Gallop apace (Romeo and Juliet)

Themes: Classical, Dramatic, Love, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Teenager
Length: 1 Minute
Gender: Female

[Juliet eagerly awaits the arrival of night and Romeo, expressing her impatience and longing for their time together. Her soliloquy captures the intense emotions and desires of a teenager in love, set against the backdrop of forbidden romance.]

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.