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Romeo and Juliet (Folio 1, 1623)
1005Enter Frier alone with a basket.
1009From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles:
1010Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye,
1011The day to cheere, and nights danke dew to dry,
1013With balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers,
1014The earth that's Natures mother, is her Tombe,
1015What is her burying graue that is her wombe:
1016And from her wombe children of diuers kind
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1018Many for many vertues excellent:
1020Omickle is the powerfull grace that lies
1021In Plants, Hearbs, stones, and their true qualities:
1022For nought so vile, that on the earth doth liue,
1028 Enter Romeo.
1029Within the infant rin'd of this weake flower,
1031For this being smelt, with that part cheares each part,
1034In man as well as Hearbes, grace and rude will:
1035And where the worser is predominant,
1036Full soone the Canker death eates vp that Plant.
1037Rom. Good morrow Father.
1038Fri. Benedecite.
1040Young Sonne, it argues a distempered head,
1041So soone to bid goodmorrow to thy bed;
1042Care keepes his watch in euery old mans eye,
1043And where Care lodges, sleepe will neuer lye:
1045Doth couch his lims, there, golden sleepe doth raigne;
1048Or if not so, then here I hit it right.
1049Our Romeo hath not beene in bed to night.
1053I haue forgot that name, and that names woe.
1055Rom. Ile tell thee ere thou aske it me agen:
1056I haue beene feasting with mine enemie,
1057Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,
1058That's by me wounded: both our remedies
1059Within thy helpe and holy phisicke lies:
1060I beare no hatred, blessed man: for loe
1065On the faire daughter of rich Capulet:
1068By holy marriage: when and where, and how,
1069We met, we wooed, and made exchange of vow:
1070Ile tell thee as we passe, but this I pray,
1071That thou consent to marrie vs to day.
1072Fri. Holy S. Francis, what a change is heere?
1075Not truely in their hearts, but in their eyes.
1076Iesu Maria, what a deale of brine
1080The Sun not yet thy sighes, from heauen cleares,
1081Thy old grones yet ringing in my auncient eares:
1086And art thou chang'd? pronounce this sentence then,
1087Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.
1089Fri. For doting, not for louing pupill mine.
1091Fri. Not in a graue,
1092To lay one in, another out to haue.
1093Rom. I pray thee chide me not, her I Loue now
1094Doth grace for grace, and Loue for Loue allow:
1095The other did not so.
1097Thy Loue did read by rote, that could not spell:
1098But come young wauerer, come goe with me,
1100For this alliance may so happy proue,
1101To turne your houshould rancor to pure Loue.
1104 Exeunt