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[PROLOGUE]
[Enter Chorus]
CHORUS
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Now^old | desire | doth^in | his death|bed^lie,
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And young | affec|tion gapes | to be | his heir,
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That fair,| for which | love groaned / for and |
would^die,
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With tend|er Jul|iet matched,| is now not fair.
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Now Rom|eo is | beloved,| and loves | again,
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Alike | bewitch|ed by | the charm | of looks:
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But to | his foe | supposed | he must | complain,
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And she steal love's | sweet* bait | from
fear|ful hooks:
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Being held | a foe,| he may | not^have / access
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To breathe | such vows as lov|ers use | to swear,
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And she | as much | in love,| her means | much^less,
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To meet | her new-|belov|ed an|ywhere:
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But pas|sion lends | them power,| time, means to
meet,
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Tempering | extrem|ities | with ex/treme sweet.
[Exit]
[A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard. Enter ROMEO]
ROMEO
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Can I | go for|ward when | my heart | is here?
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Turn^back | dull earth, and find | thy cent|er
out.
[He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it. Enter BENVOLIO and
MERCUTIO]
BENVOLIO
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Romeo,| my cousin | Romeo,| Romeo.
MERCUTIO
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He is wise,
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And on | my life | hath stolen | him home | to
bed.
BENVOLIO
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He ran | this way | and leapt | this orch|ard
wall.
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Call good*| Mercu|tio:
MERCUTIO
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Nay,| I'll con|jure too.
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Romeo,| humors,| madman,| passion,| lover,
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Appear | thou in | the like|ness of | a sigh,
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Speak but | one rhyme,/ and I | am sat|isfied;
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Cry me | but aye | me provant,| but love | and
day,
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Speak to my | gossip | Venus | one fair word,
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One nickname | for her pur|blind son and heir,
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Young^Ab|raham Cup|id he | that shot | so true,
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When King | Cophet|ua loved | the beg|gar maid,
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He hear|eth not,| he stir|reth not,| he mo|veth
not, ????
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The ape | is dead,| and I | must con|jure him,
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I con|jure thee | by Ros|aline's bright eyes,
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By her / high fore|head, and | her scar|let lip,
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By her / fine foot,| straight leg, and quiv|ering
thigh,
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And the | demesnes,| that there | adja|cent lie,
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That in | thy like|ness thou | appear | to us.
BENVOLIO
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And if | he hear | thee thou | wilt ang|er him.
MERCUTIO
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This can|not ang|er him,| 'twould ang|er him
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To raise | a spirit | in his | mistress'| circle,
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Of some strange na|ture, let|ting it / there
stand
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Till she | had laid | it, and | conjured | it
down,
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That were some | spite.
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My | invo|cation || is fair | and hon|est, and | in his mist|ress' name,
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I con|jure on|ly but | to raise | up him.
BENVOLIO
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Come, he | hath hid | himself | among | these
trees
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To be | consort|ed with | the hum|orous night:
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Blind is | his love,| and best | befits | the
dark.
MERCUTIO
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If love | be blind,| love can|not hit | the mark,
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Now will | he sit | under | a med|lar tree,
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And wish | his mist|ress were | that kind | of
fruit,
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As maids call med|lars when | they laugh |
alone,
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O Rom|eo that | she were,| O that | she were
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An open,| or thou | a pop|erin pear,|
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Romeo | good night,| I'll to | my truck|le-bed,
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This field-| bed is too cold | for me | to
sleep,
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Come shall | we go? \\
BENVOLIO
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Go then,| for 'tis | in vain | to seek | him here
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That means | not to | be
found. \\
[Exeunt]