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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 II

SCENE I. An open place adjoining Capulet’s Garden.

Enter Romeo.

ROMEO.

Can I go forward when my heart is here?

Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

[He climbs the wall and leaps down within it.]

Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.

BENVOLIO.

Romeo! My cousin Romeo! Romeo!

MERCUTIO.

He is wise,

And on my life hath stol’n him home to bed.

BENVOLIO.

He ran this way, and leap’d this orchard wall:

Call, good Mercutio.

MERCUTIO. Nay, I’ll conjure too. Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh,

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