This was another extra credit assignment for my English class. It was one of my favorite projects. Like I said: I love writing in Shakespearean English! P.S. I do not own Romeo and Juliet or any other characters from Shakespear's work.

How Romeo and Juliet Should have Ended

(Mantua)

Romeo: How now? A letter from mine holy priest?

(Reads it)

A fair design, good friar, thou are wise.

Now to Verona's streets to Caples Tomb

I shall now fly to my Juliet's side.

(Exeunt)

(Caples Tomb: Friar within. Enter Romeo)

Friar: Silence, my eager son, wait but a while.

Soon shalt thine lady wake, and then shalt thou fly

Away, abroad, to live in peace and love.

(Juliet stirs)

Hi! Doth thy lady wake!

Romeo: O, Juliet.

Thine sleep hath not obscured thine beauty's face.

Come, let's away, to Mantua we fly!

Friar: Hold now, mine eager son, there is yet more.

On that day when I heard of both thine love,

I dreamed that with that love thy parents' strife

Should wash away as dirt after a storm.

But new events have proved false to that dream.

Now with thine deaths shalt parents' strife be gone.

I have another potion here you both,

The one that Juliet faithfully took.

Now shalt thou both seem dead, but just a sleep;

And parents' anger then shalt be proved false.

Then shalt thou both be buried in a tomb;

And after one day past I will to thee,

To get thee far away from Verona.

And make thine empty places look as stol'n,

So as to not arouse thy parents' minds.

And peace shall dwell in each and every hour.

Romeo: Shalt we drink of this potion for this cause?

Juliet: If I have done so once let's shall again!

(Both drink and fall asleep)

Friar: Now, my children, I'll to thine houses quick!

(Exeunt)

(Caples Tomb: Enter Friar, Montagues, and Capulets)

Montague: Why hast thou called us from our beds, Friar?

Friar: Another woe hast fallen on thine house.

Look within and see thine only dead.

Poison hast he took for his Juliet.

Their love was strong to make this come to pass.

Now put away thine strife for children's' sake.

Capulet: Our children's lives are not the price to pay.

Let's put away our strife and live in peace.

(Exeunt all)

(Next early morn: enter Friar after burial)

Friar: Wake now mine children, the time hast now come.

(Romeo and Juliet awake)

Awake and fly from family, on to love.

Romeo: O Friar! Thine devises doth work well.

I feared that I should stay in ever sleep.

Juliet: And now we shalt live happily away

From strife and war and murder in the streets.

O, come my love and let's away from here.

Friar: Go thence my love-struck children, go abroad.

To find a place where thou shalt live in peace.

(Exeunt Romeo and Juliet)

Happy am I that this should work so well.

I feared that mine own plans should have a flaw.

Now thence they fly and leave their grief behind.

For never could I see their love be torn.

Though I must stay and parents grieve form them,

All now shalt live happily in the end.

(Fine)

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