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ROMEO Why, if love is painted blind, can he choose such strange paths at his will? Where are we going to eat today? Oh my GOD! Tell me what has happened. But no, I already know. We have found love alongside hate; discordant love, loving hate; strange confusion of nature, formless chaos, serious matter as well as light, strong and weak, smoke and lead, icy fire, health that dies, sleep that wakes, unknown essence. I can’t get used to such love. You laugh? Long live God…!
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ROMEO My shots would be in vain, For she, as chaste as Diana the huntress, Will outwit all the puerile arrows of the winged raptor. Her modesty serves as armor. She flees from words of love, avoids meeting other eyes, gold does not yield her. She is rich, because she is beautiful. Poor her, because when she dies, only remains of her sovereign perfection will remain.
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ROMEO Hers is not thrift, it is waste, because she greedily hides her beauty, and deprives the world of it. She is so discreet and so beautiful that she should not take pleasure in my torment, but she hates love, and that vow is the cause of my death.
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ROMEO With the black mask, the whiteness of the complexion stands out more. She never forgets the gift of sight who once lost it. The most perfect beauty that I saw would only be a book to read that the perfection of my beloved was greater. Bye bye! You don’t know how to teach me to forget.
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Scene V.
Here Romeo attends a meeting at the Capulet house and wants to know the identity of the lady who fell in love at first sight. He also passionately describes Juliet.
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ROMEO (To his SERVANT.) Tell me, what lady is it that enriches that gallant’s hand with such a treasure?
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ROMEO The brightness of her face affronts that of the sun. He does not deserve the land so sovereign prodigy. She appears among the others like a dove among jackdaws. When the dance is over, I’ll walk over to her, and shake her hand with mine. My old love was not true, that beauty like this never saw my eyes.
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ACT TWO, Scene II
During this scene in the Capulet garden, the most famous monologues of Romeo and Juliet take place. He, letting himself be carried away by her love, reaches Juliet’s balcony and expresses her feelings upon discovering that she belongs to her rival family. He finally confesses her love for her, her willingness to do anything for her, and they decide to get married.
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ROMEO
(JULIET stands at the window.)
But what light is it that appears there? The sun that already rises through the eastern balconies? Come out, beautiful sun, and kill the moon with envy with your rays, who is pale and hateful because any nymph in your choir wins over your beauty. That’s why she dresses in yellow. What a fool to get rid of his withered finery! It is my life, it is my love that appears! How could I tell her that she is mistress of my soul? He told me nothing. But what does it matter? Her eyes will speak, and I will answer. But what audacity is mine, if he did not tell me anything! The two most beautiful luminaries in heaven beg her to replace them during her absence. If her eyes shone like stars in the sky, her light would be enough to drown out the rest as the brightness of the sun kills that of a torch. Such a torrent of light would flow from her eyes, that it would wake the birds in the middle of the night, and sing their song as if the dawn had come! She now she puts her hand on her cheek. Who could touch her like the glove that covers her?
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ROMEO If I take your word, call me your lover, and I’ll believe I’ve been baptized anew, and lost the name of Romeo.
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ROMEO The love that told me where you lived. From him he advised me, he guided my eyes that I had delivered to him. Without being a nauchero, I swear that he would sail to the most remote beach of the seas to conquer such a precious jewel.
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scene III
Romeo meets with Fray Lorenzo and asks for his blessing to marry Juliet.
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ROMEO. Well, I will tell you in two words that I am in love with the daughter of the noble Capulet, and that she reciprocates me with equal love. Everything is arranged: all that remains is for you to bless this union. Then I will tell you with more space where and how we met and swore to each other eternal constancy. Now what matters is that you marry us instantly.
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ACT THREE, Scene III
After avenging the death of his cousin Mercutio at the hands of Teobaldo, Romeo goes into exile in Mantua. Upon hearing the verdict, in this monologue Romeo expresses his desolation and hints at the possibility of death due to being separated from Juliet.
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ROMEO Such clemency is cruelty. Heaven is here where Juliet lives. A dog, a mouse, a cat can live in this sky and see it. Only Romeo can’t. More prez, more glory, more happiness has a fly or a filthy horsefly than Romeo. They can touch that white and marvelous hand of Juliet, or perch on her blessed lips, on those lips so full of virginal modesty that they consider it a sin to touch. Romeo won’t. They send him to fly and he is envious of the flies that fly. Why do you say that banishment is not death? Did you not have some subtle poison, some sharp iron that would kill me sooner than that vile word “banished”? That’s what the damned say to each other in hell. And you, priest, my confessor and my best friend, are you the one who has come to kill me with that word?
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ACT FIVE, Scene II
In Mantua, where he is serving his banishment, Baltasar gives Romeo the news of Juliet’s death. In his despair, he decides to get a poison and leave immediately for Verona.
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Yes, Juliet, tonight we will rest together. But how? Ah, hell, how quickly you come to the aid of a desperate spirit! Now I remember that near here lives an apothecary with a grim brow and bad face, a great herbalist of medicinal herbs. Hunger has turned him into a skeleton. From the ceiling of his gloomy den he hangs a tortoise, a crocodile, and various skins of stout fish, and, in stacked boxes, empty greenish jars, old seeds, ropes of twine, all far apart to appear more. When I saw such misery, I thought that even though it is forbidden on pain of death to dispense poison, perhaps this unfortunate man would sell it if he was paid for it. Well I thought about it, and now I’m going to execute it.
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scene III
In the cemetery, heading to the tomb where Juliet rests, Romeo meets Count Paris, whom he warns to stay away. They fight and Paris dies. Later he approaches Juliet, takes the poison, kisses her and dies.
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ROMEO Yes, I come to die. Noble youth, do not tempt those who come blind and discouraged. He runs away from me, leave me; remember those who were and are not. Remember and tremble, do not provoke me anymore, foolish young man. By God I beg you. You don’t want to add a new sin to those that overwhelm my head. I love you more than you can love yourself. I have come to fight myself. Run away, if you want to save your life, and appreciate the advice of a madman.
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ROMEO I will. Let’s see his face. Mercutio’s relative, Count Paris! At the time of mounting my horse, did I not hear, as if in the shadows, my squire say that Paris and Juliet were going to be married? Was it reality or dream? Or was it just that I was crazy and I thought they were talking about Juliet? Your name is written with mine in the bloody book of fate. Triumphant sepulcher awaits you. What do I say grave? Abode of light, poor young man. There Juliet sleeps, and she is enough to give light and beauty to the mausoleum. You lie next to her, a dead person is the one who buries you. When the dying person approaches the final trance, he usually revives, and this is called the last flash. My wife, my love, the death that drained the nectar from your lips, has not been able to completely overcome your beauty. It still radiates in your eyes and in your countenance, where death has not yet been able to display its hateful flag. Now I want to calm the shadow of Teobaldo, who lies in that grave. The same hand that cut your life, will cut your enemy’s. Juliet, why are you still so beautiful? Could it be that the emaciated monster offers you his love and wants you for his lady? To prevent it, I will sleep with you in this gloomy cave of the night, in the company of those worms, who are today your only maidens. This will be my eternal rest. Here my body will rest, free from the fateful law of the stars. Receive the last look from my eyes, the last hug from my arms, the last kiss from my lips, doors of life, which come to seal my eternal contract with death. Come, rough and victorious pilot, my ship, fed up with fighting the waves, wants to break on the rocks. Let’s drink to my lady. oh how portentous are the effects of your balm, truthful alchemist! So, with this kiss… I die.
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END OF THE WORK
In this way, the work of Romeo and Juliet ends with the suicide of the two protagonists. Later, Fray Lorenzo recounts everything that happened. The tragic death of the lovers ends the long conflict between the members of the rival families of the Montagues and the Capulet.
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