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That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:
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The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.
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Nurse:
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A man, young lady! lady, such a man
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As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.
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LADY CAPULET:
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Verona's summer hath not such a flower.
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Nurse:
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Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.
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LADY CAPULET:
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What say you? can you love the gentleman?
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This night you shall behold him at our feast;
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Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
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And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
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Examine every married lineament,
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And see how one another lends content
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And what obscured in this fair volume lies
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Find written in the margent of his eyes.
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This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
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To beautify him, only lacks a cover:
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The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
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For fair without the fair within to hide:
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That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
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That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;
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So shall you share all that he doth possess,
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By having him, making yourself no less.
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Nurse:
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No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men.
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LADY CAPULET:
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Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?
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JULIET:
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I'll look to like, if looking liking move:
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But no more deep will I endart mine eye
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Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
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Servant:
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Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you
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called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in
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the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must
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hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.
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LADY CAPULET:
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We follow thee.
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Juliet, the county stays.
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Nurse:
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Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
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ROMEO:
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What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?
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Or shall we on without a apology?
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BENVOLIO:
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The date is out of such prolixity:
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We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,
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Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,
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Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;
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Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke
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After the prompter, for our entrance:
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But let them measure us by what they will;
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We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.
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ROMEO:
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Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;
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Being but heavy, I will bear the light.
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MERCUTIO:
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Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
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ROMEO:
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Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes
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With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead
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So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
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MERCUTIO:
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You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
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And soar with them above a common bound.
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ROMEO:
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I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
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To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,
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I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:
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Under love's heavy burden do I sink.
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MERCUTIO:
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And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
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Too great oppression for a tender thing.
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ROMEO:
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Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
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Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
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MERCUTIO:
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