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 bitter complaints, when his friend tells him that Juliet is buried.

"Do not ditract yourelf," continues Anelmo coldly, "Juliet is in her tomb, but you hall have the pleaure to ee her again; know that the poion which Aurelio ent her, was only a liquor prepared on purpoe to throw her into a lethargic leep; he revealed this important ecret to me himelf, and by his order I acquaint you with it. You mut this very day et out for Verona, and in the night you hall fetch your wife from the dimal place in which her relations have put her, thinking he was dead."

After this recital, which is drawn out to a great length in the piece, Romeo begins to revive: however, his hope is mixed with uneaines; he is afraid let he hould arrive too late, or that Juliet awaking hould die from the fright; or rather, let he hould expire in the arms of leep. At length he ets out for Verona; Marino does not take the reolution to attend him without regret; and as to what Anelmo tells him, that there are a great number of bodies in the epulchre, he maintains reaonably enough, "that, in his opinion, the dead are bad company; that he has no mind to pay them a viit, and that he will content himelf with taying at the door."

It is neceary to oberve here, in order that the reader may not be urprized at Romeo's learning Rh