‘What said my man, when my betossed soul

Did not attend him as we rode? I think

He told me Paris should have married Juliet.’

And again, just before he hears the sudden tidings of her death—

‘If I may trust the flattery of sleep,

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand;

My bosom’s lord sits lightly on his throne,

And all this day an unaccustom’d spirit

Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,