Romeo and Juliet

Alright, I’m coming!—I beg you to stop trying for me and leave me to my sadness. Tomorrow I’ll send the messenger.

My soul depends on it—

A thousand times good night.

Leaving you is a thousand times worse than being near you. A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school.

Hist, Romeo! Hist! Oh, I wish I could make a

falconer’s

Juliet is trying to call to Romeo as if he was a falcon.

falconer’s call, so I could bring my little falcon back again. I’m trapped in my family’s house, so I must be quiet. Otherwise I would rip open the cave where

Echo

Echo, a mythical woman who was scorned by Narcissus, withered with sadness repeating his name, and after her death, her voice still reverberated in caves, which is why we have the word “echo.”

Echo sleeps. I would make her repeat his name until her voice grew more hoarse than mine by repeating, “My Romeo!”

My soul is calling out my name. The sound of lovers calling each others names through the night is silver-sweet. It’s the sweetest sound a lover ever hears.