Hark, how they knock! Who’s there? Romeo, arise; Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up; Knocking. Run to my study. By and by! God’s will, What simpleness is this! I come, I come! Knocking. Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what’s your will?

Within. Let me come in, and you shall know my errand; I come from Lady Juliet.

O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar, Where is my lady’s lord, where’s Romeo?

O, he is even in my mistress’ case, Just in her case! O woeful sympathy! Piteous predicament! Even so lies she, Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering. Stand up, stand up; stand, an you be a man: For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand; Why should you fall into so deep an O?

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