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 Celia carries off her dying mitres; immediately the cene changes, and repreents a treet in Ferrara; two cavaliers, named Rutilio and Fernando, are erenading Sylvia. Sylvia is a lady of this city; he makes her appearance but once in the whole piece, and then is only een at her window.

The characters of this cene are merely epiodical, and have no connexion with either the Montagues or Capulets: the author introduces them only to give Romeo an opportunity to revenge himelf for the uppoed infidelity of Juliet. Nothing can be more poor than this paage.

Aurora begins to break through the hades of night; Romeo arrives; the two cavaliers retire for no reaon whatever, except, becaue the poet pleaes they hould; Romeo makes love to Sylvia, but with uch an air and tone, as prove his heart full of another object, and that Juliet is ever mitres of it. In vain would he pretend to change; his vexation deceives him; his firt paion is only the more violent for it.

Anelmo, who is jut arrived at Ferrara, eeks Romeo, and meets him in the treet; Sylvia huts her window and retires: Romeo learns from Anelmo the adventure of the phial, which makes him tremble with horror; his eyes are opened, he ees how wrong he was to upect the fidelity of his mitres; his grief forces him to break out into Rh