Scene IV

O, she knew well Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.

A street.

Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came he not home to-night?

Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.

Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, Hath sent a letter to his father’s house.

No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a Lenten pie, that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent. Sings.

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