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BENVOLIO:
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Here were the servants of your adversary,
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And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:
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I drew to part them: in the instant came
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The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,
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Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,
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He swung about his head and cut the winds,
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Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:
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While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,
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Came more and more and fought on part and part,
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Till the prince came, who parted either part.
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LADY MONTAGUE:
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O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?
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Right glad I am he was not at this fray.
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BENVOLIO:
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Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun
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Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,
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A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;
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Where, underneath the grove of sycamore
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That westward rooteth from the city's side,
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So early walking did I see your son:
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Towards him I made, but he was ware of me
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And stole into the covert of the wood:
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I, measuring his affections by my own,
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That most are busied when they're most alone,
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Pursued my humour not pursuing his,
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And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.
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MONTAGUE:
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Many a morning hath he there been seen,
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With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.
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Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;
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But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
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Should in the furthest east begin to draw
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The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
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Away from the light steals home my heavy son,
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And private in his chamber pens himself,
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Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out
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And makes himself an artificial night:
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Black and portentous must this humour prove,
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Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
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BENVOLIO:
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My noble uncle, do you know the cause?
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MONTAGUE:
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I neither know it nor can learn of him.
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BENVOLIO:
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Have you importuned him by any means?
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MONTAGUE:
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Both by myself and many other friends:
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But he, his own affections' counsellor,
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Is to himself--I will not say how true--
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But to himself so secret and so close,
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So far from sounding and discovery,
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As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
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Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
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Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
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Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.
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We would as willingly give cure as know.
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BENVOLIO:
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See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;
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I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.
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MONTAGUE:
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I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,
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To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.
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BENVOLIO:
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Good-morrow, cousin.
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ROMEO:
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Is the day so young?
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BENVOLIO:
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But new struck nine.
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ROMEO:
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Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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Was that my father that went hence so fast?
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BENVOLIO:
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It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
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ROMEO:
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Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
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BENVOLIO:
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In love?
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ROMEO:
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Out--
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BENVOLIO:
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Of love?
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