I DO NOT OWN HERMIONE GRANGER NOR SERVERUS SNAPE!!!!!!!!!!!
Characters: Serverus Snape Age 17(potion gone wrong)
Hermione Granger (Age 17)
Act II Scene II: Granger's Garden (The Balcony scene)
Serverus (Coming Forward)
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Enter Hermione at her window.
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Hermione 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!
Hermione
Ay me!
Serverus
She speaks.
O,
speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night,
being over 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.
Hermione
O
Serverus, Serverus! wherefore art thou Serverus?
Deny thy father
and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my
love,
And I'll no longer be a Granger.
Serverus (aside)
Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Hermione
'Tis
but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a
Snape.
What's Snape? 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 Serverus would, were he not Serverus
call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that
title. Serverus, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part
of thee
Take all myself.
Serverus
I
take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new
baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Serverus.
Hermione
What
man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night
So stumblest on my
counsel?
Serverus
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 Serverus and a
Snape?
Serverus
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.
Serverus
With
love's light wings did I fly over 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.
Hermione
If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
Serverus
Alack,
there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords:
look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
Hermione
I would not for the world they saw thee here.
Serverus
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.
END OF BALCONY SCENE
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