Note 165 — INTRODUCCIÓN X (continued 3)
Reading edition
Se ha de advertir, aunque la Celestina pasa por obra impura y Romeo y Julieta por un poema de amor casto é inocente, que en las escenas culminantes de pasión el lenguaje de las dos heroínas se parece mucho. Recuérdese el ardiente soliloquio de Julieta en el acto tercero:
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen. Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own beauties; or, if love be blind, It best agrees with night. Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, And learn me how to lose a winning match, Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. (Act. III, sc. II).