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A Story of Woe (Old English Version)

from Romeo Rocks You! (Old English Versions) by Ken Wood

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Romeo and Juliet are laying dead when The Prince arrives with The Montagues and The Capulets. The Prince tells them that the childrens' deaths resulted from their fued. They agree to end it straight away and to honour each others' child with a monument.

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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
Then came here to die with Juliet.

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 punished

PRINCE:
A glooming (glooming, glooming)
peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, (the sun, the sun)
for sorrow, will not show his head.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

CAPULET:
O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
This is her jointure, no more can I demand.
(They shake hands).

MONTAGUE:
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.

All:
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
For never was a story of more woe
than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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from Romeo Rocks You! (Old English Versions), released January 1, 2011

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