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 the adventure of his wife too oon, that the Spanih cenes are often eparated from each other by a coniderable interval of time, though to conult only the ear and eye, it eems, as if they followed with the ame rapidity as on the French tage.

Juliet drinks the leepy potion in the third cene: three more cenes are hardly elaped, when her interment is related in Ferrara: this city is, however, no nearer to Verona than a whole day's journey. The French could not fail to find uch a circumtance ridiculous, and would readily ak whether Anelmo was in poeion of Fortunatus's cap or the arrow of Abaris, to be capable of performing uch a journey in an intant. The Catillians judge of this matter in a different manner; they uppoe between the cenes all the time neceary for the duration of the action: they readily comply with the idea of the author, and the thing eems to them very natural, whilt we eek in vain ome hadow of probability.

Behold, then, Romeo departed from Ferrara; the decorations of the tage lead the pectator back to Verona, and repreent the inide of duke Maxi-