Romeo and Juliet

Act 3 Scene 3

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Enter FRIAR LAWRENCE	FRIAR LAWRENCE enters.
FRIAR LAWRENCE Romeo, come forth. Come forth, thou fearful man. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.	FRIAR LAWRENCE Romeo, come out. Come out, you frightened man. Trouble likes you, and you’re married to disaster.
Enter ROMEO	ROMEO enters.
ROMEO Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom? 5What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand That I yet know not?	ROMEO Father, what’s the news? What punishment did the Prince announce? What suffering lies in store for me that I don’t know about yet?
FRIAR LAWRENCE Too familiar Is my dear son with such sour company. I bring thee tidings of the Prince’s doom.	FRIAR LAWRENCE You know too much about suffering. I have news for you about the Prince’s punishment.
ROMEO What less than doomsday is the Prince’s doom?	ROMEO Is the Prince’s punishment any less awful than doomsday?
FRIAR LAWRENCE 10A gentler judgment vanished from his lips: Not body’s death, but body’s banishment.	FRIAR LAWRENCE He made a gentler decision. You won’t die, but you’ll be banished from the city.
ROMEO Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say “death,” For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death. Do not say “banishment.”	ROMEO Ha, banishment? Be merciful and say “death.” Exile is much worse than death. Don’t say “banishment.”
FRIAR LAWRENCE 15Hence from Verona art thou banishèd. Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.	FRIAR LAWRENCE From now on, you are banished from Verona. You should be able to endure this because the world is broad and wide.
ROMEO There is no world without Verona walls But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence “banishèd” is banished from the world, 20And world’s exile is death. Then “banishèd,”	ROMEO There is no world for me outside the walls of Verona, except purgatory, torture, and hell itself. So to be banished from Verona is like being banished from the world, and being banished from the world is death.