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Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?
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What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,
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That I yet know not?
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Too familiar
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Is my dear son with such sour company:
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I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
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ROMEO:
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What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,
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Not body's death, but body's banishment.
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ROMEO:
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Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'
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For exile hath more terror in his look,
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Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Hence from Verona art thou banished:
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Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
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ROMEO:
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There is no world without Verona walls,
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But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
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Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,
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And world's exile is death: then banished,
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Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,
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Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,
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And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
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Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,
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Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,
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And turn'd that black word death to banishment:
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This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.
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ROMEO:
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'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,
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Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog
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And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
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Live here in heaven and may look on her;
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But Romeo may not: more validity,
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More honourable state, more courtship lives
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In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize
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On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
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And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
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Who even in pure and vestal modesty,
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Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;
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But Romeo may not; he is banished:
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Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:
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They are free men, but I am banished.
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And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?
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Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,
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No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
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But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?
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O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
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Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,
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Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
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A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,
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To mangle me with that word 'banished'?
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.
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ROMEO:
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O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
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To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
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ROMEO:
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Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy!
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Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
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Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
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It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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O, then I see that madmen have no ears.
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ROMEO:
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How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
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FRIAR LAURENCE:
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Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.
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ROMEO:
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Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:
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Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
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An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
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Doting like me and like me banished,
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Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
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And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
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Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
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