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ACT III

My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.

CAPULET.

Well, get you gone. A Thursday be it then.

Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,

Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day.

Farewell, my lord.—Light to my chamber, ho!

Afore me, it is so very very late that we

May call it early by and by. Good night.

[Exeunt.]

SCENE V. An open Gallery to Juliet’s Chamber, overlooking the Garden.

Enter Romeo and Juliet.

JULIET.

Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.

It was the nightingale, and not the lark,

That pierc’d the fearful hollow of thine ear;

Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree.

Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

ROMEO. It was the lark, the herald of the morn,

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