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 Is Romeo blind To all the ills such rashness would ensure?

Seek not, sweet love, to change my fixed resolve.

A knocking is now heard; Julia becomes alarmed lest it should prove to be her father; Romeo's servant, the comic man, or "Gracioso," enters in a wretched plight, covered with mud and mortar; he proceeds to give a very full and circumstantial account of his misfortunes and the cause of the delay. Having been pelted with mortar by some bricklayers, one of whom discovers that he is a Capelete, he then escapes, and so disfigured, appears upon the stage. After this interruption the interview continues, Romeo agreeing, however, to do Julia's bidding.

To-night we'll meet, and then we may agree How his consent by gentleness to gain, And not to force his now unwilling ear.

My venturous bark has never found a safe And welcome anchorage. Still