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All leave except Montague, Lady Montague, andBenvolio.MontagueWho started up this old quarrel again?Speak up, nephew, were you here when it started?BenvolioCapulet’s servants were here,along with your servants, and they were fighting as I came up. 100I drew my sword to separate them. At that moment,the hot-tempered Tybalt arrived, with his sword drawn,breathing defiance in my ears,swinging his sword about my head, and slicing the winds.But the winds, not being hurt, hissed at him in scorn. 105While we were exchanging blows,more and more people came to fight on each sideuntil the prince came and stopped the fighting.Lady MontagueWhere is Romeo? Have you seen him today?I am glad he wasn’t at this fight. 110BenvolioMadam, about an hour before the wonderful sunpeered out of the golden east,a troubled mind drove me to take a walk.Underneath a grove of sycamore trees,west of the city, 115I saw your son walking at that early hour.I went toward him, but he saw me,and he slipped into a thicket in the woods.Sensing that he felt the same way I did—wanting to get away from everyone 120and feeling I was one too many by my weary self—I chose to pursue my own desire rather than to pursue him.I as gladly shunned him as he fled from me.MontagueHe has been seen there many mornings,adding tears to the moisture of the fresh morning dew 125and adding more clouds to clouds with his deep sighs.But as soon as the sun, which cheers everything,Act 1, Scene 1 33
Should in the farthest east begin to drawThe shady curtains from Aurora’s bed,130 Away from light steals home my heavy son,And private in his chamber pens himself,Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,And makes himself an artificial night.Black and portentous must this humour prove135 Unless good counsel may the cause remove.BenvolioMy noble uncle, do you know the cause?MontagueI neither know it nor can learn of him.BenvolioHave you importun’d him by any means?MontagueBoth by myself and many other friends;140 But he, his own affections’ counsellor,Is to himself—I will not say how true—But to himself so secret and so close,So far from sounding and discovery,As is the bud bit with an envious worm145 Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the airOr dedicate his beauty to the sun.Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow,We would as willingly give cure as know.Enter Romeo.BenvolioSee, where he comes! So please you, step aside;150 I’ll know his grievance, or be much deni’d.MontagueI would thou wert so happy by thy stayTo hear true shrift. Come, madam, let’s away.[Exeunt Montague and Lady.]34Romeo 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 32 and 33: CapuletWhat’s all this noise? Giv
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
Page 82 and 83: that my lips, like two blushing pil
Page 84 and 85:
NurseWhy, bachelor,her mother is th
Page 86 and 87:
NurseI don’t know.JulietGo and as
Page 88:
3. Hyperbole means obvious exaggera
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