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 milian's palace; Count Paris is een in mourning bewailing his los of Juliet; the prince in vain endeavours to conole him.

Antonio comes; he is enibly affected with his daughter's misfortune; he was dear to him, and beides, having no heirs, he can't tell to whom he hould leave his vat poeions. This conideration induces him to take the reolution to marry Dorothea, his niece, to prevent his great riches from being dipered among everal different families after his death: he aks advice of the duke on this ubject, who approves of his intention.

A new cene preents itelf to the eyes of the pectator, the burial place of the Capulets, a vat cavern, where nothing but funeral objects are perceived, the ight of which mut of coure hock in a comedy. Juliet at length awakes; her atonihment, her confuion, her terror and her love, furnih in thee dreadful hades a long oliloquy, but which does not want beauty.

Romeo and Marino make their appearance: Marino carries a light; but, as he trembles as he walks, his fear makes him fall down, and the light is extinguihed. In this ituation his dicoure and his action are o comic, that all the horror of the ituation vanihes; the audience burt out into loud peals of laughter, though the mournful pomp of death is before their eyes. Rh