22 ROMEO AND JULIET. thrust it through her heart—and so, falling with her head on her Romeo’s breast, she died. And here ends the story of these faithful and most, unhappy lovers. x 7 be Me ie ind 7 wv ie wv i 7 iS we And when the old folks knew from Friar Laurence of all that had befallen, they sorrowed exceedingly, and now, seeing all the mischief their wicked quarrel had wrought, they repented them of it, and over the bodies of their dead children they clasped hands at last, in friendship and forgiveness.