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ROMEO
Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.
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ROMEO
The
plantain
leaf is excellent for that. |
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BENVOLIO
For what, I pray thee?
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BENVOLIO
For what, Romeo?
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ROMEO
For your broken shin.
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ROMEO
For when you cut your shin.
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BENVOLIO
Why Romeo, art thou mad?
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BENVOLIO
What? Romeo, are you crazy?
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ROMEO
55Not mad, but bound more than a madman is,
Shut up in prison, kept without my food,
Whipped and tormented and—Good e'en, good
fellow.
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ROMEO
I’m not crazy, but I’m tied up tighter than a
mental patient in a straitjacket. I’m locked up in a prison
and deprived of food. I’m whipped and
tortured—(to
PETER) Good evening, good
fellow.
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PETER
God 'i' good e'en. I pray, sir, can you
read?
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PETER
May God give you a good evening. Excuse me, sir, do you know how
to read?
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ROMEO
Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.
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ROMEO
I can read my own fortune in my misery.
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PETER
60Perhaps you have learned it without book. But I
pray, can you read anything you see?
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PETER
Perhaps you’ve learned from life and not from books. But
please tell me, can you read anything you see?
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ROMEO
Ay, if I know the letters and the language.
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ROMEO
Yes, if I know the language and the letters.
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PETER
Ye say honestly. Rest you merry.
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PETER
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ROMEO
Stay, fellow. I can read.
(he reads the
letter)
65“Seigneur Martino and his wife and daughters;
County Anselme and his beauteous sisters;
The lady widow of Vitruvio;
Seigneur Placentio and his lovely nieces;
Mercutio and his brother Valentine;
70Mine uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters;
My fair niece Rosaline and Livia;
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ROMEO
Stay, fellow. I can read.
(he reads the
letter)
“Signor Martino and his wife and daughters,
Count Anselme and his beautiful sisters,
Vitruvio’s widow,
Signor Placentio and his lovely nieces,
Mercutio and his brother Valentine,
My uncle Capulet and his wife and daughters,
My fair niece Rosaline and Livia,
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