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CapuletWhat’s all this noise? Give me my sword!Lady CapuletYou need a crutch! Why are you asking for a sword?CapuletGive me my sword, I said. Old Montague is coming, 70and he is waving his sword in defiance of me.MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE enter.MontagueYou’re a villain, Capulet! (to Lady Montague) Don’t hold me,let me go!Lady MontagueYou shall not move a foot toward your enemy.Prince Escalus enters with his followers.PrinceRebellious people, enemies to peace,Abusers of your swords bloodied with your neighbor’s blood— 75Won’t they listen?—Listen to me, you men, you beasts,you who quench the fire of your destructive ragewith purple blood spurting from your veins.Unless you want to be tortured, throw those angryweapons you hold in your bloody hands to the ground 80and hear this sentence from me, your angry prince.Three fights arising from meaningless insults—started by you, old Capulet, and you, old Montague—have disturbed the quiet of our streets three times,and caused Verona’s old men 85to throw away their proper, dignified ornamentsand carry old pikes, rusted with peace, in their equally oldhands to part your deadly hatred.If you ever disturb our streets again,you will have to die for breaking the peace. 90For now, all of you go awayexcept you, Capulet. You’ll go with me.And you, Montague, are to come to me this afternoonto find out what I am going to do in your case.Go to my castle, Freetown, the common judgment place. 95Once more, unless you want to die, all of you must leave now.Act 1, Scene 1 31
[Exeunt all but Montague, Lady Montague, andBenvolio.]MontagueWho set this ancient quarrel new abroach?Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?BenvolioHere were the servants of your adversary,100 And yours, close fighting ere I did approach.I drew to part them. In the instant cameThe fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar’d,Which, as he breath’d defiance to my ears,He swung about his head and cut the winds,105 Who, nothing hurt withal, hiss’d him in scorn.While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,Came more and more and fought on part and part,Till the Prince came, who parted either part.Lady MontagueO, where is Romeo? Saw you him to-day?110 Right glad I am he was not at this fray.BenvolioMadam, an hour before the worshipp’d sunPeer’d forth the golden window of the east,A troubled mind drove me to walk abroad;Where, underneath the grove of sycamore115 That westward rooteth from the city’s side,So early walking did I see your son.Towards him I made, but he was ’ware of meAnd stole into the covert of the wood.I, measuring his affections by my own,120 Which then most sought where most might not be found,Being one too many by my weary self,Pursued my humour not pursuing his,And gladly shunn’d who gladly fled from me.MontagueMany a morning hath he there been seen,125 With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,Adding to the clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;But all so soon as the all-cheering sun32Romeo and Juliet
Page 2 and 3: THE SHAKESPEARE PARALLEL TEXT SERIE
Page 4: Table of ContentsJuliet and Her Rom
Page 7: A Political RomanceAudiences often
Page 10 and 11: Generations of English teachers hav
Page 13 and 14: Getting the BeatLike most dramatist
Page 15: Speak and ListenRemember that plays
Page 18 and 19: Before You Read1. The Prologue to A
Page 20 and 21: Act SummaryIn the Prologue, a Choru
Page 22 and 23: PrologueThe CHORUS enters.ChorusTwo
Page 24 and 25: Act 1, Scene 1A public street in Ve
Page 26 and 27: always being pushed against the wal
Page 28 and 29: GregoryAfraid, indeed! Don’t be r
Page 30 and 31: BENVOLIO enters.GregoryYou should s
Page 34 and 35: All leave except Montague, Lady Mon
Page 36 and 37: egins in the far east to drawthe da
Page 38 and 39: BenvolioGood morning, cousin.RomeoI
Page 40 and 41: Oh heavy lightness! Serious frivoli
Page 42 and 43: ut tell me, seriously, who you love
Page 44 and 45: BenvolioJust set your eyes freeto l
Page 46 and 47: Act 1, Scene 2A street. Capulet, Pa
Page 48 and 49: of limping winter, just such joyamo
Page 50 and 51: RomeoFor your wounded shin when I k
Page 52 and 53: RomeoWhose house?ServantMy master
Page 54 and 55: Act 1, Scene 3A room in Capulet’s
Page 56 and 57: NurseEven or odd, of all the days o
Page 58 and 59: NurseYes, madam. (laughing) But I c
Page 60 and 61: Lady CapuletThere’s not a summer
Page 62 and 63: and everything is happening at once
Page 64 and 65: Act 1, Scene 4A street. Romeo, Merc
Page 66 and 67: MercutioAnd to sink in it would bur
Page 68 and 69: RomeoWe have good intentions in goi
Page 70 and 71: through lovers’ brains, and then
Page 72 and 73: the frozen heart of the north right
Page 74 and 75: act 1, Scene 5A hall in Capulet’s
Page 76 and 77: whispered sweet nothings in a beaut
Page 78 and 79: RomeoOh, she teaches the torches to
Page 80 and 81: you’ll put on a cheery face and s
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that my lips, like two blushing pil
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NurseWhy, bachelor,her mother is th
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NurseI don’t know.JulietGo and as
Page 88:
3. Hyperbole means obvious exaggera
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