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  • Title: Romeo and Juliet (Folio 1, 1623)
  • Editor: Roger Apfelbaum

    • ISBN: 1-55058-299-2

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    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Roger Apfelbaum
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    Romeo and Juliet (Folio 1, 1623)

    Chorus.
    Now old desire doth in his death bed lie,
    And yong affection gapes to be his Heire,
    735That faire, for which Loue gron'd for and would die,
    With tender Iuliet matcht, is now not faire.
    Now Romeo is beloued, and Loues againe,
    A like bewitched by the charme of lookes:
    But to his foe suppos'd he must complaine,
    740And she steale Loues sweet bait from fearefull hookes:
    Being held a foe, he may not haue accesse
    To breath such vowes as Louers vse to sweare,
    And she as much in Loue, her meanes much lesse,
    To meete her new Beloued any where:
    745But passion lends them Power, time, meanes to meete,
    Temp'ring extremities with extreame sweete.
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