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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 I

Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

ROMEO.

Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.

BENVOLIO.

For what, I pray thee?

ROMEO.

For your broken shin.

BENVOLIO.

Why, Romeo, art thou mad?

ROMEO.

Not mad, but bound more than a madman is:

Shut up in prison, kept without my food,

Whipp’d and tormented and—God-den, good fellow.

SERVANT.

God gi’ go-den. I pray, sir, can you read?

ROMEO.

Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.

SERVANT. Perhaps you have learned it without book.

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