Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

TYBALT, Nephew to Lady Capulet.

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Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, 10 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,

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BENVOLIO Here were the servants of your adversary And yours, close fighting ere I did approach I drew to part them. In the instant came The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar’d; 100 Which, as he breath’d defiance to my ears, He swung about his head,

JULIET My only love, sprung from my only hate! 145 Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathed enemy.

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!

JULIET 35 O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men.

FRIAR Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.