ROMEO. Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor; Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear As will dispense itself through all the veins, That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently, as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.
APOTHECARY. Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them.
ROMEO. Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes; Contempt and beggary, hang upon thy back, The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
APOTHECARY. My poverty, but not my will, consents.
ROMEO. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
APOTHECARY. Put this in any liquid thing you will, And drink it off: and, if you had the strength Of twenty men, it would despatch you straight.
These sub-human creatures, weird, mysterious women that seem akin to cats and bats and toads.
The first was made up by binding the nose down as is described in the instruction for Othello.
The groundwork was of No. 2-1/2 with a great deal of yellow and a little brown. The cheeks were deeply shadowed, as were also the cavities of the eyes. The lines running from the nostrils to the corners of the mouth were strongly defined. The form of the lips was completely obliterated. Strong shadows were painted round the mouth.
The illustration shows how definitely yellow and white were used for high lights.
For the second witch I carried my nose upward by putting a silk thread under it, which I attached to the wig. Similar groundwork was used, and the same type of shadow was placed on the cheeks and round the eyes. The teeth were partly painted out with cobblers' wax. Finely cut crepe hair was dusted on the chin.
The third witch had a nut-cracker type of nose and chin built of nose-paste. The cheeks were built out as in the case of Don Quixote.
Moles and warts were freely scattered about the lower part of the face, some of them being armed with bristles.
The colour for the groundwork and shadows was similar to that used for the first and second witches.