would say that the people now have the opportunity to evaluate his as against mine and I think both he and I are going to abide by whatever the people decide. + +MR. SMITH: Senator Kennedy. + +Mr. KENNEDY: Well, I’ll just say that the question is of experience and the question also is uh – what our judgment is of the future, and what our goals are for the United States, and what ability we have to implement those goals. Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency in 1860 after a rather little known uh – session in the House of Representatives and after being defeated for the Senate in fifty-eight and was a distinguished president. There’s no certain road to the presidency. There are no guarantees that uh – if you take uh – one road or another that you will be a successful president. I have been in the Congress for fourteen years. I have voted in the last uh – eight years uh – and the Vice President was uh – presiding over the Senate and meeting his other responsibilities. I have met met uh – decisions over eight hundred times on matters which affect not only the domestic security of the United States, but as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The question really is: which candidate and which party can meet the problems that the United States is going to face in the sixties? + +MR. SMITH: The next question to Senator Kennedy from Mr. Novins. + +MR. NOVINS: Senator Kennedy, in connection with these problems of the future that you speak of, and the program that you enunciated earlier in your direct talk, you call for expanding some of the welfare programs for schools, for teacher salaries, medical care, and so forth; but you also call for reducing the federal debt. And I’m wondering how you, if you’re president in January, would go about paying the bill for all this. Does this mean that you? + +MR. KENNEDY: I didn’t indicate. I did not advocate reducing the federal debt because I don’t believe that you’re going to be able to reduce the federal debt very much in nineteen sixty-one, two, or three. I think you have heavy obligations which affect our security, which we’re going to have to meet. And therefore I’ve never suggested we should uh – be able to retire the debt substantially, or even at all in nineteen sixty-one or two. + +MR. NOVINS: Senator, I believe in – in one of your speeches – + +MR. KENNEDY: No, never. + +MR. NOVINS: – you suggested that reducing the interest rate would help toward – + +MR. KENNEDY: No. No. Not reducing the interest – + +MR. NOVINS: – a reduction of the Federal debt. + +MR. KENNEDY: – reducing the interest rate. In my judgment, the hard money, tight money policy, fiscal policy of this Administration has contributed to the slow-down in our economy, which helped bring the recession of fifty-four; which made the recession of fifty-eight rather intense, and which has slowed, somewhat, our economic activity in 1960. What I have talked about, however, the kind of programs that I’ve talked about, in my judgment, are uh – fiscally sound. Medical care for the aged, I would put under social security. The Vice President and I disagree on this. The program – the Javits-Nixon or the Nixon-Javits program – would have cost, if fully used uh – six hundred million dollars by the government per year, and six hundred million dollars by the state. The program which I advocated, which failed by five votes in the United States Senate, would have put medical care for the aged in Social Security, and would have been paid for through the Social Security System and the Social Security tax. Secondly, I support federal aid to education and federal aid for teachers’ salaries. I think that’s a good investment. I think we’re going to have to do it. And I think to heap the burden further on the property tax, which is already strained in many of our communities, will provide, will make sh- insure, in my opinion, that many of our children will not be adequately educated, and many of our teachers not adequately compensated. There is no greater return to an economy or to a society than an educational system second to none. On the question of the development of natural resources, I would pay as you go in the sense that they would be balanced and the power revenues would bring back sufficient money to finance the projects, in the same way as the Tennessee Valley. I believe in the balanced budget. And the only conditions under which I would unbalance the budget would be if there was a grave national emergency or a serious recession. Otherwise, with a steady rate of economic growth – and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Rockefeller, in their meeting, said a five per cent economic growth would bring by 1962 ten billion dollars extra in tax revenues. Whatever is brought in, I think that we can finance essential programs within a balanced budget, if business remains orderly. + +MR. SMITH: Mr. Nixon, your comment? + +MR. NIXON: Yes. I think what Mr. Novins was referring to was not one of Senator Kennedy’s speeches, but the Democratic platform, which did mention cutting the national debt. I think, too, that it should be pointed out that of course it is not possible, particularly under the proposals that Senator Kennedy has advocated, either to cut the national debt or to reduce taxes. As a matter of fact it will be necessary to raise taxes. As Senator Kennedy points out that as far as his one proposal is concerned – the one for medical care for the aged – that that would be financed out of Social Security. That, however, is raising taxes for those who pay Social Security. He points out that he would make pay-as-you-go be the basis for our natural resources development. Where our natural resources development – which I also support, incidentally, however – whenever you uh – uh – in – in – uh – appropriates money for one of these projects, you have to pay now and appropriate the money and the eh- while they eventually do pay out, it doesn’t mean that you – the government doesn’t have to put out the money this year. And so I would say that in all of these proposals Senator Kennedy has made, they will result in one of two things: either he has to raise taxes or he has to unbalance the budget. If he unbalances the budget, that means you have inflation, and that will be, of course, a very cruel blow to the very people – the older people – that we’ve been talking about. As far as aid for school construction is concerned, I favor that, as Senator Kennedy did, in January of this year, when he said he favored that rather than aid to s- teacher salaries. I favor that because I believe that’s the best way to aid our schools without running any risk whatever of the federal government telling our teachers what to teach. + +MR. SMITH: The next question to Vice President Nixon from Mr. Warren. + +MR. WARREN: Mr. Vice President you mentioned schools and it was just yesterday I think you asked for a crash program to raise education standards, and this evening you talked about advances in education. Mr. Vice President, you said – it was back in 1957 – that salaries paid to school teachers were nothing short of a national disgrace. Higher salaries for teachers, you added, were important and if the situation wasn’t corrected it could lead to a national disaster. And yet, you refused to vote in the Senate in order to break a tie vote when that single vote, if it had been yes, would have granted salary increases to teachers. I wonder if you could explain that, sir. + +MR. NIXON: I’m awfully glad you ge- got that question because as you know I got into it at the last of my other question and wasn’t able to complete the argument. Uh – I think that the reason that I voted against having the federal government uh – pay teachers’ salaries was probably the very reason that concerned Senator Kennedy when in January of this year, in his kick-off press conference, he said that he favored aid for school construction, but at that time did not feel that there should be aid for teachers’ salaries – at least that’s the way I read his remarks. Now, why should there be any question about the federal government aiding s- teachers’ salaries? Why did Senator Kennedy take that position then? Why do I take it now? We both took it then, and I take it now, for this reason: we want higher teachers’ salaries. We need higher teachers’ salaries. But we also want our education to be free of federal control. When the federal government gets the power to pay teachers, inevitably in my opinion, it will acquire the power to set standards and to tell the teachers what to teach. I think this would be bad for the country; I think it would be bad for the teaching profession. There is another point that should be made. I favor higher salaries for teachers. But, as Senator Kennedy said in January of this year in this same press conference, the way that you get higher salaries for teachers is to support school construction, which means that all of the local school districts in the various states then have money which is freed to raise the standards for teachers’ salaries. I should also point out this; once you put the responsibility on the federal government for paying a portion of teachers’ salaries, your local communities and your states are not going to meet the responsibility as much as they should. I believe, in other words, that we have seen the local communities and the state assuming more of that responsibility. Teachers’ salaries very fortunately have gone up fifty percent in the last eight years as against only a thirty-four percent rise for other salaries. This is not enough; it should be more. But I do not believe that the way to get more salaries for teachers is to have the federal government get in with a massive program. My objection here is not the cost in dollars. My objection here is the potential cost in controls and eventual freedom for the American people by giving the federal government power over education, and that is the greatest power a government can have. + +MR. SMITH: Senator Kennedy’s comment? + +MR. KENNEDY: When uh – the Vice President quotes me in January, sixty, I do not believe the federal government should pay directly teachers’ salaries, but that was not the issue before the Senate in February. The issue before the Senate was that the money would be given to the state. The state then could determine whether the money would be spent for school construction or teacher salaries. On that question the Vice President and I disagreed. I voted in favor of that proposal and supported it strongly, because I think that that provided assistance to our teachers for their salaries without any chance of federal control and it is on that vote that th- Mr. Nixon and I disagreed, and his tie vote uh – defeated his breaking the tie defeated the proposal. I don’t want the federal government paying teachers’ salaries directly. But if the money will go to the states and the states can then determine whether it shall go for school construction or for teachers’ salaries, in my opinion you protect the local authority over the school board and the school committee. And therefore I think that was a sound proposal and that is why I supported it and I regret that it did not pass. Secondly, there have been statements made that uh – the Democratic platform would cost a good deal of money and that I am in favor of unbalancing the budget. That is wholly wrong, wholly in error, and it is a fact that in the last eight years the Democratic Congress has reduced the appropri- the requests for the appropriations by over ten billion dollars. That is not my view and I think it ought to be stated very clearly on the record. My view is that you can do these programs – and they should be carefully drawn – within a balanced budget if our economy is moving ahead. + +MR. SMITH: The next question to Senator Kennedy from Mr. Vanocur. + +MR. VANOCUR: Senator, you’ve been promising the voters that if you are elected president you’ll try and push through Congress bills on medical aid to the aged, a comprehensive minimum hourly wage bill, federal aid to education. Now, in the August post-convention session of the Congress, when you at least held up the possibility you could one day be president and when you had overwhelming majorities, especially in the Senate, you could not get action on these bills. Now how do you feel that you’ll be able to get them in January – + +MR. KENNEDY: Well as you take the bills – + +MR. VANOCUR: – if you weren’t able to get them in August? + +MR. KENNEDY: If I may take the bills, we did pass in the Senate a bill uh – to provide a dollar twenty-five cent minimum wage. It failed because the House did not pass it and the House failed by eleven votes. And I might say that two-thirds of the Republicans in the House voted against a dollar twenty-five cent minimum wage and a majority of the Democrats sustained it – nearly two-thirds of them voted for the dollar twenty-five. We were threatened by a veto if we passed a dollar and a quarter – it’s extremely difficult with the great power that the president does to pass any bill when the president is opposed to it. All the president needs to sustain his veto of any bill is one-third plus one in either the House or the Senate. Secondly, we passed a federal aid to education bill in the Senate. It failed to came to the floor of the House of Representatives. It was killed in the Rules Committee. And it is a fact in the August session that the four members of the Rules Committee who were Republicans joining with two Democrats voted against sending the aid to education bill to the floor of the House. Four Democrats voted for it. Every Republican on the Rules Committee voted against sending that bill to be considered by the members of the House of Representatives. Thirdly, on medical care for the aged, this is the same fight that’s been going on for twenty-five years in Social Security. We wanted to tie it to Social Security. We offered an amendment to do so. Forty-four Democrats voted for it, one Republican voted for it. And we were informed at the time it came to a vote that if it was adopted the President of the United States would veto it. In my judgment, a vigorous Democratic president supported by a Democratic majority in the House and Senate can win the support for these programs. But if you send a Republican president and a Democratic majority and the threat of a veto hangs over the Congress, in my judgment you will continue what happened in the August session, which is a clash of parties and inaction. + +MR. SMITH: Mr. Nixon, comment? + +MR. NIXON: Well obviously my views are a little different. First of all, I don’t see how it’s possible for a one-third of a body, such as the Republicans have in the House and the Senate to stop two-thirds, if the two-thirds are adequately led. I would say, too, that when Senator Kennedy refers to the action of the House Rules Committee, there are eight Democrats on that committee and four Republicans. It would seem to me again that it is very difficult to blame the four Republicans for the eight Democrats’ not getting a something through that particular committee. I would say further that to blame the President in his veto power for the inability of the Senator and his colleagues to get action in this special session uh – misses the mark. When the president exercises his veto power, he has to have the people upo- behind him, not just a third of the Congress. Because let’s consider it. If the majority of the members of the Congress felt that these particular proposals were good issues – the majority of those who were Democrats – why didn’t they pass them and send to the President and get a veto and have an issue? The reason why these particular bills in these various fields that have been mentioned were not passed was not because the President was against them; it was because the people were against them. It was because they were too extreme. And I am convinced that the alternate proposals that I have, that the Republicans have in the field of health, in the field of education, in the field of welfare, because they are not extreme, because they will accomplish the end uh – without too great cost in dollars or in freedom, that they could get through the next Congress. + +MR. SMITH: The next question to Vice President Nixon fa- from Mr. Fleming. + +MR. FLEMING: Mr. Vice President, do I take it then you believe that you can work better with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate than Senator Kennedy could work with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate? + +MR. NIXON; I would say this: that we, of course, expect to pick up some seats in both in the House and the Senate. Uh – We would hope to control the House, to get a majority in the House uh – in this election. We cannot, of course, control the Senate. I would say that a president will be able to lead – a president will be able to get his program through – to the effect that he has the support of the country, the support of the people. Sometimes we – we get the opinion that in getting programs through the House or the Senate it’s purely a question of legislative finagling and all that sort of thing. It isn’t really that. Whenever a majority of the people are for a program, the House and the Senate responds to it. And whether this House and Senate, in the next session is Democratic or Republican, if the country will have voted for the candidate for the presidency and for the proposals that he has made, I believe that you will find that the president, if it were a Republican, as it would be in my case, would be able to get his program through that Congress. Now, I also say that as far as Senator Kennedy’s proposals are concerned, that, again, the question is not simply one of uh – a presidential veto stopping programs. You must always remember that a president can’t stop anything unless he has the people behind him. And the reason President Eisenhower’s vetoes have been sustained – the reason the Congress does not send up bills to him which they think will be vetoed – is because the people and the Congress, the majority of them, know the country is behind the President. + +MR. SMITH: Senator Kennedy. + +MR. KENNEDY: Well, now let’s look at these bills that the Vice President suggests were too extreme. One was a bill for a dollar twenty-five cents an hour for anyone who works in a store or company that has a million dollars a year business. I don’t think that’s extreme at all; and yet nearly two-thirds to three-fourths of the Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against that proposal. Secondly was the federal aid to education bill. It – it was a very uh – because of the defeat of teacher salaries, it was not a bill that uh – met in my opinion the need. The fact of the matter is it was a bill that was less than you recommended, Mr. Nixon, this morning in your proposal. It was not an extreme bill and yet we could not get one Republican to join, at least I think four of the eight Democrats voted to send it to the floor of the House – not one Republican – and they joined with those Democrats who were opposed to it. I don’t say the Democrats are united in their support of the program. But I do say a majority are. And I say a majority of the Republicans are opposed to it. The third is medical care for the aged which is tied to Social Security, which is financed out of Social Security funds. It does not put a deficit on the Treasury. The proposal advanced by you and by Mr. Javits would have cost six hundred millions of dollars – Mr. Rockefeller rejected it in New York, said he didn’t agree with the financing at all, said it ought to be on Social Security. So these are three programs which are quite moderate. I think it shows the difference between the two parties. One party is ready to move in these programs. The other party gives them lip service. + +MR. SMITH: Mr. Warren’s question for Senator Kennedy. + +MR. WARREN: Senator Kennedy, on another subject, Communism is so often described as an ideology or a belief that exists somewhere other than in the United States. Let me ask you, sir: just how serious a threat to our national security are these Communist subversive activities in the United States today? + +MR. KENNEDY: Well, I think they’re serious. I think it’s a matter that we should continue to uh – give uh – great care and attention to. We should support uh – the laws which the United States has passed in order to protect us from uh – those who would destroy us from within. We should sustain uh – the Department of Justice in its efforts and the F.B.I., and we should be continually alert. I think if the United States is maintaining a strong society here in the United States, I think that we can meet any internal threat. The major threat is external and will continue. + +MR. SMITH: Mr. Nixon, comment? + +MR. NIXON: I agree with Senator Kennedy’s appraisal generally in this respect. The question of Communism within the United States has been one that has worried us in the past. It is one that will continue to be a problem for years to come. We have to remember that the cold war that Mr. Khrushchev is waging and his colleagues are waging, is waged all over the world and it’s waged right here in the United States. That’s why we have to continue to be alert. It is also essential in being alert that we be fair; fair because by being fair we uphold the very freedoms that the Communists would destroy. We uphold the standards of conduct which they would never follow. And, in this connection, I think that uh – we must look to the future having in mind the fact that we fight Communism at home not only by our laws to deal with Communists uh – the few who do become Communists and the few who do become tra- fellow travelers, but we also fight Communism at home by moving against those various injustices which exist in our society which the Communists feed upon. And in that connection I again would say that while Senator Kennedy says we are for the status quo, I do believe that he uh – would agree that I am just as sincere in believing that my proposals for federal aid to education, my proposals for health care are just as sincerely held as his. The question again is not one of goals – we’re for those goals – it’s one of means. + +MR. SMITH: Mr. Vanocur’s question for Vice President Nixon. + +MR. VANOCUR: Mr. Vice President uh – in one of your earlier statements you said we’ve moved ahead, we’ve built more schools, we’ve built more hospitals. Now, sir, isn’t it true that the building of more schools is a local matter for financing? Uh – Were you claiming that the Eisenhower Administration was responsible for the building of these schools, or is it the local school districts that provide for it? + +MR. NIXON: Not at all. As a matter of fact your question brings out a point that I am very glad to make. Too often in appraising whether we are moving ahead or not we think only of what the federal government is doing. Now that isn’t the test of whether America moves. The test of whether America moves is whether the federal government, plus the state government, plus the local government, plus the biggest segment of all – individual enterprise – moves. We have for example a gross national product of approximately five hundred billion dollars. Roughly a hundred billion to a hundred and a quarter billion of that is the result of government activity. Four hundred billion, approximately, is a result of what individuals do. Now, the reason the Eisenhower Administration has moved, the reason that we’ve had the funds, for example, locally to build the schools, and the hospitals, and the highways, to make the progress that we have, is because this Administration has encouraged individual enterprise; and it has resulted in the greatest expansion of the private sector of the economy that has ever been witnessed in an eight-year period. And that is growth. That is the growth that we are looking for; it is the growth that this Administration has supported and that its policies have stimulated. + +MR. SMITH: Senator Kennedy. + +MR. KENNEDY: Well, I must say that the reason that the schools have been constructed is because the local school districts were willing to increase the property taxes to a tremendously high figure – in my opinion, almost to the point of diminishing returns in order to sustain these schools. Secondly, I think we have a rich uh – country. And I think we have a powerful country. I think what we have to do, however, is have the president and the leadership set before our country exactly what we must do in the next decade, if we’re going to maintain our security in education, in economic growth, in development of natural resources. The Soviet Union is making great gains. It isn’t enough to compare what might have been done eight years ago, or ten years ago, or fifteen years ago, or twenty years ago. I want to compare what we’re doing with what our adversaries are doing, so that by the year 1970 the United States is ahead in education, in health, in building, in homes, in economic strength. I think that’s the big assignment, the big task, the big function of the federal government. + +MR. SMITH: Can I have the summation time please? We’ve completed our questions and our comments, and in just a moment, we’ll have the summation time. + +VOICE: This will allow three minutes and twenty seconds for the summation by each candidate. + +MR. SM1TH: Three minutes and twenty seconds for each candidate. Vice President Nixon, will you make the first summation? + +MR. NIXON: Thank you, Mr. Smith. Senator Kennedy. First of all, I think it is well to put in perspective where we really do stand with regard to the Soviet Union in this whole matter of growth. The Soviet Union has been moving faster than we have. But the reason for that is obvious. They start from a much lower base. Although they have been moving faster in growth than we have, we find, for example, today that their total gross national product is only forty-four per cent of our total gross national product. That’s the same percentage that it was twenty years ago. And as far as the absolute gap is concerned, we find that the United States is even further ahead than it was twenty years ago. Is this any reason for complacency? Not at all Because these are determined men. They are fanatical men. And we have to get the very most of uh – out uh – out of our economy. I agree with Senator Kennedy completely on that score. Where we disagree is in the means that we would use to get the most out of our economy. I respectfully submit that Senator Kennedy too often would rely too much on the federal government, on what it would do to solve our problems, to stimulate growth. I believe that when we examine the Democratic platform, when we examine the proposals that he has discussed tonight, when we compare them with the proposals that I have made, that these proposals that he makes would not result in greater growth for this country than would be the case if we followed the programs that I have advocated. There are many of the points that he has made that I would like to comment upon. The one in the field of health is worth mentioning. Our health program – the one that Senator Javits and other Republican Senators, as well as I supported – is one that provides for all people over sixty-five who want health insurance, the opportunity to have it if they want it. It provides a choice of having either government insurance or private insurance. But it compels nobody to have insurance who does not want it. His program under Social Security, would require everybody who had Social Security to take government health insurance whether he wanted it or not. And it would not cover several million people who are not covered by Social Security at all. Here is one place where I think that our program does a better job than his. The other point that I would make is this: this downgrading of how much things cost I think many of our people will understand better when they look at what happened when – during the Truman Administration when the government was spending more than it took in – we found savings over a lifetime eaten up by inflation. We found the people who could least afford it – people on retired incomes uh – people on fixed incomes – we found them unable to meet their bills at the end of the month. It is essential that a man who’s president of this country certainly stand for every program that will mean for growth. And I stand for programs that will mean growth and progress. But it is also essential that he not allow a dollar spent that could be better spent by the people themselves. + +MR. SMITH: Senator Kennedy, your conclusion. + +MR. KENNEDY: The point was made by Mr. Nixon that the Soviet production is only forty-four percent of ours. I must say that forty-four percent and that Soviet country is causing us a good deal of trouble tonight. I want to make sure that it stays in that relationship. I don’t want to see the day when it’s sixty percent of ours, and seventy and seventy-five and eighty and ninety percent of ours, with all the force and power that it could bring to bear in order to cause our destruction. Secondly, the Vice President mentioned medical care for the aged. Our program was an amendment to the Kerr bill. The Kerr bill provided assistance to all those who were not on Social Security. I think it’s a very clear contrast. In 1935, when the Social Security Act was written, ninety-four out of ninety-five Republicans voted against it. Mr. Landon ran in 1936 to repeal it. In August of 1960, when we tried to get it again, but this time for medical care, we received the support of one Republican in the Senate on this occasion. Thirdly, I think the question before the American people is: as they look at this country and as they look at the world around them, the goals are the same for all Americans. The means are at question. The means are at issue. If you feel that everything that is being done now is satisfactory, that the relative power and prestige and strength of the United States is increasing in relation to that of the Communists; that we’ve b- gaining more security, that we are achieving everything as a nation that we should achieve, that we are achieving a better life for our citizens and greater strength, then I agree. I think you should vote for Mr. Nixon. But if you feel that we have to move again in the sixties, that the function of the president is to set before the people the unfinished business of our society as Franklin Roosevelt did in the thirties, the agenda for our people – what we must do as a society to meet our needs in this country and protect our security and help the cause of freedom. As I said at the beginning, the question before us all, that faces all Republicans and all Democrats, is: can freedom in the next generation conquer, or are the Communists going to be successful? That’s the great issue. And if we meet our responsibilities I think freedom will conquer. If we fail, if we fail to move ahead, if we fail to develop sufficient military and economic and social strength here in this country, then I think that uh – the tide could begin to run against us. And I don’t want historians, ten years from now, to say, these were the years when the tide ran out for the United States. I want them to say these were the years when the tide came in; these were the years when the United States started to move again. That’s the question before the American people, and only you can decide what you want, what you want this country to be, what you want to do with the future. I think we’re ready to move. And it is to that great task, if we’re successful, that we will address ourselves. + +MR. SMITH: Thank you very much, gentlemen. This hour has gone by all too quickly. Thank you very much for permitting us to present the next president of the United States on this unique program. I’ve been asked by the candidates to thank the American networks and the affiliated stations for providing time and facilities for this joint appearance. Other debates in this series will be announced later and will be on different subjects. This is Howard K. Smith. Good night from Chicago. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/examples/presidential_debates/parser.py b/examples/presidential_debates/parser.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8f7930b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/presidential_debates/parser.py @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +import os +import re +import unicodedata + + +def sanitize_string(text): + # Normalize Unicode characters + text = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text) + # Replace specific problematic characters + text = text.replace('’', "'") + text = text.replace('“', '"') + text = text.replace('â€', '"') + # Remove any remaining non-ASCII characters + text = text.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii') + return text.strip() + + +def parse_debate(file_path): + with open(file_path, encoding='utf-8') as file: + content = file.read() + + # Split the content into episodes + episodes = re.split(r'\n(?=(?:[A-Z]+):)', content) + + parsed_episodes = [] + for episode in episodes: + # Extract the role and statement + match = re.match(r'([A-Z]+):\s*(.*)', episode.strip(), re.DOTALL) + if match: + role, statement = match.groups() + parsed_episodes.append( + {'role': sanitize_string(role), 'statement': sanitize_string(statement)} + ) + + return parsed_episodes + + +def get_debate_messages(): + file_path = 'bush_gore_debate.txt' + script_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + relative_path = os.path.join(script_dir, file_path) + return parse_debate(relative_path) + + +def get_kennedy_debate_messages(): + file_path = 'kennedy_nixon_debate.txt' + script_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + relative_path = os.path.join(script_dir, file_path) + return parse_debate(relative_path) diff --git a/examples/presidential_debates/runner.py b/examples/presidential_debates/runner.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3302a26a --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/presidential_debates/runner.py @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +""" +Copyright 2024, Zep Software, Inc. + +Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); +you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. +You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + +Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software +distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, +WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. +See the License for the specific language governing permissions and +limitations under the License. +""" + +import asyncio +import logging +import os +import sys +from datetime import datetime, timedelta + +from dotenv import load_dotenv + +from examples.presidential_debates.parser import get_debate_messages +from graphiti_core import Graphiti +from graphiti_core.llm_client.anthropic_client import AnthropicClient +from graphiti_core.llm_client.config import LLMConfig +from graphiti_core.utils.maintenance.graph_data_operations import clear_data + +load_dotenv() + +neo4j_uri = os.environ.get('NEO4J_URI') or 'bolt://localhost:7687' +neo4j_user = os.environ.get('NEO4J_USER') or 'neo4j' +neo4j_password = os.environ.get('NEO4J_PASSWORD') or 'password' + + +def setup_logging(): + # Create a logger + logger = logging.getLogger() + logger.setLevel(logging.INFO) # Set the logging level to INFO + + # Create console handler and set level to INFO + console_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout) + console_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO) + + # Create formatter + formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') + + # Add formatter to console handler + console_handler.setFormatter(formatter) + + # Add console handler to logger + logger.addHandler(console_handler) + + return logger + + +async def main(): + setup_logging() + llm_client = AnthropicClient(LLMConfig(api_key=os.environ.get('ANTHROPIC_API_KEY'))) + client = Graphiti(neo4j_uri, neo4j_user, neo4j_password, llm_client) + messages = get_debate_messages() + print(messages[:3]) + print(len(messages)) + # i need to create tuples from each 3 messages in the messages + message_tuples = [messages[i : i + 5] for i in range(0, len(messages), 5)] + # # neets to be october 3 2000 + now = datetime(2000, 10, 3) + # episodes: list[BulkEpisode] = [ + # BulkEpisode( + # name=f'Statement {i + 1}', + # content=f"{episode['role']}: {episode['statement']}", + # source_description='Bush Gore presidential_debates 2001', + # episode_type='string', + # reference_time=now + timedelta(seconds=i * 10), + # ) + # for i, episode in enumerate(messages) + # ] + + # await clear_data(client.driver) + # await client.build_indices_and_constraints() + # await client.add_episode_bulk(episodes) + + await clear_data(client.driver) + await client.build_indices_and_constraints() + for i, episode_list in enumerate(message_tuples[:4]): + combined_roles_and_statements_str = ''.join( + f"{episode['role']}: {episode['statement']}\n" for episode in episode_list + ) + await client.add_episode( + name=f'Statement {i + 1}', + episode_body=combined_roles_and_statements_str, + source_description='Bush Gore depate 2001', + reference_time=now + timedelta(seconds=i * 10), + ) + + +asyncio.run(main()) diff --git a/examples/romeo_juliet/parse.py b/examples/romeo_juliet/parse.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5b994cd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/romeo_juliet/parse.py @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +""" +Copyright 2024, Zep Software, Inc. + +Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); +you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. +You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + +Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software +distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, +WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. +See the License for the specific language governing permissions and +limitations under the License. +""" + +import os +import re + + +def parse_script(filename): + current_speaker = None + current_speech = [] + messages = [] + + with open(filename) as file: + for line in file: + line = line.strip() + + # Check if this line is a new speaker + if ( + line + and line.isupper() + and not line.startswith('ACT') + and not line.startswith('SCENE') + ): + # If we have a current speaker, save their message + if current_speaker: + messages.append((current_speaker, ' '.join(current_speech))) + + # Start a new speech + current_speaker = line + current_speech = [] + elif line and not line.startswith('[') and current_speaker: + # Add this line to the current speech + current_speech.append(line) + + # Add the last speech + if current_speaker: + messages.append((current_speaker, ' '.join(current_speech))) + + return messages + + +def escape_special_characters(text): + # Define the special characters to remove + special_chars = r'+-&|!(){}[]^"~*?:\/' + + # Use regex to replace all special characters with an empty string + return re.sub(f'[{re.escape(special_chars)}]', '', text) + + +# Test the function with a sample line from your text +sample_text = "GREGORY: To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand\\: therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away." +escaped_text = escape_special_characters(sample_text) +print(escaped_text) + + +def get_romeo_messages(): + file_path = 'romeo_act2.txt' + script_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + relative_path = os.path.join(script_dir, file_path) + # Use the function with escaping + return [ + (speaker, escape_special_characters(speech)) + for speaker, speech in parse_script(relative_path) + ] diff --git a/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo.txt b/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..77ccd654 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4319 @@ + +Romeo and Juliet +Shakespeare homepage | Romeo and Juliet | Entire play +ACT I +PROLOGUE +Two households, both alike in dignity, +In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, +From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, +Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. +From forth the fatal loins of these two foes +A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; +Whose misadventured piteous overthrows +Do with their death bury their parents' strife. +The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, +And the continuance of their parents' rage, +Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, +Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; +The which if you with patient ears attend, +What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. +SCENE I. Verona. A public place. +Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers +SAMPSON +Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. +GREGORY +No, for then we should be colliers. +SAMPSON +I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw. +GREGORY +Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar. +SAMPSON +I strike quickly, being moved. +GREGORY +But thou art not quickly moved to strike. +SAMPSON +A dog of the house of Montague moves me. +GREGORY +To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: +therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away. +SAMPSON +A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will +take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's. +GREGORY +That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes +to the wall. +SAMPSON +True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, +are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push +Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids +to the wall. +GREGORY +The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. +SAMPSON +'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I +have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the +maids, and cut off their heads. +GREGORY +The heads of the maids? +SAMPSON +Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; +take it in what sense thou wilt. +GREGORY +They must take it in sense that feel it. +SAMPSON +Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and +'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. +GREGORY +'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou +hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes +two of the house of the Montagues. +SAMPSON +My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. +GREGORY +How! turn thy back and run? +SAMPSON +Fear me not. +GREGORY +No, marry; I fear thee! +SAMPSON +Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. +GREGORY +I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as +they list. +SAMPSON +Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; +which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it. +Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR + +ABRAHAM +Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? +SAMPSON +I do bite my thumb, sir. +ABRAHAM +Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? +SAMPSON +[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say +ay? +GREGORY +No. +SAMPSON +No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I +bite my thumb, sir. +GREGORY +Do you quarrel, sir? +ABRAHAM +Quarrel sir! no, sir. +SAMPSON +If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you. +ABRAHAM +No better. +SAMPSON +Well, sir. +GREGORY +Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen. +SAMPSON +Yes, better, sir. +ABRAHAM +You lie. +SAMPSON +Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. +They fight + +Enter BENVOLIO + +BENVOLIO +Part, fools! +Put up your swords; you know not what you do. +Beats down their swords + +Enter TYBALT + +TYBALT +What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? +Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death. +BENVOLIO +I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, +Or manage it to part these men with me. +TYBALT +What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, +As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: +Have at thee, coward! +They fight + +Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs + +First Citizen +Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down! +Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues! +Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET + +CAPULET +What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho! +LADY CAPULET +A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword? +CAPULET +My sword, I say! Old Montague is come, +And flourishes his blade in spite of me. +Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE + +MONTAGUE +Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go. +LADY MONTAGUE +Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe. +Enter PRINCE, with Attendants + +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. +Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO + +MONTAGUE +Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? +Speak, nephew, were you by when it began? +BENVOLIO +Here were the servants of your adversary, +And yours, close fighting ere I did approach: +I drew to part them: in the instant came +The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared, +Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears, +He swung about his head and cut the winds, +Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn: +While we were interchanging thrusts and blows, +Came more and more and fought on part and part, +Till the prince came, who parted either part. +LADY MONTAGUE +O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day? +Right glad I am he was not at this fray. +BENVOLIO +Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun +Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, +A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad; +Where, underneath the grove of sycamore +That westward rooteth from the city's side, +So early walking did I see your son: +Towards him I made, but he was ware of me +And stole into the covert of the wood: +I, measuring his affections by my own, +That most are busied when they're most alone, +Pursued my humour not pursuing his, +And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me. +MONTAGUE +Many a morning hath he there been seen, +With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew. +Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs; +But all so soon as the all-cheering sun +Should in the furthest east begin to draw +The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, +Away from the light steals home my heavy son, +And private in his chamber pens himself, +Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out +And makes himself an artificial night: +Black and portentous must this humour prove, +Unless good counsel may the cause remove. +BENVOLIO +My noble uncle, do you know the cause? +MONTAGUE +I neither know it nor can learn of him. +BENVOLIO +Have you importuned him by any means? +MONTAGUE +Both by myself and many other friends: +But he, his own affections' counsellor, +Is to himself--I will not say how true-- +But to himself so secret and so close, +So far from sounding and discovery, +As is the bud bit with an envious worm, +Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, +Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. +Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow. +We would as willingly give cure as know. +Enter ROMEO + +BENVOLIO +See, where he comes: so please you, step aside; +I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. +MONTAGUE +I would thou wert so happy by thy stay, +To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. +Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE + +BENVOLIO +Good-morrow, cousin. +ROMEO +Is the day so young? +BENVOLIO +But new struck nine. +ROMEO +Ay me! sad hours seem long. +Was that my father that went hence so fast? +BENVOLIO +It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? +ROMEO +Not having that, which, having, makes them short. +BENVOLIO +In love? +ROMEO +Out-- +BENVOLIO +Of love? +ROMEO +Out of her favour, where I am in love. +BENVOLIO +Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, +Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! +ROMEO +Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, +Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! +Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? +Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. +Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. +Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! +O any thing, of nothing first create! +O heavy lightness! serious vanity! +Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! +Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, +sick health! +Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! +This love feel I, that feel no love in this. +Dost thou not laugh? +BENVOLIO +No, coz, I rather weep. +ROMEO +Good heart, at what? +BENVOLIO +At thy good heart's oppression. +ROMEO +Why, such is love's transgression. +Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, +Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest +With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown +Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. +Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; +Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; +Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: +What is it else? a madness most discreet, +A choking gall and a preserving sweet. +Farewell, my coz. +BENVOLIO +Soft! I will go along; +An if you leave me so, you do me wrong. +ROMEO +Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here; +This is not Romeo, he's some other where. +BENVOLIO +Tell me in sadness, who is that you love. +ROMEO +What, shall I groan and tell thee? +BENVOLIO +Groan! why, no. +But sadly tell me who. +ROMEO +Bid a sick man in sadness make his will: +Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! +In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. +BENVOLIO +I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved. +ROMEO +A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love. +BENVOLIO +A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. +ROMEO +Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit +With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit; +And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, +From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. +She will not stay the siege of loving terms, +Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, +Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold: +O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, +That when she dies with beauty dies her store. +BENVOLIO +Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste? +ROMEO +She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste, +For beauty starved with her severity +Cuts beauty off from all posterity. +She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, +To merit bliss by making me despair: +She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow +Do I live dead that live to tell it now. +BENVOLIO +Be ruled by me, forget to think of her. +ROMEO +O, teach me how I should forget to think. +BENVOLIO +By giving liberty unto thine eyes; +Examine other beauties. +ROMEO +'Tis the way +To call hers exquisite, in question more: +These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows +Being black put us in mind they hide the fair; +He that is strucken blind cannot forget +The precious treasure of his eyesight lost: +Show me a mistress that is passing fair, +What doth her beauty serve, but as a note +Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? +Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget. +BENVOLIO +I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. +Exeunt + +SCENE II. A street. +Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant +CAPULET +But Montague is bound as well as I, +In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, +For men so old as we to keep the peace. +PARIS +Of honourable reckoning are you both; +And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long. +But now, my lord, what say you to my suit? +CAPULET +But saying o'er what I have said before: +My child is yet a stranger in the world; +She hath not seen the change of fourteen years, +Let two more summers wither in their pride, +Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. +PARIS +Younger than she are happy mothers made. +CAPULET +And too soon marr'd are those so early made. +The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she, +She is the hopeful lady of my earth: +But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, +My will to her consent is but a part; +An she agree, within her scope of choice +Lies my consent and fair according voice. +This night I hold an old accustom'd feast, +Whereto I have invited many a guest, +Such as I love; and you, among the store, +One more, most welcome, makes my number more. +At my poor house look to behold this night +Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light: +Such comfort as do lusty young men feel +When well-apparell'd April on the heel +Of limping winter treads, even such delight +Among fresh female buds shall you this night +Inherit at my house; hear all, all see, +And like her most whose merit most shall be: +Which on more view, of many mine being one +May stand in number, though in reckoning none, +Come, go with me. +To Servant, giving a paper + +Go, sirrah, trudge about +Through fair Verona; find those persons out +Whose names are written there, and to them say, +My house and welcome on their pleasure stay. +Exeunt CAPULET and PARIS + +Servant +Find them out whose names are written here! It is +written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his +yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with +his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am +sent to find those persons whose names are here +writ, and can never find what names the writing +person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time. +Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO + +BENVOLIO +Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, +One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; +Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; +One desperate grief cures with another's languish: +Take thou some new infection to thy eye, +And the rank poison of the old will die. +ROMEO +Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that. +BENVOLIO +For what, I pray thee? +ROMEO +For your broken shin. +BENVOLIO +Why, Romeo, art thou mad? +ROMEO +Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is; +Shut up in prison, kept without my food, +Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow. +Servant +God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read? +ROMEO +Ay, mine own fortune in my misery. +Servant +Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I +pray, can you read any thing you see? +ROMEO +Ay, if I know the letters and the language. +Servant +Ye say honestly: rest you merry! +ROMEO +Stay, fellow; I can read. +Reads + +'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; +County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady +widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely +nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine +uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece +Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin +Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair +assembly: whither should they come? +Servant +Up. +ROMEO +Whither? +Servant +To supper; to our house. +ROMEO +Whose house? +Servant +My master's. +ROMEO +Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before. +Servant +Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the +great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house +of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. +Rest you merry! +Exit + +BENVOLIO +At this same ancient feast of Capulet's +Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest, +With all the admired beauties of Verona: +Go thither; and, with unattainted eye, +Compare her face with some that I shall show, +And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. +ROMEO +When the devout religion of mine eye +Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires; +And these, who often drown'd could never die, +Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars! +One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun +Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun. +BENVOLIO +Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by, +Herself poised with herself in either eye: +But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd +Your lady's love against some other maid +That I will show you shining at this feast, +And she shall scant show well that now shows best. +ROMEO +I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, +But to rejoice in splendor of mine own. +Exeunt + +SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house. +Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse +LADY CAPULET +Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me. +Nurse +Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old, +I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird! +God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet! +Enter JULIET + +JULIET +How now! who calls? +Nurse +Your mother. +JULIET +Madam, I am here. +What is your will? +LADY CAPULET +This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile, +We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again; +I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel. +Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age. +Nurse +Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. +LADY CAPULET +She's not fourteen. +Nurse +I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,-- +And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four-- +She is not fourteen. How long is it now +To Lammas-tide? +LADY CAPULET +A fortnight and odd days. +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.' +LADY CAPULET +Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace. +Nurse +Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, +To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' +And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow +A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone; +A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly: +'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face? +Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age; +Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.' +JULIET +And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I. +Nurse +Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace! +Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed: +An I might live to see thee married once, +I have my wish. +LADY CAPULET +Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme +I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, +How stands your disposition to be married? +JULIET +It is an honour that I dream not of. +Nurse +An honour! were not I thine only nurse, +I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat. +LADY CAPULET +Well, think of marriage now; younger than you, +Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, +Are made already mothers: by my count, +I was your mother much upon these years +That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief: +The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. +Nurse +A man, young lady! lady, such a man +As all the world--why, he's a man of wax. +LADY CAPULET +Verona's summer hath not such a flower. +Nurse +Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower. +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. +Nurse +No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men. +LADY CAPULET +Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love? +JULIET +I'll look to like, if looking liking move: +But no more deep will I endart mine eye +Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. +Enter a Servant + +Servant +Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you +called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in +the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must +hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight. +LADY CAPULET +We follow thee. +Exit Servant + +Juliet, the county stays. +Nurse +Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. +Exeunt + +SCENE IV. A street. +Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others +ROMEO +What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? +Or shall we on without a apology? +BENVOLIO +The date is out of such prolixity: +We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, +Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, +Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper; +Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke +After the prompter, for our entrance: +But let them measure us by what they will; +We'll measure them a measure, and be gone. +ROMEO +Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; +Being but heavy, I will bear the light. +MERCUTIO +Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. +ROMEO +Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes +With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead +So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. +MERCUTIO +You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings, +And soar with them above a common bound. +ROMEO +I am too sore enpierced with his shaft +To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, +I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe: +Under love's heavy burden do I sink. +MERCUTIO +And, to sink in it, should you burden love; +Too great oppression for a tender thing. +ROMEO +Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, +Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. +MERCUTIO +If love be rough with you, be rough with love; +Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. +Give me a case to put my visage in: +A visor for a visor! what care I +What curious eye doth quote deformities? +Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. +BENVOLIO +Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in, +But every man betake him to his legs. +ROMEO +A torch for me: let wantons light of heart +Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels, +For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase; +I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. +The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done. +MERCUTIO +Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word: +If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire +Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st +Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho! +ROMEO +Nay, that's not so. +MERCUTIO +I mean, sir, in delay +We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. +Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits +Five times in that ere once in our five wits. +ROMEO +And we mean well in going to this mask; +But 'tis no wit to go. +MERCUTIO +Why, may one ask? +ROMEO +I dream'd a dream to-night. +MERCUTIO +And so did I. +ROMEO +Well, what was yours? +MERCUTIO +That dreamers often lie. +ROMEO +In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. +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-- +ROMEO +Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! +Thou talk'st of nothing. +MERCUTIO +True, I talk of dreams, +Which are the children of an idle brain, +Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, +Which is as thin of substance as the air +And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes +Even now the frozen bosom of the north, +And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, +Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. +BENVOLIO +This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves; +Supper is done, and we shall come too late. +ROMEO +I fear, too early: for my mind misgives +Some consequence yet hanging in the stars +Shall bitterly begin his fearful date +With this night's revels and expire the term +Of a despised life closed in my breast +By some vile forfeit of untimely death. +But He, that hath the steerage of my course, +Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen. +BENVOLIO +Strike, drum. +Exeunt + +SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house. +Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins +First Servant +Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He +shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher! +Second Servant +When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's +hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing. +First Servant +Away with the joint-stools, remove the +court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save +me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let +the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. +Antony, and Potpan! +Second Servant +Ay, boy, ready. +First Servant +You are looked for and called for, asked for and +sought for, in the great chamber. +Second Servant +We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be +brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all. +Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers + +CAPULET +Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes +Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you. +Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all +Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty, +She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now? +Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day +That I have worn a visor and could tell +A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, +Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone: +You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play. +A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls. +Music plays, and they dance + +More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up, +And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot. +Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well. +Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet; +For you and I are past our dancing days: +How long is't now since last yourself and I +Were in a mask? +Second Capulet +By'r lady, thirty years. +CAPULET +What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much: +'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio, +Come pentecost as quickly as it will, +Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd. +Second Capulet +'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir; +His son is thirty. +CAPULET +Will you tell me that? +His son was but a ward two years ago. +ROMEO +[To a Servingman] What lady is that, which doth +enrich the hand +Of yonder knight? +Servant +I know not, sir. +ROMEO +O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! +It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night +Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear; +Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! +So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, +As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. +The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand, +And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. +Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! +For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. +TYBALT +This, by his voice, should be a Montague. +Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave +Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, +To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? +Now, by the stock and honour of my kin, +To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin. +CAPULET +Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so? +TYBALT +Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, +A villain that is hither come in spite, +To scorn at our solemnity this night. +CAPULET +Young Romeo is it? +TYBALT +'Tis he, that villain Romeo. +CAPULET +Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone; +He bears him like a portly gentleman; +And, to say truth, Verona brags of him +To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth: +I would not for the wealth of all the town +Here in my house do him disparagement: +Therefore be patient, take no note of him: +It is my will, the which if thou respect, +Show a fair presence and put off these frowns, +And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. +TYBALT +It fits, when such a villain is a guest: +I'll not endure him. +CAPULET +He shall be endured: +What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to; +Am I the master here, or you? go to. +You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul! +You'll make a mutiny among my guests! +You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man! +TYBALT +Why, uncle, 'tis a shame. +CAPULET +Go to, go to; +You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed? +This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what: +You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time. +Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go: +Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame! +I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts! +TYBALT +Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting +Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting. +I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall +Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall. +Exit + +ROMEO +[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand +This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: +My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand +To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. +JULIET +Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, +Which mannerly devotion shows in this; +For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, +And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. +ROMEO +Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? +JULIET +Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. +ROMEO +O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; +They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. +JULIET +Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. +ROMEO +Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. +Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. +JULIET +Then have my lips the sin that they have took. +ROMEO +Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! +Give me my sin again. +JULIET +You kiss by the book. +Nurse +Madam, your mother craves a word with you. +ROMEO +What is her mother? +Nurse +Marry, bachelor, +Her mother is the lady of the house, +And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous +I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal; +I tell you, he that can lay hold of her +Shall have the chinks. +ROMEO +Is she a Capulet? +O dear account! my life is my foe's debt. +BENVOLIO +Away, begone; the sport is at the best. +ROMEO +Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest. +CAPULET +Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone; +We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. +Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all +I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night. +More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed. +Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late: +I'll to my rest. +Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse + +JULIET +Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman? +Nurse +The son and heir of old Tiberio. +JULIET +What's he that now is going out of door? +Nurse +Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio. +JULIET +What's he that follows there, that would not dance? +Nurse +I know not. +JULIET +Go ask his name: if he be married. +My grave is like to be my wedding bed. +Nurse +His name is Romeo, and a Montague; +The only son of your great enemy. +JULIET +My only love sprung from my only hate! +Too early seen unknown, and known too late! +Prodigious birth of love it is to me, +That I must love a loathed enemy. +Nurse +What's this? what's this? +JULIET +A rhyme I learn'd even now +Of one I danced withal. +One calls within 'Juliet.' + +Nurse +Anon, anon! +Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone. +Exeunt + +ACT II +PROLOGUE +Enter Chorus +Chorus +Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie, +And young affection gapes to be his heir; +That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, +With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair. +Now Romeo is beloved and loves again, +Alike betwitched by the charm of looks, +But to his foe supposed he must complain, +And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks: +Being held a foe, he may not have access +To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear; +And she as much in love, her means much less +To meet her new-beloved any where: +But passion lends them power, time means, to meet +Tempering extremities with extreme sweet. +Exit + +SCENE I. A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard. +Enter ROMEO +ROMEO +Can I go forward when my heart is here? +Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. +He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it + +Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO + +BENVOLIO +Romeo! my cousin Romeo! +MERCUTIO +He is wise; +And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed. +BENVOLIO +He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall: +Call, good Mercutio. +MERCUTIO +Nay, I'll conjure too. +Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover! +Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh: +Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; +Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;' +Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, +One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, +Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, +When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! +He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; +The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. +I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, +By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, +By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh +And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, +That in thy likeness thou appear to us! +BENVOLIO +And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. +MERCUTIO +This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him +To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle +Of some strange nature, letting it there stand +Till she had laid it and conjured it down; +That were some spite: my invocation +Is fair and honest, and in his mistres s' name +I conjure only but to raise up him. +BENVOLIO +Come, he hath hid himself among these trees, +To be consorted with the humorous night: +Blind is his love and best befits the dark. +MERCUTIO +If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. +Now will he sit under a medlar tree, +And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit +As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone. +Romeo, that she were, O, that she were +An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear! +Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed; +This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep: +Come, shall we go? +BENVOLIO +Go, then; for 'tis in vain +To seek him here that means not to be found. +Exeunt + +SCENE II. Capulet's orchard. +Enter ROMEO +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! +JULIET +Ay me! +ROMEO +She speaks: +O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art +As glorious to this night, being o'er my head +As is a winged messenger of heaven +Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes +Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him +When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds +And sails upon the bosom of the air. +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. +ROMEO +I take thee at thy word: +Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; +Henceforth I never will be Romeo. +JULIET +What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night +So stumblest on my counsel? +ROMEO +By a name +I know not how to tell thee who I am: +My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, +Because it is an enemy to thee; +Had I it written, I would tear the word. +JULIET +My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words +Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound: +Art thou not Romeo and a Montague? +ROMEO +Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. +JULIET +How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? +The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, +And the place death, considering who thou art, +If any of my kinsmen find thee here. +ROMEO +With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; +For stony limits cannot hold love out, +And what love can do that dares love attempt; +Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me. +JULIET +If they do see thee, they will murder thee. +ROMEO +Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye +Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, +And I am proof against their enmity. +JULIET +I would not for the world they saw thee here. +ROMEO +I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; +And but thou love me, let them find me here: +My life were better ended by their hate, +Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. +JULIET +By whose direction found'st thou out this place? +ROMEO +By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; +He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. +I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far +As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea, +I would adventure for such merchandise. +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. +ROMEO +Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear +That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-- +JULIET +O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, +That monthly changes in her circled orb, +Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. +ROMEO +What shall I swear by? +JULIET +Do not swear at all; +Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, +Which is the god of my idolatry, +And I'll believe thee. +ROMEO +If my heart's dear love-- +JULIET +Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, +I have no joy of this contract to-night: +It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; +Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be +Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night! +This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, +May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. +Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest +Come to thy heart as that within my breast! +ROMEO +O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? +JULIET +What satisfaction canst thou have to-night? +ROMEO +The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. +JULIET +I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: +And yet I would it were to give again. +ROMEO +Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love? +JULIET +But to be frank, and give it thee again. +And yet I wish but for the thing I have: +My bounty is as boundless as the sea, +My love as deep; the more I give to thee, +The more I have, for both are infinite. +Nurse calls within + +I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu! +Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true. +Stay but a little, I will come again. +Exit, above + +ROMEO +O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard. +Being in night, all this is but a dream, +Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. +Re-enter JULIET, above + +JULIET +Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. +If that thy bent of love be honourable, +Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow, +By one that I'll procure to come to thee, +Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; +And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay +And follow thee my lord throughout the world. +Nurse +[Within] Madam! +JULIET +I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well, +I do beseech thee-- +Nurse +[Within] Madam! +JULIET +By and by, I come:-- +To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief: +To-morrow will I send. +ROMEO +So thrive my soul-- +JULIET +A thousand times good night! +Exit, above + +ROMEO +A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. +Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from +their books, +But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. +Retiring + +Re-enter JULIET, above + +JULIET +Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice, +To lure this tassel-gentle back again! +Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud; +Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, +And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine, +With repetition of my Romeo's name. +ROMEO +It is my soul that calls upon my name: +How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, +Like softest music to attending ears! +JULIET +Romeo! +ROMEO +My dear? +JULIET +At what o'clock to-morrow +Shall I send to thee? +ROMEO +At the hour of nine. +JULIET +I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then. +I have forgot why I did call thee back. +ROMEO +Let me stand here till thou remember it. +JULIET +I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, +Remembering how I love thy company. +ROMEO +And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, +Forgetting any other home but this. +JULIET +'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone: +And yet no further than a wanton's bird; +Who lets it hop a little from her hand, +Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, +And with a silk thread plucks it back again, +So loving-jealous of his liberty. +ROMEO +I would I were thy bird. +JULIET +Sweet, so would I: +Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. +Good night, good night! parting is such +sweet sorrow, +That I shall say good night till it be morrow. +Exit above + +ROMEO +Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! +Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! +Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, +His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell. +Exit + +SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell. +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket +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. +Enter ROMEO + +ROMEO +Good morrow, father. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Benedicite! +What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? +Young son, it argues a distemper'd head +So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: +Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, +And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; +But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain +Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign: +Therefore thy earliness doth me assure +Thou art up-roused by some distemperature; +Or if not so, then here I hit it right, +Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night. +ROMEO +That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine. +FRIAR LAURENCE +God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline? +ROMEO +With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; +I have forgot that name, and that name's woe. +FRIAR LAURENCE +That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then? +ROMEO +I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again. +I have been feasting with mine enemy, +Where on a sudden one hath wounded me, +That's by me wounded: both our remedies +Within thy help and holy physic lies: +I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo, +My intercession likewise steads my foe. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; +Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. +ROMEO +Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set +On the fair daughter of rich Capulet: +As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine; +And all combined, save what thou must combine +By holy marriage: when and where and how +We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow, +I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, +That thou consent to marry us to-day. +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. +ROMEO +Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline. +FRIAR LAURENCE +For doting, not for loving, pupil mine. +ROMEO +And bad'st me bury love. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Not in a grave, +To lay one in, another out to have. +ROMEO +I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now +Doth grace for grace and love for love allow; +The other did not so. +FRIAR LAURENCE +O, she knew well +Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. +But come, young waverer, come, go with me, +In one respect I'll thy assistant be; +For this alliance may so happy prove, +To turn your households' rancour to pure love. +ROMEO +O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. +Exeunt + +SCENE IV. A street. +Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO +MERCUTIO +Where the devil should this Romeo be? +Came he not home to-night? +BENVOLIO +Not to his father's; I spoke with his man. +MERCUTIO +Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline. +Torments him so, that he will sure run mad. +BENVOLIO +Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, +Hath sent a letter to his father's house. +MERCUTIO +A challenge, on my life. +BENVOLIO +Romeo will answer it. +MERCUTIO +Any man that can write may answer a letter. +BENVOLIO +Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he +dares, being dared. +MERCUTIO +Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a +white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a +love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the +blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to +encounter Tybalt? +BENVOLIO +Why, what is Tybalt? +MERCUTIO +More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is +the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as +you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and +proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and +the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk +button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the +very first house, of the first and second cause: +ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the +hai! +BENVOLIO +The what? +MERCUTIO +The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting +fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu, +a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good +whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing, +grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with +these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these +perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form, +that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their +bones, their bones! +Enter ROMEO + +BENVOLIO +Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo. +MERCUTIO +Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh, +how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers +that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a +kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to +be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; +Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey +eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior +Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation +to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit +fairly last night. +ROMEO +Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? +MERCUTIO +The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive? +ROMEO +Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in +such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. +MERCUTIO +That's as much as to say, such a case as yours +constrains a man to bow in the hams. +ROMEO +Meaning, to court'sy. +MERCUTIO +Thou hast most kindly hit it. +ROMEO +A most courteous exposition. +MERCUTIO +Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. +ROMEO +Pink for flower. +MERCUTIO +Right. +ROMEO +Why, then is my pump well flowered. +MERCUTIO +Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast +worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it +is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular. +ROMEO +O single-soled jest, solely singular for the +singleness. +MERCUTIO +Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint. +ROMEO +Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match. +MERCUTIO +Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have +done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of +thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five: +was I with you there for the goose? +ROMEO +Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast +not there for the goose. +MERCUTIO +I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. +ROMEO +Nay, good goose, bite not. +MERCUTIO +Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most +sharp sauce. +ROMEO +And is it not well served in to a sweet goose? +MERCUTIO +O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an +inch narrow to an ell broad! +ROMEO +I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added +to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. +MERCUTIO +Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? +now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art +thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: +for this drivelling love is like a great natural, +that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. +BENVOLIO +Stop there, stop there. +MERCUTIO +Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. +BENVOLIO +Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. +MERCUTIO +O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short: +for I was come to the whole depth of my tale; and +meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer. +ROMEO +Here's goodly gear! +Enter Nurse and PETER + +MERCUTIO +A sail, a sail! +BENVOLIO +Two, two; a shirt and a smock. +Nurse +Peter! +PETER +Anon! +Nurse +My fan, Peter. +MERCUTIO +Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the +fairer face. +Nurse +God ye good morrow, gentlemen. +MERCUTIO +God ye good den, fair gentlewoman. +Nurse +Is it good den? +MERCUTIO +'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the +dial is now upon the prick of noon. +Nurse +Out upon you! what a man are you! +ROMEO +One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to +mar. +Nurse +By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,' +quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I +may find the young Romeo? +ROMEO +I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when +you have found him than he was when you sought him: +I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse. +Nurse +You say well. +MERCUTIO +Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith; +wisely, wisely. +Nurse +if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with +you. +BENVOLIO +She will indite him to some supper. +MERCUTIO +A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho! +ROMEO +What hast thou found? +MERCUTIO +No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, +that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent. +Sings + +An old hare hoar, +And an old hare hoar, +Is very good meat in lent +But a hare that is hoar +Is too much for a score, +When it hoars ere it be spent. +Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll +to dinner, thither. +ROMEO +I will follow you. +MERCUTIO +Farewell, ancient lady; farewell, +Singing + +'lady, lady, lady.' +Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO + +Nurse +Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy +merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery? +ROMEO +A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, +and will speak more in a minute than he will stand +to in a month. +Nurse +An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him +down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such +Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall. +Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am +none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by +too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure? +PETER +I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon +should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare +draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a +good quarrel, and the law on my side. +Nurse +Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about +me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word: +and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you +out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself: +but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into +a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross +kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman +is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double +with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered +to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing. +ROMEO +Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I +protest unto thee-- +Nurse +Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much: +Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman. +ROMEO +What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me. +Nurse +I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as +I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer. +ROMEO +Bid her devise +Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; +And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell +Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains. +Nurse +No truly sir; not a penny. +ROMEO +Go to; I say you shall. +Nurse +This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there. +ROMEO +And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall: +Within this hour my man shall be with thee +And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair; +Which to the high top-gallant of my joy +Must be my convoy in the secret night. +Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains: +Farewell; commend me to thy mistress. +Nurse +Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir. +ROMEO +What say'st thou, my dear nurse? +Nurse +Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, +Two may keep counsel, putting one away? +ROMEO +I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel. +NURSE +Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord, +Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there +is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain +lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief +see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her +sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer +man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks +as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not +rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter? +ROMEO +Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R. +Nurse +Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for +the--No; I know it begins with some other +letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of +it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good +to hear it. +ROMEO +Commend me to thy lady. +Nurse +Ay, a thousand times. +Exit Romeo + +Peter! +PETER +Anon! +Nurse +Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace. +Exeunt + +SCENE V. Capulet's orchard. +Enter JULIET +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. +Nurse +Peter, stay at the gate. +Exit PETER + +JULIET +Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad? +Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; +If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news +By playing it to me with so sour a face. +Nurse +I am a-weary, give me leave awhile: +Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had! +JULIET +I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news: +Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak. +Nurse +Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile? +Do you not see that I am out of breath? +JULIET +How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath +To say to me that thou art out of breath? +The excuse that thou dost make in this delay +Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. +Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that; +Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance: +Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad? +Nurse +Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not +how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his +face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels +all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body, +though they be not to be talked on, yet they are +past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy, +but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy +ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home? +JULIET +No, no: but all this did I know before. +What says he of our marriage? what of that? +Nurse +Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I! +It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. +My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back! +Beshrew your heart for sending me about, +To catch my death with jaunting up and down! +JULIET +I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. +Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love? +Nurse +Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a +courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I +warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother? +JULIET +Where is my mother! why, she is within; +Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest! +'Your love says, like an honest gentleman, +Where is your mother?' +Nurse +O God's lady dear! +Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow; +Is this the poultice for my aching bones? +Henceforward do your messages yourself. +JULIET +Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo? +Nurse +Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day? +JULIET +I have. +Nurse +Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell; +There stays a husband to make you a wife: +Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks, +They'll be in scarlet straight at any news. +Hie you to church; I must another way, +To fetch a ladder, by the which your love +Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark: +I am the drudge and toil in your delight, +But you shall bear the burden soon at night. +Go; I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell. +JULIET +Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell. +Exeunt + +SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell. +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO +FRIAR LAURENCE +So smile the heavens upon this holy act, +That after hours with sorrow chide us not! +ROMEO +Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, +It cannot countervail the exchange of joy +That one short minute gives me in her sight: +Do thou but close our hands with holy words, +Then love-devouring death do what he dare; +It is enough I may but call her mine. +FRIAR LAURENCE +These violent delights have violent ends +And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, +Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey +Is loathsome in his own deliciousness +And in the taste confounds the appetite: +Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; +Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. +Enter JULIET + +Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot +Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint: +A lover may bestride the gossamer +That idles in the wanton summer air, +And yet not fall; so light is vanity. +JULIET +Good even to my ghostly confessor. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both. +JULIET +As much to him, else is his thanks too much. +ROMEO +Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy +Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more +To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath +This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue +Unfold the imagined happiness that both +Receive in either by this dear encounter. +JULIET +Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, +Brags of his substance, not of ornament: +They are but beggars that can count their worth; +But my true love is grown to such excess +I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Come, come with me, and we will make short work; +For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone +Till holy church incorporate two in one. +Exeunt + +ACT III +SCENE I. A public place. +Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants +BENVOLIO +I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire: +The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, +And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; +For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. +MERCUTIO +Thou art like one of those fellows that when he +enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword +upon the table and says 'God send me no need of +thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws +it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need. +BENVOLIO +Am I like such a fellow? +MERCUTIO +Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as +any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as +soon moody to be moved. +BENVOLIO +And what to? +MERCUTIO +Nay, an there were two such, we should have none +shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why, +thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, +or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou +wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no +other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what +eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? +Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of +meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as +an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a +man for coughing in the street, because he hath +wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun: +didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing +his new doublet before Easter? with another, for +tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou +wilt tutor me from quarrelling! +BENVOLIO +An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man +should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. +MERCUTIO +The fee-simple! O simple! +BENVOLIO +By my head, here come the Capulets. +MERCUTIO +By my heel, I care not. +Enter TYBALT and others + +TYBALT +Follow me close, for I will speak to them. +Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you. +MERCUTIO +And but one word with one of us? couple it with +something; make it a word and a blow. +TYBALT +You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you +will give me occasion. +MERCUTIO +Could you not take some occasion without giving? +TYBALT +Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,-- +MERCUTIO +Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an +thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but +discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall +make you dance. 'Zounds, consort! +BENVOLIO +We talk here in the public haunt of men: +Either withdraw unto some private place, +And reason coldly of your grievances, +Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us. +MERCUTIO +Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze; +I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I. +Enter ROMEO + +TYBALT +Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man. +MERCUTIO +But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery: +Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower; +Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.' +TYBALT +Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford +No better term than this,--thou art a villain. +ROMEO +Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee +Doth much excuse the appertaining rage +To such a greeting: villain am I none; +Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not. +TYBALT +Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries +That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw. +ROMEO +I do protest, I never injured thee, +But love thee better than thou canst devise, +Till thou shalt know the reason of my love: +And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender +As dearly as my own,--be satisfied. +MERCUTIO +O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! +Alla stoccata carries it away. +Draws + +Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk? +TYBALT +What wouldst thou have with me? +MERCUTIO +Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine +lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you +shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the +eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher +by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your +ears ere it be out. +TYBALT +I am for you. +Drawing + +ROMEO +Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up. +MERCUTIO +Come, sir, your passado. +They fight + +ROMEO +Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons. +Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage! +Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath +Forbidden bandying in Verona streets: +Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio! +TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers + +MERCUTIO +I am hurt. +A plague o' both your houses! I am sped. +Is he gone, and hath nothing? +BENVOLIO +What, art thou hurt? +MERCUTIO +Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough. +Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon. +Exit Page + +ROMEO +Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. +MERCUTIO +No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a +church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for +me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I +am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' +both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a +cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a +rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of +arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I +was hurt under your arm. +ROMEO +I thought all for the best. +MERCUTIO +Help me into some house, Benvolio, +Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses! +They have made worms' meat of me: I have it, +And soundly too: your houses! +Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO + +ROMEO +This gentleman, the prince's near ally, +My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt +In my behalf; my reputation stain'd +With Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hour +Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet, +Thy beauty hath made me effeminate +And in my temper soften'd valour's steel! +Re-enter BENVOLIO + +BENVOLIO +O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead! +That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, +Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. +ROMEO +This day's black fate on more days doth depend; +This but begins the woe, others must end. +BENVOLIO +Here comes the furious Tybalt back again. +ROMEO +Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain! +Away to heaven, respective lenity, +And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! +Re-enter TYBALT + +Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again, +That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul +Is but a little way above our heads, +Staying for thine to keep him company: +Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him. +TYBALT +Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, +Shalt with him hence. +ROMEO +This shall determine that. +They fight; TYBALT falls + +BENVOLIO +Romeo, away, be gone! +The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. +Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death, +If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away! +ROMEO +O, I am fortune's fool! +BENVOLIO +Why dost thou stay? +Exit ROMEO + +Enter Citizens, & c + +First Citizen +Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio? +Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he? +BENVOLIO +There lies that Tybalt. +First Citizen +Up, sir, go with me; +I charge thee in the princes name, obey. +Enter Prince, attended; MONTAGUE, CAPULET, their Wives, and others + +PRINCE +Where are the vile beginners of this fray? +BENVOLIO +O noble prince, I can discover all +The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl: +There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, +That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio. +LADY CAPULET +Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child! +O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt +O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true, +For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague. +O cousin, cousin! +PRINCE +Benvolio, who began this bloody fray? +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. +LADY CAPULET +He is a kinsman to the Montague; +Affection makes him false; he speaks not true: +Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, +And all those twenty could but kill one life. +I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give; +Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live. +PRINCE +Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio; +Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe? +MONTAGUE +Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend; +His fault concludes but what the law should end, +The life of Tybalt. +PRINCE +And for that offence +Immediately we do exile him hence: +I have an interest in your hate's proceeding, +My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding; +But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine +That you shall all repent the loss of mine: +I will be deaf to pleading and excuses; +Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses: +Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste, +Else, when he's found, that hour is his last. +Bear hence this body and attend our will: +Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. +Exeunt + +SCENE II. Capulet's orchard. +Enter JULIET +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? +Nurse +Ay, ay, the cords. +Throws them down + +JULIET +Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands? +Nurse +Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead! +We are undone, lady, we are undone! +Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead! +JULIET +Can heaven be so envious? +Nurse +Romeo can, +Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo! +Who ever would have thought it? Romeo! +JULIET +What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus? +This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell. +Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,' +And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more +Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice: +I am not I, if there be such an I; +Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.' +If he be slain, say 'I'; or if not, no: +Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe. +Nurse +I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,-- +God save the mark!--here on his manly breast: +A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse; +Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood, +All in gore-blood; I swounded at the sight. +JULIET +O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once! +To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty! +Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here; +And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! +Nurse +O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had! +O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman! +That ever I should live to see thee dead! +JULIET +What storm is this that blows so contrary? +Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead? +My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord? +Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom! +For who is living, if those two are gone? +Nurse +Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; +Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished. +JULIET +O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? +Nurse +It did, it did; alas the day, it did! +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! +Nurse +There's no trust, +No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, +All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. +Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae: +These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. +Shame come to Romeo! +JULIET +Blister'd be thy tongue +For such a wish! he was not born to shame: +Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; +For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd +Sole monarch of the universal earth. +O, what a beast was I to chide at him! +Nurse +Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin? +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? +Nurse +Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse: +Will you go to them? I will bring you thither. +JULIET +Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent, +When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. +Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled, +Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled: +He made you for a highway to my bed; +But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed. +Come, cords, come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed; +And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead! +Nurse +Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo +To comfort you: I wot well where he is. +Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night: +I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell. +JULIET +O, find him! give this ring to my true knight, +And bid him come to take his last farewell. +Exeunt + +SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell. +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE +FRIAR LAURENCE +Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: +Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, +And thou art wedded to calamity. +Enter ROMEO + +ROMEO +Father, what news? what is the prince's doom? +What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand, +That I yet know not? +FRIAR LAURENCE +Too familiar +Is my dear son with such sour company: +I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom. +ROMEO +What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom? +FRIAR LAURENCE +A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips, +Not body's death, but body's banishment. +ROMEO +Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;' +For exile hath more terror in his look, +Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.' +FRIAR LAURENCE +Hence from Verona art thou banished: +Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. +ROMEO +There is no world without Verona walls, +But purgatory, torture, hell itself. +Hence-banished is banish'd from the world, +And world's exile is death: then banished, +Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment, +Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe, +And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. +FRIAR LAURENCE +O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! +Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince, +Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law, +And turn'd that black word death to banishment: +This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not. +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'? +FRIAR LAURENCE +Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word. +ROMEO +O, thou wilt speak again of banishment. +FRIAR LAURENCE +I'll give thee armour to keep off that word: +Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, +To comfort thee, though thou art banished. +ROMEO +Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy! +Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, +Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, +It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more. +FRIAR LAURENCE +O, then I see that madmen have no ears. +ROMEO +How should they, when that wise men have no eyes? +FRIAR LAURENCE +Let me dispute with thee of thy estate. +ROMEO +Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel: +Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, +An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, +Doting like me and like me banished, +Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, +And fall upon the ground, as I do now, +Taking the measure of an unmade grave. +Knocking within + +FRIAR LAURENCE +Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself. +ROMEO +Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans, +Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes. +Knocking + +FRIAR LAURENCE +Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise; +Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up; +Knocking + +Run to my study. By and by! God's will, +What simpleness is this! I come, I come! +Knocking + +Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will? +Nurse +[Within] Let me come in, and you shall know +my errand; +I come from Lady Juliet. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Welcome, then. +Enter Nurse + +Nurse +O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar, +Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo? +FRIAR LAURENCE +There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk. +Nurse +O, he is even in my mistress' case, +Just in her case! O woful sympathy! +Piteous predicament! Even so lies she, +Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering. +Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man: +For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand; +Why should you fall into so deep an O? +ROMEO +Nurse! +Nurse +Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all. +ROMEO +Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her? +Doth she not think me an old murderer, +Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy +With blood removed but little from her own? +Where is she? and how doth she? and what says +My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love? +Nurse +O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps; +And now falls on her bed; and then starts up, +And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries, +And then down falls again. +ROMEO +As if that name, +Shot from the deadly level of a gun, +Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand +Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me, +In what vile part of this anatomy +Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack +The hateful mansion. +Drawing his sword + +FRIAR LAURENCE +Hold thy desperate hand: +Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: +Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote +The unreasonable fury of a beast: +Unseemly woman in a seeming man! +Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! +Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order, +I thought thy disposition better temper'd. +Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself? +And stay thy lady too that lives in thee, +By doing damned hate upon thyself? +Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth? +Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet +In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose. +Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit; +Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all, +And usest none in that true use indeed +Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit: +Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, +Digressing from the valour of a man; +Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, +Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish; +Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, +Misshapen in the conduct of them both, +Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask, +Is set afire by thine own ignorance, +And thou dismember'd with thine own defence. +What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive, +For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead; +There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee, +But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too: +The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend +And turns it to exile; there art thou happy: +A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back; +Happiness courts thee in her best array; +But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench, +Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love: +Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. +Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed, +Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her: +But look thou stay not till the watch be set, +For then thou canst not pass to Mantua; +Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time +To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, +Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back +With twenty hundred thousand times more joy +Than thou went'st forth in lamentation. +Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady; +And bid her hasten all the house to bed, +Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto: +Romeo is coming. +Nurse +O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night +To hear good counsel: O, what learning is! +My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come. +ROMEO +Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. +Nurse +Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir: +Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. +Exit + +ROMEO +How well my comfort is revived by this! +FRIAR LAURENCE +Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state: +Either be gone before the watch be set, +Or by the break of day disguised from hence: +Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man, +And he shall signify from time to time +Every good hap to you that chances here: +Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night. +ROMEO +But that a joy past joy calls out on me, +It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell. +Exeunt + +SCENE IV. A room in Capulet's house. +Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS +CAPULET +Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily, +That we have had no time to move our daughter: +Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly, +And so did I:--Well, we were born to die. +'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night: +I promise you, but for your company, +I would have been a-bed an hour ago. +PARIS +These times of woe afford no time to woo. +Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter. +LADY CAPULET +I will, and know her mind early to-morrow; +To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness. +CAPULET +Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender +Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled +In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not. +Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; +Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love; +And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next-- +But, soft! what day is this? +PARIS +Monday, my lord, +CAPULET +Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon, +O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her, +She shall be married to this noble earl. +Will you be ready? do you like this haste? +We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two; +For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, +It may be thought we held him carelessly, +Being our kinsman, if we revel much: +Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends, +And there an end. But what say you to Thursday? +PARIS +My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow. +CAPULET +Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then. +Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed, +Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day. +Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho! +Afore me! it is so very very late, +That we may call it early by and by. +Good night. +Exeunt + +SCENE V. Capulet's orchard. +Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the window +JULIET +Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: +It was the nightingale, and not the lark, +That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; +Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree: +Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. +ROMEO +It was the lark, the herald of the morn, +No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks +Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: +Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day +Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. +I must be gone and live, or stay and die. +JULIET +Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I: +It is some meteor that the sun exhales, +To be to thee this night a torch-bearer, +And light thee on thy way to Mantua: +Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone. +ROMEO +Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death; +I am content, so thou wilt have it so. +I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye, +'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow; +Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat +The vaulty heaven so high above our heads: +I have more care to stay than will to go: +Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. +How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day. +JULIET +It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away! +It is the lark that sings so out of tune, +Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. +Some say the lark makes sweet division; +This doth not so, for she divideth us: +Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes, +O, now I would they had changed voices too! +Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, +Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day, +O, now be gone; more light and light it grows. +ROMEO +More light and light; more dark and dark our woes! +Enter Nurse, to the chamber + +Nurse +Madam! +JULIET +Nurse? +Nurse +Your lady mother is coming to your chamber: +The day is broke; be wary, look about. +Exit + +JULIET +Then, window, let day in, and let life out. +ROMEO +Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend. +He goeth down + +JULIET +Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend! +I must hear from thee every day in the hour, +For in a minute there are many days: +O, by this count I shall be much in years +Ere I again behold my Romeo! +ROMEO +Farewell! +I will omit no opportunity +That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. +JULIET +O think'st thou we shall ever meet again? +ROMEO +I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve +For sweet discourses in our time to come. +JULIET +O God, I have an ill-divining soul! +Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, +As one dead in the bottom of a tomb: +Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. +ROMEO +And trust me, love, in my eye so do you: +Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu! +Exit + +JULIET +O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle: +If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him. +That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune; +For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long, +But send him back. +LADY CAPULET +[Within] Ho, daughter! are you up? +JULIET +Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother? +Is she not down so late, or up so early? +What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither? +Enter LADY CAPULET + +LADY CAPULET +Why, how now, Juliet! +JULIET +Madam, I am not well. +LADY CAPULET +Evermore weeping for your cousin's death? +What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? +An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live; +Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love; +But much of grief shows still some want of wit. +JULIET +Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. +LADY CAPULET +So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend +Which you weep for. +JULIET +Feeling so the loss, +Cannot choose but ever weep the friend. +LADY CAPULET +Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death, +As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him. +JULIET +What villain madam? +LADY CAPULET +That same villain, Romeo. +JULIET +[Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.-- +God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart; +And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart. +LADY CAPULET +That is, because the traitor murderer lives. +JULIET +Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands: +Would none but I might venge my cousin's death! +LADY CAPULET +We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not: +Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua, +Where that same banish'd runagate doth live, +Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram, +That he shall soon keep Tybalt company: +And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied. +JULIET +Indeed, I never shall be satisfied +With Romeo, till I behold him--dead-- +Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd. +Madam, if you could find out but a man +To bear a poison, I would temper it; +That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, +Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors +To hear him named, and cannot come to him. +To wreak the love I bore my cousin +Upon his body that slaughter'd him! +LADY CAPULET +Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man. +But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl. +JULIET +And joy comes well in such a needy time: +What are they, I beseech your ladyship? +LADY CAPULET +Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child; +One who, to put thee from thy heaviness, +Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy, +That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for. +JULIET +Madam, in happy time, what day is that? +LADY CAPULET +Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn, +The gallant, young and noble gentleman, +The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church, +Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride. +JULIET +Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too, +He shall not make me there a joyful bride. +I wonder at this haste; that I must wed +Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo. +I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, +I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear, +It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, +Rather than Paris. These are news indeed! +LADY CAPULET +Here comes your father; tell him so yourself, +And see how he will take it at your hands. +Enter CAPULET and Nurse + +CAPULET +When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; +But for the sunset of my brother's son +It rains downright. +How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears? +Evermore showering? In one little body +Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; +For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, +Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, +Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; +Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, +Without a sudden calm, will overset +Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife! +Have you deliver'd to her our decree? +LADY CAPULET +Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. +I would the fool were married to her grave! +CAPULET +Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife. +How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks? +Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest, +Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought +So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom? +JULIET +Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have: +Proud can I never be of what I hate; +But thankful even for hate, that is meant love. +CAPULET +How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this? +'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;' +And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you, +Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds, +But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next, +To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, +Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. +Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! +You tallow-face! +LADY CAPULET +Fie, fie! what, are you mad? +JULIET +Good father, I beseech you on my knees, +Hear me with patience but to speak a word. +CAPULET +Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch! +I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, +Or never after look me in the face: +Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; +My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest +That God had lent us but this only child; +But now I see this one is one too much, +And that we have a curse in having her: +Out on her, hilding! +Nurse +God in heaven bless her! +You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so. +CAPULET +And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue, +Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go. +Nurse +I speak no treason. +CAPULET +O, God ye god-den. +Nurse +May not one speak? +CAPULET +Peace, you mumbling fool! +Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl; +For here we need it not. +LADY CAPULET +You are too hot. +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. +Exit + +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. +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. +JULIET +Speakest thou from thy heart? +Nurse +And from my soul too; +Or else beshrew them both. +JULIET +Amen! +Nurse +What? +JULIET +Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. +Go in: and tell my lady I am gone, +Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell, +To make confession and to be absolved. +Nurse +Marry, I will; and this is wisely done. +Exit + +JULIET +Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! +Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, +Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue +Which she hath praised him with above compare +So many thousand times? Go, counsellor; +Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. +I'll to the friar, to know his remedy: +If all else fail, myself have power to die. +Exit + +ACT IV +SCENE I. Friar Laurence's cell. +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS +FRIAR LAURENCE +On Thursday, sir? the time is very short. +PARIS +My father Capulet will have it so; +And I am nothing slow to slack his haste. +FRIAR LAURENCE +You say you do not know the lady's mind: +Uneven is the course, I like it not. +PARIS +Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, +And therefore have I little talk'd of love; +For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. +Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous +That she doth give her sorrow so much sway, +And in his wisdom hastes our marriage, +To stop the inundation of her tears; +Which, too much minded by herself alone, +May be put from her by society: +Now do you know the reason of this haste. +FRIAR LAURENCE +[Aside] I would I knew not why it should be slow'd. +Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell. +Enter JULIET + +PARIS +Happily met, my lady and my wife! +JULIET +That may be, sir, when I may be a wife. +PARIS +That may be must be, love, on Thursday next. +JULIET +What must be shall be. +FRIAR LAURENCE +That's a certain text. +PARIS +Come you to make confession to this father? +JULIET +To answer that, I should confess to you. +PARIS +Do not deny to him that you love me. +JULIET +I will confess to you that I love him. +PARIS +So will ye, I am sure, that you love me. +JULIET +If I do so, it will be of more price, +Being spoke behind your back, than to your face. +PARIS +Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears. +JULIET +The tears have got small victory by that; +For it was bad enough before their spite. +PARIS +Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report. +JULIET +That is no slander, sir, which is a truth; +And what I spake, I spake it to my face. +PARIS +Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it. +JULIET +It may be so, for it is not mine own. +Are you at leisure, holy father, now; +Or shall I come to you at evening mass? +FRIAR LAURENCE +My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now. +My lord, we must entreat the time alone. +PARIS +God shield I should disturb devotion! +Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye: +Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss. +Exit + +JULIET +O shut the door! and when thou hast done so, +Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help! +FRIAR LAURENCE +Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief; +It strains me past the compass of my wits: +I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it, +On Thursday next be married to this county. +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. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, +Which craves as desperate an execution. +As that is desperate which we would prevent. +If, rather than to marry County Paris, +Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, +Then is it likely thou wilt undertake +A thing like death to chide away this shame, +That copest with death himself to scape from it: +And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. +JULIET +O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, +From off the battlements of yonder tower; +Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk +Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; +Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, +O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, +With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; +Or bid me go into a new-made grave +And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; +Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; +And I will do it without fear or doubt, +To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love. +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. +JULIET +Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear! +FRIAR LAURENCE +Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous +In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed +To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. +JULIET +Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford. +Farewell, dear father! +Exeunt + +SCENE II. Hall in Capulet's house. +Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, and two Servingmen +CAPULET +So many guests invite as here are writ. +Exit First Servant + +Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. +Second Servant +You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they +can lick their fingers. +CAPULET +How canst thou try them so? +Second Servant +Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his +own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his +fingers goes not with me. +CAPULET +Go, be gone. +Exit Second Servant + +We shall be much unfurnished for this time. +What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence? +Nurse +Ay, forsooth. +CAPULET +Well, he may chance to do some good on her: +A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is. +Nurse +See where she comes from shrift with merry look. +Enter JULIET + +CAPULET +How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding? +JULIET +Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin +Of disobedient opposition +To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd +By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here, +And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you! +Henceforward I am ever ruled by you. +CAPULET +Send for the county; go tell him of this: +I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning. +JULIET +I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell; +And gave him what becomed love I might, +Not step o'er the bounds of modesty. +CAPULET +Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up: +This is as't should be. Let me see the county; +Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither. +Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar, +Our whole city is much bound to him. +JULIET +Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, +To help me sort such needful ornaments +As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? +LADY CAPULET +No, not till Thursday; there is time enough. +CAPULET +Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow. +Exeunt JULIET and Nurse + +LADY CAPULET +We shall be short in our provision: +'Tis now near night. +CAPULET +Tush, I will stir about, +And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife: +Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her; +I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone; +I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho! +They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself +To County Paris, to prepare him up +Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light, +Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd. +Exeunt + +SCENE III. Juliet's chamber. +Enter JULIET and Nurse +JULIET +Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse, +I pray thee, leave me to my self to-night, +For I have need of many orisons +To move the heavens to smile upon my state, +Which, well thou know'st, is cross, and full of sin. +Enter LADY CAPULET + +LADY CAPULET +What, are you busy, ho? need you my help? +JULIET +No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries +As are behoveful for our state to-morrow: +So please you, let me now be left alone, +And let the nurse this night sit up with you; +For, I am sure, you have your hands full all, +In this so sudden business. +LADY CAPULET +Good night: +Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. +Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse + +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 + +SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house. +Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse +LADY CAPULET +Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. +Nurse +They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. +Enter CAPULET + +CAPULET +Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, +The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock: +Look to the baked meats, good Angelica: +Spare not for the cost. +Nurse +Go, you cot-quean, go, +Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow +For this night's watching. +CAPULET +No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now +All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. +LADY CAPULET +Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; +But I will watch you from such watching now. +Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse + +CAPULET +A jealous hood, a jealous hood! +Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets + +Now, fellow, +What's there? +First Servant +Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. +CAPULET +Make haste, make haste. +Exit First Servant + +Sirrah, fetch drier logs: +Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. +Second Servant +I have a head, sir, that will find out logs, +And never trouble Peter for the matter. +Exit + +CAPULET +Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! +Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day: +The county will be here with music straight, +For so he said he would: I hear him near. +Music within + +Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say! +Re-enter Nurse + +Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up; +I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste, +Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: +Make haste, I say. +Exeunt + +SCENE V. Juliet's chamber. +Enter Nurse +Nurse +Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she: +Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed! +Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride! +What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now; +Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, +The County Paris hath set up his rest, +That you shall rest but little. God forgive me, +Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep! +I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam! +Ay, let the county take you in your bed; +He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be? +Undraws the curtains + +What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again! +I must needs wake you; Lady! lady! lady! +Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead! +O, well-a-day, that ever I was born! +Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady! +Enter LADY CAPULET + +LADY CAPULET +What noise is here? +Nurse +O lamentable day! +LADY CAPULET +What is the matter? +Nurse +Look, look! O heavy day! +LADY CAPULET +O me, O me! My child, my only life, +Revive, look up, or I will die with thee! +Help, help! Call help. +Enter CAPULET + +CAPULET +For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come. +Nurse +She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day! +LADY CAPULET +Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead! +CAPULET +Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold: +Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; +Life and these lips have long been separated: +Death lies on her like an untimely frost +Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. +Nurse +O lamentable day! +LADY CAPULET +O woful time! +CAPULET +Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, +Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians + +FRIAR LAURENCE +Come, is the bride ready to go to church? +CAPULET +Ready to go, but never to return. +O son! the night before thy wedding-day +Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies, +Flower as she was, deflowered by him. +Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; +My daughter he hath wedded: I will die, +And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's. +PARIS +Have I thought long to see this morning's face, +And doth it give me such a sight as this? +LADY CAPULET +Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! +Most miserable hour that e'er time saw +In lasting labour of his pilgrimage! +But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, +But one thing to rejoice and solace in, +And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight! +Nurse +O woe! O woful, woful, woful day! +Most lamentable day, most woful day, +That ever, ever, I did yet behold! +O day! O day! O day! O hateful day! +Never was seen so black a day as this: +O woful day, O woful day! +PARIS +Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! +Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd, +By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown! +O love! O life! not life, but love in death! +CAPULET +Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd! +Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now +To murder, murder our solemnity? +O child! O child! my soul, and not my child! +Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead; +And with my child my joys are buried. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not +In these confusions. Heaven and yourself +Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all, +And all the better is it for the maid: +Your part in her you could not keep from death, +But heaven keeps his part in eternal life. +The most you sought was her promotion; +For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced: +And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced +Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? +O, in this love, you love your child so ill, +That you run mad, seeing that she is well: +She's not well married that lives married long; +But she's best married that dies married young. +Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary +On this fair corse; and, as the custom is, +In all her best array bear her to church: +For though fond nature bids us an lament, +Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment. +CAPULET +All things that we ordained festival, +Turn from their office to black funeral; +Our instruments to melancholy bells, +Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, +Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, +Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, +And all things change them to the contrary. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him; +And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare +To follow this fair corse unto her grave: +The heavens do lour upon you for some ill; +Move them no more by crossing their high will. +Exeunt CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, PARIS, and FRIAR LAURENCE + +First Musician +Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone. +Nurse +Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up; +For, well you know, this is a pitiful case. +Exit + +First Musician +Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended. +Enter PETER + +PETER +Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, Heart's +ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.' +First Musician +Why 'Heart's ease?' +PETER +O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My +heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump, +to comfort me. +First Musician +Not a dump we; 'tis no time to play now. +PETER +You will not, then? +First Musician +No. +PETER +I will then give it you soundly. +First Musician +What will you give us? +PETER +No money, on my faith, but the gleek; +I will give you the minstrel. +First Musician +Then I will give you the serving-creature. +PETER +Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on +your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you, +I'll fa you; do you note me? +First Musician +An you re us and fa us, you note us. +Second Musician +Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit. +PETER +Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you +with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer +me like men: +'When griping grief the heart doth wound, +And doleful dumps the mind oppress, +Then music with her silver sound'-- +why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver +sound'? What say you, Simon Catling? +Musician +Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound. +PETER +Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck? +Second Musician +I say 'silver sound,' because musicians sound for silver. +PETER +Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost? +Third Musician +Faith, I know not what to say. +PETER +O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say +for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,' +because musicians have no gold for sounding: +'Then music with her silver sound +With speedy help doth lend redress.' +Exit + +First Musician +What a pestilent knave is this same! +Second Musician +Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry for the +mourners, and stay dinner. +Exeunt + +ACT V +SCENE I. Mantua. A street. +Enter ROMEO +ROMEO +If I may trust the flattering truth 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 spirit +Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. +I dreamt my lady came and found me dead-- +Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave +to think!-- +And breathed such life with kisses in my lips, +That I revived, 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, booted + +News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar! +Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar? +How doth my lady? Is my father well? +How fares my Juliet? that I ask again; +For nothing can be ill, if she be well. +BALTHASAR +Then she is well, and nothing can be ill: +Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, +And her immortal part with angels lives. +I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault, +And presently took post to tell it you: +O, pardon me for bringing these ill news, +Since you did leave it for my office, sir. +ROMEO +Is it even so? then I defy you, stars! +Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper, +And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night. +BALTHASAR +I do beseech you, sir, have patience: +Your looks are pale and wild, and do import +Some misadventure. +ROMEO +Tush, thou art deceived: +Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do. +Hast thou no letters to me from the friar? +BALTHASAR +No, my good lord. +ROMEO +No matter: get thee gone, +And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight. +Exit BALTHASAR + +Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night. +Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift +To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! +I do remember an apothecary,-- +And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted +In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, +Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, +Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: +And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, +An alligator stuff'd, and other skins +Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves +A beggarly account of empty boxes, +Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, +Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, +Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. +Noting this penury, to myself I said +'An if a man did need a poison now, +Whose sale is present death in Mantua, +Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.' +O, this same thought did but forerun my need; +And this same needy man must sell it me. +As I remember, this should be the house. +Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. +What, ho! apothecary! +Enter Apothecary + +Apothecary +Who calls so loud? +ROMEO +Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor: +Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have +A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear +As will disperse itself through all the veins +That the life-weary taker may fall dead +And that the trunk may be discharged of breath +As violently as hasty powder fired +Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. +Apothecary +Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law +Is death to any he that utters them. +ROMEO +Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, +And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks, +Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, +Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back; +The world is not thy friend nor the world's law; +The world affords no law to make thee rich; +Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. +Apothecary +My poverty, but not my will, consents. +ROMEO +I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. +Apothecary +Put this in any liquid thing you will, +And drink it off; and, if you had the strength +Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight. +ROMEO +There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, +Doing more murders in this loathsome world, +Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. +I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. +Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. +Come, cordial and not poison, go with me +To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee. +Exeunt + +SCENE II. Friar Laurence's cell. +Enter FRIAR JOHN +FRIAR JOHN +Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho! +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE + +FRIAR LAURENCE +This same should be the voice of Friar John. +Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo? +Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. +FRIAR JOHN +Going to find a bare-foot brother out +One of our order, to associate me, +Here in this city visiting the sick, +And finding him, the searchers of the town, +Suspecting that we both were in a house +Where the infectious pestilence did reign, +Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth; +So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? +FRIAR JOHN +I could not send it,--here it is again,-- +Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, +So fearful were they of infection. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood, +The letter was not nice but full of charge +Of dear import, and the neglecting it +May do much danger. Friar John, go hence; +Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight +Unto my cell. +FRIAR JOHN +Brother, I'll go and bring it thee. +Exit + +FRIAR LAURENCE +Now must I to the monument alone; +Within three hours will fair Juliet wake: +She will beshrew me much that Romeo +Hath had no notice of these accidents; +But I will write again to Mantua, +And keep her at my cell till Romeo come; +Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb! +Exit + +SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets. +Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch +PARIS +Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof: +Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. +Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along, +Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground; +So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread, +Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves, +But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me, +As signal that thou hear'st something approach. +Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go. +PAGE +[Aside] I am almost afraid to stand alone +Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure. +Retires + +PARIS +Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,-- +O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;-- +Which with sweet water nightly I will dew, +Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans: +The obsequies that I for thee will keep +Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. +The Page whistles + +The boy gives warning something doth approach. +What cursed foot wanders this way to-night, +To cross my obsequies and true love's rite? +What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile. +Retires + +Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch, mattock, & c + +ROMEO +Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron. +Hold, take this letter; early in the morning +See thou deliver it to my lord and father. +Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee, +Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof, +And do not interrupt me in my course. +Why I descend into this bed of death, +Is partly to behold my lady's face; +But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger +A precious ring, a ring that I must use +In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone: +But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry +In what I further shall intend to do, +By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint +And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: +The time and my intents are savage-wild, +More fierce and more inexorable far +Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. +BALTHASAR +I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you. +ROMEO +So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that: +Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow. +BALTHASAR +[Aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout: +His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt. +Retires + +ROMEO +Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, +Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, +Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, +And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food! +Opens the tomb + +PARIS +This is that banish'd haughty Montague, +That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief, +It is supposed, the fair creature died; +And here is come to do some villanous shame +To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him. +Comes forward + +Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague! +Can vengeance be pursued further than death? +Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee: +Obey, and go with me; for thou must die. +ROMEO +I must indeed; and therefore came I hither. +Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man; +Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone; +Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, +Put not another sin upon my head, +By urging me to fury: O, be gone! +By heaven, I love thee better than myself; +For I come hither arm'd against myself: +Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say, +A madman's mercy bade thee run away. +PARIS +I do defy thy conjurations, +And apprehend thee for a felon here. +ROMEO +Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy! +They fight + +PAGE +O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch. +Exit + +PARIS +O, I am slain! +Falls + +If thou be merciful, +Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. +Dies + +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. +Dies + +Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade + +FRIAR LAURENCE +Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night +Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there? +BALTHASAR +Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend, +What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light +To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern, +It burneth in the Capel's monument. +BALTHASAR +It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master, +One that you love. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Who is it? +BALTHASAR +Romeo. +FRIAR LAURENCE +How long hath he been there? +BALTHASAR +Full half an hour. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Go with me to the vault. +BALTHASAR +I dare not, sir +My master knows not but I am gone hence; +And fearfully did menace me with death, +If I did stay to look on his intents. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me: +O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing. +BALTHASAR +As I did sleep under this yew-tree here, +I dreamt my master and another fought, +And that my master slew him. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Romeo! +Advances + +Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains +The stony entrance of this sepulchre? +What mean these masterless and gory swords +To lie discolour'd by this place of peace? +Enters the tomb + +Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too? +And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour +Is guilty of this lamentable chance! +The lady stirs. +JULIET wakes + +JULIET +O comfortable friar! where is my lord? +I do remember well where I should be, +And there I am. Where is my Romeo? +Noise within + +FRIAR LAURENCE +I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest +Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep: +A greater power than we can contradict +Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. +Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; +And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee +Among a sisterhood of holy nuns: +Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; +Come, go, good Juliet, +Noise again + +I dare no longer stay. +JULIET +Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. +Exit FRIAR LAURENCE + +What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand? +Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end: +O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop +To help me after? I will kiss thy lips; +Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, +To make die with a restorative. +Kisses him + +Thy lips are warm. +First Watchman +[Within] Lead, boy: which way? +JULIET +Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! +Snatching ROMEO's dagger + +This is thy sheath; +Stabs herself + +there rust, and let me die. +Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies + +Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS + +PAGE +This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn. +First Watchman +The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard: +Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach. +Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain, +And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead, +Who here hath lain these two days buried. +Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets: +Raise up the Montagues: some others search: +We see the ground whereon these woes do lie; +But the true ground of all these piteous woes +We cannot without circumstance descry. +Re-enter some of the Watch, with BALTHASAR + +Second Watchman +Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard. +First Watchman +Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither. +Re-enter others of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE + +Third Watchman +Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps: +We took this mattock and this spade from him, +As he was coming from this churchyard side. +First Watchman +A great suspicion: stay the friar too. +Enter the PRINCE and Attendants + +PRINCE +What misadventure is so early up, +That calls our person from our morning's rest? +Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others + +CAPULET +What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? +LADY CAPULET +The people in the street cry Romeo, +Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run, +With open outcry toward our monument. +PRINCE +What fear is this which startles in our ears? +First Watchman +Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain; +And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before, +Warm and new kill'd. +PRINCE +Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes. +First Watchman +Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man; +With instruments upon them, fit to open +These dead men's tombs. +CAPULET +O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! +This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house +Is empty on the back of Montague,-- +And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom! +LADY CAPULET +O me! this sight of death is as a bell, +That warns my old age to a sepulchre. +Enter MONTAGUE and others + +PRINCE +Come, Montague; for thou art early up, +To see thy son and heir more early down. +MONTAGUE +Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; +Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: +What further woe conspires against mine age? +PRINCE +Look, and thou shalt see. +MONTAGUE +O thou untaught! what manners is in this? +To press before thy father to a grave? +PRINCE +Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, +Till we can clear these ambiguities, +And know their spring, their head, their +true descent; +And then will I be general of your woes, +And lead you even to death: meantime forbear, +And let mischance be slave to patience. +Bring forth the parties of suspicion. +FRIAR LAURENCE +I am the greatest, able to do least, +Yet most suspected, as the time and place +Doth make against me of this direful murder; +And here I stand, both to impeach and purge +Myself condemned and myself excused. +PRINCE +Then say at once what thou dost know in this. +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. +PRINCE +We still have known thee for a holy man. +Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this? +BALTHASAR +I brought my master news of Juliet's death; +And then in post he came from Mantua +To this same place, to this same monument. +This letter he early bid me give his father, +And threatened me with death, going in the vault, +I departed not and left him there. +PRINCE +Give me the letter; I will look on it. +Where is the county's page, that raised the watch? +Sirrah, what made your master in this place? +PAGE +He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave; +And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: +Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb; +And by and by my master drew on him; +And then I ran away to call the watch. +PRINCE +This letter doth make good the friar's words, +Their course of love, the tidings of her death: +And here he writes that he did buy a poison +Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal +Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet. +Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! +See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, +That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. +And I for winking at your discords too +Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd. +CAPULET +O brother Montague, give me thy hand: +This is my daughter's jointure, for no more +Can I demand. +MONTAGUE +But I can give thee more: +For I will raise her statue in pure gold; +That while Verona by that name is known, +There shall no figure at such rate be set +As that of true and faithful Juliet. +CAPULET +As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; +Poor sacrifices of our enmity! +PRINCE +A glooming peace this morning with it brings; +The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: +Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; +Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: +For never was a story of more woe +Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. +Exeunt \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo_act1.txt b/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo_act1.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5683a9d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo_act1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1029 @@ +SAMPSON +Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. +GREGORY +No, for then we should be colliers. +SAMPSON +I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw. +GREGORY +Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar. +SAMPSON +I strike quickly, being moved. +GREGORY +But thou art not quickly moved to strike. +SAMPSON +A dog of the house of Montague moves me. +GREGORY +To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: +therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away. +SAMPSON +A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will +take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's. +GREGORY +That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes +to the wall. +SAMPSON +True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, +are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push +Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids +to the wall. +GREGORY +The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. +SAMPSON +'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I +have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the +maids, and cut off their heads. +GREGORY +The heads of the maids? +SAMPSON +Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; +take it in what sense thou wilt. +GREGORY +They must take it in sense that feel it. +SAMPSON +Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and +'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. +GREGORY +'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou +hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes +two of the house of the Montagues. +SAMPSON +My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. +GREGORY +How! turn thy back and run? +SAMPSON +Fear me not. +GREGORY +No, marry; I fear thee! +SAMPSON +Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. +GREGORY +I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as +they list. +SAMPSON +Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; +which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it. +Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR + +ABRAHAM +Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? +SAMPSON +I do bite my thumb, sir. +ABRAHAM +Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? +SAMPSON +[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say +ay? +GREGORY +No. +SAMPSON +No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I +bite my thumb, sir. +GREGORY +Do you quarrel, sir? +ABRAHAM +Quarrel sir! no, sir. +SAMPSON +If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you. +ABRAHAM +No better. +SAMPSON +Well, sir. +GREGORY +Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen. +SAMPSON +Yes, better, sir. +ABRAHAM +You lie. +SAMPSON +Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. +They fight + +Enter BENVOLIO + +BENVOLIO +Part, fools! +Put up your swords; you know not what you do. +Beats down their swords + +Enter TYBALT + +TYBALT +What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? +Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death. +BENVOLIO +I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, +Or manage it to part these men with me. +TYBALT +What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, +As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: +Have at thee, coward! +They fight + +Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs + +First Citizen +Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down! +Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues! +Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET + +CAPULET +What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho! +LADY CAPULET +A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword? +CAPULET +My sword, I say! Old Montague is come, +And flourishes his blade in spite of me. +Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE + +MONTAGUE +Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go. +LADY MONTAGUE +Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe. +Enter PRINCE, with Attendants + +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. +Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO + +MONTAGUE +Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? +Speak, nephew, were you by when it began? +BENVOLIO +Here were the servants of your adversary, +And yours, close fighting ere I did approach: +I drew to part them: in the instant came +The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared, +Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears, +He swung about his head and cut the winds, +Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn: +While we were interchanging thrusts and blows, +Came more and more and fought on part and part, +Till the prince came, who parted either part. +LADY MONTAGUE +O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day? +Right glad I am he was not at this fray. +BENVOLIO +Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun +Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, +A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad; +Where, underneath the grove of sycamore +That westward rooteth from the city's side, +So early walking did I see your son: +Towards him I made, but he was ware of me +And stole into the covert of the wood: +I, measuring his affections by my own, +That most are busied when they're most alone, +Pursued my humour not pursuing his, +And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me. +MONTAGUE +Many a morning hath he there been seen, +With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew. +Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs; +But all so soon as the all-cheering sun +Should in the furthest east begin to draw +The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, +Away from the light steals home my heavy son, +And private in his chamber pens himself, +Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out +And makes himself an artificial night: +Black and portentous must this humour prove, +Unless good counsel may the cause remove. +BENVOLIO +My noble uncle, do you know the cause? +MONTAGUE +I neither know it nor can learn of him. +BENVOLIO +Have you importuned him by any means? +MONTAGUE +Both by myself and many other friends: +But he, his own affections' counsellor, +Is to himself--I will not say how true-- +But to himself so secret and so close, +So far from sounding and discovery, +As is the bud bit with an envious worm, +Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, +Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. +Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow. +We would as willingly give cure as know. +Enter ROMEO + +BENVOLIO +See, where he comes: so please you, step aside; +I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. +MONTAGUE +I would thou wert so happy by thy stay, +To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. +Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE + +BENVOLIO +Good-morrow, cousin. +ROMEO +Is the day so young? +BENVOLIO +But new struck nine. +ROMEO +Ay me! sad hours seem long. +Was that my father that went hence so fast? +BENVOLIO +It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? +ROMEO +Not having that, which, having, makes them short. +BENVOLIO +In love? +ROMEO +Out-- +BENVOLIO +Of love? +ROMEO +Out of her favour, where I am in love. +BENVOLIO +Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, +Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! +ROMEO +Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, +Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! +Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? +Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. +Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. +Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! +O any thing, of nothing first create! +O heavy lightness! serious vanity! +Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! +Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, +sick health! +Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! +This love feel I, that feel no love in this. +Dost thou not laugh? +BENVOLIO +No, coz, I rather weep. +ROMEO +Good heart, at what? +BENVOLIO +At thy good heart's oppression. +ROMEO +Why, such is love's transgression. +Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, +Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest +With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown +Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. +Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; +Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; +Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: +What is it else? a madness most discreet, +A choking gall and a preserving sweet. +Farewell, my coz. +BENVOLIO +Soft! I will go along; +An if you leave me so, you do me wrong. +ROMEO +Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here; +This is not Romeo, he's some other where. +BENVOLIO +Tell me in sadness, who is that you love. +ROMEO +What, shall I groan and tell thee? +BENVOLIO +Groan! why, no. +But sadly tell me who. +ROMEO +Bid a sick man in sadness make his will: +Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! +In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. +BENVOLIO +I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved. +ROMEO +A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love. +BENVOLIO +A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. +ROMEO +Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit +With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit; +And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, +From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. +She will not stay the siege of loving terms, +Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, +Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold: +O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, +That when she dies with beauty dies her store. +BENVOLIO +Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste? +ROMEO +She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste, +For beauty starved with her severity +Cuts beauty off from all posterity. +She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, +To merit bliss by making me despair: +She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow +Do I live dead that live to tell it now. +BENVOLIO +Be ruled by me, forget to think of her. +ROMEO +O, teach me how I should forget to think. +BENVOLIO +By giving liberty unto thine eyes; +Examine other beauties. +ROMEO +'Tis the way +To call hers exquisite, in question more: +These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows +Being black put us in mind they hide the fair; +He that is strucken blind cannot forget +The precious treasure of his eyesight lost: +Show me a mistress that is passing fair, +What doth her beauty serve, but as a note +Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? +Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget. +BENVOLIO +I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. +Exeunt + +SCENE II. A street. +Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant +CAPULET +But Montague is bound as well as I, +In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, +For men so old as we to keep the peace. +PARIS +Of honourable reckoning are you both; +And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long. +But now, my lord, what say you to my suit? +CAPULET +But saying o'er what I have said before: +My child is yet a stranger in the world; +She hath not seen the change of fourteen years, +Let two more summers wither in their pride, +Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. +PARIS +Younger than she are happy mothers made. +CAPULET +And too soon marr'd are those so early made. +The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she, +She is the hopeful lady of my earth: +But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, +My will to her consent is but a part; +An she agree, within her scope of choice +Lies my consent and fair according voice. +This night I hold an old accustom'd feast, +Whereto I have invited many a guest, +Such as I love; and you, among the store, +One more, most welcome, makes my number more. +At my poor house look to behold this night +Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light: +Such comfort as do lusty young men feel +When well-apparell'd April on the heel +Of limping winter treads, even such delight +Among fresh female buds shall you this night +Inherit at my house; hear all, all see, +And like her most whose merit most shall be: +Which on more view, of many mine being one +May stand in number, though in reckoning none, +Come, go with me. +To Servant, giving a paper + +Go, sirrah, trudge about +Through fair Verona; find those persons out +Whose names are written there, and to them say, +My house and welcome on their pleasure stay. +Exeunt CAPULET and PARIS + +Servant +Find them out whose names are written here! It is +written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his +yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with +his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am +sent to find those persons whose names are here +writ, and can never find what names the writing +person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time. +Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO + +BENVOLIO +Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, +One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; +Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; +One desperate grief cures with another's languish: +Take thou some new infection to thy eye, +And the rank poison of the old will die. +ROMEO +Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that. +BENVOLIO +For what, I pray thee? +ROMEO +For your broken shin. +BENVOLIO +Why, Romeo, art thou mad? +ROMEO +Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is; +Shut up in prison, kept without my food, +Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow. +Servant +God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read? +ROMEO +Ay, mine own fortune in my misery. +Servant +Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I +pray, can you read any thing you see? +ROMEO +Ay, if I know the letters and the language. +Servant +Ye say honestly: rest you merry! +ROMEO +Stay, fellow; I can read. +Reads + +'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; +County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady +widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely +nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine +uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece +Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin +Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair +assembly: whither should they come? +Servant +Up. +ROMEO +Whither? +Servant +To supper; to our house. +ROMEO +Whose house? +Servant +My master's. +ROMEO +Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before. +Servant +Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the +great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house +of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. +Rest you merry! +Exit + +BENVOLIO +At this same ancient feast of Capulet's +Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest, +With all the admired beauties of Verona: +Go thither; and, with unattainted eye, +Compare her face with some that I shall show, +And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. +ROMEO +When the devout religion of mine eye +Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires; +And these, who often drown'd could never die, +Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars! +One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun +Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun. +BENVOLIO +Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by, +Herself poised with herself in either eye: +But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd +Your lady's love against some other maid +That I will show you shining at this feast, +And she shall scant show well that now shows best. +ROMEO +I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, +But to rejoice in splendor of mine own. +Exeunt + +SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house. +Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse +LADY CAPULET +Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me. +Nurse +Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old, +I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird! +God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet! +Enter JULIET + +JULIET +How now! who calls? +Nurse +Your mother. +JULIET +Madam, I am here. +What is your will? +LADY CAPULET +This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile, +We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again; +I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel. +Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age. +Nurse +Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. +LADY CAPULET +She's not fourteen. +Nurse +I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,-- +And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four-- +She is not fourteen. How long is it now +To Lammas-tide? +LADY CAPULET +A fortnight and odd days. +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.' +LADY CAPULET +Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace. +Nurse +Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, +To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' +And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow +A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone; +A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly: +'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face? +Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age; +Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.' +JULIET +And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I. +Nurse +Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace! +Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed: +An I might live to see thee married once, +I have my wish. +LADY CAPULET +Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme +I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, +How stands your disposition to be married? +JULIET +It is an honour that I dream not of. +Nurse +An honour! were not I thine only nurse, +I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat. +LADY CAPULET +Well, think of marriage now; younger than you, +Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, +Are made already mothers: by my count, +I was your mother much upon these years +That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief: +The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. +Nurse +A man, young lady! lady, such a man +As all the world--why, he's a man of wax. +LADY CAPULET +Verona's summer hath not such a flower. +Nurse +Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower. +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. +Nurse +No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men. +LADY CAPULET +Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love? +JULIET +I'll look to like, if looking liking move: +But no more deep will I endart mine eye +Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. +Enter a Servant + +Servant +Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you +called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in +the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must +hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight. +LADY CAPULET +We follow thee. +Exit Servant + +Juliet, the county stays. +Nurse +Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. +Exeunt + +SCENE IV. A street. +Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others +ROMEO +What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? +Or shall we on without a apology? +BENVOLIO +The date is out of such prolixity: +We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, +Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, +Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper; +Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke +After the prompter, for our entrance: +But let them measure us by what they will; +We'll measure them a measure, and be gone. +ROMEO +Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; +Being but heavy, I will bear the light. +MERCUTIO +Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. +ROMEO +Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes +With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead +So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. +MERCUTIO +You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings, +And soar with them above a common bound. +ROMEO +I am too sore enpierced with his shaft +To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, +I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe: +Under love's heavy burden do I sink. +MERCUTIO +And, to sink in it, should you burden love; +Too great oppression for a tender thing. +ROMEO +Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, +Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. +MERCUTIO +If love be rough with you, be rough with love; +Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. +Give me a case to put my visage in: +A visor for a visor! what care I +What curious eye doth quote deformities? +Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. +BENVOLIO +Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in, +But every man betake him to his legs. +ROMEO +A torch for me: let wantons light of heart +Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels, +For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase; +I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. +The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done. +MERCUTIO +Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word: +If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire +Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st +Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho! +ROMEO +Nay, that's not so. +MERCUTIO +I mean, sir, in delay +We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. +Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits +Five times in that ere once in our five wits. +ROMEO +And we mean well in going to this mask; +But 'tis no wit to go. +MERCUTIO +Why, may one ask? +ROMEO +I dream'd a dream to-night. +MERCUTIO +And so did I. +ROMEO +Well, what was yours? +MERCUTIO +That dreamers often lie. +ROMEO +In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. +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-- +ROMEO +Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! +Thou talk'st of nothing. +MERCUTIO +True, I talk of dreams, +Which are the children of an idle brain, +Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, +Which is as thin of substance as the air +And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes +Even now the frozen bosom of the north, +And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, +Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. +BENVOLIO +This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves; +Supper is done, and we shall come too late. +ROMEO +I fear, too early: for my mind misgives +Some consequence yet hanging in the stars +Shall bitterly begin his fearful date +With this night's revels and expire the term +Of a despised life closed in my breast +By some vile forfeit of untimely death. +But He, that hath the steerage of my course, +Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen. +BENVOLIO +Strike, drum. +Exeunt + +SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house. +Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins +First Servant +Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He +shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher! +Second Servant +When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's +hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing. +First Servant +Away with the joint-stools, remove the +court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save +me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let +the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. +Antony, and Potpan! +Second Servant +Ay, boy, ready. +First Servant +You are looked for and called for, asked for and +sought for, in the great chamber. +Second Servant +We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be +brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all. +Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers + +CAPULET +Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes +Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you. +Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all +Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty, +She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now? +Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day +That I have worn a visor and could tell +A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, +Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone: +You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play. +A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls. +Music plays, and they dance + +More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up, +And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot. +Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well. +Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet; +For you and I are past our dancing days: +How long is't now since last yourself and I +Were in a mask? +Second Capulet +By'r lady, thirty years. +CAPULET +What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much: +'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio, +Come pentecost as quickly as it will, +Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd. +Second Capulet +'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir; +His son is thirty. +CAPULET +Will you tell me that? +His son was but a ward two years ago. +ROMEO +[To a Servingman] What lady is that, which doth +enrich the hand +Of yonder knight? +Servant +I know not, sir. +ROMEO +O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! +It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night +Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear; +Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! +So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, +As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. +The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand, +And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. +Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! +For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. +TYBALT +This, by his voice, should be a Montague. +Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave +Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, +To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? +Now, by the stock and honour of my kin, +To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin. +CAPULET +Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so? +TYBALT +Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, +A villain that is hither come in spite, +To scorn at our solemnity this night. +CAPULET +Young Romeo is it? +TYBALT +'Tis he, that villain Romeo. +CAPULET +Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone; +He bears him like a portly gentleman; +And, to say truth, Verona brags of him +To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth: +I would not for the wealth of all the town +Here in my house do him disparagement: +Therefore be patient, take no note of him: +It is my will, the which if thou respect, +Show a fair presence and put off these frowns, +And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. +TYBALT +It fits, when such a villain is a guest: +I'll not endure him. +CAPULET +He shall be endured: +What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to; +Am I the master here, or you? go to. +You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul! +You'll make a mutiny among my guests! +You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man! +TYBALT +Why, uncle, 'tis a shame. +CAPULET +Go to, go to; +You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed? +This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what: +You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time. +Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go: +Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame! +I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts! +TYBALT +Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting +Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting. +I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall +Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall. +Exit + +ROMEO +[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand +This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: +My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand +To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. +JULIET +Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, +Which mannerly devotion shows in this; +For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, +And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. +ROMEO +Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? +JULIET +Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. +ROMEO +O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; +They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. +JULIET +Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. +ROMEO +Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. +Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. +JULIET +Then have my lips the sin that they have took. +ROMEO +Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! +Give me my sin again. +JULIET +You kiss by the book. +Nurse +Madam, your mother craves a word with you. +ROMEO +What is her mother? +Nurse +Marry, bachelor, +Her mother is the lady of the house, +And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous +I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal; +I tell you, he that can lay hold of her +Shall have the chinks. +ROMEO +Is she a Capulet? +O dear account! my life is my foe's debt. +BENVOLIO +Away, begone; the sport is at the best. +ROMEO +Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest. +CAPULET +Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone; +We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. +Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all +I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night. +More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed. +Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late: +I'll to my rest. +Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse + +JULIET +Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman? +Nurse +The son and heir of old Tiberio. +JULIET +What's he that now is going out of door? +Nurse +Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio. +JULIET +What's he that follows there, that would not dance? +Nurse +I know not. +JULIET +Go ask his name: if he be married. +My grave is like to be my wedding bed. +Nurse +His name is Romeo, and a Montague; +The only son of your great enemy. +JULIET +My only love sprung from my only hate! +Too early seen unknown, and known too late! +Prodigious birth of love it is to me, +That I must love a loathed enemy. +Nurse +What's this? what's this? +JULIET +A rhyme I learn'd even now +Of one I danced withal. +One calls within 'Juliet.' + +Nurse +Anon, anon! +Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone. +Exeunt \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo_act2.txt b/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo_act2.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72c8e5dc --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/romeo_juliet/romeo_act2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,937 @@ +ROMEO +Can I go forward when my heart is here? +Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. +He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it + +Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO + +BENVOLIO +Romeo! my cousin Romeo! +MERCUTIO +He is wise; +And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed. +BENVOLIO +He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall: +Call, good Mercutio. +MERCUTIO +Nay, I'll conjure too. +Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover! +Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh: +Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; +Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;' +Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, +One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, +Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, +When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! +He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; +The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. +I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, +By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, +By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh +And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, +That in thy likeness thou appear to us! +BENVOLIO +And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. +MERCUTIO +This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him +To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle +Of some strange nature, letting it there stand +Till she had laid it and conjured it down; +That were some spite: my invocation +Is fair and honest, and in his mistres s' name +I conjure only but to raise up him. +BENVOLIO +Come, he hath hid himself among these trees, +To be consorted with the humorous night: +Blind is his love and best befits the dark. +MERCUTIO +If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. +Now will he sit under a medlar tree, +And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit +As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone. +Romeo, that she were, O, that she were +An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear! +Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed; +This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep: +Come, shall we go? +BENVOLIO +Go, then; for 'tis in vain +To seek him here that means not to be found. +Exeunt + +SCENE II. Capulet's orchard. +Enter ROMEO +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! +JULIET +Ay me! +ROMEO +She speaks: +O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art +As glorious to this night, being o'er my head +As is a winged messenger of heaven +Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes +Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him +When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds +And sails upon the bosom of the air. +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. +ROMEO +I take thee at thy word: +Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; +Henceforth I never will be Romeo. +JULIET +What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night +So stumblest on my counsel? +ROMEO +By a name +I know not how to tell thee who I am: +My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, +Because it is an enemy to thee; +Had I it written, I would tear the word. +JULIET +My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words +Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound: +Art thou not Romeo and a Montague? +ROMEO +Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. +JULIET +How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? +The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, +And the place death, considering who thou art, +If any of my kinsmen find thee here. +ROMEO +With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; +For stony limits cannot hold love out, +And what love can do that dares love attempt; +Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me. +JULIET +If they do see thee, they will murder thee. +ROMEO +Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye +Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, +And I am proof against their enmity. +JULIET +I would not for the world they saw thee here. +ROMEO +I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; +And but thou love me, let them find me here: +My life were better ended by their hate, +Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. +JULIET +By whose direction found'st thou out this place? +ROMEO +By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; +He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. +I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far +As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea, +I would adventure for such merchandise. +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. +ROMEO +Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear +That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-- +JULIET +O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, +That monthly changes in her circled orb, +Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. +ROMEO +What shall I swear by? +JULIET +Do not swear at all; +Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, +Which is the god of my idolatry, +And I'll believe thee. +ROMEO +If my heart's dear love-- +JULIET +Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, +I have no joy of this contract to-night: +It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; +Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be +Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night! +This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, +May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. +Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest +Come to thy heart as that within my breast! +ROMEO +O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? +JULIET +What satisfaction canst thou have to-night? +ROMEO +The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. +JULIET +I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: +And yet I would it were to give again. +ROMEO +Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love? +JULIET +But to be frank, and give it thee again. +And yet I wish but for the thing I have: +My bounty is as boundless as the sea, +My love as deep; the more I give to thee, +The more I have, for both are infinite. +Nurse calls within + +I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu! +Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true. +Stay but a little, I will come again. +Exit, above + +ROMEO +O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard. +Being in night, all this is but a dream, +Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. +Re-enter JULIET, above + +JULIET +Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. +If that thy bent of love be honourable, +Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow, +By one that I'll procure to come to thee, +Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; +And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay +And follow thee my lord throughout the world. +Nurse +[Within] Madam! +JULIET +I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well, +I do beseech thee-- +Nurse +[Within] Madam! +JULIET +By and by, I come:-- +To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief: +To-morrow will I send. +ROMEO +So thrive my soul-- +JULIET +A thousand times good night! +Exit, above + +ROMEO +A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. +Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from +their books, +But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. +Retiring + +Re-enter JULIET, above + +JULIET +Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice, +To lure this tassel-gentle back again! +Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud; +Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, +And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine, +With repetition of my Romeo's name. +ROMEO +It is my soul that calls upon my name: +How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, +Like softest music to attending ears! +JULIET +Romeo! +ROMEO +My dear? +JULIET +At what o'clock to-morrow +Shall I send to thee? +ROMEO +At the hour of nine. +JULIET +I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then. +I have forgot why I did call thee back. +ROMEO +Let me stand here till thou remember it. +JULIET +I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, +Remembering how I love thy company. +ROMEO +And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, +Forgetting any other home but this. +JULIET +'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone: +And yet no further than a wanton's bird; +Who lets it hop a little from her hand, +Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, +And with a silk thread plucks it back again, +So loving-jealous of his liberty. +ROMEO +I would I were thy bird. +JULIET +Sweet, so would I: +Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. +Good night, good night! parting is such +sweet sorrow, +That I shall say good night till it be morrow. +Exit above + +ROMEO +Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! +Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! +Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, +His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell. +Exit + +SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell. +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket +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. +Enter ROMEO + +ROMEO +Good morrow, father. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Benedicite! +What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? +Young son, it argues a distemper'd head +So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: +Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, +And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; +But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain +Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign: +Therefore thy earliness doth me assure +Thou art up-roused by some distemperature; +Or if not so, then here I hit it right, +Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night. +ROMEO +That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine. +FRIAR LAURENCE +God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline? +ROMEO +With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; +I have forgot that name, and that name's woe. +FRIAR LAURENCE +That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then? +ROMEO +I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again. +I have been feasting with mine enemy, +Where on a sudden one hath wounded me, +That's by me wounded: both our remedies +Within thy help and holy physic lies: +I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo, +My intercession likewise steads my foe. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; +Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. +ROMEO +Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set +On the fair daughter of rich Capulet: +As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine; +And all combined, save what thou must combine +By holy marriage: when and where and how +We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow, +I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, +That thou consent to marry us to-day. +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. +ROMEO +Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline. +FRIAR LAURENCE +For doting, not for loving, pupil mine. +ROMEO +And bad'st me bury love. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Not in a grave, +To lay one in, another out to have. +ROMEO +I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now +Doth grace for grace and love for love allow; +The other did not so. +FRIAR LAURENCE +O, she knew well +Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. +But come, young waverer, come, go with me, +In one respect I'll thy assistant be; +For this alliance may so happy prove, +To turn your households' rancour to pure love. +ROMEO +O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. +Exeunt + +SCENE IV. A street. +Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO +MERCUTIO +Where the devil should this Romeo be? +Came he not home to-night? +BENVOLIO +Not to his father's; I spoke with his man. +MERCUTIO +Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline. +Torments him so, that he will sure run mad. +BENVOLIO +Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, +Hath sent a letter to his father's house. +MERCUTIO +A challenge, on my life. +BENVOLIO +Romeo will answer it. +MERCUTIO +Any man that can write may answer a letter. +BENVOLIO +Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he +dares, being dared. +MERCUTIO +Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a +white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a +love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the +blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to +encounter Tybalt? +BENVOLIO +Why, what is Tybalt? +MERCUTIO +More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is +the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as +you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and +proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and +the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk +button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the +very first house, of the first and second cause: +ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the +hai! +BENVOLIO +The what? +MERCUTIO +The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting +fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu, +a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good +whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing, +grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with +these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these +perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form, +that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their +bones, their bones! +Enter ROMEO + +BENVOLIO +Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo. +MERCUTIO +Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh, +how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers +that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a +kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to +be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; +Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey +eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior +Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation +to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit +fairly last night. +ROMEO +Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? +MERCUTIO +The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive? +ROMEO +Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in +such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. +MERCUTIO +That's as much as to say, such a case as yours +constrains a man to bow in the hams. +ROMEO +Meaning, to court'sy. +MERCUTIO +Thou hast most kindly hit it. +ROMEO +A most courteous exposition. +MERCUTIO +Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. +ROMEO +Pink for flower. +MERCUTIO +Right. +ROMEO +Why, then is my pump well flowered. +MERCUTIO +Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast +worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it +is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular. +ROMEO +O single-soled jest, solely singular for the +singleness. +MERCUTIO +Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint. +ROMEO +Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match. +MERCUTIO +Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have +done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of +thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five: +was I with you there for the goose? +ROMEO +Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast +not there for the goose. +MERCUTIO +I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. +ROMEO +Nay, good goose, bite not. +MERCUTIO +Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most +sharp sauce. +ROMEO +And is it not well served in to a sweet goose? +MERCUTIO +O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an +inch narrow to an ell broad! +ROMEO +I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added +to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. +MERCUTIO +Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? +now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art +thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: +for this drivelling love is like a great natural, +that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. +BENVOLIO +Stop there, stop there. +MERCUTIO +Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. +BENVOLIO +Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. +MERCUTIO +O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short: +for I was come to the whole depth of my tale; and +meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer. +ROMEO +Here's goodly gear! +Enter Nurse and PETER + +MERCUTIO +A sail, a sail! +BENVOLIO +Two, two; a shirt and a smock. +Nurse +Peter! +PETER +Anon! +Nurse +My fan, Peter. +MERCUTIO +Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the +fairer face. +Nurse +God ye good morrow, gentlemen. +MERCUTIO +God ye good den, fair gentlewoman. +Nurse +Is it good den? +MERCUTIO +'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the +dial is now upon the prick of noon. +Nurse +Out upon you! what a man are you! +ROMEO +One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to +mar. +Nurse +By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,' +quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I +may find the young Romeo? +ROMEO +I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when +you have found him than he was when you sought him: +I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse. +Nurse +You say well. +MERCUTIO +Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith; +wisely, wisely. +Nurse +if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with +you. +BENVOLIO +She will indite him to some supper. +MERCUTIO +A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho! +ROMEO +What hast thou found? +MERCUTIO +No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, +that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent. +Sings + +An old hare hoar, +And an old hare hoar, +Is very good meat in lent +But a hare that is hoar +Is too much for a score, +When it hoars ere it be spent. +Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll +to dinner, thither. +ROMEO +I will follow you. +MERCUTIO +Farewell, ancient lady; farewell, +Singing + +'lady, lady, lady.' +Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO + +Nurse +Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy +merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery? +ROMEO +A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, +and will speak more in a minute than he will stand +to in a month. +Nurse +An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him +down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such +Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall. +Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am +none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by +too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure? +PETER +I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon +should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare +draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a +good quarrel, and the law on my side. +Nurse +Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about +me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word: +and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you +out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself: +but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into +a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross +kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman +is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double +with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered +to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing. +ROMEO +Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I +protest unto thee-- +Nurse +Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much: +Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman. +ROMEO +What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me. +Nurse +I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as +I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer. +ROMEO +Bid her devise +Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; +And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell +Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains. +Nurse +No truly sir; not a penny. +ROMEO +Go to; I say you shall. +Nurse +This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there. +ROMEO +And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall: +Within this hour my man shall be with thee +And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair; +Which to the high top-gallant of my joy +Must be my convoy in the secret night. +Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains: +Farewell; commend me to thy mistress. +Nurse +Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir. +ROMEO +What say'st thou, my dear nurse? +Nurse +Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, +Two may keep counsel, putting one away? +ROMEO +I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel. +NURSE +Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord, +Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there +is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain +lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief +see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her +sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer +man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks +as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not +rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter? +ROMEO +Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R. +Nurse +Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for +the--No; I know it begins with some other +letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of +it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good +to hear it. +ROMEO +Commend me to thy lady. +Nurse +Ay, a thousand times. +Exit Romeo + +Peter! +PETER +Anon! +Nurse +Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace. +Exeunt + +SCENE V. Capulet's orchard. +Enter JULIET +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. +Nurse +Peter, stay at the gate. +Exit PETER + +JULIET +Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad? +Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; +If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news +By playing it to me with so sour a face. +Nurse +I am a-weary, give me leave awhile: +Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had! +JULIET +I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news: +Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak. +Nurse +Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile? +Do you not see that I am out of breath? +JULIET +How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath +To say to me that thou art out of breath? +The excuse that thou dost make in this delay +Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. +Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that; +Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance: +Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad? +Nurse +Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not +how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his +face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels +all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body, +though they be not to be talked on, yet they are +past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy, +but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy +ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home? +JULIET +No, no: but all this did I know before. +What says he of our marriage? what of that? +Nurse +Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I! +It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. +My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back! +Beshrew your heart for sending me about, +To catch my death with jaunting up and down! +JULIET +I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. +Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love? +Nurse +Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a +courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I +warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother? +JULIET +Where is my mother! why, she is within; +Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest! +'Your love says, like an honest gentleman, +Where is your mother?' +Nurse +O God's lady dear! +Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow; +Is this the poultice for my aching bones? +Henceforward do your messages yourself. +JULIET +Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo? +Nurse +Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day? +JULIET +I have. +Nurse +Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell; +There stays a husband to make you a wife: +Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks, +They'll be in scarlet straight at any news. +Hie you to church; I must another way, +To fetch a ladder, by the which your love +Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark: +I am the drudge and toil in your delight, +But you shall bear the burden soon at night. +Go; I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell. +JULIET +Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell. +Exeunt + +SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell. +Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO +FRIAR LAURENCE +So smile the heavens upon this holy act, +That after hours with sorrow chide us not! +ROMEO +Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, +It cannot countervail the exchange of joy +That one short minute gives me in her sight: +Do thou but close our hands with holy words, +Then love-devouring death do what he dare; +It is enough I may but call her mine. +FRIAR LAURENCE +These violent delights have violent ends +And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, +Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey +Is loathsome in his own deliciousness +And in the taste confounds the appetite: +Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; +Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. +Enter JULIET + +Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot +Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint: +A lover may bestride the gossamer +That idles in the wanton summer air, +And yet not fall; so light is vanity. +JULIET +Good even to my ghostly confessor. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both. +JULIET +As much to him, else is his thanks too much. +ROMEO +Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy +Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more +To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath +This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue +Unfold the imagined happiness that both +Receive in either by this dear encounter. +JULIET +Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, +Brags of his substance, not of ornament: +They are but beggars that can count their worth; +But my true love is grown to such excess +I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth. +FRIAR LAURENCE +Come, come with me, and we will make short work; +For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone +Till holy church incorporate two in one. +Exeunt + diff --git a/graphiti_core/graphiti.py b/graphiti_core/graphiti.py index 343f7d4a..ec038f1e 100644 --- a/graphiti_core/graphiti.py +++ b/graphiti_core/graphiti.py @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import asyncio import logging -import os from datetime import datetime from time import time from typing import Callable @@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ from neo4j import AsyncGraphDatabase from graphiti_core.edges import EntityEdge, EpisodicEdge -from graphiti_core.llm_client import LLMClient, LLMConfig, OpenAIClient +from graphiti_core.llm_client import LLMClient, OpenAIClient from graphiti_core.nodes import EntityNode, EpisodeType, EpisodicNode from graphiti_core.search.search import SearchConfig, hybrid_search from graphiti_core.search.search_utils import ( @@ -107,12 +106,7 @@ def __init__(self, uri: str, user: str, password: str, llm_client: LLMClient | N if llm_client: self.llm_client = llm_client else: - self.llm_client = OpenAIClient( - LLMConfig( - api_key=os.getenv('OPENAI_API_KEY', default=''), - model='gpt-4o-2024-08-06', - ) - ) + self.llm_client = OpenAIClient() def close(self): """ diff --git a/graphiti_core/llm_client/anthropic_client.py b/graphiti_core/llm_client/anthropic_client.py index 8209caad..33f069ed 100644 --- a/graphiti_core/llm_client/anthropic_client.py +++ b/graphiti_core/llm_client/anthropic_client.py @@ -27,19 +27,21 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) +DEFAULT_MODEL = 'claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620' + class AnthropicClient(LLMClient): - def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None = None): + def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None = None, cache: bool = False): if config is None: config = LLMConfig() + super().__init__(config, cache) self.client = AsyncAnthropic(api_key=config.api_key) - self.model = config.model def get_embedder(self) -> typing.Any: openai_client = AsyncOpenAI() return openai_client.embeddings - async def generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: + async def _generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: system_message = messages[0] user_messages = [{'role': m.role, 'content': m.content} for m in messages[1:]] + [ {'role': 'assistant', 'content': '{'} @@ -49,9 +51,10 @@ async def generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.A result = await self.client.messages.create( system='Only include JSON in the response. Do not include any additional text or explanation of the content.\n' + system_message.content, - max_tokens=4096, + max_tokens=self.max_tokens, + temperature=self.temperature, messages=user_messages, # type: ignore - model='claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620', + model=self.model or DEFAULT_MODEL, ) return json.loads('{' + result.content[0].text) # type: ignore diff --git a/graphiti_core/llm_client/client.py b/graphiti_core/llm_client/client.py index 8f508d14..02bd6f4f 100644 --- a/graphiti_core/llm_client/client.py +++ b/graphiti_core/llm_client/client.py @@ -14,22 +14,61 @@ limitations under the License. """ +import hashlib +import json +import logging import typing from abc import ABC, abstractmethod +from diskcache import Cache + from ..prompts.models import Message from .config import LLMConfig +DEFAULT_TEMPERATURE = 0 +DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR = './llm_cache' + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + class LLMClient(ABC): - @abstractmethod - def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None): - pass + def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None, cache: bool = False): + if config is None: + config = LLMConfig() + + self.config = config + self.model = config.model + self.temperature = config.temperature + self.max_tokens = config.max_tokens + self.cache_enabled = cache + self.cache_dir = Cache(DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR) # Create a cache directory @abstractmethod def get_embedder(self) -> typing.Any: pass @abstractmethod - async def generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: + async def _generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: pass + + def _get_cache_key(self, messages: list[Message]) -> str: + # Create a unique cache key based on the messages and model + message_str = json.dumps([m.model_dump() for m in messages], sort_keys=True) + key_str = f'{self.model}:{message_str}' + return hashlib.md5(key_str.encode()).hexdigest() + + async def generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: + if self.cache_enabled: + cache_key = self._get_cache_key(messages) + + cached_response = self.cache_dir.get(cache_key) + if cached_response is not None: + logger.debug(f'Cache hit for {cache_key}') + return cached_response + + response = await self._generate_response(messages) + + if self.cache_enabled: + self.cache_dir.set(cache_key, response) + + return response diff --git a/graphiti_core/llm_client/config.py b/graphiti_core/llm_client/config.py index b933e7cf..28f404c6 100644 --- a/graphiti_core/llm_client/config.py +++ b/graphiti_core/llm_client/config.py @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ """ EMBEDDING_DIM = 1024 +DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 4096 +DEFAULT_TEMPERATURE = 0 class LLMConfig: @@ -29,8 +31,10 @@ class LLMConfig: def __init__( self, api_key: str | None = None, - model: str = 'gpt-4o-mini', - base_url: str = 'https://api.openai.com/v1', + model: str | None = None, + base_url: str | None = None, + temperature: float = DEFAULT_TEMPERATURE, + max_tokens: int = DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS, ): """ Initialize the LLMConfig with the provided parameters. @@ -50,3 +54,5 @@ def __init__( self.base_url = base_url self.api_key = api_key self.model = model + self.temperature = temperature + self.max_tokens = max_tokens diff --git a/graphiti_core/llm_client/groq_client.py b/graphiti_core/llm_client/groq_client.py index 52e613c8..b9a5f190 100644 --- a/graphiti_core/llm_client/groq_client.py +++ b/graphiti_core/llm_client/groq_client.py @@ -28,36 +28,37 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) +DEFAULT_MODEL = 'llama-3.1-70b-versatile' + class GroqClient(LLMClient): - def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None = None): + def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None = None, cache: bool = False): if config is None: config = LLMConfig() + super().__init__(config, cache) self.client = AsyncGroq(api_key=config.api_key) - self.model = config.model def get_embedder(self) -> typing.Any: openai_client = AsyncOpenAI() return openai_client.embeddings - async def generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: - openai_messages: list[ChatCompletionMessageParam] = [] + async def _generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: + msgs: list[ChatCompletionMessageParam] = [] for m in messages: if m.role == 'user': - openai_messages.append({'role': 'user', 'content': m.content}) + msgs.append({'role': 'user', 'content': m.content}) elif m.role == 'system': - openai_messages.append({'role': 'system', 'content': m.content}) + msgs.append({'role': 'system', 'content': m.content}) try: response = await self.client.chat.completions.create( - model='llama-3.1-70b-versatile', - messages=openai_messages, - temperature=0.0, - max_tokens=4096, + model=self.model or DEFAULT_MODEL, + messages=msgs, + temperature=self.temperature, + max_tokens=self.max_tokens, response_format={'type': 'json_object'}, ) result = response.choices[0].message.content or '' return json.loads(result) except Exception as e: - print(openai_messages) logger.error(f'Error in generating LLM response: {e}') raise diff --git a/graphiti_core/llm_client/openai_client.py b/graphiti_core/llm_client/openai_client.py index 72f3c03d..e73af497 100644 --- a/graphiti_core/llm_client/openai_client.py +++ b/graphiti_core/llm_client/openai_client.py @@ -27,18 +27,22 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) +DEFAULT_MODEL = 'gpt-4o-2024-08-06' + class OpenAIClient(LLMClient): - def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None = None): + def __init__(self, config: LLMConfig | None = None, cache: bool = False): if config is None: config = LLMConfig() + + super().__init__(config, cache) + self.client = AsyncOpenAI(api_key=config.api_key, base_url=config.base_url) - self.model = config.model def get_embedder(self) -> typing.Any: return self.client.embeddings - async def generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: + async def _generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.Any]: openai_messages: list[ChatCompletionMessageParam] = [] for m in messages: if m.role == 'user': @@ -47,10 +51,10 @@ async def generate_response(self, messages: list[Message]) -> dict[str, typing.A openai_messages.append({'role': 'system', 'content': m.content}) try: response = await self.client.chat.completions.create( - model=self.model, + model=self.model or DEFAULT_MODEL, messages=openai_messages, - temperature=0, - max_tokens=4096, + temperature=self.temperature, + max_tokens=self.max_tokens, response_format={'type': 'json_object'}, ) result = response.choices[0].message.content or '' diff --git a/graphiti_core/utils/maintenance/graph_data_operations.py b/graphiti_core/utils/maintenance/graph_data_operations.py index c3721cb1..38620a8d 100644 --- a/graphiti_core/utils/maintenance/graph_data_operations.py +++ b/graphiti_core/utils/maintenance/graph_data_operations.py @@ -87,7 +87,19 @@ async def retrieve_episodes( reference_time: datetime, last_n: int = EPISODE_WINDOW_LEN, ) -> list[EpisodicNode]: - """Retrieve the last n episodic nodes from the graph""" + """ + Retrieve the last n episodic nodes from the graph. + + Args: + driver (AsyncDriver): The Neo4j driver instance. + reference_time (datetime): The reference time to filter episodes. Only episodes with a valid_at timestamp + less than or equal to this reference_time will be retrieved. This allows for + querying the graph's state at a specific point in time. + last_n (int, optional): The number of most recent episodes to retrieve, relative to the reference_time. + + Returns: + list[EpisodicNode]: A list of EpisodicNode objects representing the retrieved episodes. + """ result = await driver.execute_query( """ MATCH (e:Episodic) WHERE e.valid_at <= $reference_time diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock index 1d9699b0..6d964a5f 100644 --- a/poetry.lock +++ b/poetry.lock @@ -530,6 +530,20 @@ files = [ {file = "diskcache-5.6.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2c3a3fa2743d8535d832ec61c2054a1641f41775aa7c556758a109941e33e4fc"}, ] +[[package]] +name = "diskcache-stubs" +version = "5.6.3.6.20240818" +description = "diskcache stubs" +optional = false +python-versions = ">=3" +files = [ + {file = "diskcache_stubs-5.6.3.6.20240818-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:e1db90940b344140730976abe79f57f5b43ca296cbb43fa95da0c69b12d5de4f"}, + {file = "diskcache_stubs-5.6.3.6.20240818.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b6eb43899e906b3167a20ac09a9a226f30267a306a96542ea720ebbfc3282796"}, +] + +[package.dependencies] +typing-extensions = ">=4.4.0" + [[package]] name = "distro" version = "1.9.0" @@ -3729,4 +3743,4 @@ test = ["websockets"] [metadata] lock-version = "2.0" python-versions = "^3.10" -content-hash = "7a39a71738b144a77525b8d449a6d624856b1f20a4b6e3d0694d41e68bafe610" +content-hash = "5b90bb6d58d36a2553f5410c418b179aa1c86b55078567c33aaa6fddf6a8c6c6" diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml index 9ab1f445..2456f13d 100644 --- a/pyproject.toml +++ b/pyproject.toml @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ mypy = "^1.11.1" groq = "^0.9.0" ipykernel = "^6.29.5" jupyterlab = "^4.2.4" +diskcache-stubs = "^5.6.3.6.20240818" [build-system] requires = ["poetry-core"]