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 "You are not ignorant," adds he, "that an implacable hatred for ever eparates the Montagues and Capulets: this hatred is hereditary in the two families; we feel it from our cradles, it becomes more rancorous as we grow older, and our mutual dicords have an hundred times bathed the fields of Verona. What a project do you meditate? How will you excue yourelf to your father, if he dicovers that you have been in an houe which he abhors? It is a fault which he will never pardon. Beides, you throw yourelf into the power of your mot inveterate enemies. Have you not reaon to fear their murdering you, or, at leat, affronting and inulting you groly?"

"My dear Anelmo," replies Romeo, "deign to forget your prudence for a moment; grant me this mark of friendhip; I feel a kind of upernatural tranport which impels me to enter the houe of Antonio. The fetival will, no doubt, have collected together the principal ladies of the Capulet faction; we hall ee and admire them, and I have formed a very flattering idea; for it eems as if Heaven had been careful to hare its gifts equally between their faction and ours: the Montagues have produced men of matchles trength and valour; among the Capulets, have always been een ladies of uch uncommon beauty, that one would imagine Nature had modelled them after 3