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No Fear Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

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ACT 1, SCENE 2<br />

NO FIAR ~ffi80~[3<br />

You'll be delighted by young women as fresh as spring<br />

flowers. Look at anyone you like, <strong>and</strong> choose whatever<br />

woman seems best to you. Once you see a lot of girls,<br />

you might not think my daughter's the best anymore.<br />

Come along with me.<br />

(to PETER, h<strong>and</strong>ing him a paper) Go, little fellow, walk<br />

all around Verona. Find the people on this list <strong>and</strong> tell<br />

them they're welcome at my house tonight.<br />

CAPULET <strong>and</strong> PARIS exit.<br />

PETER<br />

Find the people whose names are on this list? It is written<br />

that shoemakers <strong>and</strong> tailors should play with each<br />

others' tools, that fisherman should play with paints,<br />

<strong>and</strong> painters should play with with fishing nets. But<br />

1've been sentto find the people whose names are written<br />

on this list, <strong>and</strong> I can't read! I'll never find them on<br />

my own. I've got to find somebody who knows how to<br />

read to help me. But here come some people, right in<br />

the nick of time.<br />

BENVOLIO <strong>and</strong> ROMEO enter.<br />

BENVOLIO<br />

(to ROMEO) Come on, man. You can put out one fire by<br />

starting another. A new pain will make the one you<br />

already have seem less. If you make yourself dizzy, you<br />

can cure yourself by spinning back around in the<br />

opposite direction. A new grief will put the old one out<br />

of your mind. Make yourself lovesick by gazing at<br />

some new girl, <strong>and</strong> your old lovesickness will be cured.<br />

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