Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)

  
 of Romeo and Iuliet.
 
 1023775But to the earth some speciall good doth giue:
 1024776Nor nought so good,but straind from that faire vse,
 1025777Reuolts to vice and stumbles on abuse:
 1026778Vertue it selfe turnes vice being misapplied,
 1027779And vice sometimes by action dignified.
 1029780Within the infant rinde of this small flower,
 1030781Poyson hath residence,and medecine power:
 1031782For this being smelt too, with that part cheares ech hart,
 1032783Being tafted slaies all sences with the hart.
 1033784Two such opposed foes incampe them still,
 1034785In man as well as herbes,grace and rude will,
 1035786And where the worser is predominant,
 1036787Full soone the canker death eats vp that plant.
 1037788Rom: Good morrow to my Ghostly Confessor.
 1039789Fri: Benedicite, what earlie tongue so soone saluteth (me?
 1040790Yong sonne it argues a distempered head,
 1041791So soone to bid good morrow to my bed.
 1042792Care keepes his watch in euerie old mans eye,
 1043793And where care lodgeth, sleep can neuer lie:
 1044794But where vnbrused youth with vnstuft braines
 1045795Doth couch his limmes, there golden sleepe remaines:
 1046796Therefore thy earlines doth me assure,
 1047797Thou art vprows'd by some distemperature.
 1048798Or if not so, then here I hit it righ
 1049799Our Romeo hath not bin a bed to night.
 1050800Ro: The last was true, the sweeter rest was mine.
 1051801Fr: God pardon sin, wert thou with Rosaline?
 1052802Ro: With Rosaline my Ghostly father no,
 1053803I haue forgot that name,and that names woe. 
 1054804Fri: Thats my good sonne: but where hast thou bin(then?
 1055805Ro: I tell thee ere thou aske it me againe,
 1056806I haue bin feasting with mine enemie:
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Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)