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 'Tis Julia's voice—and yet is Julia dead!

Fly, fly, dark shadows, from the gloomy earth, And let the coming dawn this riddle solve. Speak but again, sweet love! oh! speak again!

Alas, I am not Julia, Romeo, But Elena!

Elena! How cam'st thou here?— And by my side?

Elena relates here that, following his instructions, she came under cover of the darkness to the church door, [seizing his cloak when Julia stumbled.] Romeo rushes out to seek Julia, meets his kinsman Carlos, who tells him that Old Capelete and his faction are seeking him throughout the wood. The "Gracioso" now appears.

The great Count Paris mid these mountains hunts, With nigh three hundred greyhounds at his heels.

He continues his relation, and in a lengthy comic speech gives the whole of the scene between Julia and Andrés; when the former