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Two households in Verona maintain an ancient grudge that leads to recurring civil conflict. Amidst this hostility, the children of these rival families become star-crossed lovers whose tragic deaths ultimately resolve their parents' strife.

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ACT III

Then dreadful trumpet sound the general doom, For who is living, if those two are gone?

NURSE.

Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished,

Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.

JULIET.

O God! Did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood?

NURSE.

It did, it did; alas the day, it did.

JULIET. O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, Dove-feather’d raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st, A damned saint, an honourable villain! O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?

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