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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 prepared, |
Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears, |
He swung about his head and cut the winds, |
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 MONTAGUE: |
O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day? |
Right glad I am he was not at this fray. |
BENVOLIO: |
Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun |
Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, |
A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad; |
Where, underneath the grove of sycamore |
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 me |
And stole into the covert of the wood: |
I, measuring his affections by my own, |
That most are busied when they're most alone, |
Pursued my humour not pursuing his, |
And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me. |
MONTAGUE: |
Many a morning hath he there been seen, |
With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew. |
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs; |
But all so soon as the all-cheering sun |
Should in the furthest east begin to draw |
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, |
Away from the light steals home my heavy son, |
And private in his chamber pens himself, |
Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out |
And makes himself an artificial night: |
Black and portentous must this humour prove, |
Unless good counsel may the cause remove. |
BENVOLIO: |
My noble uncle, do you know the cause? |
MONTAGUE: |
I neither know it nor can learn of him. |
BENVOLIO: |
Have you importuned him by any means? |
MONTAGUE: |
Both by myself and many other friends: |
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 worm, |
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, |
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. |
Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow. |
We would as willingly give cure as know. |
BENVOLIO: |
See, where he comes: so please you, step aside; |
I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. |
MONTAGUE: |
I would thou wert so happy by thy stay, |
To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. |
BENVOLIO: |
Good-morrow, cousin. |
ROMEO: |
Is the day so young? |
BENVOLIO: |
But new struck nine. |
ROMEO: |
Ay me! sad hours seem long. |
Was that my father that went hence so fast? |
BENVOLIO: |
It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? |
ROMEO: |
Not having that, which, having, makes them short. |
BENVOLIO: |
In love? |
ROMEO: |
Out-- |
BENVOLIO: |
Of love? |
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