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And vice sometimes by action dignified.
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Within the infant rind of this small flower
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Poison hath residence and medicine power:
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For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
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Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
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Two such opposed kings encamp them still
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In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
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And where the worser is predominant,
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Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
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ROMEO:
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Good morrow, father.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Benedicite!
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What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
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Young son, it argues a distemper'd head
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So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
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And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
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Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
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Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
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Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;
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Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
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Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.
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ROMEO:
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That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?
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ROMEO:
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With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no;
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I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?
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ROMEO:
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I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.
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I have been feasting with mine enemy,
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Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,
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That's by me wounded: both our remedies
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Within thy help and holy physic lies:
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I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,
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My intercession likewise steads my foe.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;
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Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
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ROMEO:
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Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
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On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:
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As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;
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And all combined, save what thou must combine
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By holy marriage: when and where and how
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We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,
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I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,
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That thou consent to marry us to-day.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
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Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
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So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies
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Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
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Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
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Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
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How much salt water thrown away in waste,
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To season love, that of it doth not taste!
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The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
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Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;
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Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
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Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:
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If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
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Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:
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And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,
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Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.
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ROMEO:
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Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.
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ROMEO:
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And bad'st me bury love.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Not in a grave,
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To lay one in, another out to have.
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ROMEO:
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I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now
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Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;
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The other did not so.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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