Scene I.

Mantua. A Street

Enter Romeo

Romeo. If I may trust [the flattering truth] of sleep

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

[My bosom's lord] sits lightly in 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—

Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!—