Romeo and Juliet, a drarry ve...

SCENE VI. Neville's Flower Shop.

Enter NEVILLE and Harry

NEVILLE

So Merlin smiles upon this crazy idea,

That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!

HARRY

Come now, Neville, what sorrow can,

It cannot countervail the exchange of joy

That one short minute gives me in his sight:

Do thou but to bring us together once again,

Then love-devouring death do what he dare;

It is enough I may but call him mine.

All suitors beware, I shall spare none.

NEVILLE

These violent delights have violent ends.

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,

Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey

Is loathsome in his own deliciousness

And in the taste confounds the appetite:

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Enter DRACO

Here comes your lad: O, so light a foot

Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:

A lover with gossamer hair

That idles in the wanton summer air,

And yet not fall; so light is his vanity.

DRACO

Good even to you shop-owner.

NEVILLE

Harry shall thank thee, sir, for us both.

DRACO

As much to him, else is his thanks too much.

HARRY

Ah, Draco, if the measure of thy joy

Be heap'd like mine, we shall set the stars ablaze.

With the unimagined happiness I feel

Received by thee in this dear encounter.

DRACO

Conceited am I, richer in love than in gold,

Then ever I was before, my dear Harry

My true love is grown to such excess

I cannot give count to my happiness.

NEVILLE

Don't count your chicks before they hatch'd

Come, decide... what is your path?

For 'tis only a matter of time ere you're discover'd

In secret this secret cannot lie,

But your choice to flee or make it known.

Which path do 'ere you choose? For there

Are doomed consequences whatever you choose.

HARRY

Ah, Draco, my love. I am at your desire.

Decide what path we 'ere go

And I will not hesitate to walk it so

DRACO

Harry. It may be easier to begin life anew.

To flee England and all this ballyhoo,

But I must break with my family first,

Or the bullets will start to fly.

HARRY

Tis right you 're. Bid our families adieu.

But are you sure, my love?

DRACO

Done am I with this talk of war.

The threat of violence, perseverance of hate.

I declare to all that I love thee, wizard,

I care not where my parents stand.

HARRY

My love, you make me whole.

DRACO

Whole enough to become one?

I test thy conviction, my Romeo.

Will stand you at a muggle alter with me

And swear you will be mine alone?

HARRY

Oh, Draco, name the time and place,

Or else say now! I crave nothing else!

DRACO

Give me a day... and time to bribe a man.

Is there any such covenant you desire?

HARRY

A muggle shrine will content all my dreams,

I only desire to bind me to your name.

I will forsake my father's name.

DRACO

Nye, my love. We kept our names,

What was one is two, joined by words,

And soon I hope in deeds as well.

HARRY

Ay my love. That I look forward to.

When will you call for me?

DRACO

By the workmen's hour. I know a priest.

Ere I pry him with words and wine,

He may acquiesce. But I want a lawful script.

Go you to the clerk to get the license.

HARRY

As you wish, I am yours to command.

DRACO

If that be the case, kiss me, my hero.

And don't hold back.

NEVILLE

I'll just go outside, by your leave,

You shall stay here alone,

You two will be one, soon enough.

Exeunt